Lies of P hits seven million players | News-in-brief

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Landfall’s Content Warning is the latest co-op horror trend, launching for free yesterday for 24 hours and recently going paid. It’s notched up an impressive concurrent player count, peaking at over 200,000 on Steam, but the number of people who claimed it at launch is over 6.2 million.

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Hazelight Studios' It Takes Two has sold over 16 million units

Katy O'Brian has joined the cast of Mission: Impossible 8.

SpecialEffect has received this year’s BAFTA Games Special Award

Sony has enjoyed unprecedented success with the PC audience this year, courtesy of Helldivers 2, and though the co-op shooter is continuing to make waves, the company does have other titles lined up for the platform as well. Recently, Horizon Forbidden West made the jump to PC, and it’s gotten off to a decent start where its Steam numbers are concerned.

Dragon's Dogma 2 arrives on PC and consoles today, but despite high critical acclaim when reviews hit earlier this week, players on Steam have begun review-bombing Capcom's high fantasy RPG after the appearance of some sudden and confusing microtransactions. These weren't present in the press build of the game, and players are so up in arms about them that the game is currently sitting on a fat red "Mostly Negative" Steam rating based on over 11,000 reviews and counting.

Roll7’s Rollerdrome, a pro skating title with third-person shooting elements, has crossed one million players. It’s an important milestone for the title, which launched in August 2022 for PS5 and PC and later released for Xbox Series X/S.

Private Division's Rollerdome has hit one million players

Roblox has announced the AI-powered Avatar Auto Setup and Texture Generator for its platform