Thursday, 9 January 2025

Game News Round-Up

Daily curated games-industry news digest for 9 January 2025.

General3 stories

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.
Eurogamer
Business3 stories

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.
GamesIndustry.biz