What the blockbuster Microsoft and Sony deals mean for the future of gaming

Big moves are happening in the video game industry. Microsoft, the tech giant behind the Xbox console, announced plans in early 2022 to buy Activision Blizzard, the force behind “Call of Duty...

Sony Unveils Playstation VR2, Meta Backlash, Groped In VR Chat

If the press is to be believed, the Metaverse is clearly headed for a “trough of disillusion,” where it will likely languish for some time, perhaps until it actually exists. This has to be...

PS Plus March Leaks, Rumors, Predictions And When To Expect The Reveal

PS Plus predictions, leaks and rumors. Credit: Sony March is almost upon us and so is Sony’s big PlayStation Plus reveal for next month’s lineup of free games on PS4 and PS5. Each month, Sony announce...

‘Uncharted’ Ends Video Game Movie Curse With $106M Worldwide Weekend

Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland in ‘Uncharted’ Sony Sony’s Uncharted overperformed this President’s Day weekend, earning a rousing $44 million over its Fri-Mon frame and a likely $51 million...

‘Uncharted’ Unearths Boffo $15.4M Friday As ‘Dog’ Earns $5M

Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland in ‘Uncharted’ Sony In the “before times,” as in before 2016 when the bottom fell out on studio programmers due to competition from streaming and VOD, I...

Taiwan Semi Stock Is Rising. An Analyst Sees More Demand From Intel and Apple.

Text size Morgan Stanley analyst Charlie Chan upgraded Taiwan Semiconductor to Overweight from Equal Weight. I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing shares are trading higher Monday, ...

Sony Acquires Bungie and Possibly Planning a Metaverse

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), the Japanese video game and online entertainment company, has decided to pay $3.6 billion for Bungie, the largest independent games developer. The PlayStation man...

The Movie Previews We Might (Or Hope To) See During Super Bowl LVI

Chris Pratt as Owen Grady in JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION (c) 2021 Universal Studios and Storyteller Distribution LCC. All Rights Reserved. We are two weeks away from Super Bowl LVI, which will take place ...

‘Spider-Man’ Tops ‘Scream’ At Quiet Friday Box Office

Zendaya and Tom Holland in ‘Spider-Man No Way Home’ Sony and Marvel In a weekend devoid of big new releases and grosses that’ll cause PTSD flashbacks to October 2020, Spider-Man: No Way Ho...

Ken Kutaragi, Father of the Sony Playstation, Criticizes Current Metaverse Push – Bitcoin News

Ken Kutaragi, father of the Sony Playstation, has issued his opinion about the metaverse narrative currently developing on the market. The former executive of Sony stated that he saw no point in the m...

Bob Dylan Sells Recorded Music Catalog To Sony Music Entertainment

UNITED KINGDOM – MAY 05: Photo of Bob DYLAN; performing live onstage, wearing Stetson hat (Photo … [+] by Harry Scott/Redferns) Redferns Few if any artists in history have a recorded legac...

Bob Dylan Sells Recording Catalog To Sony In Major Deal—One Year After He Sold Songwriting Catalog

Topline Bob Dylan’s catalog of past and future recorded music was sold to Sony Music Entertainment, the company announced Monday, over a year after the legendary musician’s songwriting catalog was sol...

‘Spider-Man’ Tops ‘Jurassic World’ And Nears $1.7 Billion

Tom Holland in Spider-Man No Way Home Sony Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home topped the box office yet again in this unfortunately empty post-holiday frame, earning a robust $14.125 million fo...

How Sony Rehabilitated Their ‘Spider-Man’ Franchise At Marvel And Disney’s Expense

Tom Holland and Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Sony and Marvel Spider-Man: No Way Home has earned $671 million domestic and $1.54 billion worldwide in just under four we...

Afterlife’ And ‘Sing 2’ Top VOD Charts

Ghostbusters Afterlife Sony Sony’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife was the top title over at Vudu over the weekend, following its EST (priced to buy) release last Tuesday. That was day 46 from the film’s Nove...

New XR Tech At CES

CES is more online than off this year, as nearly 200,000 people dwindled to tens of thousands in the physical world. Exuberant dinner parties have given way to room service hamburgers. One CEO told me...

Sony’s Next Big PlayStation VR 2 Game

Horizon Call Of The Mountain Credit: Sony Guerrilla Games is teaming up with Firesprite Games on a brand-new virtual reality title set in the world of Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West. Hor...

‘Afterlife’ Proves Foreign Moviegoers Don’t Care About ‘Ghostbusters’

Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call and Ghostbusters: Afterlife Ghetty and Sony Sony’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife arrives on electronic sell-through (i.e. – “priced to buy VOD”) this mornin...

U.S. Box Office Hits $4.5 Billion in 2021, 60 Percent Behind 2019

(Image courtesy of Sony) Despite the best efforts of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which crossed $600 million in domestic box office this weekend as the new year began, 2021’s U.S. theatrical receipts rema...

Why Sony Pushed Jared Leto’s ‘Morbius’ To April 1

Jared Leto in ‘Morbius’ Sony It is approaching two year anniversary of the first Morbius trailer, with the teaser dropping on the morning of January 13, 2020. The film was slated for July ...