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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…

Sony’s VR period looks to be slowing down immensely after the company approved the sale of hundreds of VR-related patents to rival firm Meta.

Sony’s anime service Crunchyroll has launched new division Crunchyroll Storyworks, which will be focused on anime and live-action adaptations made in collaboration with Japan’s creative ecosystem.

Sony is adding Fnatic-inspired finishes to two INZONE gaming-audio products, with an orange H9 II headset and a Glass Purple E9 variant announced on October 6, 2026.

Former PlayStation exec Shawn Layden has recently commented Sony’s decision to stop manufacturing PlayStation discs from January 2028.