Square Enix communicated in March that the fiscal year will not look particularly rosy. Now, the company went into a bit more detail, revealing: in the previous year could increase sales by 15.7 percent (1.12 billion euros).

Although the major titles from Square Enix were not bad at all, were not satisfactory sales figures materialize.
Yet developments such as Tomb Raider and Hitman: Absolution ensured higher costs. In addition, the sales below expectations lagged so that Square Enix import an operating loss of the equivalent of around 46 million euros at the end. Last year there were nearly 75 million euros profit.

But not only the games led to the loss, including depreciation, amortization and restructuring have here their fingers in the pie. Dismissals could be very likely given the current numbers well after Square before even hired hundreds of new employees worldwide. Only in April, the new CEO Yosuke Matsuda announced layoffs that should come to fruition, especially in LA.

In the future, not only wants to minimize development costs and shorten production cycles, but also take care of the areas more smartphone and tablet Square Enix. Your own portfolio will also be more adapted to the specific regions around the world, so that Square expects the current fiscal year with an increase of 26 million to 45 million euros.

Hitman Absolution Wallpapers

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New Tomb Raider Absolution Wallpapers

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The developer Maxis has now the 3.0 update for the urban simulation SimCity published, among other things, is to solve the traffic problems. The full patch notes are also available.

As already earlier this week announced the 3.0 update, the software developer Maxis now for the urban simulation SimCity published. This patch is intended to solve the traffic problems including an optimized management of the vehicles. Moreover, there is an update for the service vehicles, a revision of various sound effects, an improvement of transport and zahlreiiche minor bug fixes. Below this message you can find the full patch notes.

Patch Notes for SimCity v3.0

• New: Additional Hotel models for wider selection of hotels
• Transport: "Smarter traffic management" by updated guidance system for better traffic flow and better processing of information about U-turns, stops and required performance on certain types of roads
• Transport: Better shuttle distributed by staggered layers in commercial and industrial buildings instead of rush hour on the hour
• Traffic: Patch for stationary cars, which led to congestion
• Traffic: Possibility to turn right at the red, and better traffic flow in certain situations
• Traffic: Fine adjustment of regional commuting between cities with many workers and many workplaces
• Air pollution: More Patches for cities in which the polluting building up to the accumulation of large air pollution resulted unknown cause
• Service vehicles: Patch for service vehicles that had just disappeared before Update 2.0
• School Buses: Patch for transport problems, in which school buses got stuck in neighboring cities or arcology
• Sound: Improved sound for the French police station
• Trade: Patch for inconsistent exchange of fire service brakeman between mountain and river valley in Wehn.
• Trading: Direct discharge of sewage to the sewage treatment plant in the region (instead of the way through the whole city)
• Trade: Patch for reliable function gift
• Trade: Updated training field to display the Sims that come into town or visit neighboring towns
• Ferry Port: Last chance for the ferry port, discharge the wastewater to the wastewater treatment plant and tailpipe
• Patch for residential, commercial and industrial areas: Patch for Sims, who lost on the way back from the park by public transport sometimes money or satisfaction
• Patch for residential, commercial and industrial areas: six-to 12-hour development lock after leveling of abandoned buildings or ruins
• Patch for residential, commercial and industrial areas: Reduced waste of satisfaction due rent and lack of money in buildings of EKS 2 and 3 and thereby greater balance of derelict buildings
• Patch for residential, commercial and industrial areas: Patch for cases in which certain buildings were abandoned because they were not available for floats
• Trees: Longer shelf life of the trees, but smaller reduction of soil pollution
• Radiation: Reduce soil contamination by radiation
• Transport: New proposals in thought bubbles to overcrowded trains - instead of more trains, stations
• Transportation: Embellished lights for better visual representation of the railway in the night
• Transportation: Possibility to set up of tram stops to run directly on individual tracks and opportunity for passengers directly to the tracks along the bus stops
• Transportation: Easily improved traffic flow through increased probability of buses or trams high traffic stops first approach
• To lay possibility of pedestrian paths universities across roads: roads
• Production LWKs: Patch for cases in which production LWKs left town and disappeared
• Went patch for cases where lost when returning from vans to garages with inadequate storage facilities resources: Transporter
• Sports Park: fine-tuning the number of skateboarders and athletes in the sports park
• Data levels: Visibility of data areas in information-heavy levels
• Edit mode: (shown improvement, especially in the parks) Add Another possible growing points in edit mode
• Building: Patch for individual cases in which buildings were stacked

The SimCity Screenshots

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The military MMOG War Thunder appears for the PS4. Development studio Gaijin Entertainment has a PlayStation 4 conversion on the official website confirmed. The publication shall take place at this year's holiday shopping season. The makers of the action title promises contemporary graphics and a custom for the DualShock controller 4 controls.

