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PlayStation Tournaments Locks In the Days of Play 2026 Lineup - Sony Opens Ten Games to PS5 Brackets, Adds Double-Payout Golden Tournaments in EA Sports FC 26, Madden NFL 26, and Mortal Kombat 1, Hands Gran Turismo 7 Players an Exclusive Days of Play Livery, and Puts a $200,000 Cash Pool Behind Fortnite's Days of Play Cup From May 27 Through June 10

Sony rolls a full PlayStation Tournaments layer into Days of Play 2026, with ten featured games, three Golden Tournaments offering double virtual-currency payouts, an exclusive Gran Turismo 7 livery for every participant, a hardware-and-services sweepstakes for anyone who plays a single match, and a $200,000 global cash prize pool anchoring Fortnite's Days of Play Cup.

mobile11 hours ago

MLB The Show Mobile Goes Worldwide on iPhone and Android Today - Sony San Diego's Free-to-Play Diamond Dynasty Spinoff Lands After a Six-Month Regional Soft Launch, Bundling 900-Plus Officially Licensed MLB and MLBPA Players, Seasons and Best-of-Three PvP Modes, and a Diamond Aaron Judge Pre-Register Bonus

MLB The Show Mobile launches worldwide today on iPhone and Android, capping a six-month regional soft launch. Sony San Diego's free-to-play Diamond Dynasty spinoff brings 900-plus licensed MLB players, Seasons PvE, best-of-three PvP, and a Diamond Aaron Judge pre-register bonus.

news2 days ago

Report: Sony's Bungie Plans 'Significant' Layoffs as Destiny 2 Development Ends - Bloomberg's Jason Schreier Says the June 9 Monument of Triumph Patch Closes Out the Live Service, No Destiny 3 Is Greenlit, and the Studio Pivots Senior Staff to Shoring Up Marathon

Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports Sony's Bungie is planning a 'significant' layoff round once the June 9 Monument of Triumph update closes out Destiny 2 development - no Destiny 3 greenlit, senior staff pivoting to Marathon, and Sony's books carrying in single-year Bungie write-downs.

news4 days ago

PlayStation State of Play Returns June 2 With First Deep Look at Marvel's Wolverine - Sony Confirms a 60-Minute Showcase Headlined by Insomniac's Third-Person Action Adventure Ahead of Its September 15 PS5 Launch, Plus Alamo Drafthouse Theater Watch Parties and a Lineup of First-Party and Third-Party Reveals

Sony has confirmed a 60-minute-plus State of Play broadcast for Tuesday, June 2 at 2:00pm PT, kicking off with a new look at Insomniac's Marvel's Wolverine ahead of its September 15 PS5 launch alongside other reveals from PlayStation Studios and third-party partners.

news1 week ago

Star Wars Outlaws and Red Dead Redemption 2 Headline the PlayStation Plus May Game Catalog Drop - Sony's Tuesday Refresh Adds Eight Titles for Extra and Premium, Brings Back Rockstar's Open-World Epic, and Hands Premium Subscribers the PS1 Time Crisis Remaster With Gyro Aiming

Sony's May 19 PlayStation Plus Game Catalog refresh is live, headlined by Star Wars Outlaws and Red Dead Redemption 2 returning to the cloud library for Extra and Premium subscribers. Eight titles total, with Premium also getting a fully remastered Time Crisis with gyro aiming on PS4 and PS5.

news1 week ago

Sony's PlayStation Strategy Just Reversed Six Years of PC Ports - Hermen Hulst Tells Staff in a Monday Town Hall That Single-Player PlayStation Studios Games Will Stay Locked to PS5, With Ghost of Yotei's PC Port Reportedly Scrapped and Marvel's Wolverine, Saros, and Intergalactic Locked to Console Exclusivity

PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst reportedly told staff in a Monday town hall that narrative single-player games will no longer be ported to PC. Ghost of Yotei, Marvel's Wolverine, Saros, and Intergalactic are locked to PS5; live-service titles like Marathon and Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls remain on PC. Existing PC ports stay for sale and supported.

