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Evolution Gaming has put a year-on-year rise in revenue and profit during the first quarter down to a rise in demand for its products, as a result of the absence of sports betting elsewhere due to the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
The live dealer software provider posted €115.1m (£100.8m/$124.2m) in total operating revenue for the three months to 31 March, up 45.2% from €79.3m in the same period last year.
Evolution said it experienced an “increased and strong demand” for its products in the first quarter, adding that towards the end of the period, the reduced sports betting market – as a result of widespread shutdown of sports events around the world – aided growth in its services.
The provider also said the postponement and cancellation of sports has had an impact on the start of the second quarter, with new players being introduced to the live casino segment.
In terms of geographical performance in Q1, Evolution reported year-on-year growth across all markets, with the exception of the UK, where revenue fell 20.2% to €9.9m. Nordic revenue was up slightly to €6.2m while revenue from the rest of Europe jumped 46.9% to €59.8m.
Elsewhere, Asian revenue more than doubled from €8.0m to €20.8m, while North America revenue increased 54.4% to €7.1m. Revenue in other regions was also up 52.0% to €11.4m.
Looking at spending during the quarter, total operating expenses amounted to €58.0m, up 18.1% from €49.1m in the opening three months of 2019. The main outgoing for Evolution was staff expenses, with the provider spending €33.3m, up 14.8% year-on-year.
Evolution also saw a 22.8% rise in depreciation, amortisation and impairment costs to €7.0m, while other operating expenses were up 23.8% to €17.7m for the quarter.
However, such was the significance of revenue growth during the period that the provider was able to post an 89.1% rise in operating profit, which amounted to €57.1m.
Profit before tax stood at €57.0m, up 89.4%, while after paying €2.8m in taxes, profit came in at €54.2m, representing an increase of 89.5% on Q1 last year. In addition, earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation climbed 78.6% year-on-year to €64.1m.
Reflecting on the results, Evolution’s chief executive Martin Carlesund said while the business saw growth in Q1, the coronavirus also had a negative impact on certain aspects of operations and it would face more challenges moving forward. Last month, Evolution set out its strategy to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on the business
“The spread of Covid-19 has put the world in an exceptional and challenging situation which has also meant operational trials for Evolution,” Carlesund said. “So far, we have handled the situation in a good way, and financially, Evolution has started 2020 very strongly in terms of both growth and profitability.
“However, in several of our studios, we operate with fewer tables compared to normal, and our studios in Georgia and Spain have been temporarily closed during limited periods.
“During these periods, a large share of the traffic has been managed by the company’s other studios. To be a global company with sites across multiple territories has been an important factor during these times.”
Carlesund also offered an update on other developments around the world. The construction of a new studio in Pennsylvania continues but with a postponed timetable due to the pandemic, but the provider still intends to launch in the state before the end of 2020.
Evolution is also hoping to make Michigan its third regulated market in the US, as soon as the state completes its casino regulation process (expected in early 2021), while elsewhere, the provider also secured a national manufacturer licence in South Africa.
“I am proud of how we have started off the year from a financial perspective, but even prouder of how we have handled these difficult times from an operational standpoint,” Carlesund said.
“All employees have showed that they are fast-paced, flexible and that even in hard circumstances they are able to maintain their focus on our given path; to continue to increase the gap to the competition and to strengthen our leading position.”
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- Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life
Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life
Windows - 1997
Description of Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life Windows
Read Full DescriptionIn my opinion the most 'realistic' and fun strategy game ever made about scientific evolution, Evolution from Greg Costikyan is a unique, well-designed, and very well-balanced real-time strategy game that brings the concepts of evolution to gaming in such a way that makes the game both engaging and educational.
The premise: 'More than 360 million years ago, life crawled out of the ocean. Yesterday, a hairless plains ape learned to talk and to make fire. In between, amphibians, dinosaurs, pterodactyls, mastodons and saber-tooth tigers came and went. Welcome to Evolution, where life evolves at breakneck speeds 30,000 years per second!
You are thrown into this evolutionary maelstrom. To survive, your creatures must fight ferociously and strategically to evolve into intelligent life. You battle up to five other players, attacking them, crowding them out of prime feeding ground and striving to grab key positions on the Tree of Life. As if your opponents aren't challenge enough, the Earth itself is in constant flux. Continents drift and collide, sea levels rise and fall, glaciers advance and retreat, comets and asteroids strike the earth, enormous volcanic eruptions spew lava in all directions, supernovae irradiate the world.
Can creatures thrive or will competitors and the elements wipe you out?'
Although it is similar to SimEarth and SimLife in many aspects, Evolution is fundamentally a different game because of its emphasis on strategy - and therefore probably the world's first program based on evolution to be qualified as a 'game' (as opposed to Maxis' 'software toys').
