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Marvel Rivals has now surpassed 40 million players, NetEase has announced. Announced duringNetEase‘s financial results on Thursday, the company said the hero shooter toppedSteam‘s global top sellers charts in December, and saw 10 million registered users in its opening three days across all platforms. The game returned to the top of the chart in January following the game’s season 1 update. Elsewhere in its financial results, NetEase announced that games and related services net revenues were RMB21....

Mojang has announced plans to drop PlayStation VR support for Minecraft in early 2025. PlayStationVR support was added to thePS4version of the game via a free update in September 2020. “Our ability to support PlayStation VR has come to an end, and will no longer be supported in updates after March of 2025,”Mojangsaid. “After you receive the final update, you will still receive updates on your PlayStation and be able to play without PlayStation VR....

The next evolution of the Xbox controller will have improved haptic feedback, an accelerometer, speakers and a rechargeable and replaceable battery. The controller appears in unredacted court documents published overnight – seemingly in error – which include an internalMicrosoftdocument titled, ‘Roadmap to 2030’. The document includes information onMicrosoft’s mid-generation console refresh, which says the new console will come with an “all-new, more immersive controller”. This controller, codenamed Sebile, is then detailed in the document, with all its new features listed....

The next Assassin’s Creed game will reportedly feature a Norse setting and Viking storyline. Two independent sources said to be familiar with the game toldKotakuthat the project, codenamed Kingdom, is scheduled for release in 2020. The site reported what it’d been told after it emerged that recentUbisoftreleaseThe Division 2features what appear to be in-game teasers for the upcomingAssassin’s Creedtitle. Over the weekend Division 2 players uncovered in-game items featuring a Norse character holding what looks like anAppleof Eden, the technology central to Assassin’s Creed lore....

Nintendo has released its Japan-only official magazine in English. Published on Friday, the summer edition ofNintendoMagazine – which is usually given away in Japanese stores, such as Nintendo Tokyo and other locations – isnow available to read digitallyin English language. Nintendo notes that because the magazine is intended for the Japanese market, some information such as pricing and release dates are not accurate for a global audience. However, the summer edition does include a variety of features on upcomingSwitchgames, such asNintendo World Championships: NES Edition, andThe Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom....

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has said that the company will invest in more original games in the future, in addition to supporting its core franchises. The Japanese giant has one of the richest portfolios of franchises in gaming, but the majority of its intellectual properties were created in the 1980s and 90s. In the decades since, it’s mostly focused on expanding these series, rather than creating entirely new ones. Over the past 20 years, the company’s most significant original IP launches were Splatoon (2015), Wii Sports (2006) and Pikmin (2001)....

The next batch of ‘free’ titles set to be offered to Amazon Prime Gaming members has seemingly leaked. According to highly reliable Dealabs user and leakerbillbil-kun, November’s Prime Gaming line-up will include seven free titles. They reportedly include Fallout New Vegas, WRC 9 and Last Day of June. Update1st Nov 2022 / 5:12 pm November’s freePCtitles forAmazonPrime Gaming members arenow available to claim. The full list of games reportedly coming to Prime Gaming in November is as follows:...

MultiVersus was July’s best-selling video game in the US market based on dollar sales, the NPD Group reported on Friday. While Warner’s game is free-to-play,MultiVersusled monthly sales because of the popularity of its Founder’s Pack bundles,which cost between $40 and $100, the market research firm said. Elden Ringslipped to No.2 on July’s software chart, whileLego Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagaalso dropped one place to No.3. The only other new entries in the top 20 wereXenoblade Chronicles 3at No....

Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler has apologised for “overly aggressive” criticism aimed at several game developers earlier this week, admitting he “screwed up” and promising to “learn from this mistake”. In a strongly worded post on gaming forumReseteraon Wednesday, Mahler hit out at Populous and Fable creatorPeter Molyneux,Hello Gamesfounder andNo Man’s SkycreatorSean Murray, andCyberpunk 2077studioCD Projekt Red. Mahler, who is the co-founder of the Austrian independent studio behind Ori and the Blind Forest andOri and the Will of the Wisps,labelled his targets “snake oil salesmen”, accusing them of deceptively marketing their games by promising the world before knowingly underdelivering....

Overwatch saw its highest day ever on Twitch coinciding with Wednesday’s launch of the Overwatch 2 beta. Players hoping to participate in theOverwatch 2beta canregisterfor the chance to do so orgain access to it via Twitch drops. By watching any ofBlizzard’spartnered streamersduring defined time windows, players who have linked their Twitch account to their Battle.net account will earn a beta key for the game. The promotion has attracted significant interest, breaking theOverwatchviewership record on Twitch....

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has discussed the possibility of Microsoft bringing back the Killer Instinct series. The platform holder released a reboot ofRare’s classic fighting game franchise for the launch ofXbox Onein 2013 and supported the free-to-play title with updates and new characters for several years. Microsoft’s head of gaming discussed how the franchise is viewed internally during the latestDropped Framespodcast on Wednesday. “There are so many good games in our catalogue that we’d love to visit,” he said....

The PlayStation Stars loyalty scheme is returning following almost a month of unavailability. The service has been out of action since early June, andSonyhas failed to specify why. “We’re aware of an issue withPlayStationStars and are actively working on a solution,” the companysaidlast month. In an update on the PlayStation Stars site this week, Sony said the service would be coming back in the near future. “PlayStation Stars will be returning soon in phased regional rollouts,” itsaid....

The next 7-star Tera Raid in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet has been revealed, and will mark the return of another classic Pokémon not usually available in the main game. As reported by the official JapanesePokémonTwitter account, the next event will let players fight and catch a Typhlosion. Because Typhlosion isn’t part of the game’s Paldea Pokédex, there hasn’t been any way for players to catch one until now. As such, this 7-star Tera Raid battle event will be the first chance players will get to catch a Typhlosion for their collection....