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More than 25 million players played Overwatch 2 during its first ten days of availability, Blizzard has claimed. That’s significantly more than the 15 million players the original game attracted during its first three months of availability. However, the original game was a full-priced product, whereas the sequel launched as a free-to-play title. According toBlizzard, daily player counts forOverwatch 2have nearly tripled the original game’s peak numbers. “The launch of Overwatch 2 has been such an important moment for Blizzard,” said president Mike Ybarra in a prepared statement....

2013’s Payday 2 has almost 85 times as many average players on Steam as 2023’s Payday 3. On Tuesday,Starbreeze announced it had ousted its current CEO followingPayday 3’s disappointing performance, and the latestSteamnumbers illustrate the scale of the underperformance. According to the independent Steam tracking serviceSteamDB,in the last 24 hours, Payday 2 has enjoyed a peak player count of 31,866. In contrast, Payday 3 achieved a peak count of 378....

Did you know thatPixel Gun 3D codescan get you coins, guns, and cosmetics? You probably did. If a game is on mobile, there’s a high chance it has promo codes to claim somewhere. To make things easier, we’ve scoured the internet fornew Pixel Gun 3D codesfor you to use. Viewed as a mix between BattleBit with a heavy hint ofMinecraftBed Wars, this multiplayer FPS title is available on mobile andPC. New Pixel Gun codesare sourced from the game’s socials....

PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has said fans shouldn’t be disappointed with Wednesday’s news that some key PS5 titles will also be released for its current-gen PS4 console. Speaking toThe Washington Postfollowing Wednesday’sPS5showcase, Ryan claimed the three titles confirmed to be cross-gen –Spider Man: Miles Morales,Horizon Forbidden DawnandSackboy: A Big Adventure– would still be built primarily for the next-gen machine. “No one should be disappointed,” he said. “The PS5 versions of those games are built from the ground up to take advantage of the PS5 feature set, and we have an upgrade path for PS4 users to get the PS5 versions for free....

Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed that around 6,800 current and former employees have had their personal information exposed. As reported byBleepingComputer, thePlayStationmaker has been contacting those affected and letting them know what happened. According toSony, the breach involved the MOVEit file transfer platform used by SIE employees, which is developed by third-party IT vendor Progress Software. Progress announced on May 31 that it had discovered a vulnerability in MOVEit, but three days before this, an “unauthorised actor” had already used the vulnerability to download SIE files, accessing personal information for 6,791 current and former SIE employees based in the United States....

Sony has revealed a new animation that will be used to introduce PlayStation Productions releases, which is viewable below. PlayStationProductions isa studio formed in 2019bySony Interactive Entertainmentto adapt its original game properties for film and television in partnership with Sony Pictures. The newUnchartedmovie starring Tom Holland, which had a $120 million budget, is the first major project from the studio to be released. Is that a new PlayStation Productions animation?...

Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan has refused to comment on whether God of War Ragnarok will be released for PS4 as well as PS5. The company revealed thatGod of War Ragnarök will be released for PS5 in 2021via a brief teaser shown during a next-gen software showcase in mid-September. Asked whether the game will be released forPS4too, Ryan toldThe Telegraph: “Sorry. I’ve got nothing to say about that today....

Looking for all of the starter Pokemon in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet The Indigo Disk? The Indigo Disk reintroduces every single starterPokemonthat’s ever been released, making it the first game wherein every starter Pokemon can be caught. But how do you catch them? Well, catching the starter Pokemon in The Indigo Disk is a grind, but thankfully we’ve got all the information you need to find them below. So here is out guide to catching every starter Pokemon in The Indigo Disk....

What time does Pokemon Scarlet and Violet: The Teal Mask release? PokemonScarlet and Violet The Teal Mask is the first of two pieces of DLC that will be released for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Part one of The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, the Teal Mask, will be released this week, but what time will the DLC be released? Pokemon Scarlet and Violet: The Teal Mask will see the player take part in a school trip to the land of Kitakami, which is a new region separate from Paldea....

The co-writer of the Portal games has said he wants Valve to start work on a third game in the series. Speaking on theKiwi Talkz podcast,Erik Wolpaw– who co-wrote Portal and Portal 2, as well as such titles as Psychonauts, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Two, Left 4 Dead and Half-Life Alyx – ended the show by stating: “We’ve gotta start Portal 3. That’s my message to… to whoever.” He added: “I am not getting any younger....

It’s fair to say that after nearly 40 years since her debut in the original Super Mario Bros., Princess Peach is well overdue a proper starring role. Not including the more-than-a-bit-dated 2005 DS game Super Princess Peach – in which, for those not aware, she used her emotions as a superpower – Peach’s only main playable appearance outside of multiplayer spin-offs have been as part of selectable rosters in the likes of Mario Bros....

This article was updated at 17:10 BST. PlayStation 5 has crossed the two million sales milestone in Japan. However, it’s become the slowest modern Sony console to do so. According to sales data fromFamitsu, the console has sold 2, 027,783 units in Japan as of October 23rd, 2022. This is divided into 1,749,737PS5consoles and 278,046 PS5 Digital Edition consoles. This means that the console managed to cross the two million threshold in 101 weeks, or just short of two years following its launch....

The PlayStation 5 Slim standard edition console has been discounted by £70 at selected UK retailers. WithSonyhaving knocked £60 off the console’s regular price of £479.99 until February 25 viaPlayStation Direct, some retailers are matching the offer while others are running even better deals. At the time of writing, Currys and Very were leading the market with a price of £409. The best deals we spotted on Monday included:...