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Korean game developer Shift Up held an IPO press conference today, revealing that its latest game, Stellar Blade, has sold over a million units since its late April launch. That's not very surprising, considering that the game topped the US sales charts that month.
The release of the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion inevitably caused a surge of Elden Ring on Steam charts. On Saturday, at 15:00 UTC, FromSoftware's latest Soulslike game registered 781K concurrent players, not too far from the all-time peak of 951K concurrent players registered when the game launched in February 2022.
During the latest Campfire Chat, Blizzard Entertainment unveiled the specifics of Diablo IV Season 5, which is slated to begin on August 6. It will be a shorter season than usual, running for only two months before the release of the Vessel of Hatred expansion (due on October 8).
It's been one year since Final Fantasy XVI launched on PlayStation 5. The most recent mainline installment in Square Enix's beloved franchise received positive reviews upon launch but didn't sell as much as the publisher wanted. That's one of the reasons that pushed Square Enix to switch to a full-on multiplatform strategy, as revealed last month with the new business plan.
We already knew that Avowed wouldn't be a Skyrim-like behemoth in size, but Game Director Carrie Patel from Obsidian clarified it's going to be fairly short in general for an RPG. Speaking to Game Informer, she said players can expect a similar length to the studio's previous game, the sci-fi The Outer Worlds.
A new report published by Rock, Paper, Shotgun reveals that the Embracer Group recently canceled a sequel to 2009's third-person shooter game Red Faction: Guerrilla.
This year's Xbox Game Showcase saw Microsoft delivering one of the best shows ever, thanks to the sheer breadth of triple-A games it presented across its various divisions (Xbox Game Studios, ZeniMax, and Activision Blizzard). Yesterday, Matt Booty (President of Xbox Game Content and Studios) was featured on the latest episode of the Strictly Business podcast hosted by Variety's Jennifer Maas and took the chance to claim that the studios are finally hitting the expected release rhythm. He also said Microsoft has a great lineup for both Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 and is poised to deliver another awesome showcase next year.
Today, Elden Ring gets its first and only expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree. As part of an interview with Rolling Stone, game director and FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki took the opportunity to discuss some other games he'd like to make in the future.