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GamerKulture Ep 9: May 2020 News

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English - May 26, 2020 10:07 - 1 hour - 36.6 MB
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May 2020 certainly had a ton of gaming news and we are here to talk about it! Join in and see what's new and what hot in the gaming industry!


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It has been an insane month for gaming news and the GK team with guest @thatguywithagameboycamera joins in to talk about all the exciting announcements! All articles are below!

 


Gaming News

Video game spending reaches record high during pandemic https://www.techspot.com/news/85255-us-consumers-set-new-record-video-game-spending.html


Phil Spencer says the industry will start to see the impacts of coronavirus in early 2021, as some crucial aspects of video game production have ‘basically stopped’ https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/video-game-delays-due-to-coronavirus-early-2021-2020-5-1029183430?utm_source=reddit.com


Unreal Engine 5

Reveal: https://www.engadget.com/epic-games-unreal-engine-5-demo-150044561.html
Unreal Engine 5 PS5 demo was just 1440p, 30 FPS, and lacked ray-tracing: https://developer-tech.com/news/2020/may/14/unreal-engine-5-demo-ps5-ray-tracing/
Reported: Unreal to work on Mobile: https://cogconnected.com/2020/05/unreal-engine-5-supports-mobile/
Epic Games once ported Gears 3 to PS3 to test Unreal Engine (FOOTAGE) https://www.polygon.com/2020/5/20/21264896/epic-gears-of-war-3-test-footage-ps3
Xbox’s InXile has confirmed it will use Unreal Engine 5 for its Series X RPG https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xboxs-inxile-has-confirmed-it-will-use-unreal-engine-5-for-its-series-x-rpg/
Unreal Engine 5 PS5 demo runs happily on current-gen graphics cards and SSDs https://www.pcgamer.com/unreal-engine-5-tech-demo-pc-performance/

PS5

Sony CEO Promises Compelling Lineup of Games: https://www.essentiallysports.com/sony-ceo-promises-compelling-lineup-of-ps5-games-esports-news-playstation-exclusive-2020/
“Evolution of Game Sound”: https://www.techradar.com/news/ps5-will-be-an-evolution-for-gaming-sound-says-sony
PS5 100 times faster than PS4: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/ps5-will-be-100-times-faster-than-ps4-heres-how
PS5 Price to be revealed in a few months: www.techradar.com/news/ps5-price-could-still-be-months-away-as-sony-turns-focus-to-its-games 
Press DualSense Controller: https://blog.us.playstation.com/2020/04/07/introducing-dualsense-the-new-wireless-game-controller-for-playstation-5/ 
Devs are ecstatic DualSense, ‘SSD are going to be massive’: https://www.psu.com/news/the-persistence-dev-excited-by-ps5-dualsense-says-ssds-are-going-to-be-massive/

Microsoft Xbox 

Data Leak: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/xbox-microsoft-console-data-leak/
Xbox Series X Games in The Works at Over 140 Publishers and Individual Studios: https://dintol.com/xbox-series-x-over-140-publishers-and-individual-studios-games-developers/
Rumor: XBox Series X have started production https://gamerant.com/xbox-series-x-production/

CD Projekt Red

CD Projekt Red Overtakes Ubisoft to Become Europe’s Largest Publisher (Stocks,not counting microtransactions) https://www.hardwaretimes.com/cd-project-red-overtakes-ubisoft-to-become-europes-largest-game-publisher/


UbiSoft

Rumour: Ubisoft register Prince of Persia 6 domainhttps://www.altchar.com/game-news/rumour-ubisoft-register-prince-of-persia-6-domain-aCjoi2M4X0EO
Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla Reveal: https://youtu.be/WgUtoX7ue7Q 
Ubisoft Confirms Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Running at 4K@30 on Xbox Series X https://wccftech.com/ubisoft-confirms-assassins-creed-valhalla-running-at-4k30-on-xbox-series-x/

Sega

Sonic games now have longer development schedules for higher quality games https://nintendowire.com/news/2020/05/22/sonic-games-now-have-longer-development-schedules-for-higher-quality-games/ 


Persona 5 Royal Achieves Record Sales in U.S., Europe https://gamerant.com/persona-5-royal-record-sales-west/


Take-Two/RockStar

Take-Two has 93 games planned for the next five years, but no news on GTA https://www.pcgamer.com/take-two-has-93-games-planned-for-the-next-five-years-but-no-news-on-gta/


Red Dead Redemption 2 Has Shipped 31 Million Units; Grand Theft Auto V at 130 Million https://twinfinite.net/2020/05/red-dead-redemption-2-gta5-shipments/


Sea of Thieves

Release date for Steam revealed June 3rd full Cross Play Support https://twitter.com/SeaOfThieves/status/1263484699860582400?s=19


Remakes/Remasters/Reboots/Sequels

Nintendo



 

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