Monday, 3 February 2025

Game News Round-Up

Daily curated games-industry news digest for 3 February 2025.

General3 stories

Pokemon TCG Pocket’s Trading feature is changing after fan backlash

  • “The item requirements and restrictions implemented for the trading feature were designed to prevent abuse from bots and other prohibited actions using multiple accounts. Our goal was to balance the game while preserving the fun of collecting cards that are core to the Pokemon TCG pocket experience."
  • "Going forward, we also plan to offer multiple ways to obtain trade tokens including through event distributions.”
  • Unclear what other changes will be made outside of offering more trade tokens
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Business3 stories

Konami has released its financial results for the nine months ending December 31, 2024

  • Revenue: ¥310.8 billion ($2 billion, up 22.8% year-on-year)
  • Business profit: ¥87.1 billion ($560 million, up 38.7% year-on-year)
  • Operating profit: ¥86.7 billion ($557 million, up 45.5% year-on-year)
  • Digital Entertainment
  • Revenue: ¥228.8 billion ($1.4 billion, up 32% year-on-year)
  • Business profit: ¥80.8 billion ($519.7 million, up 44.6% year-on-year)
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