'Lost Ark' is the 2nd most played game in Steam history 24 hours after launch

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Amazon Games has another hit title on its hands. Lost Ark has passed the 1 million concurrent player mark just 24 hours since its release, making it the second most played game in Steam history based on concurrent counts. This Diablo-like MMO launched in the West on February 11. Amazon Games worked with Smilegate RPG to localize and translate Lost Ark and make it available in English. It was first released in 2019 in South Korea, and it has millions of active players in the country and in Russia and Japan.

According to SteamDB, at its all-time peak, the game had 1,325,305 concurrent players, beating out popular titles, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2. But as The Verge pointed out, it isn't clear how many are actively playing. Lost Ark became so popular that it ran into server issues, and there's a queue just to start playing. Hopefully, that's levelled out now. It still has a long way to go to beat PUBG for the top spot. PUBG: Battlegrounds had 3,257,248 concurrent players at its all-time peak.

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'Advance Wars' remake gets April 8 release date

Nintendo is finally ready to launch Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp. During its recent Nintendo Direct event, the company announced that the remake would arrive on April 8. This remake bundles the "reimagined" versions of Advance Wars and Advance Wars: Black Hole Rising. 

The two titles first came out on the Game Boy Advance in 2001 and 2003. It was initially supposed to launch on December 3, 2021, but the developers delayed the release to polish the experience.

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'The Wolf Among Us 2' to launch in 2023, drops new trailer

Ten years after the original game came out, The Wolf Among Us 2 finally gets a tentative release date. The revived Telltale Games team announced that the sequel will arrive sometime in 2023, dropping a new trailer alongside the announcement.

The story is the precursor to Bill Willingham's Fables comics, following Fableton sheriff Bigby Wolf and this time, we see some well-known characters from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This sequel takes place six months after the first season, promising plenty of drama as a new case gets the NYPD involved. It took the team this long to update the game as the company went through issues, including its dissolution in 2018 but then got a second chance from LCG Entertainment in 2019. 

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