Gaming industry in June

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Article of the Month

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Video of the Month

Coming out at the end of August, Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon is an upcoming From Software’s fast-paced action game that will come out more than thirteen years after its predecessor.

TOP Five June News

• Bethesda’s Indiana Jones will?feature ?both first-person and third-person mode. According to an XboxEra’s leak, there will be some specific sections for former and some for latter. “I will just say it's a mash-up. It's unique. It isn't one thing, intentionally, so it does a lot of different things that the folks at Machine Games and I have wanted to do in a game. So it's a unique thing,” said Todd Howard, Bethesda’s Executive producer, hinting that the rumour might actually be true. The game is tentatively scheduled for 2024, so there is still a lot of time for further development and decisions.
• Sony has revealed the overall?budget ?for The Last of Us Part II and Horizon Forbidden West. Both of them cost more than $200 million dollars to develop, even surpassing much of the movie industry. Both games sold 10+ million copies, so it was well worth it for Sony. The Japanese giant moreover is not secretive about the future of both games, as The Last of Us is getting its own multiplayer experience, while Horizon is getting a third game and an MMO in the near future.
• Payday 3 will run on Unreal Engine 4 when it?releases , confirmed Starbreeze, the game’s developer. However, as they announced, the game will be updated for Unreal Engine 5 “some time” in the future, enhancing the graphics of the game as well as bringing new visual effects. The long-awaited sequel to 2013’s Payday 2 will be releases this year on September 21 on PC and all current-gen consoles.
• Microsoft will no longer develop games for?Xbox One . “We’ve moved on to Gen 9,” said Xbox’s chief Matt Booty, referring to the newest generation – Xbox Series S|X. The American software giant will still support the previous games like Minecraft thought, but no internal studio is working on a new game for the system that was released in 2023. Sony is doing the same, at least with its blockbuster games like God of War or Horizon. The last entry to the big PlayStation franchises that released on PS4 was God of War Ragnarok, which released last year in November.
• The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol.1 will?release ?on October 24, 2023, Konami announced. The collection will feature MGS 1, MGS 2: Sons Liberty and MGS 3: Snake Eater. At first, it was unveiled at the latest PlayStation Showcase in late May, with Konami originally saying that the bundle is only coming to PC and the current-gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft. However, as it was announced in June, it will also come out for Nintendo Switch as well.

Statistics of the Month

Number of major upcoming?video game releases ?from late 2022 through 2024, by platform

Chart of the Month

Number of players who?spend money ?of videogames in the first half of 2023

Quote of the Month

"Final Fantasy XVI is truly inspired by Game of Thrones: medieval politics, brutal violence, and a terrible ending.”?????????????????????

Jason Schreier ?on the newest entry to the Final Fantasy franchise.

Number of the Month

3 million copies of?Final Fantasy XVI ?has been sold after just three days of its release.

Photo of the Month

Released on October 24, 2005,?Vietcong 2 ?was developed by Pterodon and Illusion Softworks and published by 2K Games for Microsoft Windows. It is set during the Vietnam War and is a direct sequel to the first Vietcong game that was released two years prior. The story itself takes place during the Tet Offensive in Hue and the player assumes the role of an MACV soldier Daniel Boone fighting under the American flag.

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What’s Going on in Fanatic Games

Like everyone else, we at Fanatic Games use the summer months to rest and re-energize for the rest of the year. During June, we worked on a large number of props and character assets. We are currently working on both realistic and stylized assets. If there is anything we can help you with, please do not hesitate to contact us?and we will be happy to discuss everything with you.

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