At their Q3Y24, #Ubisoft revealed that Assassin's Creed Nexus VR game sold poorly to the point to not raise investment on VR. New games releases are in track until Q4Y25 (05/25) including AC Red & Star Wars Outlaws (early as holidays 24). #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Today #Disney announced a $1.5 billion investment to Epic Games for equity stake & also partnering to create an “all-new games and entertainment universe” connected to Fortnite. Expects more & constant Fortnite collabs with Disney's IP. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

I know that I should resist on doing YT Shorts, but, really wanted to share my first retro #gaming investment and it is the CE of Batman Arkham City that I never could land back in the PS3 's days. A gamer is happy! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BHp-SreTy7U

Unfortunately for Sony this week, Rhysida hacker group went on their deadline after only 2% of the stolen data on their hack to #Playstation Studios' Insomniac Games was actually sold and the remaining 98% was released on the Dark Web. The loot is actually more than 1.3 million files totaling 1.67 terabytes and includes much more than anticipated than a swift hacking usually manages to copy. As expected in this kind of big stole, future games, and internal HR documents, budgets, more are in the public yes and as well Insomniac’s future projects, including the upcoming Marvel Wolverine game, a publishing agreement with Marvel that promises future games. Of course, the "promised games" is on the stipulation that Sony and Playstation needs to comply with goals set by both Disney and Marvel and maybe isn't just that Sony has strategically held the movies and videogames rights for Spider-man. Along with Wolverine, seems that Sony is ready to answer EA's take on Marvel Iron Man and now Bethesda/Xbox Game Studios's take on Marvel Blade as Insomniac landed a exclusive X-Men game, pending to be announced. As for more Marvel games, the Venom game is slated for a 2025 release, followed by a 2026 release of Wolverine and early estimate for X-Men is at 2030, which probably might see Iron Man and Blade being in this 7 years interval. Other documents reveals that Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was not a total financial success despite being the flagship game for the launch of PS5 with a miss of 10% below Return Of Investment or in plain language, the game was not profitable at least in normal sales channel. A follow-up Ratchet & Clank main game is currently in development with a target release year of 2029. Finally and honestly I wasn't expecting anything centralized on the Playstation business and much-less being housed on one of Playstation Studios's servers but, here is the bad luck for Sony. Apparently, Insomniac Games had probably copies of documents that appears to be for Sony Interactive Entertainment to actually hold and there was a report on Steam sales of Playstation games brought to PC. Numbers includes: -Horizon Zero Dawn - 3.3 million units -God of War 2018 - 2.5 million units - Days Gone - 1.7 million units -Marvel Spider-Man Remastered 1.3 million units -Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves 483k units -Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales 450k units -Sackboy A big adventure - 62.9k units Surprisingly, there are documents related to the Activision Blizzard acquisition by Microsoft and as excepted, concentrate on the Call Of Duty side of thing including the fear that Microsoft could find ways to differentiate Xbox and Playstation versions of COD. Game Pass subscription and the public perception that Xbox has indeed "lost the console war" as a way to transform the gaming business in one that could have Playstation left behind because their premium sale model and pro hardware model as subs are more feasible for gamers The insistence that the Playstation model is outdated is because Sony feels that Activision Blizzard gives Microsoft strategic value in live service, mobile and PC Storefront and Microsoft can supply, console, PC and subscription services. Reminder, currently the main tasks that Activision Blizzard is working along side Xbox is the new Mobile game app store, reportedly being made from the best of Battle Net & Microsoft Store with King leading the project, which Microsoft has said was the main reason to buy ABK. And with this recap.... BE CAREFUL, Wolverine's leaks apparently are in the wild and there is a PROBABILITY of seeing videos of an early version BOOTABLE of the game as well pics and assets for the game. I am not spoiling anything after this post. #Gaming #GamingNews #Gamestr

