Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden has been away from the company for five years now, but he's still got plenty to say about how things are going in Sony's gaming division. And in a recent interview ...

Slitterhead director Keiichiro Toyama says Sony wanted Japan Studio to make "more highly budgeted games" before it was ultimately closed. Speaking to VGC in a new interview, Toyama, who departed ...

Ex-Sony Worldwide Studios boss and indie lead, Shuhei Yoshida, has said that the SIE Studio Japan closed its doors as, despite doing a great job on the AA game front, management didn’t want to ...

In a new interview with VGC, Toyama said that he personally wanted to make “original,” creative games rather than be bound by massive budgets, but that’s not the direction Sony wanted to go in. Toyama ...

The former CEO and president of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, Shawn Layden, has said the closure of the company’s Japan Studio ‘wasn’t necessarily a surprise to him,’ and has likened its ...

The closure PlayStation’s Japan Studio in April 2021 didn’t really surprise former Sony executive Shawn Layden. In a new interview, Layden has shed some light on the beloved developer’s disbanding, ...

Former Sony Japan Studio producer Teruyuki Toriyama, who was responsible for hit titles like Bloodborneand Demon Souls, has joined forces with several other industry veterans to create the new game ...