30 articles tagged with “Sony”
Sony is raising PlayStation Plus prices for new subscribers starting May 20, citing 'ongoing market conditions.' The timing is remarkable given Xbox just lowered Game Pass prices last month.
Three studios, one week, identical talking points. The word 'efficient' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in gaming's AI conversation right now.
Sony's CEO confirmed the PS6 has no set launch date or price, with memory costs driven by AI demand forcing the company to consider changing its entire business model.
Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hideaki Nishino detailed two internal AI tools during the company's corporate strategy presentation, including one called Mockingbird that compresses hours of animation into moments.
On May 8, Sony's CEO, an Epic senior manager, and a Warhorse creative director all delivered near-identical reassurances about AI and jobs. The timing is hard to ignore.
Sony's CEO admitted during an earnings call that the company hasn't decided when the PS6 will launch or what it will cost, citing skyrocketing memory prices driven by AI demand.
Sony's $3.6 billion Bungie acquisition continues to bleed value, with nearly $800 million written off in a single fiscal year as both Marathon and Destiny 2 hit historic lows.
A class-action settlement means Sony has to pay $7.85 million after allegedly monopolizing digital game pricing on the PlayStation Store. If you bought certain digital games between April 2019 and December 2023, you might be owed money.
A class action settlement means Sony will pay out roughly $7.8 million in credits to U.S. PlayStation users who bought specific digital games through retail codes. If you're eligible, you might not even need to do anything.
Sony has confirmed its new PlayStation DRM requires a single online check after purchase, not the recurring 30-day check-in that sent players into a spiral. But the CBOMB issue is still hanging.
Sony has finally broken its silence on the PS5 and PS4 DRM controversy, confirming that the 30-day timer is a one-time license check tied to refund abuse prevention, not a recurring online requirement.
PlayStation Plus May 2026 pairs Wuchang: Fallen Feathers with Nine Sols, giving subscribers two very different flavours of punishment alongside EA Sports FC 26.
Nintendo is reportedly shopping a Metroid movie pitch, and Sony Pictures and Universal are locked in a bidding war to produce it. Both studios want live action.
Naoki Yoshida told FFXIV players at Fan Fest to start saving for a PS5. With the cheapest model now $600, that's a bitter pill for anyone still on last-gen hardware.
Sony's age verification push now has a hard deadline. PS5 players in the UK and Ireland must verify by June or lose access to voice chat, messaging, and more.
Sony is telling PlayStation users to verify their age or lose access to voice chat, messages, parties, and even Discord integration. The rollout starts in the UK and Ireland, with global expansion planned later this year.
Sony is rolling out mandatory age verification for PlayStation communication features. Skip it, and you lose access to messages, voice chat, party sessions, and even Discord integration.
Speaking at an Australian games festival, the former PlayStation Worldwide Studios president said Jim Ryan fired him in 2019 because he wouldn't comply with unspecified demands he called "ridiculous."
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered headlines the PS Plus Extra catalog for April 2026, vindicating every player who refused to pay full price for what many called an unnecessary upgrade.
Sony confirmed at CinemaCon 2026 that filming on the live-action Legend of Zelda movie is done, with the May 7, 2027 theatrical release still on track.
Sony has announced a Bloodborne animated movie at CinemaCon, described as an R-rated feature that stays true to the game's gory spirit. YouTuber JackSepticEye is co-producing.
Sony has signed new directors for the Metal Gear Solid movie after more than a decade of development, and the casualty is the self-described MGS superfan fans were quietly rooting for.
Sony wants to put a real fan inside Gran Turismo 7, but getting there involves questionnaires, video interviews, and signing over your likeness. The real question is what Sony gets to keep.
Sony has swept two more shovelware publishers off the PlayStation Store, pulling over 1,000 listings from Nostra Games and CGI Lab. It's the second major purge in two months, and the scale suggests this isn't a one-off cleanup.
The first full trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day is out, and while Peter Parker's mutating DNA is the headline, Sadie Sink's heavily obscured character is the conversation everyone's actually having.
Sony has confirmed the PS Plus Extra and Premium lineup for March 2026, and Space Marine 2 is the headliner. Eight games go live on March 17.
Ballistic Moon, the UK studio behind the 2024 Until Dawn remake, has been officially dissolved after a catastrophic commercial failure that reportedly underperformed Concord's launch on PlayStation 5.
Modder Andy Nguyen got Linux running on a PS5 Slim, booted GTA 5 Enhanced with ray tracing at 60fps, and immediately hit the thermal wall that explains why Sony has never flipped this switch officially.
The National Videogame Museum has acquired the Sony MSF-1, the oldest known Nintendo PlayStation prototype ever built and the only one of its kind. It's now housed in Frisco, Texas, where it belongs.
Sony has quietly killed the PC versions of Ghost of Yotei and Saros, according to a Bloomberg report by Jason Schreier. If you were waiting to play either on Steam, you're now waiting forever.