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Industry

22 Jun
Industry PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5
Sony’s Answer to Soaring PS5 Costs Might Be to Just Sell Fewer of Them

Facing soaring memory costs, Sony signals it may sell fewer PS5s and skip discounts rather than cut prices, with knock-on effects for the future collector market.

21 Jun
Industry PC
Sony Quietly Deleted PC From Its Strategy Report and Filled the Gap With AI

Sony's June 19 SEC strategy report drops last year's pledge to bring first-party games to PC and leans hard into AI instead.

20 Jun
Industry
EU Drops Mandatory Game Preservation Law, Adopts Voluntary Code Instead

The EU has reportedly decided against mandatory game preservation legislation, choosing a voluntary industry code instead, disappointing preservation advocates.

20 Jun
Industry
A Sega Veteran Is Quietly Cataloguing All 4,500 of Sega’s Games. He Wants Them All Playable.

Sega producer Yosuke Okunari says he is cataloguing all of Sega's roughly 4,500 games and wants the entire library playable on modern formats.

19 Jun
Industry DOS
Bobby Prince, the Man Who Gave Doom Its Sound, Has Died at 81

Bobby Prince, the composer behind Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died at 81. His Doom score entered the Library of Congress just a month earlier.

16 Jun
Industry Xbox One
Xbox Is Reportedly Closing Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory Also Said to Be at Risk

Microsoft reportedly plans to close Compulsion Games, with Ninja Theory and Double Fine also at risk, in a sweeping Xbox restructuring.

15 Jun
Industry Arcade Dreamcast Sega Genesis / Mega Drive
Sega Is Reopening the Vault: Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Jet Set Radio

Sega is bringing back Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage, with the original Jet Set Radio creators leading a separate comeback.

14 Jun
Industry Xbox 360 Xbox One
Microsoft hasn’t ruled out spinning off Xbox, report claims

Microsoft is reportedly considering spinning off Xbox into a separate company, according to a report from The Information. The move would raise major questions about Xbox's backward compatibility and digital preservation.

09 Jun
Industry Nintendo Switch Nintendo Switch 2
Square Enix Delists Kingdom Hearts Cloud Versions on Switch

Square Enix pulled all four Kingdom Hearts cloud releases from the Switch eShop. Owners can stream until June 9, 2027, then the servers go dark.