Sony is indeed looking to acquire the Japanese media conglomerate Kadokawa, which owns the studio FromSoftware. In a message to investors, Kadokawa revealed that it has received a letter from Sony suggesting a deal.

The studio FromSoftware may become part of Sony. Sources from Reuters claim that Sony is in talks to purchase the developers’ parent company, Kadokawa.

The hacker group BlackSuit reported hacking the internal network of Kadokawa, the parent company of the developers of Dark Souls and Elden Ring. According to the perpetrators, they gained access to 1.5 TB of confidential data.

The Japanese Kadokawa Corporation is making a generous gesture. She is going to distribute promotional options worth 5.3 billion yen, or about $35 million at the current exchange rate, to employees of her subsidiary studio FromSoftware.

The Acquire studio, which together with Square Enix developed the Octopath Traveler series of games, became part of the Japanese Kadokawa holding. The holding company announced the transaction in its latest financial report.

Japan’s Kadokawa, the parent company of FromSoftware, has released a financial report for the quarter ended September 30. We have chosen the main thing about the gaming division.

A court in Japan has sentenced 53-year-old Shinobu Yoshida, who posted a video on YouTube with the passage of the visual novel STEINS;GATE: My Darling’s Embrace. He was given two years in prison with a five-year suspended sentence.

Japanese police arrested a 52-year-old resident of Nagoya, who posted gameplay videos on YouTube. He was detained on charges of copyright infringement and publication of spoilers.

The Japanese Kadokawa Corporation decided to form another studio within its Kadokawa Games gaming division — Dragami Games. So far, not much is known about the studio, but it is reported that it will continue to work with the same genres as the entire Kadokawa Games. These are RPG, tactical role-playing games and romantic simulators.

Tencent continues to act aggressively in the M&A market. This time, the company acquired a stake in the Japanese publishing house Kadokawa, which owns the FromSoftware studio. The transaction amount was ¥30 billion ($264 million).Elden Ring