PS4 News
TodayFri, 5th Dec 2025
Feature 60+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in PS Store's End of Year Deals Sale (North America/Europe)
The best games in the current sale
We're into the next big sale in PS Store's never-ending carousel of offers. The current sale is named End of Year Deals, and it runs from now until 22nd December 2025, so there's still a few weeks to take advantage. Somehow, it's an even bigger sale than usual, with over 4,500 items included. That's a crazy...
News Banjo-Kazooie Creator Rare Heaps Praise on PS5, PS4 Fan Game Made in Dreams
Grunty's impressed
We've not checked in on Dreams for a while, but it seems the community is still plugging away at the PS4 create-'em-up. As it so happens, this week saw the release of Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbomania, an unofficial but very good 3D platformer from one of Dreams' best creators, Eupholace. The game is a short but very well-made 3D...
YesterdayThu, 4th Dec 2025
News The Battle Bus Is Returning to Fortnite, and a Nostalgic Nicktoon Is Along for the Ride
New collab incoming
Fortnite is in a transitional phase right now, with Chapter 6 drawing to a close and Chapter 7 beginning in earnest in the coming days. However, in the interim, something unusual happened: the Battle Bus that normally drops players into the vast Battle Royale map was destroyed. The good news is that, thanks to players working...
News One of PS5, PS4's Cosiest Games Doubles in Size with Major Expansion Pack in February
Lil Gator Game: In the Dark out soon
Lil Gator Game, one of the cutest action adventure titles available on PS5 and PS4, is about to get a whole lot bigger. Publisher Playtonic Friends has announced a release date for its major expansion DLC, In the Dark, by way of a new trailer: It's due out on 12th February 2026, meaning it's just a couple of...
Wednesday3rd Dec 2025
News Gran Turismo 7's Biggest Update Yet Available to Pre-Load on PS5, PS4 Now
Spec 3 update, Power Pack DLC both imminent
Polyphony Digital is planning a significant Gran Turismo 7 overhaul for PS5 and PS4 players later this week, as it is now confirmed the free Spec III update will launch the same week as the game's first paid piece of DLC, the Power Pack. The racing title's first paid-for expansion, the Power Pack,...
News PS Plus Won't Be Required for PS5, PS4 Online Multiplayer This Weekend
Free for all
If you’re itching to play one of your favourite games online this weekend but don’t have an active PS Plus subscription, then you’re in luck: Sony’s running a free multiplayer weekend. The promotion will get underway from 00:01AM local time on Saturday, 6th December and will run through 23:59PM local time on Sunday, 7th...
News Fortnite Artist Fights Back Against Generative AI Accusations from Fans
Show your work
A Fortnite artist whose work has been caught up in a generative AI controversy has fought back against the claims by showing the process behind his work. The juggernaut Battle Royale was taken to task this week in the aftermath of its latest season’s release for featuring some suspicious looking posters, including one with a...
Tuesday2nd Dec 2025
News December 2025 PS Plus Essential Games Available to Download Now
Five new PS5, PS4 games on the service from today
Sony is rounding out its PS Plus Essential monthly offerings for 2025 with a bang, making five PS5, PS4 titles available to members at once for December. All available to download now until 6th January 2026, the following games are being offered now: LEGO Horizon Adventures (PS5) | Review
Success wasn't sexy
One of the biggest stories of the PS4 is how Mark Cerny designed a developer-first console which returned Sony to its position as market leader. While the PS3 eventually sold well, it endured a particularly tough time, owing to its complicated architecture which made making games for it a challenge. First-party developers like...
News The Original Let It Die Is Getting an Offline Version Nearly a Decade After Launch
Let it live?
Let It Die, as in the original game by Grasshopper Manufacture, will receive an offline version. As reported by Gematsu, the news was confirmed by the franchise's current dev team Supertrick Games in a dev diary broadcast. The game is an online-only, free-to-play title that launched nine years ago on PS4. The studio has supported it...
Monday1st Dec 2025
Guide Red Dead Redemption: All Missions
A complete list of every Mission in Red Dead Redemption
What are all Missions in Red Dead Redemption? As a game with a main story alone that can take 20 hours to complete, there are lots of Missions to complete in the wild west experience from Rockstar Games. In this Red Dead Redemption guide, we're going to share a full list of all Missions. This...
Guide These 13+ PS5, PS4, and PS Plus Games Are Coming Out This Week (1st-7th December)
Marvel Cosmic Invasion! Red Dead Redemption!
With the Black Friday madness behind us, we're now in the home straight ahead of the holidays. But don't assume that means there's no new games to play! Marvel Cosmic Invasion is the clear highlight this week, but it's flanked by a native PS5 port of Red Dead Redemption and a bunch of new PS Plus titles...
