Rockstar loves console players more than PC boiars, Total War: Rome II will be refined and expanded 13 years after release - the most interesting of the week

A brief digest of all our materials from last week, in which we thoroughly analyzed the gaming industry.

• Rockstar-boiars: PlayStation and Xbox players are the key audience for GTA VI developers. The studio is betting on “core consumers”
• Total War: Rome II will be refined and expanded 13 years after release — three updates announced. Developers decided to update not only the visuals, but also the gameplay
• Gabe Newell starred in an advertisement for the Leviathan yacht, built at his shipyard — now gamers dream of a mod with the Valve boss for Dave the Diver. It's not a “luxury vessel”, the yacht creators focused on functionality
• Steam rejects an indie studio's game for copyright infringement, which belongs to the same studio. A legal and systemic paradox from Valve
• A Minecraft fan walked to the Far Lands for 14 years — Mojang released a documentary about him. Initially, the player naively believed that the entire journey would take a maximum of several months
• Will Leon return in the next Resident Evil? Official Capcom answer. In an interview, director Koushi Nakanishi and producer Masato Kumazawa revealed details of Resident Evil Requiem's success
• Big score: a teenager bought a pickup point in the Leningrad Oblast to steal video cards from it. The damage from the young fraudster's activities amounted to 1 million rubles
• Cosplayer appeared as Lelith Hesperax from Warhammer 40,000 — champion of gladiatorial arenas. She dreams of fighting Lucius the Eternal one-on-one in the Crucible
• Valve updated the anti-cheat in Counter-Strike 2 — VACNET works under new rules. Developers fixed Cache and more
• “This is not Minecraft”: the creator of GTA IV released a God simulator on Steam that helps a tribe survive. Players will be able to shape the landscape and observe changes in the game world
• “Unique and original horror”: the first reviews of The Backrooms film adaptation have appeared. A24's horror film based on Kane Parsons' creepypasta and web series will be released in Russia on June 4
• Russian voice acting for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era, created with AI, has been released. The Shimon Mood community responded to the community's request
• Helldivers 2 creators responded to scathing reviews — they will improve optimization, balance, and expand the Galactic War. Arrowhead Game Studios intends to improve the state of the shooter
• “Indie publisher with an AAA game”: Pearl Abyss explained how it manages to roll out such fan-needed updates for Crimson Desert so quickly. Large companies are too tied to their own ideas, while good solutions can come from anywhere
• Karl Urban and other Mortal Kombat 2 actors dance to the iconic Techno Syndrome theme in a new video. Warner Bros. continues to promote the film with unusual videos