After receiving confirmation that WB Games approved the delisting of #AdultSwim Games in May, Team2Bit also received a denial on requesting being sold back the publishing rights of Fist Puncher. While unfortunate, I believe is not just a closed-minded decision by WB Game by a convenient one, as WBG is preventing the game being rebuilt to be attractive again to new games and then missed revenue opportunity in the future. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Microsoft reported its Q2 2024 performance with $62 billion in revenue & net income of $21.9 billion, both a raise respectively of 18% & 33%. Microsoft Gaming & #Xbox were up 61% of revenue on content, 3% in hardware & 49% in gaming revenue YoY. And yes, this is the first quarter that includes Activision Blizzard. Meanwhile other segments of Microsoft were up except Surface business which went down by 6% YoY. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Latest noise within #Bungie is that the now Playstation subsidiary is on high alert as Sony can enact a clause on their agreement that the studio's board of directors can be dismissed and Sony take over at all. The possibilities of Bungie being folded within Playstation Studios is now more real than ever and pretty much the underperformance of Destiny 2's sales can pretty much justify Sony to enact the mentioned clause. Currently, Bungie is operating as an independent subsidiary after surprisingly, Sony announced acquiring it under that condition. Since last year, Sony tasked Bungie on assess all GaaS project including the long awaited The Last Of Us multiplayer game and actually, most of them failed the assessment and explains why Sony decided to have Naughty Dog to scale back the game. Recently, Bungie has come under fire after running a surprising layoff process as revenue of sales by Destiny 2 are under target and reportedly management has not been empathic with the people that got fired and doubled-down on improving things regardless the environment. Now it has been rumored that a new layoff run is possible if the next expansion, The Final Shape, needs to be a success, while Bungie has not acknowledged publicly, but Marathon has been internally delayed by 2025. #Gaming #GamingNews

While Netflix is at full steam in pre-production of #TheWitcher Season 4 and the debut of Liam Hemsworth as Geralt Of Rivia, we will have The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep in 2024. The storyline of the animated movie is based on the on the short story A Little Sacrifice compiled on Sword Of Destiny book or unofficially called Book 0.2, where Geralt unwillingly at first, got involved in a conflict between merfolks and humans. (The story begins on Blood Of Elves or Book 1 while Book 0.1: The Last Wish & Book 0.2 are compiled short stories that Andrzej Sapkowski published originally for the community to give proper backstory of Geralt, setting and relationship overview with both Yeneffer & Ciri) The pleasant surprise while Geralt undeniably looks like either a proto Henry Calvill or maybe a proto Liam Hermsworth IMO, it was good to know that Doug Cockle, the voice actor of Geralt in The Witcher videogame series, is actually voicing Geralt in here too. The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep is slated for a late 2024 release, while the production of The Witcher Season 4 status is unknow, precisely streaming services revenue shares was one of the main issues during the SAG-AFTRA strikes. So 2025 should be a realistic year for release. #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

Sources of Bloomberg reports that Bungie layoff impacted 8% of workforce or 100 people as an effect on #Destiny2 revenue was down 45% below projections for the year. Destiny community has shown burned out of the content formula since 2017's Destiny 2. #Gaming #GamingNews

Microsoft declared Q1 2024 as an historical one for #Xbox as the gaming business reported $3.9 billion in revenue with Starfield at the center as a driver for Game Pass. Activision Blizzard is expected to boost even further this number in future. #Gaming #GamingNews

In a surprising announcement, Meta confirmed that #FacebookGaming has gained updates fixes & features already available elsewhere including integrations to Stream Deck, more chat interactions, more controls in FB mobile app (Android/iOS) and improved Clipping tools. Tournaments will no longer be available on Facebook after October and also, the !Clip command for the built-in Chatbot will be removed due lack of usage. I think that this move is good for those worried on the future of FB Gaming & maybe Meta is trying to have the network appealable for streamers that actually survived the original honeymoon phase after the fall of Mixer, because 2023 is the last year of 100% of Stars revenue.

After a few weeks ago that announcing the future fusion of Call Of Duty League & #OverwatchLeague and now as a response of low revenue, Activision Blizzard will be offering $6 million to every team that desires not to renew on next Overwatch League season. #Gaming #GamingNews

After almost an hour in a part where press/public were banned in the courtroom due non-public info discussion, Day 2 of FTC vs. Microsoft hearing is focusing on Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer. TLDR Highlights: -Revenues formulas for both Xbox and Game Pass -Xbox is better competitive in USA and Europe -FTC trying Nintendo not being counted at all for sales metrics to help on their counterattacks on Xbox -FTC tried to have the "Xbox lost the console war" exploding back, but failed. -Sony claims 30% of games that are published on Playstation by Xbox Game Studios members. -Xbox lacks AAA 1st party games -Minecraft narrative brought in and basically Mojang is having no problem on the game being multi-platform but Playstation version feels behind Xbox, PC and Nintendo Switch because Sony's lack of support. -Spencer admitted conversations about already making Activision games skipping Playstation -FTC tried to imply that buying ABK is to avoid paying Call Of Duty fees, Spencer responded that Sony pays to have games published on Playstation, Xbox doesn't feel the need to do that. -Mincreaft Dungeons was almost an Xbox exclusive. -Spencer accused Sony on delaying sending PS5 dev kits to Mojang (Minecraft) because their skepticism of Microsoft being owner of the gaming studio.