TodayWed, 9th Oct 2024

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  News Over 2,800 PS5, PS4 Games Score Discounts of Up to 90% Off

  Pre-winter warmers

  Sony has dropped another juggernaut sale on the PS Store for autumn, spanning over 2,500 games across PS5 and PS4. This is an absolutely colossal set of offers, with some games up to 90% off, including Borderlands 3 which can be yours for just £5.99/$5.99. Many games are enjoying their lowest ever prices in this promotion, so...

  • 22m ago
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • PS Store
  • Deals
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  News Sony Now Selling Refurbished PS5 Consoles

  Update: Available now

  Update (Wed 9th Oct, 2024 11:45 BST): The refurbished PS5 consoles have now appeared on Sony's official PS Direct store, strictly limited to just one per customer. You can pick up a refurbished console for £389.99, making this the cheapest way to get your hands on a PS5 directly from Sony. As we mentioned below, you'll...

  • 11:45am
  • Sony
  • PS5
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  PS Store Sales Charts Astro Bot, Space Marine 2, and Sports Games Slug It Out in September

  Who's on top?

  Lots of great PS5 games arrived last month, and it made for a very competitive top five in the PS Store's download charts. Sony's cutesy robot platformer Astro Bot secured second place in Europe's chart, while it came in fourth across the pond. Meanwhile, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 managed second in North America and third in...

  • 11:15am
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • PS Store
  • Sales
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  News Why Silent Hill 2's Most Important Item Has Become Even More Meaningful To The Original Localiser

  Time Extension "The last 2 years have shown me what real fear and darkness are"

  Jeremy Blaustein – a translator and voice director who has helped localise some of the best video games of all time – has opened up about the recent loss of his wife and how it impacts one of the key story items in Silent Hill 2, a game he helped bring to the West back in 2001. If...

  • 10:45am
  • Silent Hill
  • Jeremy Blaustein
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  News PS5's New Welcome Hub Reportedly Now Popping Up in Europe

  Here it comes

  A major addition to PS5's UI was made in the last big system software update, adding a Welcome tab to your console's home menu. Initially only available in the USA, it appears that the new feature is now coming online in Europe. Sony unlocked this neat new feature first for those in the USA, with other territories to follow in a...

  • 10:15am
  • Sony
  • PS5
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  Guide Amazon Prime Big Deal Days 2024 - Best Deals on PS5 and PS4 Games, Controllers, SSDs, 4K TVs, and More

  Update: It's Day 2!

  Update [Weds, 9th October]: The second day of Amazon's Big Deal Days sale is here, bringing even more deals along with it. Day 2 highlights so far include a very welcome £60/$50 off PS5 Slim consoles, as well as discounts on our top pick for PS5 headsets, the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro: <products id="27754,26755">...

  • 9:30am
  • Guides
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Deals
  • Amazon Prime Day
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  27

  News Get Back to JRPG Basics with Physical Final Fantasy 1-6 Collection Anniversary Edition on PS4

  Finally together

  Final Fantasy I-VI Collection Anniversary Edition, which bundles together all six Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters in one convenient, physical location, is now available. You can pick it up from participating retailers in Europe and North America, or get your JRPG fix directly from Square Enix. <products id="28324"> For the...

  • 8am
  • Square Enix
  • PS4
  • Final Fantasy
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  News Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Seemingly Afflicted By World of Darkness Curse

  Paradox officially sick of the RPG game

  In strict accordance with the traditions of The Masquerade, the ancient mandate that decrees all vampire kindred must live in a way that does not reveal their existence to humans, we haven't heard much about Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 lately. The sequel to one of the most groundbreaking CRPGs ever...

  • 5am
  • Paradox Interactive
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Vampire: The Masquerade
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  Random Hideo Kojima's Chronic Back Pain Symptom of Carrying Video Game Industry, Fans Say

  Back Hurtman's done his back again

  Beloved video game designer and industry icon Hideo Kojima has hurt his back again. For those of you who are not closely monitoring the situation, Kojima first publicly reported back pain on 24th September. While we are not medical doctors, in our opinion, this could be a flareup of that original injury, but the...

  • 4am
  • Kojima Productions
  • Industry
  • Community
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  News Silent Hill 2 PS5 Update Removes Italian Language Intro Spoilers

  Mamma mia!

  Silent Hill 2 players may have noticed a small update to the game upon booting it up. It was so tiny, in fact, that it didn't even warrant a writeup or the standard patch notes. Its primary purpose, apparently, was to remove an unfortunate subtitling snafu that resulted in Italian-language players being hit with a major story spoiler...

