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Shawn Layden, the chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios, is exiting the top role overseeing the company’s PlayStation games development. The news came Monday in a tweet from Sony’s official PlayStation account. “It is with great emotion that we announce that Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn…

Andrew House, the head of Sony Interactive Entertainment who put the PlayStation gaming console back on a winning track, is leaving the company after a 27-year run. According to a press release, House’s No. 2, John (Tsuyoshi) Kodera, has been named his successor. House will segue out of managing SIE, but will stay on…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has set Shawn Levy to direct Uncharted, the long-awaited live-action feature film based on the PlayStation video game series featuring the treasure hunter Nathan Drake. Joe Carnahan, who wrote the most recent script draft, had an eye to direct, but he has moved over to focus on helming Sony’s B…

Sony’s overall October-December 2015 operating profit rose to $1.68B, beating analyst estimates. The figure reps an 11% increase from the same period last year and was driven by strong performance of its PlayStation business. Net income was $1B. The entertainment division also saw a major upswing, 26.9% in revenue, to…

Sony laid out its mid-term corporate strategy for 2015-2017 this afternoon in Tokyo, setting a target of more than 10% return on equity, and operating income of over 500B yen ($4.2B) for the fiscal year 2017. This is chief executive Kazuo Hirai's second mid-term plan since he took over in 2012 and includes an emphasis…

Another corner of Sony, the PlayStation Network that connects gamers to both the Sony online store and multiplayer game play on Sony devices, was attacked and out of commission temporarily Sunday. People who attempted to log in to the store were shown a sign saying the outage was “the Internet’s fault.” Gamers logging…

Here’s our first look at the new live-action PlayStation series that puts a superhero spin on the cop genre. The first trailer for Powers was unveiled today during the show’s panel at New York Comic-Con. We hear Christian Walker (Sharlto Copley) talking about how he used to be able to fly, “but I lost my powers, so…

Though videogames can be massive sellers (witness those billion-dollar debuts last fall for Grand Theft Auto V and Call of Duty: Ghosts), every title faces rapid obsolescence, at least in gamers’ eyes. Three years after hitting the shelves, even the hottest titles can look woefully quaint compared to the latest stuff…

Lionsgate has promoted Thomas Hughes, a sign, the company says, of how much importance it places on emerging online and alternate video-delivery platforms. As EVP Worldwide Digital Distribution, Hughes will oversee sales and distribution efforts in on-demand and digital video, including more than 25 digital retailers…

Sony’s PS4 videogame console will get a new game-playing cousin in the U.S. and Canada this fall, the PlayStation TV, a $99 video device that can play older PlayStation and PS Vita games on a TV set with a standard Sony game controller. A bundle including the device, a controller, an HDMI cable, a memory card and a…

Sony’s PlayStation video game console is the latest digital platform to enter the original programming space. Its first show will be hourlong drama Powers, based on the graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. The series will be produced by PlayStation sibling Sony Pictures TV, where the project…

David Bloom is a Deadline contributor. PlayStation Group CEO and president Andrew House told a press event at the big GamesCon conference in Germany today that the company’s next-generation game console, the PS4, will be released November 15 in North America and two weeks later in Europe. The release date was the last…