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TodayFri, 13th Mar 2026

  • News 'Imagine Being Such a Loser': We've Hit Rock Bottom with Website Dedicated to 'Failing' Games

    'Flopathon'

    Good grief. We've reached new lows today, as video game anti-fans have established a new website that's all about tracking Steam player numbers to determine just how badly a game has flopped. If there was any doubt about the website's intentions, it's literally named Flopathon, and we won't be linking to it. Essentially, the site is...

    • PS5
    • PS4
  • News "You're Doing Nothing With It" - Crash Bandicoot's Co-Designer Asks "Where's the Movie? Where's The TV Series?"

    Time Extension A Netflix show was rumoured last year, but so far remains unconfirmed

    It's somewhat hard to believe, given the character's popularity over the years, but Crash Bandicoot has somehow never had a starring role in his own TV show or animated film. To our knowledge, there has been at least one attempt to turn Crash into a TV show, with Amazon...

    • News
    • Crash Bandicoot
    • PS1
  • News Silent Hill, Slitterhead Creator Begins Work on Another 'Original' Game

    Bokeh Game Studio on its second project

    Slitterhead developer Bokeh Game Studio is now in the early stages of its second game, a Japanese recruitment page has revealed. Led by Keiichiro Toyama, who is credited as the creator of Silent Hill and the 2024 horror title Slitterhead, Bokeh Game Studio has begun work on its next project, and is now...

    • Bokeh Game Studio
  • News As PSVR2 Fades into Obscurity, VR Specialist Reveals Its First Ever Non-VR PS5 Title

    PSVR2 not required

    Vertigo Games, a studio that's made a name for itself within the virtual reality space, is dropping VR for its next release. The 7th Guest Remake has been announced, and it's a regular, PS5 version of the company's PSVR2 rendition from 2023. As far as we're aware, this marks the first time Vertigo has not included virtual...

    • Vertigo Games
    • PS5
    • The 7th Guest Remake
    • Trailers
  • News Experience Two of PS5's Best Games with a 'New Level of Visual Fidelity' on PS5 Pro

    Above and beyond

    Legendary dev Remedy is updating two of its best games to take advantage of the PS5 Pro’s upgraded upscaler. Both the excellent Alan Wake 2 – a rare Push Square 10/10 – and the equally enjoyable Control Ultimate Edition will be patched to take utilise PSSR 2. For those who haven’t been keeping track, Sony h

    • Remedy
    • PS5
    • Control
    • Alan Wake
  • News Little Nightmares Explores PSVR2 Horror in New Game, Out Next Month

    Enter the Altered Echoes on 24th April

    Bandai Namco has announced a fourth game in the Little Nightmares series will utilise PSVR2, and it's right around the corner. Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes is a VR-exclusive game, with a PSVR2 version, that launches next month on 24th April 2026. In a PlayStation Blog post, it is confirmed that the new...

    • Bandai Namco
    • PS5
    • PSVR2
    • Little Nightmares
    • Announcements
  • News Tell Us if You Love or Hate Stupid Never Dies, the Most Divisive Action RPG Coming to PS5

    Launches later this year

    You may have forgotten about this one, but back at The Game Awards 2025, developer GPTRACK50 announced Stupid Never Dies, a fast-paced action RPG that looks mad in the best way. Headed up by ex-Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi, the game is looking like complete mayhem in its latest gameplay trailer: It really strikes...

    • GPTRACK50
    • PS5
    • Stupid Never Dies
    • Trailers
  • News Sony Decides VTubers May Be the Best Way to Save PS5 in Japan

    It's had worse ideas

    We’ve all seen the Famitsu sales data by now, and we know Sony hasn’t got a hope in hell of fighting the Switch 2 at this point. That’s despite the manufacturer copying Nintendo’s homework and introducing a cheaper, language locked console model for its home region. It’s helped stop the rot, but it’s still getting...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Japan
    • Trailers
  • News What Year Is It?! Neopets Is Coming to PS5 with a Minigame Collection This Month

    The noughties called

    For those who grew up in the noughties and the Internet's earlier years, Neopets was one of several popular online destinations for kids. You may be surprised to learn the virtual pet site is still very much alive, and more than that, it's got a PS5 game coming very soon. Yes, you'll soon be able to play Neopets: Mega Mini...

    • Sidewalk Games
    • PS5
    • Neopets
  • News That Awesome PS5 Marvel Compilation Is Just Days Away

    Assemble this month

    We’re wise to your tricks, Limited Run Games. We knew when the Marvel MaXimum Collection was announced late last month, its release date wouldn’t be too far away. This is a tactic it’s been leveraging for a little time now. And right we are, because the compilation – which features Konami’s iconic X-Men arcade game...

