“It’s time for me to say thank you and goodbye to the lovely people at Savage Game Studios,” Katkoff wrote. “I’d like to believe I’ve done my fair part in taking the company from zero to one. Now I’m eager to watch from the side as Nadjim and Mike take it from one to one hundred. In the same breath, I wish nothing but the best to Olivier C. and Kris Davis who are leading PlayStation’s charge onto mobile. Can’t wait to play all the amazing games from all the fantastic developers!”

Savage Game Studios was established in 2020 by a number of mobile game dev veterans, before being acquired by PlayStation last year. The studio is currently working on a new unannounced AAA mobile live service action game, presumably based on one of PlayStation’s established franchises.

Last month, it was reported that PlayStation Mobile head Nicola Sebastiani had left the company. Not long afterward, it was confirmed that he had been replaced by two new co-heads of the division in Kris Davis and Olivier Courtemanche.

That’s right- replacements. Plural. As spotted by @Zuby_Tech on Twitter, the LinkedIn pages of Kris Davis and Olivier Courtemanche have revealed that the duo have been chosen by Sony to be the new co-heads of PlayStation Mobile.

Both Davis and Courtemanche have been at Sony for a little over a year, and until recently, both were serving as senior directors of the PlayStation Mobile division. Prior to their roles at Sony, Davis was at Kabam for six years, while Courtemanche spent a little under a year at Meta, and six years at Zynga before that.

Though things have been fairly quite on the PlayStation Mobile front, Sony has expressed on a number of occasions that it intends to greatly expand its presence in the space. Last year, it acquired mobile developer Savage Game Studios, which is currently working on PlayStation Mobile’s first AAA live service game.

One major step forward came when Sony announced that it had hired former Apple man Nicola Sebastiani to head up their PlayStation Mobile division, though it seems there’s been a setback there as well. As reported by MobileGamer.biz, Sebastiani has left the company, and is no longer leading the mobile division. As per the report, he has left the company to “pursue a new, undisclosed opportunity”.

Back in early 2021, Sony said that it was looking to bring “PlayStation’s most popular franchises” to mobile devices, with the company intending to to expand its audience to “millions of gamers” beyond the confines of consoles.

Last year, as part of its continuing mobile efforts, Sony acquired Savage Game Studios. The mobile team is working on “a new unannounced AAA mobile live service action game.”

It seems that even more significant strides are being made. A patent for a controller, published by Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Japan division recently and spotted by VGC, seems to point towards mobile gaming usage. It’s essentially two grips akin to the DualShock 4 with the mobile device in the middle. Images can be seen below though they don’t include “a shaft portion that can be tilted by the user, and detect the tilting direction and tilting amount of the shaft portion” as per the patent.

As such, PlayStation controllers can already be connected to mobile devices using Bluetooth and there are various third party devices for playing Xbox titles on mobile (courtesy of the cloud). This seems to be a natural extension of the same though there’s no telling just how far along the company’s mobile plans currently are. Stay tuned for more details in the meantime, as always.

As a reboot/sequel to the original God of War trilogy, God of War (2018) sees an older Kratos and his son Atreus venturing across the Norse realms. It’s received universal acclaim among critics with 19.5 million sold through as of August 2021. Along with “true” 4K on PC, unlocked frame rates are also supported. Graphical options will include higher resolution shadows, GTAO, SSDO and better screen space reflections.

Nvidia’s DLSS and Reflex low latency tech will also be supported. There’s also support for DualShock 4 and DualSense controllers with mouse and keyboard controls being fully customizable. And of course, PC players can look forward to 21:9 ultra-widescreen support. For more details on the game, check out our review of the PS4 version here.

Sony Bend Studio’s Days Gone is now available on PC for Steam and Epic Games Store. Released in 2019 for PS4, the open world action adventure title sees Deacon St. John traveling through the wilderness of Oregon, avoiding masses of infected humans and trying to survive. Along the way, he’ll search for his wife Sarah, cooperate with the local factions and unravel more about the Freakers’ origins.

Along with all of the post-launch updates like New Game Plus, Survival Mode and Challenges, various PC features have been added. Support for 4K resolution, uncapped framerates and ultra-wide monitors is provided. Level of detail, foliage and field of view have also seen improvements and there’s also a new Super Resolution Photo Mode for even higher resolution images.

Days Gone is currently available for PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store. You can check out our review for the original PS4 version here to learn more about the story and gameplay. Stay tuned for more details in the meantime.

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The Chinese Room’s first person adventure title Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is finally available on Steam. PC players can pick it up for $19.99.

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is about residents of a small English village going missing and the player trying to decipher the reasons why. Various lights have popped up all over town that can be interacted with to learn more.

The game was originally exclusive to the PS4 when it released in August 2015. PC version has been in development since September. Leaks of the same emerged later and the developer confirmed the news itself recently. The PC release is handled by PlayStation Mobile and follows critical acclaim for the PS4 version.

The Chinese Room is also busy developing a new title in Total Dark which will be heading to PC. It’s classified as an “isometric systems-driven adventure” and your guess is as good as ours as to what that means.

PlayStation Mobile, for those of you who might have forgotten, was the backend development infrastructure, and frontend storefront, for independent and major game developers to bring games that they develop for Android devices on to Sony’s PlayStation Vita portable. It was meant to usher in an era of glorious cross platform game support for the Vita and, alongside the promised major first and third party support, make it the one stop for all of your portable gaming needs, but of course, none of that ever panned out.

And now it never will- later this year, Sony will be ending support for PlayStation Mobile, they have confirmed. Specifically on September 10, the entire service will come to an end. games distribution ends in July. The Android app will also be inaccessible after this date.

So… yeah. Another PS Vita initiative bites the dust. Between this, the Maps app, the Near app, and YouTube, Sony really are leaving the Vita out to die, aren’t they?

If you were a fan of Sony’s cross-platform publishing venture for indie games, which would see titles release simultaneously on the PlayStation Vita and Google Android devices, then there’s bad news: Sony will no longer offer support for PlayStation Mobile on Android 4.4.3 devices and above.

Though this doesn’t mean you can’t play the games on your device, Sony doesn’t guarantee they’ll work correctly. You may not even be able to view the store at all. Android L, Google’s upcoming 64-bit update to the mobile OS, will neither be supported nor able to access the store. Also, there won’t be any PlayStation Certified mobile devices going forward.

For those who remember, PlayStation Mobile also provided a way for users to access classic PlayStation titles, and iOS got its fair of indie games like Super Crate Box and Rymdkapsel. It now appears the PS Vita will be the company’s focus in terms of portable indie games. Stay tuned for more.

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Sony have announced that their mobile platform has now expanded to include 8 new countries. Gamers with PlayStation certified smart phones will now be able to download the free PS Mobile app and browse the PS Store in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweeden and New Zealand.

PlayStation Mobile games will work cross-platform across you PlayStation certified Smartphone, tablets, and on the PlayStation Vita. Additionally downloaded games will be accessible on all three after only paying once, meaning you can pick up and play the same game on any of your platforms at any time at no additional cost.

PlayStation Mobile launched in Europe and the US in 2012 with a catalogue of 21 games. Their plan is to coninute to expand on the mobile gaming medium. A comment from Sony on PS mobile read:

“PlayStation Mobile marries fun, engaging PlayStation-style gaming with the convenience of PlayStation Certified mobile devices and an intuitive store navigation and purchasing experience.”