(For Southeast Asia) Introducing Pulse Elevate – Sony Interactive Entertainment’s first wireless speakers for desktop gaming

(For Southeast Asia) Introducing Pulse Elevate – Sony Interactive Entertainment’s first wireless speakers for desktop gaming

Update (August 19, 2026): Pulse Elevate wireless speakers in Midnight Black and White will launch starting on November 12, 2026,* with a recommended retail price (RRP) of  SGD 319 / MYR 1,099 / THB 8,499 / PHP 14,709 / VND 6,999,000. Pre-orders for Pulse Elevate speakers will be available starting from September 2, 2026 in…

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Industry legend Warren Spector is retiring: ‘I’m feeling like I’ve done what I set out to do’

Warren Spector is one of the industry’s most storied developers, particularly among fans of immersive sims. His leading roles on games like Ultima Underworld, System Shock, and Deus Ex—and you know what, even Invisible War and Deadly Shadows, which are probably better than you think—established him as one of the field’s most admired and enduring…

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‘Live-service is a red flag for us’: Why one publisher is embracing an older kind of multiplayer hit: peer-to-peer, server browsers, and organic community

It’s a frustrating thing to watch good games disappear. We’ve seen it happen time and time and time again: studios spend years on a cool multiplayer thing, bank on it being popular enough to become a live-service hit, then toss the entire project into the trash when that doesn’t happen. That could have been the…

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When is a Combat not a Combat? By Lee K. Seitz

Once your classic cartridge collection reaches a certain size, you’ll discover you’re finding few new cartridges at thrift stores. In order to “get their fix,” so to speak, many collectors start collecting label variations to keep their number of “finds” up. “Label variations” simply means different types of labels on the same game. For Colecovision…

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Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker says they won’t stop until Rockstar and Take-Two apologize for ‘anti-consumerism’ and make a ‘concrete commitment to do better’

Cyberleek, the group or person (it’s not clear which) behind today’s big Grand Theft Auto 6 leak, claims it’s not just doing it for the lulz. In a manifesto calling out industry practices it finds objectionable, Cyberleek warned that it will continue targeting publishers who violate its edicts. “Publishers sell licenses and call them purchases,”…

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Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida told Clair Obscur devs to not call it a ‘turn-based RPG’ so people wouldn’t ‘overlook’ it

According to former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida, turn-based RPGs, particularly JRPGs, were so unpopular several years ago that he would tell indie developers to avoid using the term altogether in their marketing—even for a game like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Yoshida recalled giving the Clair Obscur developers this advice during a lecture at the Busan…

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