Game News Round-Up

Ciri has been recast in The Witcher 4

• Ciara Berkeley has been cast as Ciri in The Witcher 4, replacing the characters' previous actor

Netflix’s Squid Game: Unleashed will be free for everyone at launch

• For a limited time, Squid Game: Unleashed won't be locked behind a subscription paywall
• Developed by internal studio Boss Fight Entertainment, Squid Game: Unleashed is a “party royale” game.

Steel Paws is a new mobile game from Yu Suzuki

Sega’s president calls Sonic Superstars a ‘disappointment’

• “This time we have Sonic X Shadow Generations and the next Sonic movie, so we’re pushing things in the transmedia direction – movies and games working in harmony to make things bigger. But the core [of the experience] is the game. The game needs to be very good or else there is no transmedia effect.”

Zenimax Online Studios workers unionise

• Union of 461 workers has been recognised by Microsoft
• The union, called ZOS United-CWA, has been recognised by parent company Microsoft and is made of 461 members, including "web developers, designers, engineers, and graphic artists," the announcement said.
• A majority of the unionised workers are based in Maryland, but they are also located across the US in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin.
• This is the latest union to be created via CWA's Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE-CWA), which the organisation says has seen over 6,000 workers unionise since 2020.

Capcom says it’s working on ‘re-activating other dormant IPs’ like Onimusha and Okami