#35 Weekly Gaming News Industry Trends Round Up

Crypto exchange OKX announces gaming launchpad. studio head responds to sacking of DrDisrespect. Telegram game NOT coin teases fresh start. Aethir and MetaGravity team up on hyperscale gaming and the 3D internet. Web3 games raised $160M between 2023 and 2024. Xbox partnering with Amazon to deliver Xbox Cloud Gaming. Steam launches new background gameplay recording. Twitch's revised mobile app is coming. Dungeon & Fighter Mobile earns $270M in first month of China release. Gaming competes with YouTube for Gen Alpha’s attention. Palworld dev have got away with their Pokémon with guns. Helldivers 2 loses 90% of its PC player base in just five months. Atari’s retro time capsule will add 39 new games in Expanded Edition. Hades 2 gets another monstrous patch update. Ubisoft confirms multiple Assassin's Creed games are getting remakes, while XDefiant reaches 11 million players. APG calls for gambling in games to be severely limited, including loot boxes. Cyberpunk 2077 sequel goes deep into narrative, calling out homelessness and the wealth gap. And World of Tanks Blitz turns 10 on mobile while hitting $1B in lifetime revenue. All this plus much more!

Also in our weekly round-up:

• Bloodloop Play to airdorp via Epic Games Store is underway

• Users can now purchase e.l.f. cosmetics products through Roblox

• £14bn has been spent on Steam games we've never played

• PUBG Global Open 2025 to take place in Uzbekistan

• Evo 2024 passes 10,000 unique competitors - the biggest tourney ever

• Star Citizen dev has to pay £27k to disabled worker

• Hades 2 gets another monstrous patch

• Chants of Sennaar takes top prize at Gamescom Latam

• BLAST and All England Lawn Tennis Club to run TopSpin 2K25 esports event

Gaming News 🕹️

• Hades 2 gets another monstrous patch as Supergiant turn their attention to the game's first major update

• New Sony patent hints at PS3 backwards compatibility on PS5

• The first Dead Rising is getting a Deluxe Remaster ahead of its 20th anniversary

• Lara Croft is the next survivor coming to Dead By Daylight

• Xbox "mobile style" dashboard may have been leaked by Top Gear

• Ubisoft's CEO confirms multiple Assassin's Creed games are getting remakes. while XDefiant reaches 11 million players

• Atari 50’s already generous retro time capsule will add 39 new games in Expanded Edition this October

• World of Tanks Blitz turns 10 on mobile and hits $1B in lifetime revenue

• Fortnite’s Metallica concert showed how sprawling the game has become

• Chants of Sennaar takes top prize at inaugural Gamescom Latam Awards

• £14bn has been spent on Steam games we've never played

• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 cancels public beta to prepare for the full launch

• Helldivers 2 loses 90% of its PC player base in just five months

• Tomb Raider's Lara Croft coming to Dead by Daylight.

• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree sells 5m units worldwide

• Dungeon & Fighter Mobile earns $270m in first month of China release

• Dune Imperium's digital version is getting its first expansion in July

• Team Fortress 2 players report that Valve have carried out a ban-wave against aimbots

• Frostpunk 2 is delayed until September in order to address players' beta feedback

• One Million Checkboxes the game has sparks a terrible online war

• Tribes 3: Rivals already in trouble as developers shift focus elsewhere

• Huge Palworld update adds Arena multiplayer, a new island, oil rigs and a new Pal from outer space

• Amazon Prime Gaming's July titles include Baldur's Gate 1 and Cat Quest 2

• Sam & Max return in The Devil's Playhouse Remastered this August.

• Final Fantasy 14 patch gears up for Dawntrail by polishing its graphics, hiding quest-giver crowds and making stealth quests less annoying.

• Beyond Good & Evil's new anniversary edition content demands BG&E2 is made.

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Trends 📈

• Xbox partnering with Amazon to deliver Xbox Cloud Gaming via Fire TV devices

• Users can now purchase e.l.f. cosmetics products through Roblox

• For optimism in games, look at Brazil | The DeanBeat.

  Character.AI lets users voice chat with AI characters.

• YouTube creators amplified GTA VI, Fallout and more.

• Gaming competes with YouTube for Gen Alpha’s attention

• New studio 2weeks to focus on prototyping and bite-sized games

• Northern Ireland APG calls for gambling in games to be severely limited including loot boxes

• CD Project devs want to "call out" big problems like homelessness and the wealth gap in Cyberpunk 2077 sequel.

• BLAST and All England Lawn Tennis Club to run TopSpin 2K25 esports event.

• Elden Ring is the limit for From Software project scale, says Miyazaki - multiple, smaller games may be the next stage

• Steam launches new background gameplay recording and sharing feature into beta

• Dragon Age developer discusses why big games take so long, and why they're announced so early

• Silent Hill creator doesn't mind if Slitterhead is his final game, because his last mission is to set up young developers' futures

• Concord will require you to have a PSN account on PC because cross play and progression are an important piece of the game

• Deus Ex's Randomizer mod now lets you pet the dogs and cats

Web3 Games 🎯

• Futureverse teams up with Animoca Brands on metaverse and blockchain tech

• Game7 launches LootDrop with up to 2M tokens in prize pool

• Web3 games raised $160M between 2023 and 2024 according to new report

• Crypto exchange OKX announces gaming launchpad

• Netmarble’s Marblex migrating to Ethereum L2 Immutable zkEVM with $20 million fund

• Aethir and MetaGravity team on decentralized hyperscale gaming and the 3D internet

• Telegram game Notcoin teases 'Fresh Start' as it gives out millions in NOT

• Crypto Unicorns goes live on Arbitrum L3 Xai

• What happens to 'Deadrop' and Midnight Society with Dr. Disrespect booted?

