Anyone have a surplus of a trillion?
An amazing huge deal: Take 2 - a publisher of brands such as GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Mafia and 2K sports games, will acquire the mobile gaming powerhouse Zynga, which is responsible for hits like Farmville for its pledges, along with poker titles and various races.
The deal is estimated at $ 12.7 billion - the highest amount ever paid for the acquisition of a gaming company.
While Zynga will continue to develop products under its own brand name, the goal of Take 2 is, of course, to expand its mobile titles offering and become a leader in this lucrative field.
In other words, will GTA and NBA2K win mobile versions in the coming years?
Did not gamble against this assessment.
There is no exhibition this year either
Not that we're surprised, but E3 will also be held this year in a completely digital format.
The organizers of the largest and most prestigious gaming exhibition in the world have announced that the physical event that was expected to take place in June in Los Angeles has been canceled due to the limitations of the omicron, and it seems that we will simply have to deal with the new reality.
But speaking of shows and announcements, we'll note that Sony is expected to host a major online event next month, where it will stage its new virtual reality system, the PSVR2, alongside updates on exclusive games like Horizon: Forbidden West (which even gets a VR spinoff called Call of the Mountain), Gran Turismo 7, God of War: Ragnarok And if we become good kids, maybe even something small about the new and intriguing Spider-Man and Wolverine games.
E3,
Siberia is on fire
Sirius Sam is back!
The action hero who was born as an imitation of their accuracy, but has gained quite a few fans of his own over the past couple of decades thanks to four well-deserved games, will return on January 25 in a new adventure called Siberian Mayhem, which will take place in frozen Siberia.
It turns out that aliens do not care about the cold.
The bad news: This is not a completely new game, but a sort of expansion to the Serious Sam 4 from 2020, which is based on the same technical engine.
The good news: you do not need the base version to play extensively, so you can purchase it separately.
The other bad news: the expansion will be released, for now, for PC only and not for consoles, although the base version is also available for PlayStation and Xbox.
What is up?
Small, but big
So Among Us was the best-selling digital PlayStation game for December.
Not FIFA, not Voice of Duty, not GTA and not Spider-Man, but a cheap but addictive detective game, developed by a small (former) independent company and conquered the top of the download charts for Sony consoles (both 4 and 5). Amazing.And what's even more amazing? The game was launched on the PlayStation and Xbox only on December 14th, so the achievement was set in just two and a half weeks.Wow.
Among Us,
Street (Warriors) Party
And we'll end with heartfelt congratulations on a twisty addition to Street Fighter, the series of beating games that started it all, which celebrates its 35th birthday this year. The original title was launched in 1987 in an exclusive version for arcade halls, Just around the corner.
Will SF6 be announced, and possibly even launched during 2022?
After all, the fifth game came out somewhere in 2016, so six years is enough time, right?
We are betting on a hint in the coming months.
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