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  1. Yurinka

    News SteamDB top weekly sellers: Week 15, 2024 (Apr 2 - Apr 9)

    Not including F2P game downloads. Only paid games, paid DLC(the ones with purple banner in the top left corner) and Steam deck: # Name Developer Release Date #2 HELLDIVERS™ 2 #2 last week Arrowhead Game Studios 8 February 2024 #3 Steam Deck #5 last week #4 Call of Duty®...
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    News Newzoo PC & Console Gaming Market Report 2024

    Newzoo just released a new report. It will help you understand why companies like Sony are expanding in GaaS, PC, 1st (and 3rd) person shooters, emerging markets or cloud gaming: Newzoo just released a new report: PC grew more than consoles during 2023 (game+addons+game subs graph, doesn't...
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    News Novarama (Invizimals, Killsquad, United 1944) is shutting down

    Founded 21 years ago, the studio from Barcelona, Spain was specially known for their period where they were a Sony 2nd party studio making games mostly for PSP, but also PS Vita and PS3 of the innovative series Invizimals, which was like an evolved AR game predecessor of Pokemon Go. The series...
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    News New CoD Warzone Mobile info from the Mobile World Congress

    This week we had the MWC in Barcelona, where a local tv interviewed the head of a local dev team, Digital Legends, who is in charge of the (crossplay) mobile version of CoD Warzone Mobile. In addition to share a new trailer, it was revealed that the game has over 50M preorders and will be...
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    Playstation Departing PlayStation Chief Jim Ryan Reveals the Biggest Challenges of His 30-Year Career

    After three decades at PlayStation, Jim Ryan , who’s stepping down next month as SIE president and CEO, has seen the industry he loves undergo dramatic shifts. Amid the upheaval, Ryan says he wouldn’t change a moment of it. “I’m just so grateful that I didn’t work in a boring industry,” he...
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    News Sony Creators Conference: Polyphony, Bend and Haven tech dev talks

    Sony has some sort of internal GDC, where tech people from from different studios make presentations about different developer focused (not for gamers) gamedev tech topics. In this case, 5 months ago they shared a video that apparently nobody spotted back then, with devs from Polyphony, Bend and...
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    News Satya Nadella talks about the future of Xbox and multiplatform. Wants to publish on Sony and Nintendo!

    When asked for the health and future of Xbox Nutella replied: "We're very, very excited about everything that's going on in gaming, specially with the close of ABK. We think that now, we have the ability to really do what we've always set out to do, which is to build great games and deliver...
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    News Horizon MMORPG by NC Soft pretty much confirmed in job offers and Linkedin stuff

    Via some LinkedIn stuff and job offer details we have more info and basically official confirmation of the title: An NC Soft employee posted a job offer for a "Skyline" codenamed project that has the logo font from Horizon This Project Skyline was previously codenament "Project H" (H = Horizon)...
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    Discussion How would you bring back Sony arcade racer IPs?

    I miss new Wipeout and Motorstorm, and back in the PS1 days loved the Rollcage games and Jet Moto (known as Jet Rider in Europe). Even if I wasn't a fan, there was Twisted Metal there too with a decent fanbase, which recently got a successful tv show adaptation. So how would you bring them...
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    Comparison Guerrilla Games announces their Halo killer (cookbooks thread)

    Guerrilla just announced "The official Horizon cookbook": I originally thought it was clearly inspired by "The official Halo cookbok" released like a year and a half ago, which I thought it was a rarity: But seems that there are a lot more, here's an older "The official Destiny cookbook"...
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    Playstation Now that TLOU Online got cancelled, what games should ND do?

    We know they were working on TLOU Online, two new SP games and TLOU2R. Now TLOU Online is cancelled (and seems they won't do MP only/GaaS games), how would you structure ND (to move the TLOU Online people to these other two teams or to move them to a third SP game) and which games would want...
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    News The Verge: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in Android app store

    "The jury unanimously answered yes to every question put before them — that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution markets and in-app billing services markets, that Google did anticompetitive things in those markets, and that Epic was injured by that behavior. They decided...
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    Discussion Sony has overtaken Tencent as the top grossing gaming company

    Info copy pasted from a zedinen post in other forum: Source: Sony Sony exchange rates Tencent 4Q2022 (Tencent exchange rate) Tencent 1Q2023 (Tencent exchange rate) Tencent 2Q023 (Tencent exchange rate) Tencent 3Q2023 (Tencent exchange rate) MIcrosoft 10-Q Microsoft (Jul-Sep) 22...
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    Discussion Your favorite mascot platformer -which outsold Super Mario in Japan or UK- celebrates its 10th anniversary

    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-12-02-ps4-fastest-selling-console-in-uk-history https://gamingbolt.com/former-sony-uk-dev-on-knack-outselling-mario-releasing-it-the-same-day-as-ps4-in-ukeu-wasnt-wise https://www.gematsu.com/2014/02/media-create-sales-21714-22314 (Just kidding, don't...
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    Playstation Sony Interactive Entertainment announces a new acquisition: iSIZE (small AI-powered video streaming improvement company)

    https://sonyinteractive.com/en/sony-interactive-entertainment-to-acquire-isize-a-uk-based-company-specializing-in-deep-learning-for-video-delivery/ Seems to be a small company, with 22 people listed in LinkedIn and mentioned to have 20-50 people in some websites. They have an AI based tech that...
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    Playstation SIE filled many interesting patents in the last couple weeks

    As always, many may be updates of previous ones and many may not be implemented on final commercial products, but I think there's a lot of interesting stuff here. Published October 26th, 2023: Multi unit deformable controller Correlating gestures on deformable controller to computer simulation...
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    Playstation Research: Which are the first games they greenlighted? Did they greenlight these GaaS? SURPRISING RESULTS!

    When replying other related thread I thought it would be a good idea to research more or less when where greenlighted the recent and announced Sony GaaS, and also tried to find what were the known first party games greenlighted by Jim Ryan and Hermen. I found that the results may be surprising...
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    Playstation Sony's mobile game Fate/Grand Order earnings surpassed $7B as of August

    After its 8th anniversary, the mobile game achieved 1 Trillion Yen, around US $7B 81.1% of the global revenue share from the official App Store and Google Play Store came from Japan. China came at a distant second with 8.1%. U.S. followed at third with 5.8%. The game is published bySony...
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    Rumor RUMOR: Next State of Play likely coming in less than a couple of weeks

    TGS will be September 21-24th so very likely there will be a SoP may be earlier that week, which may be annoucned next week Last year TGS was September 15-18th and the TGS SoP 2022 was September 13th The previous State of Play was the PlayStation Showcase back in May 24th, and the previous one...
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    News Street Fighter 6: A.K.I. gameplay trailer and details

    https://blog.playstation.com/2023/08/30/a-k-i-slithers-into-street-fighter-6-on-september-27-full-gameplay-details-revealed/ I personally woudn't have made her ugly and androgious, as usual in modern female character designs (what the new religion callls "non-objectified trans fiendly" design)...