• What to expect from Xai as it aims to become Ethereum gaming's Valve

• Champions Tactics by Ubisoft is minting in-game NFTs from 15th July

• Illuvium revamps features ahead of its open beta launch on 25th July

• Avalanche shooter 'BloodLoop' launches play-to-airdrop via Epic Games Store

• Wild Forest introduces Forge function for burning beta NFTs

• Sequence integrates Transak’s on-ramp payment system

• Shardbound launching open beta via Epic Games Store on 27th June

• MetalCore’s next playtest kicked off 27th June

Industry News 🛡️

• Evo 2024 is the biggest video game tournament ever, as it passes 10,000 unique competitors

• Star Citizen developer ordered to pay £27k to disabled worker in return-to-office discrimination claim

• Ubisoft lays off 30+ Ubisoft Toronto devs to deliver on its ambitious roadmap

• Twitch's revised mobile app will arrive this summer

• Meta withdraws support for Meta Quest 1 headsets

• DrDisrespect, Midnight Society studio head respond to ousting

• k-ID raises $45M to make online games safer and more private for all.

• Gamescom Latam: "With no E3, we're the biggest games event in the Americas".

• With the death of Keystone, will Xbox give up its streaming console plans forever?

• How to watch Summer Games Done Quick 2024

• ‘Doom’ creator says AI can do a lot of things—except be original

• Nintendo aims to avoid scalping of Switch successor by meeting console demand

• Minimum Studios becomes Capcom subsidiary

• Mystic Forge the indie publisher raises €2m in funding

• Thunderful Group sells all distribution businesses to Bergsala NDP

• Report of mass layoffs at Gameloft Toronto

• Report of Layoffs at Chinese developer Perfect World

• Bethesda Montreal files for unionisation

• Infogrames buys Surgeon Simulator franchise from TinyBuild

• Scaffold accelerator for Alberta games startups receives $1.5m funding

• Second Wave studio Challengers Games shuts down

• Palworld devs heard “nothing at all” from Pokémon creators despite everyone calling it Pokémon with guns

• Esports World Cup secures Pepsi partnership

• Marketing agency Freaks 4U Gaming undergoes layoffs but is acquired for €30.3M by NODWIN Gaming

• DAZN partners with the Esports World Cup Foundation

Events 🗓️

• Develop:Brighton 2024 July 9 - July 11

• OWN Valencia BGA Gaming Festival July 5 - July 7

• BGA x Cryptosquare Connects - Brussels Edition July 9

• BitSummit Japan 2024 July 19 - July 21

• Philippine GameDev Expo 2024 July 26 - July 28

• SIGGRAPH 2024 July 28 - August 01

• BGA at Gamescom Cologne - Germany August 21 - August 21

• BGA at Token2049 Singapore September 18 -19

Esports Players & Teams News 🏆

• Esports events calendar 2024: Major leagues and tournaments

• TikTok named as official partner for the Esports World Cup

• G2 Esports adds malbsMd⁠ to CS2 roster

• All Dota 2 Riyadh Masters 2024 teams — Esports World Cup

• TenZ shares his biggest issues with VALORANT’s Evori Dreamwings bundle

• Why VALORANT’s hardest task is getting past agent select: ‘Let me play anything’

• Is 6v6 returning in Overwatch 2?

• PUBG Mobile Global Open 2025 is announced, to take place in Uzbekistan

• TSM completes All-Danish CS2 roster

• Sweeps propel Guerrillas, FaZe to winners final at CDL Stage 4 Major

• Warzone Esports World Cup 2024: Schedule, standings, results, and more

…Gaming News Continued 🕹️

• Playable Worlds unveils Raph Koster’s new sandbox MMO Stars Reach

• Bulletstorm VR gets major ‘fix’ update & Pico release this year

• Football Manager 25 to remove Inbox, ability to hammer “Demand More" whenever you're losing

• Tigertron’s VR game Starwave is coming to Meta Quest on September 5

• Saber Interactive announces Exploding Kittens VR for fall release

• A Way Out has sold 9 million units

• Don't Nod delays new IP Lost Records to avoid clash with Next Life Is Strange

• Broke Signal Badlands is a pocket Fallout RPG for weird western dice-addled mystics

• Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is getting a surprise remaster by Aspyr on all modern platforms, Boba Fett included

• The 90s version of the original Resident Evil is now easily grabbable on modern PCs, with 2 and 3 coming soon

• The Sims 4's Lovestruck expansion adds a dating app and outdoor woohoo

• Ghibli-style charmer Mika And The Witch's Mountain swoops into early access in August

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is an "evolution of JRPGs" set in 19th century France in which you fight a mad painter

• Pokémon disqualifies contest finalists following AI art row

• Forza Horizon 4 to be delisted on December 15

• Modders have unearthed a cut Witcher 3 scene that probably would have made you all hate Yennefer

• Hades 2 third patch will be its last before major update later this year

• Capcom's slapstick zombie mall adventure Dead Rising is being remastered.

• Sega's new Crazy Taxi game will be open-world and massively multiplayer

• FIFAe launches Football Manager FIFA

• Mortal Kombat 1 to receive Terminator and Conan the Barbarian DLC characters, dataminer suggests

• After Ubisoft shut down The Crew's servers, this group of modders began work to bring them back

• Theorycraft Games reveals Project Loki official name SUPERVIVE.

• Dragon's Dogma 2 has a free two hour trial for RPG fans who are tempted but not yet Arisen

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