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PlayStation Acquisitions May be More Likely as Sony Ramps Up Entertainment Investments Feb 3, 2021 16:13 EST Sony (NASDAQ:SNE) just delivered their financial results for the quarter ending December 31, 2020, and unsurprisingly, it was a good three months for the electronics and video game manufacturer. Sony’s Q3 revenue was $25.6 billion and net income was $3.5 billion, up 20 percent year-on-year. This was largely due to the release of the PlayStation 5 and the overall strength of their ...

Upstart gaming studio Mountaintop starts its climb with $5.5M seed from friends and family Mountaintop, a sort of supergroup game development studio founded by veterans from a multitude of other major companies in the industry, has collected a $5.5 seed round from friends and family, and announced that their first title will be a PvP shooter. The company emerged last summer, headed by Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell and several others from larger gaming concerns that decided to strike off on th...

Source: Steam LucasArts Games is back, but with a brand new look and name under Lucasfilm Games. It may seem like a small thing to be excited about, but the implications of what this may bring are something to get excited about. It shows that Lucasfilm is ready to take things to the next level and capitalize off of the current success of Star Wars. It also brings up some retro game possibilities. Considering the extensive history of titles that LucasArts originally brought into the gaming world...

Source: Steam LucasArts Games is back, but with a brand new look and name under LucasFilm Games. It may seem like a small thing to be excited about, but the implications of what this may bring are something to get excited about. It shows that LucasFilm is ready to take things to the next level and capitalize off of the current success of Star Wars. It also brings up some retro game possibilities. Considering the extensive history of titles that LucasArts originally brought into the gaming world...

Microsoft Flight Simulator Dev Asobo Secures Investment to Preserve “Creative Autonomy” Jan 21, 2021 12:54 EST Whenever folks start speculating about who Microsoft might purchase next, one name is always top of the list – Asobo Studio. Microsoft has been snapping up everyone from Obsidian and Double Fine to Bethesda, and yet, the developer of the critically-acclaimed Microsoft Flight Simulator remains on the table. Why is that? Well, it seems it may be a simple case of Asobo not bein...

Want to know whats coming out on PC this year? Here are all the new PC game release dates confirmed for 2020.

We finally made it to 2021, and it’s looking like the start of a pretty bright year in gaming. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S are out. New graphics technology is (sort of) available and even VR is looking more accessible than ever before. With that in mind, the Shacknews team took a good look at all of the exciting upcoming titles on the horizon in 2021, whether definitely coming out this year or a little more nebulous in their fate. Have a look at our most anticipated games presen...

The COVID-19 pandemic has definitely inspired many of us to engage in some pursuits we might not have if many of us weren’t stuck at home trying to remain safe. Some draw, paint, make music, or catch up on shows and games they’ve been putting off. Some write. In the case of film director Duncan Jones, some write full-length movie scripts for the films they’d like to see made. That’s exactly what he did when he sat down to write an entire script for the classic LucasArts adventure, Full ...

5 Non-Star Wars LucasArts Game Franchises Needing a Revival 5 non-Star Wars LucasArts game franchises needing a revival This week brought the exciting news that Lucasfilm Games would be taking over on solely handling development and licensing for all of its properties, much like the former LucasArts used to do, and with new  Star Wars and  Indiana Jones games already announced, we’ve decided to look back at the incredible roster of titles not related to the latter franchises that deserve ...

Indiana Jones or Not, Lucasfilm Games Has the Potential to Be So Much More than Just Star Wars Wolfenstein games, is working on an Indiana Jones project. The game will be produced by Bethesda’s Todd Howard, tell an original story, and fall under the newly announced Lucasfilm Games umbrella. Though few would have expected this marriage of developer and IP, it makes sense when you think about it — if there’s one person who hates Nazis more than B.J. Blazkowicz, it’s Dr. Henry Walton Jone...