While Mortal Kombat 1 and the announcement of the Kombat Pack 1 roster has been the main gaming news related of the San Diego Comic Con (ion midst of the dual SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strike that made all theaters, TV and movies related announcement going without much hype), we got some related news in both topics.
Imagine the impact of the Activision Blizzard transaction is so big, that at the latest investor conference of Ubisoft about their first quarter of Fiscal Year 2024, it was raised on how Ubisoft sees Microsoft gaining a gaming conglomerate.
The Tekken 8 Closed Network Test are currently underway, but Bandai Namco is not done on presenting the members of the roster that Tekken 8 will include and it is pleasant to see that they will not be relying on post-launch content and DLCs to mess with early impression for the 8th King Of The Iron Fist Tournament.
Heading to the third weekend of July 0223, Sony Interactive Entertainment has rolled out new PS4 and PS5 system updates and pretty much we know what that means when the changelog doesn’t specify what it is included with.
We got some bad news from Bandai Namco and it is evident that Gundam Evolution didn’t live up to expectations after so much hype behind its launch as a free-to-play game and while it will reach on its first anniversary, that’s probably as much it.
It is once again earning reports season and our first interest for gaming industry is, ironically, Activision Blizzard heading to its probable second to last earning reports of Q2 2023 and there are reasons to celebrate.
One thing that this current and past generation of gaming has taught us, is that Nintendo can have its bad days but knows how to make a comeback and maintain the trends and yes, it is admirable that Nintendo Switch being technically “inferior” has managed to make Playstation and Xbox run for their money.
If there is a Microsoft Graveyard as like the Google Graveyard, the new tombstone that will be set on September 14th 2023, will be Xbox Live Gold, the first subscription that Microsoft ever gave to Xbox to allow multiplayer and later, monthly free claimable games as long as you kept subscribed.
After almost three decades of relationship, this is Year 1 for Electronic Arts and EA Sport for trying to appeal to soccer fans without the branding of FIFA and this is the presentation letter for an appeal vote of soccer games for EA with EA Sport FC 24.
Finally, Sony is ready for the result of the Project Leonardo or the take of Playstation with a proper accessibility controller for the Playstation 5 and will finally be released just in time by the Holiday season.