Tencent Adds Game Center to WeChat
NOV. 19, 2013 • Last August Tencent Holdings Limited added a game center to its WeChat Messenger service. The mobile app was launched in 2011 and is available on all major platforms and features mobile text and voice messaging. According to Tencent half of all Chinese smartphone owners use WeChat. Somewhat like the arrival of social games on Facebook, WeChat is growing in popularity within China as a social network for mobile gameplay. Games on the service requi.....
Mixed PlayStation 4 Launch Reception
NOV. 18, 2013 • By all accounts the PlayStation 4 launch had a smashing first 24 hours – selling 1 million of the estimated 1.2 million units shipped. Then widespread reports of defective units began surfacing, the most notable in the comments section reserved for consumer feedback on Amazon.com. The most common complaints were new PS4s either refusing to start up, shutting down during gameplay, or simply non-functional out of the box. Over the weekend Sony Co.....
John Pleasants Out at Disney
NOV. 12, 2013 • In less than a week after Disney Interactive showed its second recorded quarterly profit of $16 million for the quarter ending September 28, co-president John Pleasants left the division in a management shakeup that installs Jimmy Pitaro as president. Pleasants and Pitaro have managed Disney Interactive as co-presidents since 2010. Pleasants was acquired along with Playdom in.....
WII U Sales Uptick
OCT. 30, 2013 • Since Nintendo Co. Ltd. reduced the price of the Wii U by $50 on September 20 in North America and Europe Wii U sales have increased. For the quarter ending on September 30, units sold totaled 300,000, up 88% from the 160,000 moved during the preceding quarter. At 460,000 units sold through the first two quarters of Nintendo’s fiscal year, the gamemaker is well short of its forecast of selling 9 million Wii Us by March 31. On total sales of.....
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