  • 3am
  • Konami
  • PS5
  • Silent Hill
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  News Lawsuit Alleges Ubisoft Illegally Shared Users' Data with Meta

  Sharing is caring

  Another day, another fire for the folks over at Ubisoft to put out. The French firm is now facing a class action lawsuit that alleges it illegally shared personally identifiable information harvested from users of the Ubisoft Store with Meta, formerly Facebook. As

  • 2am
  • Ubisoft
  • Industry

YesterdayTue, 8th Oct 2024

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  Guide PS Stars Guide: All Campaigns and Solutions (October 2024)

  Your ultimate guide to Sony's loyalty scheme

  PS Stars, or PlayStation Stars, is a free loyalty program for PS5 and PS4 which enables you to earn PS Store credit, free games, and Digital Collectibles. If you're a PS Plus subscriber, then you'll earn additional Points based on each PS Store purchase you make. In this PS Stars guide, we're going to...

  • Yesterday, 3pm
  • Guides
  • PS Stars
  • PS5
  • PS4
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  News Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero's Great Ape Vegeta Fight Is Driving Players Insane

  Monkey tragic

  A specific fight in the new Dragon Ball game is driving players up the wall — and having struggled through it ourselves, we can absolutely see why. Early on in Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero's story-based Episode Mode, you go up against Vegeta's Great Ape form — a giant enemy that offers up a much different challenge to your...

  • Yesterday, 1pm
  • Bandai Namco
  • PS5
  • Dragon Ball
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  Guide Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero: How to Unlock All Characters

  Super, GT, and Movie characters included

  How do you unlock all characters in Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero? In this Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero guide, we're going to detail the multiple methods that you can use to unlock all of the playable characters in the game's absolutely massive roster. How Do You Unlock All Characters in Dragon Ball:...

  • Yesterday, 2:30pm
  • Guides
  • PS5
  • Dragon Ball Sparking Zero
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  36

  News Boy! God of War Ragnarok Will Be PS5 Pro Enhanced

  Axe and you shall receive

  The list of all PS5 Pro enhanced games is steadily growing larger as we crawl towards the console's November launch. The latest addition is Sony's own God of War Ragnarok — a pretty obvious candidate, to be fair. The action RPG has gained the telltale label on PS Store, confirming Santa Monica Studio will be making use...

  • Yesterday, 2:15pm
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • PS5 Pro
  • God of War Ragnarok
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  News SEGA Has Been Quietly Killing It This Year, Regularly Publishing Bangers

  Credit where it's due

  Plucky Japanese publisher SEGA has had quite a tumultuous journey over the 64 years since the company was founded. From early coin-operated machines to its own tilt at the console market, these days, the firm is a publisher of games, and it's been putting out some real bangers of late. As noted in a thread on ResetEra, if you...

  • Yesterday, 5am
  • SEGA
  • Industry
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  News LittleBigPlanet 3 Will Be Taken Off PS Store on 31st October

  Currently costs £15.99 / $19.99

  After years of online server issues relating to hackers, it has been confirmed the PS4 version of LittleBigPlanet 3 will be permanently removed from the PS Store on 31st October 2024. All its DLC will be taken offline on the same day, though you can guarantee yourself access to the game beyond the expiry date as long...

  • Yesterday, 3:30pm
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • LittleBigPlanet
  • PS Store
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  News Classic PS4 Racer DriveClub Is Now a Decade Old

  A social racing superstar

  DriveClub, the legendary PS4 racer from shuttered Runcorn studio Evolution, has such an interesting story. Originally announced alongside the PS4, the game had been intended as a launch title – we even played it in a big London church Sony had rented to showcase the new system prior to its release. But

  • Yesterday, 12am
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • DriveClub
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  Mini Review Kill Knight (PS5) - An Unrelenting Arcade Nightmare

  Stress test

  If you took the modern DOOM games and boiled them down to a pure, score attack, twin-stick action game, Kill Knight feels like the result. Playing as a bloodthirsty, undead warrior, the game is simply about killing hordes of demonic creatures as they swarm you in alarming numbers, while each stage shifts and changes around you. The odds...

  • Yesterday, 12:30pm
  • Reviews
  • PlaySide
  • PS5
  • Kill Knight
  • Mini Reviews
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  93

  Poll Are You Playing Silent Hill 2?

