Monthly Archives: November 2022

Harvestella is first Square Enix game to offer non-binary option in a character creator

Square Enix’s forthcoming farming sim Harvestella is the first of the publisher’s games to offer a non-binary gender option in a character creator. It’s still something of a rarity for major game developers to specifically include non-binary representation in addition to male and female. But for the Harvestella team, its inclusion feels “completely normal”, producer…

Google licenses content from news publishers under the EU Copyright Directive

We are continuing our broad program of complying with Article 15 of the 2019 European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market by striking licensing agreements with owners of press publications. Alongside these efforts, we’re constantly updating our products to help people find information by linking to news sites and other websites. Since my…

Sony’s new PlayStation Plus subscriptions are off to a rocky start

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The number of people subscribing to Sony’s PlayStation Plus fell from 47.3 million to 45.4 million this quarter, the company announced in its latest earnings release. It’s the subscription service’s third quarterly decline in a row, and comes despite Sony launching a revamped subscription lineup between May and…