Sony sent out a letter to the developers, in which it announced the tightening of the rules of the PS Store. A copy of the letter was published by the portal Dex.Exe .

The initiator of the lawsuit is human rights activist Alex Neill. She claims that the company abused its position in the market, imposed a 30% commission on developers and inflated prices in the PS Store. As a result, over the past six years Sony has “robbed” 9 million gamers.

The District Court of California was not convinced by the arguments of a group of gamers who accused Sony of monopoly a year ago. Judge Richard Seeborg upheld the company’s appeal, but indicated that the plaintiffs could still try to appeal the verdict.

Against the background of the situation in Ukraine, popular gaming stores have stopped accepting cards of some Russian banks that have fallen under sanctions. Different users have problems with payment in Steam, GOG, Nintendo eShop and a number of other stores.In the case of Steam, most users note the inability to withdraw funds from VTB cards.

Sony has officially returned Cyberpunk 2077 to the PlayStation Store. The game was absent from the platform for six months, and now it is sold at a reduced price. Despite the return of the CD Projekt project to the store, users are warned about the remaining performance problems.On June 21, the opportunity to buy the game again appeared on the Cyberpunk 2077 page in the PS Store.

Tonight Sony decided to temporarily remove Cyberpunk 2077 from the PS Store and return the money to those who have already bought the game. When exactly the CD Projekt RED project will appear again in the store is unknown.

Sony has increased prices for the Russian PS Store. Basic versions of some games have gone up to 6 thousand rubles, and versions with additional content — up to 9 thousand rubles. The change is due to “current market conditions”.

On August 25, the game Descenders was released on PS4. However, the head of the company No More Robots, engaged in the publication of the project, could hardly find it in the store and pointed Sony to the problem. Ordinary users also joined the discussion.Mike Rose posted a video on Twitter, pointing out the difficulties with finding the Descenders game in the online store.