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How many players does Overwatch have?

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With a thriving esports league and a sequel on the way, Overwatch is still popular—even with over five years under its belt. But just how many people are still playing the game? Blizzard Entertainment usually remains relatively tight-lipped about the exact number of players Overwatch has. But the developer will occasionally release a number to check in with fans. In November 2019, Overwatch’s former lead director Jeff Kaplan mentioned a rough estimate of the player base size at BlizzCon. BlizzCon 2019 marked the next step in Overwatch‘s history: Overwatch 2.

Esports Arena Las Vegas owners exploring sale of marquee venue

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The group behind one of the biggest esports facilities in the Western United States may be selling off ownership in the arena and exiting esports all together. HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas owner Allied Esports is exploring options for the future of its company that could include selling off the arena, according to company CEO Claire Wu on an earnings call on Aug. 16.  Allied has hired investment banking firm Lake Street Capital Partners to advise it on the future of the company’s esports business and search the potential acquisition

Microsoft reports Q4 earnings, Xbox content and services down 4 percent

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Microsoft held an investor meeting recently that detailed its results for the fourth quarter of the 2021 fiscal year (April 1 to June 30, 2021), which included overall revenue growth of 21 percent to $46.2 billion. The main driver for this revenue growth wasn’t the computing division, however, like in the previous quarter. Instead, it was the Intelligent Cloud segment, which consists of server products and cloud services. That segment revenue was $17.4 billion (37.66 percent of total revenue) and increased by 30 percent compared to the previous quarter. Azure’s

Ubisoft to Release Far Cry 6 This Year, But Not Skull and Bones

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[embedded content] Ubisoft today released its earnings report for the last year and also revealed new details about what we can expect from the company for the next year — meaning what games they’re going to release over the next few months. It’s looking like a full year of games, albeit almost exclusively games that were delayed past their original release date. But there is going to be one big disappointment, as a game we’ve all been hoping to see for a while has been delayed once again. The company

Nintendo earnings, a new Switch game, and E3 2021 expands | GB Decides 195

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Run your own branded in-game store Start transforming your game’s economy and increase your bottom line. Get the free guide now. Download Here Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here!  On this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, the crew discusses Nintendo’s record earnings report. Reviews editor Mike Minotti talks about his Resident Evil Village review, Nintendo’s new IP, and his thoughts on ligma. Also, more companies are joining E3 2021 and GamesBeat editor Jeff Grubb talks about that as well as the Minions CEO joining Nintendo’s

Blizzard Monthly Active Users Drops as Revenue Climbs

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Top GamesBlizzard is losing monthly active users even as its revenue climbs. | Photo courtesy of BlizzardBlizzard is losing millions of monthly active users over time, but the company's revenue continues to climb, according to its latest quarterly earnings report.Blizzard's numbers show it has 27 million monthly active users across its games. Although that number is very impressive, it represented a 29% drop from the first quarter of 2018, when Blizzard had 38 million monthly active players. Two million of those players left the ecosystem between the last quarter of

CD Projekt Red Lost Over $51M in Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

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[embedded content] CD Projekt Red recently revealed some new numbers about its most recent game, the divisive Cyberpunk 2077, in its earnings report. These include the number of games sold, as well as a projected amount of earnings lost in refunds issued. You’ll have to dig a bit, as the company obfuscates the number of refunds a bit, but it’s in there. During a recent earnings call, executives noted that the sales figures for the game might not be typical and cited the PlayStation Store’s delisting of the game as

Report: Free Fire Sees Over 100M Peak Daily Active Users in Q2

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The mobile battle royale game Garena Free Fire saw its highest-ever player numbers during the second quarter of 2020. A report published by Sea Limited, the parent company of Garena, said that app data and analytics platform App Annie recorded Free Fire as the highest-grossing mobile game in both Latin America and Southeast Asia.  The report claims that Free Fire achieved a new record high of over 100M peak daily active users in Q2. During this period, Free Fire also ranked third in the most downloaded mobile games category according

Call Of Duty Microtransactions Helped Boost Activision’s Profits By $536 Million

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Activision Blizzard's latest quarterly revenue report has been released, enabling us to put a dollar figure on the success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and its free-to-play battle royale spinoff, Warzone. The number is unsurprisingly huge--including a growth of $536 million in year-on-year in-game spending driven mostly by Modern Warfare.Overall Activision Blizzard saw an increase in in-game spending of $596 million when comparing the three months leading up to June 30 with the equivalent period last year. The large majority of that ($536 million) comes from Activision, while Blizzard