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TodayFri, 9th Oct 2026

  • News As Its Developer Recovers, Star Wars Zero Company Reaches One Million Copies Sold

    One zero zero zero zero zero zero company

    Publisher EA has announced that Star Wars Zero Company, the XCOM-but-Star Wars strategy game from Bit Reactor and Respawn, has now sold over a million copies. The announcement comes via the game's official social channels: Alongside the sales milestone, the post teases a new game update, version 1.2,...

    • EA
    • PS5
    • Star Wars Zero Company
    • Sales
  • News Crazy Taxi: World Tour Takes You to Brazil as Another Location Is Revealed

    Keeping it Rio

    As its name suggests, Crazy Taxi: World Tour includes a globetrotting selection of locations, and the latest one has just been revealed in a new trailer. The arcade driving game revival is making its next stop in Brazil, as you can see in the new video: It seems like a great setting for the game to me, with its combination of...

    • SEGA
    • PS5
    • Crazy Taxi
    • Trailers
  • News Ghost of Yotei Gets More Complete with PS5 Patch Fixing Bugs and Black Screens

    Sucker Punch cleans up expanded re-release

    Sucker Punch has pushed out a ~1.2GB patch for last week’s Ghost of Yotei: Complete Edition, cleaning up some bugs and unexpected black screen errors. Ironically, the expanded re-release is now even closer to being, well, complete. Writing on social media, the Seattle-based studio said: “Patch 2.07...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Ghost of Yotei
    • Patches
  • News Alien Resurrection's Spirit Lives On in PS1-Styled Space Horror Shooter Derelikt

    Steam Hype The most terrifying element probably isn't twin-stick controls

    The PlayStation 1 is the perfect example of hardware limitations directing the style of games. Unsettling wobbly polygons, low resolution, and fog or darkness obscuring your view - rich grounds for horror, and despite being based on a rather wonky film, Alien Resurrection (famous for...

    • Demos
  • News CD Projekt Red Delivers The Witcher 3 Remastered Fixes, Improvements in Patch 5.01

    Available to download now on PS5

    There's been some variation in the technical experience some people are having in The Witcher 3 Remastered, so CD Projekt Red has been quick to deploy updates on PS5 to fix any lingering issues. Case in point: patch 5.01 is available to download now. The update delivers enhancements and tweaks to gameplay, the UI,...

    • CD Projekt Red
    • PS5
    • The Witcher
    • Patches
  • News Wolverine PS5 Sales Estimates Are Somewhat Soft, But Here's Why I'm Not Worried

    Remember: only predictions, for now

    According to Ampere Analytics, tentpole Insomniac action game Marvel’s Wolverine sold about 2.16 million copies in September, making it the second best-selling PS5 game of the month, behind EA Sports FC 27. (Obviously.) It looks like a soft number on the surface, especially when you consider this is accounting...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Marvel's Wolverine
  • News Ghost of Tsushima's Anime Series Has Been Pushed Back to 2028

    New cast and crew announced

    In case you forgot, PlayStation Productions is partnering with Aniplex and Hayate to create an anime series based on Ghost of Tsushima. Well, it's going to be a longer wait than originally planned. Crunchyroll — which will exclusively stream the anime on release — has announced it has been delayed into 2028, having...

    • Sony
    • PlayStation Productions
    • Ghost of Tsushima
  • News Another PS Portal Firmware Update Is Now Available, Just Two Weeks After the Last

    Is something brewing?

    Sony has released another firmware update for the PS Portal, only two weeks after the previous one. It's worth noting because updates like this are rarely so close together. The portable streaming device is now up to system software version 7.3.0, with the update itself being rolled out in phases. So, what does this one do?...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PS Portal
    • Firmware Updates
  • News Ace Combat 8 Has Sold One Million Copies Faster Than Any Previous Entry in the Series

    Onward and upward

    Publisher Bandai Namco has announced some very positive news about the sales performance of Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. The latest entry has set a new record for the long-running fighter jet action series; it's the fastest-ever to reach one million copies sold. Yes, AC8 has surpassed the one million milestone within its first...

    • Bandai Namco
    • PS5
    • Ace Combat
    • Sales
  • News ANOMALITH's New PS5 Demo Is a Scrappy Throwback to Classic Resident Evil

    I recommend you take a look

    I want to be 110% clear before we properly get into this article: ANOMALITH channels classic Resident Evil, but it’s nowhere near as good. Don’t go into this demo expecting Capcom quality, because you won’t get it. That said, this scrappy little survival horror shooter reminds me of the original Resident Evil...

