Game News Round-Up

Marvel Rivals rolls back controversial mid-season rank reset hours after announcement

• Last night, it was announced in 10 days that players would have a rank reset part-way through the current season of Marvel Rivals.
• After extremely negative feedback, Netease has rolled back the decision mere hours after the announcement.
• Instead of a rank reset, players will have to to play 10 matches to redeem the rewards for their rank following the mid-season update.

Valve reminds devs they can't use mobile-like in-game paid advertising on Steam

• Developers cannot use paid advertising as a business model for their game, such as requiring players to engage with ads before playing, or locking gameplay behind ads

Ghost-hunting sim Phasmophobia hits 2m console sales, and 22m sales overall

Square Enix financial earnings for the nine months ending December 31, 2024

• Net sales: ¥248.5 billion ($1.6 billion, down 3.5% year-on-year)
• Profit: ¥24.7 billion ($161.9 million, down 7.7% year-on-year)
• Digital entertainment net sales: ¥160.3 billion ($1.05 billion, down 10.7% year-on-year)