The Remnant: From the Ashes base game has sold more than 1.7 million units worldwide in little over a year.

The third-person survival shooter launched in August 2019 for PC, Xbox One, and PS4, and has since been bolstered with the release of two premium DLC packs — Swamps of Corsus and Subject 2923 — that have amassed nearly 1 million sales combined.

David Adams, president of Remnant developer Gunfire Games, called the milestone both “exciting and humbling,” and thanked players for their continued support.

During a recent interview with Gamasutra, he also explained how Gunfire managed to transition into live game development and drive player engagement by creating a different kind of shared online world.

Square Enix has explained that sales of Marvel’s Avengers were lower than expected, and that the advertising push for the title also proved costly.

Commenting on the game’s performance in a translated version of Square’s recent fiscal briefing, company president and representative director Yosuke Matsuda said its HD sub-segment posted a loss because Marvel’s Avengers failed to meet internal sales targets.

“Sales of [the game] were lower than we had expected and unable to completely offset the amortization of the game’s development costs,” they commented. “In the second half of the fiscal year, we hope to make up for slow initial sales by offering ample additional content to grow our sales.”

Adding more context during an investor Q&A, Matsuda said the HD sub-segment would have been in the black had the company discounted “factors associated with Marvel’s Avengers,” indicating the game took a significant toll on the division.

“In addition to the amortization of that game’s development costs, another significant factor associated with the title was the fact that we undertook a major advertising campaign at the time of its launch to make up for delays in our marketing efforts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic,” continued Matsuda.

“There is a certain amount of development costs still to be amortized in 3Q, but we want to recoup it by growing our sales going forward.”

When asked what the profitability of the game could look like in the next quarter, Matsuda seemed to skirt the question by explaining Square is solely focused on adding more sales. With that in mind, it’ll be interesting to see how the high-profile title is shaping up when the company releases its next set of financials.

Publisher QubicGames is this weekend hosting a special sale. If you buy any one of the following fighting games for €1.99 / $1.99, you’ll get the rest of them for free – so that’s four games all up!

If you already happen to have at least one of these games in your Switch library, you’ll also be eligible to claim the rest of them for free. The titles included in this offer are Akuto: Showdown, Akane, Coffee Crisis and One Strike.

As noted, this is a weekend only deal – so if you’re interested in adding any of these digital games to your Switch library, make sure to take advantage of this offer sooner rather than later.

Will you be adding any of these games to your Switch menu? Comment below. Thanks to ralphdibny for the heads up.

Ubisoft’s next major release for multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch is Immortals Fenyx Rising.

We’ve obviously gone hands-on with it about a month ago, and now we’ve had even more time to see what it’s like. To help tide you over until its release, our lovely senior video producer Alex Olney has whipped up a few new videos.

First, we’ve got a side-by-side graphical comparison of the Switch version and PlayStation 5 release:

And next up is more than 10 minutes of gameplay footage. Enjoy!

Take a look at both videos and let us know if you’ll be adding this game to your Switch library when it arrives next month.

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Back in April, QubicGames announced a whole bunch of titles were en route to the Nintendo Switch eShop. One of them was the original Door Kickers game – not to be confused with Door Kickers: Action Squad.

If you’ve been at all wondering what’s happened to it, the good news is it’s now got a release date. The game will be arriving on the hybrid platform next month on 26th December for $11.99. Pre-orders are now open.

If you own any of Qubic’s other games including Robonauts, One Strike, Mana Spark, Blazing Beaks or Akane, you’ll get a 25% discount on this upcoming release.

Door Kickers is a 2D top-down real-time strategy title that puts you in charge of a SWAT team during a tactical intervention. You’ll have to analyse the situation at hand, plan team routes, choose equipment, breach points, coordinate multiple troopers in hostage scenarios, and of course…kick doors. Below is the original game trailer:

Yesterday, a European Switch eShop listing also revealed QubicGames would be bringing the original WiiWare Bit.Trip games to the system next month on 25th December.

Is Door Kickers a game you think you would be interested in playing on your Nintendo Switch? Leave a comment down below.