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Competitors Concord and Dustborn Help Explain Black Myth: Wukong’s Success
We’ve watched Black Myth: Wukong, the new Soulslike game from Chinese developer Game Science, become a legitimate sensation over the past week, with 2,415,714 concurrent players at its all-time peak on Steam and a 95.58% positive audience score as of this writing. It’s also on track to be the fa...
Read MoreNew Kraven the Hunter Trailer Brings the Pain
Is Sony’s Spidey-less Spider-Verse going out with a bang? Probably not, but they definitely want you to think so. While Venom: The Last Dance seems like the best way to end this side experiment, there’s one more movie about a Spider-Man villain that will arrive after the Lethal Protector’s la...
Read MoreWhat’s Behind the Bungie Layoffs?
The slew of layoffs throughout the video game industry has reached Bungie, the former developer of Halo. The studio is letting go of 220 employees, which is about 17% of its workforce, while 155 others are moving to Sony Interactive Entertainment, which owns Bungie. (Bungie used to be owned by Micro...
Read MoreConcord Early Access Beta is a Bomb
The main attraction at this year’s PlayStation State of Play was Concord, a sci-fi first-person shooter developed by Firewalk Studios (which is owned by Sony, hence the focus at State of Play). It was pretty underwhelming, a goofy-looking game with some nice visuals but little to draw anyone in. ...
Read MoreStellar Blade Developer Shift Up Goes Public, Institutes ESG Reports
Shift Up’s tenure as a video game studio that catered to its fans may be over. The South Korean company that made this year’s hit game Stellar Blade has just become a publicly traded company, and so far, it’s quite successful, getting $320 million in its initial public offering, according to B...
Read MoreHelldivers 2 Online Gameplay Has Dropped 90% Since Launch
Sony never recovered from their Helldivers 2 implosion. After making the idiotic decision to restrict access to Helldivers 2 to those with a PlayStation Network account, gamers fought back by giving the game bad reviews (this is what actual review-bombing looks like, not the situation with The Aco...
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