MULTI Gaming Roundup - The Biggest Gaming News of the Week

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Here is a digest of the biggest gaming news the week ending Sunday, December 24, 2023.

A 13-year old American gamer Blue Scutti (Willis Gibson) became the first player ever to beat the Tetris game on NES. He beat the game at level 156 with the 'kill screen' trigger.

Sega is working with the recently acquired company Rovio to bring several new Sonic the Hedgehog video games to mobile platforms.

ASUS unveiled the world's first 'dual-mode' monitor. The 32 inch monitor ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDP monitor, features an option to switch between 4K resolution at 240Hz and 1080p resolution at 480Hz.

FromSoftware is shutting down the online servers for Armored Core: Verdict Day released in 2013 on Sunday, March 31, 2024. The company is also shutting down PS3 and Xbox 360 servers of Dark Souls 2.

The Day Before developer Fntastic announced that the game's servers will be brought offline permanently early next year.

Online servers for WWE 2K22 will be shut down on January 3, 2024.

SONY PS5 achieved the impressive milestone of 50 million units sold in just three years this week.

Spiderman 2 won the PlayStation Blogs' Game of the Year, Best Story, Soundtrack of the Year, and Best Use of DualSense awards for 2023. The company used fan polls to select the best games of the year.

GTA6 won PlayStation Blogs' Most Anticipated Game of 2024 and Beyond award.
Platinum - Grand Theft Auto 6
Gold - Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
Silver - Marvel's Wolverine
Bronze - Dragon's Dogma 2

Insomniac was hit with an online breach that leaked upcoming games, internal correspondence, employee social security numbers and more.

Upcoming Insomniac games from the studio as per the leak include 'Wolverine' and a new 'Venom' game in 2025, 'Spider-Man 3' in 2028, 'Ratchet and Clank' in 2029, an 'X-Men' project in 2030, and a new IP somewhere between 2030 and 2032.

Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay $54 million as a settlement of a gender discrimination lawsuit.

James McCaffrey, the iconic voice actor behind the popular characters Max Payne from the video game series of the same name, Thomas Zane in Alan Wake, and Alex Casey in its sequel, and Edward Carnby in Alone in the Dark has died at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer.

 

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Here is a digest of the biggest gaming news the week ending Sunday, December 31, 2023.

A recent leak from Genshin Impact reveal an upcoming Version 4.4 update, Liyue's Qiaoying Village.

Hackers have access to the entire source code (200GB) of the popular video game GTAV5 that they could release to the public. It gives hackers the ability to locate and take advantage of security flaws in the source codesuch as remotely run code on players’ computers. This will make GTA Online a dangerous place to be for gamers.

GTAV leak has revealed the existence of eight canceled single-player DLCs that were at one point in development.

 

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Here is a digest of the biggest gaming news the week ending January 07, 2024.

A new rumor from an established leaker claims that a remake for the first Metal Gear Solid game is in the works with a modern graphical overhaul and revamped audio.

Ubisoft will shut down servers of 10 games on January 25. These include Assassin's Creed 2, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Liberation HD, Assassin's Creed Revelations, Ghost Recon Future Soldier, Heroes of Might and Magic 6, NCIS, RUSE, Splinter Cell Conviction, and Trials Evolution.

A tweet by LibsofTikTok highlighted Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque that is currently playable on Steam with mostly positive reviews. The game allows players to play as a Palestinian fighting to liberate Palestine.

 

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Here is a digest of the biggest gaming news the week ending January 14, 2024.

In 2023, Steam broke its own record for most games released in a year, as it added over 14,000 games.


The latest sales numbers from WB shows Hogwarts Legacy has sold 22 million units to date.

Arsalan Ash won the TWT 2023 grand final beating CBM. He completed the first ever treble in Tekken.

 

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Here is a digest of the biggest gaming news the week ending January 19, 2024.

Hogwarts Legacy beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to become the best-selling game of 2023.

A Nintendo Switch 2 was listed for sale by a Japanese retailer. Although it's likely a placeholder, the listing signals that Nintendo's next gen. console is on the horizon.

Bethesda has released a new update for The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim - Special Edition, that fixed a dozens of bugs on multiple platforms.

Pocket World Inc's Palworld released on Jan. 19, 2024 is a massive success on Steam, with 2 million copies sold and over 855,000 concurrent players at peak. The survival game is the 10th most played game on Steam.

 

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Here is a digest of the biggest gaming news the week ending January 27, 2024.

Microsoft has laid off 1,900 staff from its gaming division. While the majority of the Microsoft layoffs are coming from Activision Blizzard, staff at Xbox and ZeniMax are also believed to be affected.

Bandai Namco's Tekken 8 released this week has already surpassed its predecessor's concurrent player count on the PC gaming platform.

Arnold Su of Asus has confirmed that a second-generation successor of the Asus ROG Ally gaming handheld is planned to be released sometime this year.

A Bloomberg article claims developers are already working on Nintendo Switch 2 and will probably release later this year. The handheld hybrid console will have an 8 inch LCD screen. The screen is an upgrade from the present 7 inch, a but a downgrade from the OLED screen. Nintendo will most likely launch the OLED version later on.