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WaterField Designs has expanded its gaming case collection to include new “retro” options for the 3DS and the PS Vita. Two case styles are available for each handheld including one with a magnetic closure and one made with full grain leather.

Venom: The Last Dance will see Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock and his symbiote life partner defend the world from a full-on alien invasion. But the might not stand a chance against Knull, who makes a very surprising appearance in the movie’s final trailer.

Sony has quietly started increasing the price of its DualSense PS5 controllers by $5 at many retailers in the US. Wario64 first spotted the price increases at Best Buy, before noticing the DualSense has gone up at Target, GameStop, and Sony’s own PlayStation store. It comes after recent price increases for the PS5 console in Japan, but there are no signs console prices will increase in the US.

Astro Bot just launched on the PS5 with a cute little countdown party inside Astro’s Playroom. If you’re going to watch the clip below, please adjust your volume accordingly because, well, you’ll see.

On the opposite end of its mass market noise-canceling headphones, Sony still routinely releases models designed to accurately reflect creative intent in studio environments. The new $249.99 MDR-M1 has an “exclusively developed driver unit that achieves ultra-wideband playback of 5Hz – 80kHz,” a detachable cable, easily replaceable ear cushions, and a “well-balanced and uncolored frequency response.”

The new 4K Bravia Projector 9 debuts with several upgrades including 3,400 lumens of brightness and Sony’s “XR Processing technology” to deliver deeper blacks and more accurate colors.

Now that even Sony has admitted its new hero shooter was an failure, you might be wondering: are there just too many of those games?

We know the PS5 Pro is real and developers have been getting ready for it for months, but now Dealabs claims to have seen the packaging for the new console. It has created a sketch that shows it’s similar to the PS5 Slim, and this particular PS5 Pro model lacks a disc drive. An announcement is rumored for next month.

Sony is raising PS5 prices in Japan on September 2nd. Both models are going up by 13,000 yen (nearly $90). This is the third PS5 console price hike in Japan since the console’s launch in 2020. The yen has weakened against the dollar in recent years, and Sony blames “fluctuations in the global economic situation” for this latest PS5 increase.

This post by Obsolete Sony is my favorite thing on the internet right now.

Though Sony’s upcoming Kraven the Hunter feature probably won’t feature any Spider-Man cameos, the movie’s latest trailer is a reminder that at the very least, we’ll be seeing another Rhino variant when the movie hits theaters on December 13th.

The infamous horror game collaboration between Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro drummed up enormous hype before the project was cancelled amid game developer Konami’s fallout with Kojima.

⭕ If you’ve got USB-C on a reference design GPU, you may not need the adapter at all. Some report you can plug the headset right into certain cards once you install the app.

The new Aibo Kinako Edition is the first to feature a two-tone finish on its face and will include two new eye color options.

The Japanese entertainment giant is reporting an operating profit of 279.11 billion yen ($1.9 billion) for Q1 2024, up 10 percent year-over-year.

As spotted by Boing Boing, David L. Farquhar shares the details of the largest CRT TV ever produced. The Sony PVM-4300 “weighed about 450 pounds, stood about 27 inches tall,” and was too large to squeeze through a standard door frame.

If you want to be technical about it, 8K was never especially viable on the PS5 to begin with, but when the system launched in 2020 TV makers were heavily pushing 8K as the next big thing and Sony wanted to futureproof its pricey platform.