Game industry struggles to react to growing Palestinian death toll ); }
There’s no untangling the Israeli government’s assault on the Palestinian people from the world of video games this week. As casualties have mounted with the Israeli’s government’s assault on the Gaza Strip, the impact of the violence has had fallout in the world of video games.
As of this writing, the Washington Post lists 200 Palestinians killed in a barrage of missile and artillery attacks by the Israeli Defense Force, and 10 Israelis slain by Hamas-launched rockets.
The exponentially disproportionate death toll doesn’t include any accounting of the street-level violence that began after Israeli settlers and police forces began the process of evicting Palestinian residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Protests and counter-protests escalated into a police raid on the Al-Aqsa mosque during Ramadan prayers last week.
20% of last year s Nintendo Switch sales were to households that already owned one ); }
Even before releasing its entirely portable Switch Lite in 2019, Nintendo frequently named the fabled Second Household Switch as its biggest growth opportunity in the West. Now, reflecting on the financial results of its 2020-21 year, Nintendo has shed some light on how that particular opportunity has played out.
Speaking during an investor Q&A, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa shared that roughly 20 percent of the Nintendo Switch systems it sold during the year ending March 31, 2021 were to households that already owned the system.
This means that around 5.8 million of the last year s Nintendo Switch sales were to folks looking to pick up a second console for their home, potentially as a gift for a partner or child, or, in the case of the Switch Lite, as a dedicated system to use on the go.
Upstream Arcade,
Wimasima is also joining the ranks of the Aurora Punks collective, the group of talented game developers devoted to producing high quality indie games. Under the
Aurora Punks umbrella, the studios work together, sharing resources such as expertise, funding, and network access.
The
Wimasima team consists of four students trying to break into the gaming industry. They come from different backgrounds and have many different interests in life and in the gaming world. This mix is their strength as they want to create games fun and enjoyable for all ages.
Winston Spångberg, Wimasima co-founder says
“We are happy to have joined the ranks of Aurora Punks because we like the foundational idea from which the organisational culture is being built on. We feel that we can be creatively free in making games while both getting and giving knowledge within the network of studios. It is through this that we feel we can be the very best of our game-making selves.”
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.]
- Seven ‘The Reversed World’ theme Fatecores now available for pick up
- Choose and pick up one of the seven ‘The Reversed World’ Fatecores with increased rate until May 20
- Join the 7 Days of Gifts and free 55 Premium Recruit events for celebrating the upcoming Global Launch 1st Anniversary until May 27
Seoul, South Korea – May 14, 2021 – LINE Games Corporation announced that
Exos Heroes will hold Choice Fatecore Re’ pick up event for its seven ‘The Reversed World’ theme Fatecores, which are special costumes that features certain Heroes in a parallel world.
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.]
PQube (London, UK) - December 3rd, 2020 -
PQube and ON3D Studios are excited to confirm that fast-paced action stealth game
Quantum Replica is out now on
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Steam, as well as PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X via backwards compatibility!
Boasting a haunting dystopian vision of the future, rapid pace, top-down gameplay on the dark streets of the Totalitarian state and
wrapped in an edgy and bold cyberpunk aesthetic,
Quantum Replica invites you to take the role of ‘Alpha’, as you attempt to infiltrate a shadowy government organisation: the Syndicate .