The best and worst (July 18-23): Weekly video game news including FIFA 23, Yakuza 8, and Ubisoft
The video game news from the previous week has certainly been interesting. This week, the highly anticipated FIFA ‘23 was sold for less than one USD, brief footage of Yakuza 8 was revealed, and fans were both delighted and frustrated at Marvel’s Spider-Man finally being available for pre-order on PC.
Furthermore, Stray was released earlier this week to wide critical acclaim, including Sportskeeda’s own Angshuman Dutta, who rated the game a 9 out of 10. From amazing video game releases to unfortunate delays and cancelations, this week has definitely been a mixed bag. This is just a sample of the news that Sportskeeda has covered this week, and not all of the big stories to be reported on.
FIFA fans in multiple regions were left in absolute shock this week when FIFA ‘23 appeared on the Epic Games Store, but not for the reasons one might expect. It was listed at an incredibly low price of ₹4.8 (roughly $0.06). People in various regions were able to take advantage of this glitch, leading to quite a few fans scooping up the upcoming FIFA title for nearly nothing.
While the price change allegedly only affected India, others discovered that they could simply change their Epic Games Store location to India and still get the game for dirt cheap. This likely cost Electronic Arts thousands of dollars due to fans immediately picking up on the mistake and capitalizing on it before the game's September launch. It’s certainly rare for a mistake this prominent to happen for a major video game, so fans jumped on it immediately.
While no official announcement of a release date has been given, the next video game in the Yakuza franchise, Yakuza 8, had some brief footage revealed this week. This came courtesy of MMA fighter Mikuru Asakura, who
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