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TodayThu, 16th Jul 2026

  • News This Wolverine PS5 Trailer Is Going to Sell a Lot of Copies This Holiday

    Running ahead of The Odyssey

    Sony’s published a CG trailer for Marvel’s Wolverine, currently running in theatres ahead of The Odyssey. I assume an edited version may also find its way in front of Spider-Man: Brand New Day – although the age rating differences could be an issue there, I suppose. The video shows Logan holding onto a...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Marvel's Wolverine
    • Trailers
  • News Claims Sony Has Disabled YouTube Comments Over Physical Disc Backlash Are Not True

    Despite reports

    There are reports doing the rounds, initially published by Kotaku, that Sony has disabled comments on its YouTube channel. This is, at the time I’m writing this, not true. Multiple trailers have been uploaded to the platform holder’s account today, all with comments enabled as far as I can tell. The one without comments...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Industry
  • Guide Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Open Beta: Start Times, How to Play, and What's Included

    All you need to know about the Marvel Tokon open beta

    We're now just a few weeks away from the launch of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, a brand-new fighting game from Sony and Arc System Works. Before its release on 6th August 2026, you'll be able to play it early with an open beta test. Running for a couple of days, you'll have the chance to check...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PC
    • Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls
    • Betas
  • News Hot Wheels: Infinite Rush Is Drifting onto PS5 Earlier Than Expected

    Dodging the traffic

    Hot Wheels: Infinite Rush is releasing earlier than initially planned. The open world arcade racing game was pencilled in for 24th September 2026, the same day as other titles like Control Resonant and Silent Hill: Townfall. Now, it's been brought forward by two weeks, launching instead on 10th September. No reason for the...

    • Milestone
    • PS5
    • Hot Wheels
    • Release Dates
  • News Dood, No Way! Disgaea Is Getting a 4-Player PS5 Party Game

    No date for the west just yet

    If you’re looking forward to next week’s Disgaea Mayhem for a slice of musou madness, then you may also be interested in NIS America’s upcoming four-player party game, Prinny Party: Going Overboard. This takes characters and concepts from the Disgaea franchise and transforms them into a loosely Mario Party-esque...

    • NIS America
    • PS5
    • Prinny Party: Going Overboard
  • News HD-2D PS5 RPG Final Fantasy Resonance Is Looking Great in This New Gameplay Trailer

    Does it resonate?

    Square Enix recently released a new trailer for its upcoming RPG Final Fantasy Resonance, and it looks pretty dang good. Here it is: Final Fantasy Resonance is a turn-based RPG that adopts the HD-2D art style, with pixelated, sprite-based characters inhabiting a 3D world. It's a complete reimagining of the free-to-play mobile...

    • Square Enix
    • PS5
    • Final Fantasy Resonance
    • Trailers
  • News With the PS3's Store Shutting Down, Emulator Claims 75% Compatibility with Console's Library

    It only does (almost) everything

    Sony will shut down the PS3’s digital storefront in July 2027, after over 20 years of support. While existing purchases will remain downloadable for the “foreseeable future”, that means some titles will no longer be available to purchase anywhere – or will become prohibitively expensive in physical format...

    • Sony
    • PS3
    • PS Store
  • News This Madcap, Chaotic Australian Football PS5 Game Is a Sports Title I Can Get Behind

    Pro Jank Footy

    I've never really gotten into sports. I don't play or watch any of them, really, although there are a handful of sporty video games I enjoy. One that could join those ranks is Pro Jank Footy, just announced for PS5 and launching on 12th August, 2026. Here's the new trailer: Pro Jank Footy is an arcade-inspired sports game based...

    • Powerbomb Games
    • PS5
    • Pro Jank Footy
  • News Sony Also Taking Pelters for Locking Crunchyroll's Store Behind a Subscription

    Wants to "capture the excitement of convention-exclusive merch"

    It’s not been a good month for Sony, who’s found itself at the butt of basically every joke since announcing its decision to cease manufacturing physical PlayStation games in 2028. Not helping matters is a decision made by subsidiary Crunchyroll, which moving forward will restrict...

    • Sony
    • Crunchyroll
    • Anime
  • News AC Black Flag Resynced Update 1.04 Available to Download Now

    Get the full patch notes list here

    Ubisoft has detailed the first major post-launch update for Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, which'll be available to download on PS5 from tomorrow, 16th July 2026. PS5 players can expect a 2.44GB patch to download, and the initial list of patch notes reads like plenty of fixes, tweaks, and improvements...

