{"id":40363,"date":"2012-06-27T14:46:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T12:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=40363"},"modified":"2012-06-27T14:51:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T12:51:37","slug":"epic-games-reveals-their-most-profitable-game-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/40363-epic-games-reveals-their-most-profitable-game-ever","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games reveals their most profitable game ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After more than twenty years in the business, Epic Games has a pretty big catalogue of megahits on the company r\u00e9sum\u00e9, perhaps most prominently the Unreal, Unreal Tournament, and Gears of War series. But you&#8217;d probably never guess which game has made them the most cash.<\/p>\n<p>Launched just two years ago, the $5.99 iOS game Infinity Blade has already grossed over $23 million for the studio.&#8221;The most profitable game we&#8217;ve ever made, in terms of man years invested versus revenue, is actually Infinity Blade,&#8221; Epic boss Tim Sweeny revealed to attendees at the Game Developers Conference in Taipei this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more profitable than Gears of War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sequel, released in December last year, made more than $5 million in its first month on the App Store. To date, the franchise has banked more than $30 million. So much for &#8220;casual&#8221; gaming, huh?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The game industry is the most exciting one on earth,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen unprecedented change, just in our lifetimes. It&#8217;s an unprecedented amount of change, and also opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/173072\/Epics_Sweeney_Platform_convergence_freemium_the_inevitable_future.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Infinity Blade banks $30 million in one year\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/30238-infinity-blade-banks-30-million-in-one-year.html\" target=\"_blank\">Infinity Blade banks $30 million in one year<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Infinity Blade II review (iOS)\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/31010-infinity-blade-ii-review-ios.html\" target=\"_blank\">Infinity Blade II review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Infinity Blade II: The best iOS game yet?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/28919-infinity-blade-ii-the-best-ios-game-yet.html\" target=\"_blank\">Infinity Blade II: The best iOS game yet?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Epic working on \u201centirely fresh, new experience\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/29021-epic-working-on-entirely-fresh-new-experience.html\" target=\"_blank\">Epic working on &#8220;entirely fresh, new experience&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprising revelation from GDC Taipei 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":40373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226],"tags":[31,1415,1842,1413,531,241],"class_list":["post-40363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-epic-games","tag-infinity-blade","tag-infinity-blade-ii","tag-ios","tag-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40378,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40363\/revisions\/40378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}