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One Year After Concord, PlayStation Studios Boss Says Sony’s Learned A Lot
25.8.2025
Meanwhile, Silksong's impending launch is rocketing Hollow Knight back up the charts
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PlayStation Says Marathon Is Learning From Concord's Mistakes As It Doubles-Down On Live Service Gaming As A 'Key Strategic Pillar'
13.6.2025
It was just four years ago that Sony promised to launch 12 live service games by early 2026. Since then, many of those have been delayed, canceled, or taken offline. But that doesn’t seem to be deterring the console maker. PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst said in a new business update that live...
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Dev's New PlayStation Studio Looking For Artist With 'Advanced Expertise' In Generative AI
21.5.2025
Dark Outlaw Games is a new PlayStation studio born out of the ashes of Deviation Games and led by developer Jason Blundell, best known for Call of Duty: Black Ops’hit Zombies mode. The team is looking for a concept artist for its first project, but not just any concept artist. A new job listing...
Sony's Newest PlayStation Studio Is Made Up Of Destiny And Fortnite Vets Making A Multiplayer 'Frog-Type' Game
7.5.2025
A new team has joined the ranks of PlayStation’s first-party studios. Alongside Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Housemarque and others now sits teamLFG, a group of ex-Bungie developers working on a mysterious “frog-type” multiplayer project. I have a lot of questions, too.Read more
God Of War Multiplayer Game And More Canceled Following Concord Flop
17.1.2025
Questions about Sony’s live-service plans continue to mount. The company confirmed two games were canceled at Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games, responding to a report by Bloomberg that the PlayStation 5 maker had canned two projects were part of the company’s ongoing multiplayer push. Neither studio...
Sony President Promises Better PlayStation Quality Checks After Concord's Failure
8.11.2024
There have been two massive questions hanging over Concord, the expensive PlayStation 5 hero shooter that almost nobody played. The first one is: how did a game that wasn’t busted or terrible bomb so spectacularly? The second is: how did a game seemingly destined to fail get through Sony’s quality...
Xenoblade Chronicles X Is Coming To Switch, The Concord Studio Gets Shut Down, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
2.11.2024
This week, people desperate for Nintendo to finally pull back the curtain on the successor to the Switch instead got an announcement that the acclaimed role-playing gameXenoblade Chronicles X, previously only available on Wii U, will make its way to the handheld hybrid next year. Also, Guy...
It Feels Like Sony Is Finally Leaving The PlayStation 4 Behind
3.7.2024
The long-tail on the PlayStation 4 has been incredible. The console still has 49 million active users according to Sony’s most recent estimate. But all good things must come to an end, and it feels more clear than ever that Sony is ready to leave the PS5's predecessor in the past, with Horizon Lego...
Hands-On With Horizon Lego Adventures: A Perfect Fit For Nintendo Switch
12.6.2024
The first thing to know about the recently announced Horizon Lego Adventures is that it’s a Lego game first and an adaptation of Horizon Zero Dawn second. It’s not attempting to be a one-to-one, brick-by-brick recreation of the expansive open-world RPG or even an abridged version. Think of it more...
Our First Look At Concord, PlayStation's Guardians Of The Galaxy-Infused Hero Shooter
31.5.2024
Sony finally pulled back the curtain to reveal what Concord is actually about. It’s giving Guardians of the Galaxy vibes mixed with a traditional competitive shooter. The PvP FPS was first teased a year ago and will be coming to PlayStation 5 and PC later this year on August 23. Read more
7 Things We Just Learned About Sony’s Big PlayStation 5 Plans
30.5.2024
Sony recently held a business briefing for investors where it painted an incredibly rosy picture around the PlayStation 5 and its future outlook. Despite recent layoffs and failing to reach its sales goals for 2023, the company seems confident that the console’s best days are still ahead. Read more
PlayStation 5 Sales Fall Short Of PS4, Even As Helldivers 2 Breaks Records
14.5.2024
Sony sold over 20 million PlayStation 5s in its last fiscal year, an impressive number that nevertheless failed to hit its original goal of 25 million, and even missed its revised target of 21 million consoles sold. The latest numbers make it clear that the next-gen hardware will probably never...
Sony Names PlayStation's New Bosses
14.5.2024
Sony has named existing company veterans Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino as the new heads of PlayStation. Hulst will take over and run a new Studio Business Group while Nishino is in charge of the Platform Business Group. The division of roles replaces former CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment...
PlayStation Cancels Multiple Games Amid Massive Job Cuts
27.2.2024
This morning, Sony revealed that it is adding to the ever-growing pile of industry layoffs. In official posts, the company announced it had “initiated a reduction” in workforce. These cuts will impact a variety of PlayStation’s first-party studios including Insomniac Games, Guerrilla, Naughty...
Everything We Saw At Sony's January State Of Play
1.2.2024
On January 31, Sony held it’s regular State of Play broadcast to show off upcoming games in its ever-growing library. We got a close look at Rise of Ronin, as well as Stellar Blade, and a few more intriguing titles. So let’s dig into everything we saw at the showcase.Read more
Kojima's New Game Physint Is A Return To The Espionage Genre
1.2.2024
If Death Stranding is not your usual Hideo Kojima vibe, it sounds like Kojima Productions is working on something more along the lines of Metal Gear Solid. During the State of Play presentation that took place on January 31, Kojima joined Sony’s Hermen Hulst to announce a new action-espionage...
Report: Bungie Will Lose Independence Within Sony If Destiny 2 Fails Financial Goals
6.12.2023
While Sony acquired Destiny 2 maker Bungie for $3.6 billion in 2022, it repeatedly claimed the creator of Halo and other hits would remain an “independent subsidiary.” Now IGN reports that if Bungie’s sci-fi MMO keeps failing revenue targets, Sony could dissolve its existing board of directors...
Sony Assures It Won’t Forget Single-Player PlayStation Games Amid Online Push
24.3.2022
PlayStation has grown increasingly vocal about its live-service auspices. But the firm’s oeuvre of top-flight single-player games isn’t getting sidelined as a result, at least according to statements made by two PlayStation execs in a recent interview.Read more
Horizon’s Aloy Joins Genshin Impact, Is Cute As A Button
22.7.2021
Horizon heroine Aloy trades the machine-infested wilds of a future Earth for the lush, fantasy lands of Teyvat when she arrives in Genshin Impact this fall, developer miHoYo announced today.Read more
Sony Pulls Ad Featuring Upside-Down PS5
8.7.2021
Sony posted an ad on Twitter this morning showing a dad capping off his day by playing some God of War. Typical fare, as far as these things go, except that the video also featured an upside-down PlayStation 5. Gasp! After fans pointed this out, the tweet got deleted with no explanation for...