With 
Sony’s turnaround taking longer than expected and large losses in the foreseeable future, executives at Sony are slashing their own salaries to appease angry investors.
President and CEO Kaz Hirai and other Sony execs will take a 50 percent pay cut in the coming year, and will not receive any bonuses.
Microsoft 
is reversing course on the Xbox One — again.
The company has announced it will begin selling a version of its next-generation console — minus the somewhat controversial Kinect peripheral — for $399 starting June 9. The move is the latest in a series of surprising decisions Microsoft has made since its initial introduction of the system, as it had previously described Kinect as an essential part of the new Xbox experience.
If 
we’re being honest with ourselves (and we should), Kinect for Xbox One has been something of a dud. The games integrating the motion-control tech have been so-so and the voice recognition is still noticeably lacking.
Scientists at Canada’s Bloorview Research Institute, though, might have found a way to make it an extraordinarily useful peripheral by using it to help kids with cerebral palsy regain lost motor function.The games being used, reports Polygon, were originally created for the Xbox 360’s Kinect. However, kids (being kids) found that they could use that system’s lack of precision tocheat. The original Kinect also couldn’t discern if a child was in a wheelchair.
Still 
spending your time with Angry Birds or Candy Crush? While there’s certainly nothing wrong with flinging fowl at pigs or matching sweets, the maturation of mobile gaming is bringing about a new crop of must-haves, ranging from titles that can take just a moment of your time to games you can sink a few hours into and still barely scratch the surface.
If you’re missing any of these on your smart device, you’ll want to correct that quickly.
Mario 
is following in the footsteps of Skylanders.
Nintendo has announced plans to introduce real-world toy figurines that could be used (and seemingly imported) into multiple games.
The 
bad times are getting worse at Nintendo.
The company posted a $228 million net loss for its fiscal 2014 year (which ended on March 31). That reverses 2013’s profit of $71 million.
Plenty 
of people have used joysticks to land on virtual moons, but now you can own a controller that has done the real deed.
The hand controller Commander Dave Scott used to manually guide the Apollo 15 Lunar Module Falcon to the moon’s surface in 1971 is going on the auction block. Bidding for the rare piece of space memorabilia is expected to reach as high as $300,000.
Want 
to play Madden on your big screen TV, but don’t have an Xbox One, PlayStation 4 or Wii U? Comcast might have a solution.
The cable giant and video game publisher Electronic Arts are reportedly finalizing an agreement that would let customers of the cable giant stream EA games through their cable box.
It’s 
not exactly a surprise that a new Call of Duty game will be launching in November, but there’s something about the upcoming Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare that seems a bit different.
It might be the tone, which appears to be darker than previous games in the series (which were hardly chuckle-fests themselves). Or it could be the prominent presence of a fully-rendered Kevin Spacey, whose starring role in the game was foreshadowed yesterday.
One thing’s for sure: It’s not the name.
The 
parting of the ways between rock star developer John Carmack and Bethesda Games parent company ZeniMax Media has gone sour.
Carmack’s former employer is accusing the now-CTO of Oculus of taking intellectual property with him when he left to join the virtual reality startup.
Chris Morris: Journalist 