The Biggest Gaming News For April 19, 2022
It's been a jam-packed day of news today and we have only the one story about Elden Ring! We have Amy Hennig's announcement that she and her new studio Skydance New Media are working on a brand new Star Wars game, the reveal that it's looking like a rough year for Netflix as it bleeds subscribers for the first time since 2011, and the exciting news that Xenoblade Chrinicles 3 has been pushed forward a few months. More details below.
If you didn't think enough Star Wars games were being made these days, then we have some good news for you. Uncharted creator Amy Hennig recently announced that her new studio Skydance New Media is working on a "richly cinematic action-adventure game featuring an original story" set in the Star Wars universe. This is now Henning's second attempt to make a Star Wars game as she was involved with a Star Wars project with Visceral Games before it was shut down by EA.
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It seems like Netflix is hurtling towards a bumpy 2022 as the company recently revealed in a letter to its shareholders that over 200,000 subscribers have jumped ship this quarter. Not only that, but Netflix is also expecting to lose a further 2 million subscribers next qurater as well, which is pretty shocking when you consider the service hasn't actually lost subscribers since October 2011. Netflix puts the loss of subscribers down to the subscription cost increase in January and claims Covid-19 "clouded the picture" due to big subscriber gains in 2020.
We got some good news for anyone looking forward to Xenoblade Chronicles 3 as the game has actually been pushed forward a couple of months from its intended release date. Instead of launching in September later this year,
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