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Publisher Deep Silver and developer Dambuster Studios have announced that the first-person adventure shooter Dead Island 2 has sold over 1 million copies in the first three days after its release!
Atari recently made a big move by acquiring the intellectual property rights to more than 100 retro games from the 80s and 90s, including Bubsy, Demolition Racer and many others. This acquisition includes PC and console game catalogues from publishers such as Micropose, Infogrames, and Accolade, as well as the Accolade brand, which is now owned by Atari.
Panic has announced that since the start of pre-orders on 29 July 2021, its Playdate portable console has sold more than 50,000 units. According to the company, the initial plan was to produce 20,000 units.
Microosft has detailed the upcoming April update for Xbox consoles, with the main innovations being an updated Xbox search and power settings during active hours.
Microsoft has introduced two new colours for the Elite Series 2 controller series - bright red and blue. Like the white model released last year, the full name of the controllers is "Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 - Core".
Newzoo analysts who study the video game market told how much money gamers spent on games in 2022. This amount was $92.3 billion, which is 2.2% less than in 2021.
Valve is preparing the SteamOS 3.5 update for Steam Deck, the main innovation of which will be an updated kernel, which means improved performance and a bunch of new features in the future.
Dozens of games with discounts of up to 80%.
The survival exploration game Valheim was released in 2021 on PC, but recently appeared on Xbox consoles and entered the Game Pass library. However, the developers have no plans to release the game on other consoles.
The console hardware helped to make the world more detailed and add a large number of different game activities.
Doug Bowser, the president of Nintendo of America, recently gave an interview to the Associated Press, where, when asked about the potential successor to the Nintendo Switch, he said that the company still "feels optimistic" about the current generation of the Switch and suggested that it will not be abandoned in the near future.
According to Naughty Dog's new job listing, the long-awaited multiplayer spin-off The Last of Us may be coming to PlayStation 4 as well as PlayStation 5.
In documents submitted by Microsoft to the UK's Office of Markets and Competition, the company described how it believes it will be able to launch Call of Duty games on Nintendo Switch.
Ubisoft has announced a whole week of free access to Anno 1800 - from 16 to 23 March. This time will allow players to fully try the game and decide whether they will buy it or not. Along with the start of the free week, a version of Anno for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles will be released.
Yes, it's finally happened - Steam Deck has received native support for ray tracing technology in games. Previously, if you wanted to enjoy this experience, you had to do some manipulations with the console's operating system. And I must say that for a device that costs less than RTX 3050, having ray tracing is really impressive.
