Electronic Arts Loves Microtransactions

FEB. 27, 2013 • During a guest presentation at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, Electronic Arts chief financial officer Blake J. Jorgensen said the publisher is now building microtransactions capability into all of its games. “The ability to pay for things along the way, either to get to a higher level to buy a new character, to buy a truck, a gun, whatever it might be, and consumers are enjoying and embracing that way of the .....

Philips Electronics Quits Consumer Electronics Biz

JAN. 31, 2013 • Once the largest maker of radios in the world during the first half of the 20th Century, and a perennial mainstay within the consumer electronics industry, Philips Electronics has called it quits and sold its audio, multimedia, video and accessories units to Japan’s Funai Electric Co. in what the Wall Street Journal termed the token sum of €150 million ($204.1 million). Philips had a long history of innovation that saw the developm.....

Disney Infinity to the Rescue?

JAN. 15, 2013 • With two hit installments in its own Skylanders franchise, Activision Blizzard has proven there is gold in games that interact with companion toy lines, and Disney Interactive is entering the same space by June. Disney Infinity will launch with an initial 17 interactive character figures that tie in with the companion video game available on the PC, PlayStation 3, Wii, Wii U, and Xbox 360. Disney also announced there will be an accompanying mobil.....

DFC Intelligence: Research You Can Trust

DEC. 22, 2012 • DFC Intelligence was founded in 1994 with a stated goal to provide strategic data research that would better enable companies to understand the growing video game industry and the emergence of what people back then were calling by such quaintly antiquated terms as Multimedia and Information Super Highway. The philosophy driving DFC then, as now, was distinguishing between what was real, what was hype, and from .....

Facebook and Zynga Reach New Deal

Nov. 30, 2012 • In regulatory statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Facebook and Zynga amended the terms binding content distribution and revenue giving both companies more freedom. Facebook now gains the opportunity to publish its own titles. In return, Zynga no longer must use Facebook as the primary distribution platform for its titles, or use Facebook as the exclusive means of login on all platforms. .....

GameFly Digital Client Launches

Nov. 9, 2012 • Eleven months after the open beta inauguration of its PC digital content client, game rental retailer GameFly officially launched the service with a free download of 2K Games’ Bioshock. The company entered the digital distribution business in August of 2011 with the acquisition of the Direct2Drive service from IGN. Using the Direct2Drive platform as a foundation, GameFly was intent on creating an online portal where its subscribers can manag.....

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