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The unfortunate trend of layoffs in the video game and tech industries continues to claim more victims as we move further into 2024. Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that it’s letting go of roughly 8% of its workforce which translates to around 900 employees across the globe to “future ready” the company. CEO and president Jim Ryan announced the layoffs [...]
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Sony Interactive Entertainment and NCSoft have entered into a strategic partnership to explore “global collaboration opportunities” across various fields of business. There aren’t any solid plans at the moment, but there’s speculation that Sony might be diving headfirst into the mobile gaming market. The partnership agreement might also have something to do with Microsoft’s recently completed acquisition of Activision Blizzard [...]
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Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Jim Ryan has announced that he’ll be stepping down from his role as CEO of Sony’s video game arm in March 2024. He has been with Sony for 28 years and served as the company’s President and CEO for the last five years. “I have announced my retirement after nearly 30 years at Sony Interactive Entertainment,” Ryan [...]
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Last week, Microsoft revealed that it was willing to enter into a 10-year licensing agreement with Sony to allow the latter continued access to the Call of Duty franchise on the PlayStation should the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger push through. Xbox head honcho Phil Spencer followed up that announcement with a tweet that Microsoft has made similar arrangements with Nintendo to [...]
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Over the past few months, the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger has come under intense scrutiny from various government agencies across the world for its potential effect on the video game market, especially since Sony might end up losing access to Activision Blizzard titles on the PlayStation. Sony has also argued that there won’t be anything to stop Microsoft from making games [...]
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It’s probably safe to say that we’ve all grown up with Sony games on the PlayStation, some of which have already been remade or remastered by the studio. That being said, Sony isn’t exactly the best when it comes to preserving their old games especially those that don’t have as big a following as the Final Fantasy series or their [...]
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Sony Interactive Entertainment has officially unveiled their version of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass which combines PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now into the all-new PlayStation Plus. The announcement comes just days after anonymous sources leaked information about the new subscription service. The new PlayStation Plus subscription will offer three membership tiers: PlayStation Plus Essential ($9.99/month), PlayStation Plus Extra ($14.99/month), and PlayStation [...]
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Sony is giving Bungie employees a lot of good reason to stay with the company following the studio’s acquisition – 1.2 billion reasons to be exact. Kotaku reports that roughly a third of the announced $3.6 billion that they’ll be paying Bungie will go to its employees with the condition that they remain employed by the company. The incentive will [...]
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When Sony announced that they were acquiring Bungie earlier this week, both companies maintained that the latter will continue to work independently under Sony Interactive Entertainment. Destiny 2 players, however, are worried about what this might mean for the game and the future of the franchise, especially when it comes to multi-platform support. Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan put [...]
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Video game companies are changing hands left and right this year as another major player in the industry announces one of the biggest acquisitions this year. Sony is currently in the process of acquiring Destiny and Halo franchise developer Bungie for $3.6 billion. According to the official press release, Bungie will continue to operate independently following the acquisition and will [...]
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