#52 Weekly Gaming News Industry Trends Round Up

Axie Infinity’s evolution event The Wings of Nightmare starts on 21st November. Illuvium Beyond Wave 3 is also set to launch on the same day. Sui boosts support for developers by integrating Switchboard On-Demand. Telegram and L2/L3s are the big trends identified in the Web3 Gaming report. McDonald’s confirms partnership with Doodles for a holiday campaign. Fortnite's new TMNT roguelike shows the potential for user-made games. Game awards confirm Elden Ring DLC is GOTY eligible just days before nominations drop. Ubisoft clarifies rumors about Animus Hub, the new name of Assassin's Creed Infinity. Starbreeze to invest 'significantly less' in Payday 3's second year of content. Apex Legends is considering a Fortnite-like monthly subscription service. A senator questions Valve's commitment to wiping out disturbing and violent extremism on Steam. And Phil Spencer would rather revisit owned IPs than rely on more licensed games. All this and much more!

Also in our weekly round-up:

• We have what you need to know about The Game Awards 2024

• Classic shooter Unreal and now free and preserved on the Internet Archive

• Twitch streamers see ad revenue plummet amid platform struggles

• Ultimate handbook for designing game economies used to generate $150M games

Gaming News 🕹️

• Final Fantasy games are coming to Apple Arcade

• Blizzard working on open-world shooter and it might be Starcraft-related

• Fortnite's new TMNT roguelike shows the potential for user-made games

• Valve reveals early gameplay of canceled Half-Life 2 Episode 3 and why it never got finished

• Rainbow Six Siege finally gets full crossplay with Year 9 Season 4 — and Ubisoft has a plan to protect console players from PC cheaters

• Apex Legends considering Fortnite-like monthly subscription service

• Ubisoft clarifies rumors about Animus Hub, the new name of Assassin's Creed Infinity

• CoD: Black Ops 6 and Warzone patch notes detail several fixes, return of Nuketown 24/7

• Game awards confirms Elden Ring DLC is GOTY eligible just days before nominations drop

• Here's what you need to know about The Game Awards 2024

• Tomb Raider IV-V-VI remastered details photo mode

• Pokémon TCG pocket will let you trade cards starting early next year

• Half-Life 2 reaches new record at over 60,000 concurrent players

• Avowed PC specs revealed ahead of February release

• Ratatan to be published by Game Source Entertainment, WePlay Expo 2024 trailer

• Tetris forever is an incomplete tribute to the best game of all time

• Actor resume reveals 'Back 4 Blood 2' is in development

• Starbreeze to invest 'significantly less' in Payday 3's second year of content

• The biggest video game releases of December 2024

• Project Dragon Season 2 returns, introducing key updates

Web3 Games 🎯

• Telegram and L2/L3s are the big trends from Game7’s State of Web3 Gaming report

• Rumored OpenSea airdrop drives trading in Gemesis NFTs

• Fableborne jumps from Avalanche to Ethereum Gaming Network Ronin—here’s why

• Telegram game 'Major' reveals token launch date amid airdrop push

• McDonald’s confirms partnership with Doodles for holiday campaign

• Sui boosts support for developers by integrating Switchboard On-Demand

• Metacade launches Gangs of Metacadia on Base

• Axie Infinity’s evolution event The Wings of Nightmare starting 21st November

• Moonray integrates with Base ahead of free NFT mint and MNRY token launch

• Floki’s MMORPG Valhalla partners with Kick F1 Sim Racing Team

• LAOS Network taps Sequence for web3 gaming scaling solution

• Immutable and Sequence combine to streamline web3 game devs’ processes

• Off The Grid kicks off daily $3,000 Clash for Cash tournament

• Illuvium Beyond Wave 3 set to launch on November 21

• Parallel TCG reveals 90 new cards with Aftermath expansion

Trends 📈

• GOG's new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable 'forever'

• Monster Hunter is getting an open-world RPG spinoff for mobile

• SAG-AFTRA's newest agreement secures protections for video game dub actors

• Classic shooters Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free and preserved on the Internet Archive

• I designed economies for $150M games—here's my ultimate handbook

• Roblox adds more parental overwatch controls to its revamped child safety procedures

• Phil Spencer would rather revisit owned IPs than rely on more licensed games

• Twitch streamers see ad revenue plummet amid platform struggles

• The blockbuster games bubble has burst

Industry News 🛡️

• Senator questions Valve's commitment to wiping out disturbing and violent extremism on Steam

• Unity CEO addresses decision to cancel controversial runtime fee

• Xbox continues its push beyond consoles with new ad campaign

• Workers at Bethesda parent company strike over remote work policies

• Thunderful hit by yet more layoffs as studio refocuses on publishing

• This year's Game Awards will accept DLC, new game seasons, expansions

• Embracer Group sales fall by 20% as company sells Casual Giant Easybrain for $1.2b

• Former Gearbox Software, Bethesda Softworks, and Epic Games veterans establish Ruckus Games to develop suburban invasion multiplayer game

• GREE establishes GREE Studios to manage consumer games business; live service games business absorbed by WFS

• UK video game expo WASD is dead as organiser enters liquidation

• Bit Odd raises €17m in funding round led by investors

• Ruckus Games raises $19m in funding round led by Krafton

Level Up Your Hardware 🎧

• Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo console market isn't growing," Phil Spencer says

• Evercade Alpha Bartop Arcade review - the best and most versatile home arcade machine

• Xbox update brings back friend requests and revamps search on console

• Xbox handheld: what I want to see from Microsoft's portable console

• Sony reportedly discounting PlayStation 5 Slim by "at least €75 in Europe" ahead of Christmas

Esports Players & Teams News 🏆

• Shopify Rebellion wins Game Changers Championship without dropping a map

• BLAST R6 Major Montreal win secured by w7m in effortless grand final

• Popular streamer Caedrel launches esports team

• VCT Game Changers Championship 2024 becomes second most popular women’s esports event

• T1's legendary ZOFGK roster has broken up, Zeus leaves and Doran joins T1

• Perfect World (pw) Shanghai Major 2024: release date, teams, and format

• OverActive Media and Riot Games eliminate $2m in LEC franchise fees

• Legendary ZOFGK roster breaks up as T1 welcomes new LoL top laner

• The Mastercard Gamer Academy returns for 2025

• Rainbow Six reveals revamped esports revenue programme and selected teams

• NAVI made it to Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024

• Fortnite Champion Series new format complete details

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