Sentences with phrase «game research firm»

Yet, in 2012, video game research firm Electronic Entertainment Design and Research looked at a sampling of 669 games where the protagonists had discernable genders — only 24 games had exclusively female protagonists.

According to video game research firm Newzoo, the migration from computers and consoles to tablets and smartphones sent worldwide mobile game revenues surging more than 40 percent in 2014 versus the year prior, hitting $ 25 billion.

«It took them a long time, but Nintendo finally realized that the $ 30 billion mobile gaming market in 2015 is too big to ignore,» said Peter Warman, analyst at video game research firm Newzoo.

According to video game research firm Newzoo, game sales of Activision's (ATVI) 2013 title Skylanders Swap Force sold about 3.9 million copies to date, slightly lower than the 2012 Skylanders Giants version at 4.65 million, which was comparable to Skylanders Spyro's Adventure sales in 2011.

Not exact matches

The game has 85 million monthly active users, at least 40 million of whom are in China, according to estimates from research firm Newzoo.

China is the world's largest gaming market by revenue, and is expected to account for roughly 25 percent of global game sales in 2017, according to research firm NewZoo.

The data, which was compiled by the NPD Group, a research firm that tracks the U.S. gaming industry, suggests that Nintendo sold more units of the Switch's most popular games than units of the hardware itself.

Irish research firm Eagle Alpha, for example, digested 7,416 comments on a Reddit gaming thread in October to predict that Electronic Arts (EA) would sell more of its new Star Wars videogame than it had projected; Electronic Arts soon raised its sales forecast, citing «excitement» over the game.

Peter Warman, CEO of research firm Newzoo, says the number of hours gamers spent watching EA's FIFA 16 on Twitch in January increased by more than 80 % since last November, while the number of hours gamers watched NBA 2K16 videos on Twitch more than doubled in the same period.

Social media research firm Networked Insights found that 25 % of the comments made across social media sites about the ad were negative ahead of the game, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Women purchase more tablets, laptops and smartphones; download more music, movies and games; make the majority of household technology purchasing decisions; and utilize devices and services, from games to social media, more than their male counterparts, according to research over the past two years from the market intelligence firm Park Associates.

While Mattrick's combination of business vision and passion for games is hard to beat, it won't be difficult for Microsoft «to attract somebody who knows how to manage a fairly mature gaming business,» says Van Baker, an analyst who covers Microsoft for research firm Gartner.

The arrival of Nintendo's Wii U last year didn't invigorate game sales, which research firm NPD Group said have dropped 9 per cent over last year.

According to market research firm iResearch, China's e-sports gamers numbered 117 million (in Chinese) in 2016, with the market size reaching RMB 40 billion.

IN THE control room at Ocado's automated warehouse in Hatfield, 50 kilometres north of London, the firm's head of research is wielding something rather odd: an Xbox game controller.

Ubisoft contracts research firm to poll on hypothetical NGP prices, and shows up to the music game scene wondering where everybody went.

According to a report released by the firm Research and Markets, the global game - based learning market is likely to grow at a CAGR of 6.47 % over the period 2014 - 2019.

The research firm surveyed 800 consumers and found that 27.5 % had connected their new TVs to the Web, either through the internal capabilities of their sets or through an external device, such as a media extender or video game console.

The tablet game market is expected to grow to $ 3.1 billion worldwide, according to a new report from analyst firm Juniper Research.

• «As iPads and other devices become more versatile and popular, more people are playing games or watching videos, rather than buying and reading e-books,» says Michael Norris, an analyst with Simba Information, a market research firm.

- Nintendo ultimately could match its heyday in 2008, when Ebitda (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) hit $ 5.6 billion - it could get 25 % of the total smartphone - game market, which research firm IDC puts at $ 40.5 billion by 2018 - at a reasonable 50 % margin, that's $ 5.1 billion worth of profit for Nintendo - «The casual - gaming market moved to the mobile platform, but Nintendo did not.

NPD has released its latest video game retail sales figures for the month of August, the U.S market research firm keeps track of all sales and releases them monthly for our very eyes.

«In a way, battle royale is kind of like the kid's playground game tag, so it's actually based on a very old real - world game,» said Lewis Ward, research director of gaming and AR / VR at market research firm IDC.

