Two weeks after launch, Warner Bros. Games says it’s sold over 12 million copies, done $850 million in global sales, broke 1.28 million peak concurrent viewers on Twitch, and people have played it for 280 million hours so far.
It “surpasses all of the company’s previous game launches”... which means this controversial game is probably getting a sequel.
I told you about the Bricklink Designer Program in January, but this weekend is your last. February 28th is the deadline to submit your design to be judged by peers and by Lego. You can make tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars if your design is one of the five winners.
Interestingly, you can still only buy it direct from Sony as of today. Here’s our review, our Vergecast segment, and our thoughts on Horizon Call of the Mountain and Gran Turismo 7.
Some other easy day-one recommendations: What The Bat, Thumper, The Last Clockwinder... and for relaxing times, make it Tetris Effect.
Remember that cool video game where we could pretend a chatbot was an AI with multiple personalities and watch it play along?
While Microsoft has only publicly admitted to playing with how many turns you get and tweaking the AI’s “tone”, the reality is that Bing just doesn’t answer fun questions like those anymore. It’ll end the conversation as soon as you ask one. Lame!
Pico, the Chinese VR startup purchased by TikTok owner ByteDance that makes the only direct competitor to the Meta Quest and seemed to be gearing up, is suddenly cutting hundreds of jobs.
Tencent, the world’s largest game company and a tech giant, has reportedly canceled its VR headset and all but shut down its VR division.
