Ankrich

AKA Ankles (gaming nickname) Lover of video games, Star Wars, and movies

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Yesterday, we lost a cherished member of our family.

We got Sunny at the start of our second term in the White House, and all of us – including our first dog, Bo – immediately fell in love. We also had trouble keeping up with her, for Sunny was a force of nature. Athletic and full of boundless energy, she leapt over the hedges on the South Lawn like they weren’t even there, chasing squirrels, birds and anything else that moved. And whereas the way to Bo’s heart usually involved a treat, Sunny was more interested in having us run around with her, roll on the floor with her, or have her belly rubbed for as long as we were willing.

She loved the girls, even if they were pestering her when she was napping. She loved our team, and would often follow them around, helping them on the job. She was fiercely protective of Bo, who she rightly sensed wasn’t always as alert and attentive as she was. She had her eccentricities: other than Bo, she preferred people to dogs; she was a loud and sloppy drinker; and despite being a Portuguese Water Dog, she hated getting wet.

But as far as our family was concerned, she was pretty much perfect, and for thirteen years, she would be by our side – always loyal, always sweet, always ready for adventure, still fiery and gorgeous till the very end of her days.

We will miss her terribly, and imagine she’s with her big brother now, making sure he’s okay.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Democracy is LITERALLY on the line this November.

Vote.

[CharlieIntel @charlieINTEL]

Former PlayStation executives Shuhei Yoshida and Adam Boyes recreated their iconic "how to share disc games on PS4" meme ... but this time with nothing in their hands after Sony's news on ending physical media

[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

A number of Blu-ray-related patents for Sony will be expiring between 2026 and 2031, ending their ability to collect royalties on physical movie and video game discs🚀

This means audiences will be forced to rely exclusively on streaming platforms, if physical media is entirely phased out.

Blu-Rays and UHD Blu-Rays have a noticeably superior quality compared to digital/streaming counter parts, as the latter suffers lower video and audio quality due to higher compression.

So once again, this isn’t about nostalgia, this is about Sony taking away:

❌Quality
❌Ownership
❌Competitive pricing
❌Preservation

Sony has recently removed 500 movies from users’ purchases list without compensation.

They are actively ruining our gaming and viewing experiences, while masquerading it as “the future”, and we MUST NOT BE SILENT.

We speak out, seek the law, and vote on laws that prevent a single company from destroying art and entertainment, due to the greed of their CEOs and shareholders.

NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

(Special thanks to @Pirat_Nation for their research into the matter)

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

Asha also signed our signboard. Thank you so much 🙏🙇🏻🫶@asha_shar

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

If you were young in 2001, or weren’t even born yet, it can be hard to imagine what 9/11 felt like. The shock of that beautiful, cloudless morning. The heartbreak of the families whose loved ones were taken with such swiftness and cruelty. The realization that the forces of malevolence and violence were closer, and the future less certain, than we knew.

But in the days that followed, we felt something else, too. Pride in the rescue workers who had rushed to the scene, and the passengers who had stormed the cockpit. Admiration for the men and women who left behind lives of comfort to serve their country. A deep resolve that nothing would break the will of a truly United States of America.

Today Michelle and I are remembering those we lost that day, and those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars that followed. We pray for their families. And we hope Americans everywhere remember the true lesson of 9/11: that we can survive even our darkest days as long as we move forward as one nation and one people.

[Domino's Pizza UK @Dominos_UK]

PlayStation thought the game was called physical and had to back out

[The Washington Sun @washingtonsun]

Welcome to The Washington Sun.
https://t.co/XpDhB9OsHY

[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

RECAP on Sony’s downfall: Sony PlayStation’s terrible leadership under Totoki, Jim Ryan, Hermen Hulst and Nishino run the company’s reputation to the ground and lost all good-will from players🚀

It looks like I will keep updating this often:

📦Cancelled Kojima’s PHYSINT abruptly
💰Raising console pricing
💿Trying to end physical game discs
🖥️Ended PC ports for single player
🛍️Closing PS3/Vita stores
🕹️Ending second hand market
🌕Stopped support for Destiny
🎮Destroying game ownership
🎞️Removing 500 movies w/o refund
😱7 studios acquired since 2020
😡5 already shut down
⚡️Paid $4.7B to Bungie for nothing

Details:

❌Cancelled Hideo Kojima’s PHYSINT, an action espionage game, mid June 2026, and the pretended the decision was amicable, while Kojima himself said it was unexpected, leading him to move it to XBOX

❌Acquired Bluepoint in 2021 and failed to let them produce a single game since the acquisition, only to shut them down in 2026

❌Acquired Haven in 2022 and hasn’t provided any meaningful updates on Fairgame$

❌Acquired Firewalk Studios in 2023 and ended up with Concord aka. the greatest disaster in gaming and shut down the studio in 2024

❌Acquired Bungie for $3.6B ($4.7B in total) in 2023, which only led to layoffs and delaying Marathon due to plagiarism and a disappointing first reveal

