--- title: "News Mash-Up - Week # 4" description: "News Mash-Up - Week # 4" image: https://blog.sparkers.com/hubfs/News%20Mash-up/News%2014.jpg --- [![sparkers - your entertainment data companion](https://blog.sparkers.com/hubfs/web/session-sparkers2021/assets/img/logo.svg)](https://www.sparkers.com) - [Services](https://www.sparkers.com/services/market-insights/) - [Market Insights](https://www.sparkers.com/services/market-insights/) - [Cockpit](https://www.sparkers.com/services/cockpits/) - [Audiences Insights](https://www.sparkers.com/domains/audiences/) - [Advisory](https://www.sparkers.com/services/advisory/) - [GSD](https://www.sparkers.com/domains/gaming/) - [Blog](https://blog.sparkers.com/) - [People](https://www.sparkers.com/about/) - [About](https://www.sparkers.com/about/) - [Jobs](https://apply.workable.com/sparkers/) [Contact](https://www.sparkers.com/contact';%20?%3E) [News](https://blog.sparkers.com/tag/news) # News Mash-Up - Week # 4 Tuesday, 8 February 2022 [Share this blog post on Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=I+found+this+interesting+blog+post&url=https://blog.sparkers.com/the-future-is-digital-right-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1) [Share this blog post on Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://blog.sparkers.com/the-future-is-digital-right-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1) [Share this blog post on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://blog.sparkers.com/the-future-is-digital-right-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1)   | ![micro 4](https://blog.sparkers.com/hs-fs/hubfs/News%20Mash-up/micro%204.png?width=134&name=micro%204.png) | ## **Top News Items** | | --- | --- | - - New games projects were announced. Blizzard Entertainment has announced it is working on a new survival game. EA’s Respawn studio announced it is making three new Star Wars games. Crytek has officially announced *Crysis 4*. When released, it will be over a decade since the last Crysis game. - According to an article in Bloomberg, it looks like the next three games in the *Call of Duty* franchise will be coming to the PlayStation platforms. Phil Spencer, President of Xbox, made the following statement in his blog, *"had good calls this week with leaders at Sony. I confirmed our intent to honour all existing agreements upon acquisition of Activision Blizzard and our desire to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation."* - Epic has released a summary report on its Game Store for 2021. Highlights include: - 194 million accounts, 5x increase compared to the number of accounts in 2020. - Daily active users at 31 million accounts. This is less than half Steam numbers. - 917 titles on the store, double that to last year, but far lower than Steam’s estimated 48,000+ games. - About $840 million was spent through the store in 2021, +20% from 2020. Third-party games represented 36% of all sales with more than $300 million in player spending, +12% increase from 2020. - 89 free games worth $2,120 were offered and over 765 million free games were claimed by players. - Ubisoft’s battle royale free-to-play game *Hyper Scape* will permanently shut its servers from the 28th April. The game launched in August 2020 but failed to find an audience. *Hyper Scape* made the news when Ubisoft resorted to gifting gamers with $10 vouchers to get players interested in the game. - The Savvy Gaming Group (owned by the Saudis) purchased Esports event organizer ESL Gaming and tournament platform FACEIT for $1.5 billion. - Microsoft has changed the Terms and Conditions for Xbox Live and GamePass. The changes include clearer subscription details, refunds with pro-rata compensation, warnings of any price increases and contact to lapsed memberships. The rollout of these new Terms and Conditions will be done globally. - The new handheld from Valve, the Steam Deck, will start worldwide shipment to consumers from the 28th February. - Employees of Raven Software new trade union *“Game Workers Alliance”* seeks recognition with the US National Labor Relations Board after Activision Blizzard, who owns Raven Software, refused to recognize it. - After more than 50 years, SEGA will pull out of the Japanese arcade business. | ![Artboard 1](https://blog.sparkers.com/hs-fs/hubfs/News%20Mash-up/Artboard%201.png?width=137&name=Artboard%201.png) | ## **New games** | | --- | --- | Week commencing Monday 31 Jan. 2022 | **Date** | **Title** | **Platform(s)** | **Genre(s)** | **Developer(s)** | **Publisher(s)** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 Feb. | Life Is Strange: Remastered Collection | Win, NS, PS4, PS5, XBO, XSX, Stadia | Adventure | Dontnod Entertainment, Deck Nine | Square Enix | | 3 Feb. | Yu-Gi-Oh! 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