Tag: Announcements - Page 3
News Magical Girls Action RPG Kernel Hearts Conjures a PS5 Version
Sail away
Roguelike action RPG Kernel Hearts will now launch on PS5 when it releases later this year. The title was previously only planned for PC, but has officially tacked on console versions, alongside a collaboration with Fortnite. If the latter sounds strange, then it’s worth noting that Epic has been partnering with a bunch of game...
News The Team Behind Train Sim World Is Making a Full Thomas and Friends Game for PS5, PS4
A really useful developer
People always talk about how IO Interactive and the James Bond licence are a match made in heaven, but we think there's a new pairing that takes the biscuit. Thomas & Friends: Wonders of Sodor has just been announced, and it comes from Dovetail Games, the studio behind Train Sim World. Here's the debut trailer, which is...
News Baldur's Gate 3 Story Will Continue in New HBO TV Show
But dev Larian Studios isn't involved
The story and characters featured in Baldur's Gate 3 will return in a TV series from HBO that continues the plot after the events of the game's ending, the company has announced. The live-action TV show deals with the "ramifications" of the events in the third game and features current characters as well as...
News The Arcade-Only Rave Racer Drifts onto PS5 This Month, Console Archives Also Coming Soon
Retro wave
If Bandai Namco won't make a new Ridge Racer, we might as well have as many of the old games on modern systems as possible. Hamster Corporation is making it happen thanks to its Arcade Archives series; last year saw the arrival of the Ridge Racer, the arcade original, on PS5 and PS4, and soon its sequel, Rave Racer, is to follow. This...
News Super Bomberman Collection Available Now on PS5, Includes 7 Classic Games
Boom
Surprise! Out of pretty much nowhere, Konami has announced and simultaneously released Super Bomberman Collection. It's available to purchase right now on PS5, going for $19.99/£15.99. Here's a trailer, showing off all the games in this retro collection: Super Bomberman Collection includes the following seven titles: Super Bomberman...
News Sony Finally Confirms Horizon Co-Op Game, Horizon Hunters Gathering for PS5, PC
The one made by Guerrilla Games
We've known for years now that two Horizon co-op titles are in development, one from NCSoft and another being made internally at Guerrilla Games. Now, the latter has finally been unveiled as Horizon Hunters Gathering. It's coming to PS5 and PC, and you can get an extended look in the trailer above. Horizon Hunters...
News An Obscure Telltale Game Comes to PlayStation for the First Time Ever Next Month
Poker Night at the Inventory returns
Developer Skunkape Games has announced a remaster of a unique, long lost Telltale Games adventure: Poker Night at the Inventory. Better yet, it's set to release on PlayStation for the first time ever, coming to PS4 on 5th March, 2026. Originally released in 2010 for PC and Mac, Poker Night at the Inventory is...
News Help Vampires Find Mental Wellbeing in the BAFTA-Nominated Vampire Therapist on PS5, PS4
Counsellor Dracula
Developer Little Bat Games has announced a console port for its acclaimed visual novel, Vampire Therapist. Published by Ultimate Games, the game comes to PS5 and PS4 on 17th February 2026 after its debut on PC about a year and a half ago. Here's a trailer from the PC launch to give you the gist: You play as a reformed vampire...
News Promising Chinese God of War Game Will Be 'Optimised for PS5 in Collaboration with Sony'
Another console exclusive
Suzhou-based Chinese studio Genigods Lab has announced GeniGods: Nezha, a new single player action RPG with clear and obvious God of War inspirations. According to the press release – and a behind closed doors presentation, attended by Push Square – the game will be built in Unreal Engine 5 and will be “optimised for...