    • FuRyu
    • PS5
    • ANOMALITH
    • Demos
  • Preview Phantom Blade Zero Is the Next Truly Essential PS5 Game

    A six-hour deep dive into the action title

    All bets are off once GTA 6 comes out, but in the weeks leading up to it, you have to let Phantom Blade Zero take up all of your free time. I played six hours of the game on a trip to Beijing, China (more on that in the future) and found it to be one of the most confident and impressive Western debuts from...

    • S-GAME
    • PS5
    • Phantom Blade Zero
    • Previews
    • Features

YesterdayThu, 8th Oct 2026

  • News Mafia 3: Definitive Edition's Native 60fps PS5 Upgrade Is Out Now, Free for Existing Owners

    An offer you can't refuse

    Earlier this year, 2K Games released an upgraded version of the excellent Mafia: Definitive Edition, designed to take full advantage of the PS5 hardware at 60fps with various other visual and performance improvements. Now it looks like both Mafia 2: Definitive Edition and Mafia 3: Definitive Edition aren’t fa

    • 2K Games
    • PS5
    • Mafia
  • News PS5 to Integrate Anime into Main Menu as Sony Tightens Ties with Crunchyroll

    "Anime and gaming have overlapping communities"

    Moments ago, PlayStation boss Hideaki Nishino took to the stage at the inaugural Crunchyroll Anime Future Forum to confirm it’ll be integrating anime into the PS5’s main menu with a “dedicated hub”, beginning Spring 2027. He said the initiative will help “make it easier for the PlayStation...

    • Sony
    • Crunchyroll
    • Anime
  • Review Evercade Nexus - a Commendable Upgrade, but Bundling Banjo-Kazooie Is the True Masterstroke

    Time Extension Evercade's next evolution is here

    While the Evercade family has seen several hardware revisions and evolutions over the years – including a bartop arcade unit, a home console, and even a scaled-down Super Pocket sibling – the

    • Reviews
    • Evercade
    • Hardware Reviews
    • Emulation Handhelds
  • News GTA 6 Gameplay Leaks Are Back with Potentially Big Spoilers

    25 minutes of gameplay leaked online

    Cyberleek, the GTA 6 leaker from before the Netflix Extended Look debuted, has returned to the Internet with yet another significant gameplay video that potentially reveals a lot of spoilers and details Rockstar is yet to officially share. The leaker has uploaded another 25 minutes of gameplay taken from a...

    • Rockstar Games
    • PS5
    • Grand Theft Auto
    • GTA
    • Leaks
  • News First Forza Horizon 6 PS5 Gameplay Arrives as Release Date Is Revealed

    Stuck in traffic

    We've all been wondering where the PS5 port of Forza Horizon 6 is, and now we have our best idea of when to expect its arrival thanks to a very reliable source. Billbil-kun, reporting via Dealabs, has "exclusively obtained" information about the open world racing game's PS5 debut and other release details. According to the report,...

    • Xbox Game Studios
    • PS5
    • Forza Horizon
    • Release Dates
  • Guide Stage Tour Setlist: All Confirmed Songs and Artists

    Every song revealed so far

    Stage Tour is basically Guitar Hero and Rock Band reborn on PS5, complete with a brand new set of plastic instrument peripherals and a giant setlist of songs to play. Set for release on 10th December, 2026, you might be wondering which tunes you'll be able to jam along to, and in this guide, we've listed every artist and...

    • RedOctane Games
    • PS5
    • Stage Tour
    • Guides
    • Features
  • News Europe Shows Up for Physical Games, 51% of Wolverine's PS5 Sales for Disc Version

    There was a disc, so they bought it

    Sony is yet to share official Marvel's Wolverine sales data, but firms worldwide have begun sharing their own points and projected figures. And, according to GSD data shared by The Game Business, physical copies accounted for 35% of the PS5 game's sales. If you narrow the data to Europe, however, it shows how the...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Wolverine
    • Sales
    • Europe
  • News GTA 6 In-Game Radio Stations Announced, and You Can Preview Them Right Now

    Tune in

    Rockstar Games has given us another GTA 6 crumb to enjoy; it's announced some of the in-game radio stations we'll be able to enjoy as we drive around Leonida, and you can get a taste for them right now. It's all unveiled on the official website in a new blog post. It's stated that GTA 6 will have the "biggest and widest-ranging selection of...