  Welcome back

  Remaking a beloved game from a series that's long since lost its way can't be easy, but the day of Silent Hill 2's revival is upon us. Many were sceptical of this project given Konami's treatment of its once classic franchise, but the remake has actually gone down incredibly well. "Bloober Team has faithfully and respectfully recreated...

  • Yesterday, 7pm
  • Konami
  • PS5
  • Silent Hill
  • Polls
  • Features
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  Review EA Sports FC 25 (PS5) - Weather Simulation and Tactical Iteration Push Soccer Sim to the Top of the Table

  The same old blood Rush with a new touch

  We’ve had more fun with EA Sports FC 25 than we have with any soccer sim for quite some time. Perhaps that’s because, outside of the review period, we largely abandoned EA Sports FC 24 – or perhaps, whisper it quietly, it’s because the footie franchise is in a good place. Either way, a ton of...

  • Yesterday, 6:15pm
  • Reviews
  • EA Sports
  • PS5
  • EA Sports FC 25
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  News Original Director 'Very Happy' with Bloober Team's Work Remaking Silent Hill 2 on PS5, PC

  "It’s been 23 years!"

  Original Silent Hill 2 director Masashi Tsuboyama has praised the work done by developer Bloober Team to modernise the horror classic, which was released to rave reviews (and some tragically hurt feelings). Tsuboyama excitedly proclaimed that he looks forward to playing "the even more immersive remake of Silent Hill 2"...

  • Yesterday, 4am
  • Konami
  • PS5
  • PC
  • Silent Hill
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  News Making Metaphor: ReFantazio, Persona's Immaculate Menus Is 'Really Annoying', Says Director

  "It takes a lot of time"

  Astonishingly stylish, Atlus is currently the reigning champion in UI design, with its legendary Persona series scoring full marks in this regard. The imminent Metaphor: ReFantazio is no slouch in this department, either, and Studio Zero director Katsura Hashino was recently asked about its gorgeous menu design, and you can...

  • Yesterday, 3am
  • Atlus
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Metaphor
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  News Detroit: Become Human PS4, PC Sales Evolve Past 10 Million Paid Units

  The future is now

  Quantic Dream's 2018 sci-fi thriller Detroit: Become Human has become something of a sleeper hit. The developer announced that the title has passed the nice, round 10 million copies sold milestone on PS4 and PC.The studio points out that these are paid units, so presumably, even more, picked it up via services like PS Plus. Last...

  • Yesterday, 2am
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • PC
  • Detroit: Become Human
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  News Ubisoft Comments on Buyout Reports, Says That It 'Regularly Reviews Options'

  Corporate machinations

  After reports suggested the founding Guillemot family and Chinese publisher Tencent were in talks to take Ubisoft private, Reuters noted a 30% jump in the firm's floundering stock price. It's clear investors have an appetite for such a move, so the French publisher has been forced to comment on recent "press speculation". In...

  • Yesterday, 8am
  • Ubisoft
  • Industry
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  Mini Review Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports (PS5) - Arcade Effort Doesn't Feel Great

  That's all, folks

  The problem with Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports is it doesn’t feel fun to move. Characters like Road Runner should be a joy to nimbly navigate around a cartoon football field, but he’s as slow and unwieldy as Elmer Fudd – in fact, it doesn’t matter whether you’re Yosemite Sam or Sylvester the Cat, there’s a tardy...

  • Yesterday, 9pm
  • Reviews
  • GameMill Entertainment
  • PS5
  • Looney Tunes
  • Mini Reviews

Monday7th Oct 2024

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  Guide Silent Hill 2 Guide: Full Walkthrough, Puzzle Solutions, and All Collectibles

  The ultimate Silent Hill 2 resource

  In this Silent Hill 2 guide, we'll reveal a complete Walkthrough that provides an in-depth, step-by-step guide through the whole game, pointing out Collectibles along the way. At times, we will branch out to specific

  • Mon, 3:50pm
  • Guides
  • Silent Hill 2
  • PS5
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  News PS5 Pro Prompts Sony's Disc Drive to Rocket Up the Charts

  Physical fever

  PS5 fans want physical media, and Sony is giving them a means to use it. In the aftermath of the PS5 Pro’s announcement, we reported how the Japanese giant’s universal Disc Drive accessory was selling out, and now we have data in the UK of just how well it performed. According to a sweeping analysis of September 2024’s hardware...

  • Mon, 7pm
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • Hardware
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  Review Until Dawn (PS5) - Killer Teen Slasher Snags a Pricey New-Gen Remake

  Graveyard shift

  Ballistic Moon’s remake of Until Dawn is proving one of our most difficult review assignments of the year. Here’s the rub: Supermassive Games’ cult interactive movie is still very much one of the best examples of the genre you can find on any console, and we highly recommend you play it. However, the PS4 version is just...