    • Limited Run Games
    • PS5
    • Marvel MaXimum Collection
    • Release Dates
  • News Crimson Desert PS5 Concern as Physical Copies Won't Run without Download

    But will play offline after initial update

    If you’re planning to go physical with upcoming RPG Crimson Desert, then keep in mind you’ll need to connect to the Internet to fully install the game. With wild copies beginning to circulate ahead of the release’s PS5 launch, we can now confirm that the game won’t run off its Blu-ray disc...

    • Pearl Abyss
    • PS5
    • Crimson Desert

YesterdayThu, 12th Mar 2026

  • News 'No One Is Buying This on PS5': PC Port Begging Already Unbearable as Sony Switches Strategy

    It's only going to get worse

    The word on the street is that Sony will no longer port its single player first-party games to the PC, and fans are having a normal one in response to this news as usual. Earlier this week, Housemarque posted a pretty bad ass Saros gameplay clip, which we thought was so awesome

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PC
  • News First Crimson Desert PS5 Pro Analysis Calls It 'A Phenomenal Experience'

    Console footage is finally here

    It's finally time to take a look at Crimson Desert running on a console. Our friends over at Digital Foundry have been lucky enough to play the game on PS5 Pro, and have delivered a lengthy, in-depth analysis of how the open world adventure performs. As you may know, all of the uncut Crimson Desert gameplay footage...

    • Pearl Abyss
    • PS5
    • PS5 Pro
    • Crimson Desert
  • News Fastidiously Multiformat Square Enix Skips PS5 with Yet Another Game

    Surprise, surprise

    Ever since Final Fantasy 16 didn’t meet its lofty sales expectations as a timed PS5 exclusive, Square Enix has been on a tear promoting its new multiformat business. Funny, because as far as we can see, it still covets exclusivity where it suits. Nintendo DS remaster Bravely Def

    • Square Enix
    • PS5
    • Bravely Default
  • Poll Has PS5's Dynamic Pricing Debacle Changed Your Relationship with the PS Store at All?

    To buy or not to buy

    An interesting exchange occurred on the Push Square Slack channel earlier this week, as we were putting the finishing touches to our Mega March sales guide. “What if our users are seeing different prices?” PS Store professor Stephen Tailby pondered. We, of course, double-checked as much as possible – but it was a...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS Store
    • Polls
  • News Highguard Joins the Great Concord in the Sky, Now Officially Delisted on PS5

    Salute emoji

    Today, 12th March 2026, Highguard has been delisted from digital storefronts, and is no longer playable as developer Wildlight Entertainment shuts the game down. Indeed, searching for Highguard on PS Store now returns zero results. A free-to-play online multiplayer shooter from some of the minds behind Apex Legends and Titanfall,...

    • Wildlight Entertainment
    • PS5
    • Highguard
  • News 'We'll Lay Off a Thousand People': Blizzard CFO's Outrageous Threat Was the Last Straw for Overwatch Director

    Jeff Kaplan explains his departure

    Jeff Kaplan, who worked at Blizzard for almost 20 years, has explained the main reason why he left the company in 2021. This comes from a much wider interview via Lex Fridman, going over Kaplan's whole career, including his role as game director of the original Overwatch. We've time-stamped the moment he talks...

    • Blizzard
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Overwatch
    • Industry
  • News Europe Is Putting Harsher Age Restrictions on All the Things You Hate About Modern Gaming

    PEGI turning up the heat

    Pan-European Game Information, or PEGI as it's known, is the video game age classification organisation for most of the continent, and it's about to introduce some pretty major changes. As reported by Eurogamer, PEGI has outlined a number of new rules and regulations that aim to protect players from some of modern gaming's...

    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Industry
  • News Xbox Targets 2027 for Project Helix Dev Kits, Calling Rumoured PS6 Release Into Question

    Here we go again

    Xbox has come out and stated that development kits for its next console, currently codenamed Project Helix, will ship in 2027 onwards. This means that third-party developers — big and small — won't be getting their hands on the actual hardware until 2027 at the earliest. And Xbox is talking about alpha versions of the dev kit...

    • Sony
    • PS6
    • Xbox
  • Game of the Month Resident Evil Requiem (February 2026)

    As voted by you

    January might have felt like a bit of a slow start to 2026, but February ended up being the exact opposite. This was a busy month for new releases, and a good number of them are what we'd deem very high profile. In other words, there's going to be a battle for February's official Game of the Month award. There was something for...

