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Even though initial estimates predicted around 2.5 million sales in its first week, the game’s performance is really remarkable. While it didn’t reach the levels of Battlefield 6, which sold over seven million copies in just three days, it’s incredibly rare for a brand new game in a specialized multiplayer genre to do this well. The fact that it briefly became more popular than EA’s game on Steam and attracted over 700,000 players this weekend is a significant achievement.

ARC Raiders initially received good reviews from critics and websites. However, a recent review from Eurogamer, giving the game a low 2/5 (40%), significantly lowered its overall score. The review strongly criticized the game’s use of AI-generated voices.

Nintendo announced that they’ll be streaming a Nintendo Direct presentation on Wednesday, November 12th, at 6am Pacific Time. The main event will be the first official trailer for The Super Mario Movie. They clarified that this presentation will focus solely on the movie and won’t include any news about upcoming games.

The Switch 2 update includes several convenient new features. For example, GameChat now prevents the system from automatically entering sleep mode during conversations. Players also have more control, with the option to turn off Chat Audio Panning.

Sony acquired a studio hoping to expand into ongoing, live-service games, but has since cancelled several multiplayer projects, with Helldivers 2 being their only recent success. Meanwhile, Destiny 2, after finishing its main story with the release of The Final Shape, is struggling – it’s losing players and overall enthusiasm for the game is at an all-time low.

The free PC game was created by Ink Stain Games and published by HypeTrain Digital in 2015. Ink Stain Games has only released two games on Steam: this one, and Stoneshard, which came out in 2020. The game is called 12 is Better Than 6 for those unfamiliar with it.

So, I checked out the latest numbers for PlayStation Network, and during April to June of this year, about 119 million people were playing online every month. That’s actually up three million from this time last year, which is cool. It’s a little lower than earlier this year – we saw 123 million players in the first quarter – but if you look at the bigger picture over the last few years, the number of players is definitely still growing overall.

While the initial sales numbers for Ghost of Yōtei might not seem amazing compared to Ghost of Tsushima – which sold 2.4 million copies in its first three days and became Sony’s fastest-selling new game – Tsushima eventually reached five million sales four months after its release. If Ghost of Yōtei keeps selling at its current rate, it’s likely to exceed Tsushima’s sales within a similar timeframe.

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