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MCV is reporting that Activision’s UK and Ireland MD Peter Hepworth has left the company. Hepworth made the move in order to pursue new opportunities.

Andrew Brown, Activision’s previous UK MD, will take over Hepworth’s role on an interim basis.

An Activision spokesperson said:

“Peter Hepworth, Managing Director of Activision’s UK operations has decided to leave the company to pursue new career opportunities. We will be continuing to work with Peter on UKIE initiatives and would like to thank him for his many years of service. In the interim, the Activision Blizzard UK and Ireland business will be overseen by Andrew Brown, Vice-President of Sales Excellence, while we look at a longer term solution.”

Activision Europe PR manager Sophie Orlando will also be departing. Orlando plans to join a PR agency in Australia.

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Mega Man Legends 3 is dead. Capcom cancelled the project and has no intentions to revive the title.

What’s a fan to do in this case? Well, while it’s far from what the final game would have been like, series followers can try a small fan-made browser offering. You’ll drive around as main character Barrett and pick up some Servbots along the way.

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Well before Epic Mickey splashed onto the scene, Buena Vista Games was throwing around some concepts for Mickey action games of its own. A former artist at the studio has outed art for one such project, Spy Mickey. BVG was also working on a figure fighter kind of like Smash Bros., and a Rocketeer revival. There’s a few pieces of concept art to check out in the gallery above.

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Japanese publication 4Gamer asked a whopping 112 industry figures about their favorite games of 2012. Not all of the responses have been translated, but a healthy selection can be found below.

Comcept CEO Keiji Inafune – Halo 4
Tokyo Jungle director Yohei Kataoka – Journey
Square Enix game design director Yuji Abe – Journey
Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida – Guild Wars 2
Arc System Works director Takumi Iguchiya – Bravely Default: Flying Fairy
Index director and chief composer Shoji Meguro – Gravity Rush
Valhalla Game Studios CTO Tomonobu Itagaki – Earth Defense Force 3
Tri-Ace director Takayuki Katsuro – XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Yakuza series director Toshihiro Nagoshi – Phantasy Star Online 2
Square Enix producer Tomoya Asano – Fire Emblem: Awakening
Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida – Persona 4 Golden
GungHo Online Entertainment consultant Hiromichi Tanaka – Animal Crossing: New Leaf

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Characters often change appearances throughout a game development cycle. That was no different with Kingdom Hearts.

Knight Goofy as well as Wizard Donald originally featured some different costumes. Art of the early designs are included above. There’s also a sketch showing the Monstro level, followed by its final design.

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Physical and digital sales combined, the UK video games market is down from £1.934bn in 2011 to £1.598bn in 2012. The market experienced a 17.4 percent dip, according to the ERA.

There is in a small bright spot in the digital space. Sales of digital releases are up 7.7 percent in 2012, growing to £552.2m. Despite the fact that digital video game sales are experiencing a slow trend upwards, it is the most valuable entertainment sector in the UK.

It should be noted that most titles are still being sold in physical form, but digital games are making an impact. 65.4 per cent of the 2012 video games market was comprised of physical sales, compared to 2011’s 73.5 percent.

But even with support from digital, the overall market is slumping. Physical video games are at a lukewarm £1.05bn.

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Pilotwings 64 composer Dan Hess shared a completely random and interesting revelation in an interview with N64 Blog.

Hess told the site that while the team was making the new Pilotwings, one Nintendo executive – who came “with a briefcase chained to his arm” from Japan showed its in-progress work on Super Mario 64. The team took inspiration from the visit, which “served as motivation for us to make Pilotwings 64 as good as we possibly could.”

Hess said:

“One of my fondest memories is of a Nintendo executive flying from Japan, literally with a briefcase chained to his arm, to show our team they’re developing Super Mario 64 game. We were all blown away and it served as motivation for us to make Pilotwings 64 as good as we possibly could.”

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Activision had Pi Studios working on a game called “Sing Hero” at one point. This was the studio behind many of the Rock Band Wii games.

Not many details are known. However, points would be accumulated based on the number of fans players had.

Eventually, Activision made the decision to stop producing music games. Guitar Hero was abandoned, as was the new Sing Hero title.

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These figmas look amazing. There’s even a figure for Pit’s eggplant transformation!

Thanks to Abe for the tip.

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The 3DS game card case was restocked in Club Nintendo around two weeks ago. Now the item is sold out.

Other sold out items include the fireworks fan, Donkey Kong poster set, and the previously-mentioned gold nunchuck.

Some (if not all) of these items will likely come back in the future. Stay on the lookout for updates.