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Hideo Kojima and Remedy Entertainment creative director Sam Lake have teased a mysterious project they're involved in at Kojima Productions. Hideo Kojima is known for working with a number of high-profile actors and creators and inserting their likenesses into his games. For example, Death Stranding characters Deadman, Sam Bridges, and Cliff were based on full-body scans of Guillermo del Toro, Norman Reedus, and Mads Mikkelsen, respectively. Some of Kojima Productions' upcoming games will continue using high-profile actors and their likenesses, including Death Stranding 2 and OD.

PlayStation 2 is a console that everyone loved and many still do today since while the games are older, it has some of the best games on it from Sony. The console was first released back in Japan on March 4, 2000. Then it was soon released in America on October 26, 2000. This console was the sequel to the PlayStation console which was the very first one.

Sony could reveal the existence of Ghost of Tsushima 2 at a State of Play or PlayStation Showcase event soon, according to recent rumors. While the sequel of Ghost of Tsushima is still unconfirmed, some rumors indicate that it may be in the pipeline.

Although Sony was limited by what it could do with the PlayStation 5 Pro, the upcoming mid-generation refresh system has been designed to provide developers easy and economical ways to implement enhancements in games already in development.

Sony president Hiroki Totoki will today step into his new role as PlayStation CEO following Jim Ryan's retirement after a more than 30-year tenure at the company. While retaining his duties across the wider business, Totoki's main objective will be to aid the search for a true successor to Jim Ryan while defining «the next chapter of PlayStation's future».

Sony has announced that the slimmer variant of the PlayStation 5 console, which first launched in the US in November last year, will be available in India, starting April 5. Both the disc and digital editions of PS5 slim will go on sale in the country this week, with stock availability at participating retailers confirmed. PS5 slim, a lighter and thinner version of the original console, retains much of the PlayStation 5 design language, but comes with a detachable disc drive and slightly bigger storage.

Jim Ryan shared one last thing about PlayStation, that was clearly for the fans.

A God of War fan created an adorable Kratos doll, complete with a tiny Leviathan axe. Kratos is known as a fierce and violent character, but players were able to see his gentler side as a father to Atreus in 2018's God of War and 2022's God of War Ragnarok, with this doll making the Ghost of Sparta look even softer.

Outgoing Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO, Jim Ryan, has revealed that the PlayStation 2 has continued to be the best-selling console for the company. Ryan revealed in a recent episode of the official PlayStation Podcast that the PS2 has sold 160 million units worldwide.

Several major games released at the same time last week, and though most have made it into the latest weekly Japanese sales charts released by Famitsu, the one that’s topped the charts might not be the one many would have expected. Princess Peach: Showtime! sits on top of the charts, beating out both Dragon’s Dogma 2 and Rise of the Ronin.

Gran Turismo 7 developer Polyphony Digital has just released a brand-new update for the game that adds three new cars, as well as new events and feature updates. Polyphony's dedication to maintaining the game through updates like these is one of the biggest reasons why Gran Turismo 7 remains one of the best racing titles right now despite having just turned two years old.

According to a new trademark filing, Sony could be looking to bring back The Best of PSN collections. The Best of PSN Volume 1 was published by Sony for the PS3 in 2013 and saw four of the most popular indie games on the PlayStation platform bundled together on a single Blu-Ray disc.