Medieval strategy title Manor Lords sold over 1 million copies within 24 hours of making its Steam Early Access debut. The title landed on Steam on April 26, 2024, and surpassed that milestone the very next day.Publisher Hooded Horse explained Manor Lords topped 170,000 concurrent players on Steam over the weekend, with SteamDB estimating it delivered a peak of 173,178 concurrent players.Manor Lords is strategy smorgasbord that features in-depth city building, economic and social simulations, and large-scale battles.Hooded Horse claims the game has become the most wishlisted project on Steam with over 3.2 million player wishlists, but recently told many of those eager players to consider waiting for the full release before diving in."Please, don't feel any pressure to buy the gam…
Amazon has already branded its Fallout show a "hit" and commissioned a second series, but now we know what that means in more tangible terms.As reported by Variety, the live-action Amazon Prime Video adaptation pulled in 65 million viewers in 16 days to become the second most-watched title ever on the streaming platform.That milestone also means it has become the most-watched release since The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power debuted in 2022.Amazon noted Fallout is now the most-watched show within the 18-34 age demographic and explained 60 percent of viewers live outside the United States. Specifically, the company said demand for the show in the UK, France, and Brazil was particularly strong.Given Amazon hasn't discussed how it sizes up audiences, it's unclear if …
Update (05/02/24): Bloomberg is reporting that Take-Two intends to shut down Intercept Games.Although Take-Two wouldn't disclose how the studio has been impacted by the 70 layoffs in Seattle, where Intercept is located, documentation reviewed by Bloomberg indicates the studio will be shuttered.Take-Two had already told Game Developer it will continue to make updates to Kerbal Space Program 2.Original story: Take-Two is laying off 70 people in Seattle as part of an ongoing cost-reduction program.The publisher is currently attempting to reduce its headcount by 5 percent to enhance its "margin profile while still investing for growth." It announced those layoffs just weeks after spending $460 million acquiring Gearbox from Embracer.A WARN notice filed in Washington shows the co…
Per a recent Insider Gaming report, Ready or Not developer Void Interactive was hacked, and the source code for its shooter was stolen in the attack.An alleged 4TB worth of data was stolen, comprising of over 2.1 million files. While it's still investigating, Void stressed no "user or staff-related information" has been leaked.Also stolen were supposed console builds for PlayStation 4 and 5 and Xbox One and Series X|S. Insider Gaming claims the stolen information pertained to the game itself, and its assets and proprietary code are currently intact.Ready or Not had its full 1.0 release on Steam last year after an Early Access launch in 2021. Speaking to Kotaku, a Void representative blamed the hack on "critical vulnerabilities" from the TeamCity cloud service it us…
Starting today, LinkedIn users can play a trio of games created by its News team, via computer or mobile app.Per VP Dan Roth, the "thinking-oriented games" were made to offer users a break and connect them to other players. Beyond fostering new connections (that could lead to jobs), Roth hopes the games spark a "healthy bit of competition" in the community.LinkedIn joins the New York Times and Spotify in non-traditional platforms launching browser and app-based games for mass appeal. Its games can only be played once per day, and players can see who among their connections is also playing.The three games—Queens, Pinpoint, and Crossclimb—will have their stats revealed in a weekly newsletter. Each game is a LinkedIn take on a well-known casual game: Pinpoint is a word…
Game publisher Modern Wolf has cut six jobs, according to those at the company.These reductions seem to have primarily affected the marketing and community departments, along with the production and art. Per ex-brand head George Willard, the cuts were made as part of a larger "company restructuring" at Modern Wolf."Whilst we've known about this potential outcome for a short while, the news still feels like a gut punch," he wrote. "It's been a great joy being able to help bring your games to market and as many players as possible."In Willard's post (and others), he specifically names his fellow affected coworkers, along with a short blurb advocating for why they should be hired. As for himself, he and Modern Wolf's senior comms manager Sophi…
Marvel: Contest of Champions is turning 10 this year, and to celebrate, it's going to other, more "alternative" app stores.Developer Kabam is teaming with distributor Flexion Games to put the mobile fighting game on the Amazon App Store, ONEstore Korea, and others on April 29. Later this year, it'll launch on Samsung Gaming Hub, OneStore Global, and DT Games Hub.Since launch, Contest has been only on iOS and Android, so more app stores means the game's reach can further expand.
New audiences for Marvel: Contest of Champions
"This collaboration will help us reach new audiences…on even more app stores," said Kabam CEO SeungWon Lee. &…
El Paso, Elsewhere from developer Strange Scaffold and Xalavier Nelson Jr. is making the slow-motion jump to film.Per Deadline, Atlanta actor LaKeither Stanfield has been tapped to star in and produce the adaptation. Filmmakers Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Colin Stark are also producing the movie, the former, through his Di Bonaventura Pictures banner.The third-person shooter released last year as a love letter to PlayStation 2 action games of old, namely the Max Payne series. Stanfield will play James Savage, a detective tasked with stopping his vampire ex Janet from destroying the world.At the time of its release, El Paso, Elsewhere garnered solid reviews and was nominated for Best Indie Game at the DICE and New York Game Awards.On Twitter, Nelson Jr. confirmed the news by stating, in all …
The Apple Arcade will live for as long as Apple wants…which is hopefully a long time.Talking to The Guardian, senior director Alex Rofman said there's no plans to gut the platform. Back in February, a MobileGamer report claimed developers were frustrated with the company's lack of transparency, and believed the Arcade was on its way out.Rofman pushed back against those claims, saying games "are more important to Apple now than [ever]. Arcade is an outlet for indie studios with creative, innovative ideas. That is still important to us and always will be."Regarding those alleging smaller payouts, Rofman acknowledged bonuses depend on a game's player count. Bluntly, he said "not every game in a catalogue of more than 200 titles [will] grow its player base month…
The numbers for the Fallout franchise keep going up after the recent launch of Prime Video's show. Yesterday (April 23), Bethesda revealed that Fallout 76 hit 1 million players in a single day.The milestone covers the shared world shooter's player base across PC, Xbox (both One and Series X|S), and PlayStation 4 and 5, illuminating just how much the game's numbers have grown in light of the show's success.In the last several days, Fallout 76 has repeatedly topped its Steam player count and has a new peak at 73,368 players at the time of writing.Additionally, the greater Fallout franchise reached nearly 5 million players that same day (although it probably helps that right now, most entries in the series are currently on sale).A specific game wasn't highlighted as a…