Warner Bros. Games has announced that Hogwarts Legacy has sold 12 million copies and earned $850 million in revenue during its first two weeks on the market. This makes it the biggest launch in the history of Warner Bros. Games, surpassing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II’s $1 billion in retail sales during its first 10 days. Hogwarts Legacy also set a Twitch record by reaching 1.28 million peak concurrent viewers at launch, making it the most-viewed single-player game in Twitch’s history.

Players have spent a collective 280 million hours in Hogwarts Legacy so far. The game will expand to PS4 and Xbox One in April and to the Nintendo Switch in July. Despite the game’s success, it has been the subject of controversy due to author JK Rowling’s transphobic remarks. However, the game’s developer, Avalanche Software, has confirmed that there are no plans for downloadable content, including the addition of Quidditch.

Zangief and Cammy return along with the exuberant newcomer Lily!

The bear, bird, and bee round out the diverse launch roster when #StreetFighter6 hits the scene on June 2.

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— Street Fighter (@StreetFighter) February 23, 2023

Capcom unveiled a new trailer for Street Fighter 6 during today’s PlayStation State of Play presentation, revealing three new characters for the game’s roster. The new additions include series veterans Zangief and Cammy, as well as newcomer Lily.

Zangief’s signature Spinning Piledriver move and powerful wrestling holds are showcased in the trailer, while Cammy’s quick and potent array of strikes is also on display, featuring new moves in her arsenal. Meanwhile, newcomer Lily is introduced as a descendant of the Thunderfoot tribe and wields massive clubs as weapons while fighting. According to her official biography, she can communicate with the spirits of nature and relies on their guidance as she travels the world.

With the addition of these three characters, the starting roster for Street Fighter 6 now comprises 18 characters. These are the final characters to be announced for the initial release of the game, and no specific details have been revealed about future downloadable content.

Street Fighter 6 is set to launch on June 2, 2023, for Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC. The game will feature a full single-player story mode called World Tour, and will include commentary from real-world Street Fighter personalities like Steve “Tasty_Steve” Scott and WWE wrestler Thea “Zelina Vega” Trinidad.

MORTAL KOMBAT 12 CONFIRMEDpic.twitter.com/QBb3nvJing

— 💙| Gui (@GuiLeena_) February 23, 2023

Mortal Kombat 12 has finally been confirmed by Warner Bros. Discovery’s president and CEO, David Zaslav, during the company’s Q4 2022 earnings call. The much-anticipated game is set to be released later this year.

Zaslav revealed that the launch of Mortal Kombat 12, along with Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, is a key part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s video game business strategy for the coming year. He also stated that the company has “ambitious launch projections” for both games.

Despite the lack of an official statement from NetherRealm Studios, the developer behind the game, fans have long speculated about the possibility of a new Mortal Kombat game. Mortal Kombat co-creator and NetherRealm chief creative officer Ed Boon has teased fans on social media about upcoming game announcements in the past, and in October 2022 he hinted that the announcement of the studio’s next project was “coming in due time.”

Last year, some fans believed that NetherRealm producer Jonathan Andersen had leaked Mortal Kombat 12’s existence when an image of his work desk showed a file name on his monitor titled “MK12_Mast…” along with an email that read “Our fans eagerly scrape the internet.”

Mortal Kombat 11, the previous game in the series, was released in 2019 and has sold over 12 million copies as of July 2021. Mortal Kombat celebrated its 30th anniversary last year, making the release of Mortal Kombat 12 all the more exciting for fans of the long-running franchise.

After a two-year legal battle, Bungie has emerged victorious in its lawsuit against cheat maker AimJunkies. AimJunkies, owned by Phoenix Digital Group, has been ordered by a judge to pay Bungie $3.6 million in damages and $700,000 in legal expenses for creating aimbots for Destiny 2 and other FPS games. The lawsuit began in 2021, with the courts initially dismissing some of Bungie’s claims. However, Bungie re-filed its lawsuit in May and was successful in convincing the court that AimJunkies had violated its copyright on Destiny 2.

According to documents obtained by Torrent Freak, one of AimJunkies’ engineers reverse-engineered the game code to create and sell aimbots, circumventing bans to do so. This violated the software licensing agreement that the engineer had agreed to in order to download the game. Additionally, Phoenix Digital Group was found to be uncooperative with Bungie’s legal requests, deleting records of cheat software, and destroying financial records related to the sales of the cheats. The judge cited the company’s willingness to “conceal” its cheat sales as contributing to a heavier punishment than it otherwise might have received.

The damages awarded to Bungie came to a total of $3,657,500 for the 1,361 violations, with an additional $738,722 in legal fees. While the previous lawsuit found that making Destiny 2 cheats did not violate Bungie’s copyright, the current judge found that the software had violated Washington’s consumer protection laws. The court ruled that players who use cheats have an unfair and deceptive advantage over players who don’t. The combination of copyright laws, destruction of evidence, and gamer rights all played a role in helping Bungie’s lawyers secure over four million dollars in fees and damages.

In the last few weeks, Valve has permanently banned over 40,000 Dota 2 accounts found using third-party software to cheat. These cheaters utilized software to access the game’s internal data, which is not usually visible during gameplay.

Valve’s primary objective was to address the security flaws that enabled cheating in the first place. Nonetheless, the company also took further action to eliminate these dishonest players. “With that objective in mind, we issued a patch as soon as we became aware of the cheating methods,” Valve explained in a statement.

Valve went on to say, “This patch created a honeypot: a section of data inside the game client that would never be read during normal gameplay, but that could be read by these exploits. Each of the accounts banned today read from this ‘secret’ area in the client, giving us extremely high confidence that every ban was well-deserved.”

Our heartfelt thanks for your support and companionship on this journey.#ELDENRING pic.twitter.com/S8eqiNk0Uv

— ELDEN RING (@ELDENRING) February 22, 2023

Elden Ring, hailed as one of the top games of 2022, has sold an impressive 20 million copies, as announced by publisher Bandai Namco on February 22. The press release included a message of gratitude from FromSoftware to the fans for embracing the game’s world. The announcement also recognized the significant contribution of George R.R. Martin to the game’s lore and cited its Game of the Year win at The Game Awards 2022.

Elden Ring’s Game of the Year triumph was a landslide victory, with numerous publications and reader polls bestowing the title on the game. In a ResetEra thread, fans counted at least 400+ such awards, while God of War Ragnarok, with 98 awards, was the runner-up. Elden Ring is still one of the top-selling games, ranking sixth in the US in January, and although details about the DLC are unknown, data miners speculate that it will include a legacy dungeon and potentially feature the mysterious deity Miquella.

Hope you enjoyed the official gameplay reveal of the highly praised game, Elden Ring, that has now achieved a remarkable milestone of selling over 20 million copies.