Now We Know Everything… - July 4, 2023

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NEWS SOURCES:

 

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Confidential Sony information leaked because of sharpie mess-up

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/28/23777298/sony-ftc-microsoft-confidential-documents-marker-pen-scanner-oops

Includes budgets of some big 1^st-party games, Call of Duty revenue https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/major-sony-playstation-budget-figures-leaked-because-of-poor-sharpie-redactions/

Horizon Forbidden West sold 8.4m copies, ~$504 million revenue https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-says-horizon-forbidden-west-has-sold-8-4m-copies-taking-the-series-to-32-7m/

CoD generated $800m in US in 2021 alone, $1.5b worldwide https://lmg.gg/Sf041 (The Verge)

$13.9b or $15.9b accounting for CoD players’ spending on accessories, subscriptions, games, etc. from 2019-2021 https://lmg.gg/YkCQO (The Verge)

Sony may only get 10% of third-party revenue, https://lmg.gg/6EcyJ (The Verge)

While Xbox gets 20%, according to earlier trial reports https://lmg.gg/e6oDV (Wccftech)

 

IS BLIZZARD OK?

Overwatch 2’s upcoming Invasion story mission is all we will get this year

https://www.vg247.com/overwatch-2-disappointment-continues-augusts-story-levels-are-all-youre-going-to-get-this-year

EP Jared Neuss said not to expect more within the next two seasons https://www.ign.com/articles/overwatch-2-players-should-expect-a-multi-season-gap-between-story-missions-blizzard-says

Overwatch 2 was originally sold on Hero PvE mode, which they then cancelled https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-is-scrapping-overwatch-2-co-op-missions-and-hero-progression-its-clear-that-we-cant-deliver-on-the-original-vision-for-pve/

Last month they announced Invasion will cost extra https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/overwatch-2-invasion-costs-money

 

SKULL & BONES SPINOFF ANNOUNCED

Reports of an Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag remake

https://kotaku.com/assassin-s-creed-4-black-flag-remake-skull-bones-1850596271

Team at Ubisoft Singapore “heavily involved” https://lmg.gg/qEARO (Game Informer)

Ubisoft Singapore also developing Skull and Bones https://www.nme.com/news/assassins-creed-4-black-flag-reportedly-being-remade-by-ubisoft-singapore-3464165

That game has been delayed six times already https://www.engadget.com/skull-and-bones-is-still-alive-will-apparently-have-a-closed-beta-in-august-175747813.html

Skull & Bones was originally planned as a Black Flag expansion https://lmg.gg/dRQFF

 

QUICK BITS

 

SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS

Terraria’s devs are unable to quit

https://www.ign.com/articles/after-12-years-terraria-developers-say-enduring-demand-makes-it-hard-to-move-on

Re-Logic has thought about moving on for 8 years https://lmg.gg/t4IaZ (PCGamer)

Developer says “game still sells like hotcakes” https://mynintendonews.com/2023/07/04/terraria-designer-says-game-continues-to-sell-like-hot-cakes-and-they-cant-move-on/

Plus people can do this https://www.pcgamer.com/wunderkind-builds-fully-compliant-risc-v-computer-entirely-inside-terraria-then-plays-pong-on-it/

 

SOMEONE GET NOAH

Ark: Survival Evolved remaster delayed, studio struggles with UE5

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ark-survival-remaster-delayed-as-studio-struggles-with-unreal-engine-5/1100-6515644/

Was supposed to release in August, delayed to October

https://insider-gaming.com/ark-survival-ascended-delay/

Announced small price cut for it https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/controversial-remaster-ark-survival-ascended-has-been-delayed-to-october-and-will-now-be-slightly-cheaper

Though they originally promised it free with purchases of Ark 2 https://primagames.com/news/wildcard-responds-to-ark-ue5-remake-backlash-after-going-back-on-free-promise

 

ANOTHER VICTIM OF SAURON

LotR Gollum studio shuts down all internal development after disastrous launch

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2023/07/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-developer-shuts-down-internal-development

Original source is Games Wirtschaft (German) https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/wirtschaft/daedalic-entertainment-spiele-entwicklung-stellenabbau-0107/

25 employees are being let go https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/daedalic-is-ending-all-internal-development-after-disastrous-lotr-gollum-release/

 

BUT IT’S MY BIRTHDAY…

The One Ring MtG card has been found

https://www.polygon.com/23779892/mtg-the-one-ring-found-how-much-price-spain

Found by anonymous Toronto collector https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/one-ring-card-found-1.6895945

Card bounties of over $2m https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/bounty-on-ultra-rare-mtg-lotr-one-ring-card-jumps-to-2m-2175839/

 

RAT OUT OF HELL

Growing conspiracy among Diablo IV players that rats lead to good loot

https://kotaku.com/diablo-iv-4-loot-drop-rats-dungeon-arpg-blizzard-1850601762

The Original Post https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/14nfe8g/follow_the_rats/

Later evidence https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/14nno9g/i_followed_the_rats/