Friday, 10 May 2024

Game News Round-Up

Daily curated games-industry news digest for 10 May 2024.

General4 stories

Hellblade 2 is only two weeks away, and fans feel Xbox should be making more noise

  • Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 releases 21st May
  • Xbox marketing mouthpiece Aaron Greenberg told fans that Hellblade 2's "global paid media campaign started yesterday", and noted there was a "special Iceland creator event" happening now - where the company has apparently flown some YouTubers to visit the game's setting (not to the supermarket).
Eurogamer

Nintendo is ending X/Twitter support for Nintendo Switch

  • Beginning on June 10, users will no longer be able to upload images to the service directly from Nintendo Switch machines, and the Nintendo Switch will no longer allow players to send friend requests to social media friends using X integration
VGC
Business3 stories

Capcom announces seventh consecutive year of record results

  • The Numbers:
  • FY Ending March 31st:
  • Net Sales: were 152,410 million yen ($977M), which is up 21.0% year-over-year
  • Operating Income: was 57,081 million yen ($366M) which is up 12.3% year-over-year
  • Ordinary Income: was 59,422 million yen ($381M), which is up 15.7 % year-over-year
  • Net Income: 43,374 million yen ($278M) up 18.1 % year-over-year
  • Highlights:
  • Street Fighter 6 sold 3.3 million units
  • Dragon’s Dogma 2 sold 2.6 million (series now at over 11 million units)
  • Resident Evil 4 Remake sold 7.02 million units (series now at 36.29 million units)
  • 15 titles achieved over 1 million sales during this financial period.
  • Monster Hunter franchise has crossed 100 million cumulative sales
VGC

Roblox Q1 Financial Results

  • The Numbers:
  • Revenue: $801 million, up 22% year-on-year
  • Bookings: $924 million, up 19% year-on-year
  • Net losses: $270 million, compared to $269 million in the same quarter last year
GamesIndustry.biz