A little over a year ago, Sony announced and unveiled ‘Project Defiant’ – later officially being known as the FlexStrike Wireless Fight Stick. Initially set to launch in under a month’s time, Sony has now turned around and made the surprising decision to delay the controller indefinitely, citing “unexpected production delays.”

Taking to the PlayStation Blog, the VP of Global Marketing at SIE – Isabelle Tomatis – offered an update on the current status of their FlexStrike wireless fight stick

According to the company, “Due to unexpected production delays, FlexStrike wireless fight stick will launch at a later date,” adding that “we will share an update soon.”

Sony is pushing out email updates to all those who pre-ordered the hardware with details on exactly what happens next.

As mentioned, the FlexStrike was announced just over a year ago, with official pricing and pre-order details going live last month – making this sudden announcement quite unexpected.

Whenever it does eventually release, the FlexStrike should be a solid addition to PlayStation’s line-up of accessories, offering low-latency wireless gameplay alongside adjustable controls, a touchpad and everything else one would need (including a carry case).

Already a relatively expensive product (initially retailing for £179.99), hopefully this delay does not ultimately lead to a price increase.

KitGuru says: What do you think of the FlexStrike? Is it more form over function? Is a wireless fight stick necessary in your eyes? Let us know down below.

A couple of days ago, some employees of French developer Quantic Dream staged a strike in front of the studio's Paris headquarters in an attempt to save both up to 115 colleagues (who are on the verge of being laid off) and the studio's big Star Wars Eclipse project. Let's hit the rewind button for a minute. The development of Star Wars Eclipse, formally announced at The Game Awards 2021, has reportedly "simmered" for years as the studio struggled in many areas, including hiring new talent. Then, in late 2025, Quantic Dream announced another game, the 3v3 MOBA Spellcasters Chronicles, […]

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Samsung's highly lucrative bonus deal with its semiconductor employees is now tearing the conglomerate apart along the proverbial seams, as the ensuing astronomical pay gap is now spurring angst among ex-semiconductor employees. To demonstrate their grievances, Samsung Device Experience (DX) employees, which include those from its Mobile, Display, and Digital Appliance businesses, chose a novel and fairly dramatic method today, replete with overtones of grief and condemnation. Some Samsung workers wore black to work today, symbolizing 'death, sorrow, and mourning' As per the reports coming out of South Korea, Samsung DX workers went to work today while dressed in black […]

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Let's face it: the days of running FurMark for 30 minutes, watching nothing explode, and calling your GPU "stable" are long gone. Modern GPUs from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel are smarter, more power-hungry, and far more dynamic in their clock-speed behavior than the older graphics cards we grew up overclocking. GPU synthetic/stress tests like FurMark, OCCT, and 3DMark absolutely still have their place, but treating any single tool as the holy grail of stability is a big mistake. Today's GPUs constantly juggle clocks, voltages, and temperatures on the fly. A GPU overclock (or undervolt) that flies through a traditional rasterized […]

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Sony has announced launch dates and pricing for its upcoming line of PlayStation peripherals, including the FlexStrike wireless fight stick, a 27-inch gaming monitor, and the Pulse Elevate wireless speakers.

The FlexStrike wireless fight stick will launch globally on August 6th, with pre-orders opening on June 12th. Built for competitive play on PS5 and PC, the peripheral features a rechargeable battery and comes with a sling carry case. Sony has set the recommended retail price at $199.99/€199.99/£179.99.

Following the fight stick, the 27-inch Gaming Monitor with DualSense charging hook arrives in the US and Japan on August 27th. This display uses a 2560×1440 QHD IPS panel with variable refresh rates. It runs at up to 120Hz on PS5 and PS5 Pro and scales to 240Hz when connected to a PC or Mac. Pre-orders open on June 5th for $349.99.

Sony also confirmed that its Pulse Elevate wireless speakers are scheduled to launch later this year. These desktop speakers adopt audio technologies from the company's existing Pulse Explore earbuds and Pulse Elite headsets, though pricing and pre-order dates remain unknown.

KitGuru says: Sony is pushing harder into the desktop gaming space with these releases, offering features that bridge the gap between console and PC setups.

Back in June 2025, PlayStation announced 'Project Defiant,' a new wireless fight stick built for use with PlayStation consoles and PCs. A month later, it was officially revealed as FlexStrike, and now, nearly a year from its original reveal, we have an August 6, 2026, release date set for FlexStrike, alongside the launch of Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls that same day. FlexStrike also isn't the only new PlayStation accessory set to launch this year. Announced alongside FlexStrike's release date is the release date for a new 27" monitor from PlayStation that comes equipped with a 2K QHD display with HDR, […]

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In what comes as a huge relief for the upper echelons of Samsung's management, the company's unionized workers have just approved the proposed incentives-laden wage deal with an overwhelming majority, removing the threat of a prolonged strike and the attendant disruption in its production cadence. Each worker in Samsung's semiconductor division now stands to earn an average of 509 million won ($370,000) this year As expected, Samsung's semiconductor union that spans 62,616 workers has just voted with a 74 percent majority to approve the proposed incentives-laden wage deal. Interestingly, the deal only received a 21.1 percent support from the union […]