The above question is what our Game Developer Research division, in the form of Alistair Wallis and a cadre of helpers, has been pondering for the last few weeks, and we just debuted a Gamasutra story with the results, as follows (we're selling the report to outsourcing firms and other services companies so they can get a head start on who lives where in the North American game bGame Developer Research division, in the form of Alistair Wallis and a cadre of helpers, has been pondering for the last few weeks, and we just debuted a Gamasutra story with the results, as follows (we're selling the report to outsourcing firms and other services companies so they can get a head start on who lives where in the North American game bgame biz):

According to the independent market research firm Niko Partners, a full 38 % of Chinese mobile gamers will spend some money inside a game in 2014.

According to China market research firm iResearch, mobile gaming became the largest market segment in the game industry in 2016.

According to the research firm, Fortnite is now the largest free - to - play console game of all time in both MAU (Monthly Active Users) and revenue generated.

«I think they made the right call by not putting any more money into it,» said Joost van Dreunen, chief executive of SuperData Research, a video game and interactive entertainment market researResearch, a video game and interactive entertainment market researchresearch firm.

Market research firm The NPD Group has released a new report on gamers» spending habits on downloadable content.

NativeX, a marketing firm that focuses on mobile technology, did research on how long mobile gamers use their phones to play mobile game applications.

China's video games market was estimated to be worth US$ 32.5 billion last year, which helped push total global games revenue to a record US$ 116 billion, according to research firm Newzoo.

The NPD Group, a market research firm, has confirmed that the survival - horror pioneering game bested all other games in January in terms of sales.

Game industry reporter MCVUK.com has stated that Lazard Capital Markets, a US - based market research firm, has issued a report confirming that the upcoming handheld by Sony, the NGP, will be released in North America before the end of the current year.

Tom Wijman, a gaming market consultant of research firm Newzoo, was quoted by the Malaysian Reserve (via Free Malaysia Today) as saying «hardcore Malaysian gamers» are the driving force for the rising gaming industry, which includes programmers and game developers.

Square Enix Holdings Co Ltd launched «Dragon Quest IX», the latest in its role - playing game series, on July 11 in Japan, and sold 2.32 million units in the first two days, the research firm said.

Pokémon Go has been labelled the most successful mobile game in week 1 by many research firms due to the fact that it is the fastest game to reach number 1 on the iOS grossing chart and because the game has more daily active users on Android than Twitter and other popular social apps.

«There's sort of a third generation of mobile game developers emerging, and it's really about relationships at that point,» said Joost Van Dreunen, founder and CEO of digital gaming analysis firm SuperData Research.

T) «Dragon Quest» game, a research firm said.

While Nintendo hasn't provided its own sales figures just yet, video game data and market research firm SuperData estimates that 1.5 million Switch consoles have been sold through to consumers so far, with a plan to hit 2 million by the end of the month.

The upcoming 2015 Global Games Market Report by market research and predictive analytics firm Newzoo shows that the worldwide games market will reach $ 113.3 billion by 2018.

The game, the first - ever mobile title based on Fallout, made $ 5.1 million in its first two weeks from the sale of virtual lunchboxes, according to a research firm.

The data, which was compiled by the NPD Group, a research firm that tracks the U.S. gaming industry, suggests that Nintendo sold more units of the Switch's most popular games than units of the hardware itself.

Retaining and improving Video Games Tax Relief, the Research and Development Tax Credits and tax incentives for start - ups and small firms to ensure that the UK has one of the most favourable tax regimes for the video games industry in the world.

That would make the game the biggest revenue generator among smartphone games globally, according to data from App Annie, a market research firm that tracks app performance.

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. — Market analyst firm DFC Intelligence has issued a series of new research products focused on the emerging PC game consumer.

Epic's free - to - play battle royale game Fortnite brought in $ 223 million across mobile, PC and console in March, according to research firm SuperData.

Sales of new and used video game discs made up just 35 percent of overall video game sales last year, according to research firm Newzoo.

David Burgess made an interesting observation, that «Legal directories can really help a law firm to keep its eye on the ball, by performing an internal audit in order to organise its submissions and prepare for the research process, which means that a firm will stay on top of its game.»

And while there are twice as many mobile gamers on Android devices in the U.S. as there are on iPhone and iPads, the amount spent by Apple gamers is five times higher than Android gamers, according to international gaming market research firm Newzoo.

Epic Games» Fortnite is making boatloads of money on in - app purchases, taking in $ 126 million in the month of February and surpassing the monthly revenue pull of competitor Playerunknown's Battlegrounds for the first time, according to game analytics firm Superdata Research.