Guide Red Dead Redemption: Cheat Codes List and Secrets
How to use Red Dead Redemption cheats
Are you looking for a Cheat Codes list for Red Dead Redemption? Did you forget how to unlock Red Dead Redemption cheats? With Rockstar Games launching its PS3 classic on PS4, the developer's commitment to classic Cheat Codes has become a modern-day mechanic all over again. In this Red Dead Redemption guide, we...
News Almost 5,000 PS5, PS4 Games Discounted on Cyber Monday in Gargantuan PS Store Sale
Many at lowest ever prices
Sony has dropped its gargantuan pre-Christmas end of year sale, discounting almost 5,000 games. This replaces the Black Friday deals and will no doubt have you prising open your virtual wallet yet again as you work through your wishlist. There are some tentpole titles on sale here, but several highlights with lowest-ever...
The Dark Ties that bind us
Yakuza Kiwami 3 will apparently feature "major hints" about where the Like a Dragon series is heading, despite being a PS5 and PS4 remake of a PS3 title. This is according to RGG Studio director Masayoshi Yokoyama, who isn't a stranger to saying stuff that'll make Yakuza fans sit up and take notice. "It contains some...
News PS5's Biggest Game Fortnite Accused of Using AI Art
But is it AI or genuine work?
If even one of the biggest games in the world, with all the money it generates on a daily basis, is now embracing AI tools for art production, how much hope is there left? Following the end of the Zero Hour live event this weekend and the beginning of Season 7, Fortnite players have started pointing out parts of the...
News PS Blog Wants Your PS5 Game of the Year Nominations for 2025
Cast your votes now
With awards season just a few weeks away, Sony's official PlayStation Blog has opened all of its Game of the Year 2025 deliberations to the public, allowing PS5, PS4 fans to vote for their favourite titles released this year. Voting across 19 categories is live now until midnight on Tuesday, 9th December, giving you a full week...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's Lacklustre European Sales Continue Trending Downwards
Battlefield 6 on the up
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is looking like the weakest-performing game in the series in quite some time, and new data from the European market sees that story continue. As reported by Chris Dring on The Game Business, citing digital and physical sales data from GSD, Black Ops 7 has been replaced at the top of the chart by EA...
News Over 10.5 Million Concurrent Players Show Up for Avengers: Endgame-Esque Fortnite Event
As a new chapter gets underway
A lot is made of concurrent player numbers on Steam, but we rarely get data across all storefronts and platforms. Free-to-play juggernaut Fortnite gave us a peek into how big it is this weekend, though, when it announced that 10.5 million concurrent players logged in to play its Avengers: Endgame-esque Zero Hour...
Saturday29th Nov 2025
Poll Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for December 2025?
Plus or minus?
Don't panic, but we're somehow just days away from the beginning of December — and that can only mean one thing: It's time to weigh up the final batch of PS Plus Essential games for 2025! Five games are up for grabs before the year comes to an end. LEGO Horizon Adventures leads the charge — the cutesy block-based retelling of...
Feature Going Platinum #1: Rocket League
Nice shot!
Hello. My name is Stephen Tailby, and I’m fine, thanks. Welcome to a new feature on Push Square, in which I recount every game I’ve platinumed. It's a verb now, alright? "You gonna platinum Balatro, mate?*" It's a verb, and it's all good. We need to make peace with this now, because it's gonna make things easier in the long run...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 609
Thanks for everything
Did you have a good Thanksgiving? We sincerely hope you're enjoying the holidays if you celebrate. And if you don't, well, it's the weekend now anyway. Time to play some games! Jamie O'Neill: I'm karate chopping down the last five weekends of 2025 in 1990s style, by examining Jin Kazama's Mishima karate technique in the PS1's...
Friday28th Nov 2025
Guide Best Fighting Games on PS4
Best PS4 fighters ranked and rated
What are the best fighting games on PS4? Sony's console is home to a very impressive selection of fighters, and we're going to list the best of them. Long-established fighting game series are represented on PS4, with the likes of Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, and Mortal Kombat 11. In addition, some more niche games...
Guide Best Puzzle Games on PS4
PS4's best puzzlers ranked and rated
What are the best puzzle games on PS4? It's a big question; there are so many of the darned things that it can be hard to narrow it down. If you enjoy a game that tests your grey matter, you're certainly well served on PS4. Puzzle games can take a few different forms. The classic examples of puzzlers are things...
