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Poll What Review Score Would You Give Metal Gear Solid Delta?
Delta skelter
Well, the original Metal Gear Solid 3 is one of the highest rated PS2 games ever released, so it's safe to say that its PS5 remake, Metal Gear Solid Delta, has big shoes to fill. Delta got off to a great start with critics, commanding some of the highest review scores of 2025 so far, but it feels as though the remake didn't hit quite...
Poll Are You Playing Hollow Knight: Silksong?
This is not a drill
If you can even believe that such a thing is possible, Hollow Knight: Silksong has arrived. Yes, that Silksong, the Hollow Knight sequel that's been in development for 1,000 years. In truth, it's been a whirlwind couple of weeks. Silksong hit us with a teaser during Geoff Keighley's Gamescom Opening Night Live, and then it...
Poll Are You Sold on 007 First Light?
Let there be Light
PlayStation's just given us a lengthy look at 007 First Light thanks to a dedicated State of Play broadcast, but as always, we want to know your thoughts on what was shown. In case you haven't been keeping up, this is the James Bond outing from Hitman developer IO Interactive, and while the project clearly shares some DNA with...
Preview Why 007 First Light Is the Most Exciting Game of 2026
From Hitman to Her Majesty
007 First Light’s debut demo left us both shaken and stirred. You’ll no doubt be reading this breathless after Sony’s latest State of Play presentation, but we’ve had a little over a week to process our reaction to IO Interactive’s latest. In a nutshell? This upcoming effort, due out on 27th March, is sitting...
Live Watch the 007 First Light State of Play Livestream Here
Tune in for 30+ minutes of James Bond gameplay
More than likely to most people's surprise, Sony announced it is putting on a special State of Play livestream focusing entirely on upcoming James Bond game 007 First Light. The show will be all about this single game and won't feature any other announcements. Tune in for over 30 minutes of 007 First...
Guide These 18+ New PS5, PS4, and PS Plus Games Are Coming Out This Week (1st-7th September)
Hollow Knight: Silksong! Cronos: The New Dawn! Hell Is Us! NBA 2K26!
It's an unfathomably huge week for new releases as we march into September. With over 18 titles to choose from, this week's list is not padded out with filler. The highlights include Hell Is Us, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Cronos: The New Dawn, and NBA 2K26 just to name a few. That's...
Poll What Are Your Thoughts on Metal Gear Solid 5, 10 Years Later?
The biggest Boss
Ten whole years ago today, Hideo Kojima released his final game under the Konami umbrella. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain endured an infamously tumultuous development cycle, and the finished product still divides opinion a full decade from launch. In many ways, The Phantom Pain was meant to cap the iconic series off, but in...
Feature Last Chance to Grab These 35+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's PlayStation Indies Sale
PS5 and PS4 games we recommend in the latest sale
The PlayStation Indies sale is live right now, but you only have until Wednesday 3rd September 2025 before it comes to a close. As always, there are thousands of games included, so browsing for the best stuff can be a little tricky. We're here to help, though; in this list, we have a slightly more...
Poll Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for September 2025?
Plus or minus?
The base PS Plus Essential tier of Sony's subscription service has picked up some steam over the past few months, with a strong streak of monthly PS5, PS4 games for members to play. Does the September 2025 keep the momentum going? That's what this Poll is designed to find out. From Tuesday, 2nd September, you can redeem and download...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 596
We go again
As the weather starts to change and the kids go back to school, the release schedule is honestly getting chaotic. Here's what we're playing. Jamie O'Neill: My mind might be playing tricks on me, but I swear that my PS5's power indicator light briefly flashed from blue to green when I first inserted my Gears of War: Reloaded disc!...
Poll Are You Playing Metal Gear Solid Delta?
Not for honour, but for you
Metal Gear Solid 3 is widely considered an all-time classic, and so it's easy to understand the excitement surrounding Metal Gear Solid Delta, in all of its remade glory. Crafted by Virtuos, the same (massive) third-party company that brought us The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered earlier in the year, Delta is out...
Feature 15+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in PS Store's Weekend Offer
Limited time deals we recommend
Sony is going ham on PS Store discounts right now. Not only are the PlayStation Indies sale and the Ready, Set, Play sale both live at the moment, it's now set in motion a Weekend Offer. As the name suggests, the Weekend Offer is only available from now until the end of 1st September 2025, so there's
Preview Lumines Arise on PS5 Is the Eye-Popping Glow-Up the Series Deserves
Glitter bomb
While it isn't a household name in the same way Tetris is, Lumines can stand proudly alongside it as one of the great falling-block puzzle games. The two series share an interesting connection, perhaps best represented by Tetris Effect — a combination of the game's timeless line-clearing gameplay with the audiovisual splendour that...
