Sony will start charging more for its PlayStation Plus subscription starting September 6th. If you’re already subscribed, you won’t see any changes until your renewal date or after November 6th.
Here’s a breakdown of the new annual tiers:
• PlayStation Plus Essential: $79.99 (previously $59.99)
• PlayStation Plus Extra: $134.99 (previously $99.99)
• PlayStation Plus Premium: $159.99 (previously $119.99)
If you still haven’t seen the Barbie movie in theaters (or just want to watch it all over again), you can rent or buy a digital copy starting September 12th. Better yet, you can also catch the blockbuster in IMAX theaters beginning on September 22nd.
In an 8-K filing with the SEC, Warner Bros. Discovery says it’s lowering its earnings expectations by about $300 to $500 million amidst the writers and actors strike. The company now anticipates earning anywhere from $10.5 to $11 billion for 2023:
While WBD is hopeful that these strikes will be resolved soon, it cannot predict when the strikes will ultimately end. With both guilds still on strike today, the Company now assumes the financial impact to WBD of these strikes will persist through the end of 2023.
In an attempt to address concerns from Meta and Google about how much they’ll have to pay news outlets under the Online News Act, Canada has released draft proposals with more solid details on how it plans to enforce it.
Under the law, Meta would have to pay outlets “a minimum of 4% of their annual revenue in Canada in return for carrying links to news articles,” Bloomberg reports. But Meta isn’t buying it: a spokesperson tells the outlet the “proposed regulations will not impact our business decision to end news availability in Canada.”
