Author: Ava Mitchell

Korean publisher NCSoft has sunk $3.5 million into Swedish studio Moon Rover Games.Moon Rover will use the cash to finance the development of a cooperative shooter "built on emergent gameplay systems.""This investment represents a milestone in the history of Moon Rover Games. It will enable us to combine the experience and ambitions of our team with the vast knowledge of NCSoft in the development and operations of online games, to bring new gameplay experiences to players around the world," said Moon Rover CEO, Julien Wera.

Far Cry, Battlefield, and Halo vets onboard at Moon Rover

Moon Rover was formed in 2023 by a team of EA and Ubisoft veterans with experience working on franchises like Far Cry, Battlefield, The Division, Halo, and Mirror's Edge. The studio's debut project is codenamed 'Project Aldous' and is billed as an "original IP for PC and consoles."NCSoft, known for developing and publishing titles like Guild Wars 2 and Blade & Soul, said Moon Rover's &qu…

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A new app has launched for multiplayer phone games in the form of Dusk, and its creators have already secured more money to build it out.Created by Bjarke Felbo and Sanjay Guruprasad, the app is a platform that lets players meet up and play games in a quick and easy matter.Dusk is currently in beta, and the press release notes there's already 50 games on the platform. Those games are made by indie studios using a platform-specific SDK, it automatically runs cross-platform across browsers, along with iOS and Android apps.According to the press release, those beta games are taking off quite well and players have used Dusk's voice chat for "over 50 million minutes" (or over 95 years after conversion) since launch.

Can Dusk properly court the youths?

Guruprasad and Felbo previously collaborated together on Rune, a companion app for mobile versions of PUBG and Call of Duty. Rune's since shut down, but with five million downloads, the two teamed again on an app for casual games and younger players.The allure of the teen dem…

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Arma 3 sold over 500,000 copies during the Steam Summer Sale 2024.The latest summer promotion ran from June 27 to July 11 and evidently generated plenty of interest in Bohemia Interactive's tactical shooter.The studio shared its latest sales milestone in a blog post and noted it managed to shift 100,000 copies in a single day."Welcome to the over over 500,000 new recruits that have joined the Arma 3 community during the Steam Summer Sale 2024," reads the post. "Close to 100,000 of you joined us during the sale's first day—the highest number of copies sold in a single day dating all the way back to the initial Arma 3 Alpha release in March 2013."Bohemia has assembled a comprehensive FAQ for its half-a-million new players to help them find their footing when they eventually touch down.

Arma 3's deep, deep discount

For those wondering how much Arma 3 retailed for during the sale, SteamDB notes Bohemia applied a 90 percent discount to bring the price down to $2.99—a historical low for the title. With the sale now over, Arma 3 is currentl…

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