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When Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) launches Sony Vizha on October 19, it will enter Tamil Nadu with a clear idea of the viewer it is courting: young, digitally fluent, exposed to the best storytelling in the world, and no less attached to their language and culture. Speaking at a round-table ahead of the launch,…

Sony has not commented on recent piracy and emulator advancements on PlayStation consoles. However, it may have felt compelled to act when a homebrew app listed free games for download. Overdrive gained popularity after the PS5 jailbreak became compatible with newer firmware.

As Sonymarches on to an all-digital future, it’s scary to see that a handful of its first-party games are suddenly disappearing from the PlayStation Store without warning, even if only temporarily. Fans have discovered that some PlayStation Studios games have seemingly been delisted in different regions, includingKnack 2,Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, andGod of War…

Gaming consoles are struggling in the United States. This summer, US Xbox sales fell to a record low, and PlayStation sales hit a rock-bottom level they haven’t seen since 2013.

Sony has taken a lot of heat for its decision to abandon physical games. Fans spent the summer bombarding PlayStation State of Play livestreams with shouts of “no disc, no buy,” while also creating a list of every time the company had previously claimed that players owned their digital games. Against this backdrop, other hardware…

Sony has quietly pushed out a brand-new update for the PlayStation Portal, introducing a small selection of helpful quality-of-life changes for the PS5’s handheld. The PlayStation Portal update follows rumors about an updated version of the handheld console on the way.

It’s easy to forget that Sony launched a fancy, expensive VR headset for PlayStation 5 just a few years ago. It’s seemingly only going to get easier going forward.

Being a Japanese company, Sony has always been somewhat closely aligned with the anime industry. With their acquisitions of Funimation and Crunchyroll however, the entertainment giant appears to be going all-in on anime, now announcing that they will launch a new dedicated hub on PlayStation 5 sometime early next year.

Sony appears to have completely given up on its PlayStation VR efforts. According to new US patent and trademark office records, Sony has just sold off a bunch of its VR patents to Meta. 

While Sony’s support for the PlayStation VR2 has been quite lacking since the headset’s launch, it looks like the company is getting ready to distance itself further from VR gaming. According to ZDNet Korea , Sony has transferred 43 of the patents it holds in the US to Meta. The transfer of these patents took…