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

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

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Originally slated as a Plan B & now the WHOLE PLAN, Microsoft announced an agreement with #Ubisoft to buy the Cloud Gaming rights of Activision Blizzard to mitigate concerns of its ABK acquisition by the regulator CMA. Under the restructured transaction, Microsoft will not be in a position either to release Activision Blizzard games exclusively on Xbox Cloud Gaming or to exclusively control the licensing terms of Activision Blizzard games for rival services. On Ubisoft's end, the company will compensate Microsoft for the cloud streaming rights to Activision Blizzard’s games through a one-off payment and through a market-based wholesale pricing mechanism, including an option that supports pricing based on usage. Also, Ubisoft can add Activision Blizzard games on Ubisoft+ on the UK market. Interestingly, the CMA responded that the Ubisoft deal would also mean that games needs to be reached through Linux-based computers & not exclusively on Windows computers (probably macOS too). Finally & to add a little pressure, the CMA confirmed that this development and remade deal needs new scrutiny, which has a deadline date of Oct 18th, 2023. Hypothetically CMA taking this long, puts the ABK's Termination Fee raise if the deal fell agains Microsoft in effect. #Gaming #GamingNews

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My unrequired opinion: I am very worried of this line: "Microsoft already accounts for an estimated 60-70% of global cloud gaming services and has other important strengths in cloud gaming from owning Xbox, the leading PC operating system (Windows) and a global cloud computing infrastructure (Azure and Xbox Cloud Gaming)." And no, Microsoft ain't no saint when it comes to trying things in a monopolistic ways, BUT, this is clearly a stigma and not factually applicable on what is the concern here, gaming industry, not just a whole business. If it comes to go to court, Microsoft has better chances there than trying to rationalize with regulators already with a past experience that refused to be on the past.

Bungie confirms that Destiny 2 will adopt more intolerance to controllers cheating devices Controller fans that use devices to enhance the game but fail to see that that crosses the fair and cheat line are in bad luck as not only Ricochet for Call Of Duty is blocking them from play, soon, Destiny 2 will adopt the same stand. Bungie confirmed this week that the anti-cheat software for Destiny 2 will be including flags with users using XIM, Cronus Zen, and ReaSnow S1 in gaming and not merely a controller if using the PC version of the game. “Our community has grown increasingly frustrated by a form of cheating that uses third-party peripherals with the intent to manipulate the game client. These devices are plugged into a computer or console, where they can—for example—execute simple scripts or trick the game into giving you extra aim assist. You’ll note that we aren’t calling out the services by name, the primary reason for that is we simply don’t want to offer a bigger spotlight than necessary. Instead, our focus is on what the impact of using tools like this has on a PvP environment.” While there should be a benefit of the doubt depending on how good or strange a gameplay goes in a match, Bungie has not stated how they will be enforcing warning, suspension or ban of at least, a 3 strike scheme. Obviously the studio is well-aware that this will create debate (as is already happening in the Internet), especially users that claim that the accessibility option brings mainly devices emulating controllers, but has been notoriously abused. For more preparation on the enforcing of this new “Villain Arc” as they will call the banning of cheating devices and scripts, Bungie will be “evaluating all gameplay for violations,” covering not just PvP deathmatch-style gameplay but also PvE events.

WB Games confirms the newest delay of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League It took some rumors and a State Of Play presentation for Rocksteady Studios and WB Games that Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League as it was offered, will not be so much welcomed by gaming and DC fans. Well, they listened! There is not pretty much to take away from here but Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League will launch now on Febrary 2, 2024 as this is the official second know delay of the game and will speculate that this could land another delay and is good if I am wrong of course. Despite general concerts, the main one was actually an early leak of the game, where it was spotted to be a live service pretty much like Marvel’s Avengers and many gamers feel that we got enough live services already and fear that most of the good things of the game could be behind a paywall. I won’t get my hopes too high that live services and microtransactions will go away, but it would be better that the game have more balance on rewarding the player to actually play without paying.

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