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Call of Duty will remain on PlayStation for a few more years

Call of Duty will remain on PlayStation for a few more years

Sony gets “several years” of joint custody over call of Duty with Microsoft.photo: Activision/Kotaku/Barone Firenze (Shutterstock) (Shutterstock) Good news PlayStation call of Duty Players: Microsoft says you have “several years” to play the shoot-bang game on your Sony console. Corresponding The edgeEarlier this year, Microsoft’s Xbox boss Phil Spencer made that commitment to PlayStation boss ...

Views of cats, dogs and abortions

Views of cats, dogs and abortions

photo: Kotaku/Alex Wong (Getty Images) An internal email from PlayStation President Jim Ryan includes several paragraphs about cats, but doesn’t include a hardline stance in support of its employees’ reproductive rights, even urging employees to “respect” anti-abortion views and opinions, which many PlayStation employees did angry and upset. As reported by Bloomberg earlier today and ...

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Sony Boss Explains Why PS Plus Won’t Mimic Xbox Game Pass

Sony Boss Explains Why PS Plus Won’t Mimic Xbox Game Pass

“PlayStation’s ‘virtuous cycle’ must never be broken!”photo: Patrick T Fallon (Getty Images) So the news is official: Sony’s long-rumored Xbox Game Pass competitor, formerly codenamed “Spartacus,” was revealed earlier today. You can read more about it here. Alongside the announcement, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan decided it was finally time to explain exactly why The company’s ...

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Meet the Activision board members who support Bobby Kotick

Meet the Activision board members who support Bobby Kotick

photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) Activision Blizzard had a nightmarish 2021. with historical allegations of harassment that have caused enormous upheavals in the company, several high profile lawsuits, and the departure (or layoffs) of many key executives and developers. You would think that this mess would fall at the feet of the company’s CEO, Bobby ...

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Valve’s Steam Deck is the new PlayStation Portable

Valve’s Steam Deck is the new PlayStation Portable

image: Sony / Kotaku The PSP is long dead. The Playstation Vita too. But long live Valve’s Steam Deck, a handheld that is just around the corner and thanks to Sony’s new PC gaming push will finally do it the dream play the company’s biggest blockbusters on a small portable device. While the initial units ...

Sony is taking over Housemarque, developer of PS5s Returnal [Updated]

Sony is taking over Housemarque, developer of PS5s Returnal [Updated]

picture: Sony Today, Sony announced that Housemarque had officially become an in-house studio. “Housemarque has expanded its creative palette over the years to include a wide variety of PlayStation games that have continually demonstrated the capabilities of our hardware,” said Jim Ryan, head of Sony Interactive Entertainment, in a written statement. “The addition of Housemarque ...