Gaming News - 3rd September 2024
- Xbox Game Pass additions include: Star Trucker (Cloud, Console and PC) from today!
- Age of Mythology: Retold (Xbox Series S|X, Console and PC) tomorrow (September 4th)
- Expeditions: A MudRunner Game (Cloud, Console and PC) available Thursday September 5th.
- Riders Republic (Cloud, Console and PC) from September 11th.
- Train Sim World 5 (Cloud, Console and PC) from September 17th
- Leaving Xbox Game Pass on September 15th are a handful of game including FIFA 23, Payday 3, Slime Rancher 2 and *You suck at parking
- AimJunkies (Cheats for Destiny 2) have lost their appeal in court for a new trial after they lost their last one. In addition, they appealed the $4.3 million settlement, which was also denied.
- Numerous employees at Rocksteady have been made redundant over the past month citing poor sales of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League - Since January, there has been over 11,500 lay-offs in the video game industry.
- EA Sports FC and eFootball competitor, UFL that was supposed to be released this month has been delayed by 3 months. The game will release on December 5th.
- Stephan Bole has stepped down as president of Nintendo of Europe. He has been replaced by Luciano Pereña, their current CFO.
- According to an IGN report, it is possible that Concord may have only sold approx 25,000 copies of the game. 10,000 appear to be sold on Steam and the other 15,000 on PlayStation. According to SteamDB, Concord hit a peak of 607 players on launch day. In the last week, it has peaked at 240 players. At the time of writing, there are currently 45 people playing the game.
- Nintendo has ended repair support for the 'new' Nintendo 3DS. Only the 2DS and 2DS XL can still be repaired by Nintendo.
- A PS5 Pro could be announced this month. According to a leaker, an image was released of what the console may look like. It is not clear if this is the only version of the PS5 Pro that will be available, or if there would be a disc-based version as well.
- Hopoo Games (Risk of Rain) has stopped development of their new upcoming title called, Snail to join Valve Software to work on game development. It is not clear if they are going to be working on Deadlock or perhaps an entirely new IP or an existing IP.
- Sony is taking Concord offline on Friday, September 6th to "explore options, including those that will better reach our players" after the "initial launch didn’t land the way we’d intended". New sales of the games are being ceased and refunds are being issued.
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