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Fox, the media behemoth that makes TV shows and movies, is now getting into gaming. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the company announced this week that it has formed a new division, FoxNext, to head up development on video game, virtual reality, and augmented reality productions. The division will also work on “location-based entertainment” such as theme parks.

FoxNext will work with Fox’s TV and film divisions on all of this.

In regards to upper management, Salil Mehta, who was the president for content management at 20th Century Fox Film, will be FoxNext’s CEO. Before joining Fox, he worked as NBC Universal.

For gaming specifically, FoxNext combines Fox’s existing gaming efforts, including The Simpsons: Tapped Out and Alien: Isolation “into one new interactive unit.”

“FoxNext represents a natural next step in defining our long-term vision in this arena,” Fox executive Stacey Snider said in a statement. “And Salil is quite simply the perfect executive to build this group into what we know will be an industry leader.”

We’ll report back with more information on FoxNext as it becomes available.

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Eiji Aonuma has been with Nintendo ever since graduating in 1988, and has worked on the Zelda franchise from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time through to today.

Waypoint recently spoke with Aonuma about his work as producer on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, about everything from the fan-base, Switch battery life, and the size of the world, to the possibility of seeing a female Link in a future game in the franchise.

“The opinions that resonate most with me, I definitely take them into account when the time comes to create the next Zelda,” Aonuma said to the question of how much attention the Zelda team pays to fan expectations. “If you listen to them all, you’ll end up with… Well, I’ve no idea what kind of game you’d end up with, but it probably wouldn’t be a very good one. So we have to follow our own vision, really, and not pay too much mind to speculation.”

What, then about the oft-rumored idea of a female Link? “…on the Wii U there’s already Hyrule Warriors. In that you’ve got Princess Zelda herself as a playable character, and a real assortment of playable characters including numerous female ones,” Aonuma said. “So, that title exists already. But in the future, regarding doing that sort of thing again, and changing what you expect from Zelda characters, I’d say yes, it’s a possibility.” This is somewhat counter to comments the Aonuma made in a previous interview with GameSpot during E3 2016, in which he said that while it was considered, the team “thought it best to come back to this [original] makeup.”

Nintendo confirmed during its Nintendo Switch Presentation that while running Breath of Light, the Switch’s battery would last for around three hours. To that point, Aonuma confirmed that the game’s autosave system is frequent enough that players “shouldn’t lose too much progress. You’d only go back a short distance.”

To read the full interview, head over to Waypoint.

In other Breath of Light news, a list of differences between the Switch and WiiU versions has been confirmed, Aonuma confirmed in another interview that it’s possible we’ll see a second Legend of Zelda game on the Switch, and check out a battle with a Guardian.

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According to a new report, the Nintendo Switch will not support Netflix at launch in March.

Business Insider (via NeoGAF) reports that the hybrid system, which can be played at home or on the go, “won’t have many multimedia functions at launch.” This information was sourced to a quote from Nintendo’s Kit Ellis. “Don’t plan to watch Netflix on the Switch, for instance,” Business Insider said.

The Wii U and the 3DS have Netflix apps. As mentioned, it’s possible that a Netflix app for the Switch could come later. We have followed up with Nintendo in an attempt to get more details.

The Switch launches on March 3, priced at $300.

Highly anticipated RPG Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of the Switch’s five launch titles. In other news, series producer Eiji Aonuma recently teased that Nintendo might make another Zelda game for the Switch after Breath of the Wild.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime believes the Switch has a bright future. He recently said there were two main reasons why the Wii U underperformed–and Nintendo has taken steps to make sure things go better for the Switch. You can read our interview with Fils-Aime here.

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Microsoft no longer shares Xbox One sales figures, but a new report from research group SuperData claims that the console has reached 26 million units sold since launch in November 2013.

As spotted by GamingBolt, this information was published in a report about the Nintendo Switch, addressing the entire video game market. It’s also claimed that the PS4 has an install base of nearly 55 million units; that’s slightly above the 53.4 million units that Sony officially disclosed earlier this month.

GameSpot has contacted Microsoft in an attempt to determine if the 26 million figure cited for Xbox One sales is accurate. We will report back with any information we receive from the company.

Instead of hard sales numbers, Microsoft instead talks about monthly active users, which counts the number of people logged into Xbox Live in the past 30 days across Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC. By Microsoft’s latest count, it had 47 million monthly active users.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer said it is riskier to divulge Xbox Live active user figures, as these can go down on a quarter-to-quarter basis, while console shipment numbers can only increase.

“If I sold a console two years ago and now it’s in a closet collecting dust, that’s not good for the gamer, that’s not good for the developers, and frankly, it’s not good for Microsoft,” Spencer said. “The nice thing about us selling consoles is your console install base will always go up. But that’s not really a reflection of how healthy your ecosystem is. We focus on the monthly active user base because we know those are gamers making a conscious choice to pick our content, our games, our platform, our service. We want to gauge our success on how happy and engaged those customers are. We need to keep them happy.”

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A new batch of images from the upcoming action sequel John Wick: Chapter 2 have been released. The movie hits theaters next month, and stars Keanu Reeves as the struggling-to-stay-retired assassin. Check the pictures out below:

These images follow a couple of new trailers released over the past few weeks–watch them here and here. A stylish new poster was also posted on twitter last week–check it out at the end of this story.

John Wick: Chapter 2 is released on February 10, and also stars Common, Laurence Fishburne, Bridget Moynahan, Lance Reddick, John Leguizamo, and Ian McShane.

Director Chad Stahelski recently revealed that he was already planning a third John Wick movie. “The studio has asked us to put our heads together and see if we can come up with something,” he said. “Winston [the character played by McShane] is a big part of the next one, so is Lance Reddick. We’ve got some ideas.”

In related news, David Leitch, who co-directed the first John Wick and produces the sequel, has been hired to helm Deadpool 2, after original director Tim Miller quit the movie.

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