Payday 2, Dead by Daylight offset rising costs at Starbreeze
Costs up 50% in Q2, but revenue from core franchises was up year-on-year
Financial
Early Access sales helped We Happy Few dev Compulsion quintuple in size
Studio went from seven staff to 40, spends more than Kickstarter total every month
Kickstarter officially launching in Japan this September
Site will also launch Japanese version, allow local devs to use Japan-based bank accounts and identification
Tencent online game revenues hit $3.56 billion in Q2
Mobile revenue exceeded PC for the first time thanks to the success of games like Honor of Kings
"Learn-to-play" studio Lightneer closes seed funding at $5 million
Finnish studio founded by ex-Rovio staff, scientists and academics prepares for first release
Rovio sees revenue leap 94% in second quarter
Angry Birds Evolution and Battle Bay showed the "strongest launch ARPDAU and other KPIs ever seen in Rovio Games business unit"
Bluehole squashes Tencent investment rumour
Update: Bluehole confirms no investment was made by Chinese company
Rovio considers raising $400 million through local IPO - report
Public listing rumours persist, with the Finnish company valued at $2 billion
Jobs roundup: Guerrilla Games' Angie Smets joins GDC board
Sony UK losing marketing director, promotion and departure at DeltaDNA, senior hires at esports VC and more
Esports firm acquires majority stake in Eden Games
82.5% stakes in Gear.Club and Test Drive Unlimited developer purchased for €9m
Nexon reports H1 2017 revenues of $1.12bn
Strong performances in China and Korea drive 27.4% year-on-year increase
Nvidia earned a record $2.23 billion revenue in Q2
Profits more than doubled to $583 million for the quarter as Nvidia capitalises on "the era of AI"
NetEase Games revenues rise to $1.4bn for Q2 2017
Accounts for almost 75% of company's overall revenues, primarily driven by mobile games
Plarium acquired in $500 million deal
Vikings: War of Clans studio bought by Australian casino specialist Aristocrat
Fig's first funded game released sees 100% return on investment
Investors in Kingdoms and Castles have doubled their money in just a couple weeks after launch
Singapore start-up BattleBrew Productions secures angel investment
Undisclosed finance will enable former AAA team to release debut title in early 2018
Mixi reports flat revenue and profits in Q2
New game Fight League launched too late in the quarter to register
Super Evil Megacorp snags $19m
Vainglory studio doubles office space and expands team with plans to bring the MOBA to more audiences
Bandai Namco's Home Video Game sales down 28% in Q1
Unit sales down 26% to 5.6 million for the quarter
NCsoft's tumbling Q2 profits balanced by Lineage M success
Sources claim mobile title was earning a peak of $11.5 million a day in its first month in South Korea
Digital sales boost profits at Square Enix
Packaged games declined in Q1, but console downloads, MMOs and smartphone games were all on the rise
Physical sales up, digital down in Sega Sammy's Q1 results
Video games business contributes to ¥50.2bn sales, but download sales down 21% year-on-year
Worldwide interactive media market tops $100 billion - Superdata
Research firm says global spend on games, eSports, game-related video content and VR/AR will be $104.6 billion this year, $168.8 billion by 2020
Zynga's turnaround in full effect with $5.1m profit in Q2
90% of Zynga's audience now comes from mobile, CEO Frank Gibeau stressed to us
Grand Theft Auto Online continues to drive Take-Two
Online component of GTA V delivers best quarter yet as Zelnick says they never planned on it lasting this long; publisher posts solid results in first quarter of light release year
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