Preview The New LEGO Batman Plays Like Arkham, Brilliantly Rebuilt in Bricks
Bricking bat
It’s been 10 long years since Batman: Arkham Knight, a title which was undeniably divisive in its day. We simply didn’t know how good we had it at the time. After a decade out in the wilderness working on the disastrous Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, there is word that UK developer Rocksteady may finally be turning its...
Preview Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Already Feels Like a Respectable Rival to Mario Kart World
Gotta go fast
Time has been kind to Sumo Digital’s iconic PS3 and PS Vita kart racer Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. The multi-discipline arcade racer – which pulled liberally from SEGA’s back catalogue and found you piloting jet-skis and airplanes as well as cars – is often mentioned in the same breath as Mario Kart, the genre’s...
Round Up The Outer Worlds 2 Could Be One of the Best RPGs of the Year, Say Positive Previews
Get Outer here
A couple of months ago, developer Obsidian said that its main goal with The Outer Worlds 2 was to make the sequel a much more involved experience in terms of player choice. Basically, it wanted to put the RP back in RPG. And looking at the latest previews of the October-bound sci-fi title, that's exactly what the team has managed to...
Preview The Outer Worlds 2 Doubles Down on RPG Gameplay to Great Effect
More money, more problems?
We recently managed to play through the opening hour of The Outer Worlds 2, where we got a feel for gameplay, a peep at the far glitzier graphics, and tested out the foundations of its RPG leanings. We walked away not entirely won over, but certainly intrigued to play more. Our play time with the game was on the Xbox...
Preview Denshattack Is a Dreamcast Era Throwback Mostly Riding the Right Rails
All aboard the DC Xpress
Denshattack looks and plays like a long-lost Dreamcast game. That’s probably the greatest compliment we can pay to Spanish studio Undercoders’ latest effort, because we still have fond memories of that early 2000s era of SEGA software, like Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi. For the uninitiated, this is a train game – but...
Preview Anime-Inspired Arcade Racer Screamer Is the Genre's Most Exciting in Over a Decade
Scream if you wanna go faster
Sometimes a game grabs you by the balls and makes you realise it’s what you’ve been yearning for all along. Screamer, the upcoming anime-inspired PS5 racer from industrious Italian developer Milestone, is that game. This is the sequel to an ancient PC arcade racer, which was notable for pushing the limits of...
Poll Are You Playing Gears of War: Reloaded on PS5?
Welcome to the endgame
What a weird timeline we live in. Today marks the release of Gears of War: Reloaded... on PlayStation. Or PS5, to be more specific. Once an uncontested bastion of the Xbox brand, the original Gears of War set an all-new bar for third-person shooters back in the day. Here we are close to two decades later, however, and we're...
Preview Train Sim World 6 Finally Goes Fully Global in Its Sixth Iteration
But not necessarily at launch
One of the biggest complaints we’ve had with Train Sim World since its inception is that its definition of the globe has largely focused on the UK, Germany, and USA. While we appreciate these are probably the biggest markets for the game, we’ve always been eager for the franchise to live up to its namesake. To...
Preview Hellraiser PS5's Sexual Horror Is Pushing Its M Rating to the Max
Pain for pleasure
Within the opening ten minutes of our Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival demo, we’d seen protagonists Aidan and Sunny f*cking while sticking pins in each other and seductively cutting each other with sharp objects. Hellraiser is a franchise known for being horny, and the game is not shying away from that. This is a deeply...
Guide These 14+ New PS5, PS4 Games Are Coming Out This Week (25th-31st August)
Gears of War! Metal Gear Solid! Lost Soul Aside! Shinobi!
Now we're in the thrust of it, folks! The release schedule is utterly insane from here on out, with new titles dropping at an unthinkable pace. The big highlights this week are obvious: Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Gears of War: Reloaded, Lost Soul Aside, and Shinobi: Art of...
Preview Rolling the Dice on PS5's Next Big Gacha, the Anime Open World RPG NTE
Zenless zone hero
Genshin Impact has a lot to answer for. Like the many dark fantasy Soulslikes that seem to be releasing every single week, anime gacha games have become a genre all of their own. There are dozens of them now, from Zenless Zone Zero to Wuthering Waves and everything in between. Neverness to Everness, or NTE for convenience, is...
