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February 2025 Archive

    1. Embracer sales drop 22% to $1.5bn, $298m debt remains
    2. Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m
    1. Unions slam Bobby Kotick's claims that Activision Blizzard harassment reports were "fake"
    2. Thunderful Gothenberg rebrands as Stormteller Games
    3. Hisashi Koinuma appointed Koei Tecmo's new CEO
    4. PS5 experiences record sales during holiday period, PlayStation revenues reach $11bn
    5. MTG closes $620m acquisition of Plarium
    1. Microsoft Gaming VP Kayleen Walters appointed head of Mojang
    2. Inaugural Olympic Esports Games will now take place in 2027
    3. One Piece Pirate Warriors 4 tops 4m sales worldwide | News-in-brief
    4. Crytek cuts 15% of workforce, Crysis 4 put on hold
    5. Remedy revenues rise 49% during FY24, Alan Wake 2 recoups development costs
    6. Jumpship co-founder reacquires studio from Thunderful
    7. Relic Entertainment outlines new business strategy
    8. PlayStation announces State of Play for February 12 | News-in-brief
    1. Krafton reports "all-time highs" in sales and operating profits in 2024
    2. Unity cuts jobs once again as it makes "important organisational changes"
    3. Roblox reportedly part of SEC investigation
    4. Roblox revenues rose 29% during 2024
    5. Dead Astronauts raises €4m in seed funding round
    1. Sony apologises for global outage that took PlayStation Network offline for nearly 24 hours
    2. Former Mojang and Coffee Stain staff form new indie publisher Three Friends
    3. Ghost-hunting sim Phasmophobia hits 2m console sales, and 22m sales overall | News-in-brief
    4. Valve implements dedicated page for advertising guidelines
    5. Square Enix revenues fall over the past nine months to $1.6bn
    6. Nintendo details plans to meet demand for Switch 2
    1. Capcom shuts down Resident Evil multiplayer spin-off
    2. Sega revenues drop 8% to $2.1bn
    1. Take-Two's Strauss Zelnick on tariffs, AI and GTA 6
    2. Take-Two Interactive reports strong Q3 FY2025 Results, prepares for blockbuster 2025 lineup
    3. Blind Squirrel Games acquires Distributed Development
    4. Dozens of developers reportedly impacted by another round of cuts at Hi-Rez Studios
    5. Currys becomes first Xbox Authorised Service Provider in the UK | News-in-brief
    6. Steam now warns players if early access games have been abandoned
    7. Bandai Namco quietly sheds 120 jobs in less than a year, new report suggests
    8. Farming Simulator 25 tops 3m sales | News-in-brief
    9. Digital Bandidos' management expands with three new senior hires
    10. nDreams establishes new internal studio, shutters two others
    11. Paradox acquires Haemimont Games
    12. App Store games must be licensed to remain available in Vietnam
    13. Voldex acquires Roblox title Brookhaven
    1. Iron Galaxy lays off 66 to protect "long-term survival"
    2. 2K fires 31st Union president Michael Condrey
    3. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 tops 1m sales in just 24 hours | News-in-brief
    4. ProbablyMonsters initiates fresh round of job cuts
    5. EA's Battlefield Labs test program is "the most ambitious community collaboration in franchise history"
    6. How Astrid Entertainment is blurring the lines between linear entertainment and gaming
    7. EA CEO says a "more meaningful update" of Apex Legends is in development
    8. Nintendo Direct focused on Switch 2 dated for April 2, 2025 | News-in-brief
    9. Activision raises $1.6m for LA wildfire relief | News-in-brief
    10. EA Q3 results "not the financial performance we wanted or expected"
    1. Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero tops 5m global sales | News-in-brief
    2. UK declines to extend consumer law to better protect gamers against "disabling" live service games
    3. Netflix cancels six game launches as it "adjusts" portfolio to better match "what members like"
    4. Sumo Group to refocus business on "development services for partners"
    5. Nintendo lowers FY forecast as sales drop 31% to $6.1bn
    6. Fireshine Games appoints Brian Foote as CEO
    1. ESA warns Trump tariffs will bring "significant harm" to US developers and players
    2. $1bn revenue not enough to offset Meta's AR/VR Reality Labs' $4.4bn loss
    3. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord wins Grammy | News-in-brief
    4. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 becomes second-highest-grossing video game movie of all time
    5. Nintendo to cease foreign payment on digital stores in Japan
    6. Midnight Society shuts down
    7. Konami revises forecasts as profits increase 38% to $560m