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Sony is working on support for its PlayStation VR2 headset.

An update coming to PlayStation 5 later in 204 will add Community Game Help to the system’s existing Game Help feature, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced.

The PlayStation 5 has shipped 54.8 million consoles to close out 2023, and while it continues to hit its stride, Sony is reportedly gearing up for a mid-gen refresh. It’s allegedly working on a PS5 Pro, with devkits dispatched last September, and its specifications recently leaked online. Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson corroborated the same while revealing other details, but now IGN has confirmed their validity.

Sony has confirmed it's struck a deal with publisher Square Enix to make the Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy a PlayStation console exclusive.

As part of the sweeping layoffs of 900 Sony Interactive Entertainment employees, Hermen Hulst, Head of PlayStation Studios, has confirmed that there have been some game cancellations.

As part of the sweeping layoffs of 900 Sony Interactive Entertainment employees, Hermen Hulst, Head of PlayStation Studios, has confirmed that there have been some game cancellations.

Sony is the latest company in the video game industry to announce massive layoffs in 2024. We’ve learned that Sony Interactive Entertainment is letting go of about 900 people across several studios; PlayStation’s London Studio will shut down as a result.

Baldur's Gate 3 has been nominated across five categories at the Gayming Awards.

PlayStation VR often gets overlooked in conversations about mixed reality. These days, it seems all anyone wants to talk about is Apple Vision Pro versus Meta Quest. But Sony has been an enduring presence in VR for years now, throughout the industry’s various ups and downs (mostly downs, if we’re being honest here).

The PlayStation VR2 headset is getting official PC support later this year, Sony confirmed today.

Sony Interactive Entertainment is currently testing PC support for its PlayStation VR2 headset with plans to launch in 2024, the company announced.

The PS VR2, Sony’s currently PS5-exclusive VR gaming headset, looks like it’ll be latching onto the faces of PC owners as well. Tucked away in a PlayStation blog post about upcoming PS VR2 games, Sony Interactive content communications manager Gillen McAllister confirmed that Sony are "currently testing the ability for PS VR2 players to access additional games on PC" and that the plan is have this extra support ready within 2024.

Despite total shipments topping 54.8 million since its launch in November 2020, the PlayStation 5 isn’t due for a big price cut anytime soon. Sony Interactive Entertainment president Hiroki Totoki said during an investor call (reported by IGN) that it was due to difficulties shrinking the PS5’s die size.

During the latest episode of Giant Bomb's Game Mess Mornings, journalist and insider Jeff Grubb claimed that the new Astro Bot game might be released this year.

Following the Q3 2023 earnings release where Sony announced the latest PlayStation 5 sales figures, the earnings call provided interesting tidbits from Sony executives.

With the year almost behind us, it's hard not to look back at 2023 with conflicted feelings. It was a fantastic year for gamers at home with great tentpole releases from PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo, and some excellent indies, too. For years to come, we will all likely argue that 2023 was one of the best – if not the best – year for games. But it was also a terrible year for the people who make games, with more than 10,000 developers laid off, studios closed, and more. 

It's been a strong year sales-wise for Sony, as the PlayStation 5 has now reportedly sold over 50 million units as it enters its fourth year on the market.

PS5's November 2023 was Sony's biggest November for PlayStation sales to date, Sony Interactive Entertainment's Head of Global Business has said.

By Wes Davis, a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020.

While PC gaming is becoming more and more popular, there are certain advantages to playing games on the PlayStation 5 console rather than on PC, according to Sony Interactive Entertainment Vice President Hideaki Nishino.

Sony has signed a “strategic global business partnership” with NCSoft, the South Korean company behind massively multiplayer online role-playing games such as Guild Wars and Lineage.

Sony Interactive Entertainment executive Connie Booth has reportedly left PlayStation.

Sony has attempted to justify its decision to raise PlayStation Plus prices by up to 35% last month.

PlayStation Plus' Premium subscribers will get access to cloud streaming by the end of October. 

Layoffs have reportedly hit the staff over at Naughty Dog. A new report from Kotaku alleges the Last of Us developer has cut at least 25 contractor jobs. 

The surprising revelation that Jim Ryan will retire as Sony Interactive Entertainment’s President and CEO at the end of March 2024 has been, perhaps predictably, met with glee from most corners of the wider video game world. In addition to courting controversy on a number of occasions, the British executive’s tenure has largely been marred by a change in corporate goals: an emphasis on games as a service which has yet to really bear fruit, a lack of engagement with enthusiasts, and a blank slate of upcoming first-party releases.

Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Jim Ryan will retire in March 2024 after nearly 30 years with the PlayStation business, the company announced.

Sony has announced October 2023’s PlayStation Plus Essential games.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has released September’s first wave of PlayStation Plus games.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced September 2023’s PlayStation Plus Essential games.

Sony has announced plans to increase 12-month PlayStation Plus subscription prices by as much as 35%.

Sony is temporarily lowering the price of the PlayStation 5 in the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, and India, a discount that appears to signal a similar temporary price drop in the U.S.

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