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The legendary Jurassic Park actor filmed his scenes for the Legend of Zelda movie before his sudden death in July. His role hasn't been revealed, but it's likely one of his last performances.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has confirmed the team is building a Platinum Trophy equivalent for Xbox achievements, finally giving completionists the recognition they've been asking for since 2005.
Xbox servers locked players out of their own libraries today, just days after PSN went down. Two major outages in one week are doing more for the pro-disc argument than any petition could.
Sony Santa Monica confirmed God of War Laufey's release date at San Diego Comic-Con. The PS5 exclusive launches February 16, 2027, and it's never coming to PC.
Dan Houser thinks companies should sell discs if people want them. Thirty-seven million US sales in half a year suggest people still do.
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot is the first major publisher boss to weigh in on Sony's disc discontinuation, and he's firmly in Sony's corner.
Insomniac dropped a cinematic trailer for Marvel's Wolverine featuring Lady Deathstrike, Sabretooth, and brutal claw combat. The comment sections barely noticed, because they're still furious about Sony killing physical discs.
Sony's July PS Plus lineup leads with Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Rise of the Ronin, but the two PS2 classics buried at the bottom of the list are the picks I'm most excited about.
Trophy lists for the upcoming Black Ops 1 and 2 PlayStation ports have surfaced, and they paint a picture of classic features left behind. Wager Matches, Theater Mode, and League Play all appear to be missing.
Sony's PSN requirement means Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls won't be available on Steam in 132 countries. It's the Helldivers 2 fiasco all over again.
Wall Street loves what players hate. Sony's stock climbed 3.2% the day it announced the death of physical PlayStation discs, even as overwhelming player polls show near-universal opposition.
The director of the Video Game History Foundation has publicly agreed that piracy is now the only functioning form of game preservation, after Sony announced it will stop producing PlayStation discs in 2028.
Five years after Sony backed down from killing the PS3 and Vita storefronts, the company is pulling the plug again. This time, there's no fan campaign that's going to save them.
Sony co-invented the compact disc in the 1980s. Now it's pulling the plug on physical media for all new PlayStation games starting January 2028.
Sony is stripping 551 previously purchased Studio Canal movies from PlayStation users' libraries this September, offering zero compensation in return.
Sony's latest annual business report quietly removed its commitment to PC releases and replaced it with AI-driven strategy language. The shift tells us exactly where PlayStation's priorities now sit.
Sony's 2025 report pledged to deploy first-party titles to PC. The 2026 version erases that line entirely and fills the gap with AI buzzwords.
Last year, Sony pledged to keep deploying first-party titles to PC. This year, that line is gone, replaced by paragraphs about AI-powered tools and machine learning.
The activist investor that once pitched charging players $0.99 to make Mario jump now holds more Kadokawa shares than Sony, and it wants FromSoftware to self-publish everything.
After three PlayStation-exclusive classics spanning two decades, Fumito Ueda's new open-world action-adventure Gen Atlas is coming to Xbox for the first time in his career.
Stellar Blade's sequel swaps Eve for Evie, swords for gauntlets, and Sony for self-publishing. Shift Up is making three big bets at once.
Stuntman: Hollywood brings back the cult stunt-driving series with licensed vehicles from Knight Rider, Back to the Future, and more. Saber Interactive revealed the game during Sony's State of Play.
Marvel's Wolverine, Dune: Awakening, Control Resonant, Silent Hill: Townfall, and Onimusha all land on PS5 between September 15 and September 25. That's not a release window, it's a pileup.
RuneScape Dragonwilds will launch on PS5 this fall, making it the first game in the franchise's 25-year history to appear on a console.