News This New PS5, PS4 School RPG from Persona's Co-Creator Might Tide You Over
Launching 25th May in Japan
Persona co-creator Kouji Okada has now officially announced his previously teased school RPG, which is being developed by Compile Heart. Villion: Code, as reported by Gematsu, will launch on 25th May in Japan. There’s currently no word on a Western release, but we’d be shocked if this doesn’t make its way oversea
News You Stupid Idiot! Retro Ren & Stimpy Games Are Coming to PS5
Five of them in one compilation
If the absence of Ren & Stimpy from the recently dated Nickelodeon Splat Pack hit you hard like a slap to the face, then you’ll be excited to learn that Limited Run Games is bringing a bunch more 16-bit classics to the PS5 in the future. While there’s no release date for the newly announced Re
News Kiln Is a Pottery Party Brawler from Double Fine, Coming to PS5 in 2026
The great pottery throwdown
Xbox and Double Fine have announced the studio's next game — an online party brawler named Kiln. This team-based multiplayer game is all about making your own ceramic character before taking them into matches. The trailer is probably the best way to explain it: Kiln is a game of two halves. First, you'll use the...
News Fable Announced for PS5, Releases in Autumn 2026
First gameplay teaser revealed
Playground Games won't just have Forza Horizon 6 to put out on PS5 this year: it's now confirmed it is making Fable for PS5 too, and it's launching day and date with the Xbox Series X|S and PC versions this Autumn 2026. Catch the newest gameplay teaser above. While the first three Fable games never made their way...
News Acclaimed Roguelite Drop Duchy Combines Tetris and Strategy on PS5 This Spring
Puzzle it out
Another day, another highly-regarded indie PC game making the leap to consoles. Drop Duchy, from The Arcade Crew and Sleepy Mill Studio, has been announced for PS5 with a Complete Edition coming in Spring 2026. Here's the announcement trailer for your viewing pleasure: Drop Duchy is a unique blend of genres and ideas, taking the...
News Life Is Strange: Reunion Revives One of Gaming's Iconic Relationships on PS5
The Price is right
The ending to the original Life Is Strange wrote series publisher Square Enix into a bit of a corner it’s been wrestling with ever since. Original dev DONTNOD decided to introduce an entirely new cast in Life Is Strange 2, but brothers Sean and Daniel never connected like original protagonists Max and Chloe. So new studio...
News Xbox Exclusive RPG Avowed Is Coming to PS5 in February with Major New Features
A-wowed
Avowed, Obsidian Entertainment's Xbox exclusive RPG, is finally confirmed for PS5, and it's coming to Sony's console very soon. The game hits PS5 on 17th February 2026, a year after its initial launch last year, with pre-orders on PS Store opening soon. Set in the Pillars of Eternity universe, Avowed is a first-person fantasy RPG in...
News High Fantasy FMV Romance Gets PS5, PS4's 2026 Off to a Strong Start
If that's your thing, anyway
For some reason, the PS5 and PS4 have become a popular destinations for China’s increasingly prolific FMV dating games. And we’ll get another one on 15th January: the xianxia-inspired high fantasy dating game God Bless, or Goddess. That’s a good name. The premise of the story is deeply embedded in the popular...
News Persona's First 30th Anniversary Announcement May Not Be All That Hype for PS5 Fans
Steal our heart
As we reported earlier this week, a spate of 30th anniversary announcements for the Persona franchise are due in 2026. But the first of them is unlikely to entice PS5 owners, as we suspect this will be Nintendo exclusive: it’s Fitness Boxing Persona 5. Those of you who follow this franchise will know there have been several...
News Fans Can't Believe How Much Sword and Fairy 4's Remake Looks Like Clair Obscur
We can certainly see the influences
Well, it was bound to happen: here’s your very first look at Clair Obscur-like Sword and Fairy 4: Remake, which has been confirmed for consoles and PC – but not the PS5 specifically yet. The Legend of Sword and Fairy 4 first launched on PC back in 2007, developed by Taiwanese company Softstar’s Shanghai...
Will you cop it?
The Tokyo-based dev behind bitesized management sims like Game Dev Story has announced its next PS5 and PS4 project, inspired by the long running manga KochiKame. This isn’t particularly new territory for the dev, as it recently released a dorayaki shop strategy sim featuring Doraemon, so KochiKame seems like a natural fit for...
