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April Fools Day has almost come to a close, but there's still a few hours left to see what great gags gaming companies have to offer up today. And Sony's Asian division has a pretty good one on the table – no, literally on the table. That's because PlayStation Asia updated its Facebook page today with the ...

TOKYO --Most new Japanese corporate leaders start their tenure by departing from their predecessor's course. When Kenichiro Yoshida takes control of Sony on Sunday, he is expected to take a different stance, emphasizing continuity as he picks up the baton from President and CEO Kazuo Hirai.

Sony's latest A7 cameras represent the vanguard of the mirrorless camera movement because they're the most accessible full-frame systems on the market. The A7 III and A7R III are smaller, lighter, and more durable than their DSLR counterparts, and have narrowed the gaps in image quality, performance, ...

According to Sony, the projector's vibrant display uses Texas Instruments DLP IntelliBright technology, which employs advanced image processing algorithms to boost brightness without compromising on battery consumption. The projector's compact design also allows it to maximise heat while still ...

SYDNEY—With the rise of HDR and 4K content, Sony is rolling out a new live production switcher designed specifically to handle those demands, the XVS-9000. The new unit can offer up to 80 inputs and 40 outputs in 4K and up to 160 inputs and 80 outputs in HD. It adopts the latest interfaces for both IP ...

With the March 20 release of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungleon 4K UHD Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray Disc and DVD, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is bringing the jungle to life for fans with an augmented reality experience through Snapchat. In the first of its kind for a home entertainment release, when ...

Two of Sony's core businesses have joined forces in an exclusive partnership ahead of the launch of its brand new flagship smartphones, the Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact. With their striking new design, Full HD+ HDR display and brand new Dynamic Vibration System, the XZ2 and XZ2 Compact have ...

If you've ever wondered what it's like to play Jumanji, Sony Pictures has good news for you. To promote the release of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, the company is using augmented reality to give Snapchat users a feeling of what it's like to be inside of the hit movie, which debuts today on DVD, Blu-Ray ...

As a menacing snowstorm descends upon the Northeast region of the U.S. on the first day of spring, Sony hopes to turn our attention to fairer days filled with fun in the sun. On Tuesday, March 20, the company previewed its new line of athlete-friendly wireless earphones as well as a heated up version of its ...

Investment Thesis: We view Sony (SNE) favorably as a generator of free cash flow and on a sum-of-the-parts basis. The disparate business units housed under the Sony umbrella are together mispriced, in our opinion, leading to an attractive investment opportunity in one of the world's leading high ...

If you're considering picking up a new phone, now might be the time to have a look at the Xperia, as if you pre-order the phone through some of the retailers below, you can bag yourself a free Playstation 4 with a copy of Gran Turismo. Or, if you already have the console, you can get the Sony VR headset ...

The Sony Playstation 3 console and its new controller is shown in this picture after the Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. 2006 E3 media event at Sony Studios in Culver City, Calif., Monday, May 8, 2006. The The new controller, which looks similar to the one for the older PlayStation 2 but adds motion ...

Starting April 1, all sales and marketing divisions within Sony Interactive Entertainment America (SIEA), Europe (SIEE), and Japan Asia (SIEJA) will report directly to Sony Interactive Entertainment's (SIE) deputy president and head of global sales and marketing, Jim Ryan. To ensure all three divisions ...

As explained on the PlayStation blog, Sony will drop PS3 and Vita titles from its PS Plus lineup, choosing to only “focus on PS4 titles.” That means instead of the usual six-game format gamers have been used to since November 2013 — two free games for each platform — PS Plus subscribers will have ...

Spotify's “real” valuation is a moving target, but last fall the company's shares traded hands at around $20 billion, so let's use that number for now: It would mean Ek's stake is worth some $1.9 billion and Lorentzon's is worth about $2.5 billion. Another — slightly surprising — winner from the IPO: Sony Music.

We asked Kaz Tajima, who heads up design for Sony Mobile, why the company's new Sony Xperia XZ2 smartphone didn't borrow Apple's "notch" design. "We try to respect content as much as possible," he told The Sun. "Notching the display always affects the user interface. We try to keep a square user ...

