Tag: Sony

How former PlayStation boss views gaming’s tumultuous time | Shawn Layden interview

Shawn Layden used to run Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios, a position that gave him unique insight into the whole industry and triple-A games. Layden is now an adviser for companies like Tencent Games, Streamline Media Group and Readygg. These consulting roles help him steer modern game companies as they navigate what has become a […]

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Ex-Sony boss Shawn Layden advises Readygg as it raises $4M for Web3 gaming

Readygg has appointed gaming leader Shawn Layden as an adviser and raised $4 million in funding for its Web3 gaming business. It’s a big move for Layden, as he has been a Web3 skeptic in many ways and has come around to seeing the value of ownership that Readygg is creating with its business, Layden […]

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Sony planning to lay off 900 employees, CEO calls the decision ‘inevitable’ and says ‘several PlayStation Studios are affected’

In what continues to be a very gruesome, tiring, and upsetting trend, Sony has announced that it will be laying off approximately 900 employees, which is around 8% of its workforce, in an attempt to “reduce [its] overall headcount globally”. It marks the second-largest layoff in the industry this year. CEO Jim Ryan announced the […]

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Sony isn’t happy with Bungie: PlayStation boss wants more ‘accountability’ from the studio on money and deadlines

In a Q&A session with analysts following Sony’s most recent financial report, PlayStation chairman Hiroki Totoki praised the creativity of Destiny 2 studio Bungie, but also said he wants to see more “accountability” for development budgets and schedules from the studio’s leadership. Sony announced the acquisition of Bungie in January 2022, a blockbuster deal seen […]

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Helldivers 2 studio boss says it will ‘never’ add PVP, and for anyone looking for it ‘I recommend Tarkov’

Bad news if you were looking forward to executing your friends in the name of managed democracy: Helldivers 2 creative director and Arrowhead studio CEO Johan Pilestedt says the game will “‘never’ add a PVP mode,” and that you’d be better off looking elsewhere to get your fix of player-vs-player mayhem. For instance, maybe you’ve […]

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PlayStation bosses say they want to work more ‘proactively’ on PC releases, and it sure sounds like Sony is gearing up for more simultaneous debuts like Helldivers 2

Boy, it’s great to play on PC, isn’t it? It’s like the medieval Baghdad of videogames: everything from everywhere eventually passes through here, with all sorts of so-called console exclusives from both sides of the Sony/Microsoft divide making the leap to our neutral platform of choice. Nintendo remains in its well-fortified compound, I suppose, but […]

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Sony Honda’s Afeela To Debut SUV, Budget EVs To Fight Tesla Before 2030

Sony Honda’s Afeela To Debut SUV, Budget EVs To Fight Tesla Before 2030 | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Afeela hopes to take the fight to American EV giant, Tesla, with a three-vehicle lineup before the end of the decade 2 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Afeela, the new electric vehicle joint venture between Japan’s Sony […]

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Sony Honda’s Afeela To Debut SUV, Budget EVs To Fight Tesla Before 2030

Sony Honda’s Afeela To Debut SUV, Budget EVs To Fight Tesla Before 2030 | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Afeela hopes to take the fight to American EV giant, Tesla, with a three-vehicle lineup before the end of the decade 2 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Afeela, the new electric vehicle joint venture between Japan’s Sony […]

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Modders resurrect forgotten firstparty PlayStation RPG with a PC port that’s already better than the original and promise 4K and 60FPS ‘in the next few months’

A team of modders have breathed new life into cult PlayStation RPG The Legend of Dragoon, a first-party game for the original console developed by Sony Japan. The game was released in Japan in 1999 but wouldn’t reach North America until 2000 and Europe by 2001, and the combination of a mixed critical reception and […]

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Modders resurrect first party PlayStation RPG with a PC port that’s already better than the original and promise 4K and 60 fps ‘in the next few months’

A team of modders have breathed new life into cult PlayStation RPG The Legend of Dragoon, a first-party game for the original console developed by Sony Japan. The game was released in Japan in 1999 but wouldn’t reach North America until 2000 and Europe by 2001, and the combination of a mixed critical reception and […]

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Death Stranding 2: On the Breach isn’t coming until 2025

Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. Package delivery enthusiasts will have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on Death Stranding 2. Sony debuted a new in-depth trailer at the end of its first State of […]

