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In the wake of the commercial failure of ultra-woke video game Concord, Sony has formally shut down the development studio behind the game, Firewalk Studios. Sony made a massive investment in both the studio and the game, which shut down just two weeks after launching due to a complete and utter rejection of the woke game by Sony’s customers.

Sony and Firewalk Studios have announced the shutdown of its recently released ultra-woke game, Concord, less than two weeks after its launch, offering full refunds to all players who purchased the game for PS5 or PC. Sony invested an estimated $100 to $200 million in the game, proving once again that when companies go woke, they go broke.

Artificial intelligence (AI) companies Suno and Udio faced legal action Monday launched by major record labels Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Records.  Allegations include committing mass copyright infringement by using the labels’ recordings to train music-generating AI systems.

Nolte: The feminist flop Madame Web was supposed to launch a whole new superhero franchise, but it’s not happening.

TOKYO — Sony’s profit slipped 29% from a year earlier in July-September, as damage from a strike in the movie sector offset gains from a favorable exchange rate, the Japanese electronics and entertainment company said Thursday.

Confidential details about Sony’s PlayStation business were inadvertently disclosed during an FTC hearing on Microsoft, revealing key insights into the company’s operations and financials. The details were exposed after documents had sensitive details redacted with a sharpie marker, which became visible when the documents were scanned into digital form.

Twitter is reportedly being sued for over $250 million by a coalition of music publishers, including industry heavyweights Sony Music Publishing, Universal Music Corp., and Big Machine Music, over alleged copyright violations.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has taken a decisive step to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video gaming powerhouse Activision Blizzard, dealing a significant blow to the American tech giant.

The FTC’s efforts to block XBox owner Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, one one the world’s largest video game companies, faces a major hurdle in the continued global dominance of Sony over the video game console market.

Sony is asking antitrust enforces in the United Kingdom to either force Microsoft to sell off Activision’s flagship video game title Call of Duty, or veto its proposed acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, as the tech giant continues to face scrutiny over the effect that the proposed merger would have on competition.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation has asked gaming giants Sony, Microsoft, and Valve to ban the video game Atomic Heart. The ministry is also imploring gamers to avoid the game, which it claims portrays Soviet imagery and propaganda.

Electronics and entertainment giant Sony was banned from Weibo, China’s heavily-censored version of Twitter, last week for supposedly violating unspecified laws.

Spider-Man fans are attacking Sony’s decision to possibly cast actress Dakota Johnson as Madame Web in a new solo film, calling the move “disability erasure.”

Sony appears to be trying to memory-hole its woke 2016 box-office dud Ghostbusters by omitting the feminist reboot from its upcoming Ghostbusters “Ultimate Collection” box set.

A prominent Sony executive who worked on the company’s massively popular Playstation gaming console has reportedly been fired after being accused by a group of amateur pedophile hunters in an online sting operation. The group claims that George Cacioppo gave his address to someone he thought was a 15-year-old boy for an alleged sexual encounter, but it was really a participant in the sting operation.

Jeff Garlin has forcefully denied that he has been fired form the ABC TV series, ‘The Goldbergs,’ over reported inappropriate comments.

Andy Serkis, the director for Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man spinoff, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, said that the film represents the alien symbiote’s gay “coming out party” and depicts a “love affair” between the CGI alien and star Tom Hardy.

The major Hollywood studios and streamers have signed on to a diversity initiative spearheaded by Selma filmmaker Ava DuVernay that will promote women and ethnic minority crew members for jobs on TV and movie productions.

Sony announced on Thursday that it is acquiring the streaming service launched by the producers of the popular God’s Not Dead film franchise, Pure Flix, in a move to expand its reach with Christian audiences.

Kanye West has compared the music industry and the NBA to a “modern day slave ship,” saying that he won’t release any more new music under his current contract. The rapper, billionaire fashion mogul, and presidential candidate also declared himself the “new Moses” and compared himself to inventor Nikola Tesla in a series of tweets.

Sony Pictures is looking for an all-female team for its upcoming Marvel film with Olivia Wilde leading the project in the director’s chair, according to Deadline.

Video game studio Naughty Dog, together with its parent company, Sony, has been flooding social media platforms with questionable copyright complaints aimed at censoring critics of their upcoming title, the widely mocked The Last of Us 2.  

One of the world’s largest gaming and consumer electronics conventions, the E3 expo, has been canceled due to fear of the Wuhan coronavirus.

A report published Sunday by an Australian think tank revealed that as many as 83 internationally known brands – including Nike, BMW, Apple, Sony, Google, Lacoste, and Nintendo – have active ties to factories where evidence suggests the Communist Party has shipped Uyghur Muslims to engage in forced labor.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Star Wars was still rising in the last weekend of the year, while Little Women broke big at the box office. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker brought in $72 million over the weekend to remain

“Jumanji: The Next Level” topped the weekend box office in its debut, bringing in $60.1 million, while Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” underperformed, debuting at the No. 4 spot with just $5 million.

The FBI applied for a search warrant to compel Sony to share private data on a Playstation 4 user who was allegedly brokering cocaine distribution deals using the Playstation’s in-game chat functionality, according to a new report.

Director Quentin Tarantino is reportedly refusing to re-cut his film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to please censors in Beijing, virtually guaranteeing that the Sony release won’t play in China.

Actor and LGBTQ activist Billy Porter has confirmed that he will play the role of the fairy godmother in James Corden’s forthcoming live-action movie musical Cinderella.

The CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment announced a new partnership with the United Nations environment committee called the Playing for the Planet alliance. Sony vows its upcoming Playstation 5 gaming platform will focus on lower power consumption to save the Earth.

NEW YORK (AP) — Multiple outlets have reported that Sony Music has dropped embattled R&B star R. Kelly from its roster.

Armed police stormed Sony’s London headquarters today after a ‘bloody knife fight’ broke out between kitchen staff in the building’s canteen, according to reports.

The Justice Department has charged a computer programmer working on behalf of the North Korean government with the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014, along with the massive WannaCry ransomware attack last year and an $81 million theft from a bank in Bangladesh.

The new Jumanji franchise, that unexpectedly flourished against box office under-performer Star Wars: The Last Jedi last year, just announced Jumanji 3 will open on December 13, 2019,  just one week prior to the opening of Star Wars: Episode IX. So much for Star Wars being the 900 pound gorilla. 

Sony Pictures Classics released a statement shredding actor Peter Fonda for his tweets, one of which called for 12-year-old Barron Trump to be raped — but the company said it would still release Boundaries, a new film co-starring Fonda.

Gay advocacy group GLAAD slapped Hollywood with a failing grade on its annual report card for the lack of roles for gays and a dearth of gay storylines in films for 2017.