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Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can’t be both
Shawn Layden, a former senior PlayStation executive who spent three decades at Sony and oversaw its 13-strong roster of first-party studios before leaving in 2019, has argued that Microsoft must decide whether Xbox is a platform or a publisher, because it cannot successfully be both. His comments, made to Eurogamer after a since-deleted LinkedIn remark…
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Watch: Typhoon Bavi forecast to bring heavy rains and floods to Taiwan, Japan and China
See how the powerful storm is expected to move across east Asia on Saturday.
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Sophie Cunningham stuns the Internet with Phoenix entrance attire, new fantasy football punishment & ribs!
This piece is an instalment of OutKick’s light-hearted “Friday Screencaps” column, a rambling round-up of sports and personal anecdotes rather than a single news story. The bulk of the published text focuses on the author reflecting on the end of his son’s youth summer baseball season, using the games to draw lessons about resilience and…
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China becomes the second country to recover a rocket booster
China has become only the second country, after the United States, to recover a reusable rocket booster, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Footage showed a Long March 10B booster descending under its own power before being caught intact in a net anchored at sea, a technique the developer says has never been achieved before. The…
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WNBA player who battered Caitlin Clark elbows another Fever star in the face, but there’s a catch
Indiana Fever guard Lexie Hull took an elbow to the face from Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas during the third quarter of the two teams’ meeting on Thursday night. The incident drew attention because Thomas is the same player who forcefully threw Fever star Caitlin Clark to the ground two weeks earlier, fuelling an increasingly…
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‘Sony Knows a $1,000 PS6 Won’t Sell as Much’: Analyst on Manufacturer’s Plan to Maximise Revenue
Niko Partners director Daniel Ahmad has published a fact-based analysis explaining the reasoning behind Sony’s decision to stop manufacturing physical PlayStation game discs, cutting through the emotional backlash from fans. He compares the move to Apple removing the CD drive from its laptops in 2008, arguing that although complaints were loud at the time, the…
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Japanese Boy Band Psychic Fever Wants You to Know They’re All ‘Different’: ‘We Don’t Want to Fit in a Box’
Japanese seven-piece boy band Psychic Fever have released their second full-length album, “Different”, on 10 July via Warner Music and 10K Projects, four years after their 2022 debut “P.C.F.” The record is built around the idea that each of its members sounds, looks and thinks differently, a concept the group present as a deliberate statement…
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Corporate America’s China addiction has become a national security threat
An opinion piece published by Fox News argues that corporate America’s heavy reliance on Communist China for manufacturing and materials has become a serious national security vulnerability. The article highlights a recently filed petition with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that urges the regulator to require publicly traded companies to disclose to shareholders the…
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The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
The Guardian’s regular science fiction, fantasy and horror column rounds up five recently published books, offering brief critical assessments of each. The selection spans literary speculative fiction, ghost stories, horror and time-travel thrillers, with several debut novels featured alongside work from established authors. The books covered are Isabel J Kim’s *Sublimation* (Picador, £18.99), a debut…