Hideo Kojima says he was ‘shocked’ after Sony cut ties with Physint over a Zoom call: ‘Nothing could’ve prepared me for their decision to step away from the project’

Sony’s recent decision to cut ties with Kojima Productions’s Physint is one of the more unexpected turns of 2026. Even with the industry’s many struggles, and speculation that Death Stranding 2 didn’t sell as well as Sony hoped, the PlayStation studio shutting the door on one of the industry’s most famed and respected designers was…

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Japanese devs aren’t facing the same layoff crisis because their executives are paid an order of magnitude less, ‘they didn’t get swept up in the live-service trend,’ and their teams are smaller, says industry expert

In an interview first published in Edge Magazine issue 428 and shared online via its Knowledge newsletter, former Tencent Games business development director and inaugural Game Awards Game Changer Amir Satvat offered his take on why the now-yearslong games industry layoff crisis has been so uneven in its geographic distribution. There’s been a lot of…

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