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PlayStation Productions

American video game production company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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PlayStation Productions, LLC is an American production company owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE). The company adapts SIE's video game franchises into films and television shows with the distribution mainly being handled by Sony's film and television divisions. Its adaptations so far include the films Uncharted (2022), Gran Turismo (2023), Until Dawn (2025), and Resident Evil (2026) and television series The Last of Us (2023–present) and Twisted Metal (2023–present).

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The public source identifies “PlayStation Productions” as american video game production company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around PlayStation, Productions and American.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2023, 2025, 2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with PlayStation, Productions and American providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “PlayStation Productions” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.