IN BRIEF: What’s Happened Today? (August 28th 2012)

So that claim from OnLive that Steve Perlman was to remain as CEO then? Yeah, that was a lie.

But he’s not the only boss out of the door – the bad news continues at shmup specialist Cave, whose CEO and president has also jumped ship. And let’s not even talk about the games retail on the UK High Street.

It’s not all bad news, though. Square Enix seems to be onto a winner with Sleeping Dogs, which saw off the challenges of both Darksiders II and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron to retain the top spot in the UK charts.

Speaking of Transformers, that was our Game of the Day last week, in case you missed it. Today the spotlight shifts to NCsoft’s new release Guild Wars II.

Here you go:

• Skyrim meets Grand Designs as the next Elder Scrolls DLC allows you to build and decorate a house – LINK
• Peter Molyneux reveals a new (read: extended) name for iOS debut Curiosity and also names his next title – LINK
• NCsoft’s Guild Wars 2 is out today, and we get PCR boss Helen French to tell us all about it – LINK
• You can now play loads of PSOne games on your PlayStation Vita – LINK
• Book tickets for The London Games Conference and land yourself a new Apple TV – LINK
• Next month will be Video Games Careers Month on MCVuk.com – LINK
• The boss of troubled shmup studio Cave has quit – LINK
• There’s no shifting Sleeping Dogs at the top of the UK charts – LINK
• Fresh from its legal victory, Apple is now trying to ban the sale of some Samsung phones in the US – LINK
• Lollipop Chainsaw becomes Grasshopper’s best ever selling title. Is that good or bad? – LINK
• Activision finally realizes there’s a mobile games market – LINK
• That’s 3.6m sales and counting for the Xbox Live version of Minecraft – LINK
• Steve Perlman is given the boot as boss of OnLive – LINK
• More trouble for the Uncharted film – LINK
• So how do you solve a problem like the UK games market? – LINK
• Microsoft is to release a free-to-play game on Xbox Live – LINK
• Our Game of the Day goes to Activision’s Transformers: Fall for Cybertron, which this author completed over the weekend and got very excited about – LINK