news1 week ago

Sony Pulls the Trigger on Another PlayStation Plus Price Hike - Essential Monthly Goes to $10.99, Three-Month to $27.99, Effective May 20 for New Members, With India and Turkey Catching It Across the Board and 'Ongoing Market Conditions' Cited as the Reason

Sony confirmed a third PS Plus Essential price hike since 2022, lifting monthly to $10.99 (from $9.99) and 3-month to $27.99 (from $24.99) effective May 20 for new subscribers. PS Plus Extra, Premium, and the 12-month Essential plan are unchanged. India and Turkey catch the hike on every renewal regardless of subscription tenure.

news1 week ago

Housemarque Pulls Back the Curtain on Saros With Finding Carcosa: Becoming Arjun - A New PS5 Featurette Tracks How Rahul Kohli Found Arjun Devraj's Voice in an LA Traffic Jam

Housemarque just dropped Finding Carcosa: Becoming Arjun, a behind-the-scenes featurette for Saros that follows actor Rahul Kohli through performance capture and reveals how Arjun Devraj's defining vocal register emerged from a rushed, traffic-jammed recording session in LA.

news2 weeks ago

Sony Just Took a $765 Million Impairment Loss on Bungie — Marathon Failed to Land, Destiny 2 Kept Sinking, and the 2022 Acquisition Has Now Burned Through More Than 20% of Its $3.6 Billion Price Tag

Sony's FY2025 results add another $565 million Bungie writedown on top of October's $200 million one, totaling $765 million in impairments — more than 20% of the original $3.6B acquisition price. Sony cited Marathon's failed March launch (currently 6,000-15,000 concurrent on Steam) and Destiny 2's continued engagement decline.

news2 weeks ago

PS5 Sales Just Cratered 46% as Sony's Earnings Pivot Hard to AI — Naughty Dog and San Diego Studio Are Already Shipping a Tool That Generates Facial Animation in Seconds, Plus a Hair Pipeline That Eats Real-Life Video and Spits Out Strand-Level 3D Models

Sony shipped 1.5 million PS5s in Q4 FY25 against 2.8 million a year earlier, blaming a global memory crunch driven by AI data-center demand. PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino spent the rest of the call pivoting to AI tooling — naming Mockingbird (facial animation, used by Naughty Dog and San Diego Studio) and an unnamed hair pipeline that converts video of real hairstyles into strand-level 3D groomed models.

news2 weeks ago

Horizon Hunters Gathering Resurfaces With a Closed Test #2 Teaser — Guerrilla's Co-Op Spin-Off Adds Two New Hunters, an Ashwater Valley Episode, Hard and Merciless Difficulty Tiers, and Solo Mode With NPC Allies for the May 22-25 PS5 and Steam Test

Sony and Guerrilla just unveiled Closed Test #2 for Horizon Hunters Gathering, running May 22-25 on PS5 and PC (Steam) with sign-ups via the PlayStation Beta Program. The test adds two new playable Hunters (Ensa, an Oseram smuggler; Shadow, a Carja covert operative with a tame Stalker machine), a new region called Breakers' Bounty, an Ashwater Valley narrative episode, two new difficulty tiers (Hard and Merciless), and NPC-assisted solo play — quietly killing the cancellation rumors that have been circling the project for months.

news4 weeks ago

Sony Announces R-Rated Animated Bloodborne Movie at CinemaCon — JackSepticEye Co-Producing

Sony Pictures unveils an R-rated animated Bloodborne movie at CinemaCon 2026 co-produced by JackSepticEye and PlayStation Productions, promising a faithful gothic adaptation of FromSoftware's beloved PS4 classic.

news1 month ago

PlayStation Plus April 2026: Lords of the Fallen, SAO Fractured Daydream, and Tomb Raider Remastered

Sony reveals April's PS Plus lineup featuring Lords of the Fallen, Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream, and Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered, available April 7th.

industry1 month ago

Sony Raises PS5 Prices by Up to $150 Amid Global Memory Chip Crisis

Sony has hiked PS5 prices by $100–$150 globally starting April 2, citing a severe DRAM shortage driven by AI infrastructure demand. The PS5 now costs $649.99 and the Pro hits $899.99 in the US.