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Cyberpunk 2077 made a decade’s worth of development and marketing cash back on launch day

By Darryn Bonthuys
December 14, 2020
in :  Gaming
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Cyberpunk 2077 was always going to turn a profit, controversies be damned. A decade of development, a slick campaign hyping up the product, and throwing America’s sweetheart Keanu Reeves into the mix was a recipe for success, and after a mere day on store shelves, CD Projekt Red has already recouped its development costs from pre-order sales alone.

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Call of Duty made over $3 billion across the last 12 months, but Black Ops isn’t looking so hot

By Darryn Bonthuys
December 7, 2020
in :  Gaming
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Surprise! Call of Duty has made a ton of cash in 2020. That’s a headline that I can file in the water is wet and the sky is blue category, as Activision’s annual blockbuster behemoth never fails to disappoint its investors.

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Xboss Phil Spencer reveals how developers make money through Xbox Game Pass

By Darryn Bonthuys
November 26, 2020
in :  Gaming
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If you’ve got an Xbox console or an account on PC, chances are you also have an Xbox Game Pass account. Microsoft’s all-you-can-game buffet is stupidly good value for money, a regularly rotating selection of games that aren’t just blasts from the pasts but also features newer releases arriving on launch day as well.

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Star Citizen has now raised over $550 million in funding

By Darryn Bonthuys
March 30, 2020
in :  Gaming
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Between what’s real, what’s caught up in development limbo and fans debating if the project is worth supporting, one thing is clear: Star Citizen is still raking in a ton of investment cash.

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EA made nearly a billion Dollars in the last quarter thanks to “Live Services”

By Geoffrey Tim
January 31, 2020
in :  Gaming
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Publisher Electronic Arts has reported on its quarterly earnings for the last three months of 2019, and they’ve made an awful lot of money on their “live services” which is a bit of a catchall-term for microtransactions

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Surprise! Fortnite and other free to play games are still making a ton of cash

By Darryn Bonthuys
January 6, 2020
in :  Gaming
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Well here’s some absolutely shocking news: Free to play games are still doing gangbusters numbers on the digital frontier, raking in absurd numbers that other game developers would kill for with their premium titles.

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Technology

Local tech company Offerzen and Investec teaming up to make a programmable bank account

By Craig Risi
December 5, 2019
in :  Technology
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In what could be a world first, two SA companies have teamed up to launch a programmable bank account.

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PlayStation made more money in 2018 than it did for the whole PS2 era

By Brad Lang
April 26, 2019
in :  Gaming
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The records for Sony’s latest fiscal year have been revealed and oh boy, did they make a TON of cash. Hey, have you ever heard of Sony? Probably not, they’re just a small company. Still trying to pave their in the industry; nothing, you know? Yeah, well they just released their 2018 fiscal year earnings and what do you know? …

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