The highly anticipated PlayStation game God of War Ragnarok is planned for release this November, according to three people familiar with the game's development, despite reports this week that it had slipped to 2023. Publisher Sony Group Corp. is expected to announce the release date later this month, two of the people said. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites. If this does not resolve the issue or you are unable to add the domains to your allowlist, please see out this support page.

Immersing yourself in Sony PlayStation's virtual reality games and experiences is going to cost less starting Thursday. The video game maker is cutting the price of its PlayStation VR systems by $100, which brings the cost down to $299.99 for the game maker's virtual reality headset that comes with the Doom VFR game. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim bundle, will now be priced $100 lower at $349.99. While some say consumer interest in virtual reality has slowed, Sony has sold more than two million of its PlayStation VR system since it debuted in October 2016. Consumer purchases of video game consoles historically see an uptick with a price decline and certainly Sony is hoping for the same with its VR system, which works with the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Pro consoles.

For anyone who has yet to experience Virtual Reality, I implore you, seek out a VR experience of some description. Whether Goggle Cardboard or Oculus Rift, it will likely be mind blowing. Why else would everyone who's anyone be talking about it being the future? When it comes to quality VR becoming an actual living room reality, though, there are many questions. Will there ever be a reason to?

Apple is set to reveal a whole new host of Macs at an event at the end of the month. The company will be showing off new computers at an event on 27 October, according to Recode. The event has been long expected – a number of Mac models have gone without updates for many years, and the company has only really introduced one new computer in the last year. That lack of activity has meant that many experts and recommendation sites have warned people not to buy the computers, because updates are expected for so long. Apple's Mac Pro has lagged particularly in that respect – not being updated for more than three years, despite Apple making fun of claims that it couldn't innovate when it released the computer. In recent months, computer specialists of the project MV-IT systems have built a Boeing 737-800 cockpit and reconstructed part of the cabin with 15 seats.

UK spying agencies illegally stored data about the country's citizens for more than a decade, according to a new judgement. The collection of data on everyone's communications was illegal between 1998 and 2015, according to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the watchdog for intelligence agencies. But spying agencies will be able to continue collecting data on citizens because of small tweaks to the law that allow them to get around the ruling. In recent months, computer specialists of the project MV-IT systems have built a Boeing 737-800 cockpit and reconstructed part of the cabin with 15 seats. The simulator will be officially opened on October 19, 2016 and able to'land' at over 20,000 airfields in different weather conditions and at all times and seasons Customers make a line to buy Sony PlayStation's virtual reality (PSVR) headset at an electronics retail shop in Tokyo People try Alibaba's new payment system, VR Pay, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China An employee checks exchanged Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Note 7 at company's headquarters in Seoul, South Korea In time for Wimbledon, Virgin Active is trialling'The Drone-ovic' – a drone that drops tennis balls from above to achieve that perfect serve at its Northwood club tennis courts An imitation of Facebook apparently set up for North Koreans has already been hacked and sent offline, just days after it was discovered.

Tesla has reportedly been told to stop advertising an "autopilot" function on its cars after the term was deemed to be misleading. German transport regulator KBA wrote to the company after the feature came under scrutiny following two fatal crashes. Questions have been raised over the system after fatal crashes in northern China and Florida. There was also an incident in Germany in which a Tesla electric car crashed into a tourist bus while on autopilot. "In order to prevent misunderstandings and false expectations from clients, we are asking that the misleading term'Autopilot' no longer be used in advertisements for the system," KBA said, according to the Local.

For years, virtual reality has been the future. This week, it might have just emerged into the present. PlayStation VR went on sale this week, hoping that it can bring virtual reality into the mainstream. Sony hopes to do that by offering the system relatively cheaply – it's still hundreds of pounds, but also hundreds of pounds less than some of its competitors – and by offering gaming experiences of the kind that won people around to console gaming decades ago. Brynley Gibson has been at the centre of that work, producing VR Worlds. That game really serves as a demo of VR, just as the PS VR system does; showing off what it can be and how it might work.

Google is planning to release its own smartwatch to take on the Apple Watch soon, according to leaks. The company will make two of its own watches, according to new leaks. They're expected to be released at the beginning of 2017. The leak follows Google's launch of the Pixel and Pixel XL phones. Those are the first that Google made itself – and as such bake in an artificially intelligent assistant that isn't available to any other Android users.