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Sony’s PlayStation has canceled previously unannounced games at two of its top subsidiaries, the company said. From a report: The games, at Oregon-based Bend Studio and Texas-based Bluepoint Games, were both “live service” projects designed to draw recurring revenue from… Continue Reading →
PlayStation hero shooter Concord will be taken offline on September 6, 2024 and all players will receive a full refund, Sony announced Tuesday. From a report: Announced on the PlayStation Blog, director Ryan Ellis said “while many qualities of the… Continue Reading →
An anonymous reader shares a report: Sony plans to eventually stop producing consumer-grade recordable Blu-ray discs, but commercial products such as game and film Blu-rays will still be produced. Sony Group will lay off 250 employees at a division that… Continue Reading →
Enlarge / A scene from One Piece, one of the animes that Funimation has distributed. (credit: Zoro/YouTube) Sony is making an effort to appease customers who will lose their entire Funimation digital libraries when the anime streaming service merges into… Continue Reading →
A shot from One Piece, one of the animes that Funimation made DVDs for. (credit: Crunchyroll: Inside Anime/YouTube) How long is “forever”? When it comes to digital media, forever could be as close as a couple of months away. Funimation,… Continue Reading →
E3’s decades-long history has been peppered with ups and downs. The annual Los Angeles-based gaming expo saw a decade of steady growth after it was founded in the mid-90s. The mid-00s, on the other hand, were an altogether different story,… Continue Reading →
Enlarge / Myth: You own the digital content you buy. (credit: MythBusters/YouTube) If you purchased any Discovery shows from the PlayStation Store, Sony has some bad news for you to discover. The company recently announced that all Discovery content purchased… Continue Reading →
Sony is bringing its own movie streaming service to PlayStation consoles beginning today. From a report: Previously known as Bravia Core, the service is being rebranded to Sony Pictures Core as it arrives on the PS5 and PS4. “Once you… Continue Reading →
An anonymous reader shares a report: When top anime streaming platform Crunchyroll was first gaining popularity as a pirated-video site in the mid-2000s, Japanese animation was considered a niche form of entertainment, appealing mainly to enthusiasts known as otaku. Today,… Continue Reading →
Enlarge / Sharpies are great for many things—labeling leftovers, writing “bedroom” on packing boxes, ruining dry erase boards. They’re not the best tool for sensitive documents submitted in a federal hearing. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Most people know AAA games cost… Continue Reading →