Former Volition employees, including Saints Row Reboot directive director founded a game studio called Shapeshifter Games that will serve as co-developers for other gaming studios. No new project/joint venture has been announced yet. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Today, the UK CMA has ruled that Sony is liable & will indeed entering in a £5 billion class action lawsuit over #PlayStation Store prices practices, lawsuit filed originally on August 2022 & since then, Sony has been trying to have the case dismissed. Some context: The lawsuit isn't aimed exclusively on consumer (they are at the end of the chain, but instead, Sony has been accused on leveraging unfairly at his favor the fee charged at developers who cannot deploy Playstation games elsewhere and the cost is passed to consumers. #Gaming #GamingNews

Rumored to be the final full year of #Nintendo Switch, Nintendo reported 334.9 billion of yen in revenue and 1.133 billion of software sales, but overall is a 4% in decline compared to last year. Nintendo still forecast for 15 million Switch sales goal. On the other hand...president Shuntaro Furukawa has denied to investors briefing developers about a Nintendo Switch successor & dismisses multi-screen patent. Probably is a desire to contain the narrative & control the hype until is announcement time. #Gaming #GamingNews

Unfortunately #Bungie will be running a layoff run and while the exact reach could be revealed later this week the effect is already seen on Destiny 2 and Marathon with respectively The Final Shape expansion and the remake were delayed further 2024 & 2025. The now Playstation subsidiary is the latest of noise in the industry that there are troubles at Playstation Studios were many of the 1st party developers are resisting the Game-as-a-Service strategy implemented by Jim Ryan since last year. Reportedly, thing has escalated to the point that non-attached Playstation Studios has threaten to go independent again while Playstation pressed back on folding studios who continues to object the plans. Some are speculating that this crisis is probably a one of the hidden reasons of Jim Ryan leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment next year besides an almost 30 years career within Sony and traveling between USA and Japan being a European resident. To avoid objections from regulators, Sony bought surprisingly Bungie (formerly an independents studios in the 80's and the 90's and by the New Millennium a first party studio for Xbox to Microsoft own the Halo franchise & going independent again a decade ago) as subsidiary. In return to maintain complete independence on gaming plans, Sony tasked Bungie on assess all current in-development games that could be Playstation exclusives GaaS games & MOST didn't passed the evaluation and that is why the planned The Last Of Us Multiplayer was scaled back. #Gaming #GamingNews

Local press are reporting that a building that got partially burned on Prague was indeed #STALKER developers GSC Game World, preliminary declared being provoked by electrical installation failure. Fortunately, NO injuries have been reported, but damages are estimated to be 1. 5 million CZK ($65,866) AND includes backup servers. GSC reassured fans saying that the fire won't "make [them] stop in the pursuit of final goal" in developing Stalker 2 and that the team has "dealt with worse than that before.", including constant cyber attacks since last year. All this after moving to Prague from Kyiv last year as the Russian Invasion to Ukraine pressed on. #Gaming #GamingNews

I am going to be that guy, an AOSP device & probably not Google Play certified, AIN'T stopping XDA-Developers community folks doing a party with this thing and also, Microsoft was given in silver plate an unofficial Game Pass hub and to add to the insult, EFFICIENT!

Despite being historically disliked due their hardware invasive method of anti-cheating, #Denuvo confirmed on Gamescom 2023 new tools that makes mods for PC games harder at Unreal Engine level & Nintendo Switch SDK instances are ready for developers. #Gaming #GamingNews

After its publisher updated quietly release date expectations for #REPLACED, their developers updated the state of the game's development & a TLDR, they have been busy with streching details with pixel-arts mixed with 3D environment. #Gaming #GamingNews https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1663850/view/3668798010128587489?l=english

The rumor since the weekend is Sony's reactive move where the Japanese company is looking and scouting potential games for Playstation exclusive deals from South Korea gaming studios. Amazon Games taught us about how serious Korean developers are on gaming with Lost Ark. Of course I am defining "reactive" due the performance of the FTC on pleading on their case for the Preliminary Injunction against Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard and that Sony foresee the transaction to close.

Back in 2021, Lucasfilm Games (formerly LucasArts) licensed a Bethesda owned studio to create a new and original Indiana Jones video game. Today FTC brought it to their case against Microsoft where Bethesda executive Pete Hines confirmed that the game is an Xbox exclusive because the scope of the game improved by the time Microsoft bought ZeniMax and the agreement was amended with LucasFilm Games having MachineGames (Wolfenstein) as developers.