{"id":43762,"date":"2018-08-30T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/325642"},"modified":"2018-08-30T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T21:09:00","slug":"scum-is-devolver-digitals-biggest-launch-after-selling-250k-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/30\/scum-is-devolver-digitals-biggest-launch-after-selling-250k-copies\/","title":{"rendered":"SCUM is Devolver Digital&#8217;s biggest launch after selling 250K copies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:<\/strong><em> SCUM,\u00a0<\/em>a multiplayer online survival game developed by Croatian studio Gamepires, has sold over 250,000 copies <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScumGame\/status\/1035190079885430785\">less than 24 hours after release<\/a>\u00a0becoming\u00a0publisher Devolver Digital&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/devolverdigital\/status\/1034866863002603523\">biggest launch to date<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The milestone is pretty impressive since\u00a0<em>SCUM<\/em>\u00a0is still in Early Access on Steam,\u00a0and\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0been popular\u00a0among streamers on Twitch, currently sitting\u00a0as\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/directory\">second most popular<\/a> game on the\u00a0platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the surface\u00a0<em>SCUM\u00a0<\/em>may look similar to other battle royale titles on the market, but the game stands out by featuring\u00a0a smaller player count, multiple layered survival systems, and lacks a shrinking map.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of this moment, the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/stats\/Steam-Game-and-Player-Statistics?l=english\">Steam Stats page<\/a> shows\u00a0<em>SCUM\u00a0<\/em>is already in the top 10 games by concurrent player count, with\u00a0just over\u00a053,000 people playing since launch.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: SCUM,\u00a0a multiplayer online survival game developed by Croatian studio Gamepires, has sold over 250,000 copies less than 24 hours after release\u00a0becoming\u00a0publisher Devolver Digital&#8217;s biggest launch to date.\u00a0 The milestone is pretty impressive since\u00a0SCUM\u00a0is still in Early Access on Steam,\u00a0and\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0been popular\u00a0among streamers on Twitch, currently sitting\u00a0as\u00a0the\u00a0second most popular game on the\u00a0platform.\u00a0 On the surface\u00a0SCUM\u00a0may look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}