Let’s say you’ve scoured the web for great gaming rumors and leaks, but wondering how to catch them all under one video/article. In that regard, you have come to the right place. This short 8 minute youtube video will act as the weekly fill you crave to keep up with the latest ventures in the gaming industry. This Week In Gaming is eXputer’s idea of ​​concentrating weekly gaming news in an easy-to-read. edifying, and a satisfying youtube video. The ninth episode of This Week In Gaming is officially available on eXputer’s YouTube channel.

The first half of July was nothing short of memorable news and exciting gaming moments. The news ranged from the sad announcement that Rockstar was completely shifting its resources from Red Dead Online to Grand Theft Auto VI to great events like Xbox Series X|S surpassing a quarter of a million sales in Japan, and much more. Kick back on the couch with a bag full of snacks and dive straight into a short Youtube video full of relaxing lofi and informative news stories. On the other hand, this summary version of the video will serve as an ideal delicacy for the eyes of bibliophiles.

Starting with intriguing news, Sonic Origins barely survives on Steam with concurrent players dropping to barely a hundred figures. The outage was caused by a buggy launch full of issues and poor optimizations. According to the Steam tracker website, SteamDB, the highest player count of all time was measly 2.668 Numbers. Players and developer Simon Thomley have expressed concern about the failure.

The presumably dead game, Beyond Good and Evil 2, will begin third-party playtests this month and has been in development all along. Beyond Good and Evil 2 was in “development hell” for 7 years, meaning the game has been in development for almost 9 years.

The talk about the game was gone as there were no updates on its development. It has not been confirmed how far in development the game is or when it will be released. Ubisoft is slated to participate in a new showcase event in September, but it’s not clear if the showcase event will include Beyond Good and Evil 2.

The enchanting platform and adventure title, Oddworld: Soulstorm, appears to be heading for a Nintendo Switch release. A new listing for the game was recently found on a pre-order listing from Dutch retailer Nedgame. The site also explains that the platform for the release is the Nintendo Switch. The site also mentions that the game will be released on 31-12-2022.

Two different lists are available: one for the regular edition for €49.99 and one for the collector’s edition for €149.99. It could be a mistake or a typo as there aren’t many PS exclusives for Nintendo. Things may change, however, as the game was successfully ported to PC on June 21, 2022.

Cross-Core Customizations may be heading to Halo Infinite, as rumors suggest. Leaked images reveal potential customizations, as well as unreleased armor coatings. In the past, players even found that AI bots sometimes spawn in Halo Infinite with cross-core armors, a phenomenon that has been reported since the title came out.

Hunt: Showdown developers, social media manager Bence Hamos and publisher manager Hans discussed in a YouTube video why monetization in games is necessary for sustainability. The clarification also cleared up the fog regarding recent changes made to Hunt: Showdown, such as changes to Bloodborn prices, in-game pop-up messages, etc. The changes were made to ensure the game continues to receive updates. received and the economy remains in equilibrium.

Hans clarifies, “You can only sell a finite number of copies for each game, so before it became an unstable source of income, we had to move away from this dependency and make sure we got a better revenue stream from our DLC and blood bond items.” Moreover, he explained, “It’s a constant source of income that supports us in our ability to release free content updates and give the game, keep the game going.”

The industry insider, Syluxhunter debunks rumors of a 2D Donkey Kong game in development while replying to a tweet. He reiterated about the year-old tweet with false info, “Instead of pretending to be an insider, maybe you should try writing fanfiction because that’s basically all this thread is.” However, Sylux has not denied that the Donkey Kong game is in development.

Sylux worked out further to clear the fog, “I’m not denying there’s a Donkey Kong game coming. There are reliable people who have claimed that one would come before this clown. However, Marko’s information is clearly made up.” Perhaps the game could be in 3D, as other franchises, such as Mario and Sonic, have moved up from 2D to 3D.

PUBG’s major patch 18.2 has brought a new map, weapon, vehicle, next-gen optimizations and much more. The update also brings with it new graphics options, in addition to a whole host of other changes to ensure modernity. The new map, Deston is the same size as Erangel and Miramar (8×8 km). It also contains a wide variety of biomes and areas of interest, such as flooded downtown, muddy swamps, and skylines, just to name a few.

The update also includes a new feature called Ascender, which will help players climb tall skylines and recreate Mission Impossible moments. Furthermore, the latest patch also brings a “Workshop” that allows you to create your own skins with “never seen before” materials. There is also a choice to switch between two types of anti-aliasing: FXAA (fast estimated anti-aliasing) or TAA (temporal anti-aliasing).

In the most unfortunate news of this episode of This Week In Gaming, Rockstar Games has moved its resources from Red Dead Online to use them in Grand Theft Auto VI. This decision means there will be no major updates to Red Dead Online, sparking outrage in the community.

Rockstar Games also said they would continue to support GTA Online through major updates in the future, especially after the title was so popular on next-gen consoles. Rockstar Games Repeated, “Over the past few years, we’ve steadily moved more development resources to the next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series — we understand more than ever the need to outperform players.”

Nate Purkeypile, a former Bethesda developer, reiterated that Unreal Engine 5 makes indie development easy. He quoted in a series of tweets, “A lot of people ask me why I left to become a solo indie developer after 14 years at Bethesda working on games like Fallout 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, and Starfield. There are many reasons why, so I thought I’d make a little thread about it.“

Nate also discussed the role of modern game engines and how easy it is to create open worlds today. he worked out, “Tools have improved a lot over the years. 10 years ago I never thought it would be a good idea to make an open world game of my own. Now there are things like Unreal 5, Houdini, VR sculpting, Megascans and lots of other tools.”

Nate left Bethesda to work on his own game called, “The Unseen Axis” that’s a solo project from the indie developer, brewed in Unreal Engine 5. The game has an intriguing premise where you have to kill monsters from old fables over a metal soundtrack.

In this This Week In Gaming session, in the direction of hardware news, the Xbox Series X|S surprisingly overtook PlayStation sales in Japan. Sony is based in Japan, so knowing the Xbox has sold out domestically was more of a psychological than an economic one. The increase in Xbox sales is a pleasant surprise, as the first Xbox One barely sold 100,000 units throughout its life.

Xbox Series X|S lifetime total is now up 260,504 units in total. The next-gen Xbox consoles will surpass their predecessors in about nine years if the current trend continues. The lagging PlayStation sales can be attributed to hardware shortages that hit Sony the hardest.