Monday, 1 July 2024
Game News Round-Up
Daily curated games-industry news digest for 1 July 2024.
General4 stories
Helldivers 2 loses 90% of its PC player base in just five months
- 30-day average of 41,860 concurrent players on Steam
- Majority of players are on PS5
Team Fortress 2 aimbots are being quietly banned by Valve
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Business1 story
Rumors2 stories
Rumour
Timesplitters could be headed to PlayStation Plus, new ratings suggest
- Free Radical Design's classic FPS has been classified for PS4/5 in Taiwan
Rumour
A newly filed Sony patent might lend further credence to the recent rumors about PlayStation 3 backwards compatibility being in the works for PlayStation 5
- Filed on 27 June 2024 and titled "Backward Compatibility Testing of Software in a Mode That Attempts to Induce Skew," the patent describes a mechanism that allows a device (presumably the PS5) to run in a "timing testing mode" that purposefully induces skew.