    • Game of the Month
    • PS5
    • Polls
    • Features
  • News Huge Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered Update Adds Custom Challenge Mode, Costumes, Trophies

    Out now on PS5, PS4

    A significant update for Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered has just landed on PS5 and PS4. If you're a fan of Lara's original trilogy, you're probably going to love what's on offer here. The patch adds a fully customisable Challenge Mode, in which you can modify multiple facets of gameplay. 10 new outfits for Ms. Croft are yours to...

    • Aspyr Media
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Tomb Raider
    • Patches
  • News Trails Dev Has Decided How the Series Ends, as the Finale Targets 2032

    The beginning of the end

    Trails developer Falcom has plans to wrap the long-running RPG series up within the next six years or so, and it's now settled on how it all ends. Yep, company president Toshihiro Kondo is at it again, dropping interview bombs like no one's business. This time, in a huge four-page talk with Famitsu (as translated by...

    • Falcom
    • Trails
  • News First Major Borderlands 4 DLC Adds Story Content, New Character Later This Month on PS5

    Play as C4SH from 26th March

    Gearbox Software has announced the first big piece of Borderlands 4 DLC, titled Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned, shall launch later this month on 26th March 2026. It adds more story missions, a new Vault Hunter called C4SH to play as, and another zone to explore. Here's the expansion's setup: As a malicious...

    • 2K Games
    • PS5
    • Borderlands
    • DLC
  • News Resident Evil 2 Director Says Requiem Needs a 'Non-Scary' Mode for Fraidy Cats Like Him

    "I don't need the scary stuff"

    Hideki Kamiya, a legendary game designer and director, has called for an option in Resident Evil Requiem to minimise the scares. Known for games such as Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, and Viewtiful Joe — as well as the original Resident Evil 2 — Kamiya and his staff at Clovers have been checking out Capcom's latest...

    • Capcom
    • PS5
    • Resident Evil
  • News Morrowind-Style RPG Dread Delusion Is Suddenly Less Than One Week Away on PS5

    Dreading it

    Dread Delusion, the largely beloved old-school style RPG that released on PC back in 2024, now has a PS5 and PS4 release date. Previously, the eye-catching adventure had given us a vague 'spring 2026' launch window, but it's actually arriving sooner than people might think. Indeed, it's out in less than a week, on the 17th March. We've...

    • DreadXP
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Dread Delusion
    • Release Dates
  • News The Excellent Silent Hill 2 Remake Has Attracted Five Million Players

    Across sales and subscriptions

    Over five million people have played Silent Hill 2 when you combine sales and subscription service downloads, Konami today announced. Across its original release platforms, the PS5 and PC, and the Xbox Series X|S port that came out later, the total reflects "digital and physical sales, store downloads and subscription...

    • Konami
    • PS5
    • Silent Hill
  • News Dave the Diver's Wild DLC Expansion Turns Up the Heat This Summer on PS5, PS4

    In the Jungle gets a date

    Mintrocket has finally announced a release date for its major DLC expansion to Dave the Diver. The breakout hit arrived on PS5 and PS4 in 2024, and soon you'll be able to explore an entirely different region with all-new mechanics. In the Jungle arrives on 18th June 2026: Unlike most of the other DLC and updates to the...

    • Mintrocket
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Dave the Diver
    • DLC
  • News Beloved PS5 RPG Expedition 33 Set to Steamroll Another Game Awards Ceremony

    BAFTA nominations announced

    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has proven to be quite the awards magnet, and that trend looks set to continue as the BAFTA Games Awards rolls into view. All the nominations for the upcoming awards ceremony have been announced, and Sandfall Interactive's debut game leads the charge with a total of 12 nods. Ben Starr,...

    • PS5
    • PS4
    • BAFTA Games Awards

Wednesday11th Mar 2026

  • News Step Aside PS Portal! The Best Way to Use PS5 Remote Play Is Getting Better

    Major update to outstanding unofficial app

    We all know PS Portal has proved a massive commercial success, offering a convenient way to enjoy PS5 games around your home via streaming. But bizarrely, Sony’s own proprietary Remote Play method pales in comparison to PX Play, an unofficial alternative which is getting a big update on PC, Mac, and...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Remote Play
  • Feature 50+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in PS Store's Mega March Sale

    PS5 and PS4 games going cheap we recommend

    We're in the throes of March right now, and Sony's celebrating this revered part of the year with the Mega March sale on PS Store. It runs from now until 25th March, and as expected, the sale contains literally thousands of digital items going cheap. That can be hard to parse, which is where we come in...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS Store
    • Deals
  • News 'Whatever We Say, People Won't Believe Us': Crimson Desert Dev Promises Full PS5 Tech Breakdown for Launch

    The final countdown

    With hype at an all-time high, there’s one key question for Crimson Desert to answer: just how will it run on consoles? Rumour has it there’ll be no console reviews of the wildly ambitious console RPG prior to launch, which has understandably aroused suspicion among PS5 owners. But Korean dev Pearl Abyss has maintained a...