    • Rockstar Games
    • PS5
    • GTA
  • News Marvel Tokon Far Exceeds Expectations in US Sales Charts, PS5 Dollar Spend Up

    But Sony's system behind Switch 2 overall

    Isn’t it interesting how conventional wisdom from social media – usually massively influenced by Steam concurrent users – would lead you to believe a game flopped, only for the reality to be quite different? Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls has been tagged as a slow seller, but it did well in the recent...

    • USA
    • Sales
    • Charts
    • PS5
    • PS4
  • News PS5 Console Exclusive PRISON OF HUSKS Looks Like a Soulslike with PS2 Presentation

    It's even in 4:3

    I’m a bit weary of Soulslikes personally, but I unironically love the look of this. Presented in 4:3, with Vaseline smeared visuals that would make Fumito Ueda proud, PRISON OF HUSKS is an upcoming PS5 console exclusive that looks like it’s stepped straight out of the PS2 era. Originally created as a solo project, a...

    • Glass Head Dolls
    • PS5
    • PRISON OF HUSKS
    • Announcements
  • News Star Wars Zero Company Success Allows Dev to Bring Back Staff

    Furloughed workers back at studio

    Star Wars Zero Company team Bit Reactor has confirmed it's been able to start returning to work the staff it was forced to furlough in the lead-up to the strategy game's launch. A new social media post from the developer shared that it's brought "more of our team back to work at Bit Reactor" as it looks to continue...

    • EA
    • PS5
    • Star Wars
    • Industry
  • News Cyberpunk 2077 Is the Next Game Set for a Live-Action Film

    But the producer attached will give you pause

    As every noteworthy video game under the sun gets a movie or TV series adaptation, it was only a matter of time before Cyberpunk 2077 found itself attached to a producer and a big-screen debut. Now, it's reported by Deadline that Paramount Pictures will make a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 film. CD...

    • CD Projekt Red
    • Movies
    • Cyberpunk
  • News Nerfs to Silent Hill: Townfall's Worst Enemy Are Substantial, Hard Puzzle Also Tweaked

    The Weight gets hit hard

    Screen Burn promised it would be addressing the worst enemy encounter in Silent Hill: Townfall, and boy has it in a new PS5 patch available now. The Weight, a monster that stalks you in a few sections and has an instant one-hit kill attack, has been heavily nerfed in the update. As per the developer, these are the changes...

    • Konami
    • PS5
    • Silent Hill
    • Patches
  • News Hell Is Us Massively Expands Its Roster of Freaky Enemies to Celebrate 2 Million Players

    Free update out now

    Publisher Nacon and developer Rogue Factor have announced that Hell Is Us, the sci-fi action game that refuses to hold the player's hand, has now surpassed the 2 million players milestone. To celebrate this news, the game has received a pretty major update on all platforms, and it's available to download and install now. What...

    • Nacon
    • PS5
    • Hell Is Us
    • Updates
  • News Gundam Rogue Orbit Drops Its Enthusiastically Narrated PS5 Gameplay Trailer

    Gun, damn

    I’ve always been keen on trying a Gundam game, but the various ones Rob has reviewed for the site always looked a bit too scrappy or technical for my tastes. Enter the upcoming Gundam Rogue Orbit, then, which is launching on the PS5 from 5th March. This one looks like a much more premium effort, with a flashy combat system that...

    • Bandai Namco
    • PS5
    • Gundam Rogue Orbit
    • Trailers
  • News Doctor Doom, Invisible Woman Join Marvel Cosmic Invasion in DLC Pack Next Month

    Just what the doctor ordered

    Publisher Dotemu has revealed more details about the upcoming second DLC pack for its superhero beat-'em-up, Marvel Cosmic Invasion. The add-on, titled The Siege of Castle Doom, is scheduled for launch on 10th November 2026, and you can see some gameplay featuring the DLC's two new characters in the trailer below:...

    • Dotemu
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Marvel Cosmic Invasion
    • Trailers
  • News I Love K-Pop, But This New PS5 Game Ain't It

    Stage fright

    Earlier this year, I had a fair amount of fun with the tycoon-style visual novel K-Pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut – even if it wasn’t exactly what I expected. However, I really don’t expect much from this new Microids effort, K-Pop Rising: Dream to Shine. Developed by French studio Old Skull Games, it’s clearly targeting a...

