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Roblox: Engaging Bigger Kids With Better Content Drives More Payments
Earnings // October 31, 2024

Youth-focused video game and metaverse company Roblox is experience a growth spurt. Users over the age of 13 are now a majority of the company’s hundreds of millions of users. “We’re currently at less than 3% of our TAM in the gaming market space,” executives...

Epic Games Reportedly Eyeing Subscription Launch in Race for Gamers’ Loyalty
Subscriptions // January 22, 2024

As gaming consoles and game developers alike compete for consumers’ recurring spending, Fortnite parent company Epic Games is reportedly looking into launching its own subscription service.   According to Game Rant, a new leak shows that the video game and software developer and publisher may soon announce...

Insomniac Reports Data Breach Involving Employee Information, Game Development Details
Security & Fraud // December 22, 2023

Sony-owned video-game studio Insomniac released a statement Friday (Dec. 22) about a data breach that became known earlier this month. “We’re both saddened and angered about the recent criminal cyberattack on our studio and the emotional toll it’s taken on our dev team,” the company...

Netflix Leverages Fan Enthusiasm to Sidestep Gaming’s Subscriber Acquisition Challenges
Subscriptions // October 20, 2023

Netflix is taking advantage of its subscribers’ strong affinity for many of its films and series to create an audience for its incipient gaming business in an effort to sidestep players in the space’s typical difficulties acquiring consumers. On a call with analysts Wednesday (Oct....

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Insomniac Reports Data Breach Involving Employee Information, Game Development Details

December 22, 2023
Sony-owned video-game studio Insomniac released a statement Friday (Dec. 22) about a data breach that became known earlier this month. “We’re both saddened and angered about the recent criminal cyberattack on our studio and the emotional toll it’s taken on our dev team,” the company said in a post on X. “We have focused inwardly […]

Sony Revamps PlayStation Plus With 119 Titles in Subscription Tiers

May 17, 2022
The PlayStation Plus subscription service will reportedly relaunch only in Asia for PlayStation and PC platforms for now, a report said, contrasting what the company initially said would happen. Other...

Sony Announces New PlayStation Subscription Service

March 29, 2022
Sony has announced it will launch a subscription-based version of PlayStation Plus in June, with hundreds of games, including “Spider-Man: Miles Morales,” in the U.S., Europe and Japan, Reuters reported...

Sony Expected to Unveil PlayStation Subscription

March 25, 2022
Sony Group could introduce a PlayStation video game subscription service “as early as next week,” Bloomberg reported Friday (March 25). The subscription service — which was given the code name...