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Sony's Crunchyroll has teamed up with Fox One to offer a combined subscription bundle for US customers, available through Prime Video for a limited time. The bundle, priced at $23 per month, gives subscribers access to Crunchyroll's ad-free anime library alongside Fox's news, sports and entertainment channels at a 23% discount versus buying both separately.
Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions have struck a new publishing and development deal with Microsoft after Sony decided to stop funding his upcoming titles, including Physint and OD. Sony reportedly canceled its backing of Physint, prompting a three-month search that ended with Xbox stepping in to finance the games through to release.
GameStop announced via social media that some previously shuttered stores will reopen starting September 11, though it hasn't disclosed how many locations are involved. A company spokesperson told IGN the confirmed count was 'at least one' as of that date, suggesting more announcements may follow. This follows a wave of roughly 470 store closures listed for January 2026 as part of GameStop's broader cost-cutting strategy.
Four California consumers filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony Interactive Entertainment in federal court, claiming the PlayStation Store misleads shoppers by using ownership terms like 'Buy Now' and 'Confirm Purchase' for digital games that are actually only licensed, revocable access. They say the license disclaimer appears in small, unhighlighted text that fails to meet California's disclosure requirements for digital goods. Sony has since asked the court to force individual arbitration or dismiss the case, arguing no reasonable consumer would think they truly own a digital game.
Hideo Kojima confirmed that Sony's PlayStation Studios canceled its involvement in his action-espionage game Physint back in June, prompting a three-month search for a new publisher. Xbox has now stepped in to publish the title, with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma calling it a major moment for the platform and referencing another Kojima collaboration, OD.
Lucasfilm announced that the original 1977 Star Wars will debut on IMAX 70mm on February 19, 2027, marking its 50th anniversary, using a newly restored print of the unaltered original cut rather than the digitally remastered version. The upcoming film Star Wars: Starfighter will follow on IMAX screens starting May 28, 2027, exactly 50 years after the franchise's first theatrical release.
Sony's disc-manufacturing division, DADC, clarified that a widely circulated report misstated comments from an executive about its Thalgau plant. Rather than cutting disc output by 90 percent in 2028, the company actually expects only a 10 percent overall decline in product volume that year. Sony still plans to stop producing new PlayStation games on disc starting January 2028, but will allow publishers to reorder existing disc titles afterward.
Sony Japan published a policy on September 1 defining customer harassment and warning it will restrict or suspend support for customers who cross the line, including abusive language, excessive demands, or intimidating behavior toward staff. The move comes after intense customer anger over Sony's plan to stop producing physical PlayStation discs by January 2028, a decision already facing several lawsuits.
Sony's WF-1000XM6 and WF-1000XM5 both retail at $330 but are currently priced $50 apart on Amazon, with the M6 at $298 and the M5 at $248. The newer M6 has a smaller, pill-shaped design and a new QN3e chip that improves sound quality, but its ear tips create fit issues that weaken noise cancellation, while the M5 handles call clarity and background noise suppression better.
Sony is releasing the WH-CH730N this month for $180, replacing the WH-CH720N in its midrange lineup. The new model features redesigned ear cups, a folding headband, improved active noise cancellation, AI-enhanced call quality, and a 10-band EQ. Battery life jumps significantly to 50 hours with ANC on, up from 35 hours on the previous model.
Sony has released the WH-1000XM4C, a refreshed version of its popular 2020 WH-1000XM4 headphones, priced at $300. The update adds Bluetooth 6.0, a 10-band equalizer with gaming EQ, a new lavender color option, and revised sound tuning, while keeping the same QN1 noise-canceling chip and four-microphone array. Battery life drops slightly to 27 hours from the original's 30, and Sony launched it alongside two new midrange models, the WH-CH730N and WH-CH530.
Sony has begun pushing Android 17 to the Xperia 1 VIII, with the update also arriving for the Xperia 1 VII and Xperia 1 VI. The release adds a Desktop mode for connecting phones to external displays like a PC, along with new wallpaper and icon customization, a redesigned Quick settings panel, and upgraded screen recording that captures full-screen or single-app video with audio. The Xperia 1 VIII also gains the ability to save and name up to three custom looks in its AI Camera Assistant.