The Biggest Gaming News For April 6, 2022

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Only really the one story that blew everyone away today and that's the news that Remedy Entertainment and Rockstar Games are remaking Max Payne and Max Payne 2. That doesn't mean we don't have a bunch more interesting stories though. We also have the news that Ubisoft is pulling the plug on Ghost Recon: Breakpoint and Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has smashed its all-time concurrent player count on Steam. Read on for more details.

Remedy has confirmed the return of Max Payne as the developer is teaming up with Rockstar to remake the first two games in the series. Both remakes will come in a single package for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and will have a budget similar to that of all of Remedy's previous AAA titles like Control and Quantum Break. These remakes are probably still years away from being released though, as Remedy clarifies that they're currently in the "concept development phase" at the moment.

Unfortunate news for Ghost Recon: Breakpoint players as Ubisoft recently announced that it would no longer be supporting the game going forward. However, every cloud has a silver lining, and it seems like Ubisoft has pulled the plug on Breakpoint because a new Ghost Recon game is currently being worked on. This new game, codenamed "OVER," has allegedly been in development for just over a year and could arrive in early 2024, although this is all unconfirmed right now.

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga released today and it's been doing pretty well. The game has smashed previous concurrent player records for Lego games on Steam, peaking at just under 63,000 players - that's almost triple the number of players when you combine the peak player counts of the past four Lego games. In fact, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker