Game News Round-Up

McDonalds launches Sonic 3 themed Happy Meals in the UK today

• McDonalds Japan is currently running an extensive Evangelion campaign

Minecraft YouTuber to present new Classic FM video game music series

• Next Level with DanTDM launches on Saturday 11th January at 9pm for an hour, and will run each week until Easter.
• The first episode will focus on legendary soundtracks from games such as The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy 7, The Elder Scrolls, and of course Minecraft.

Final Fantasy 7 director would ‘love’ another movie based on the game

Squid Game: Unleashed reaches over 10m installs

• Battle royale multiplayer has become Netflix's fifth most downloaded game
• For launch, is temporarily free to all (even those without a Netflix account), though this is only the case for a limited period
• Most of Squid Game: Unleashed's downloads are from Apple's App Store at 7.4 million installs, with 3.3 million from Google Play.
• The United States was the top country for installs at 1.8 million, followed by Brazil with 1.1 million downloads.

Plaion CEO Klemens Kundratitz steps down 31 years after co-founding Koch Media

• Deputy CEO Phil Rogers will assume leadership

Splash Damage confirms layoff plans as Transformers game is cancelled

• The London-based studio behind Gears Tactics, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Dirty Bomb announced the news on Wednesday in an X post.
• Unclear which party decided to end development on Transformers: Reactive
• Undisclosed amount of people now "at risk of redundancy"