Meanwhile, Black Ops 3 and 2019's Modern Warfare saw development budgets exceeding $450 million and $640 million respectively.
The new difficulty, Deadly Sinner, also gets new details alongside quality-of-life features like Module Synthesis for upgrading modules.
This means that the only WWE game that can be played online now, including using features like Community Creations, is WWE 2K24.
The critically acclaimed remake achieved a new sales milestone in December 2024, up from the eight million-plus units sold in October.
The 2020 remaster of the Nintendo 64 classic features improved visuals and a brand-new campaign to link it with DOOM (2016).
Blizzard's hero shooter peaked at roughly 65,000 viewers in the last 30 days, dropping nearly half from its November 2024 peak.
Game director Junya Ishizaki says the feature doesn't have any use in the upcoming co-op action RPG owing to its run-based nature.
The sequel to Primal Carnage: Extinction will support up to 16 players in multiplayer and features more dinosaurs to control.
Though it contains a free track with some cosmetics, players must purchase the event pass to unlock skins like Front Man.
The chapters arrive over six years after Chapter 1 launched, though their dates are subject to "localization and console porting."
"I hope this year brings even greater excitement to the entertainment format that is video games," says studio head Yosuke Hayashi.
Xbox games showing up on sales charts for PlayStation games indicates a bright future, says Circana analyst Mat Piscatella.
SNK says the newly established development team will "carry on the storied legacy of our iconic fighting game IPs."
Implicit Conversions recently added "PlayStation 3 Emulator" to its public roadmap, though it may only be in the research phase.
"While consoles remain our core business, expanding to PC and other platforms will allow us to bring our games to a wider audience."
"We believe that the PlayStation 5 will have a long lifecycle, just like the PS4," said SIE group CEO Hideaki Nishino to Famitsu.
Sony's Hideaki Nishino believes there will always be a market for gaming console hardware, even with PC and cloud gaming on the rise.
ConcernedApe's farming life sim/RPG has sold more than 26 million on PC and 7.9 million copies on Nintendo Switch in its lifetime.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered and The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe will also be available starting next week.
Square Enix's acclaimed action RPG continues to sell at a steady pace, crossing another major sales milestone.
