Emma Roth
Death Note meets Among Us.
PlayStation has revealed the trailer for Death Note Killer Within... and it’s basically an Among Us-style social deduction game. Instead of hunting for the “imposter,” L’s team must try to find Kira.
Sony
It’s hard to imagine a company with a greater influence on consumer electronics than Sony. You can trace a direct line from the Walkman -- the first portable media player -- to the smartphone. Today Sony is a massive force in gaming, making the PlayStation and publishing games for it and other platforms. Sony image sensors are in iPhones as well as its own mirrorless cameras. Not to mention the OLED TVs; smartphones; noise-canceling headphones; music, tv, and film publishing; and, yes, robot dogs.
Andrew Liszewski
Sony’s third Venom feature feels like another throwback to when comic book movies kept things short and silly.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Emma Roth
Amazon’s God of War show brings Ronald D. Moore on board.
After Amazon and Sony parted ways with the original creative team working on the live-action adaptation, Deadline reports that Moore has joined the production as writer, executive producer, and showrunner.
Moore is best known for producing Battlestar Galactica and for his work on Star Trek spinoffs Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Amazon’s God of War series is going back to the drawing board.
Showrunner Rafe Judkins and executive producers Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus were well into their preproduction process for Amazon’s live-action God of War series. But Deadline reports that, even though Amazon and Sony were into the creative team’s scripts, the studios have decided “move in a different creative direction” with the help of an entirely new writers room.
Sony
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Sony’s Until Dawn movie debuts next April.
Though Supermassive’s Until Dawn was already plenty cinematic as a video game, Deadline reports that Screen Gems plans for its big screen adaptation of the horror classic to hit theaters on April 25, 2025.
The feature comes from director David F. Sandberg and writer Gary Dauberman. Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, Odessa A’zion, Maia Mitchell and Peter Stormare are set to star.
Wes Davis
“The PSP was in control, as it should be; as it always is.”
The Go! Explore PSP GPS accessory for directions still works today, and even looks surprisingly modern, as Jon Cartwright shows in this Good Vibes Gaming video. He says it worked well.
But also, I never knew that Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops had a GPS feature! I miss that era of Sony.
Quentyn Kennemer
Sean Hollister
God of War Ragnarok is getting a PS5 Pro Enhanced patch, according to the PlayStation Store.
As Reddit, Push Square, and others are pointing out, the very good 2022 game is suddenly sporting a “PS5 Pro Enhanced” badge. Sony hasn’t yet confirmed a patch, nor do we have details on how the game might get enhanced.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Andru Marino
Still have a MiniDisc player around?
Thanks to enthusiasts at minidisc.wiki, you can still add songs to a MiniDisc from a modern computer using its web app. Which means we live in a world where a Pixel 9 Pro can talk to a MiniDisc player from 2002.
Andrew Liszewski
Sean Hollister
Five more PS5 Pro Enhanced games:
Rise of the Ronin, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, The Last of Us Part I, Spider-Man Remastered and Spider-Man Miles Morales. If I’m counting right, we’re up to 25 confirmed games.
Sony revealed the new ones in this monster blog post where developers also discuss what you can expect from the patches. We’ve also got a whole hands-on PS5 Pro preview about that!
I played the PS5 Pro, and it’s clearly better
Sean Hollister
Ash Parrish and Sean Hollister
Emma Roth
Horizon’s Lego spinoff arrives on November 14th.
Sony has finally revealed a release date after first announcing Lego Horizon Adventures in June. The game is coming to the PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
Andrew Liszewski
Antonio G. Di Benedetto and Brandon Widder
PSA: Both the PS5 Pro’s USB-C ports are now in front.
Sean Hollister
Andrew Liszewski
Your aging Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita deserve a case upgrade.
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.
They range in price from $69 to $79 but will only be available until September 22nd, 2024, as part of a limited run.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Venom and Eddie have a date with the King in Black.
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.
Tom Warren
Sony’s PS5 controllers get a $5 increase.
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.
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Tom Warren
Astro Bots, roll out.
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.
Chris Welch
Sony’s latest headphones are built for audio engineers and creators.
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 WH-1000XM5, by comparison, are quite colored.
Image: Sony
Andrew Liszewski
Sony’s flagship laser Bravia projector is now even brighter.
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.
For those not willing to spend $31,999.99 on a home theater upgrade, Sony has also announced the Bravia Projector 8 delivering 2,700 lumens of brightness and a slightly cheaper $15,999.99 price tag.
Sean Hollister
Bye-bye Concord, hello Deadlock and Spectre Divide.
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?
Well, Valve’s Deadlock just peaked at 170K concurrent players this weekend and is sitting at nearly 120K right now.
Spectre Divide launched an hour ago and already has 30,000 concurrents. It feels fresh, despite its familiar underpinnings:
