As confirmed earlier through our official channels, in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the PHYSINT project. PHYSINT is an important project both to me personally and to KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS. Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner. In the course of seeking advice and pursuing negotiations with people across many fields, we found in XBOX a partner with whom we share a common vision for the future, and we have decided to team up with them once again. Please rest assured that development of PHYSINT, our genre-defining action-espionage title, is ongoing and will continue moving forward.
LET’S NOT PLAY ON PLAYSTATION FOR ONE WEEK. 🎮
Starting tomorrow, August 23 through August 30, let’s support the #PSBlackout campaign.
So for one week:
❌ Don’t play on PlayStation
❌ Don’t buy games
❌ Don’t make in-game purchases
❌ Skip PS Store purchases
❌ Skip logins & purchases
❌ Cancel/avoid subscriptions if you can
📀 Support physical games & preservation
The goal isn’t to hurt developers. It’s to send Sony a clear message:
Gamers still want the choice to own their games.
If you support physical media, join the #PSBlackout from August 23–30.
Would you participate? 👇
Sony is moving new PlayStation releases toward digital-only or code-in-box formats after January 2028.
This isn’t just about discs. It’s about ownership, preservation and access.
If a digital store shuts down one day, what happens to the games you paid for?
Some gamers are even considering Switch 2 or PC as alternatives for long-term ownership.
No PlayStation. No Sony game purchases. No in-game spending. August 23–30.
Would you join the #PSBlackout? 🔥
The #PSBlackout movement has officially started. It's August 23. Turn your P55's off till September 1. Not buying anything digital. Only buy physical games! Goodluck everyone.
RECAP: The industry have been trying to spread out lies regarding physical games being unprofitable and a niche market, but reality has a different story🚀
✅Sony shipped nearly 70 million physical PlayStation discs worldwide in FY2025
✅In the UK, physical market exceeded £300 million in 2025, with 25% of young gamers (under 25) still using discs
✅In Spain, physical sales hit €294 million. While digital revenue seems higher (61.9%), it is heavily inflated by the inclusion of DLCs, subscriptions, and mobile apps.
✅Around 121 countries (64% of the world) lacks reliable internet or a dedicated PlayStation Store, making physical discs a strict necessity rather than just a preference.
✅Phasing out physical games is a profit-driven move that threatens game ownership.
✅Allowing companies to eliminate physical media gives them unchecked monopoly power over pricing and availability, a shift that will eventually hurt digital consumers, too.
Resident Evil Requiem sales were used to perpetuate the lie that only a small minority buy physical, games but worldwide sales also tell a different story:
🇺🇸22% (to end of June) in the US
🇫🇷55% physial in France
🇯🇵51% in Japan
🇦🇺43% in Australia
🇬🇧40% in UK
We are not advocating for the end of digital games. We are not merely calling for nostalgia.
But being able to hold a hard copy that you can:
✅Buy at competitive prices
✅Trade and resell
✅Keep forever
✅Use without reliance on networks
Is the bare minimum of expectations in terms of customer rights.
And this whole digital-only future has shown time and time again to be anti-consumer and a stepping stone towards a cloud streaming future where you own nothing, and likely pay even more, and your games can be taken away or altered without compensation.
And that tired argument of “but discs require downloads and internet too” this too is part of our movement. Discs MUST have the full game and does not require extra downloads.
PERIOD
NO DISC 💿 NO BUY
Everyone calling for NO DISC 💿 NO BUY, you are on the right track, you are fighting the good fight, and we should keep at it🚀
Bending over backwards to defend predatory practices by corporations isn’t the flex you think it is.
Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking physical media, ownership, options to buy and access without the mercy of a storefront are not “a thing of the past”, or that you’re “toxic” or a “hater” or “hurting devs” by speaking out for your best interest.
✅Films continue to come to Blu-Ray
✅Music continues to come to CD & vinyl
✅Books continue to come to print
Despite the existence of the digital alternative, so don’t let predatory game publishers convince you that digital is the only way or that “ending physical was always gonna happen”.
The concept is simple: I bought a game, I get to own it. PERIOD😎💿
PlayStation Blackout, the movement against Sony’s plan to end physical media, begins August 23-30🚀
❌Turning off consoles
❌No Login
❌No purchases or gaming
Don’t give up, speak out, fight for physical media, player ownership and against monopoly
NO DISC 💿 NO BUY
The countdown is officially on.
December 10. Live from Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
Four months until @TheGameAwards
More details - and tickets - coming this fall. 🎮🏆
🚨 Security researcher Ben Jordan reveals that Flock cameras are secretly creating a GPS tracker for every car in America, and it’s already live
This is extremely concerning
“Flock license plate readers take a timestamped photo of every vehicle that passes every camera. Police can search your historical travel information for 30 days. This creates a searchable database of everyone, not just the suspects of crime — It's like if you were to build a graph of that sheet and plot it to a map, now it's as if you've had a GPS on your car for an entire month”
“In order for that historical data to be of investigative value, you have to track every car”
Flocks own training videos say they aren’t just tracking license plates, they’re tracking people
“But Flock's own webinars talk about its license plate reader's ability to track vehicles and people”
Directly from the investigation:
But the company’s own training videos show police using the system to track suspects “from location to location to location.”
And some of its cameras are designed to follow people as they walk.
“And they quite literally use AI to zoom in and follow you around whether you’re a person of interest or not,”
We need to ban Flock nationwide, this is the surveillance state being established