News Rising Anime Sensation GACHIAKUTA Gets Its Own PS5 Game, And It's Not an Arena Fighter
Clean it up
Like the media industry at large, gaming companies are increasingly tapping in to the rising popularity of anime. That means, while it took way too long for the likes of Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen to get their own video games, Korean studio COM2US has already announced plans to adapt GACHIAKUTA to the PS5. Admittedly there’s no...
News An Open World Spaghetti Western Survival Game for PS5? Sign Us the Hell Up Right Now
Kickstarter planned for early 2026
We’ve always had a soft spot for Western games, long before Red Dead Redemption made the genre mainstream. One title that always sticks with us is GUN on the PS2, an underappreciated title which actually pre-dated Red Dead Redemption by a few years. (Yes, we know there was Red Dead Revolver, but that was a very...
News Star Wars Racing Games Are Back in Galactic Racer, Out for PS5 in 2026
From a new team of Criterion talent
Anyone with fond memories of PS1 classic Star Wars Episode 1: Racer will want to keep their eye on the newly-revealed Star Wars: Galactic Racer, a new racing title for PS5 that's releasing next year. Catch the reveal trailer above. In this all-new entry, you'll be racing across familiar locations like Jakku and...
News Fans of Sony's Forgotten Hardware Franchise May Want to Take Note of TankRat on PS5
Tank you very much
Hands up if you remember Hardware: Online Arena on PS2 or Hardware: Rivals on PS4? Okay, anyone who’s got a palm above their head immediately earns our respect. TankRat kinda reminds us of that long-forgotten Sony series, but we suppose more recognisable reference points would include World of Tanks or even Crossout...
News Pop Punk Action Abounds in Ex-Capcom Producer's Stupid Never Dies on PS5
Bring your bae back to life
What if Lollipop Chainsaw was less Britney Spears and more Avril Lavigne? That’s the question Stupid Never Dies from ex-Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi aims to answer. The premise is absolutely absurd, so we’re just going to let the press release do the talking for us: “In a world where monsters are part of...
News Good Dog! Atmospheric Adventure The Free Shepherd Rounds Up a 2027 Release on PS5
'Herd you may like this one
We can’t believe no one’s made a shepherding sim before. This seems like such a no-brainer for a gameplay concept. To be fair, it does look like there’s more to The Free Shepherd than simply rounding up sheep. This debut trailer hints at a lingering mystery, but it’s one we won’t solve until 2027, when the...
News Free-to-Play FPS Highguard Closes Out The Game Awards, Coming to PS5 on 26th January
Overtrot
As host Geoff Keighley was so eager to explain, typically The Game Awards end with a teaser for a title from the far-flung future. This year, however, he picked a title launching in a few short weeks. Highguard is a new free-to-play FPS from Wildlight Entertainment, a team of Apex Legends and Titanfall veterans. The game’s described as...
News Mega Man: Dual Override Brings Back the Blue Bomber in 2027 on PS5, PS4
Mega, man
Capcom mentioned it was eager to bring Mega Man out of retirement, and here’s your first look at the Blue Bomber’s next game. It’s called Mega Man: Dual Override, and it’s launching on PS5 and PS4 in 2027. Sony’s last-gen console will still be kicking in a couple of years, it seems. Here’s the blurb: “Mega Man returns in...
News Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve Revealed, Soars onto PS5 in 2026
Flying high
Fans already knew Bandai Namco and Project Aces were working on it, but now it's officially official: Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve has been announced. The arcade action flight sim is coming to PS5 in 2026, as revealed in the debut trailer: The presentation looks excellent and more cinematic than usual, immersing you in a first person...
