Sony is reportedly considering increasing the price of the PS5 in response to US tariffs on foreign countries, especially impacting technology sectors. In addition, the company is also weighing-up the possibility of manufacturing consoles in the USA, in order to avoid the fiscal burdens tariffs apply.
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Square Enix cans Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link for good, all while fans beg for any crumb of Kingdom Hearts 4 news
https://www.vg247.com/kingdom-hearts-missing-link-cancelled

Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link (https://www.vg247.com/games/kingdom-hearts-missing-link) has been cancelled by Square Enix, as the company continues with its development on Kingdom Hearts 4 (https://www.vg247.com/games/kingdom-hearts-4). The company said in a statement that "it would be difficult for us to offer a service that players would find satisfactory over a long period of time".
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Kojima is kicking off a Death Stranding 2 world tour, so grab your baby and hike on over to one later this year
https://www.vg247.com/death-stranding-2-world-tour

If you're excited for Death Stranding 2 (https://www.vg247.com/games/death-stranding-2), and are looking for some way to share your eagerness to hop into Kojima Production's latest work, the recently revealed Death Stranding 2 world tour might just be the perfect thing to rope your friends into attending.
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GTA 6 delay was about Rockstar delivering its "creative vision with no limitations", and Take-Two's CEO sounds decently confident the game won't slip again
https://www.vg247.com/gta-6-delay-creative-vision-with-no-limitations-take-two-ceo-sounds-confident-wont-slip-again

Take-Two had its latest earnings call last night, so naturally CEO Strauss Zelnick has been asked a whole bunch of questions about GTA 6 (https://www.vg247.com/gta-6-release-date-leaks-map-trailer-reveal-rumours)'s delay to May 2026. His explanation of the reasoning behind it is pretty much what you'd expect, and while he's not fully committing, he at least sounds a bit confident in the game not catching another delay further down the road. Read more (https://www.vg247.com/gta-6-delay-creative-vision-with-no-limitations-take-two-ceo-sounds-confident-wont-slip-again)

Red Dead Redemption 2 is reportedly coming to Switch 2, which would give GameChat a chance to prove its worth via yelling about Tahiti and horse balls
https://www.vg247.com/red-dead-switch-2-reportedly-in-works-horse-balls

Everyone's favourite game about a gang of rootin', tootin' outlaws slowly getting more and more depressed as they scamper around a very big map is reportedly set to come to Nintendo Switch 2 (https://www.vg247.com/platforms/switch-2). Read more (https://www.vg247.com/red-dead-switch-2-reportedly-in-works-horse-balls)

UPDATE: Fortnite's now letting people squad up with a Darth Vader AI chatbot for, sigh, reasons, so of course streamers have already made it swear and talk about boobs
https://www.vg247.com/fortnite-darth-vader-ai-chatbot-why-does-this-exist

UPDATE (16/05/25, 5:20 PM BST): Kotaku's Ethan Gach reports (https://x.com/ethangach/status/1923399678193803669) that Epic Games has already pushed an update to try and stop people being able to make AI Vader say the F word. "We pushed a hot fix within 30 minutes of this happening in-game, so this shouldn’t happen again," the publisher said. Read more (https://www.vg247.com/fortnite-darth-vader-ai-chatbot-why-does-this-exist)

That’s a lot of Claptrap: Take-Two reveals the Borderlands franchise has sold nearly 93 million copies ahead of Borderlands 4 blowout later this year
https://www.vg247.com/borderlands-sales-2025-report

Take Two has recently released its 2025 investor presentation, and as you can imagine it's filled with all manner of interesting details about the publisher's suite of games. For Borderlands (https://www.vg247.com/games/borderlands) fans, it contains some intriguing sales info, including the eye-watering fact that the Borderlands series has sold nearly 93 million copies in total.
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