Game News Round-Up

Awesome Games Done Quick reveals full charity speedrun schedule ahead of January's return

• Raising money for Prevent Cancer Foundation
• Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 runs from 5th-12th January next year

This year’s Grammy nominees for best video game soundtrack have been announced

• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Pinar Toprak, composer
• God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla – Bear McCreary, composer
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 – John Paesano, composer
• Star Wars Outlaws – Wilbert Roget, II, composer
• Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord – Winifred Phillips, composer

Insomniac pays tribute to Spider-Man 2 actor Tony Todd, who has died

• Although Todd is best known for his movie career – most notably as the iconic horror villain Candyman, and funeral home owner William Bludworth in the Final Destination movies – he also performed in a number of video games over the years.
• Todd will posthumously appear in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which is set for release on December 9.

Kojima Productions acquires Death Stranding's IP rights

• The studio now has full ownership of the IP from original publisher 505 Games
• This is also the second IP that 505 Games has relinquished this year. In February, Remedy Entertainment took full ownership of its supernatural title Control as part of its push to turn that game into a larger franchise—which presently spans a sequel, a multiplayer spinoff, and potential film or TV adaptation.

Take-Two looking at 'select mobile M&A opportunities' after Zynga integration

• Take-Two Interactive's mobile division accounted for more than 50 percent of the company's total net bookings during Q2 and over 64 percent of recurrent consumer spending.

Infinity Nikki tops 30m pre-registrations