    • Ubisoft
    • PS5
    • Assassins Creed
    • Updates
  • News Look Away Now, Sony: Demand for Mortal Shell 2 in Physical Form Sees PS5 Boxed Copies Sell Out

    Unlikely to have more stock of Revered Edition for 20th August launch

    Mortal Shell 2 developer Cold Symmetry has shared it's extremely unlikely it'll be able to bring the Revered Edition of the upcoming Soulslike back into stock before the PS5 game's launch on 20th August 2026. Demand for the boxed copy has "exceeded expectations" and outstripped...

    • Playstack
    • PS5
    • Mortal Shell
  • News Fatal Fury's Season 3 Starts Next Week, Includes Two Mystery Characters on PS5, PS4

    Rick Strowd first out of the blocks

    Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves’ insane DLC cadence looks set to continue now Season 2 is complete, with a new animated trailer teasing at least four more characters. The video hints at Rick Strowd, Laocorn Gaudeamus, Duck King, and Kim Kaphwan – two of which have already been hinted at in various other...

    • SNK
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Fatal Fury
    • DLC
  • News Irate PlayStation Fans Want You to Buy Games Anywhere But PS5

    Disc debacle is really beginning to bite

    Irate PlayStation fans are now encouraging their followers to buy great third-party and indie games elsewhere, as the fallout from Sony’s decision to stop manufacturing physical discs rumbles on. As we reported recently, every time the Japanese giant promotes a game on its social media accounts, it’s...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Industry
  • News God of War Laufey's Deborah Ann Woll Feels 'Totally Unbothered' by Online Haters

    Faye enough

    God of War Laufey is the next main entry in the beloved fantasy action series, and the first to not have you play as Kratos. Instead, you control Faye, his wife and Atreus' mother, and a powerful warrior and wielder of magic. The game picks up after her death, where she finds herself in the afterlife of gods and magical beings. While...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • God of War
  • News 1 New PS Plus Extra Game Available to Download Now

    For the US, UK, and Japan

    Sony’s rejigged PS Plus Extra schedule means one of today’s newly announced games is available to download now – but only in the US, UK, and Japan. As you may recall, the Japanese giant is experimenting with a new format, which means games are added weekly in the aforementioned regions. If you’re from any other...

    • PS5
    • PS Plus
  • News Platforming Classic Rayman Origins Looks Fab in 4K on PS5

    And features PS Vita exclusive content

    Back when Ubisoft announced it was reimagining Rayman Legends for PS5, it also confirmed that 2011’s Rayman Origins would be getting an Enhanced Edition for modern hardware. And here’s our first look at it in full 4K – fancy! In truth, this looks a lot like I remember the PS3 original, which was a...

    • Ubisoft
    • PS5
    • Rayman
    • Trailers

YesterdayWed, 15th Jul 2026

  • Feature 60+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in PS Store's Massive Summer Sale

    PS5 and PS4 games going cheap we recommend

    The PS Store has embarked on its latest offer: the Summer Sale. Running from now until 12th August, this is another gigantic sale with thousands of PS5 and PS4 games going for reduced prices. In this guide, we've compiled a select list of games going cheap that we think are worth considering. Discounted...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS Store
    • Deals
  • News 9 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for July 2026 Announced

    Morphin time

    Sony has unveiled the games heading to PS Plus Extra's catalogue and PS Plus Premium's classics range for the month of July 2026. A total of 9 titles are joining the subscription service across the two tiers, and as was the case last month, their releases will be spread out over the next couple of weeks. Here are the games you can...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS Plus
  • News 'Millions of Gamers Value True Ownership': PS5, PS4 Represented Half of All UK Physical Game Revenue in 2025

    Desert discs

    Sony’s own financial data may show the share of physical games compared to digital is dwindling, but it still represents a significant sum of money. And arguing in favour of retailers, UK trade group the Entertainment Retailer’s Association has predictably hit back at the platform holder’s plans to stop manufacturing physical...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • UK
    • Industry
  • News Halo's Physical PS5 Disc Won't Play without a Download

    Campaign devolved

    If you were hoping to pick up a physical copy of Halo: Campaign Evolved on PS5, take heed: the game won't be playable straight off the disc. Another example of something that's becoming an increasingly common trend, you'll need to pull a "content download" before jumping into Master Chief's very first PlayStation excursion. This...

