VERACITY IN GAMING
VERACITY IN GAMING
The latest financial results state that Capcom acquired “CAPCOM U.S.A. INC.'s Game contents business and Merchandising business.” While not explicitly mentioned, this transaction likely includes the rights for the Street Fighter series.
Sony Group plans to sell 18 million PlayStation 5 in the fiscal year 2022, according to the company’s FY2021 financial report. This is 56.5% more than what Sony managed to sell in FY2021, but the company suggests that this might not be enough to meet the demand.
Graphic designer Finn Sylwester has partially recreated the 1996 classic Super Mario RPG using the Unity game engine. There's no plan for commercial use.
Square Enix has released a new Ver.1.1.0 update for Actraiser Renaissance, a remake of the original Actraiser released in 1990. The latest update introduces new options, including the “Renaissance Actions” that lets you toggle off new features added to the remake so that you can experience the game similarly to that of the original version.
Remakes of R-Type Tactics (known as R-Type Command in the West) and R-Type Tactics II: Operation Bitter Chocolate are in development. The developer Granzella considers online multiplayer support to be an essential feature for the remakes.
A whopping 55 new titles launched on April 28 for the Nintendo Switch in Japan. That’s a record-breaking number of new releases happening on the same day, as far as we can check.
Game accessory maker HORI has announced a standalone version of the special attachment for their Split Pad Pro controller that will be launching this May in Japan.
CRI Middleware has announced that their products sold under the CRIWARE brand now support Unreal Engine 5. They also plan to update CRIWARE to make it easier to work with UE5-specific features.
Ninja JaJaMaru: The Great Yokai Battle + Hell is coming to Steam on May 12. Ninja JaJaMaru: The Great Yokai Battle + Hell is the latest title in the popular Ninja JaJaMaru-Kun side-scrolling action series that was originally released by Jaleco in 1985.
Goonect will launch for free on Steam May 27. Goonect is a two-player cooperative 3D action game that’s being developed by GYAAR Studio, Bandai Namco Studios’ indie game label.
PiXEL has announced that Fire Dragon Fist Master Xiao-Mei will be launching in Japan on May 19 for the Nintendo Switch. It's a retro kung fu action game and a homage to the 16-bit games of old.
Japan’s Xbox Game Studios Publishing team is expanding. “We are working with top-class developers on truly groundbreaking product for Xbox,” says Matt Smith, a senior producer at Xbox Game Studios Publishing.