Kojima Productions has threatened to sue for spreading fake news, Chinese antitrust authorities have fined Tencent, and the Xbox Series has more than doubled Xbox One sales in Japan, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.
Shortly after the death of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, rumors appeared online about the involvement of game designer Hideo Kojima in the assassination attempt. For example, the French politician Damien Rieu shared the fakes, and the developer was also mentioned in a report by a Greek TV channel. On Saturday, July 9, Kojima Productions studio announced that it condemns the spread of slander and is ready to sue in some cases.
The Chinese authorities reported that Tencent violated antitrust rules when conducting 12 transactions. Now the technology giant must pay a fine, the maximum amount of which can reach $ 894.2 thousand.
The deputy chief operating officer of a certain game development studio in China was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for abuse of authority and sale of in-game items worth $566.4 thousand. This was written by the GameLook portal. The name of the studio and the name of the employee were not disclosed by the journalists.
According to Famitsu, by July, 260 504 Xbox Series consoles had already been sold in Japan (of which 136,884 copies were on the Xbox Series S). At the same time, the previous console — Xbox One — has sold twice as much in the country since its release. It was bought 114,831 times. But the leader among Microsoft consoles is still the Xbox 360, whose Japanese sales exceeded 1.6 million.
Robert Morrison, one of the developers of the first The Last of Us, wrote on Twitter that the remake of the game is not being created “just for the money.” According to him, this is one of the most carefully thought out and elaborated projects that Morrison has ever seen. The developer himself has previously worked on God Of War (2018), Injustice 2 and Resident Evil 7, among others.
The survival Green Hell from the Polish studio Creepy Jar has sold over 3.5 million copies. It took the game three years to overcome such a milestone. It is currently available on PC and PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo consoles.