News with the tag "Sony"

Japan’s largest companies said U.S. tariffs could erode annual profits by tens of billions of dollars, with the probability of a bigger impact in the event of a recession. According to Financial Times calculations based on company guidance during the current full-year earnings season, firms like Toy...

Shares of Nintendo Co., the maker of Mario Kart, suffered their steepest drop in seven months as investors pulled back from Japan’s strong-performing video game stocks This comes amid concerns that Donald Trump’s tariffs could push up console prices in the U.S. The Japanese gaming company tumbled ov...

“ The studio made their game because they wanted to make a game that they wanted to play themselves…above all, they cared about their game, because they love games, ” said Larian CEO Swen Vicke at the 2024 Game Awards. If you are a gamer, then you more than likely felt how deep those words were. Bit...

US president Donald Trump stated Monday that “Japan, China, and other places are killing their currency,” calling the practice “unfair” and fueling concern that trade-war style tariffs might soon be focused on Tokyo. Suntory and Sony are two Japanese giants already making moves to stave off potentia...

China’s NetEase laid off its Seattle development team for Marvel Rivals on February 18. Multiple developers from the studio announced the sudden layoffs, but the company did not offer an explanation. NetEase reportedly laid off the Seattle-based development team responsible for its hit action game M...

Sony Interactive Entertainment recently announced the PlayStation Plus game catalog for February through the PlayStation blog. Starting today, PS Plus Extra and Premium subscribers can access 9 exclusive titles: 7 for PS Plus Extra subscribers and 2 for PS Plus Premium subscribers. PS Plus Extra sub...

The February PlayStation State of Play announcement released multiple game titles and trailers coming to PlayStation in 2025, sparking speculations that Xbox would have more Microsoft first-party titles on the console than Sony’s. The speculation came after the broadcast announced more third-party t...

Sony’s gaming division increased its revenue expectation as it maintains high PlayStation 5 sales with increased user counts. According to a Bloomberg report , Sony sold 9.5 million PS5 units during the December quarter, a 15% increase from the previous year. Game software sales increased by 7%, and...

Sony revealed on February 12 at the February 2025 State of Play that Days Gone Remastered will be coming to PS5. The new version of the game will have new content with improved graphics including new accessibility features and Enhanced Photo Mode. Sony announced that Days Gone Remastered will launch...

EMBARGO Feb 12 9 AM HK TIME Fireblocks, a provider of crypto custodian technology, said it added support for Sony's Soneium blockchain, an Ethereum layer-2 network that aims to bridge the conventional internet, or Web2, and the emerging, blockchain-based Web3. Fireblocks counts many large institutio...