Friday, 8 May 2026
Game News Round-Up
Daily curated games-industry news digest for 8 May 2026.
General2 stories
Business8 stories
Eve Online studio CCP Games is rebranding following its split from Crimson Desert’s Pearl Abyss. CCP Games is now "Fenris Creations"
Capcom: Sales of All-New IP PRAGMATA Top Two Million Units in 16 Days
2K has laid off staff at 31st Union, the studio working on free-to-play shooter Project Ethos. Studio head has "never been more confident in the future of our game" but needed to "scale back our team to better align with where we are in development". Unknown amount of people affected.
Unity Q1 results
- Revenue: $508 million (up 17% year-on-year)
- Create Solutions revenue: $157 million (up 4% year-on-year)
- Grow Solutions revenue: $352 million (up 23% year-on-year)
- Net loss: $347 million (with a margin of 68%)
Sony Records New $560 Million Loss On Bungie Acquisition As Marathon Struggles And Destiny 2 Nosedives
Nintendo Switch 2 has sold 19.86 million units as of Q1 2026
- Software sales
- Mario Kart World - 14.7M
- Pokemon Legends ZA - 12.8M (S1+S2)
- DK Bananza - 4.52M
- Pokopia - above 4M in 6 weeks
- FireRed/LeafGreen - above 4M in 5 weeks
- Tomodachi Life - 3.8M in 2 weeks