PlayStation 5 sales go up; Sega and Rovio join hands

April 21, 2023 7:41 PM

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I depart for one week, and everybody will get all acquisition-y on me! Sega and Rovio are apparently linking up, as Sega wishes to get on cell and Rovio wishes to get on consoles/PC, or so I hear. It’s not the pair-up I might have predicted, however that makes it even higher. I look ahead to seeing what occurs after these two join collectively.

In different information, the PlayStation 5 is seemingly on monitor to lap the PS4 in sales figures. Mat Piscatella of Circana famous on Twitter that, “PlayStation 5 hardware unit sales have now surpassed those of PlayStation 4 on a time-aligned basis (29 months in market).” While that doesn’t shock me, it’s gratifying to know that avid gamers can get their hands on them en masse after provides being quick for therefore lengthy. Also, Resident Evil 4 Remake bought like sweet, which I discover much more gratifying.

I’ve additionally seen some small items of attention-grabbing information this week: Gary Bowser will allegedly be paying Nintendo off for the remainder of his life, regardless of now technically being a free man. Seems like a protracted approach to go to make an instance out of 1 dude, however I’m not an enormous video games writer. Also, Guerrilla Games launched Horizon Forbidden West’s massive DLC Burning Shores. Alongside the DLC, it’s additionally added a thalassophobia mode, which, as somebody with mentioned affliction, I admire.

In case you missed it, I used to be off final week, and spent a tiny little bit of that point catching up on video video games. It wasn’t all video video games, I promise — I additionally went to a conference and met individuals who acted in video video games — but it surely was good to step again and play some video games I needed to play, not simply to maintain up with the fashionable releases. On that observe, I’ve spent a part of this week enjoying Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Remake. Having performed the unique throughout my adventure-gaming darkish age, it’s been very attention-grabbing to revisit it with prettier graphics and a barely much less gaunt Holmes. Give me slightly time, and I’ll be catching up on Dead Island 2 as effectively.

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