Game News Round-Up

90s classic Little Big Adventure's remake is out November 14th

PlayStation raises Horizon Zero Dawn’s PS4 price following remaster upgrade annoucement

• The decision to change the PS4 version’s price back to $39.99 means anyone choosing to buy that and upgrade will pay a total of $49.98, instead of $29.98.

California forces digital stores to admit players don’t own digital content

Hit deck-builder Balatro is now available for mobile

Street Fighter’s Ken and Chun-Li are officially joining Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves

• Ken to arrive Summer 2025, Chun-Li to arrive Winter 2025

Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster, Trials of Mana and Legend of Mana released on Xbox

• Trials of Mana and Legend of Mana are both available on Xbox, and both are also available on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass (but not Game Pass Standard).
• Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster also comes to Xbox today, but won’t be on Game Pass.

StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft 2: Campaign Collection coming to Xbox PC Game Pass

• Arrives November 5th

Ghosts of Tabor passes $20m revenue

Vampire Survivor developer Poncle opens publishing arm

• Poncle's publishing arm will offer funding, as well as platform support, localisation, QA, release management, and development advice for games built with "sincerity, passion, and depth."
• "We want to sign everything!" the team said during the presentation. "But we're very smol!"
• Poncle also outlined its "insta-nos", which included anything "Survivor-like," anything AI or Web3 related, and free-to-play mobile games.

Gris sales top 3 million

The Simpsons: Tapped Out is ending service in January after 12 years

• In-game purchases have already been disabled, and the game will be removed from the App Store on October 31. The game will be fully delisted on January 24, 2025.
• “It has been a remarkable journey, and we are grateful that we’ve been able to deliver 308 updates, 831 characters and including today’s final farewell 1,463 questlines. As our journey comes to a close, we offer our sincerest thanks to you, the players, who have made this all possible.”

Indie publisher Merge Games is closing down after 15 years

• Merge published numerous games, as well as physical editions of other notable titles such as Dead Cells, Streets of Rage 4, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge.
• Merge Games employed 22 people