(Reuters) – Japan’s Sony will cut around 900 jobs at its PlayStation unit and close a studio in London, it said on Tuesday, as the video game industry tries to recover from a post-pandemic slump. The layoffs affect about eight percent of the division’s staff in regions from the Americas to Asia and come days after Sony cut annual sales expectations for its PlayStation 5 console. “We’ve come to the conclusion that tough decisions have become inevitable,” said Sony’s head of gaming, Jim Ryan, blaming it for changes in the…

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LONDON: Sony faces a class-action lawsuit of up to 6.3 billion pounds ($7.9 billion) over claims that the PlayStation maker abused its dominant position and led to unfair prices for customers, a London court ruled on Tuesday. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) was sued last year on behalf of nearly nine million people in the UK who had bought digital games or additional content through Sony’s PlayStation Store. Consumer advocate Alex Neill, who has worked on previous campaigns, is filing a lawsuit against Sony. He says the company abused its dominant…

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