    • Xbox Game Studios
    • PS5
    • Halo
  • News PS3's inFAMOUS 2 Sees an Explosion of New Players with Platinum About to Become Unobtainable

    The good Cole days

    Sucker Punch’s classic PS3 superhero game inFAMOUS 2 will disable its online features on 31st August, sending players flooding back to New Marais to wrap up their Platinum Trophy pursuit. Trophy website PSN Profiles pegs the title as the 10th most played PlayStation game on its servers over the past week, and while this only...

    • Sony
    • PS3
    • inFAMOUS
  • News Heavy Rain Dev's PS2 Classic Indigo Prophecy Getting PS5 Re-Release

    Included with PS Plus Premium this month

    Heavy Rain maker Quantic Dream will re-release its wildly ambitious PS2 adventure game Indigo Prophecy – better known as Fahrenheit in Europe – on the PS5 later this month. The game, already available on the PS Store as part of Sony’s PS2-to-PS4 program, will be updated in the platform holder’s new...

    • Quantic Dream
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS2
    • Indigo Prophecy
  • Review Denshattack (PS5) - This Ridiculous Train Game Is Off the Rails in the Best Ways

    The little game that could

    Denshattack is exactly the sort of bold, unique, over-the-top nonsense that was rife in the PS2, Dreamcast era, and I love it for that alone. This silly arcade action title revels in its bonkers premise and frenetic style, and it's impossible not to get caught up in the fun. How could anyone resist a game in which you...

    • Reviews
    • Fireshine Games
    • PS5
    • Denshattack
  • News New Tides of Annihilation Gameplay at Gamescom, PS5 Action Title to Go on Tour

    Hands-on demo locks in Gamescom date

    Tides of Annihilation will be playable in Europe for the first time next month, as Eclipse Glow Games has announced it'll have a hands-on demo for Gamescom attendees to play in Cologne, Germany. With slots open to press and it being publicly available on the show floor, you can expect a lot more gameplay to hit...

    • Eclipse Glow Games
    • PS5
    • Tides of Annihilation
  • News 'We're Excited to Support the Dev of Memorable Experiences': Ex-Xbox Dev Looking for Work

    Compulsion Games "expanding opportunities to collaborate"

    It seems like South of Midnight maker Compulsion Games, formerly part of Xbox Game Studios and recently spun-off as an independent entity, will keep the lights on by offering support services for other devs. As part of a LinkedIn statement, the studio said it’s “expanding op

    • Compulsion Games
    • Industry
  • News Ratchet & Clank Mobile Game Is Gearing Up for Global Launch, Pre-Registration Open

    Ranger Rumble coming soon

    Sony has announced that its upcoming mobile game, Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble, is making its global launch soon, with users of iOS and Android devices now able to pre-register. The game has been playable in specific territories like Canada, the Nordics, France, and Asia, but is almost ready to make its full launch. You...

    • Sony
    • Mobile
    • Ratchet & Clank
  • News Anticipated RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker Goes Gold 7 Weeks Before PS5 Release

    Dev's been working dusk till dawn

    The release of The Blood of Dawnwalker on 3rd September signals the start of a hellish period for new games – heck, it’s out just 24 hours before Capcom’s new Onimusha effort. But it looks like dev Rebel Wolves is at least prepared for the chaos that’s about to ensue: the anticipated RPG has gone gold...

    • Bandai Namco
    • PS5
    • The Blood of Dawnwalker

Tuesday14th Jul 2026

  • Guide GTA Online Guide: Your Ultimate Wiki and Walkthrough Resource

    Everything you need to know about GTA 5's multiplayer mode

    Welcome to our GTA Online guide, your ultimate wiki and walkthrough resource for Rockstar's enormous open world multiplayer game. In our GTA 5 PS5 review, we awarded the release an 8/10 and concluded there's "nothing quite like the crime caper". In this guide, we'll help you get your Los...

    • Guides
    • GTA
    • GTA Online
    • Grand Theft Auto
    • PS5
  • News Sony's Social Media Still Toxic Two Weeks After PS5 Discs Debacle

    What a mess

    It’s been two weeks since Sony announced its intent to stop manufacturing physical discs, a story which has undeniably dominated the games industry – even in the wake of mass layoffs at Xbox. And the storm is beginning to reach its partners, none of which can promote their games without seeing a wave of responses from irate fans...

    • Sony
    • PS6
    • PS5
    • Industry
  • News PS5's Call of Duty: Black Ops Port Reportedly Riddled with Hackers

    Blooper

    If there’s one thing well-known about the original Call of Duty: Black Ops, it’s that it’s hacked to bits on the PS3. While it hasn’t put a whole lot of effort into the port, one positive of Activision re-releasing the title on PS5 and PS4 is that it promised new servers – and surely some fixes to those old exploits, right? Nah,...

