Game News Round-Up

Türkiye blocks Roblox due to child safety concerns

• The ban follows a Bloomberg report last month highlighting the game's issues with child safety

Dragon Ball MOBA announced for mobile and Steam

• The game, which will be released on Steam, iOS and Android, will enter beta later this month.
• Steam users in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States can sign up for the beta tests, which will take place on August 20.

Vampire Survivors coming to PlayStation later this month

• The game will be released on PlayStation 4/5 on August 29, 2024.
• All of the game’s DLC will be released on PlayStation platforms on the same day.

The Borderlands movie has started off with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 0%

Doom 1 + 2 have be re-released yet AGAIN. This time combined and with a new episode

• People who owned Doom or Doom 2 on Steam, PSN, Xbox, eShop or GOG can get the enhanced edition at no extra cost (automatically upgraded).
• Bundle includes: DOOM, DOOM 2, TNT: Evilution, The Plutonia Experiment, Master Levels for Doom 2, No Rest for the Living, Sigil, Legacy of Rust, Deathmatch pack (26 maps)
• All in all, there are a total of 187 mission maps and 43 deathmatch maps
• Now on the KEX engine
• Players will also be able to choose between the original soundtrack, or a new arranged soundtrack by Andrew Hulshult, who composed the music for Brutal Doom and co-composed the music for the Ancient Gods expansion for Doom Eternal.
• The new edition also supports cross-platform multiplayer for up to 16 players in both Deathmatch and co-op mode.

Netflix suffers massive leaks

• The full list of shows affected has not been revealed but Arcane season 2 has had its first 4 episodes leaked online.

Warner Bros is ‘looking at’ licensing its IP to other game studios

Bandai Namco profits rose 56% during Q1 FY25

• For the three months ended June 30, 2024:
• Net sales UP: 24.8% year-over-year to ¥280 billion ($1.9 billion
• Profit UP: 56.3% to ¥34 billion ($233 million).
• Digital entertainment sales UP: 55.8% to ¥106 billion ($725 million).
• Amusement segment UP: 17% to ¥33 million ($225,760).

Take Two Q1 Results

• Net revenue: $1.34 billion (up 4% year-over-year)
• Net loss: $262 million (compared to a $206 million loss in the year-ago quarter)
• Total net bookings: $1.22 billion (up 1% year-over-year)

Warner Bros sees 41% year-on-year drop in Q2 gaming revenue

• One key reason for this drop is the immense success last year of Hogwarts Legacy. It was one of the best-selling games of 2023 and by January 2024 had sold over 24m copies.