Arrowhead Game Studios employee count by year: 2025:121 2024:101 2023:84 2022:84 2021:86

Arrowhead Game Studios financial statements for 2025 are out (per the Swedish companies registration office/Arrowhead Game Studios) Swedish text (left) English text (right)

Per NPD (numbers as of June 2005) Max Payne (the original) sold more than 5 million copies in the U.S. alone Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne sold more than 950,000 copies in the U.S

Wheelman's (Tigon Studios&Midway, 2009) budget was believed to be north of $15 million

The Pokémon Company updated its website today (numbers as of March 2026) The video game series has suprassed the 500 million mark and sold over 515 million units. (was over 489 million) The Pokémon Trading Card Game sold over 85 billion cards. (was 75 billion) Other data

Today I turn 31

Crash Bandicoot was nearly a billion dollar franchise (by 2002)

Crash Bandicoot (1996, Naughty Dog& Sony Computer Entertainment) had a marketing budget of $6 million

Posted this before Rare video about ZeniMax Media and Providence Equity Partners web.archive.org/web/20210204...

Created the Wikipedia page for PokéROM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%...

Via indelibleNews! website (February 1997) Hackers broke into the crack.com web site, stole the codes to Quake (from id software) and two upcoming Crack titles, and then made them available for a free download on the site.

Per Peter Moore (Microsoft, February 2006) The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind sold nearly a million units on the original Xbox (by that point)

Bethesda Game Studios is hiring for a studio PR Director

Computer Games Magazine had a dedicated section for PC Data charts

Ninja Theory's financial statements for 2025 are out The company employed 106 people in 2025 (was 108 in 2024) Now focusing on future project work Other data

Looks like The 10th Planet (Bethesda's cancelled space game) was still in development as of 2000

Another Christopher Weaver (Bethesda Softworks founder) bio (from 2013) Bethesda created over 75 games by that point

NEW VIDEO! It's Bruce Willis vs a demon possessed President of the USA in this hugely influential PS1 shooter. I'm not joking. youtu.be/nC-bDl1-Pqc

Ninja Theory's financial statements are being processed and will be available soon

From the MinnMax Matt Firor (ex ZeniMax Online) Interview Elder Scrolls Online sold 2.4 million boxes in June and July of 2015 (game released in June 2015 for PS4 and Xbox One) www.youtube.com/watch?v=42I1... (at 18:38) Still watching this

The Pokémon Company website update is this month (if no change) 👀 Previous The Pokémon Company website update days May 23, 2025 May 24, 2024 May 26, 2023 June 10, 2022 June 4, 2021

Wish Todd Howard would reveal the Interviews he/Bethesda did in the 1990's (the names of the websites) For other people to read

Harmony: The Fall of Reverie (2023, Don't Nod) failed commercially if I'm reading this right

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden's (2024, Don't Nod) budget was $30 million Over 120 people worked on it

The First Berserker: Khazan (2025, Nexon) sold 1+ million units. Generated over $50 million in revenue

Monster High franchise generated over $5.6 billion in global retail sales

Magic: The Gathering makes (used to?) $300 million in annual revenue. More than My Little Pony or Transformers

Only thing I found on Hellblade II is this (seven-figure media budget, $1 million to $10 million)

Always fun reading these old headlines

UK Financial statements due by this year (2026) from video game companies Xbox: Ninja Theory (by June 30) Playground Games (by September 30) ZeniMax Europe (by September 30) Others: Rockstar Games (by December 31) Rocksteady Studios (by September 30) Double Eleven (by June 30)

Finances of Spiders (GreedFalf, in french) Chiffre d'affaires is revenue

RE on why I use the Wayback Machine If one day the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine is gone The Information can be preserved here

Top PC Games, PC Data for April 2-8, 2000 Grand Slam Bridge III appeared on the chart at number 10 (considered a rare game by the looks of it) Can't find any info on it

Some ZeniMax Media trademark activity

Sandfall Interactive (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33) stuff

Machine Translation Crytek's financial statement's for 2024 are out (posted last month)

Old IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005 (2004, Bethesda Game Studios) coverage

Old Grand Slam Bridge (1986, Cybron&Electronic Arts) coverage This is Tim Cain's first game BTW

GTA Online’s weekly active users make one thing clear: Rockstar has every reason to prioritize console versions for the GTA VI launch.

I've posted info before (all the info I found before regarding Marvel's Blade) What we know: The production phase of Marvel's Blade was launched at the end of 2024, following prototype validation Estimated release date of November 2027 Budget of 94 million euros

There goes my work for today

The Wayback Machine is down right now

From Retro Gamer's The History of Terminator games (November 2025 issue) Retro Gamer was able to contact Christopher Weaver (Bethesda's founder)

Rare's financial statements (made up to 30 June 2025) are out Average number of people employed in 2025 - 202 (was 196 in 2024) other data

Rare's financial statements (made up to 30 June 2025) are being processed and will be available soon

The Pokémon Company now has a new website design

The Pokémon Company website update should be next month (if nothing changes)

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License Global's 2026 Top Global Licensors Report is out July 30 this year

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