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Activision Blizzard has published its first-quarter earnings report for 2020, in which the company has detailed the financial results of early 2020 to date. Besides the usual numbers and statistics, what's interesting is that they have confirmed what games are still yet to come for the rest of 2020. The developer/publisher has confirmed that the n...
In Malaysia, we're already in the second week of our one-month self-quarantine in accordance with the Government's Movement Control Order mandate. Many of us have been working from home and doing whatever we can to pass the time, including playing video games, of course. Your family members or housemates may be berating you for gaming too much dur...
A lot of developers are gearing up for the next generation of gaming this year, and that includes Activision Blizzard. However, it seems like they'll probably be changing their business strategy soon if their revenue results are any indication. The company now derives the majority of its revenue from mobile. According to the NASDAQ Stock Market, m...
In their latest earnings call, Activision Blizzard announced that a new Call Of Duty title will be released in 2020. However, for the first time in a while, they have decided to conceal the identity of the developer for now, but it's possible to make a calculated guess as to whom it might be. Activision COO Coddy Johnson said (via IGN): "The fran...
Sad news for Gears of War fans: series producer and overseer Rod Fergusson will be leaving The Coalition and the franchise after 15 years. But good news for Diablo fans: he will be joining Blizzard starting March to oversee the Diablo franchise. https://twitter.com/GearsViking/status/1225198381095456769 https://twitter.com/GearsViking/status/122...
Back in 2018, Twitch signed a two-year deal with Activision to be the sole third-party provider of Overwatch League livestreams in all regions outside of China. Now that it's 2020 and that deal has expired, Activision will be signing on with a new partner. The company has recently signed a new multi-year deal with YouTube for exclusive livestreami...
At this points, nobody is surprised at the success of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare reboot. Here at Kakuchopurei, we found it was a great return to form for the franchise. Financially speaking, the results are pretty good too. Activision has just published a press release revealing the game has officially crossed US$1 billion mark in sales. I...
As we reported earlier, the Call of Duty World League tournament will be changing into a franchise-based league starting in 2020. Activision has finally officially announced the new Call of Duty League and revealed the 12 participating teams' location of origin. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRMEvlR8PGc&w=560&h=315] The teams wi...
The recent debacle concerning Hong Kong Hearthstone player Chung "blitzchung" Ng Wai's suspension has motivated many people to boycott Blizzard. One of those people is Mark Kern, a former Blizzard employee who helped make World of Warcraft, Diablo 2, and Starcraft. In a Twitter thread posted recently, Mark announced that he's giving up on playing ...
It's one more month until BlizzCon 2019 happens, and we can't wait to see what's in store for the annual Blizzard-themed games show. Right now though, we have a bunch of cool new freebies from this year's Virtual Ticket. Basically, this ticket will let you watch ALL of the streams on the BlizzCon official site. If you don't have this, you'll only ...
One of the controversial aspects about lootboxes is how much they resemble gambling. You pay for them but what you get is dependent on luck. It's why countries like Belgium and the Netherlands have implemented strict laws on video game lootboxes. I've covered the topic before and I can assure you that lootboxes have definitely been designed to enc...
The Overwatch World Cup is just around the corner and Team Malaysia has announced its players! Take a look: In line with the recently implemented Role Lock, the team members are categorised according to the roles they'll be playing. With all team members chosen and the committee members working together, Team Malaysia will now be working hard to...
Blizzard is facing one hell of a storm at the moment as several high-profile and experienced staff members are slated to leave Activision Blizzard over the next two weeks. One of them is Kim Phan, Global Product Director of Blizzard Esports, who has been with Blizzard for over a decade. [caption id="attachment_26520" align="alignnone" width="1600...
In the previous year, the top 25 public game companies generated a combined revenue of US$107.3 billion, a 16% increase from 2017. This is the first time the industry has exceeded the 100-billion-dollar mark. Together, these companies accounted for almost 80% of the $134.9 billion global games market. According to our friends at Newzoo, Tencent sin...
According to statistics provided by Newzoo, Southeast Asia (SEA) is the world's fastest-growing games market, despite only accounting for 3.1% of the total games market in 2019. That's because the SEA games market is expected to generate a whopping $4.6 billion in revenue this year, which is a remarkable 22 percent increase from 2018. Asian Publi...
Despite massive layoffs, Activision Blizzard announced in their earnings report that a new Call of Duty game is coming out this year. The game is said to have a key feature missing from the previous entry: a single-player campaign mode. Activision spilt the beans on this one by offering very high-level insight on the game, saying that veterans and...
It's official: Activision Blizzard is laying off a ton of people. The company will be laying off nearly 800 people from its 9,600 head count. During the earnings call earlier today (via Kotaku), Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick told investors that: the company has achieved record results in 2018, but the company will need to consolidate and...
Talk about starting the new year with news most dire. Activision Blizzard, a company that had a streak of bad luck (Mike Morhaime stepping down, that Diablo Immortal announcement, Heroes of the Storm scaling down, employee layoffs with pay), recently terminated its Chief Financial Officer's contract this week (via CNBC). Spencer Neumann, the CF...
In case you haven't been paying attention to all the post-BlizzCon news the past week or so, Blizzard announced an upcoming Diablo game for mobile phones which caused a lot more harm than good. Gaming fans are mad and feel like it's a betrayal, while game journalists and the media are championing the idea while also belittling their audience. Whic...
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