There is a pre-defined goal: be the 'best' survivor in this historic world. You do this by accumulating score: similar to Civilization, the game ranks you using several criteria. These include size of population of your 'clade' (i.e. your original species and all the species that descend from it), number of times your clade evolves a new species, and evolving the first intelligent species. Although you do not have to be the first to evolve the first intelligent species to win, it is much easier to win if you do because doing this gives you 50% point increase. This goal is easier said than done, since you have to deal with a myriad of natural disasters (including dramatic meteor showers and volcanic activities, to name but a few) in addition to opponents (which can be either computer- or human-controlled).
Crucial to your success is the decision on what species to evolve next. While there are more than 170 unique species available, only one player in the game can evolve into a specific species at a time, making it a real challenge to evolve those critical species before other players in the game beat you to it. Many in-game charts and graphs are indispensable to your strategy, as well as the complex and awe-inspiring 'Tree of Life' that gives you exact breakdown of requirements for evolving species. The Tree of Life is a bit hard to read because the text and the lines are so small, but that is a minor gripe compared to the overall excellence of the game.
Similar to most real-time strategy games such, you control and manage all 'units' of your species directly. Battles are unavoidable, especially when someone beats you to a species that is critical for evolving into that intelligent race you are researching. True to history, while you are busy trying to survive, the environment constantly changes - tectonic plates and whole continents shift, resulting in dramatic changes in the survivability of your species. This requires you to constantly monitor the environment and adjust your strategy accordingly, making for an exciting and rewarding experience. I learned a lot more about evolution while playing this game than I ever did in school :)
The 'bells and whistles' components are all up to par, and add to the experience. Graphics is very good - you can tell which species it is by its icon and animation. Discovering your species' characteristics and preferences is half the fun, and evolving them into new species is the other half. To round things off, up to six players can compete via serial modem, LAN, or the Internet.
Despite a major omission in the first release that saw the curious absence of 'historical Earth' scenario, you can still download that from the game's official website at Discovery Channel among other places. When all is said and done, this is one of the few RTS games I played into 3-4 a.m. - and I never learned this much while playing Starcraft ;)
Highly recommended to RTS fans and anyone who is interested in evolution of life on Earth.
Review By HOTUD
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Carlos2020-09-18-1 point
'Free mind' get out of here creationist.
FREE MIND2020-08-01-9 points
Darwin is Fake. We know how incredibly complicated our body is, and that DNA must come from intelligence using a super computer. The chance of life forming by itself is 0.
Ayy2019-12-182 points
Any info on how to handle the MEM BAD HANDLE issue would be much appreciated
RANDOMGUY2019-10-091 point
So I installed it but I have the next issue, every time the game loads it will show a mem bad handle error. Any way to fix this?
RandomGuy2019-10-060 point
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Is there any simple way to play this? I used to love this game but I have tried stuff such as DosBox and still no luck.
Druss2019-01-220 point
Yep - the Iso is corrupted :(
admin2018-09-262 points
@Tom Brady: should be incorporated in the 1.2 patch
Tom Brady2018-09-261 point
So does anyone know where to get the file to play the historical earth setup?
I can’t find the discovery website the reviewer talks about to download it. If anyone has a copy I’d love to get it.
Thanks for any info
JollyZergRush922018-07-013 points
ok so before you even start to download a pre-2001 windows game grab VMware for free learn how it works, search for windows ME VMware image get it working to your liking (install guest additions etc) this set up should be able to play dos games etc, but dos box is still better than running dos games on windows, that is a whole other monster you should google, but most of the games I've found on here post dos pre XP run great on ME (its ME so its not as stable as NT but i chose it because its running on a DOS compatibility layer like Windows9x)
Mohreb2018-05-04-1 point
To all those who have issues running this game, Windows 95 games can be run but you probably need a virtual machin for it.
RandomGuy2018-05-031 point
Wow they are really helping to fix or issues... Hey if a game dosnt even work dont freaking post it.
Beebe Studios2018-04-081 point
The Disc image file is corrupted
me2018-04-051 point
i cant install the game cause 'Evolution requires Windows 95' and mi computer has Windows 7. How can i run it?
RandomGuy2018-02-080 point
How the heck I can play it on windows 10? every single time i try to make a new game it crashes.
Fission2017-12-124 points
I downloaded and unzipped the files, but when I try to run the game it says I need the Evolution disc in my disc drive. Windows 10. What should I do?
Giant2017-10-182 points
I'm pretty sure I got it to work not much more than a year ago, but now I can't get it to work. Windows 10. Tried all kinds of compatibility settings. Someone got it to work and want's to share?
WowGuy2017-05-022 points
Evolution Of Gaming Systems
After some fiddling and optimizing I was able to get this to work on windows 8, however the game itself is very challenging and not very easy to understand without some sort of digital manual
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