Latest News: Returnal creators expanding team and F1 Manager set to release this year, PS Plus proves powerful, and more gaming updates

Good morning. The creators of the shooter Returnal are expanding the team. F1 Manager will be this year. The creators of the adventure game Tchia are celebrating an important milestone. PS Plus has a lot of power. Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 may be released this year.

– After completing the PS5 exclusivity Returnal with the team Housemarque gradually grew from 80 employees to more than 110 to work on a new game for the PlayStation 5. The Finnish studio seems to have even more ambitious plans after being bought by Sony in the summer of 2021. In total, he wants to employ 150 people. Among the new faces are programmers, designers, graphic designers and testers.

– Despite very poor sales, the predecessor will be released this year F1 Manager 2023, studio Frontier Developments confirmed. Players on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S can look forward to it. We do not know further details at the moment. F1 Manager 2022 was released at the end of August last year, and two months after that date its support ended: the developers moved on to other projects.

– Around Ark 2 is another chaos. Backing studio Digital Domain, which is closely involved in all aspects of this survival game, gave a spring 2025 release date in its latest annual report. they have no idea, where the term originated. It’s probably just a typo. In March of this year, the postponement of Ark 2 to the end of 2024 was announced.

– Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) may block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard for up to 10 years. It is this deadline common practice unless there is a change in circumstances. The public expects Microsoft to settle with the CMA.

– Bye attracted 1 million players in the first six weeks, rejoiced the developers from the independent studio Awaceb. The game is available in PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium subscriptions, among others. Now Awaceb is planning to release a physical Oleti edition that will include skins for the main character, her glider, boat and ukulele.

– Company Unity Software announced its third round of layoffs in less than 12 months. The manufacturer of the well-known game engine Unity will cancel 600 jobs this time. It is approximately 8%. In January, the company laid off almost 300 people, and about 200 before that.

– More than a million new players are enjoying Descenders, he revealed Mike Rose and as the next in line demonstrates the power of being included in the classic PlayStation Plus. Although he didn’t mention the Sony service. But it will not be a coincidence that this adrenaline BMX game is newly available in PS Plus. Previously, there was a lot of interest in Rocket League and Deep Rock Galactic.

– Microsoft has a new way to spread Game Pass between players. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers have a new possibility recommend the service to up to five friends and give them a PC Game Pass for 14 days. Unfortunately, it has another limitation. The invitation can only be sent to players who have not yet had Game Pass.

– He can Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 come out this year? This would definitely surprise Microsoft, because the continuation of the story of the Celtic warrior is expected in 2024. But fans are impatiently waiting for the Xbox Games Showcase in June. And they’re even more tense after a short clip from Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 appeared in the latest Xbox Game Pass ad.