Biggest Video Game News Of The Week (February 12 - 18)
With each passing week in the video game world, it feels more and more like the industry is becoming one with other media. The past seven days have been littered with news about some of our favorite games being turned into TV and movies. More Sonic, a longer wait for The Last Of Us, and now even Bioshock is coming to the big screen. Well, actually it'll be the same screen, but in movie form. Many of you might have missed all that due to being too busy waiting to play Lost Ark or quickly buying 3DS games though.
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Everything you need to know about all of that and more is below as we recap the biggest video game news of the week.
Last year, PlayStation faced severe backlash from players when it attempted to close its PS3 and PS Vita online stores. So much that it eventually felt compelled to reverse that decision. It appears Nintendo learned nothing from that cautionary tale as this week, it revealed it will be ending support for its 3DS and Wii U storefronts. From March 2023, you will no longer be able to buy games online through Nintendo for either of those older consoles. The reaction to the announcement has been almost as fierce as the one to PlayStation's similar decision, but it remains to be seen if Nintendo will make the same U-turn.
Lost Ark launched last week. If that news doesn't bother you, then you might well be the only one. Lost Ark's launch has been huge. It quickly shot into Steam's top five for the games with the most concurrent players. So many people wanted to play that Smilegate created a queue just to join the actual queue to get into the game, and more than 400,000 people watched streamer Asmongold sit in that queue. At its peak, there were
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