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Games industry veteran Phil Harrison is joining Google, taking up the role of vice president and general manager at the monolithic search giant’s California headquarters. Harrison is best known for a 15 year tenure as head of Sony’s network of game studios, in addition to three years as a senior …

New head of Minecraft at Microsoft Helen Chiang revealed that the sandbox hit has reached a new milestone last December, with now 74m players returning to the game every month, which is more than half of all the players who own a copy of the title. Minecraft has sold 144m …

Unreal Engine developer now recruiting to bolster Cloudgine’s Scotland office

GAME chief financial officer Mark Gifford resigned earlier today, the High Street retailer announced. Gifford will leave the company at the end of March 2018 to “ensure a smooth transition,” the official announcement said. It added that Gifford was leaving to “focus on his other business and personal interests” and …

Sonic the Hedgehog creator joined the house of Final Fantasy earlier this month

PlayStation has announced the launch of a new range of collectibles based on its best-selling franchises. Called Totaku, the range will include seven figures at launch: Bloodbourne’s The Hunter, Crash Bandicoot, God of War’s Kratos, Parappa the Rapper, WipeOut’s Feisar FX350 ship, Tekken’s Heihachi and LittleBigPlanet’s Sackboy. Officially licensed, these …

We were sad to hear this morning that Bob Wakelin passed away yesterday. Not everyone will recognise the name, but Wakelin was responsible for some of the most famous game cover art of the Eighties and early Nineties. That art included Daley Thompson’s Decathlon, Wizball, Batman, Operation Wolf, Head over …

Second largest CCP hosted fundraiser demonstrates community is a ‘force for good’

The upcoming God of War will not be sold with a season pass, according to Cory Barlog, creative director Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Santa Monica studio. The creative lead on the project made this clear via Twitter late last week. That means the game will likely follow in the footsteps of …

It was another quiet week at retail, with the usual triple-A titles taking the top spots in the UK charts. Call of Duty: WWII charted at No.1 for the tenth time since launch in November, despite sales being down 17 per cent week-on-week. If Activision’s title makes it to the …