During a big update on expectation for the launch of Senua's Saga #Hellblade2, Ninja Theory co-founder Tameem Antoniades has left the studio, confirmed by Xbox Game Studios acknowledging his unignorable absence on the latest updates of the game. The game has achieved Unreal Engine 5 visual benchmark, regardless being capped at 30 fps for Xbox consoles, it is touted as true next-gen experience & one of the best good-looking games so far as game's realistic FMVs scenes will match movie theater's quality at 24 fps. Hellblade 2's Storyline will be a narrative, linear action experience with very high production values, focus on story and cinematic craft, impactful combat & puzzles, expected to take players between 8 to 9 hours to complete. Combat system was designed to be a one on one only, slow-paced and expect to feel brutal with swinging your sword always feeling heavy & impactful. Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 launches DIGITAL ONLY on Xbox & PC, both for sale & Day One release with Game Pass on May 21, 2024 with no physical version announced (yet maybe?). #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹 🎮

CD Projekt Red recently told investor that the next #TheWitcher game has entered pre-production and have over 400 devs (or studio's 60% of dev workforce) working on in & expect full dev phase by second half of 2024. This is part of the so-called Project Polaris, which aims a to have a new The Witcher game trilogy in a 6 years period starting with the release of the first one. Also and talking to local press, CD Projekt Red acknowledged that single player games are not compatible with micro-transaction or for their POV, they don't see a place for microtransaction but, cannot be ruled out on multiplayers games. Of course, this came on the initial reception of Capcom's Dragon Dogma 2 which many of the negatives about the game was the focus on microtransaction first than the whole game lore/single player playthrough, which Capcom has already apologized. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹 🎮

Big Sis of Horror is reviewing............Dreamcore! Void Crawler! Mouthwashing! Let's see how the demos hold up before their full release! Come join in on the fun/share your opinion on them here: https://www.twitch.tv/gothipire

In a more than upbeat presentation than the "dire" scenarios that many outlets were rumoring, Microsoft Gaming finally came forward about the future of #Xbox and while acknowledging that all the mentioned things in the special Xbox Podcast episode were planned as early in December, it doesn't need to be taken a change of plans at all. Xbox Game Studios will be launching 4 unnamed games for Playstation 5 and Nintendo Switch and it was hinted that 2 of them are more than a year since launched, are community-drive games and no, is not neither Starfield nor Indiana Jones and for now they are not committing on more games. First party Xbox games will be on Game Pass with no End of date, including new launches and actually, new games will be releasing on Day1 and Game Pass is an Xbox service exclusively. Activision Blizzard King Games will be coming to Game Pass starting with Diablo IV on March 28th. Phil Spencer interestingly acknowledged that there is an importance of exclusive games for platforms, that includes Xbox, but he foresee that the strategy will be small part for the industry in between the next 5 to 10 years. Regardless of that, Xbox President Sarah Bond assured that Xbox is not abandoning the hardware business and actually, next-gen Xbox is already in development and we are inbound for some news this Holidays season but, Microsoft Gaming did not acknowledged the future of physical games while addressing Xbox's view on gaming preservation. Tomorrow I will be given my takeaways in a new gaming podcast episode. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

At their investor conference, #EmbracerGroup acknowledged that closed 2023 cancelling 29 unannounced games, cutting 1400 jobs (probably more coming). The gaming conglomerate claims that they are entering the final phase of restructuration. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

At their Q3Y25 conference, Sony acknowledged on the gaming business (Playstation), that #PS5 hardware sales decline to the point to update the outlook on 21 million more units to be sold by EOY, down from 25 million. All this despite there were profit of Christmas season sales. Also, mayor Playstation Studios' games launches are not happening before 04/2025 while there are title currrently on development. For that reason and that Playstation 5 is entering its 5th year, that the company considers the current generation in its "latter days" and focus on producing high-quality productions and producing live service games." Back at Summer 2023, during the failed FTC demanding a Preliminary Injunction against Microsoft buying ABK, it was revealed that both Sony and Microsoft considered talking on next-gen and what's next for their respective gaming main product by 2028. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

I ain't including this on quick news posts, but who HONESTLY expected #GTAVI before Summer 2025 when HISTORICALLY, HIGH PROFILE gaming launches occurs between Fall/Winter?! I don't understand, DON'T WANT & REFUSE to understand when this COMMON Knowledge detail stopped being so. And yes, this is today's "I am going to be that guy" episode! GG!

Back in Tears of the Kingdom today and we're still on the prowl for more zonaite :D #GGsOnly #twitchaffiliate #grind2partner #twitchstreamer https://twitch.tv/mystiquetez

The week started strong in the rumor mill for #Xbox & noise got so load that Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer acknowledged that there are things to talk about including the future of Xbox & will be scheduling a presentation next week. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

In a semi impromptu Town Hall of #Twitch CEO Dan Clancy about the massive layoff at the Amazon-owned streaming service, while acknowledging that they had been operating at loss, they will not be sold out by Amazon. Keep in mind, Amazon can just fold Twitch. #Gaming #GamingNews