gaming news for the first quarter of 2024

A group of hackers used the game anti-cheat software to hack players during a tournament.
Gamers during the tournament were able to see through walls and some of them lost control of their character because the hackers were controlling them.
The tournament advised the participants to perform a clean operating system reinstall on their computers.

Nintendo strikes down illegal emulators

nintendo claimed that Zelda breath of the wild was hacked more than 1 million time which caused irreversible damage to the company, people hacked the game using a software called Yuzu, therefore, nintendo took legal action to shut this software off and take it down,

the CEO of helldivers 2 said that the only reason he added microtransaction in the game is to fund his habit of using microtransaction in other games, such a statement could be a PR disaster for other companies, but it was widely accepted because this game is actually good the microtransactions are not necessary or expensive.

Moreover the company is following a unique advertising strategy where they update the game and add the new enemies then deny the existence of the enemy even though the enemy do exist in the game.
the CEO of the company made a tweet explaining that there are no flying bugs monsters in the game which is clearly not true, by denying the existence of these bugs, the game is getting more attraction because everyone is discussing this topic right now.

Warner Bros decided that they will no longer produce AAA video games and the new direction of the company is to produce free to play and mobile games with microtransactions which is trending right now.
This decision was extremely unexpected, even though their latest title [ suicide squads killed the Justice League] was an epic failure, the company had made multiple very successful games recently, for example they created [Hogwarts Legacy] the Harry Potter video game that sold 22 million copies in 2023 exceeding Nintendo’s best seller [tears of the Kingdom] that only sold 20 million copy.

there are only two mainstream video game markets right now the first one which is the biggest one is called Steam and the second one is called epic game, steam takes 30% cut from the revenue when someone publish a game on their store while every game take only 12%.
the CEO of Epic store “Tim Sweeney” send an email to the CEO of steam, cursing him and asking why steam take 30% revenue from the developers, since they can take less and still be profitable, to which the CEO of steam replied with the simple sentence “you mad bro”.

at first it seems like this is a real high tech motorcycle with big wheels in front, however other pictures show that it is just a statues that is put above a normal vehicle, in the black section at the bottom hide the real wheels

a shooting video game that had a collaboration with Will Smith flopped spectacularly after it was not able to generate 0.1% of the development cost, this was shocking news because nobody ever heard about this video game, it seems that all the budget went directly to hiring Will Smith and none to the advertisement