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Sega announces 121 redundancies at Relic Entertainment

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Sega has announced it will make 121 redundancies at Company of Heroes developer Relic Entertainment. Company of Heroes 3 launched on PC in February and arrives on consoles this month. Sega says it is restructuring the studio to focus on core franchises, including the Company of Heroes series.

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Video games is no longer the biggest entertainment medium in the UK

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The the first time in over ten years, video games is not the UK's biggest entertainment medium. That includes sales of digital and physical video games, covering PC, mobile and consoles. ERA, which is the UK trade body representing video, music and games retailers, says that revenue made by video games in the UK reached £4.74

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Lightspeed Studios appoints Sony veteran as vice president of PC and console publishing

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Lightspeed Studios has appointed industry veteran Michael Pattison as vice president of its publishing division for PC and console. He left SIE in 2021, and was appointed CEO of Team17 in 2021 for two years.

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Sony’s PC learning curve hits an incline | Opinion

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Now that Sony releasing its first-party titles on PC as well as PlayStation has become relatively commonplace, it’s easy to lose sight of what a major change in strategy this represents. Read more

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Sony tests out PC support for the PSVR 2

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Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Sony Interactive Entertainment is in the process of adding PC support for its PSVR 2 headset. The announcement comes a year after the virtual reality hardware was launched. Read more

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Trends that shape the future of the PC & console market according to Newzoo

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Top image by Freepik The games industry has been one of the most resilient and profitable sectors in the entertainment industry. According to Newzoo’s PC & Console Gaming Report , the PC and console market still outperformed previous forecasts despite a slight decline of revenue (-2,2% year over year) in 2022.

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PC and console gaming had it rough in 2022, but things are looking up

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So, how (relatively) bad did the PC and console market do in 2022? In the first ever PC & Console Gaming Report Newzoo dives into this section of the market. Pandemic gaming Last year, the combined revenue from the PC and console market reached $92.3 The battle for attention in the PC and console market is heating up.

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