Skydance merges Paramount and WB game studios | Krafton cancels PUBG Black Budget | Sony sells its VR patents to Meta

Skydance Is Merging Paramount And Warner Bros.’ Game Studios Into One Unit

Krafton pulls the plug on another PUBG game, Black Budget, less than a year after it was announced

Sony Seemingly Ends VR Ambitions by Selling Patents to Meta

Numbers

• Monster Hunter Rise sales surpass 20 million units

• Free-to-Play AION 2 Beats NC Steam Record: 397,905 Concurrent Players Logged

News

• Xbox has secured GTA 6 streaming rights | Xbox Responds to GTA 6 Streaming Exclusivity Report

• The Division developers Massive are now "the global brand" in charge of Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon, alongside a new Ubisoft dieselpunk MOBA

• NBA 2K25 is being delisted later this month, servers (including single-player story mode) shut down at the end of the year

• Forza Horizon 6 has been delayed on PS5, a new report suggests, not long after developer Playground insisted it hadn’t

• Xbox CEO Asha Sharma speaks at internal town hall — Discussing Xbox Series X|S as ‘core,’ Helix as a family of devices, boosting Game Pass, and more

Industry Trends

• Capcom details plans to evolve RE Engine into an ‘AI game engine’

• Gacha Games Are Going Wild and Driving PC Gaming Growth

• Micron CEO celebrates even higher RAM prices as 2027 will see customers pay “much higher prices”

• Forget Star Wars movies — it’s really a video game franchise now

Rumors

• Disney president and CCO dismisses rumours of Epic Games buyout: "Those are not the conversations we are having right now"

• Report: New Uncharted Game in Development at Naughty Dog; Headed by Lost Legacy Director

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