Game News Round-Up

GeForce Now introducing 100 hours a month playtime limit, but subscribers can pay extra for more

• Won't kick in until 2026 for existing members

Mass Effect is officially getting a TV adaptation at Amazon

• Fast & Furious 9 (AKA F9: The Fast Saga) scribe Daniel Casey on writing and executive producer duties - Previously wrote the 2018 movie Kin and performed rewrites on 10 Cloverfield Lane

Over 60 classic Sega games are being delisted from digital stores

• Select titles will still be playable via Nintendo Switch Online
• The titles and bundles being delisted largely come from Sega’s Sega Mega Drive/ Sega Genesis Classics collection. Select titles from these bundles on Steam and Xbox, and the entire bundles on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, will no longer be available for purchase as of Friday, December 6.

Unity Q3 Financial Results

• Total revenue: $447 million (down 18% year-over-year)
• Create Solutions revenue: $132 million (up 5% year-over-year)
• Grow Solutions revenue: $298 million (down 5% year-over-year)
• Net loss: $125 million (flat when compared to same quarter last year, and down from $126 million in Q2)

Warner Bros says MultiVersus is one reason its games division is ‘substantially underperforming’

• The fighting game was blamed for a $100 million hit on Year-On-Year Q3 gaming revenue

FromSoftware parent Kadokawa expands into console and PC publishing

• FromSoftware's parent company, Kadokawa Corporation, is "developing a structure" to "expand the scope" of in-house publishing for console and PC games.
• In its latest financial report, the company also said it hopes to "maximise the lifetime value" of games like Elden Ring with DLC and "repeat" sales.

Digital Bros rebrands Hook Indie Publishing label as 505 Pulse

• The label says the change "reinforces the indie division's synergy with its larger publishing arm, 505 Games"

Call of Duty Mobile reaches 1bn downloads

Sega has sold Humankind developer Amplitude

• The studio's most recent game was last year's Endless Dungeon
• Buyer and amount were not disclosed

Sony Games Division Q3 Results

• Total revenue: $7 billion (up 12% year-over-year)
• Operating income: $900 million (up 184%)
• PS5 consoles shipped: 3.8 million (down 29% year-over-year)
• Software sales: 77.7 million units (up 10.1 million year-over-year)