    • Activision
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Call of Duty
  • News Sony's FlexStrike PS5 Fight Stick Delayed Indefinitely, Now Launches After Marvel Tokon

    Fight to make it right

    FlexStrike, PlayStation's official fight stick peripheral, has been delayed indefinitely. In an update to a PS Blog post on the upcoming hardware, Sony confirms the fight stick will no longer launch on 6th August, 2026 — crucially, the same day as Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls. "Due to unexpected production delays,...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • FlexStrike
    • Hardware
    • Delays
  • News One of 2026's Most Addictive PS5 Games Is Even Bigger and Better with Latest Free Update

    Vampire Crawlers improved and expanded

    Vampire Crawlers, the dungeon-crawling, card-battling spin on Vampire Survivors, is getting a bunch of new content throughout the rest of the year, Poncle and Nosebleed Interactive have announced. Following the game's launch in April, the dev team has now released a content roadmap for 2026, teasing a wide...

    • Poncle
    • PS5
    • Vampire Crawlers
    • Updates
  • News Monster Hunter Wilds Gets Permanent Price Cut Next Month Alongside 'Streamlined' Digital Editions

    Wild times

    Publisher Capcom has announced some changes coming to its digital offerings of Monster Hunter Wilds. The main thing that'll be of interest to most is that the base game is getting its price permanently reduced. It currently goes for $69.99/£64.99 on the PS Store, but as of 4th August, 2026, this price tag will shrink. Capcom hasn't yet...

    • Capcom
    • PS5
    • Monster Hunter Wilds
  • News Refunds for Dying Light 2 PS4 Users as The Beast Is Cancelled for Last-Gen System

    Was originally promised in Dying Light 2 season pass

    Techland has shared it will be providing some form of refund to owners of the PS4 version of Dying Light 2, as the team has cancelled the last-gen port of Dying Light: The Beast. This is because when Dying Light 2 originally launched, it sold a season pass promising two pieces of DLC. The first...

    • Techland
    • PS4
    • Dying Light
  • News Gawrsh! Kingdom Hearts 'Deep Dive' Locked for D23 Next Month

    Commemorating 25 years of Square Enix franchise

    Disney’s biennial D23 fan event will offer a “deep dive into Kingdom Hearts” on 15th August, potentially hinting at new info on the upcoming Kingdom Hearts 4. While the blurb doesn’t explicitly mention the latest instalment in the Square Enix RPG, the timing fits given the re-emergence of the...

    • Square Enix
    • PS5
    • Kingdom Hearts
    • D23
  • News Mouse: P.I. For Hire Surpasses One Million Copies Sold as It Launches Physical Edition on PS5

    Should squeak out a few more

    Mouse: P.I. for Hire is a hit; it's now been announced by publisher PlaySide that the black-and-white detective adventure has exceeded sales of 1 million units. Developer Fumi Games celebrated this milestone with a social post, complete with new art: "From the bottom of our grinning hearts, thank you so much for all...

    • PlaySide
    • PS5
    • MOUSE: P.I. For Hire
    • Sales

Monday13th Jul 2026

  • Feature Last Chance to Buy These 60+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's July Savings Sale

    Cheap PS5 and PS4 games we recommend

    The PS Store's big July Savings sale is now live, though only for a couple more days until 15th July 2026. As is always the case, this offer is enormous, with thousands of PS5 and PS4 games available at discounted prices. Picking through all of that can be tough, so we've compiled this list of games that we...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS Store
    • Deals
  • News July 2026 PS Plus Premium Game Has Already Been Confirmed

    You can uncover The Mindgate Conspiracy next week

    Sony will be revealing the lineup of PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium games for July 2026 this week, on Wednesday, but you don't need to wait for the official announcement to know the Classic title coming this month. The platform holder actually already confirmed what July 2026 has to offer on PS...

    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS Plus
  • News Bully's Spiritual Successor Playing Truant on PS5, Console Release Date to Be Announced Later

    "Remember the time we realised Thriller was our favourite song?"

    Janky American Pie-inspired high school sim Agefield High: Rock the School will deploy on PC from 12th August, with a “console release date to be announced later”. This spiritual successor to Bully, inspired by the raunchy teen comedies of the late 90s and early 00s, will see you...

    • Perp Games
    • PS5
    • Agefield High
  • Guide These 13+ PS5 Games Are Coming Out This Week (13th-19th July)

    Denshattack! eBaseball! Cthulhu! More!

