Gaming industry in March

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Welcome back to the next one of our monthly Gameletters dedicated to only the most important and interesting gaming news!

Article of the Month

Successful Game Art Outsourcing - Crucial Factors

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TOP Five March News

• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II will push boundaries of real-time facial animation. Ninja Theory said it in a video presenting the new Metahuman technology and its realistic-looking facial animations running in real time. The game is developed for Xbox Series consoles and PC and it will release either late 2023 or some time next year.
• Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores will feature a new technology that will generate dynamic 3D clouds that can be flown through and will react to the time of day. Developers at Guerrilla Games announced in on PlayStation Blog, saying that they wanted “the playet to feel that he is in an environment that could be endless”. The expansion will release exclusively for PlayStation 5 on April 19th.
• Sony released a new PlayStation 5 update, featuring the highly anticipated Discord integration alongside with greater support of 1440p resolution or the option to transfer data between PS5 consoles. Regarding the new resolution support, Sony added Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) technology that provides smoother visual performance in games.
• E3 2023 has been cancelled after big gaming companies like Microsoft, Nintendo, Sega or Ubisoft said they would not participate in the event. “We simply did not garner the sustained interest necessary to execute it in a way that would showcase the size, strength, and impact of our industry,” said the organizers in the official statement. Microsoft has already announced its own show for June 11th, Ubisoft is scheduled for June 12th.
• Grand Theft Auto VI will be announced later this year, says known Rockstar insider Tez2. This report comes a few months after Rockstar, the game’s developer, finally confirmed they are working on this highly anticipated title. The release date is rumoured to be during holiday in 2024, but as Tez2 reports, that date is tentative and it could be postponed.

Statistics of the Month

The PC and console market from 2015 to 2022.

Chart of the Month

Share on 2022 in-game spending of PC, consoles, and mobile phones

Quote of the Month

"It's not an April Fools or anything like that but there's more hardware coming from Sony than what's been reported on at the moment’"                       

Tom Henderson on Sony planning an unannounced hardware that is different than PlayStation 5 Pro.

Number of the Month

3 million units of Control has been sold as of March 2023, bringing nearly $100 million in revenue for Digital Bros.

Photo of the Month

Released on March 28, 2017, Faster, Baby! was the first DLC of Hangar 13’s Mafia III. It added a brand-new location to the game as well as story missions that brought us to the outskirts of New Bordeaux. Similarly to the original game, you play as Lincoln, but this time, you are trying to help the civil rights activist to find evidence against a racist sheriff, Walter Beaumont.

Fact of the Month

Fanatic Games worked with companies from all continents except for Antarctica.

What’s Going on in Fanatic Games

March was a very interesting and fruitful month for Fanatic Games. After two successful test runs, we agreed with two new clients to start long-term cooperation. We are currently planning two new stylized 3D co-ops that will be launched very soon. If there is anything we can do for you, please, do not hesitate to contact us. We would prepare our estimation for your project as soon as possible and discuss possibility of test-assignment.

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