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Image Source : FILE 900 employees to lose jobs from Sony PlayStation gaming division Sony, a Japanese technology giant is set to lay off around 900 employees from its PlayStation division which is around 8 per cent of its workforce reduction. The company said that this decision was "extremely difficult but necessary". In a statement, Sony Interactive…

Image: Olly Curtis/Future Publishing (Getty Images)This morning, Sony revealed that it is adding to the ever-growing pile of industry layoffs. In official posts, the company announced it had “initiated a reduction” in workforce. These cuts will impact a variety of PlayStation’s first-party studios including Insomniac Games, Guerrilla, Naughty Dog, Firesprite, and more, with the biggest cut hitting PlayStation’s London Studio, which is being closed down in its entirety. In total, Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Sony…

Sony may shrink the gap between the launches of its PlayStation exclusives and PC ports. Company president Hiroki Totoki suggested in a post-earnings call Q&A session Wednesday (via VGC) that he wants PlayStation to go “aggressive on improving our margin performance,” with “multi-platform” games playing a significant role. He clarified in the talk that, by multi-platform, he meant on PlayStation and PC — not Xbox or Switch.When asked about Sony’s profits not keeping up with increasing gross income, he said hardware…

It’s been a tough time for PC gamers in 2023, but Sony’s next major PC port could finally solve some problems. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, originally released for the PlayStation 5 over two years ago, is finally arriving on PC. It supports all of the latest PC bells and whistles, but also something completely new: DirectStorage 1.2. That may not seem like a big deal — after all, Forspoken arrived with DirectStorage and still had performance issues, while promises of a patch in Diablo IV have yet to manifest.…

Sony will be hosting the PlayStation Showcase on 24 May and the company is expected to make major announcements during the event including the details…

While PlayStation continues to thrive thanks to big-budget games like God of War Ragnarok, two recent events show how much Sony’s video game brand is changing. The first came when the Sony-owned studio Media Molecule would end support for Dreams, a PS4-exclusive experience creation tool allowing players to build and share games with one another, later this year. Shortly after that news, PixelOpus — another Sony-owned studio — announced it would be shutting down on June 2 after publishing just two titles: Entrwined in…

Sony has revealed the games that are going to be part of April’s batch of PlayStation Plus Essential titles, and it includes a game that was a PS5 launch title, as well as a brand new game from the developers of Dead by Daylight. Specifically, the three games that will be available starting April 4 are the PS4 and PS5 versions of Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Meet Your Maker, and Tails of Iron. Sackboy: A Big Adventure is a 3D platformer spinoff of Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet series that launched…

Marvel's Spider-Man 2, the much-anticipated sequel to the 2018 web-slinging odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man, will release in September. That's according to the Venom voice actor Tony Todd, who responded to a fan sharing their excitement on Twitter. “Looks like September! Massive publicity coming in August,” he replied, asking fans to hold their breath. Todd rose to prominence in Hollywood with the Candyman series of slasher horror films, and this information was by no accounts tweeted in an official capacity. Developer…

Marvel's Spider-Man 2, the much-awaited sequel to 2018's web-swinging open-world odyssey, will launch in the autumn of 2023. Going by the seasons for the Global North, Spider-Man 2 will drop between September and November 2023. Revealed in a post on the PlayStation Blog, the game will be exclusive to the PS5, promising a continuation of Peter Parker and Miles Morales' arc, in the next blockbuster chapter. There isn't much information on the game, but a PlayStation showcase from last year confirmed that the symbiote Venom…

God of War PC edition is set to launch on Friday, bringing Sony's popular 2018 RPG game to PC gamers after nearly four years. God of War sold over 19.5 million copies as a multi-year PlayStation exclusive, and PC gamers will soon be able to purchase the popular title on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Just like the PlayStation 5 version of the game, the PC version of God of War will also come with support for 4K at 60fps. This will allow PC gamers to run God of War locally on their hardware, instead of on PlayStation Now,…