I'm not going to lie, I was kinda tempted on call off the holiday break until next week and have the next week's #gaming podcast episode about the Insomniac Games/Playstation leaks, but I decided I am gonna pass, so much data already available & I honestly cannot add much else.
Unfortunately for Sony, Rhysida hacker group went on their deadline after only 2% of the stolen data on their hack to #Playstation Studios' Insomniac Games was actually sold and the remaining 98% was released on the Dark Web.
The loot is actually more than 1.3 million files totaling 1.67 terabytes and includes much more than anticipated than a swift hacking usually manages to copy.
As expected in this kind of big stole, future games, and internal HR documents, budgets, more are in the public yes and as well Insomniac’s future projects, including the upcoming Marvel Wolverine game, a publishing agreement with Marvel that promises future games.
Of course, the "promised games" is on the stipulation that Sony and Playstation needs to comply with goals set by both Disney and Marvel and maybe isn't just that Sony has strategically held the movies and videogames rights for Spider-man.
Along with Wolverine, seems that Sony is ready to answer EA's take on Marvel Iron Man and now Bethesda/Xbox Game Studios's take on Marvel Blade as Insomniac landed a exclusive X-Men game, pending to be announced.
As for more Marvel games, the Venom game is slated for a 2025 release, followed by a 2026 release of Wolverine and early estimate for X-Men is at 2030, which probably might see Iron Man and Blade being in this 7 years interval.
Other documents reveals that Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was not a total financial success despite being the flagship game for the launch of PS5 with a miss of 10% below Return Of Investment or in plain language, the game was not profitable at least in normal sales channel.
A follow-up Ratchet & Clank main game is currently in development with a target release year of 2029.
Finally and honestly I wasn't expecting anything centralized on the Playstation business and much-less being housed on one of Playstation Studios's servers but, here is the bad luck for Sony.
Apparently, Insomniac Games had probably copies of documents that appears to be for Sony Interactive Entertainment to actually hold and there was a report on Steam sales of Playstation games brought to PC.
Numbers includes:
-Horizon Zero Dawn - 3.3 million units
-God of War 2018 - 2.5 million units
- Days Gone - 1.7 million units
-Marvel Spider-Man Remastered 1.3 million units
-Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves 483k units
-Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales 450k units
-Sackboy A big adventure - 62.9k units
Surprisingly, there are documents related to the Activision Blizzard acquisition by Microsoft and as excepted, concentrate on the Call Of Duty side of thing including the fear that Microsoft could find ways to differentiate Xbox and Playstation versions of COD.
Game Pass subscription and the public perception that Xbox has indeed "lost the console war" as a way to transform the gaming business in one that could have Playstation left behind because their premium sale model and pro hardware model as subs are more feasible for gamers
The insistence that the Playstation model is outdated is because Sony feels that Activision Blizzard gives Microsoft strategic value in live service, mobile and PC Storefront and Microsoft can supply, console, PC and subscription services.
Reminder, currently the main tasks that Activision Blizzard is working along side Xbox is the new Mobile game app store, reportedly being made from the best of Battle Net & Microsoft Store with King leading the project, which Microsoft has said was the main reason to buy ABK.
And with this recap....
BE CAREFUL, Wolverine's leaks apparently are in the wild and there is a PROBABILITY of seeing videos of an early version BOOTABLE of the game as well pics and assets for the game.
I am not spoiling anything after this post.
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Good morning muñaños gamers.
Today I got another content off the #Tekken8 demo for today & will edit tomorrow's #gaming podcast.
BTW, after tomorrow, the Podcast will go on holiday break, probably resuming mid-January as I need to structure a few things & avoid rushed resume.
🎮📼And to jumpstart the week, here is my first of many to come #Tekken8 content, first with Arcade Quest | First dive at TEKKEN 8 (DEMO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3feRbBcCmA&ab_channel=GeeZusGaming%26Podcast
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In a sad start of the week, it was confirmed that actor James McCaffrey has passed away.
He is known as Max Payne in all the trilogy, Alex Casey on Alan Wake 2, Jimmy Keefe on TV Series Rescue Me & Arthur O'Breun in New York Undercover.
RIP Mr. McCaffrey!
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And a special NO-THANKS to LUMA Energy to be so inefficient handling outage from Genera PR (aslo NO THANKS too) that the outage impact was so bad, that my solar system protected himself and did not let the Tesla Battery backup go online.
All this while recoding content no less.
OK, preliminary edit have this week #gaming podcast episode clocking at 30+ minutes and yes, it is about the current legal saga that Epic Games brought themselves against Apple & Google.
I hope they ban me for my opinion about the martyr vibe bs because will confirm my opinion.
Another for the "I am going to be that guy" - #Gaming edition....
If you are mad that Bethesda/Xbox exclusivity of Marvel's Blade, well, be also mad that Sony has a exclusive Wolverine game besides Spider-Man and we are still yet to see EA's plans on his take on Iron Man.
In the "I am going to be that guy" - #gaming edition:
This is bullshit coming from ANOTHER evil company that wants you believe they are martyrs when going after own kind (Apple, Google).
I will keep scoring free games just make dent on their revenue.
Google extended the deadline for the Bluetooth web toolkit to allow the #Stadia controller to be used freely until the end of 2024, originally was ending on 2023.
With no reason given, I'll speculate that there are still many controllers yet to be processed.
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Thank you very much!
BTW, removed all those #Nostr relays on Snort and will do the same on Amethyst today.
In a follow-up on his #MortalKombat1 post-launch promises, NetherRealm Studios confirmed that Cross-play capacity is coming in a February update which means players of PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC will be able to fight each other online.
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More like Jim Ryan wanted to focus so hard on GaaS that let Playstation Studios go maverick in the wrong.
I get TLOU fans are going to blame/hate Bungie on this, but objectively, Bungie just did it's job on what it was tasked (assess the status of Playstation current GaaS developments).
After #TheLastOfUs Multiplayer failed an assessment that Playstation tasked Bungie to run and scaling back development, Naughty Dog announced the cancellation of the project citing limited resources for post-launch content without affecting other projects.
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Despite all ends on March 2024, Riot Games confirmed TODAY that Amazon did not renewed Prime Gaming drops deal which see free DLCs for games like League Of Legends and Valorant and felt it was needed to be public about it now.
Drops will continue until then.
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🎮📼This week in #gaming is actually a compensation for missing out last week, and we're looking at everything that was newsworthy for Fortnite, GTA VI and some thoughts on The Game Awards 2023 results.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daFsDvD6bKM
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Gotcha!
And I fear that this is already a weak point for the Nostr case, I hope that I am wrong.
Sony confirmed reports about Insomniac Games server being hacked by a group called Rhysida, which they claim to have stolen employees and current projects data, including the in-development Marvel's #Wolverine original video game.
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