{"id":829286,"date":"2026-07-27T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829286\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:57:10","slug":"playstation-users-are-going-dark-to-protest-sony-ditching-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829286\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation users are going dark to protest Sony ditching discs."},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted Jul 27, 2026 at 11:45 AM UTC<\/p>\n

PlayStation users are going dark to protest Sony ditching discs.<\/p>\n

Game preservation group Does It Play?<\/a> is encouraging console owners to give Sony \u201ca small taste of their own medicine,\u201d announcing a one-week PSBlackout starting on Sunday, August 23rd. Protest participants are being asked to avoid logging into, playing, or purchasing any content on PlayStation-related platforms during this period.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Jess WeatherbedClose\"Jess<\/p>\n

Jess Weatherbed<\/p>\n

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n

FollowFollow<\/p>\n

See All by Jess Weatherbed<\/a><\/p>\n

GamingClose<\/p>\n

Gaming<\/p>\n

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n

FollowFollow<\/p>\n

See All Gaming<\/a><\/p>\n

NewsClose<\/p>\n

News<\/p>\n

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n

FollowFollow<\/p>\n

See All News<\/a><\/p>\n

PlayStationClose<\/p>\n

PlayStation<\/p>\n

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n

FollowFollow<\/p>\n

See All PlayStation<\/a><\/p>\n

SonyClose<\/p>\n

Sony<\/p>\n

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n

FollowFollow<\/p>\n

See All Sony<\/a><\/p>\n

TechClose<\/p>\n

Tech<\/p>\n

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n

FollowFollow<\/p>\n

See All Tech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted Jul 27, 2026 at 11:45 AM UTC PlayStation users are going dark to protest Sony ditching discs.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,874,44,8713,8718,64,61],"class_list":["post-829286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gaming","tag-news","tag-playstation","tag-sony","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}