Hello! This is a fresh piece of gaming industry news from the past week. And here you will find a couple of trailers and games that come out next week.
What happened?
Riddle of genius
Recently, a lot of news began to appear around Hideo Kojima’s studio. This time she fell into another conspiracy plot. Sony recently announced that it has no plans to stop and will buy more studios in the future for its PlayStation Studios division. And a couple of days later, Kojima posted a picture on his Twitter, where Death Stranding is on a par with games from internal PlayStation studios. Naturally, this provoked the community to talk regarding whether Sony bought Kojima Productions. But Hideo hastened to apologize for the misunderstanding and stated that his studio is still independent and will remain so.
By the way, according to recent rumors, Kojima Productions is still engaged in some unannounced project together with Microsoft, regarding which information surfaced regarding a year ago. But according to an insider from VentureBeat, it doesn’t hurt at all if Sony is really going to buy Kojima Productions. True, the company later announced that the future purchase of Sony is much larger than Kojima Productions.
cyber report
CD Projekt has reported its financial success for 2021. From interesting figures: for all the time the company has sold more than 65 million copies of the games of the Witcher series, of which 40 million are the third part. Cyberpunk 2077 has sold over 18 million copies ever since, but given that 13 million copies were sold at launch, that’s a lot less in a year. In general, even despite the decline in revenue and profit, CD Projekt maintains financial stability and does not go into negative territory.
As for plans for the future, during a conversation with investors, the company said that the story DLC for Cyberpunk 2077 will be released in 2023, and before the end of 2022, the company will share details and possibly even announce a release date. It’s funny, but the company had to release a patch with corrections to its report: now most studios are working on the Cyberpunk 2077 story addition, and not new games, as indicated before. Keep the brand!
But the next-gen patch for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which Saber Interactive worked on, was postponed indefinitely. Most likely due to the fact that the work was transferred to an internal studio. Interestingly, following that, rumors spread that the game allegedly fell into “production hell”, but CD Projekt said that the company just needs to re-estimate the time due to the transfer of the project to other hands – this is not as long as it seems.
Short events
Some news in one line. They are interesting but short:
- Rumor: The new Need For Speed will combine photorealism with anime effects, and the action will be the equivalent of Chicago.
- The big patch 4.0 for Battlefield 2042 is due out next week. It will bring over 400 changes and improvements to the game. I wonder if this will fix the relationship with Battlefield, as online gaming on Steam recently dropped below 1,000 concurrent players.
- The new Mass Effect has moved into the early stages of development. Bioware promises that it will share information regarding the game more often, but not in the near future.
- Escape from Tarkov received support for NVIDIA DLSS technology.
- Lords of the Fallen 2 is scheduled to release in 2023.
- Now a former PlayStation and Epic Game Store exclusive, Bugsnax game will be released on April 28 on Steam, on Switch and Xbox consoles, and immediately on Game Pass. Along with the release on these platforms will be a major update to The Isle of Bigsnax.
- On the Sony website, they found a license agreement (it has already been deleted), from which it follows that the DualSense gamepad can add the ability to update via a PC. And along with this, full controller support on this platform may appear.
- The creator of No Man’s Sky has revealed that his studio is once once more working on an ambitious and “impossible” project. Well, at least now Hello Games has the experience of ups and downs.
What have they shown?
Cinematic trailer for the third season of Call of Duty Warzone and Vanguard:
New Overwatch 2 character:
Outlaws update for No Man’s Sky:
Gameplay
What to play?
April 19
Winter Ember (PC, PlayStation) is an isometric stealth action game. You play as a man in a raincoat whose family was brutally murdered. You were also thought to be dead, so now you seek revenge by hiding in the shadows. Explore the world, level up and try not to be noticed.
20 April
MythForce (Early Access on PC) is a first-person fantasy Roguelite with a unique cartoon style. One or four of you must go into the dungeon and destroy all kinds of evil spirits there such as skeletons, monsters and battle mushrooms. Choose a hero and go!
April 21
MotoGP 22 (PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch) is a realistic and meticulous motorcycle racing simulator.
That’s all, see you next week!
