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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet for the Nintendo Switch has officially set a record for the gaming company, becoming the fastest-selling in the history of Nintendo. Having just released last week on the Switch, the game has already sold a combined 10 million copies in just three days. Despite players complaining of poor graphic performances and a series of low user scores that have been documented as amongst the lowest on Metacritic, the game is now in the history books at Nintendo. In a press release from Nintendo, they revealed, “This is the highest number ever for global and domestic sales in the first three days after the release of software for all Nintendo game consoles, including Nintendo Switch.” Around four million sales happened in Japan while the other six million came in globally. T...

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet for the Nintendo Switch has officially set a record for the gaming company, becoming the fastest-selling in the history of Nintendo. Having just released last week on the Switch, the game has already sold a combined 10 million copies in just three days. Despite players complaining of poor graphic performances and a series of low user scores that have been documented as amongst the lowest on Metacritic, the game is now in the history books at Nintendo. In a press release from Nintendo, they revealed, “This is the highest number ever for global and domestic sales in the first three days after the release of software for all Nintendo game consoles, including Nintendo Switch.” Around four million sales happened in Japan while the other six million came in globally. T...

Polyphony Digital has unveiled Ferrari’s entry for Gran Turismo 7’s Vision Project — the concept car, Ferrari Vision Gran Turismo, is a hyper-futuristic single-seater all-wheel drive modeled from Ferrari’s sports prototypes in the ‘60s and ‘70s. A highly aerodynamic model, the Ferrari Vision Gran Turismo boasts meticulously crafted rear wings, diffusers, as well as air vents on the wheel arches to provide maximum downforce. The V6 engine is sported by models such as 296 GTB, 296 GTS, and 296 GT3, as well as the forthcoming Ferrari 499P hypercar, yet Ferrari’s Vision Gran Turismo concept car is powered by “a more extreme version” that produces more than 1,000 BHP at 9,000 rpm, combined with added power from three accompanying electric motors. Speaking on the project, Ferrari’s Design Direct...

Polyphony Digital has unveiled Ferrari’s entry for Gran Turismo 7’s Vision Project — the concept car, Ferrari Vision Gran Turismo, is a hyper-futuristic single-seater all-wheel drive modeled from Ferrari’s sports prototypes in the ‘60s and ‘70s. A highly aerodynamic model, the Ferrari Vision Gran Turismo boasts meticulously crafted rear wings, diffusers, as well as air vents on the wheel arches to provide maximum downforce. The V6 engine is sported by models such as 296 GTB, 296 GTS, and 296 GT3, as well as the forthcoming Ferrari 499P hypercar, yet Ferrari’s Vision Gran Turismo concept car is powered by “a more extreme version” that produces more than 1,000 BHP at 9,000 rpm, combined with added power from three accompanying electric motors. Speaking on the project, Ferrari’s Design Direct...

According to reports, Microsoft is reportedly gearing up to offer some concessions to Sony to appease regulators in its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The news comes after CEO of Microsoft Gaming stated that the company has no plans to make Call of Duty an Xbox exclusive and the company claimed that Sony has better exclusive titles. Sources close to Microsoft’s $69 million USD acquisition of Activision Blizzard note that the company is ready to offer a series of “concessions” to push the European Union Commission to let the deal go ahead. The concessions would keep Activision games on Sony PlayStation consoles with a 10-year licensing deal, meaning Call of Duty would be on the console for at least another decade. The sign of goodwill serves to ease qualms of marketplace concerns follo...

CD Projekt Red revealed during its third quarter investor presentation that The Witcher Remake will be a “story-driven, single player open-world RPG” game. Although no additional information was mentioned, this new change will most certainly offer a very different gaming experience for fans of the original game. The Witcher, the OG 2007 PC game was built on the Aurora Engine, which given the technological constraints, provided a rather linear gaming experience in comparison to today’s gaming standards. As confirmed by CD Projekt Red back in October, The Witcher Remake is being developed using Unreal Engine 5 — the world’s most advanced and capable real-time 3D creation tool to date. Based on this information alone, fans can expect the remake to be rendered in highly-detailed graphics...

CD Projekt Red has dropped off the gameplay trailer for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt‘s long-awaited next-gen update. Titled the “Complete Edition,” the upgraded action role-playing game receives myriad renovations, including improved character models with 4K textures, ray-traced lighting effects, cloud saves and new content based on Netflix’s The Witcher. Additionally, players can choose to play the game at 60 frames per second, and a new photo mode lets users take quick screenshots in-game. The enhanced version of the popular title, for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, was initially scheduled to release in June of this year. However, CD Projekt Red delayed the update’s arrival indefinitely after moving development in-house from Saber Interactive and later announced t...

According to reports, Sony and Honda‘s electric vehicle business Sony Honda Mobility Inc. could incorporate PlayStation 5s into its cars. The reports are building on the entertainment focus that Sony is bringing for the partnership which is expected to help the upcoming EV releases stand out in the market. Sony Honda Mobility President, Izumi Kawanishi, has noted that the AV technology element of the company will take advantage of Sony’s strengths in both the entertainment and gaming industries. The content, services, and entertainment technology are currently being adapted for the road by Kawanishi, who headed Sony’s AI robotics division, and his team to address the content services element currently not fully addressed by the market leader, Tesla. Kawanishi further hinted at the “technol...

God of War: Ragnarok is officially Sony‘s fastest-selling PlayStation exclusive. The company confirmed the news via Twitter, revealing that the sequel to the 2018 game sold a total of 5.1 million copies in its first week, making it the fastest-selling first-party PlayStation title and setting a brand new record for the God of War franchise. Ragnarok dethrones The Last of Us II’s record of 4 million in its three days, and leads Marvel’s Spider-Man record of 3.3 million copies and God of War’s 3.1 million copies. Ragnarok takes place three years after its 2018 predecessor and currently leads the nomination board for The 2022 Game Awards, receiving a total of 10 nods including Game of the Year. Congratulations to @SonySantaMonica for making God of War Ragnarök the fastest-selling fi...

A rough time frame of when the Sony PlayStation 6 will be released has just been leaked. Discovered in documents from the United Kingdom’s Competition Markets Authority as part of the ongoing Microsoft-Activision merger investigation, it appears the PS6 will either be coming out late 2027 or in 2028, giving the PS5 a rough life cycle of seven years. The document reads: Microsoft has offered to continue making Activision’s games available on PlayStation only until 2027… By the time SIE launched the next generation of its PlayStation console (which is likely to occur around [redacted]), it would have lost access to Call of Duty and other Activision titles, making it extremely vulnerable to consumer switching and subsequent degradation in its competitiveness,” reads PlayStation’s argument. “E...

Netflix has plans to develop an AAA PC game sometime in the near future, Engadget first reported. The streamer posted a job listing for a Game Director based in Los Angeles that would help the company to “forge the game direction and creative vision on a brand-new AAA PC game,” the listing reads. For those who may be unfamiliar, an AAA game is an industry classification used to describe high-budget, major-profile titles. As a result, the game is expected to have immaculate production and thus, attract a wide audience of gamers. Per the listing, the ideal Game Director will have at least 10 years of industry leadership experience necessary to bring a game from the concept stage to prototypes to a full-fledged implementation. They’ll also need to have a background in live service games and b...