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‘Sony essentially destroys its own defense’: How its disc-free PS5 plan triggered a $457M lawsuit and undercut its antitrust defense

Sony’s move enraged thousands of gamers and brought on a lawsuit with the backdrop of rival Xbox’s restructuring amid video game industry challenges.

Fortune

Quote of the day by former Nintendo President Satoru Iawata: 'It will require many years and months for the majority of video game purchases to become digital' — correctly predicting dominance of digital games today back in 2009

The then Nintendo President was on the money

TechRadar

V/H/S’s SCP Foundation movie needs to draw from the video game, or it will be a D-class failure

Secure. Contain. Protect.

Destructoid

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Why Is It So Hard To Make A Good 'Game Of Thrones' Video Game?

Despite the massive popularity of 'A Song of Ice and Fire' and its HBO adaptations, the series has never really been done right in gaming.

Inverse

Mortal Kombat 2 director says working closely with video game co-creator Ed Boon made the creative process this time around "a lot easier, more satisfying"

Exclusive: Simon McQuoid talks working with Ed Boon and NetherRealm

Total Film

It's in the Game? Why Deion Sanders Isn't in EA Sports' College Football 27

The topic of Sanders's absence from the popular college football video game was breached at Big 12 Media Days.

Sports Illustrated

Germany's massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up — world's largest game archive was entirely publicly available, now abandoned just as Sony kills physical media

A German effort to assemble the world's largest publicly accessible video game archive is being wound down after roughly €1.5 million in public funding expired.

Tom’s Hardware

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Hollywood is ‘obsessed’ with video games as the industry moves on from comic books, according to The Batman 2 writer

We could have predicted this a long time ago.

Destructoid

"Video games are not mere merchandise; they are cultural assets, and the law in force must apply to them" — French presidential candidate chimes in on Sony's controversial decision to kill off physical gaming media

Sony's recent announcement to halt physical PlayStation disc production and Grand Theft Auto 6 being digital-only have caught the attention of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a man running for President of France. Needless to say, he's not happy about the situation and vows to support gamers' rights

Windows Central

The Batman 2 writer says Hollywood is "video game obsessed," and he's getting "5x more offers for video game adaptations than comic book adaptations"

Game on

Total Film

Brickbat: Not Playing

After a deadly school shooting in Tacloban, Philippines, the government has temporarily banned the video game Gorebox because one of the… The post Brickbat: Not Playing appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

Why are gaming collaborations so popular?

Gaming collaborations have been popping off. Here's why and how they work.

Dot Esports

Game preservation expert says stop killing games if you don't want piracy, because companies like PlayStation and Rockstar "refuse to offer a meaningful alternative"

GTA 6 is only the tip of the iceberg

GamesRadar

"Piracy is the only extant form of media preservation": Sony killing discs just proved video game historians correct, and I worry about what's next

Sony's announcement of an end to physical discs for PlayStation has caused quite an uproar, and the frustration from video game historians is palpable. We're now entering a time when piracy is the only way to actually keep games around, despite a lot of work from major institutions, and that's…

Windows Central

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Movies And Video Games Keep Getting One Thing Wrong About Blade

The news of the potential closing of Arkane Studios and the cancellation of their Blade game is another obstacle in the character's quest to regain relevance.

GamesRadar

Downloading GTA 6 with the "hope it'll run in 50 years is not a preservation solution," Video Game History Foundation says as PlayStation kills discs

"What continues to baffle us is what the industry expects institutions like ours to do about it"

Destructoid

Unhinged review – Trapped in linear, under the guise of choice

Barely a horror and certainly not a video game, Troy "in-every-game" Baker couldn't save this one.

GamesRadar

Final Fantasy 14 devs pulled off the best relaunch "in the history of video games," Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says

"They reworked everything," says Guillaume Broche

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'We are not going to sit idly by': video game retailers react to Sony's PlayStation disc axeing announcement

Video game retailers could be in big trouble, with Sony eliminating physical copies from 2028, and the reaction online is fierce.

MusicRadar

“Rather than simply writing scary music, I wanted to express loneliness, sadness, anxiety, and the psychological aspects of fear”: We speak to video game horror soundtrack godfather Akira Yamaoka about the legacy of Silent Hill

Akira has composed the memorable soundtracks for the beloved video game series since the very beginning

Tom’s Hardware

Philippine town closes all 'Pisonet' computer rental shops in wake of school shooting — incident blamed on violent video games, shops closed 'for the safety of the youth'

A town in northern Philippines closed down all computer rental shops, with the mayor saying that these establishments distracted students from their studies and led to abuse and other dangers. The move came a little over a week after many people have started blaming a deadly school shooting in central…

The Guardian - UK

Depraved by Daisy Dixon review – a history of dark and dangerous art

From classical painting to video games, this survey of the taboo and the twisted won’t let you look away

Total Film

Persona live-action show in the works at Netflix, and the Joker fan-casting has already begun

Stranger Things' Shawn Levy is producing the live-action Persona adaptation

Player One

Netflix Reportedly Developing Live-Action 'Persona' TV Series With 'Star Trek: Picard' Writer

Netflix is reportedly developing a live-action "Persona" TV series with Christopher Monfette as showrunner, bringing Sega's iconic RPG to life.

The Economic Times

Psychology says adults who play video games online extensively aren't lazy: What psychology explains about gaming behavior

Psychology says adults who play video games online extensively aren't lazy or disconnected from life in every case. Psychology explains that online gaming can meet needs such as social connection, problem-solving, stress relief, achievement, and learning. The reasons vary from person to person. Experts say gaming behavior should be understood…

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