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Industry News December 14, 2020

Game Seer invests in ” isometric souls-like RPG” Alaloth – Champions of The Four Kingdoms by Gamera Interactive

Game Seer Venture Partners, a venture capital firm based in Germany, has invested an undisclosed amount in Alaloth – Champions of The Four Kingdoms by Gamera Interactive.
Industry News December 14, 2020

Opinion: The Last of Us Part II doesn’t deserve award for best direction

“No game that required its developers to crunch, like The Last of Us Part II did, should be given a Best Direction award.”
Industry News December 14, 2020

CD Projekt stock down 37% erasing this year’s gains

CD Projekt’s shares fell 15% to 272 zloty today and have now lost 37% of their market value since the first Cyberpunk 2077 reviews started appearing last week.
Industry News December 14, 2020

Last week’s top sellers on Steam

Cyberpunk 2077 has been the top selling game on Steam for four consecutive weeks. Cyberpunk’s launch also towed The Witcher 3 GOTY into the top ten.
Industry News December 14, 2020

EA to acquire Codemasters for $1.2 million

Electronic Arts has announced an agreement to acquire Codemasters, the UK-based game developer and publisher of racing games. EA will pay $1.2 billion and plans to complete the acquisition in the first quarter of calendar 2021.
Industry News December 14, 2020

CD Projekt apologizes for not showing how Cyberpunk 2077 runs on past-gen consoles. Studio allows refunds and promises patches

CD Projekt Red has apologized for not showing Cyberpunk‘s performance on PS4 and Xbox One ahead of the game’s release.
Industry News December 14, 2020

Cyberpunk 2077 dethrones World of Warcraft: Shadowlands as fastest-selling PC game of all time

Of the 8 million pre-orders for Cyberpunk 2077, the PC version accounted for 4.72 million. This makes Cyberpunk the biggest day one launch ever for a PC game — the title previously held (even if briefly) by World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.
Industry News December 12, 2020

Cyberpunk 2077 devs to receive bonuses regardless of reviews. Studio head takes responsibility for buggy release as negative Metacritic reviews pile up

CD Projekt executives took the responsibility for Cyberpunk 2077‘s buggy release. They also changed the system for bonus payouts to the devs.
Industry News December 11, 2020

Jason Schreier: Makers of AAA titles should embrace Early Access

In his latest piece for Bloomberg, Jason Schreier looks at Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Cyberpunk 2077 and sees bugs everywhere.
Industry News December 11, 2020

CD Projekt Red stock declines 29% as Cyberpunk 2077 Metacritic score drops to 90

CD Projekt Red’s share price continues to drop like FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 on the past-gen consoles. The stock fell 29% from PLN 443 per share on December 4 to PLN 313.9, according to gamesindustry.biz.
Industry News December 11, 2020

JJ Abrams launches Bad Robot Games Studio

JJ Abrams’ film company Bad Robot has launched Bad Robot Games Studio. Left 4 Dead creator Michael Booth has stepped in as the studio’s GM.
Industry News December 11, 2020

Telltale developing all episodes of The Wolf Among Us 2 at once

While a certain The Wolf Among Us 2 developer update was rumored to take place at The Game Awards, it never happened, as we now know. The update, however, did arrive in the form of a tweet from Telltale’s community manager.
Industry News December 11, 2020

Reveals and announcements from TGA 2020

Here’s a look at the biggest reveals from The Game Awards 2020.
Industry News December 11, 2020

TGA 2020: The Last of Us Part II named Game of the Year, takes home six other awards

The Last of Us Part II was named the Game of the Year at the 2020 Game Awards. It also took home six other big awards including best direction, narrative, action/adventure game, audio design, innovation in accesibility and performance for Laura Bailey.
Industry News December 10, 2020

App Annie: consumets to spend over $120 billion in mobile games in 2021

According to App Annie’s latest report, consumer spend on mobile games will exceed $120 billion in 2021.
Industry News December 10, 2020

Control clears 2 million copies sold over 15 months

Control has sold over 2 million units across all platforms, according to Thomas Puha, Communications Director at Remedy. It took the title 15 months to get there.
Industry News December 10, 2020

Cyberpunk 2077 clears 1 million concurrent players on Steam and brings in over $500m in revenue prior to release

Cyberpunk 2077 broke the single player record on Steam hitting 1 million concurrent players on its launch day.
Industry News December 9, 2020

Disco Elysium devs potentially tease console release

ZA/UM, the studio Disco Elysium, has posted a teaser on their site.
Industry News December 9, 2020

2020 in video games: Black Mesa dev on their new IP, putting rogue-lite ideas into FPS games, and Hades’ breakthrough

Joining us today for a quick end-of-the-year interview is Benjamin Truman, lead writer on Crowbar Collective’s Black Mesa.
Industry News December 9, 2020

CD Projekt shares dip as Cyberpunk 2077 fails to earn top marks from reviewers

CD Projekt shares have dipped 9.4% in Warsaw after Cyberpunk 2077 scored 91 out of 100 based on the average of 44 journalist reviews on Metacritic. This makes the title only the fourth-best PC game of 2020.
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