Marvel Rivals has surpassed 40 million players worldwide after topping 10 million users within 72 hours of launch.

NetEase shared those milestones in its fiscal report for the year ended December 2024, and revealed the free-to-play hero shooter delivered another "surge" following its Season 1 update in January 2025 to claim the top spot on Steam's global top-sellers and most-played charts.

Marvel Rivals launched on December 6, 2024, and has seemingly delivered the goods for NetEase. Despite those achievements, the Chinese company laid off a number of Marvel Rivals developers based in the United States earlier this week.

In a statement sent to Game Developer, the company said those cuts were made to "optimize development efficiency" and pledged to continue investing in …

Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu for allegedly enabling piracy.

In a lawsuit spotted by Game File, Nintendo claims the emulator "unlawfully circumvents the technological measures on Nintendo Switch games and allows for the play of encrypted Nintendo Switch games on devices other than a Nintendo Switch."

It also describes emulators as software that allows users to "unlawfully play pirated video games," and claims one of Yuzu's lead developers has "publicly acknowledged" that most users pirate their software.

"With Yuzu in hand, nothing stops a user from obtaining and playing unlawful copies of virtually any game made for the Nintendo Switch, all without paying a dime to Nintendo or to any of the hundreds of other game developers and publishers making and selling games for the Nintendo Switch," reads the lawsuit, which you can fin…