Kadokawa Corporation has confirmed it has received a buyout offer from Sony, but insists it has yet to make a decision on whether to sell up. Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Sony was in talks to buy Kadokawa,

Sony may be poised to have another major weapon in its arsenal. Reuters (and now Nikkei) is reporting that Sony is in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the parent company of FromSoftware which is the developer of games like Elden Ring and Dark Souls.

Sony is in talks to purchase multimedia conglomerate Kadokawa, potentially making them the majority owner of FromSoftware. Acquisition makes sense post-scandal, with appeal beyond FromSoftware due to access to Kadokawa's anime library.