❌Ended support for Destiny and downscaled Bungie with tons of layoffs

❌Shutdown London Studio in 2024 am cancelled their yet to be revealed live service game

❌Shut down Neon Koi

❌Shut down Dark Outlaw as of March 2026, according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier

In addition,

🗑️The Last of Us Online
🗑️Spider-Man: The Great Web Multiplayer
🗑️Bend Studio’s live service game
🗑️Bluepoint’ God of War live service
🗑️Jim Ryan had 12 live service games planned to be out by 2026, only Helldivers II was released and succeeded, the rest were all either cancelled before release or shut down shortly after like Concord

They ruined this entire generation and the hard work of thousands of talented people for nothing.

They betrayed the legendary Kojima and cancelled PHYSINT, which was basically Metal Gear Solid’s spiritual successor

They shifted their failure onto talented studios for the egocentrism of the clueless execs.

And now they want to transfer that failure to players by:

✅Ending disc production
✅Creating a monopoly
✅Raising prices
✅Ending second hand market/trading

📀Reports from Digital Foundry’s John Linneman and others stated that there’s resentment for Sony from the industry and various studios and publishers who spoke to him.

👉Their CEOs/Execs must be fired
👉Sony must be reformed

They have lost all good will and run their reputation to the ground

NO KOJIMA 🫡 NO BUY
NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

An update from PlayStation Studios: After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to step away from collaborating with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS on its project PHYSINT. We continue to have great admiration for Hideo Kojima's vision for the game.

Our relationship remains strong after three decades of industry-leading, genre-defining creative cooperation, and we look forward to continued close collaboration with Hideo Kojima and his award-winning independent studio in the future.

[Synth Potato🥔 @SynthPotato]

PlayStation in 2026:

- End Destiny
- End physical gaming forever
- End porting exclusives to PC
- Completely lose Hideo Kojima
- Attempt to cancel Kojima's next Metal Gear franchise
- Kojima cuts ties entirely and goes to XBOX
- Force your single-player studios to make live service games
- Concord happens
- Proceed to cancel most of them, losing years of development time and billions of dollars
- Buy Bluepoint and have them make a live-service rather than remakes
- Close Bluepoint down before they release any games
- Start selling vertical stands separately rather than have them come with the console
- Console prices at an all-time high

Genuinely... what is going on at Sony. disaster after disaster, huge L after L. They were my favorite gaming company throughout the PS4 generation but genuinely, how do you lose EVERYONE this fast? Meanwhile, XBOX is taking full advantage of this and priming a major comeback next generation. A literal generational fumble happening at Sony.

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

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.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

PlayStation latest years has been full of terrible decisions that were clearly focused on investors and ignoring gamers

>Closing Japan Studio, Sony shut down one of its most unique first-party studios.

>Going all-in on live-service games, Sony put huge amounts of money into live-service games instead of focusing more on the single-player games PlayStation was known for.

>Buying Bungie for $3.6 billion, then let die Destiny and mass layoffs

> Cancelling The Last of Us Online, (this is good) but they wasted so many time and money

>Concord, well we all know what happened here the biggest flop ever

>Closing Neon Koi, Sony shut down its mobile studio before its planned game was released.

>Closing Bluepoint Games, The studio behind Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes was shut down.

> Today Walking away from Kojima’s PHYSINT, probably he asked for a physical edition and they said no

>Ending physical discs for new games

They are clearly appealing to investors and dont care about gamers anymore

[IGN @IGN]

BREAKING: Hideo Kojima's upcoming Physint, a potential spiritual successor to Metal Gear, will now be published by Xbox and not PlayStation. Kojima's new deal with Xbox also includes future film and TV projects. https://t.co/AUUltGTj5P

[Wario64 @Wario64]

PlayStation is stepping away from collaborating with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS on its project PHYSINT

[XBOX @XBOX]

We started with OD. Now, our partnership with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS is expanding to PHYSINT.

We’re just getting started. https://t.co/IFpLGDSf8O

[Wario64 @Wario64]

Hideo Kojima says that Sony was going to cancel PHYSINT according to a notice in mid-June. Kojima teamed up with Xbox after searching for a new partner for 3 months

[Destiny Bulletin @DestinyBulletn]

12 years ago today: Destiny was released.

[Braiins Forge @Braiinsforge]

Your TV might be one of 216,000,000 LG smart TVs sold worldwide.

Researchers rooted one and pulled plain text transcripts of what people said in the room.

It kept recording while the screen looked off.

If your TV can do that, it’s time to look at everything else on your desk👇🏻

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘SPIDER-NOIR’, starring Nicolas Cage, has been canceled after one season.

• The show received 11 Emmy nominations, the most of any Prime Video series this year

• It also received critical acclaim, earning 92% on Rotten Tomatoes

(Source: https://t.co/TbjnCuANFT)