The main thing for the weekend (July 29-30)
Remnant II twice beat the original online on Steam, according to media reports, Ubisoft canceled the sequel Immortals Fenyx Rising for the sake of Assassin’s Creed Codename Red, prices for thousands of games rose sharply in the Turkish PS Store — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.
▪️Square Enix is going to release more games on Xbox. This was announced by the head of the Japanese company Takashi Kiryu during the Final Fantasy Fan Fest 2023. In particular, in the spring of 2024, the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV will appear on Microsoft consoles.
▪️On Sunday, the peak online Remnant II on Steam reached 110,856 people. This allowed the game to take ninth place in the top daily online, ahead of Naraka: Bladepoint. For comparison, the maximum online of the original was more than twice as low: at its peak, the first Remnant simultaneously attracted 48,289 players on Steam.
A week ago, sources of the Video Games Chronicle publication reported that Ubisoft canceled the unannounced sequel Immortals Fenyx Rising. As journalist Stephen Totilo from Axios recently found out, work on the sequel was going well and the project looked promising, but the company decided to bet on the Assassin’s Creed series. Therefore, Ubisoft abandoned the game and redirected resources to Assassin’s Creed Codename Red.
In China, an artist was arrested under the pseudonym Shirakami_san, who created explicit videos with the characters of Genshin Impact and other famous games. According to Chinese media, since 2019, he has earned ¥1.83 million ($256 thousand) on this. It is reported that Shirakami_san was charged with illegal profit-making: the artist published videos on foreign platforms, including Patreon, and transferred money to a bank account in China. The artist has already admitted guilt and agreed to cooperate with the investigation. The authors of Genshin Impact did not comment on the arrest, but we recall that recently they have been actively fighting copyright infringement, and Shirakami_san can be blamed for this. Earlier, the studio miHoYo reported the arrest of the creators of cheats for their game.
▪️On July 30, the Turkish PS Store significantly increased the price of games. According to the calculations of the PSprices portal, prices have increased for 7 thousand titles. For example, Atomic Heart began to cost ₺2199 (7530 rubles) instead of ₺1199 (4105 rubles), and the remake of Resident Evil 4 — ₺1599 (5475 rubles) instead of ₺849 (2907 rubles).