    • Pearl Abyss
    • PS5
    • Crimson Desert
  • News 8 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for March 2026 Announced

    Warhammer! Persona!

    Sony has officially announced the new wave of games that are coming to PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium next week. At a glance, March 2026's lineup is pretty strong, boasting a total of 8 titles across PS5 and PS4. Most of these games were leaked earlier in the week — as per usual — but they've now been confirmed. The new...

    • PS Plus
    • PS5
    • PS4
  • News PS5 Fans Will Learn About Up to 40+ New Games During This Lengthy Livestream

    Future Games Show returns

    In case you weren't aware, the Future Games Show makes its return this week with the Spring Showcase. Future Games Show has quietly become a part of the video games calendar of events over the last few years, showing up every so often with a whole bunch of interesting titles to show off. The upcoming Spring Showcase is no...

    • PS5
    • Future Games Show
    • Events
  • Hands On Ghost of Yotei Legends Is Big Enough and Good Enough to Be Its Own Game

    Sucker Punch does it again

    It's almost impossible to knock Ghost of Yotei's Legends update. It's free to everyone who owns the game, adding an entire online co-op mode, complete with a large number of missions, four playable classes, and loads of unlockable cosmetics. Sucker Punch has gone above and beyond here, and it wouldn't be for the first...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Ghost of Yotei
    • Hands On
    • Features
  • News Ghost of Yotei Nearly Stole One of Breath of the Wild's Most Distinctive Features

    But it didn't fit the game

    In a parallel universe, Ghost of Yotei is a very different game, one that includes a key mechanic from one of Nintendo's most highly praised games of the last 10 years: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. In this reality, however, the idea was scrapped, as revealed during a GDC talk from Sucker Punch leaders Nate Fox...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Ghost of Yotei
  • News SEGA's PS5 Games Get Good Reviews, So Why Aren't You Buying Them?

    Good scores don't always mean good sales

    SEGA's recent software lineup has been enjoying overall very strong reception from critics — but that has "yet to translate into a further increase in unit sales", the publisher has said. This comes from a recent Q&A all about the company's Q3 financial results. In response to a question about "scaling...

    • SEGA
    • PS5
    • Sales
    • Industry
  • News The Hype for Saros Grows with Its Shortest PS5 Gameplay Video Yet

    Efficient, you could say

    Saros is just over a month away now on PS5, and we're itching to play it after all these tiny gameplay clips. The latest snippet of footage is here, and it's yet more proof this is gonna be a great follow-up to its predecessor Returnal. The video is the shortest one yet at only 14 seconds, but when the game looks this...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Saros
    • Videos
  • News The Mode That Almost Killed Fortnite Is Free-to-Play from Next Month

    You can Save the World on 16th April

    Before it became the biggest thing in the world as a Battle Royale game, Fortnite wasn't doing well. It largely flopped as a PvE experience in a campaign named Save the World, and looked to be going the way of many failed live service titles we see today. The grand pivot to a Battle Royale game saved Fortnite,...

    • Epic Games
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Fortnite
  • News PS5's Helldivers 2 Goes Full WW1 in Upcoming Entrenched Division Warbond

    Flamin' 'eck

    Helldivers 2 is set in the far flung future, but for its latest premium Warbond, it's turning back time all the way to the early 20th century. The Entrenched Division Warbond launches on 17th March 2026, and it has lots of "vintage" inspired gear, including some pretty hefty weaponry. This includes the B/FLAM-80 Cremator, a new...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Helldivers 2
    • Updates
  • Rumour PlayStation Fans Could Be Building a LEGO PS1 Console This Christmas

    LE(t's)GO

    If you're a fan of LEGO, you're probably aware that the company has been looking to video games for some of its premium sets. Thus far, the majority of gaming builds have revolved around Nintendo, although there have been a couple of Horizon sets in the past, of course. Anyway, according to a LEGO leaker, one upcoming set from the...

