GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Sega Sammy has released its financial report for the nine months ended December 31, 2023, and experienced a rise in overall sales and profit despite a decrease in sales for new titles. Sega Sammy attributed its boost in overall sales and profit to its pachislot and pachinko machines business. Net sales were up 130.3% to ¥120.2

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It was called project 'Revolution', which was a surprising moment of hubris for a company that had been soundly defeated (again) by PlayStation. Sega, following the Dreamcast, had pivoted to third-party publishing. The house of Mario had been defeated. Nintendo needed to pivot to something else.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 31, 2024

Update : The Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega reacted on social media , confirming this is related to the previously announced plan to "phase out" temporary workers by February 2024. The union said they had been in discussion since November to negotiate the situation, but confirmed the 61 layoffs. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Tencent, Apple, Nintendo, and Ubisoft reduced their carbon emissions from 2021 to 2022, while companies including Sega, NetEase, and Unity saw increases year-on-year.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Original story: Sega has cancelled Creative Assembly's upcoming title Hyenas due to "structural reforms."

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 17, 2023

Sega has announced it is set to buy Rovio Entertainment in a deal worth €706 million ($776 million). The logic behind the deal involves utilising Rovio's expertise to accelerate Sega's IP in the mobile space -- IP such as Sonic The Hedgehog, which has seen some mobile success already. a share and €1.48 per option.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 30, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Sega has dismissed speculation that it may be acquired by Xbox or any other company after speculation was triggered by the FTC vs Microsoft hearings.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 17, 2023

He ran Gamer Creative, which was the multi award nominated in-house creative agency of our parent company and produced many impressive ad campaigns for publishers such as Sega, Creative Assembly and more… some you might have seen on our sister site, Eurogamer. Heaton is a familiar face to the team here at GamesIndustry.biz.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 10, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Employees at Sega of America, making up the Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega (AEGIS), have voted yes to forming a union. The cohort is now another union at a major North American game company. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 16, 2023

Creative Assembly North is looking to grow to 100 people, and is working alongside the Sega developer's Sussex office on an unanounced project. The studio will also be home to the company's new Continuous Improvement Team. Creative Assembly is opening a new studio in Newcastle, led by Giselle Stewart.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 1, 2023

Sega Sammy posted strong Q1 revenue, despite sales of new games being lower than expected. This is primarily due to the recovery of the companies Paschinko and Pachislot machines business after COVID-19, with sales up 385% year-on-year. Operating income rose 712% to ¥22.5 billion ($123 million). Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 10, 2023

Ben Penrose has joined the company as Art Director from Sharkmob (but was also a former Playground employee), and Elly Marshall has been named UX/UI Director, following her role as experience design director at EA. Sangha is an award-winning studio leader who helped form Sega Hardlight and Sumo Leamington.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 28, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Publishers Sega and Tencent will be backing out of this year's E3 event. As reported by IGN , the companies confirmed their absence as the site contacted multiple companies about their attendance for the show. Read more

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Game Daily

AUGUST 21, 2023

Notable deals include the $50 million secured by metaverse gaming company Everdome in April, invested by GEM Digital; $48 million raised by in-game advertising outfit Anzu, and blockchain gaming firm Mythical Games adding $37 million to its war chest, thanks to a Level C investment round led by Scytale Digital.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

After SEGA completed its $776 million acquisition of Rovio in August it is now allegedly threatening with mass layoffs in response to unionization. Game companies remain mostly absent, despite New York’s growing prominence as a hub for investment and creativity in interactive entertainment. women, and people of color).

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2023

The success of The Last of Us is, according to analysts, more than just a successful adaptation of a gaming franchise; it is the culmination of Sony’s gradual transition to becoming a media company. For years I’ve characterized the Japanese powerhouse predominantly as a consumer electronics manufacturer.

