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Sony Said to Plan New PlayStation Subscription Service Codenamed ‘Spartacus’ That Will Rival Xbox Game Pass

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Sony Said to Plan New PlayStation Subscription Service Codenamed ‘Spartacus’ That Will Rival Xbox Game Pass

According to people familiar with the matter, Sony Group’s PlayStation division is planning to launch a new subscription service to compete with rival Microsoft’s popular Xbox Game Pass.

The person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named, said that the service, code-named Spartacus, will allow PlayStation owners to pay monthly fees for access to a catalog of modern and classic games. plan. The product may be launched on the popular game PlayStation 4, which has sold more than 116 million units, and its elusive successor, the PlayStation 5. The latter was launched more than a year ago, but it is still difficult to buy due to supply chain issues.

It is expected that when it launches in the spring, the service will merge Sony’s two existing subscription plans, namely PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now. Currently, most online multiplayer games require PlayStation Plus and provide free monthly games, while PlayStation Now allows users to stream or download old games. The documents reviewed by Bloomberg indicate that Sony plans to retain the PlayStation Plus brand but to phase out PlayStation Now. The details of Spartacus may not be finalized, but the documents reviewed by Bloomberg outline a three-tiered service. The first one will include the existing PlayStation Plus benefits. The second one will provide a large number of PlayStation 4 and the final PlayStation 5 game catalog. The third layer will add extended demos, game streaming and classic PS1, PS2, PS3 and PSP game libraries. A representative of PlayStation did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Although PlayStation’s sales have surpassed Xbox’s in recent years, Sony lags behind Microsoft in terms of subscriptions. With this new structure, Sony will seek to compete with the popular and lucrative Xbox features.

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Microsoft’s Game Pass is often referred to as the Netflix of video games, with more than 18 million users. It allows users to pay $10 to $15 per month for unlimited access to hundreds of games. In recent years, Xbox has developed an overall strategy around the service, placing all its internally released games on Game Pass as soon as they are released. Xbox has also made large acquisitions, such as Bethesda Softworks, which was $7.5 billion last year, with the goal of strengthening the Game Pass library.

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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