Game News Round-Up

Zenless Zone Zero is now available

• The latest title from miHoYo - creators of Genshin Impact, Honkai Impact and Honkai Star Rail
• Recently, miHoYo built a fusion reactor

UK man jailed for four months for carrying 6-inch Zelda Master Sword in public

Personal data of Spike Chunsoft staff may have been leaked in ransomware hack

• Kadokawa, which also owns FromSoftware, was hacked last week by ransomware gang BlackSuit, which claimed to have private information on the company’s employees, and threatened to publish it if it wasn’t paid enough.
• Kadokawa said the leak likely included the personal information of all Dwango employees, internal documents and personal information on some employees from affiliated companies.

Keywords Studios reaches £2.2bn acquisition agreement with Swedish investment company EQT

• The deal is expected to complete in Q4 2024

Squad Busters reaches $24m in first month revenue

Adult Swim delists four more indie games, stating developers are "not available" to take over as publisher

• Mega Coin Squad, Super House of Dead Ninjas, Traverser, and Zenzizenzic
• Super House of Dead Ninja dev said it "did reach out but didn't receive a reply"

More co-op games were released on Steam last year than in any other year, report finds

• According to the report, a total of 799 co-op games were released on Steam in 2023, more than in 2022 (701 games), 2021 (650 games) and 2020 (647 games).
• The report notes that in 2024 nearly half of all Steam games sold – 46% to date – feature a co-op element.