    We're still not quite into the thick end of the release schedule just yet, but there's a few games coming this week that are worth paying attention to. I'm particularly looking forward to the Dreamcast-style train game Denshattack and the musical management sim K-Pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut. Your mileage...

    • Guides
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Release Dates
    • Features
  • Mini Review Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (PS5) - Overcharged for a Multiplayer Classic

    Rip-ops

    If you haven’t already read my Call of Duty: Black Ops PS5 review, here’s the TL;DR: it’s a rip-off. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 on PS5 is also a rip-off, carrying the exact same issues and drawbacks. It’s completely overpriced, the DLC is a separate purchase, and it’s a straight port of a 14-year-old game — you don’t get any...

    • Reviews
    • Activision
    • PS5
    • Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
    • Mini Reviews
  • News Here Come the Lawsuits! Sony's Physical Disc Debacle Likely to Keep Its Lawyers Busy

    Manufacturer already fighting multiple lawsuits

    If you’re a lawyer working for Sony’s legal department, you may want to rest up while you have the opportunity – a multitude of lawsuits are coming your way. The platform holder – already battling various suits around the world regarding its control of the PS Store – is about to be faced...

    • Sony
    • PS6
    • PS5
    • Industry
    • Legal
  • Guide An Introduction To Another Century's Episode, FromSoftware's A.C.E. In The Hole

    Time Extension You should "mecha" dash for this series

    One of the lesser-known but equally fantastic FromSoftware mecha games that started out on the PlayStation 2 is the Another Century’s Episode series. Effectively meant as an action version of Super Robot Wars, which featured disparate mecha from various anime all fighting together, it mostly focused on real...

    • Guides
    • Another Century's Episode
  • News DOOM PS5 DLC Quietly Becomes One of 2026's Best-Rated Releases

    Revelations gets a 90 on Opencritic

    You might not have noticed, but a new piece of PS5 content currently rated higher than Resident Evil Requiem launched last week: the new DOOM expansion Revelations. The piece of DLC currently commands an Opencritic rating of 90, making it the sixth highest-rated title of 2026 so far on the site's Hall of Fame...

    • Bethesda
    • PS5
    • DOOM
    • DLC
  • News Staff Protest as MindsEye Studio Hosts 'Extravagant' Fan Playtest Following Mass Layoffs

    "A kick in the teeth"

    Build A Rocket Boy, the development studio behind MindsEye, is in hot water with staff after hosting a playtest for fans. Over the weekend, current and former staff members of the developer protested outside its Edinburgh headquarters. According to the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), the company organised an...

    • Build a Rocket Boy
    • PS5
    • MindsEye
  • News Halo Ready for PS5 Debut, Campaign Evolved Goes Gold

    Ahead of 28th July release

    Master Chief is ready to make his very first appearance on a PlayStation console, as it's been revealed Halo: Campaign Evolved has now gone gold ahead of its 28th July 2026 release on PS5. The phrase "going gold" means Halo Studios has finished work on the 1.0 version of the game, and can now turn its full attention to...

    • Xbox Game Studios
    • PS5
    • Halo
  • News Bomberman's Brilliant Retro Compilation Adds an 8th Game for Free on PS5

    Konami dropping bombs

    Konami’s superb Super Bomberman Collection is already one of the best retro compilations you can buy on the PS5, but it’s about to get even better on 20th August. A free update on the aforementioned date will add an eighth game to the bundle: Panic Bomber W. This 1995 title was only available in Japan until 2017, when it...

    • Konami
    • PS5
    • Bomberman
    • Updates
  • News You'll Need to Play Pokémon Dev's Beast of Reincarnation Twice for All the PS5 Trophies

    Gotta catch 'em all

    Game Freak, the dev studio behind the ever-popular Pokémon series, is gearing up to launch something entirely different on PS5 with Beast of Reincarnation, and the Trophy list has now emerged online. Via PSNProfiles, the list of digital trinkets is now viewable ahead of the action RPG's arrival on 4th August 2026, and it gives...

    • Fictions
    • PS5
    • Beast of Reincarnation
    • Trophies
  • News 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Korean Detective Game Coming to PS5 Next Month

    Can you solve the case?

    Korean indie game No Case Should Remain Unsolved is coming to the PS5 on 19th August, having already received “overwhelmingly positive” reviews on PC and Switch a couple of years ago. The game, made by Somi, is a “story-driven” narrative adventure where you must “piece together scattered testimonies like a jigsaw...

    • Playism
    • PS5
    • No Case Should Remain Unsolved
    • Announcements

Sunday12th Jul 2026