It has been an insane month for gaming news and the GK team with guest @thatguywithagameboycamera joins in to talk about all the exciting announcements! All articles are below!
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Gaming News
Video game spending reaches record high during pandemic https://www.techspot.com/news/85255-us-consumers-set-new-record-video-game-spending.html
Phil Spencer says the industry will start to see the impacts of coronavirus in early 2021, as some crucial aspects of video game production have ‘basically stopped’ https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/video-game-delays-due-to-coronavirus-early-2021-2020-5-1029183430?utm_source=reddit.com
Unreal Engine 5
- Reveal: https://www.engadget.com/epic-games-unreal-engine-5-demo-150044561.html
- Unreal Engine 5 PS5 demo was just 1440p, 30 FPS, and lacked ray-tracing: https://developer-tech.com/news/2020/may/14/unreal-engine-5-demo-ps5-ray-tracing/
- Reported: Unreal to work on Mobile: https://cogconnected.com/2020/05/unreal-engine-5-supports-mobile/
- Epic Games once ported Gears 3 to PS3 to test Unreal Engine (FOOTAGE) https://www.polygon.com/2020/5/20/21264896/epic-gears-of-war-3-test-footage-ps3
- Xbox’s InXile has confirmed it will use Unreal Engine 5 for its Series X RPG https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xboxs-inxile-has-confirmed-it-will-use-unreal-engine-5-for-its-series-x-rpg/
- Unreal Engine 5 PS5 demo runs happily on current-gen graphics cards and SSDs https://www.pcgamer.com/unreal-engine-5-tech-demo-pc-performance/
PS5
- Sony CEO Promises Compelling Lineup of Games: https://www.essentiallysports.com/sony-ceo-promises-compelling-lineup-of-ps5-games-esports-news-playstation-exclusive-2020/
- “Evolution of Game Sound”: https://www.techradar.com/news/ps5-will-be-an-evolution-for-gaming-sound-says-sony
- PS5 100 times faster than PS4: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/ps5-will-be-100-times-faster-than-ps4-heres-how
- PS5 Price to be revealed in a few months: www.techradar.com/news/ps5-price-could-still-be-months-away-as-sony-turns-focus-to-its-games
- Press DualSense Controller: https://blog.us.playstation.com/2020/04/07/introducing-dualsense-the-new-wireless-game-controller-for-playstation-5/
- Devs are ecstatic DualSense, ‘SSD are going to be massive’: https://www.psu.com/news/the-persistence-dev-excited-by-ps5-dualsense-says-ssds-are-going-to-be-massive/
Microsoft Xbox
- Data Leak: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/xbox-microsoft-console-data-leak/
- Xbox Series X Games in The Works at Over 140 Publishers and Individual Studios: https://dintol.com/xbox-series-x-over-140-publishers-and-individual-studios-games-developers/
- Rumor: XBox Series X have started production https://gamerant.com/xbox-series-x-production/
CD Projekt Red
CD Projekt Red Overtakes Ubisoft to Become Europe’s Largest Publisher (Stocks,not counting microtransactions) https://www.hardwaretimes.com/cd-project-red-overtakes-ubisoft-to-become-europes-largest-game-publisher/
UbiSoft
- Rumour: Ubisoft register Prince of Persia 6 domainhttps://www.altchar.com/game-news/rumour-ubisoft-register-prince-of-persia-6-domain-aCjoi2M4X0EO
- Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla Reveal: https://youtu.be/WgUtoX7ue7Q
- Ubisoft Confirms Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Running at 4K@30 on Xbox Series X https://wccftech.com/ubisoft-confirms-assassins-creed-valhalla-running-at-4k30-on-xbox-series-x/
Sega
Sonic games now have longer development schedules for higher quality games https://nintendowire.com/news/2020/05/22/sonic-games-now-have-longer-development-schedules-for-higher-quality-games/
Persona 5 Royal Achieves Record Sales in U.S., Europe https://gamerant.com/persona-5-royal-record-sales-west/
Take-Two/RockStar
Take-Two has 93 games planned for the next five years, but no news on GTA https://www.pcgamer.com/take-two-has-93-games-planned-for-the-next-five-years-but-no-news-on-gta/
Red Dead Redemption 2 Has Shipped 31 Million Units; Grand Theft Auto V at 130 Million https://twinfinite.net/2020/05/red-dead-redemption-2-gta5-shipments/
Sea of Thieves
Release date for Steam revealed June 3rd full Cross Play Support https://twitter.com/SeaOfThieves/status/1263484699860582400?s=19
Remakes/Remasters/Reboots/Sequels
- Alan Wake Comes To Game Pass And New PC Version for 10th anniversary of the cult game https://www.relyonhorror.com/latest-news/alan-wake-comes-to-game-pass-and-new-pc-version/
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 Won’t Have Microtransactions At Launch https://www.ign.com/articles/tony-hawks-pro-skater-1-and-2-microtransactions
- Silent Hill Reboot Leaks: https://www.inverse.com/gaming/silent-hill-ps5-leaks-reboot-kojima
- Lord of the Rings: Gollum Reveal: https://www.altchar.com/game-news/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-gets-first-screenshots-a745O4v6rKQ8
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Start of New Franchise, EA Confirms https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-sequel-franchise
- Harvest Moon: One World Reveal a la Twitter: https://twitter.com/Natsume_Inc/status/1260193279922053122?s=19
- Skybound has revealed there will be no more Walking Dead episodes via Twitter
- Saints Row 5 is delayed: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/saints-row-5-release-date-delayed/
Nintendo
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons Has Already Met Lifetime Sales Prediction Says Nintendo https://www.siliconera.com/animal-crossing-new-horizons-has-already-met-lifetime-sales-prediction/
- Nintendo Reports Strong Earnings Despite COVID-19; Animal Crossing Sales Exceed 13 Million http://www.retbit.com/2020/05/07/nintendo-reports-strong-earnings-despite-covid-19-animal-crossing-sold-11-77-million-units-in-only-11-days/
- Super Mario 64 Full Functioning PC Port has been released https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-full-mario-64-pc-port-has-been-released/
- Annnnnnd Nintendo takes action against Mario 64 PC port https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-takes-action-against-mario-64-pc-port/
- Paper Mario The Origami King Press release (July 17th) https://kotaku.com/nintendo-reveals-paper-mario-the-origami-king-coming-1843457822
- Paper Mario – Discussion on what happened with the series: https://hardcoregamer.com/2020/05/24/can-paper-mario-the-origami-king-pull-the-series-out-of-the-shredder/378685/
- Paper Mario – Exclusives GameStop: https://mynintendonews.com/2020/05/24/us-pre-order-paper-mario-the-origami-king-at-gamestop-get-a-free-pin-set/