    • Microids
    • PS5
    • K-Pop Rising Dream
    • Trailers
  • News Fatal Fury PS5's Ridiculous DLC Run Continues with Tekken 8's Reina Teased

    And two Tokyo Revengers characters out this month

    If you’re not playing Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, then to quote Nintendo exec Reggie Fils-Aime: what’s wrong with you? I know there are contentious issues behind how SNK is getting funded, but as a fighter, this game is pretty unprecedented. It’s been adding new characters at an...

    • SNK
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Fatal Fury
    • DLC
  • News Embark Showcases the Shiny New Features Coming in 'The Finals' Season 12

    Steam Hype Its Showtime

    The Finals has been gearing up for the massive Season 12 update for as long as I can remember, with developer Embark calling it the biggest update yet – and recent footage has backed up these lofty claims. In three new YouTube videos titled "DYNAMISM UPGRADE", "MAPS", and "NEW LIGHT PLAYSTYLE", Gameplay Programmer Roman Smirnov,...

    • News

Wednesday7th Oct 2026

  • News Sony Seemingly Ends VR Ambitions by Selling Patents to Meta

    End of an era

    Sony seems to be done with its virtual reality ambitions, as it sells hundreds of patents related to the technology to rival Meta. First spotted by ZDNet Korea, via Road to VR, the company intends to transfer a total of 419 global patents to its competitor, with 43 US-specific properties changing hands between June and September this...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PSVR2
    • Industry
  • News Free Mafia 3 PS4 Game Seemingly Revoked, Prices Restored to Normal

    You can no longer get Call of Duty: WWII and Mafia 3 for free

    Mafia 3 and all of its associated DLC is currently available for free on the PS Store in several countries, with no PS Plus required. You can get it

    • 2K Games
    • PS4
    • Mafia
    • PS Store
  • News Mounting Evidence Says Sony Really Is 'Accepting Game Pitches' on Fan Fave Franchises

    Killzone! Ape Escape! Sly Cooper!

    A recognised leaker who previously outed the existence of Metroidvania spin-off God of War: Sons of Sparta says Sony is “accepting multiple game pitches” for projects inspired by fan favourite franchises. Recently there’s been an uptick in rumours related to

    • Sony
    • PS6
    • PS5
    • Rumours
  • Feature 40+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in the PS Store Player's Choice Sale

    PS5 and PS4 games going cheap we recommend

    PS Store's latest offer is the Player's Choice sale, running from now through to 21st October 2026. As always, there are thousands of PS5 and PS4 games going cheap, and that's an awful lot of potential purchases to scroll through. To try and help out, we've compiled a smaller list of great games that we...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS Store
    • Deals
  • Rumour More Sources Mount for Ape Escape Revival from Ex-Sonic Mania Devs

    The makers of Penny's Big Breakaway

    Word on the street is that Sony is taking pitches on its dormant, fan-favourite franchises, and among those is the supposed revival of a proper old school classic: Ape Escape. Well, the rumour mill has continued turning over, and there's now a thin, but very plausible, fan theory about which team is bringing back...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Ape Escape
    • Rumours
  • News Phoenix Cyclops Fires Up Marvel Tokon on 2nd November, PS Plus Trial Out Now

    Classic costume available as DLC

    It’s been a few months since the sublime Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls released, and while it’s had its issues on PC, I’ve personally loved playing it. (What a game!) Earlier in the year, dev Arc System Works announced Phoenix Cyclops as the first of four Year 1 Pass combatants – and we’l

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PC
    • Marvel Tokon
    • DLC
  • News Wolverine PS5's Controversial Fart Trails Can Now Be Toggled in Story Sequences

    "Based on community feedback"

    I personally think the fall out over the scent trails in Marvel’s Wolverine may be one of the biggest overreactions in recent gaming memory, but fair play to Insomniac for responding to the (often robust) feedback. It’s already included options to disable the feature for collectibles, and reduced the opacity of...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Marvel's Wolverine
    • Patches
  • News "Sony Wasn't Quite Allowing It, But We Made It Happen" - Vib-Ribbon Creative Team Reflect On Their Sublime Musical Marvel

    Time Extension Design Room presents an oral history on a true uniquity

    The team behind the curious, ethereal, and one-of-a-kind PlayStation release Vib-Ribbon have spoken of the story behind the game's creation; the uphill battle to get such an abstract project greenlit, produced, and released; and the enduring legacy of not only the game itself, but the impact on...

