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Author: Okami, Chaoba
Executive Producer: Okami
North America
1. Epic Games, in partnership with NASA, will prepare game developers for a "Mars-based resources and experiences" content creation challenge to prepare for a trip to Mars
2. Bloomberg reports that Valve may face an antitrust lawsuit this week (about Steam's 30% share)
3. The CS:GO PGL Major Antwerp has officially begun, with 24 teams competing for $1 million in prize money
4. Activision Blizzard appoints culture leaders to create a "diverse, equitable and inclusive" workplace
5. Activision Blizzard introduced a diversity assessment tool that scores character diversity based on gender identity, ethnicity, and more
6. Activision Blizzard emailed employees before raven union voted: "Don't support unions"
7. Due to the lack of negotiations with FIFA, EA's FIFA series has been officially renamed EA SPORTS FC; EA has signed agreements with the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga and UEFA, and major clubs have also expressed support for EA
8. Foreign media GamesIndustry selected the best place to work in the game industry in the United States, and EA's three studios were selected
9. The first League of Legends Mobile Games Global Championship will be held in Singapore in June
10. 2K is shutting down the servers for WWE 2K20 and WWE 2K19
11. A new PV for Gotham Knight developed by Warner Bros. Games Montreal Studios has been announced and is expected to be released in October this year
12. After the 13th season of Apex Heroes' update this week, steam's online number peaked at 410,000 at one point, but it still lost to PUBG
13. The USC Games Expo is held this week, and "Social Moth" of which Haruki is the lead producer is also available on Steam
14. Reggie, the former president of Paradise USA, said it didn't make business sense to localize Mother 3
15. Naoki Yoshida was upset with Square Enix's U.S. marketing team due to revealing FF16 intelligence
16. AMD publishes information recruiting developers in Canada to help develop Xbox, PlayStation, and the latest RDNA architecture chips
Europe
1. Ubisoft reiterated that it would consider all takeover offers, but also claimed that "there is still capital to remain independent"
2. Ubisoft has stated that it plans to release three blockbusters this fiscal year (before April 2023), "Black Sails of the Blue Sea", "Avatar Pandora's Border" and "Mario + Crazy Rabbit, Wish of the Stars"
3. EA has merged two UK developers, Codemasters Cheshire (who had developed Dust 5) and Clarition Games, to create the future Need for Speed series
Finnish developer Remedy plans to release psycho killer 2, heron and spin-offs of Control, a co-op game from Tencent (codenamed Vanguard), and a remake of Max Payne 1 and 2 from 2023 to 2025
David Ward, co-founder of British developer Ocean Software, one of the largest game developers and publishers in Europe in the 80s and 90s, was inducted into the ELSPA Hall of Fame in 2004 for his contributions to the gaming industry
6. Italian publisher 505 Games will host the Spring Games Show on May 17
7. Resident Evil Re:Verse finished ratings at Google Stadia last weekend and may be released soon
8. In the UK Weekly List, NS Sport and LEGO Star Wars still rank in the top two in terms of declining sales; Horizon is third
According to research by trade agency TIGA, full-time employment in the UK gaming industry grew by 25% to more than 20,000 from April 2020 to December 2021, and the gaming industry contributed £2.9 billion to UK GDP annually as of December
10. The head of GI.Biz said that the PS5 surpassed the NS to become the first hardware sold in the UK in April
11. Game company THQ has seen a 24K gold-plated Wii console customised for the Queen of England on the auction market
Asia
1. Sony announced the April 2022 PS Store download ranking in North America, Japan, where the first download of the PS5 platform in Japan is "Eldon's Law Ring" from FromSoftware, and the PS4 platform is Konami's "eBASEBALL Live Power Baseball 2022"
2. Sony said it will invest $30 billion in first-party studios to drive multi-platform game releases
3. Sony announced its financial report, of which the total sales of PS5 reached 19.3 million units, digital software sales accounted for 71% of the total software sales, PS+ membership subscribers were 47.4 million, and monthly active users were 10.6 million
4. PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan allegedly complained about abortion rights
5. Capcom announced that Ryozo Tsujimoto, the producer of the Monster Hunter series, will be the new board candidate, and the appointment will be formally approved after approval at the 43rd General Meeting of Shareholders on June 23 this year
6. Capcom announced its fiscal 2021 financial results, sales and profits set a new record for the fifth consecutive year, and it expects sales and revenue to grow again in this fiscal year
Capcom plans to release "a number of major new titles" from April 2022 to March 2023, with currently confirmed editions including capcom battle fighting collections, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of Resident Evil 2, 3 and 7
8. Nintendo announced its financial report, in which console sales, although down year-on-year, are still the second-highest sales volume since its inception
9. The best-selling Switch game in Nintendo is Pokémon Crystal Diamond/Brilliant Pearl, with 39 Switch games selling more than 1 million copies, and the new Star Kirby has sold 2.65 million copies in two weeks
10. Nintendo held the Nintendo Indie World Indie Game Launch, announcing 7 new indie games
11. Nintendo says the transition from Switch to the next piece of hardware will be important to the company
12. Bandai Namco announced its financial report, and its operating profit increased by 48.2% year-on-year, which was eye-catching
13. "Eldon's Ring of Law" far exceeded expectations, with global sales exceeding 13.4 million as of March 31; Bandai Namco also said that in terms of IP, the highest sales IP in the world is still "Dragon Ball"
14. Bandai Namco has announced that tales of Luminaria, a series of RPG mobile games, will shut down servers on July 19, less than a year after its launch
15. Nexon's news of nexon's founder's widow taking over as CEO was reported in the media last week, and Nexon this week said that the news was false, and Owen Mahoney is still nexon's CEO and president
16. Square Enix reported that Final Fantasy 14 performed well, with its profits up 90% and saying it wanted to build and acquire new studios
17. Square Enix says final fantasy 35th anniversary announcements are coming soon
18. Sega reported that revenue and profit had increased from the previous year, and said that it would push 13 new works in fiscal 2023, including multiple remakes and replicas
19. Konami reported a record profit (up 103.6% year-on-year) and its multi-platform game Game King Master Duel had received more than 30 million downloads as of April
20. Krafton reported its first quarter earnings report, and PUBG was profitable after becoming free on PCs and consoles. Sales on PCs increased 61% year-over-year and consoles increased 124% over the previous quarter
21. Riot Company sued Byte's "MobileLegends: BangBang", which had previously been sued for listing in North American stores. Many people have also speculated that the dispute is related to the two companies belonging to Tencent and byte camps
22. Atlus survey asks players if they intend to play Persona on Xbox
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