  • Mon, 12am
  • Reviews
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • Until Dawn
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  Review Metaphor: ReFantazio (PS5) - Brilliant, Memorable RPG Is One of Atlus' Finest Works

  More than meets the eye

  Spearheaded by a trio of veteran developers best known for their outstanding work on the Persona series, Metaphor: ReFantazio is the dawn of a brand new IP from Atlus. In its structure and mechanics, it feels comfortingly familiar, but in its fantastical setting and bold style — both in terms of visuals and audio — it...

  • Mon, 3pm
  • Reviews
  • Atlus
  • PS5
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio
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  News "This Could Be Crippling" - Fake PS1 Discs Just Got Harder To Spot

  Time Extension Reproductions now "visually indistinguishable" from the real thing

  When Sony launched the PS1 30 years ago, it caused quite a stir by using black discs, which were harder for pirates to clone authentically. Because of this, you could always spot a fake PS1 game from the real thing, and that has remained largely the case for decades – until now, it...

  • Mon, 6:05pm
  • PS1
  • PlayStation
  • Piracy
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  Random Internet Trolls Tried to Downgrade Our Silent Hill 2 PS5 Review Score

  In my restless dreams

  We awarded Bloober Team’s brilliant PS5 remake of Konami’s iconic survival horror Silent Hill 2 a 9/10 because we genuinely believe it’s one of the strongest games of the year. At the time of writing, the title currently commands an 87 on Metacritic, suggesting the rest of the industry agrees. But not everyone is happy...

  • Mon, 12:15am
  • Konami
  • PS5
  • Silent Hill
  • Random
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  62

  News PS5 Fans Believe Halo Could Make Its PlayStation Debut

  Hope they don't Flood the market

  A contingent of PlayStation fans believe Xbox stalwart series Halo could make its PS5 debut in the future. As part of the Halo World Championships overnight, Microsoft made some surprise announcements: developer 343 Industries has been renamed Halo Studios and all future franchise entries will be created using...

  • Mon, 1pm
  • Microsoft
  • PS5
  • Halo
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  News Until Dawn Is One of Sony's Worst Performing PC Ports to Date

  But not as bad as Concord

  We noted recently that the novelty of PlayStation’s PC releases appears to be dying off, and Until Dawn is another game that’s struggled to really make an impression on storefront Steam. The remake, which launched late last week, peaked at just 2,607 concurrent players, making it the worst Sony debut since Concord and...

  • Mon, 10pm
  • Sony
  • PC
  • Until Dawn
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  News Infamous Silent Hill 2 Comic Sans Sign Found in the Trash in PS5, PC Remake

  Where it belongs

  The excellent PS5, PC remake of Silent Hill 2 officially launches in less than 24 hours, but part of what's made the wait for fans so excruciating is it's not the first attempt to update and improve the PS2 classic. In 2012, an HD Collection for PS3 was released (with Silent Hill 3 included) that's widely regarded as one of the...

  • Mon, 9:30am
  • Konami
  • PS5
  • Silent Hill
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  News Alien: Isolation Sequel Announced, in Early Development

  10 years later

  10 years after the release of the original game, Creative Assembly has revealed a sequel to Alien: Isolation is now in the early stages of development. Creative director Al Hope shared the announcement in a post to Twitter, saying: "Today, I'm delighted to confirm, on behalf of the team, that a sequel to Alien: Isolation is in early...

  • Mon, 4:30pm
  • SEGA
  • Alien
  • Announcements
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  Round Up Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero PS5 Reviews Go Super Saiyan

  Is the Metacritic over 9,000?

  We’re deep into our Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero playthrough and fully intend to bring you our verdict very soon. However, in order to properly put the title through its paces – including its all-important online mode – we’re delaying our write-up for a few more days to bring you a thorough review. That hasn’t...

  • Mon, 3:15pm
  • Bandai Namco
  • PS5
  • Dragon Ball
  • Round Up
  • Features
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  News PS5 Exclusives Astro Bot, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Lead Golden Joystick Nominations

  Voting is now open

  Future Publishing's annual Golden Joystick Awards is underway, with nominees for (almost) all of its categories now live and ready to receive votes. Unlike a lot of industry award ceremonies, the Golden Joysticks are decided by public vote. You can have your say on this year's nominees through the link, with voting closing on 1st...