    • Sony
    • PS1
    • PlayStation
    • Music
    • Japan
  • News PS5 Fans Think They May Have Found Evidence of an Enhanced PS Portal

    OLED screen incoming?

    The PS Portal handheld has been a surprise hit for Sony, and there has been talk of an OLED upgrade launching at some point in 2026. Now evidence of a revised unit appears to have been uncovered by

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PS Portal
    • Peripherals
  • News What if Resident Evil Had Debuted on SNES? Dead of Darkness 2 Has the Answer on PS5

    Sprite-based scares

    I didn’t play the original Dead of Darkness, but its successor – in development for PS5 and PS4 – has caught my eye. This game looks a lot like Resident Evil if it had been scaled back for the Super Nintendo, and while dev Retrofiction Games is clearly doing things here that wouldn’t be possible on 16-bit machines, I...

    • Eastasiasoft
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Dead of Darkness
    • Announcements
  • News Confusion as Erroneous Reports Claim Xbox Has Exclusive GTA 6 Cloud Streaming Rights

    It doesn't

    I think we’re all fairly familiar with the cycle of Xbox news these days: Asha Sharma sends out an internal memo or hosts a staff townhall, and the information “inexplicably” makes its way into the hands of journalists within the hour. In the latest example of corporate bluster, reported by The Verge, the new CEO has boasted about...

    • Rockstar Games
    • PS5
    • GTA
    • Grand Theft Auto
  • News Anime Racing Game Screamer's Latest PS5 Update Lets You Turn Off Its Right Stick Drifting

    Normal drifting or bust

    Earlier this year saw the launch of Screamer, one of the most interesting and unique racing games available on PS5. A new patch, available now, allows you to make it a little less interesting and unique, if you like. Announced and released today, the latest game update for Screamer can be installed now, and the main...

    • Plaion
    • PS5
    • Screamer
    • Updates
  • News The Crew Motorfest Gets a Whole New Island for Free as Its Unrivalled Post-Launch Support Continues

    A real fest for motors

    The Crew Motorfest really might be the best-supported racing game currently available, as Ubisoft and Ivory Tower continue to pump brand new stuff into the 2023 title for free. Season 11 gets underway starting today, 7th October 2026, and it's a big one; it adds Kaua'i, another Hawaiian island you're free to explore, and...

    • Ubisoft
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • The Crew
    • Updates

Tuesday6th Oct 2026

  • News PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace, and Sony Must Be Sweating

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    A game of cat-and-mouse between Sony and hackers is very much underway, as the PS5 has been jailbroken to a massive degree in the past week. Legally we’re walking on thin ice here, but we can report on a new jailbreak which opens up the console, as long as it’s running firmware v7.00 through v13.60. Firmware v13.60 was...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Hardware
  • News 'This Needs to Change': PS5 Influencer Regains Access to Account, But Admits 'Not Many Have My Reach'

    "No one deserves this"

    Earlier this year there was a big hullabaloo about a social engineering scam, impacting dozens upon dozens of PlayStation players. The story hit the news in a big way when longtime podcaster Colin Moriarty had his account boosted, leading to widespread panic in the community. While the Sacred Symbols host was

    • Sony
    • Security
    • Industry
  • News October 2026 PS Plus Essential Games Available to Download Now

    You can download until 2nd November

    Right on time, another batch of PS Plus Essential games have been added to Sony’s service, which are yours to claim and keep for as long as you remain a member. October 2026’s selection includes sim racing, acclaimed multiplayer action, and some unorthodox voxel-based gunplay – an eclectic mix, to say the...

    • PS Plus
    • PS5
    • PS4
  • News PS1 Obscurity Spectral Tower, Perhaps The Longest "Kusoge" Ever Made, Is Now Playable In English

    Time Extension Got 500 hours to spare?

    The rare and rubbish PS1 RPG Spectral Tower has been translated into English, and is now ready and raring to go for all players looking to have a tedious, endless adventure. The patch, crafted by a team of homebrewers, arrives just in time for the dubious title's 30th anniversary. Released in 1996, Spectral Tower is an RPG...

    • PlayStation
    • PS1
    • RPGs
    • Japan
    • Modding