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The seemingly never-ending bonus-related saga at Samsung is now spurring a chain reaction across Asia's industrial heartland, with some TSMC employees now actively advocating for the tactics employed by Samsung's unions in recent days to counter the management's penny-pinching ways. TSMC Employees are increasingly coalescing around the idea of threatening Samsung-style strikes to defend their wage-related perks A lot of TSMC employees appear to be venting their rage in recent days on select Facebook pages, honing in on persistent rumors that TSMC might cut employee bonuses. Of course, TSMC has a special place within Taiwan's discourse, with the company often […]

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Samsung's new pay deal is creating more headaches than the ones it purports to solve, especially after a nearly 100x difference in implied bonuses between various divisions of the tech conglomerate has caused something of an all-out revolt, with the union that caters to Samsung's employees working in its home appliances and mobile division now vowing to seek a court injunction. Samsung's internal cohesion is ripping at the seams in the wake of a new pay deal that is proving to be particularly lucrative for its memory-focused workers As we reported recently, to resolve the threat of debilitating strike, Samsung […]

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Not all is well at Samsung after agreeing to a new incentives deal, with the South Korean tech behemoth now having to contend with not only intra-divisional resentments due to the massive difference in the implied incentives of the semiconductor division and its Device Experience (DX) counterpart, but also shareholder wrath, with one group of shareholders going so far as to unabashedly term the still-fledgling deal "illegal." Samsung is facing a multi-vector pushback from ex-semiconductor division employees and shareholders on the windfall that its memory- and chip-focused workers now stand to accrue According to South Korea's Yonhap, Samsung's semiconductor employees […]

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All is apparently well again in Samsung's world, with the proverbial sword of Damocles, which has been hanging over the global memory sphere in the shape of a crippling 18-day strike, has been sheathed again, as all eyes now turn to an upcoming deal ratification vote. Samsung's management and union representatives have reached a tentative agreement that resolves the bonus dispute that had been running for over 5 months Just around an hour before Samsung's unionized members were scheduled to go on a 18-day strike, the company's management and union representatives have reached a tentative agreement. The breakthrough came when […]

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Samsung's semiconductor division now appears destined for partial paralysis amid a general workers' strike that looks all but certain, especially after last-minute negotiations have collapsed again, with nary a reprieve in sight. Samsung's unionized workers now appear determined to go on an 18-day general strike on May 21 As per the reports that are just trickling out of South Korea, the last-minute negotiations between Samsung's unionized workers and its management have collapsed, setting the stage for the planned 18-day general strike to commence on May 21. In what is a rare bit of good news though, the union has expressed […]

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At a time when Samsung employees are on the verge of initiating a debilitating union-authorized strike to secure fair compensation, SK hynix employees are apparently living the high life, so much so that they are now attracting laser-focused attention from within South Korea's very competitive marriage mart, all thanks to SK hynix's generous, operating profit-based bonuses. SK hynix's generous bonuses have made its employees a veritable catch in South Korea's marriage mart For the benefit of those who might not be aware, SK hynix recently reported 52.6 trillion won ($35.6 billion) in revenue for the first quarter of 2026, beating […]

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Samsung's union-led strike is not scheduled to begin until the tail-end of next week. Yet, as talks between the management and the union broke down on Wednesday in what might as well be a death knell for further negotiations, spot prices for various memory configurations are on the march, with this inflationary impulse most noticeable in the world's biggest market for electronics, Shenzhen Huaqiangbei. The world's biggest electronics market is giving an early sample of the mayhem that awaits the global memory sphere next week, when Samsung is all set to enter utter paralysis According to a Taiwanese publication, the […]

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Samsung's latest round of negotiations with its unionized workers has collapsed, as has the final window for reaching an amicable solution ahead of next week's highly disruptive union-led strike. Only a complete capitulation by either party can now defer what otherwise is shaping up to be an 18-day strike, with recovery timelines extending twice as long. And yet, it is precisely this capitulation that has become nearly impossible at this stage, given the entrenched positions on both sides of the proverbial aisle. Samsung is in a bind as it mulls absorbing billions of dollars in operational losses or consenting to […]

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As Samsung's unionized workers grow ever bolder, egged on by the rapidly fattening purse of its memory business, which has spurred calls for pay/bonus hikes from other divisions as well, Samsung is eyeing the nuclear option of definitively splitting up the conglomerate by spinning off its semiconductor-focused Device Solutions (DS) division. Irked by rising calls for pay/bonus hikes from its less profitable business units, Samsung is eyeing a spin-off of its very lucrative DS division into an entirely different company The top echelons of Samsung's management appear to be in a panic mode ahead of an impending workers' strike, so […]

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Samsung management appears intractable, unwilling to yield to the bonus-related demands of its unionized workers, setting the stage for a high-stakes showdown next month. As the world's largest memory-related production capacity now appears headed for an utter paralysis, industry fears continue to mount, especially as production restoration might take twice as long as the planned 18-day strike. The wider semiconductor industry is gripped with fears of a prolonged production halt at Samsung, which would worsen the ongoing DRAM shortage As a refresher, Samsung's union workers are currently demanding 15 percent of the company's annual operating profit, which amounts to around $30 billion, […]

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Last year, Samsung employees went on a strike for the first time in five decades. Now, these unionized workers are back at it, threatening a much longer, 18-day protest-led work hiatus. At the heart of this issue lies a perception mismatch, where Samsung is seen ripping off its workers to earn ginormous profits. The question remains: who will blink first? Samsung is seen as short-handing its workers, and those employees are now pushing back According to the Korea Herald, Samsung's union workers are currently demanding 15 percent of the company's annual operating profit, which amounts to around $30 billion, in […]

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