Embracer confirms selling part of #Saber Interactive to the company's co-founder Matthew Karch (using his company Beacon Interactive). Direct effects are: -The retirement of Saber Russia operations. -Saber will keep studios Nimble Giant (Star Trek Infinite), 3D Realms (Ion Fury), Sandbox Strategies, New World Interactive (Insurgency), Slipgate Ironworks (Graven), Mad Head Games (Scars Above), Fractured Byte (Borderlands Legendary Collection and Digic. -Embracer will retain Tripwire (Chivalry), Beamdog (Mythforce), Tuxedo Labs (Teardown), Demiurge, Shiver (Lucius), Aspyr (Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection), Snapshot Games (Phoenix Point) and 34BigtThings (Redout). -Beacon will look an option to acquire 4A Games (Metro) and Zen Studios (Pinball) For weeks, it has been suggested that Saber Interactive was the latest of the collateral of Embracer Group failed mid-2023 multi-million gaming project that still to this day, full details haven't emerged of what could have been & that made a dent in all current & future projects. It is heavily suggested that a joint venture with a gaming company, Embracer and a interest from Saudi Arabia went sour at the very last minute (a day before closure of a financial quarter). #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

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

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

In a surprising move, Sony and Jim Ryan confirmed that he will leave his position as SIE and #Playstation CEO on March 2024, alluding that since 1994, working for Sony between USA and Japan while being a European resident, has become a personal challenge. While not a stranger in Sony as he began in mid 90's, he landed the Sony Interactive Entertainment, the parent company of Playstation on 2019 replacing John Kodera and pretty much oversaw the last stretch of the PS4 era and managed the pandemic-chaotic initial release of PS5. While Ryan is praised for his sales and managements skills, which pretty much lead him to Playstation at the last part of his almost 20 years career at Sony, but he will also remembered for dismissing retro gaming to favor the narrative of Playstation as a dominant gaming force. Also 2022 and 2023 will be remembered on how publicly went "not worried"of the Activsion Blizzard acquisition by Microsoft. But in reality, led a massive lobbying campaign that failed as it ended him being called out at the end by the very same lawmakers in an embarrassing open letter that accused him and Playstation to actually being the cause of Xbox failing to capitalize in Japan since 2001. #Gaming #GamingNews

Despite trying to lead the counterattack on regulators trying to ban the ABK buyout, it was revealed that Sony told investors on Fidelity back in 2022, that the #Bungie acquisition had more value for Playstation more than ABK to Xbox itself. Not the first time that Sony got exposed on not being too concerned originally, but lead a lobbying campaign in Washington DC with Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan, who ended being called out to be at the wrong side by lawmakers regarding the ABK acquisition. #Gaming #GamingNews

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced the acquisition of Audeze, a Leader in Audio Technology & Developer of Award-winning Headphones for Gaming. Audeze will continue to operate independently and it will not make #Playstation branded products exclusively. #Gaming #GamingNews

Take Two Interactive reported that #GTAV reached the 185 million copies sold mark (5 million on Q1 2024) & Grand Theft Auto 6 will release on FY25 (by or before 03/2025). Also, defended the Red Dead Redemption re-release price being "commercially accurate". #Gaming #GamingNews

(Alright fair warning : Nerdy Tangent) So im doing some research for a review im doing about Midway's Pre-Hitz Hockey games (Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey and NHL Open Ice) And I just realized something : If im using the logic that 3D Hockey counts because Atari Games got bought out by Midway, then this should count too since it's a Time Warner Interactive game, and they got bought out by Midway too, right?

Ubisoft+ is now available on Xbox It was just a matter of time that we could have this news and finally Microsoft and Ubisoft landed a new partnership where we are seeing a new house for Ubisoft’s subscription Ubisoft+ landing on Xbox both for console and PC. Xbox users can join the service via the Ubisoft+ Multi Access plan. Priced at $17.99 / £14.99 per month, it lets users access over 100 games on PC and a selection of titles (listed below) via Xbox consoles and Amazon’s Luna cloud gaming service. Unfortunately and contrary to general belief, there was NO mentioning that Ubisoft+ was another perk for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate as the case of Electronic Arts’s EA Play but users could have their Xbox account on both console and PC to access games. Ubisoft will include day 1 launches for new games and the list of available games includes: Anno 1800 (Xbox Series X|S only) Assassin’s Creed Rogue Remastered Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (includes Assassin’s Creed Liberation) Assassin’s Creed Unity (Gold Edition) Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ultimate Edition) Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China, India, and Russia Assassin’s Creed III Remastered Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Deluxe Edition) Assassin’s Creed Origins (Gold Edition) Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (Gold Edition) Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection Battleship Boggle Child of Light (Ultimate Edition) Family Feud Far Cry Primal (Deluxe Edition) Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (Classic Edition) Far Cry 3 (Classic Edition) Far Cry 4 (Gold Edition) Far Cry 5 (Gold Edition) Far Cry 6 (Gold Edition) Far Cry: New Dawn Fighter Within For Honor Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Ultimate Edition) Ghost Recon Wildlands (Ultimate Edition) Grow Up Hungry Shark World Immortals Fenyx Rising (Gold Edition) Jeopardy! Monopoly Plus Monopoly Madness Rabbids Invasion: The Interactive TV Show (Gold Edition) Rabbids Party of Legends Rainbow Six Extraction Rainbow Six Siege (Deluxe Edition) Rayman Legends Riders Republic Risk Risk: Urban Assault Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game Scrabble Shape Up (Gold Edition) South Park: The Fractured But Whole (Gold Edition) South Park: The Stick of Truth Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Deluxe Edition) Steep The Crew (Ultimate Edition) The Crew 2 The Division (Gold Edition) The Division 2 Trackmania Turbo Transference Trials Fusion Trials of the Blood Dragon Trials Rising (Gold Edition) Trivial Pursuit Live Trivial Pursuit Live 2 UNO (Ultimate Edition) Valiant Hearts: The Great War Watch Dogs (Complete Edition) Watch Dogs 2 (Gold Edition) Watch Dogs: Legion (Deluxe Edition) Wheel of Fortune Zombi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmqeKMffcCg The use of your Ubisoft+ PC account on Xbox consoles needs to have the Multi-Access tier.