Sony has appointed Kenichiro Yoshida, the chief financial officer credited for executing the turnround at the once-struggling Japanese electronics and entertainment group, as its new chief executive. The promotion of 58-year-old Yoshida, which will take place in April, boosted Sony's share price by 1.9 ...

Now that we're at the end of the delightfully short month that is February, it's time to talk about the free PlayStation Plus games for March. Sony detailed those titles today, and it would appear that it plans to go big with next month's PlayStation 4 games. Sadly, this was paired with news of incoming changes ...

Thor star Chris Hemsworth is eyeing a role in Sony's Men In Black spinoff, which has The Fate of the Furious and Straight Outta Compton helmer F. Gary Gray directing from a script by Iron Man scribes Matt Holloway and Art Marcum. Related · 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle' Crossing $900M WW Box ...

The Sony Xperia XZ2 has many elements we've wanted to see for years: a bold new design, powerful innards and innovation inside. However, it's still got a bezel-heavy front, despite packing the new 18:9 screen, and some of the design choices are a touch questionable. There's a lot to be impressed by ...

Drawing on material revealed in the Sony hack plus interviews with key players at companies including Disney, Netflix and Amazon, the book charts the industry's recent history and where it may be headed next. In this exclusive excerpt, he looks at how the box-office power of Sony's biggest A-List stars, ...

Sony on Monday unveiled the Xperia XZ2 flagship, a smartphone that deserves as much attention as the Samsung's Galaxy S9 that was announced less than a day before that. Unlike Nokia's new flagship, which is more of a Galaxy S8 rival, the Xperia XZ2 is a device meant to compete directly against the ...

Sony Music has 5.7% of Spotify's shares; at a recent valuation of around $20B, that would make Sony's stake worth $1.1B -- not that much smaller than those of founders Daniel Ek ($1.9B at that valuation) and Martin Lorentzon ($2.5B). Tencent (OTCPK:TCEHY) holds 7.5%, even more than Sony Music, and ...

Spotify's coming IPO is validation for CEO Daniel Ek, who has built a giant music streaming business. And on paper, the IPO* will make Ek and his co-founder Martin Lorentzon billionaires. Ek owns 25.7 percent of his company and Lorentzon owns 13.2 percent. Spotify's "real" valuation is a moving target, ...

Sony has shined up PlayStation Vue, its virtual pay-TV service, to burnish its appeal to mobile-first consumers. First, new users can now sign up and start watching PlayStation Vue directly from PSVue.com on their mobile phones, tablets or PCs outside of their home. Until now, Sony had required customers ...

Following the recently refreshed A7R III, last night Sony announced its "basic" model update with the A7 III mirrorless camera. This time around it's packing a 24.2 MP sensor, internal 4K HDR video capability (downscaled from 6K) and what Sony says is the longest rated battery life of any mirrorless camera ...

Sony is putting effort into its smartphones again. The company's new XZ2 and XZ2 Compact shrink down the chunky bezels of their predecessors (to an extent) and feature the same taller, slimmer displays that helped Samsung, LG, and other companies roundly outclass Sony's smartphone design last year.

Sony spent 2017 releasing pricey powerhouse cameras like the A9, but today the company announced one that sounds almost as good at half the price. The new full-frame A7 III splits the difference between the pixel-packed A7R III and the A7S II, the company's low light and video king. It boasts big-time ...

If you've ever wanted to try out a VR gaming headset but have been put off by the price, we have good news — Sony is cutting the prices of its PSVR bundles in the US and Europe. In the US, the Playstation VR Doom bundle now costs $299.99 and includes a PSVR headset, the Doom VFR game, and ...

Sony has struck a three-series deal with Nigeria-based EbonyLife, with the first project set to be an action drama inspired by the Dahomey Warriors, the female fighters who came together to protect their kingdom. Dahomey was a West African kingdom in what is now the Republic of Benin. EbonyLife and ...