August 2022

God of War Ragnarok was originally scheduled to release in 2021, but was later bumped to 2022. “We remain focused on delivering a top-quality game while maintaining the safety and wellbeing of our team, creative partners, and families,” developer Santa Monica Studio said in a tweet announcing the delay. Sony revealed the first trailer for Ragnarok a few months later. God […]

Twitter announced that it has launched a lawsuit against the Indian government, the latest salvo in an ongoing fight over the country’s aggressive speech laws. The lawsuit comes after Twitter was ordered to remove a series of accounts and posts that violate Indian obscenity and defamation laws, as first reported by The New York Times. Twitter has

Netflix has announced that, beginning today, it’s rolling out spatial audio for select original programming. The feature should deliver more immersive sound, particularly for customers who are listening to a TV show or movie with headphones. Netflix has collaborated with Sennheiser to convert surround sound mixes into an expansive spatial audio presentation that can be

Posting “online insults” will be punishable by up to a year in prison time in Japan ever since a new law passed earlier this summer. People convicted of online insults can also be fined up to 300,000 yen (just over $2,200). Previously, the punishment was fewer than 30 days in prison and up to 10,000

At this year’s Anime Expo in Los Angeles, Bandai Namco announced a new game based on the popular anime series My Hero Academia: a 24-player battle royale that pits teams of heroes and villains against each other. The free-to-play game, called My Hero Ultra Rumble, will be available on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PC. My Hero

Microsoft is planning to remove Xbox 360 games from its monthly Games with Gold offer in October. The software maker has started emailing Xbox Live Gold subscribers to warn them of the change, noting that the company has “reached the limit of our ability to bring Xbox 360 games to the catalogue.” Games with Gold

Have you ever wanted to control and manage your the wifi network at your home remotely? Maybe you want to keep track of what websites your kids are visiting, or restrict internet access on certain devices. Maybe you just don’t want them to stay up all night watching cat videos because it’s a school night.

Over the years Persona has seen a steady rise from a niche RPG series to a bonafide hit — so the next natural step is a live-action adaptation. While there’s nothing officially in the works just yet, Toru Nakahara, producer on the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movies, says that it’s something that Sega is exploring.