Elden Ring: It’s a hit!

Here is information likely to cause a lot of ink to flow. Metacritic, the reference aggregator in the world of video games, declared Xbox the best publisher of 2021. With an average of 87.4 points, Microsoft and its studios are at the top, compared to 6th place last year. With 10 published productions, 100% are rated at least “good”. and three as “excellent”. The Microsoft Flight Simulator, Forza Horizon 5 and Psychonauts 2 franchises stand out the most from the American company’s catalogue. As for its direct competitor, Sony finds itself in second place with 81.3 points. A grade influenced by the Destruction AllStars exclusivity, which weighs quite a bit on their average, the game received a grade of 62%. Ratchet & Clank, along with the PS5 versions of Ghost of Tsushima and Death Stranding, were the driving forces pushing the PlayStation average higher. To find Nintendo you have to go down in the rankings, exactly to the 14th place. The year 2021 was not marked by the Japanese company that cannot even make the top 10. Still, we particularly remember Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury and Metroid Dread.

Elden Ring is currently the best selling game of 2022 in the US

It’s only been two weeks since Elden Ring was released and it’s already the best seller of 2022 in the United States. Numbers that come from nRous come from the American market research company NPD Group. The software, despite its recent release, is the 5th best seller in the last 12 months and Eldening is 2nd in terms of sales for the month of launch, just behind Call of Duty Vanguard. On March 4th, we already had an estimate of sales thanks to the SteamSpy tool, which analyzes the user profiles of the Valve platform. We learned that no fewer than 10 million copies were counted, a number that has since increased. Whereas Elden Ring is the 6th most played game of all time on Steamit remains in the shadow of Horizon: Forbidden West, favored by PlayStation players, while the Souls descendant appears first on Xbox consoles.

The Arcane series dominates the Annie Awards

Coming from the League of Legends universe, the Arcane series was released in November 2021 and continues to make a lot of noise. And yes, the Annie Awards took place this Sunday, March 13th Arcane had no fewer than 9 nominations. For those unfamiliar with the Annie Awards, it is an awards ceremony born in 1972 for short films, series and animated films. And to put it simply Arcane won all 9 categories in which the series was nominated. Best Special Effects, Best Character Animation, Best Character Design, Best TV Show, Best Direction, Best Production, Best Storyboard, Best Voice Acting and Best Writing: Arcane simply took it all by crushing the competition. At the release of the second act, Arcane was the most-watched series on Netflix in no fewer than 52 countries. Fortiche’s polished animation, relevant soundtrack, and rich Runeterra universe earned the series a 100 percent rating on aggregator RottenTomatoes. Suffice it to say that expectations for Season 2 are now very high.