As PlayStation stays silent, Bungie keeps fighting the good fight.

Bungie was one of the first game studios to voice their support for the "essential healthcare rights" after a leaked document showed that the United States Supreme Court seeks to overturn Roe v. Wade. On the flip side, Sony's PlayStation department has been just failing spectacularly. In an effort to avoid any sort of controversy, PlayStation has decided that keeping quiet is the best course of action....

These donations come a week after PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan's bizarre email.

Last week, PlayStation president Jim Ryan sent out an email to employees urging them to "respect differences of opinion" when it comes to thoughts on abortion rights. He then went on to talk about cats and how he wants a dog as they "know their place."

This week, both Sony and Insomniac Games are donating $50,000 each to the Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP)....

An amended complaint may be filed still.

A sexual discrimination lawsuit filed against Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has been dismissed by a federal judge.

This lawsuit was originally filed by a former SIE employee, Emma Majo, back in November 2021. In the suit, the plaintiff says that SIE did not offer the same career advancements to women as it did to men. The lawsuit also claims that SIE violated the Equal Pay Act and wrongfully terminated her employment at the...

Software and hardware sales are suspended.

Shortly after this evening's State of Play ended, Sony put up an official statement on Twitter concerning the sale of PlayStation software and hardware in Russia. In short: Sony has suspended all software and hardware shipments in Russia. The studio has also suspended the launch of Gran Turismo 7 as well as "operations of the PlayStation Store" within Russia.

Sony's statement continues on to say that they will be donating...

It'll be a live-action series based off of the games.

Amazon Prime Video is apparently working on a live-action series based off of the God of War video games. This is according to a new report by Deadline.

Deadline says that Amazon is in talks with Sony to adapt God of War into a live-action series. Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, the creators and executive producers on The Expanse are said to be interested in joining this series. They will also possibly be joined by producer...

Nintendo will also get the same treatment.

Microsoft has kicked off what the New York Times is calling a "charm offensive" to help push through its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. This is being done in an effort to get the United States government to approve its near $70 billion deal. Microsoft says that they will not give preferential treatment to its own games in its app stores.

Furthermore, Microsoft says that they pledge to continue to allow...

Don't threaten me with a good time, Jim.

In speaking with GI.biz's Christopher Dring, Jim Ryan says that PlayStation isn't done with the acquisitions yet. Ryan, who is the current president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, flatly says that "we should expect more" when it comes to further PlayStation acquisitions.

This detail, along with a few others, were shared by Dring on Twitter following GI.biz's report on Sony Interactive Entertainment's acquisition...

"It makes sense."

Recently, rumors started to circulate around the Internet that Sony is working on a PlayStation service that would be functionally similar to Xbox Game Pass. The service, reportedly codenamed Spartacus, would allegedly replace PlayStation Now.

Spartacus would allow PlayStation owners to pay a monthly fee for access to a library of classic and new PlayStation titles. There would be three tiers to this new program, with the base offering the same...

A PlayStation executive working on the PlayStation Network has been "terminated from employment."

George Cacioppo was a senior vice president at Sony Interactive Entertainment. He worked on the PlayStation Network for Sony since 2013. This past weekend, Cacioppo was terminated from his position after he reportedly appeared as the subject in a pedophile sting operation video.

A vigilante group going by the name of People v. Preds attempts to catch and publicize...

An email from Jim Ryan expresses extreme disappointment in Activision Blizzard.

PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan was left "stunned" following this week's Bloomberg report that says Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick was aware for years of the sexual harassment and misconduct happening within the Call of Duty publisher. An email from Ryan, that was originally sent to employees, was obtained by Bloomberg on Thursday.

In the email, Ryan wrote that he and the other PlayStation...

$200 million to get at least four first-party Sony titles.

Over the past several months, Epic Games has been in a legal battle with Apple. Back in May, a ton of information was shared on the Internet concerning the internal operations of both companies, this just happened to include word that Epic was offering Sony millions of dollars to get first-party PlayStation titles on to the PC. Or, more specifically, millions of dollars to get PlayStation titles on the Epic Games Store.
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For the players? Yeah, right.

New documents have surfaced showing that Sony includes additional fees against publishers and developers for enabling cross-play with other platforms. It's been known that Sony was very much against enabling cross-platform play for years before they finally caved and "let it happen." New confidential documents reveal that Sony was holding out on cross-play in order to counter any potential revenue losses.

As part of the opening for...