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Rise of Ronin has fast combat and movement in Edo, Japan

Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. Sony gave some State of Play airtime to Rise of the Ronin, a samurai action-role-playing game coming to the PlayStation in 2024. The game will debut on March 22, 2024. It’s the […]

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Ken Levine’s Judas gets a trailer at Sony’s State of Play

Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. Ken Levine’s Ghost Story Games teased more in-game scenes from its upcoming game, Judas. The title is in development for the PlayStation 5, which is why Sony showed it off at the […]

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Walls between PC and console continue to crumble as Horizon Forbidden West announces March release date

Time was, the walls between console and PC games were hard and fast. PC had its strategy games and CRPGs, PlayStation had its Japanese bangers, Nintendo had Mario and Zelda, and Xbox had Blinx: The Time Sweeper (all the other companies were very jealous). But these days, not counting Nintendo, everything is everywhere. And everything […]

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Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler Might Be Doing a Vampire Movie, And We Have Major Thoughts

Hollywood has been absolutely buzzing about Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler highly-anticipated, upcoming film collaboration after the success of “Black Panther. Initially it was said that the movie will be a “genre thriller,” and no other details were revealed. ‘True Detective: Night Country’ Star On Being Biracial On & Off Screen: “You Never Feel Like […]

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Star-studded cinematic horror Until Dawn is getting a big screen adaptation, an ‘R-rated love letter to the horror genre’

Shazam director David F. Sandberg has decided to take some time off from superhero movies in order to film horrible things happening to some people on a mountain. He’s been enlisted to direct an adaptation of Until Dawn, Supermassive’s first cinematic horror choose-your-own adventure that was the precursor to things like The Quarry and The […]

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My 10 best moments at CES 2024 | The DeanBeat

Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. CES is always full of interesting moments that kick off the year in technology, and CES 2024 was no different. I’ve already talked about my favorite products of the big tech trade […]

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The president of Sony Honda is allowed to drive an electric car on-stage with a DualSense yet I’m not allowed to play games while I drive. Typical

Sony’s CES 2024 presentation might not have delivered in the way some might have hoped, with no news of the much-rumoured PS5 Pro, but that didn’t mean it didn’t have its moments of excitement. Enter, Sony Honda Mobility president and COO Izumi Kawanishi, who livened up proceedings by driving a car onstage with a Sony […]

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Sony might be ready to launch an updated Dualsense controller with a much larger battery capacity

Sony’s masterpiece of design, the Dualsense controller, is packed to the hilt with features: An awesome haptic feedback system, a touch-sensitive panel, and a sweet mini-speaker for added immersion in games. Naturally, one needs a PlayStation 5 to make the most of these but one thing that’s a bit of a pain on both PC […]

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Afeela Sedan Inches Closer To Production As Updated Prototype Debuts At CES

Afeela Sedan Inches Closer To Production As Updated Prototype Debuts At CES | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The near-production Afeela prototype features revised styling and an updated cabin 4 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Sony Honda Mobility has used CES to unveil an “evolved” version of the Afeela sedan. The latest prototype sports an updated […]

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New Mercedes Assistant Will Speak To You Like A Friend And Match Your Mood

New Mercedes Assistant Will Speak To You Like A Friend And Match Your Mood | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The new system includes an advanced MBUX Virtual Assistant and will also support a host of arcade games https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ <!––> by Brad Anderson 4 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Mercedes-Benz has provided the world with a […]

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Sony applies to patent dynamic difficulty settings that respond to your performance, one year after EA did the same thing with controller settings

Sony has applied to patent systems that automatically fiddle with “parameters that change the difficulty of the game” based on your performance, a patent on the World Intellectual Property Organization‘s website reveals. (Actually, the patent reads “difficultly” at the time of writing, so Sony may in fact be referring to the implementation of dynamic cults. […]

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2023 showed us the cost of pushing singleplayer developers to make multiplayer games

On the second day of reviewing Redfall, Arkane’s co-op vampire FPS, I logged in and lost all my progress. I made the critical mistake of playing with someone else in a multiplayer game that only remembers what one player does. I wasn’t devastated about losing a few hours of my time,  but disappointed that the […]

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Naughty Dog officially cancels The Last of Us Online multiplayer

Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. For years, fans of The Last of Us have waited for Naughty Dog to release a promised online multiplayer title, an extension of the original games Factions mode. However, the developer officially […]

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