Preview Masters of the Brawliverse! The New Retro He-Man Game Hits Hard
The ultimate Eternian beat-'em-up
We’re in a golden era for retro-style arcade games, and UK studio Bitmap Bureau is one of the many devs leading the way. Its upcoming effort, the mouthy He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction, is being developed concurrently with the highly anticipated Terminator 2D: No Fate – two...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 595
All systems go
After a quiet summer period, video games are starting to come out again, and Gamescom is in full swing as its two big weekend days open the doors to the public. Here are the games occupying our time this Saturday and Sunday. Aaron Bayne: With some early access granted, I'll be checking out The Outer Worlds 2 this weekend. Jamie...
Guide 45+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in PS Store's Gamescom Promotion Sale (North America/Europe)
PS5 and PS4 games going cheap we recommend
With Gamescom around the corner, the PS Store's latest sale promotes the upcoming exhibition, bringing down prices on lots of PS5 and PS4 games. Running from now until 27th August, there are so many discounts to browse through that it can be hard finding the good stuff. As always, we're here to highlight...
Hands On Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter Feels Like a Huge Step Forward for Falcom's RPG Series
Sky high
We've been saying this for a good few months now, but Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter really is shaping up to be one of this year's best RPGs. For those totally out of the loop, this is a complete remake of the first game in Falcom's long-running Trails franchise. What was once a sprite-based adventure is now a fully 3D revival sporting a...
Preview Pragmata Goes Full Anime in Extended Gameplay Demo, And We Love It
Hacking our way through a few more minutes of Capcom's shooter
What else is there to say about Pragmata? We recently had the opportunity to play an extended gameplay demo of the upcoming Capcom shooter, and we still think it’s D’s knees. (D for Diana, the little android girl who’s on your back. Geddit?! Whatever.) The point is this is...
Preview Capcom's Onimusha: Way of the Sword Seems Steeled for Success
We go hands-on with fantasy action
When we previously previewed Onimusha: Way of the Sword, the long-awaited successor to Capcom’s action fantasy franchise, we went out of our way to say it isn’t Dark Souls. It may seem strange to talk about what a game isn’t, but we know how all-encompassing – and, honestly, overbearing –...
Preview Here's Why Resident Evil Requiem's Tension Is Off the Charts
Our impressions after two playthroughs of Capcom's white knuckle demo
Capcom understands Resident Evil’s secret sauce, and that’s evident in this first demo of upcoming entry, Resident Evil Requiem. At a recent demo event prior to Gamescom, playing on a PS5 Pro, we were able to test out about 20 minutes of the upcoming survival horror. Except,...
Round Up What Was Announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025?
All the PS5, PS4 reveals
Gamescom is generally the most low-key showcase Geoff Keighley puts on every year, but that doesn't mean there were not any noteworthy reveals at this year's Opening Night Live event. Below you will find all the announcements relating to PS5, PS4 titles from the show. For any Nintendo and Xbox-specific reveals, please refer...
Poll How Would You Rate Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025?
Were your expectations met or not?
That's another Gamescom Opening Night Live for the record books, as Geoff Keighley hosted a roughly two-hour show packed full of gaming news and announcements. Some of the biggest headline reveals included Lords of the Fallen 2, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and the brand new game Black Myth: Zhong Kui...
Live Watch Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 Here
Tune in for Keighley's surprises
Geoff Keighley is back with the second of his three annual gaming showcases, this time in the beautiful city of Cologne, Germany. He's hosting an Opening Night Live of announcements and news before Gamescom 2025 gets underway the next day. The main show starts at 7pm BST / 11am PT / 2pm ET, with a 30-minute pre-show...
Guide What Time Is Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025?
Dates, times, and what to expect
When is Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025? Yes, it's nearly Geoff o'clock again, as Mr. Keighley's mid-year showcase kicks off the huge German video game expo once more. You can expect plenty of game announcements and updates during Opening Night Live, including many titles heading to PS5. But when is the show itself...
Guide Last Chance to Get These 15+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Weekend Offer
Some more must-have PS5 and PS4 recommendations
Sony's already running a massive Gamescom sale on the PS Store, and we've got more than 45 recommendations lined up for you on that through here. <related ids="186426"> Running now through Monday, 18th August, the s
Guide These 11+ PS5, PS4, and PS Plus Games Are Coming Out This Week (18th-24th August)
Sword of the Sea! Discounty! More!
Okay, it's getting hectic now. The release schedule may be light this week, but beyond this there's absolutely no breaks until Christmas. You've been warned. We suppose the highlight this time is Sword of the Sea, which is actually included with PS Plus Extra if you have that. Discounty is also worth a shout, we...
Poll Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for August 2025?
Plus or minus?