Feature Last Chance to Get These 99+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Black Friday Sale
The best games in the current sale
Happy Black Friday, everyone! Sony's partaking in the fun with a big PS Store sale, running from now until 1st December, 2025 — so there's only a few days left. The Black Friday PS Store sale contains no fewer than 1,900 discounted items, including PS5 and PS4 games as well as DLC — it's a lot to comb through...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Is Already on Sale Just Two Weeks After Release
Get a 15% discount on PS Store now
Just two weeks to the day after its PS5, PS4 release, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is already on sale on the PS Store. This is a separate offer from the huge PS Store Black Friday sale, and it's only live until midnight on Tuesday, 2nd December 2025. Between now and then, you can save 15% on the base version of the...
News Ahead of Renegades Launch, Destiny 2 Dev Explains New Approach to Expansions
"We don't want to be a dead live game"
Next week, on 2nd December, a new expansion pack for Destiny 2 arrives. It's called Renegades, it's heavily inspired by Star Wars, and developer Bungie is hoping it'll begin to turn the sci-fi shooter's fortunes around. Early signs are pretty good, as the expansion is firmly within the top five pre-order...
News Scratch Your Soccer Management Itch with SEGA Football Club Champions 2026 on PS5, PS4
Running on the Football Manager engine
Free-to-play soccer management game SEGA Football Club Champions 2026 will make its debut on the PS5 and PS4 from 22nd January, SEGA has announced. This game is not to be confused with Football Manager 26 Console, which is also published by SEGA, somewhat bizarrely. It will be using the same engine and...
Thursday27th Nov 2025
News Another PS Plus Extra Game Expires in December 2025
20 days left to play 11-11
A 10th PS Plus Extra game has been added to the list of PS5, PS4 leaving the membership tier in December 2025. While it's not appearing in the Last Chance to Play section in the UK just yet, 11-11: Memories Retold has been tagged with an expiry date of 16th December. With the latest addition, these 10 PS5, PS4 games leave...
News Yakuza Kiwami 3 Becomes an Orphanage Sim with Massively Expanded Morning Glory Minigames
Daddy cool
If you ever played the original Yakuza 3 on the PS3, you may recall its notoriously slow start. The game spends several hours in Okinawa, with seasoned protagonist Kazuma Kiryu retired from the Yakuza lifestyle and running his Morning Glory orphanage. (As an aside, it was renamed the Sunshine Orphanage in the Western versions of the...
News Visionary Director Quentin Tarantino Realises a 20-Year Dream within Fortnite on PS5, PS4
Yuki's Revenge
For over 20 years, Quentin Tarantino has dreamed of a new Kill Bill chapter named Yuki’s Revenge. And, in a sign of the times, he’ll realise that vision within Fortnite’s upcoming season, from 30th November. Built in Unreal Engine in collaboration with Epic Games, the long-awaited chapter will feature character models from the...
Wednesday26th Nov 2025
News PS Plus Essential Games for December 2025 Announced
The last batch
Sony has today revealed the final lot of PS Plus Essential games for 2025, rounding out December with a bumper list of five PS5, PS4 titles. All available to download from Tuesday, 2nd December 2025, you get the following: LEGO Horizon Adventures (PS5) | Review Killing Floor 3 (PS5) The Out
News Yakuza 0, Kiwami, Kiwami 2 Get Discount PS5 Upgrade Paths, But Only for PS4 Digital Owners
Kiwami 2 is free
SEGA has confirmed that those who own Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami, or Yakuza Kiwami 2 on PS4 can take advantage of discounted upgrade paths when buying the new versions on PS5. All three PS5 re-releases are due to launch on the 8th December, but there is a catch in that these upgrade paths only apply to the digital versions of the PS4...
PSA The Original Yakuza 0 Will Be Delisted Forever When Director's Cut Drops on PS5
0 hour
When Yakuza 0 Director's Cut releases on the 8th December for PS5, the original Yakuza 0 — the PS4 game — will no longer be available to purchase digitally. This delisting has now been confirmed by SEGA, so if you want to play Yakuza 0 in its initial form at some point in the future — and you're not planning on grabbing a physical copy...
News Yakuza Kiwami 2 Has All-Important 60FPS Performance on PS5 Alongside Free Upgrade
Finally
Bafflingly buried within the questions and answers section of SEGA's Japanese website, the publisher finally confirms that Yakuza Kiwami 2 will run at 60 frames-per-second on PS5. The fantastic remake is being re-released for Sony's current-gen system on the 8th December, and it'll be a free upgrade for those who already own the PS4 version...
News In Destiny 2's Darkest Moment, Bungie Is Betting on Star Wars to Bring Players Back
Renegades does look good, to be fair
It’s no secret that Destiny 2 has fallen on some pretty hard times. Chaos within the company’s upper-management, a dwindling player base, and bad decisions have caused Sony to step in and start to enforce its influence over the $3 billion developer. The Japanese giant recently noted during a financial call...
