The main thing for the weekend (July 1-2)
The authors of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum will stop developing games, according to media reports, Sony intends to work more actively with South Korean companies, Re-Logic admitted that Terraria sells well even 12 years after release — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.
▪️Daedalic Entertainment decided to close its internal development studio after the failure of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum and focus on publishing games. In a statement to the GamesWirtschaft portal, the company called this decision difficult, but capable of becoming “a new beginning in its long history.” As a result of the closure of the studio, 25 of the 90 employees of Daedalic Entertainment will be laid off.
▪️Sony wants to expand cooperation with developers from South Korea, MTN reports. According to journalists, she is currently negotiating with NCSOFT, Com2uS, Neowiz Games and other large companies. In particular, Sony is allegedly going to buy shares of Pearl Abyss — the creator of the Black Desert series of games — in exchange for the release of exclusives on PlayStation consoles.
The French President said at a press conference that social networks and video games play a significant role in the protests in the country. According to Emmanuel Macron, more than a third of the rioters are very young. Going out on the streets, they “lose touch with reality” and try to embody the plots of “intoxicated” video games. Young French people use TikTok and Snapchat to organize protests.
▪️The sources of the PC version of the first Far Cry appeared in the Internet Archive database. The published archive contains only files with code that date back to December 2005, but assets were not included in it. The archive was posted by a user Llaetha.ro , unlikely to have done this with the permission of the developers, but neither Crytek nor Ubisoft have yet commented on what happened.
▪️Terraria was released 12 years ago, but is still popular. The head of the Re-Logic studio, Andrew Spinks, said on Twitter that it is sold like “hot cakes”, which makes it difficult for his team to abandon the game. He did not say how many times Terraria has been bought to date, but recalled that in April 2022, the circulation was 44.5 million copies.
▪️Studio Ebb Software has announced that over 2 million people have played horror Scorn. The title took this mark eight months after its release. Scorn was released in October 2022 on PC and Xbox Series, and this fall it should appear on PS5.