Alright, we don't want to jump the gun, but we've got a feeling that August 2025's PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium offering might be voted one of the year's best. For the second month in a row, Extra is made up of some really highly rated titles. Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered spearheads the selection, and it's followed by Mortal...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 594
Door to Phantomile
We're on the cusp of an avalanche of new PS5 releases, so this weekend may be your last opportunity to clear out your backlog. Here's what we're playing. Jamie O'Neill: I only have access to portable gaming for a while, so I'll boot up my PS Vita to replay one of my favourite PS1 games, which is Namco's wonderful Klonoa: Door to...
Poll What Review Score Would You Give Mafia: The Old Country?
Make us an offer
It's been a long wait for a new Mafia game; it feels like it's been an age since Mafia 3 divided opinion. But does Mafia: The Old Country succeed in getting the largely beloved series back on track? That's for you to decide. Sporting a a much more linear campaign than what was offered in Lincoln Clay's sandbox outing, The Old...
Feature Let's Predict Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025
Just for a laugh
Of Geoff Keighley's trilogy of annual video game extravaganzas, Gamescom Opening Night Live tends to be the weakest. However, that's not to say it hasn't played host to some fantastic announcements and trailers over the years. With a glimmer of hope in our collective eye and lots of potential titles that could show their face, we...
Guide Last Chance to Buy These 99+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Huge Summer Sale
PS5 and PS4 games going cheap we recommend
PS Store's massive Summer Sale is here, and as you'd expect, it's stuffed with thousands of discounts across PS5 and PS4 games and add-ons. The sale runs until 13th August 2025, so you've only a short time left to take advantage. While it's great that there are so many items included, it can be an awful...
Guide These 11+ New PS5, PS4 Games Are Coming Out This Week (11th-17th August)
Hellblade 2! Madden NFL 26! Midnight Murder Club!
The release schedule is about to get really hectic, but not this week. That said, it's clear we're approaching the end of the summer now, with several noteworthy titles this time. The biggest release in general terms is Madden NFL 26, which will be one of the best-selling games of the year. But for...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 593
The old country
We’re on the cusp of a gaming avalanche, so this may be your last proper weekend to clear through your backlog. And that’s only if you’re planning to skip some of the new releases this week, like Mafia: The Old Country. Aaron Bayne: It's all about Battlefield 6 for me this weekend. I've been loving my time with the beta so...
Round Up Ninja Gaiden 4 Sounds Like the Slick, Brutal Sequel Fans Are Hoping For
Two for two?
Ninja Gaiden has already had a moment in the sun with the very warmly received side-scrolling entry Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, but it seems the upcoming full-blown 3D action title might also do the series proud. Ninja Gaiden 4 is the first brand new numbered sequel in over a decade, and a recent round of previews are almost universally...
Game of the Month Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound (July 2025)
As voted by you
Man, if you thought June was quiet, wait until we recap the PS5 games that came out in July! Okay, that's a bit harsh. July actually had a fairly busy release schedule — it's just that there were very few heavy hitters in the mix. As such, last month was a good time to be a fan of indie titles, with a glut of smaller games...
Poll Are You Playing the Battlefield 6 Beta?
Locked and loaded
It's a big day for Battlefield fans, as the once revered first-person shooter series makes its anticipated return. Battlefield 6 has an awful lot going for it. Many would say that the franchise has had more downs than ups in recent years, but this new entry already seems to have plugged a huge hole in the military shooter market...
Preview PowerWash Simulator 2 Is Bigger, Better, and as Satisfying as Ever
Now you're washing with power
For a certain type of player, PowerWash Simulator is about as satisfying a game experience there is. Sweeping a high-pressure jet of water across absurdly filthy surfaces, carving cleanliness into objects big and small bit by bit, is a strangely meditative, rewarding way to spend your time. There's already dozens of...
Round Up Total Lack of Mafia: The Old Country PS5 Reviews Is a Red Flag
PC version is very hit and miss
The reviews for Mafia: The Old Country are in, and while the scores are somewhat positive overall, there's an obvious elephant in the room: only the PC version of the game has been reviewed. We don't want to immediately jump to any concrete conclusions, but a total lack of console review code is usually a red flag...
Guide These 5+ New PS5, PS4 Games Are Coming Out This Week (4th-10th August)
Demon Slayer! Hello Kitty! Mafia!
The summer drought is becoming more and more a thing of the past, but this week's selection of new releases doesn't exactly reinforce that line of thinking. There are only a few titles heading to PS5 and PS4 in the coming days, but having said that, there are still some interesting games among them. Mafia: The Old...
