Game News Round-Up

PS5 now lets players join Discord voice chat directly from console.

• Previously players needed to join discord either from a PC or mobile device

Xbox published strategy game Ara: History Untold gets a 24th September release date

Kingdom Hearts series is now on Steam

V Rising was the UK’s best-selling game in May

• Game sales overall for May a dropped by 21% compared with May 2023.
• Console sales dropped by 10% on the month before and nearly 33% down on May last year. PS5 was the No.1 selling console, but saw sales down 13% over April.

Epic Games Store and Fortnite coming to iOS in Japan next year

• This is following the passing of a new competition law in Japan.
• Fortnite will now return to iOS in Japan and UK next year, and EU this year

Elden Ring ships 25m units worldwide