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After almost three many years of specializing in console gaming—each set-top and handheld—Sony PlayStation is taking goal at cell phones.

This week, PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst announced in a post on the corporate’s official weblog that it’s going to dedicate a few of its enterprise efforts to the newly created PlayStation Studios Mobile Division. Sony’s transfer additionally comes with the information that it has bought cellular video games developer Savage Game Studios.

Mobile gaming is an enormous market. Spending on cellular video games is predicted to achieve $136 billion this 12 months, in line with a report by market analyst agency IDC and knowledge.ai. That’s greater than half of all the gaming market. Sony, lengthy depending on its PlayStation consoles, clearly needs in on that.

By growing an precise cellular division, it appears the corporate is lastly making a respectable push into the cellular market. (Although curiously, Savage Game Studios hasn’t revealed any video games but, so we’ll see what they give you.) The transfer comes at a time when PlayStation 5 consoles are nonetheless maddeningly hard to find, and getting even more expensive. Also, the corporate’s PS Plus subscription service continues to be taking part in meet up with Microsoft’s Game Pass. While PlayStation says it doesn’t plan to place console video games on the again burner, it clearly needs to lean into the place the cash is. For the foreseeable future, that’s cellular.

Here’s some extra shopper tech information from the Gear desk.

Philips Got a Brand New Bulb

We love sensible mild bulbs. They allow you to add a splash of colour—from an infinite palette—to your residing house with a easy swipe in a companion app. (Or in my expertise, annoyed cursing in pitch black as a result of an app takes eternally to hook up with my Wi-Fi.) If you’re keen to drop a pair hundo on some mild bulbs, you’ve obtained some new choices.

Philips Hue, the reigning champ of the sensible lighting world, is releasing a brand new slate of sensible lights known as Lightguide. Philips’ newest choices are available in three chonky Edison-esque shapes, they usually’re meant to be used in ceiling pendants or decorative configurations. There’s a roundish globe, a extra triangular bulb, and an oval form. They value between $75 and $85 a pop. (If you need to dangle them with Philips-branded cords, these are one other $50.)

The Verge has additionally detailed a brand new Philips Hue Play lightstrip, which is aimed toward PC avid gamers. Place the strips behind a pc monitor and set them as much as sync with all the gorgeous colours in your display screen. The PC Play lightstrips begin at $169.

All these choices will be managed by means of the Hue app to vary colours or sync with one another all through a house. There are additionally some updates coming to the Philips Hue app, like a function known as Mimic Presence that may robotically flip your lights on when you’re away to make folks suppose you’re residence.

If you’re feeling bulb-curious, try WIRED’s guide to smart lights.

Behold Samsung’s New Big Honkin’ Curved Gaming Monitor

This week, Samsung revealed a doozy of a monitor on the IFA tech conference in Berlin, Germany. The Odyssey OLED G8 is Samsung’s first OLED display screen, and it’s an ultrawide curved beast.