Video Game Business

AUG. 1, 2013 • Digitally delivered games are accounting for a larger portion of revenue at Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. For the first quarter ending June 30, the Sega digital games segment grew 60.8% [...]

JULY 29, 2013 • Fifteen days after Don Mattrick took over as chief executive at Zynga, the social games company cancelled its plans to enter the real money gambling business in the United States. [...]

JULY 26, 2013 • With €13.2 billion ($17.5 billion) in debt on its books Vivendi SA has been contemplating ways to pull money out of its 61% stake in publisher Activision Blizzard. In a huge $8.17 [...]

JULY 22, 2013 • At the end of June research firm GfK Chart-Track reported that the Xbox 360 had overtaken the Nintendo Wii as the United Kingdom’s best selling console at 8.4 million units. [...]

JULY 10, 2013 • Microsoft Corp.’s beta test in the United Kingdom of the new real money transaction system for Xbox Live is raising some consumer alarms. Users in the test are reporting [...]