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PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi has pushed back against fans’ anger over Sony’s plan to discontinue physical game discs, calling it a “mentality issue.” One game industry veteran claims that cutting discs is “only” ever pushed by publishers as they seek better profit margins.

Ken Kutaragi, the founder of PlayStation and architect of the first three PlayStation consoles, has said that people being upset about Sony’s discontinuation of game discs is probably a “mentality issue”. He understands it, he noted, but that doesn’t make it “economically reasonable” for Sony to keep printing them.

Lee Soo-man, key producer of A2O Entertainment, speaks during “Welcome to Soulite From A2O Soul A2O Lite,” a global debut show for the agency’s new idol groups, at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, Monday. Yonhap

Park Jin-young, founder of JYP Entertainment and co-chair of the Presidential Committee on Popular Culture Exchange, testifies as a sworn witness before the National Assembly’s Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee during its annual parliamentary audit in Seoul, Wednesday. Yonhap

Meet Ken. He left a big tech job at Meta to build Harpagia, a text-based idle RPG, entirely by himself. A few hundred active users. Over $100K in revenue per year. ~$13K/month at peak $18K. Zero spent on ads. His take: the opportunity isn’t the next Flappy Bird or Clash of Clans. It’s building something…

PMK Entertainment is expanding with the appointment of Prodigy Public Relations founder Erik Bright as Executive Vice President of Content and Strategic Communications.

When you build your brand’s marketing around the experience of building the brand itself, where do you go once the construction’s complete?

Chang Byung-gyu, chairman of Krafton Inc.’s Board of Directors, met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss cooperation in gaming and emerging technologies and ways to expand the company’s investment in India.

Swiss private equity firm Ufenau Capital Partners and DEAG founder Peter Schwenkow have unveiled plans to build a European group in the live and family entertainment market.

Excel Entertainment and Amazon MGM Studios’ Mirzapur: The Movie has emerged as one of the most anticipated films in Indian cinema, with excitement building ever since its announcement. Marking the much-awaited theatrical transition of India’s biggest OTT franchise, the film will bring the iconic and widely loved world of Mirzapur to the big screen for…