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Behold, the unknown planet Viewros… Harness Samus Aran’s new psychic abilities to survive and find a way home in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, coming to Nintendo Switch in 2025.

Ubisoft Entertainment SA will carve out a unit including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Sixinto a subsidiary with an enterprise value of about €4 billion ($4.3 billion).

Tencent Holdings Ltd. will invest €1.16 billion to acquire a 25% stake in the new entity, which will have licenses for the intellectual property of the games in exchange for a royalty, the French video game company said in a statement on Thursday.

Ubisoft, which was founded by France’s Guillemot family, has been working to bring new investors into its video game properties, Bloomberg News has reported. The valuation of the new unit surpasses Ubisoft’s current enterprise value.

Ubisoft’s US-listed depositary receipts jumped as much as 12.5% on the news.

This is one Direct before the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct on April 2nd that’s coming up soon

I want to build a better world, not live in the ruins

I've historically been an enjoyer of post-apocalyptic media, but as our actual times threaten to become as dystopian as our fiction, I'm finding it a bit harder than usual to stomach doom and gloom during my rare moments of free time.

Too many games--even some of the most commercially successful ones--are set in futures that are unpleasant at best and outright despairing at worst. Fallout, The Last Of Us, Horizon, Cyberpunk–they're all a huge bummer. I could go on forever listing games like this, but something that's got me especially downbeat about this preoccupation with pessimism is that it's found even in my favourite place, strategy gaming

My favorite overall is probably Bridge Crew, because there's nothing better than cruising around in the OG NCC-1701 Enterprise with your pals.

I also liked Elite Force when it came out, because it was crazy to see the 3D Trek environments even though they're unimpressive by today's standards. It even got me to watch Voyager.

You might be wondering why exactly a real-world soccer player is being added to a game whose cast is otherwise made up of more conventional fighting game semi-superheroes with handles like Rock Howard, Vox Reaper, Tizoc, and Kain R. Heinlein. The short answer is, I don't know. If it had been Vinnie Jones, okay, maybe, but Ronaldo? I don't see it.

But there are some interesting connections between the seemingly disparate pieces. The Fatal Fury games are developed by SNK, a Japanese gaming company founded in 1987 that's now almost entirely owned by Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammad bin Salman through the Electronic Games Development Company, a part of the Mohammed bin Salman Foundation.

If you’re looking for some solid evidence that Microsoft’s strategy to bring Xbox games to PS5 is seeing some early success, look no further than Sony’s own PlayStation Store today. The top preordered games in the US PlayStation Store are Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Forza Horizon 5, with the $99.99 premium versions of both games proving the most popular.

Resetera posters have noticed it’s the same story in the Canadian PlayStation Store and across a variety of European stores, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Microsoft-owned Bethesda announced earlier this weekthat Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will debut on PS5 on April 17th, with the premium version providing two days of early access starting April 15th. Forza Horizon 5 is also coming to Sony’s rival console on April 29th.

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