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Archives for January 2025

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
The PS5’s retro console themes go away tomorrow, but they will return.

Sony sadly wasn’t kidding when it said the original PlayStation, PS2, PS3, and PS4 themes for the PS5 were a limited-time thing. According to the official PlayStation account on X, the themes are being removed tomorrow, January 31st, but will return “in the months ahead.”

Hopefully we’ll get even better themes so I can make my PS5 look and feel just like a PS2 — minus the disc read errors.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Spider-Man 2 seems like a promising PC port.

Sony has detailed the PC-specific features and recommended specs for the game, including Nvidia DLSS Ray Reconstruction, support for ultrawide aspect ratios up to 32:9, and more. The game also won’t require a PSN account to play.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Bloomberg: iOS 18.3 added Starlink support on iPhones.

According to Bloomberg and user reports, T-Mobile’s list of eligible devices for beta testing Starlink direct-to-cell connections now includes iPhones. While only a few Samsung Galaxy devices were supported at first, now iPhone owners with the most recent update can reportedly connect, as well as some people with Android 15 devices.

That gives those owners an alternative to Apple’s Globalstar-connected service while off the grid that works without pointing their phone at the sky first.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
The new leader of all things PlayStation should be very familiar.

As of April 1st, Hideaki Nishino will become the president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, the company behind the PlayStation brand. This comes nearly a year after he and Herman Hulst were appointed co-CEOs of the PlayStation business, splitting responsibilities for leading the platform business and games following the retirement of Jim Ryan.

Hulst will continue leading development of PlayStation content for consoles, PC, film, and TV but will now report to Nishino.

Nishino:

We will continue to grow the PlayStation community in new ways, such as IP expansion, while also delivering the best in technology innovation.