Gaming veteran and co-Presidnet of Naughty Dog Evan Wells gave some news and indeed is an end of an era for the Playstation Studios as the executive has announced that he is stepping away from the company that he began working right at the New Millenium.
Just last week, a Sega executive announced that the Japanese gaming veteran was actually scaling back all Web3 and NFT gaming projects so that it could do it without violating any previous agreement.
I tried to not to follow this topic anymore because it is NOT a service for Sonic The Hedgehog in terms of gaming news and positivity about the main Sega franchise, but I guess I cannot ignore this development on co-creator Yuji Naka’s saga.
Ironically, Sega has been one of the gaming companies that decided that it was time to mix NFT and Gaming via the concept of Web3 gaming and pretty much we have heard some high-profile association, but maybe all came to a surprising end.
The year 2023 is a BIG CONTRAST of what was 2022 for the Swedish gaming conglomerate Embracer Group after high profile purchases of many gaming and entertainment companies including Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal and the former Square Enix Motnreal.
It is already known that IO Interactive is quite busy with HITMAN: World Of Assassinations as a live service and two new projects that forced the development of the next HITMAN to be a tertiary priority.
Capcom knows that it has been almost 15 years and less games than average about Mega Man and the Japanese gaming veterans seem to be tuning up details to make the next decade a little different from our favorite cyborg.
For weeks I had been mixing Xbox Game Studios with Activision Blizzard as I thought (an MANY GAMERS) that the direct effect on Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard would be making it part of the Xbox Game Studios family, but as per a report, it claims that it will not be the case.
Despite calling it a big victory, Apple wasn’t at all happy that in the Epic Games lawsuit after banning Fortnite from the App Store included that the App Store business model was questioned on record and the original court agreed to that.
Already in the second half of 2023 two main gaming showcases are left for this year and they are Gamescom 2023 and Tokyo Game Show 2023 where publisher and gaming studios will have their final opportunities to show us what we are expecting for this year and next year, 2024.