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Economy ’
Nov 10th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Electronic Arts just released a press statement sharing with the world that they had a net revenue of $1.15 Billion in the past quarter, meaning that they were the number one publisher across all platforms. After hearing that, one would believe that it’s a Heaven to be working at EA, right? Well… it probably is [...]
Tags: Economy, Electronic Arts, Games industry, Mainstream
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Jul 9th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

You’re not feeling the effects of the economic downturn yet? Are you in love with collectibles or rare items? Then this article is for you since I took a look at the most expensive PC games available for sale on Amazon and I’m going to share the list with you. I must admit that I [...]
Tags: 10 most expensive games, Economy, Feature, Game collections, Mainstream, Recession
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Apr 30th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Rumors started to hit the web this week claiming that The Witcher developers CD Projekt are having some deep financial problems that caused cancellation of two follow-up projects of the Witcher, as well as the console versions.
Tags: CD Projekt, Economic Downturn, Economy, Rumors, The Witcher
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Apr 16th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Just as our recently finished poll said, the gamers are still not hit hard by recession and a vast majority will continue spending the same amounts on games as before. According to a recent survey conducted by the NPD Group, 65% of the consumers will spend at least the same amounts on video games as [...]
Tags: Economic Downturn, Economy, Games industry, NPD, Recession
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Apr 14th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

The word that seems to be said more than ever these days is a long, ugly one: recession. It comes together with the “great depression” and “economic downturn” and we’re all afraid of it. We all hate it and we’re all starting to feel that the quality of life is slowly going down. But how [...]
Tags: Economy, Feature, Games industry, Poll, Recession
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Mar 26th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Since no bad news comes alone, after finding out that FileFront will shut down, we got word regarding the closure of another PC games publisher, Lighthouse Interactive. The company was purchased last year for $4 million by the Canadians at Silverbirch, but they went down too and now, as we can see, Lighthouse follows.
Although not [...]
Tags: Economy, Games industry, Lighthouse Interactive
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Mar 26th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

A sad day for fans of PC gaming and an extra reason to hate this damned depression: FileFront, one of the most popular and best place for game demos and patches, will be closed by owner Ziff Davis on March 30. Just like that, it will vanquish. And it will be missed.
People who tried to [...]
Tags: Economy, FileFront, Games industry
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Mar 20th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Massively multiplayer online games (or MMOs as we all know them) are played by millions of people. People who are not always as skilled as the game requires them to be or not at all as patient as they should. Still, players who wish to have the gold to purchase all the items they fancy [...]
Tags: Economy, Games industry, MMO, MMORPG, Real life
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Mar 19th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

For the first time in history, Sony, the company which still holds the record for the most sold console systems in the world (with the PlayStation 2) is forced to take some unwanted measures to try and survive this great economic downturn we’re all being hit by: they are freezing employee wages for 12 months [...]
Tags: Economy, Games industry, Real life, Sony
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Mar 17th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

We’ve had Rihanna’s Revenge, allowing you to punch Chris Brown until his head blows, we’ve had the parody called Bush’s Boot Camp, making fun of the former president, why wouldn’t we have a flash game dealing with the next big thing? Well… there are no reasons not to and therefore Tiltfactor is presenting Layoff, the [...]
Tags: Economy, Flash game, Funny, Layoff
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