This Week In Elden Ring: Major Hack, A Modathon, And Maxing Out The Counter

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This week was packed with Elden Ring news stories, some of which were good, some great, and some like the Melania fight – absolute bullshit. But this week is a bit different. It's been a while since the game itself, FromSoftware, or Bandai Namco have been in the news, as opposed to the Elden Ring community. Unfortunately, it wasn't exactly a triumphant return to this roundup for Bandai Namco.

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Early last week, reports started rolling in that publisher Bandai Namco was victim of a major hack. While a lot of the following leaked data was fake, Bandai Namco later confirmed that it had indeed been hacked and customer data may have been stolen.

“On July 3, 2022, Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. confirmed that it experienced an unauthorized access by third party to the internal systems of several Group companies in Asian regions (excluding Japan),” said a statement by the studio. “There is a possibility that customer information related to the Toys and Hobby Business in Asian regions (excluding Japan) was included in the servers and PCs.”

While the publisher was busy cleaning up that mess, Elden Ring was busy hitting new milestones. In just under five months since its launch FromSoftware's masterpiece became one of the best-selling games of all time in the U.S. The news came from analyst Mat Piscatella of NPD.

However, Piscatella later retracted his statement as there were certain elements he overlooked. "Because the ranked charts do not include the full history for all titles and all platforms - across both physical and digital sales - this note was worded too definitively for what is an incomplete comparable universe," he explained.

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