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On July 1, 2026 , Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that it would stop producing physical discs for PlayStation games. This announcement was relatively ill-received by many around the world, but its implications are especially significant in China, where Japanese console makers play a unique role despite China’s relatively small console market.

When the burgeoning streaming service first rushed to fill its roster with post-Avengers: Endgame content for a hungry Marvel fandom mourning the halcyon days of Iron Man and Captain America, audiences were certainly treated to some real live-action gems from Marvel Studios as the pandemic lingered and kept many people inside glued to their screens.

When Asha Sharma passed the 100-day mark at the helm of Xbox last month, the consensus assessment was cautiously positive – but as I wrote at the time, Sharma’s role so far had mostly been crowd-pleasing positioning statements, and the genuinely hard choices would need to be made soon

(Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox spent nearly $80 billion in the last decade on deals that would give it popular video game titles like Call of Duty and Skyrim, betting that gamers would flock to its Netflix-like subscription service offering hundreds of options for endless play