  • Mon, 12:45pm
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Golden Joysticks
  • Awards
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  News By the Way, Foamstars Is Now Free-to-Play on PS5, PS4

  And it's pretty good fun

  The gaming world seems to have forgotten, but Square Enix released Foamstars earlier this year on PS5 and PS4. This multiplayer shooter sadly didn't set the world on fire, but the upshot is that it's now completely free-to-play. As of 3rd October 2024, Foamstars costs nothing, and as with all free-to-play games, you don't...

  • Mon, 11am
  • Square Enix
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Foamstars
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  News PS5's Astro Bot Is Having a Much Better Launch Than Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart in the UK

  Hot bot

  The UK's software charts for the month of September are here, courtesy of GamesIndustry.biz, and it's good news for Astro Bot. Team Asobi's brilliant platformer lands at number five in the overall run of things, including physical and digital sales data. One interesting statistic is that the game's sales in its first four weeks are 24 per...

  • Mon, 8pm
  • UK
  • Sales
  • Charts
  • PS5
  • PS4
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  News Fiona Feeds You Dessert in PS5, PS4's Venus Vacation Prism: Dead or Alive

  Sweet thing

  So far, it looks like Venus Vacation Prism: Dead or Alive will be focusing on characters from PC game Dead or Alive Xtreme 3. The second heroine to be added to the upcoming “immersive romance adventure game” – due out on PS5 and PS4 in Asia with English subtitles early next year – is Fiona, a character who made her debut in the...

  • Mon, 8:30pm
  • Koei Tecmo
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Dead or Alive
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  Deals Not Feeling the PS5 Pro? PS5 Slim Consoles Are Currently $50/£50 Off

  For a limited time

  If you're after a shiny new PS5 console, your current options are to either pick up a PS5 Slim, or put your name down for the all-new, upcoming PS5 Pro. While Sony would naturally love for you to go all out with its latest offering, the company is also making the former a more tempting prospect by offering a welcome discount...

  • Mon, 5pm
  • Deals
  • PS5
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  Mini Review Parcel Corps (PS5) - A Speedy Dispatch, Not a Special Delivery

  Fragile Express

  Delivery games vary drastically from simple delivery driver simulators to more complex titles such as Death Stranding, where you traverse treacherous terrain to complete your daily drops. However, Parcel Corps, the cel-shaded, extreme sports delivery game from Billy Goat Entertainment, sticks to a more familiar concept, providing the...

  • Mon, 9pm
  • Reviews
  • Secret Mode
  • PS5
  • Parcel Corps
  • Mini Reviews
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  Review NBA 2K25 (PS5) - Refocused Hooping Sim Plays Great, But Microtransactions Remain a Thorn in Its Side

  Angel fleeced

  The life of a sports game reviewer can be a miserable one, but while much of Visual Concepts’ culturally colossal NBA 2K series is recycled year-on-year, it rarely settles for raw iteration. This is a developer that, for all its faults, genuinely appears committed to creating the best sports sim on the market – and it tends to lap...

  • Mon, 6:45pm
  • Reviews
  • 2K Sports
  • PS5
  • NBA 2K25
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  News Until Dawn Movie Wraps As PS5 Remake Releases

  Here we go again

  Principal photography has concluded on the Until Dawn movie, a couple of months after it got underway. Sony announced that filming had started on the adaptation on 6th August, and now it has concluded on 4th October. The flick will enter post-production next. Lights Out director David F. Sandberg has led this project, with a script...

  • Mon, 4pm
  • Sony
  • Movies
  • Until Dawn
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  News Pathologic 3 Comes to PS5 Next Year, Time Travel Confirmed

  Change key story events to your gain

  A third entry in the strange and unique Pathologic series has today been announced for PS5, with a view to release in 2025. The newest instalment brings back Daniel Dankovskiy and equips him with a new time-travelling mechanic that allows you to revisit key moments in the narrative and alter their outcomes to...

  • Mon, 6pm
  • HypeTrain Digital
  • PS5
  • Pathologic
  • Announcements
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  News Romantic Slice of Life SINce Memories Makes a Move on PS4 This Month

  Classic visual novel series makes Western debut

  MAGES’ romantic slice of life SINce Memories: Off the Starry Sky will make a play for the PS4 from 23rd October. This is significant because the Memories Off series dates all the way back to the PS1 in 1999, but has never received an English localisation before. This particular entry first launched...

  • Mon, 2pm
  • PQube
  • PS4
  • SINce Memories
  • Release Dates