(For Southeast Asia) Essential Picks promotion comes to PlayStation store

Sony will face a mass lawsuit in the United Kingdom that could cost them up to £5 billion ($7.9 billion). The lawsuit was filed on August 19, 2022 by Alex Neill, a renowned champion of consumer rights and co-founder of Consumer Voice, on behalf of the 8.9 million PlayStation consumers located in the UK.

A lawsuit against Sony Interactive Entertainment, which alleges that the company has imposed “excessive and unfair prices” on PlayStation Store customers, has been granted approval to go to trial in the UK.

A London tribunal has ruled that a lawsuit filed last year accusing Sony of breaching competition law over store prices will continue, Reuters reports.

Nintendo has announced that Jet Force Gemini is the next game set to be added to Switch Online’s Nintendo 64 library.

A class action lawsuit accusing Sony of overcharging PlayStation Store customers by up to £5 billion ($6.27 billion) can proceed to trial, the UK’s specialist competition court has ruled.

Sony will be going to UK court over allegations of ripping off consumers with its PlayStation Store. 

Koei Tecmo and Akatsuki Games will release Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator for PC via Steam, iOS via App Store, and Android via Google Play in 2024 worldwide, the companies announced.

The team here at Naughty Dog is excited to announce The Last of Us Part II Remastered, the definitive way to experience the acclaimed The Last of Us sequel originally released in 2020. We’re thrilled to confirm you won’t have to wait long for it either; players can jump into Ellie and Abby’s emotional journeys on the PlayStation 5 console on January 19, 2024.

Last month, Feral Interactive announced Hitman: Blood Money – Reprisal, an expanded and reworked re-release of 2006’s Hitman: Blood Money, coming to iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch. Now, the developer has revealed when the game will be hitting each platform.

Video games can be expensive. We probably don’t have to tell you that. It’s a costly hobby, and with the latest generation of console platforms, we saw a price hike for AAA games. Instead of paying the once-standard $59.99 for a brand new AAA release, we’re not digging further into our wallets to pay the now $69.99 fee for a new major release. So, this recent price hike makes it more challenging to determine what video games to pick up at launch and which to set back for when they drop. Fortunately, sales are going on at any given time, and today, we want to highlight a big one for the PlayStation Store.

Once upon a time we had PlayStation All-Stars, and now PlayStation is all stars once again. Well, the PlayStation Store is, anyway.

With Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 launching last month and becoming the fastest-selling first-party title for PlayStation, it’s interesting to see what Sony has planned for next year. Team Ninja’s Rise of the Ronin, an open-world action RPG set in the Bakumatsu era, is coming, but a release date hasn’t been announced.