Final recap of Day 2 of FTC Preliminary Injunction against Microsoft buying ABK: -As with Jim Ryan, Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida originally didn't have any issue as Phil Spencer called himself the day it was announce the transaction -Spencer reiterates that Xbox exclusive games are not the 100% od the day-to-day at Microsoft Gaming nowadays -Spencer: “Sony has a significant catalog of exclusives games. It’s drastically larger, dramatically larger than what we have on Xbox today. Both Sony and Nintendo’s first-party is stronger than Xbox.” -FTC tried to reinforce Spencer saying under oath that Call Of Duty will be still releasing for Playstation -At the same time, Spencer did acknowledged that beyond the 10 year mark thing cannot be assured as it will depend the state of trhe gaming market itself -FTC tried to make it sound weird that Microsoft is paying almost $70 billion for a gaming conglomerate just to get ahold of mobile gaming studios as main target, but Spencer backfired that mobile gaming is one of the footprints that Xbox is aiming at -FTC for the third time brought Nintendo narrative -A common-sense info that the FTC should know, but their lawyer asked if Microsoft needs to pay the agreed fee to Activision Blizzard shareholders right away. Spencer replied: “No, when you acquire something it’s not a payment. It’s really a transfer of cash into an asset called Activision that you believe it retains the value that you have acquired. It’s incorrect financially.” -FTC called Dov Zimring, Google’s former Stadia product lead as witness -FTC asked Zimring to describe Stadia -Zimring: “To our knowledge we had the best technology in the market. We had performance capabilities that didn’t exist in the [cloud] market like 4K.” “We had prototyped on Windows early on... the mission we had established at the very beginning was to enable revolutionary experiences... we saw Windows as limiting to innovate in that regard because we didn’t have control over the operating system.” -Zimring acknowledged that Stadia SDK was Linuix-based due operating cost saving -The closure of Stadia Games & Entertainment with the sudden stop of investment for AAA games was due wrong projected numbers -Originally, Google was willing to spend five years building AAA games for Stadia -FTC returned to Spencer -FTC wanted to a third time force Spencer to peldge on COD availability on Playstation but WAS CUT BY THE JUDGE WHO APPEARED TO BE ANNOYED ON THE FTC LAWYER LINES OF QUESTIONING THAT WERE STRAIGHT DISSINGENOUS. Judge: "I don’t need that, I’m going to cut off your questioning." -Judge wrapped things for today and will NOT ACCEPT this process to go beyond next Thursday, pretty much in line of Microsoft desired timeframe (5 days)

Final recap of Day 2 of FTC Preliminary Injunction against Microsoft buying ABK: -As with Jim Ryan, Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida originally didn't have any issue as Phil Spencer called himself the day it was announce the transaction -Spencer reiterates that Xbox exclusive games are not the 100% od the day-to-day at Microsoft Gaming nowadays -Spencer: “Sony has a significant catalog of exclusives games. It’s drastically larger, dramatically larger than what we have on Xbox today. Both Sony and Nintendo’s first-party is stronger than Xbox.” -FTC tried to reinforce Spencer saying under oath that Call Of Duty will be still releasing for Playstation -At the same time, Spencer did acknowledged that beyond the 10 year mark things cannot be assured as it will depend on the state of the gaming market itself -FTC tried to make it sound weird that Microsoft is paying almost $70 billion for a gaming conglomerate just to get ahold of mobile gaming studios as main target, but Spencer backfired that mobile gaming is one of the footprints that Xbox is aiming at -FTC for the third time brought Nintendo narrative -A common-sense info that the FTC should know, but their lawyer asked if Microsoft needs to pay the agreed fee to Activision Blizzard shareholders right away. Spencer replied: “No, when you acquire something it’s not a payment. It’s really a transfer of cash into an asset called Activision that you believe it retains the value that you have acquired. It’s incorrect financially.” -FTC called Dov Zimring, Google’s former Stadia product lead as witness -FTC asked Zimring to describe Stadia -Zimring: “To our knowledge we had the best technology in the market. We had performance capabilities that didn’t exist in the [cloud] market like 4K.” “We had prototyped on Windows early on... the mission we had established at the very beginning was to enable revolutionary experiences... we saw Windows as limiting to innovate in that regard because we didn’t have control over the operating system.” -Zimring acknowledged that Stadia SDK was Linux-based due operating cost saving -The closure of Stadia Games & Entertainment with the sudden stop of investment for AAA games was due wrong projected numbers -Originally, Google was willing to spend five years building AAA games for Stadia -FTC returned to Spencer -FTC wanted to a third time force Spencer to pledge on COD availability on Playstation but WAS CUT BY THE JUDGE WHO APPEARED TO BE ANNOYED ON THE FTC LAWYER LINES OF QUESTIONING THAT WERE STRAIGHT DISSINGENOUS. Judge: "I don’t need that, I’m going to cut off your questioning." -Judge wrapped things for today and will NOT ACCEPT this process to go beyond next Thursday, pretty much in line of Microsoft desired timeframe (5 days)

I won't deny that Google broke the paradigm that a service that was on-route to be expanded to another country (Stadia was heading to Mexico before the closure announcement) still blows my mind. People don't realize that this kind of announcements comes after hefty investment. With this, Amazon is expanding Luna Clouds Gaming services to UK, Germany and Canada. #Gaming #AmazonLuna

Reportedly, the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince's investment org now owns a little more than 7% of Nintendo, which means that in a year, the org had paid BIG money just to milk returns from Nintendo. Axios reported in 2022 that the org will make a high profile gaming purchase.