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Game Daily

JULY 12, 2023

” Commercial realities The errors of today’s game companies mirror the neglect of early purveyors of movies and audio recordings; a cause of much frustration among modern historians. Game companies are rarely interested in preserving the past – even their own particular past. But what if it didn’t HAVE to be?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Verdict: CORRECT (1 Point) #2 Publishers Push to Off-Platform Payments Webshops, enabled by companies like Xsolla , have had a breakthrough year. Which will result in a big win for companies like Xsolla. What this means is that VCs are writing far smaller tickets to fewer companies.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

Similarly, SEGA has gradually seen its sales per employee widdle to half, from $752,310 in 2012 to $367,259 in 2023. Companies have come to rely on the efficiencies gained by regularly tightening budgets and headcounts between peak demand cycles and major releases.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Although it’s difficult to find a trustworthy game art outsourcing studio with a solid industry background and portfolio, I’ll show you 10 reliable art outsourcing companies in this blog. . But before we get there, here are some pointers to assist you to choose the best outsourcing companies with a great team of talented artists.

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Rampant Games

MAY 1, 2023

Most of the people there were engineers and artists from a simulation company called Evans & Sutherland. Back in 1994, with the ink still dry on my degree in Computer Science, I got a job in the video games industry working for a new startup called SingleTrac. I was Employee #16.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 14, 2022

Additionally, save for SDL (which is the simplest of them all given its just a platform layer), all the other projects are actually developed by companies with an actual business model, such as the Haxe Foundation (which is actually a company), Microsoft, Cocos China, or King for Defold (then Refold). Pineapple Works. Flynn's Arcade.

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

SEGA Dreamcast set a precedent for developers after gamers couldn’t get enough of the game. Many notable entertainment companies employ some variation of cel shading from Studio Ghibli to WIT Studio and SEGA Dreamcast to Supergiants.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 18, 2023

This week, now that the big news on Rovio is confirmed, we look at the question on the industry’s mind — what’s next for the company under Sega? In Conversation: How Pedro Pascal Become the Face of Merge Mansion What’s next for Rovio after the Sega Acquisition? Sega’s offer represents a 63.1% Missed a previous newsletter?

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2023

Sega merged with Sammy Corp. in 2004 to form Sega-Sammy. Smaller companies fall on hard times and a larger company offers a rescue. Old leadership grows weary of running the company and someone offers them a big payday. Later they bought Atlus.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

TWiG #228 Sega + Rovio = another case of two drunks holding each other up? ? In Conversation: Riot SVP & League Studio Head Andrei van Roon The Consolidation of Blockchain Gaming The entire world is preparing for a possible economic downturn, and companies are trying to find ways to minimize the negative impact.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

It’s the company’s first new franchise in 25 years, and is likely one of the biggest games of the year. Company head Todd Howard was on hand to boost the game’s appeal to an enthusiastic opening night crowd.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 21, 2022

In the past, fans debated which would be the winner gaming platform among many warring ones, with every new generation bringing in new contenders (Sony, Microsoft…) and removing some (like Sega or Atari). Valve's status as a private company means that they’re less pressured to explore the hot trends of the stock market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

Do you remember SEGA Heroes, Pokemon Shuffle and Dragons: Titan Uprising? If N3TWORK fails to launch anything new in 2020 it is likely that the company will be acquired by a larger publisher. Get deeper: Empires & Puzzles - From a Failing Company to a $700M Acquisition in a Year #3 Diablo will make a (moderate) splash.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

By embracing and encouraging gamers’ motivation to collect and to cultivate, the card battling genre has become a proven formula for mobile companies and studios to maximize their revenue. Later in September 2021, the game had a collaboration with SEGA with a Sonic the Hedgehog crossover event.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

In this session , the company shared its esports journey from a stopgap solution to laying the foundation for the next generation of esports fandom with Project Stryker. In this session , KakaoGames explained how to maximize game server performance, how to architect MMORPGs on AWS, and why the company chose AWS.

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