    • Sony
    • LEGO
    • PS1
    • Leaks
    • Rumours
  • News Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68 Adds Yet More Cars, Events to PS5, PS4 Racer

    Monthly updates keep on coming

    Another month, another Gran Turismo 7 update is the mantra at Polyphony Digital, as it readies patch 1.68 for the PS5, PS4 driving game. The update will go live within the next 24 hours, and it adds a further three cars and four race events to the experience. The new events added to the World Circuits menu are as...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Gran Turismo
    • Updates
  • News PS Plus Premium Has Given You Just 1 Classic PlayStation Game a Month for Over Half a Year Now

    Little bang for your buck

    With today's announcement of the single PS Plus Premium title for March 2026 now public, PlayStation has gone seven months in a row providing the most expensive tier of its subscription service with just one new title per month. The last time that it stretched to two was in August 2025, when the PS1 versions of Resident...

    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS Plus
  • Interview "I'm The Luckiest Son Of A B**ch In The Industry" - Skyrim's Bruce Nesmith On TSR, Elder Scrolls & Daggerfall's "Miserable" Crunch

    Time Extension "Pretty much everything done on Daggerfall was a negative lesson in what not to do"

    There are very few developers around who can claim to have as much insight into Bethesda's history as Bruce Nesmith. Arriving from the Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR in the mid-90s, Nesmith has had two separate tenures at the RPG giant (1995-1998, 2004-2021), the...

    • Features
    • Interviews
    • Bethesda
    • Elder Scrolls
  • News What If Jak & Daxter Was a Cosy Life Sim? It Might Look Like This Promising PS5 Game

    Lou's Lagoon coming this year

    Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, developer Tiny Roar has announced a PS5 version of its upcoming game, Lou's Lagoon. On first impressions, it looks like a combination of those PS2-era Sony platformers fans know and love — stuff like Jak & Daxter and Ratchet & Clank — with modern life sim elements...

    • Megabit Publishing
    • PS5
    • Lous Lagoon
  • News 'I Need a Union Contract to Feel Safe': Broken Hearted Mega Man Voice Actor Won't Star in New PS5, PS4 Game

    Not-so Mega, Man

    Mega Man is one of gaming’s most iconic characters, but voice actor Ben Diskin – who starred as the Blue Bomber in 2018’s Mega Man 11 – won’t be reprising his role in the upcoming Dual Override. In a long post on social media site BlueSky, he said he’s heart broken over the situation, but explained he “won’t work...

    • Capcom
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Mega Man

Tuesday10th Mar 2026

  • News Fan Fave Resident Evil 2 Is Getting a Third Remake, Exclusively in Arcades

    Bandai Namco entrusted with all-time classic

    Capcom’s awesome 2019 remake of 1998’s Resident Evil 2 is one of the best PS5 and PS4 games in recent memory. But now it’s getting a third adaptation, courtesy of Bandai Namco. This new version of the all-time classic will be available in arcades, and is being redesigned as a rails shooter-style...

    • Bandai Namco
    • Arcade
    • Resident Evil
  • Hands On Assassin's Creed Unity's PS5 Update Has Made Us Rethink That 5/10 Review

    Revolutionary

    Assassin's Creed Unity was a weird one, wasn't it? Arguably the most ambitious instalment in the series up until that point, Unity was panned at launch — primarily because it was an absolute shambles in terms of technical performance. Our own review of the game, which was first published all the way back in November 2014 — has it...

    • Ubisoft
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Assassins Creed
    • Hands On
  • News 'We Couldn't Have Done It Without You': Pokémon Knock-Off Palworld Is No Longer the Only Viral PS5 Copycat in Town

    Can't we all be pals?

    All is fair in love and plagiarism. Palworld, already in an intense battle with Nintendo’s legal team, will now take a taste of its own medicine, with PickMon due out on PS5 at some point in the future. The game shares PocketPair’s love for Pokémon designs, but throws in sur

    • PocketGame
    • PS5
    • PickMon
    • Announcements
  • News The Until Dawn PS5 Remake Studio Is Officially Gone for Good

    Ballistic Moon is no more

    Ballistic Moon, the UK developer that worked with Sony to remake Until Dawn for PS5, has been officially dissolved and now no longer exists. A final gazette notice was issued at the start of February 2026, meaning the company will be dissolved within the three months that follow 3rd February 2026. Just over a year ago, it...

    • Ballistic Moon
    • Industry
  • News 7 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for March 2026 Leaked Early

    It's not FF16 or Dragon's Dogma 2

    Sony will be revealing the full lineup of PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium games for March 2026 on Wednesday, 11th March, but the reliable leaker BillBil-Kun has once again beaten the company to the punch. The insider has revealed a total of seven games that'll be included in this month's selection,

    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS Plus
    • Leaks