Thursday, 30 May 2024

Game News Round-Up

Daily curated games-industry news digest for 30 May 2024.

General4 stories

PlayStation State of Play Tonight

  • 3pm PT / 6pm ET / 11pm BST
  • "30 minutes covering PS5 and PS VR 2 titles"
  • In total, 14 titles will be shown, including some upcoming PlayStation Studios titles.
Eurogamer
Free Games / Subscription1 story

June’s ‘free’ games with Amazon Prime Gaming have been announced

  • May 30: The Lullaby of Life [GOG code]
  • June 6: Star Wars Battlefront II (Classic, 2005) [GOG code]
  • June 6: Weird West Definitive Edition [Epic Game Store code]
  • June 6: Genesis Noir [Amazon Games app]
  • June 13: Everdream Valley [Amazon Games app]
  • June 13: Mythforce [Epic Game Store code]
  • June 13: Blast Brigade vs. the Evil Legion of Dr. Cread [GOG code]
  • June 13: Projection: First Light [Amazon Games app]
VGC
Business3 stories

PlayStation 5 "most profitable generation to date", Sony says

  • Operating income for PS5 gen reaches $10bn, beating PS4's $9bn
  • PS5 has hit $106bn in sales, $1 billion below PS4
  • The PS5 and PS4 both have 49 million users per month, as of 30th April
  • 50% of this is PS5 users, 50% is PS4
  • Of the 3.8bn hours played, 2.4bn of those were on PS5
  • PS5 users are spending 176 percent more on add-on content, 57 percent more on services and 34 percent more on peripherals than the previous generation of console did in the first four years of its cycle
  • PS5 users are also spending 12 percent less on full game content than those on PS4 did
Eurogamer