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Michael Ephraim, the VP and MD Sony Interactive Entertainment Australia and New Zealand, has left the platform holder. Rumours of his departure began to circulate last week, but MCV Pacific has now confirmed that he left the company last Friday. "Over the last 18 months the PlayStation business has been …

Nintendo Switch sold 80k units in its first 48 hours on sale in the UK, MCV understands. To put that into context, that’s double the 40k Wii U managed in its opening weekend, but below the 113k shifted by the 3DS in the same period. For further context, Wii sold …

Critical smash hit The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild hasn’t made it to No.1 in its first week in the UK charts. Instead, it’s Sony’s PS4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn that grabs the crown, beating Nintendo’s adventure title by a comfortable margin and becoming PS4’s biggest ever new …

Nierly blew it

With The Walking Dead: A New Frontier landing on PS4 and Xbox One today, it’s time for retailers to update their shelves with more zombie-related items – if your shelves aren’t already inundated with Switch stuff, of course. The boxed version of the third season of Telltale’s Walking Dead series …

RPG is a throwback to Square's PS1 efforts

Github for Unity brings Git and Github directly into Unity Editor

No es bueno

Forza Horizon 3 studio Playground Games said it considered making games for mobile, but that it won’t be racing to abandon consoles any time soon. Speaking to MCV, CEO Gavin Raeburn stated that while mobile games have been fantastic” at widening the gaming population, Playground’s been hesitant to enter mobile …

Koei Tecmo also hires digital content creator and social media manager, while Bandai Namco bolsters its marketing and PR teams. Three new hires at Koei Tecmo Yusuke Okada (pictured, right) has been appointed as the new general manager for Koei Tecmo Europe. He joins from the publisher’s Tokyo headquarters, where …