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Asmongold Twitch Ban, Massive Pokémon Leak, And More Of The Week's Biggest News
19.10.2024
Well, kids, it’s been a week. From a popular Twitch streamer getting banned for racist remarks to a huge leak of one of Nintendo’s biggest properties, there’s been a lot going on in the gaming world. We also got a warning from an ex-PlayStation boss about the future of the industry and a short...
Ex-PlayStation Boss Warns Of 'Death Sentence' For Gaming
17.10.2024
There are more games coming out every day than ever before, but the total number of people playing them hasn’t seemed to grow by nearly the same amount. Former SIE Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden says that mismatch can’t be fixed just by churning out endless big-budget sequels and more...
The Guys Behind iPhone’s Hit Nintendo Emulator Hope It Jumpstarts iTunes For ROMs
14.5.2024
Riley Testut was about to hop on a rollercoaster in Copenhagen, Denmark when he got the news that Apple would finally be letting a retro emulator he’d been working on for 10 years onto its App Store. It was aboard The Demon in Tivoli Gardens, at 50 miles per hour across three loops, that he started...
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...
Ex-PlayStation Boss Has Mixed Feelings About Console Exclusives
11.3.2024
During the PS4 and PS5 era, PlayStation has established itself as a destination platform for exclusive series like Spider-Man, God of War, and The Last of Us. And now, former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden, who ran Sony’s gaming division from 2014 to 2019, has shared some ambivalent opinions on...
Ex-PlayStation Boss Has A Warning For The Game Industry
23.10.2023
Shawn Layden has been out of PlayStation for four years now, but retirement hasn’t stopped him from weighing in on larger trends in gaming. Long worried about ballooning blockbuster development budgets, the former CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America has added studio consolidation and...
PlayStation Boss Jim Ryan Is Retiring
28.9.2023
The head of PlayStation is stepping down, Sony announced in a press release today. Jim Ryan, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s CEO, is retiring after just four years on the job. The massive shakeup in leadership comes as the PlayStation 5 breaks sales records as Sony has doubled-down on prestige...
Let’s Get Really Nostalgic About The Early Days Of PlayStation
4.8.2023
“There was a sense that video games were toys. And Sony is not a toy company.” That’s how a new mini-oral history about PlayStation revolutionizing console gaming begins over at IGN. The words belong to former head of Sony Worldwide Studios, Shawn Layden, and they ring true for anyone who grew...
Sony Continues Bringing PlayStation Exclusives To PC With God Of War Next Year
20.10.2021
God of War will be the latest PlayStation exclusive to come to PC. A new listing for the 2018 action game revealed it will come to Steam next year on January 14, 2022.Read more
PlayStation Boss Wants Change He's Not Willing To Make
8.10.2021
Yesterday, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan said he wants his company’s games to one day be as prolific as music or movies. He would love to see a world where potentially “hundreds of millions of people” could enjoy them. It’s the type of future a lot of gaming executives talk about, but one that Sony...
Sony Is Buying The Remaster Powerhouse Behind All Those Rad Remakes
30.9.2021
Bluepoint Games is joining the PlayStation family. For real this time. Three months after Sony let the news slip in a rapidly deleted tweet, the PS5 maker has made it official.Read more