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Games Publishers on Track for Solid Q4 | 26 Jan 12 tags › A mixed bag of highly successful launches and digital content have driven revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011 for the major traditional publishers in the games space. Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Electronic Arts' Battlefield 3 have generated a high-profile stand-off over one of the most lucrative game categories in console and high-end PC gaming - near-future military shooters with heavyweight multiplayer components - that between them have generated shipments of over 37m units, according to IHS Screen Digest forecasts.

Games Hardware Q3 2011 Market Monitor | 16 Nov 11 tags › Total hardware on a global basis is down 10 per cent, undoing the 8 per cent year-on-year growth seen in Q2, resulting in 2011's to-date performance showing definite evidence of overall decline. PS3 is the only format to experience year-on-year growth, its later entry into the hardware cycle and early-stage pent-up demand continuing to unlock sales for the console. Decline was driven most strongly by DS/DSi, unsurprising given that its successor, the 3DS, has now been fully available for over two quarters.

Third party game publisher quarterly assessment and forecasts - C3Q 2011 | 01 Nov 11 tags › The performance of four of the biggest traditional game publishers - Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Take Two - is forecast for C3Q 2011, the third quarter of the calendar year. As well as packaged retail results, we offer forecasts that break out and detail the vital, fast-evolving spheres of digital, online and mobile segments.

Japan 2011 market performance summary | 24 Jan 12 tags › In 2011 the Japanese market suffered significant declines in software value compared to 2010 and continued its run of declines established since the peak of 2007. 2011's software value decline was...

EA sunsets Facebook title Baking Life | 20 Jan 12 tags › Electronic Arts has announced that it will close Facebook title Baking Life at the end of the month. Any accrued user currency, which is unique to the title, is not mooted to be transferrable to other titles within the EA portfolio. The title has been present in Facebook's top 200 games since mid-2010, the sole offering operated by ZipZapPlay across that period.

Games: CES 2012 Round Up | 20 Jan 12 tags › Games: CES 2012 Round Up This year, the show floor at CES provided a suitable platform for publicising upcoming specialist games devices in the form of Nintendo's Wii U and Sony's PS Vita but it was...

Games: State of Play | 17 Nov 11 tags › Head of Games, Piers Harding-Rolls, provides an overview of the current state of the games sector towards the end of 2011. Included is reliable and up-to-date insight on the accelerated position of digital games opportunities with a direct comparison to boxed retail games sales, and an examination of the emerging business challenges faced by a rapidly evolving industry. Games: State of Play will also consider the next wave of sector opportunities, including the emergence of on-demand solutions, the intersection of mobile and social networks, and the arrival of gaming services on connected/smart TVs.

Social Network Games: Where are we, and where are we heading? | 07 Feb 11 tags › In this presentation, delivered at the ICE Total Gaming conference in London in January 2011, we offer an overview of the social network gaming sector on PC. Much of the focus lies with Facebook, and its evolving role as a gaming platform, but growth separate from the social behemoth is also discussed, on three fronts: other PC social networks, mobile social networks and the longer-term push into the wider ecosystem.