News Lies of P Dev 'Will Not Disappoint' with Upcoming Games, Says Director
"We are working really hard"
Neowiz and Round8 Studio created one of the best-loved Souls-likes outside of FromSoftware with Lies of P, and it sounds like the team isn't resting on its laurels. Speaking to GamesRadar following Overture's Best Game Expansion win at the
News Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves' First Season Concludes with Mr. Big Next Month
Big time
SNK has really been cranking out Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves’ first season of content, which was effectively included for free with all copies of the PS5 and PS4 fighter. Hot on the heels of Chun-Li’s addition recently, it’s announced that Art of Fighting’s Mr. Big will join the roster from 9th December. You can catch him in...
News Skate Improves Replays, Adds New Tricks, Party Voice Chat, More in Season 2 on PS5, PS4
Early access continues
The early access, free-to-play revival of Skate has been met with a mixed reception so far, but it seems developer Full Circle is keen to turn things around with some significant updates in Season 2. The major update to the sandbox skating sim starts on 2nd December, and you can get a rough idea of what to expect in this daft...
Tuesday25th Nov 2025
Guide Best Single Player Games on PS4
The best campaigns to play solo
What are the best single player games on PS4? If you like to play your games solo, this is the list for you. The PS4 is home to an absurd number of amazing single player experiences, giving you plenty to play on your own. The PS4 is a great platform for single player games, partly because of Sony's own first-party...
Guide Best Cheap Games on PS5, PS4
50 PS5 and PS4 games under $20
What are the best cheap games on PS5 and PS4? Of all the thousands of games available on PS Store, some of the best you can buy are those on the cheaper end of the scale. In this guide, we're recommending 50 of the best cheap games on PS5 and PS4. Each game included here is $19.99/£19.99 or less, and all of them have...
Guide Best Adventure Games on PS4
PS4's best adventures, ranked and rated
What are the best adventure games on PS4? There is a vast number of games that take the player on a grand adventure, but pinning down which ones you'd describe as part of the adventure genre is a tougher task. We'd categorise adventure games as those which have an emphasis on story and characters, and feature...
All the best games on every PlayStation
What are the best PlayStation games? Well, this is a huge question; countless video games have been released across all of Sony's consoles, so picking just a handful of the very best is a tall order. Fortunately, we have plenty of guides that may help. If you're looking for the very best games you can play on...
Tough luck
A picture is beginning to form around Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and for the executives at Activision it’s not a particularly pretty one. What we’re generally seeing from all the data we have available thus far is that the first-person shooter is selling significantly worse than Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and has debuted way below...
News Splitgate 2 Is Coming Out of Beta and Officially Relaunching in December on PS5, PS4
One more time
Remember Splitgate 2? This free-to-play multiplayer shooter arrived back in the summer, but following heavy criticism, developer 1047 Games took it back to a beta phase. Well, after many months of work, it seems the game is almost ready to come back. The studio has confirmed that the beta phase will finish on 4th December, and will...
Monday24th Nov 2025
Guide These 16+ New PS5, PS4 Games Are Coming Out This Week (24th-30th November)
Street Racer Collection! Kill It with Fire 2! Project Motor Racing!
We’re right at the tail-end of the year now, but the release schedule rarely takes a break in this modern era. That means there’s still more than dozen new releases this week, although most of them are lower-profile we suppose. For this particular author, the biggest release is...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Just Had the Worst Japanese Retail Launch in Series History
Not gone well, then
It's been an unusually rocky ride for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which has been widely panned and appears to be selling below the series' usual pace. While Activision has yet to provide any official sales information itself (which is kinda telling on its own), some data has begun to emerge, including a weak UK launch and, now, a...
News Marvel Cosmic Invasion Hypes Up Its Heroes with Stylish Opening Cinematic
Who are you playing?
It's not long before we can finally get our hands on Marvel Cosmic Invasion, a pixel art beat-'em-up from the team behind the great Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge. Launching on 1st December 2025, publisher Dotemu has released the full opening animation to keep fans excited in the run up to release: Those...
Rumour Paramount to Collab with Fortnite for Some Fun New Sidekicks
Likely Nickelodeon-based
There are only a few Sidekicks available in Fortnite as of right now, but that may change in the near future, and they may all come from Paramount-owned IPs. That's according to a new rumour currently doing the rounds among Fortnite leakers. One of them is SamLeakss, as you can see below: They stop short of saying...
Saturday22nd Nov 2025
News 'Terrible' Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 European Sales Are a Devastating 63% Below Battlefield 6
Ouch
According to GSD sales data for Europe – which covers both physical and digital game sales across a number of key countries, including France, Germany, and the UK – Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is enduring a difficult launch. The reports suggests that its debut week is an eye-popping 63% below Battlefield 6, and more than 50% down compared to...