News Total War: Warhammer 40k Was SEGA's Big, Unmissable Game Awards Reveal
Not quite what fans expected
The Game Awards is just hours away as we write this, and several publishers and developers have teased their involvement with Geoff Keighley's awards show. Now, even SEGA is getting in on the fun, with a tease that it's also going to be part of the proceedings. On YouTube, the publisher reposted the official livestream...
News Lara Croft Returns in Two New Tomb Raider Titles on PS5
That's a lot o' Lara
Amazon Games is bringing not one but two new Tomb Raider games to the PS5, releasing in 2026 and 2027. The first of the games, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, is a reimagining of the original PS1 game, developed by Crystal Dynamics and Flying Hog Studios. Designed to celebrate the series’ 30th anniversary, the release...
News Control Resonant from Remedy Revealed, Out in 2026 for PS5
Focus on melee combat with Dylan Faden as the lead
The next entry in the Control universe, named Control Resonant, has been announced by Remedy. It's coming to PS5 in 2026, and you can catch the reveal trailer above. This time around, Dylan Faden takes the lead role, and the combat will be melee-focused. You can catch some gameplay clips in the...
News Sony Announces 4Loop, the Next Co-Op Game from the Creator of Left 4 Dead
Bad Robot's game revealed
Sony and Bad Robot Games have announced 4Loop, a new sci-fi co-op shooter coming "soon" to PS5 and PC. The game is described as a tactical, four-player title "crafted for endless replayability and infinite ways to build the ultimate team". There aren't too many details out there about the game right now, but it looks...
News SOMA, Amnesia Team Reveals Ontos for PS5, Out Next Year
Featuring Stellan Skarsgård as voice actor
Frictional Games has revealed its spiritual successor to SOMA, which is named Ontos and will launch for PS5 next year. Check out the announcement trailer above. Stellan Skarsgård of Andor will be a voice in the game, and here's some setup: What begins as a search for answers quickly spirals into...
News Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic Announced, from Mass Effect Director
A spiritual successor to Knights of the Old Republic
Lucasfilm Games and Arcanaut Games have announced Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, a spiritual successor to the classic RPGs Knights of the Old Republic. Check out the trailer above. Casey Hudson, the game director of Knights of the Old Republic and the original Mass Effect trilogy, is...
News Xbox Game South of Midnight Comes to PS5 Next Year
During the Spring 2026 season
Compulsion Games has confirmed that South of Midnight will be ported to PS5 in Spring 2026, having released for Xbox Series X|S and PC earlier this year. The developer confirmed the PS5 version (along with a Nintendo Switch 2 edition) in a social media post: Compulsion Games' third game as a studio, it previously...
News Jaws' Infamous NES Adaptation Is Getting Ported to PS5, with All-New Features
"We're gonna need a bigger boat"
Jaws’ notorious NES adaptation is coming to the PS5 in 2026, courtesy of Limited Run Games. That means there are a couple of retail editions on the way, which we’ll dig into shortly, but first more on the game itself. Originally released in 1987 by LJN, this title was credited to Atlus, but was actually...
News This PS5 Action Strategy Hybrid from Inti Creates Looks Like a Long Lost PS1 Game
A real ActRaiser
Fans of ActRaiser, it’s time to pay attention: Inti Creates has announced an all-new action strategy hybrid named – wait for it – Kingdom’s Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster. The main takeaway here is that the game blends city building with side-scrolling combat, drawing comparisons to Square Enix’s...
News The Boys Brings Some Much-Needed Heat to PSVR2 Next Year
Yeah, boy
Well, this may not technically be a first-party PlayStation project, but Sony hasn’t forgotten about PSVR2 entirely. In fact, the headset remains very relevant right now, with numerous noteworthy titles releasing for it. And Sony Pictures Virtual Reality has added another title for you to look forward to: a stealth action adaptation of...
News Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War Turns Helldivers 2 into a Retro, PS2-Era FPS
Complete with FMVs
Satirical sci-fi is in at the moment, with Helldivers 2 taking off massively last year, and its direct inspiration, Starship Troopers, is getting in on the action. Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War is a freshly announced single player first-person shooter set within the universe of the much-loved sci-fi action movie. It's not...