War Thunder will make his debut on the PS4 console. Gaijin Entertainment has given on the official website for the game to work with Sony known. The implementation of the military MMOGs for PlayStation 4 is intended to benefit from the power of next-gen console. Development studio Gaijin promises among other things a contemporary look, great speed, intelligent personalization features, and integrated social and cloud features. Also wanted to use the possibilities of the DualShock controller 4 in War Thunder. War Thunder to appear for the PS4 for Christmas 2013.

Watch This War Thunder - World War trailer

Screenshots from the PlayStation 4 version, however, has not yet been published Gaijin Entertainment, the impressions of the gallery are all from the PC version. In War Thunder you take part in the battles of the Second World War. With a faithful replica flying machines, it provides you with other players fierce battles. Land and sea battles are planned for the future. The genesis of War Thunder goes back to the year 2009, at that time the title was officially announced. For more information on War Thunder you can see from the linked web page.

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Diablo 3 is celebrating its birthday. To celebrate, Blizzard presented on the official website of a handful of exclusive wallpapers available.

While the PlayStation 3 community currently on the release of Diablo 3, which will take the end of course on Sony's console on the current state of affairs, agrees to commit PC owners in these hours the first birthday of the title.

"Diablo 3" on 15 Published in May and had to fight, especially in the first few weeks due to technical problems, which made a spanner in the works the game at regular intervals. Especially feared: the error 37, it was pointed out to the that the server is completely overloaded and can not be reached.

To "Diablo 3" to celebrate the first birthday of corresponding, Blizzard introduced a handful of exclusive wallpapers available to you on the official website is. To these it is said: "Finding the right wallpaper for your exquisite taste, can be pretty difficult. Although there may be a range of visually pleasing images, but only very few of them meet the perfect balance between the suffocating smoke of hell, and the radiant glow of the sky. Until now. "

"For the first anniversary of Diablo III, we present four brand new desktop wallpapers with high resolution images of grauenerregendsten creatures from the Burning Hells in battle with some of the biggest and bravest heroes of the High Heavens. The following pictures are available in a variety of resolutions so that your screen always looks good even with the challenges ahead.

The MMORPG Neverwinter is 30 Starting in May 2013, the open beta. At this time you will be allowed to try out the professional system.

The online role-playing game Neverwinter is 30 April 2013 for all players start in the Open Beta. Therefore, the aim is to introduce the game to us piece by piece. Today one must read through a new blog entry to the profession system, which has a lot of information in stock. There you will find all the important information on the subject: "Neverwinter equipment and objects play an important role in the development of your character and its effectiveness in the fight, it offer you many options to find on your adventure through the lands of new and more powerful equipment. how the loot from monsters, dungeons and rewards from top offers at the auction house. Another very fun and exciting way to get new items, located in the professions. "

"Professions allow you to Neverwinter produce some of the best equipment and items in the game itself. Soon as the open beta begins on April 30, you can look in the five occupations romp, divided into management, chain forging, plate forging, leather and tailoring are. They give you the fight that special something or fill in your purse, if you do auctions at the auction house. guide provides you coins, items, experience points, and much more. The other professions, however, reward you with excellent equipment of your choice, "is it in the official blog .

Neverwinter: Exploit the Foundry editor ensured to fast level rises

For the "Neverwinter" offered Foundry editor brought with it an exploit that allowed the players to quickly rise through the ranks. A patch made for assistance.

The online role-playing game "Neverwinter" went on 30 May 2013 in the open beta phase. Participants including the ability to access the so-called Foundry editor. This component allows players to create very own challenges that can also be used by other participants.

However, it had the developer Cryptic failed to limit the number of opponents, so it was allowing players to stuff the created levels with numerous adversaries. Of course, not entirely altruistic. By the low-tide lines of the enemy grew faster than expected through the ranks.

The gap but was temporarily closed , as it is called. Thanks to a patch, the number of experience points to erspielenden was limited. In addition, players have the kind XP Collector Level brought into circulation, excluded from the use of the editor first.