What's up and welcome to The Dual Sense Podcast as we bring you all of the week's PlayStation news, rumors, new game releases, and more in less than 90 minutes!

On this week's episode, we discuss the concern over Tencent's growing footprint in the gaming industry in light of their ties to the Chinese Communist Party. We also dive into the leaked PlayStation 5 Pro specs, PS5 crossing 40 million units sold, a temporary price cut on the console, the 10-year deal that Sony signed to keep Call of Duty on their platforms, August's PS Plus Essential tier games, what is happening with Dreams, a couple of high-profile PS VR2 shooters getting release dates, Project Q suffers a major leak, Wayfinder finally hitting Early Access, more signs point to a Red Dead Redemption remaster, and so much more.

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What's up and welcome to The Dual Sense Podcast as we bring you all of the week's PlayStation news, rumors, new game releases, and more in less than 90 minutes!

On this week's show, we discuss the conclusion of the Microsoft-Activision merger and what the future holds for PlayStation. We also dive into a major staff shake-up at Naughty Dog, Sony's increased budget for research & development at PlayStation, the July additions to the PS Plus Extra and Premium tiers, the most-downloaded games in June on the PS Store, an upgraded version of The Last of Us Part 2 is incoming, EA Sports FC 24 was revealed, Assassin's Creed Red is coming in 2024, Guerrilla Games has big plans for the Horizon franchise, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart didn't need the PS5 SSD after all, Call of Duty 2024 is headed to the Gulf War, the folks who made Journey are cooking up their next masterpiece, and much more.

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What's up and welcome to The Dual Sense Podcast as we bring you all of the week's PlayStation news, rumors, new game releases, and more in less than 90 minutes!

On this week's show we discuss further changes at PlayStation's mobile game division, a major leak for PS5 exclusive Rise of the Ronin, rumors that The Last of Us Part 3 is in development, NBA 2K24 was officially announced, the first (very awesome) look at Helldivers 2 gameplay, EA Sports FC24 leaks, Embracer Group raises cash fast in a stock move, Firesprite moves into a brand new building, and much more.

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What's up and welcome to The Dual Sense Podcast as we bring you all of the week's PlayStation news, rumors, new game releases, and more in less than 90 minutes!

On this week's episode, we discuss further revelations from the FTC's Microsoft-Activision hearing, including how expensive Horizon Forbidden West and The Last of Us Part II were to make, how much revenue Sony makes off Call of Duty, the list of publishers and developers that Microsoft has their eye on for acquisition, and Bobby Kotick hates Game Pass. We also dive into the industry sales data for May, the July lineup of PS Plus Essential games, Baldur's Gate 3 moves release dates, a Red Dead Redemption remaster may be incoming, Jim Ryan visits Hideo Kojima, and more.

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What's up and welcome to The Dual Sense Podcast as we bring you all of the week's PlayStation news, rumors, new game releases, and more in less than 90 minutes!

On this week's show, we discuss the first round of court hearing regarding the FTC's injunction against the Microsoft-Activision deal, including how Jim Ryan really feels about the merger, and if Microsoft can be trusted. Then we turn our attention to publisher Electronic Arts, who is splitting its company into two separate divisions. We also discuss new details for Bungie's new game Marathon, another gacha game coming to PlayStation, PlayStation Mobile loses its leader after just two years, E3 2024 and 2025 is cancelled, Sony is working on technical improvements for PS VR2, and so much more.

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What's up and welcome to The Dual Sense Podcast as we bring you all of the week's PlayStation news, rumors, new game releases, and more in less than 90 minutes!

This week we discuss Swedish conglomerate Embracer Group finally showing signs of implosion after growing too big, too fast. We also take a look at the latest battle between the FTC and Microsoft, the June additions to the PS Plus Extra and Premium game catalog, PlayStation pushing its studios to earn 90 Metacritic scores, new PS VR2 games, the Final Fantasy 16 demo, a plethora of new game announcements, and more.

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What's up and welcome to The Dual Sense Podcast as we bring you all of the week's PlayStation news, rumors, new game releases, and more in less than 90 minutes!

Travis is out on vacation this week, so I am joined by Ryan Betson from The Pop Culturists in Australia. Together we recap and discuss Summer Game Fest, May's most-downloaded games on the PlayStation Store, Diablo 4's massive success, PayDay 3, PlayStation making a Hideo Kojima documentary, EA Sports stiffing college football players, and much more.

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What's up and welcome to The Dual Sense Podcast as we bring you all of the week's PlayStation news, rumors, new game releases, and more, all in less than 90 minutes!

This week we discuss PlayStation's continued layoffs to its live service teams, this time at Visual Arts Services. We also recap several new PS VR2 game announcements, the June PS Plus Essential tier games, an update to PlayStation Stars, Ratchet & Clank coming to PC, new details on Alan Wake 2, Netflix getting serious about video games, fresh Spider-Man 2 details, Romanian regulators investigating PlayStation, and much more.

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What's up and welcome to The Dual Sense Podcast as we bring you ALL of the week's PlayStation news, rumors, new game releases, and more in less than 90 minutes!

On this week's episode we have much to discuss. Suffice it to say, this is certainly not how PlayStation imagined their week would go. We recap and discuss our thoughts on the PlayStation Showcase - was it really that bad? There was also late-breaking news that Naughty Dog has delayed its multiplayer The Last of Us project, as well as a new investor relations presentation from Sony that detailed how PlayStation is doing financially. We also discuss word of Deviation Games project indeed being cancelled, a John Wick game is in development, a new God of War game is on the way, Embracer Group is in trouble, Geoff Keighly has a few big things to show us (whoa!), and Battlefield 2042 is set to being post-launch year two. All of that and so much more!

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What's up and welcome to The Dual Sense Podcast as we bring you all of the week's PlayStation news, rumors, new game releases, and more in less than 90 minutes!

On this week's show we discuss the big news we've all been waiting for - the announcement of a PlayStation showcase! We also discuss Jim Ryan's interview with Famitsu and his confirmation that PS5 exclusives will not come to PC for two or three years after launch, Ubisoft confirming all of their game releases for the current fiscal year (no Division Heartland), Ubisoft going all-in on the Assassin's Creed franchise, Rockstar is planning to release Grand Theft Auto 6 next fiscal year, EA Sports College Football is focusing on Dynasty Mode, Mortal Kombat 1 is revealed, and much more.

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