News PS5 Sci-Fi Action RPG SOL Shogunate Is Samurai in Space, and It Looks Awesome
Moon knights
SOL Shogunate has just been announced for PS5, and it looks like the most video game-y video game you could hope to see. In development at independent studio Chaos Manufacturing, the game is a single player sci-fi action RPG all about samurai in space: The game is set in an alternate future in which humanity has spread across...
News We Didn't Have a New Carmageddon on Our 2026 PS5 Bingo Card
And it's a roguelite this time
Oh wow, we didn’t expect to see a new Carmageddon game get announced before Christmas. Obviously, the controversial vehicular combat franchise has a long history, with the second game in particular proving somewhat popular on the PS1, despite attracting dreadful reviews. The franchise got a bit of a soft reboot on...
News About Fishing Is an Angling Game with an Awesome Retro Aesthetic
Silent gill
All is not quite as it seems in upcoming angling sim About Fishing, which creator The Water Museum says has been “made out of love for Shenmue and SEGA Bass Fishing”. We can certainly see the Dreamcast vibes. The trailer starts out light-hearted enough, as two polygonal characters share a portion of curly fries next to a misty lake...
News Sony London's Cancelled PS5 Game Seemingly Revived as Cast Outs
Early access beta in 2027 on PS5
At least some of the work, ideas, and inspiration that went into the now-cancelled PS5 game from shuttered PlayStation developer London Studio have found their way into Cast Outs, a newly announced game from a team containing eight former London Studio developers. Cast Outs is an online co-op game set in an urban...
News Sony Announces, Soft Launches MLB The Show Mobile for iOS and Android
Philippines only for now
Sony's latest push into mobile territory is MLB The Show Mobile, just announced and soft launched in the Philippines. Developed in-house at San Diego Studio — developer of the main MLB The Show series — you can get a sense of the free-to-play game in the below trailer: The official website describes MLB The Show...
News The Next Game from the Makers of GoldenEye and TimeSplitters Is Balatro Meets Scrabble
Beyond Words announced
Two legendary developers have joined forces once again, and it's a game that's a teensy bit outside what they're best known for. From Steve Ellis and David Doak, two of the minds behind renowned shooters GoldenEye 007 and TimeSplitters, comes Beyond Words, a strategic, roguelike word game. Coming to PS5 in early 2026, the...
News A Game About Digging a Hole Is the Next Viral PC Hit Burrowing onto PS5 Soon
Digging it
Earlier this year, those paying attention will have likely seen an unusual game cropping up on social media, all about digging a hole and seemingly nothing more. Well, that game is A Game About Digging a Hole, and after its huge success on PC, it's now coming to consoles. The viral hit indie title is tunnelling through to PS5 on 9th...
News Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail Maker Reveals Next-Gen Open World Powered by Unreal Engine 5
The next big thing
You could be forgiven for thinking HoYoverse is pretty busy right now. That’s because it is! In addition to its established titles like Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, it’s also recently announced Animal Crossing-like Petit Planet and auto-chess battler
News Vampire Crawlers Is the Deck-Building Vampire Survivors Spin-Off We Never Knew We Wanted
Will it actually have vampires?
Developer Poncle has announced Vampire Crawlers, a brand new spin-off game from its smash hit "bullet heaven" action game, Vampire Survivors. Vampire Crawlers is based within the same universe as the main game, but it's viewed from a different perspective and a different genre altogether, as you can see in the debut...
News Returnal's Influence Expands with PS5 Roguelite Shooter ARMATUS
Viva la France
Returnal may not be the best-selling PS5 exclusive, but it’s attracted a slew of copycats. The latest of those looks to be ARMATUS, a roguelite third-person shooter launching in 2026. This game is set in the “demon-infested ruins of Paris”, which some would argue is just modern-day France. But we think the dev’s taking a few...
