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Thursday9th Oct 2025
Review Absolum (PS5) - Dragon's Crown and Hades Combine in Stunning Beat-'Em-Up
Arcana believe it
Roguelike games are everywhere these days, to the point where you're actually surprised when the latest indie release isn't peddling death as a progression mechanic. It's a dreadfully crowded genre, but if there's any roguelike that deserves your attention this year, it's Absolum. Fusing the core gameplay of a side-scrolling...
- Reviews
- Dotemu
- PS5
- Absolum
Game of the Month Silent Hill F (September 2025)
As voted by you
September was a seriously stacked month for new PS5 releases, to the point where you could quite easily argue that it was the best of the year so far. Okay, so October looks like it'll give September a real run for its money, but we've handed out loads of review scores over the last 30 days or so. Obviously, we need to start with...
- Game of the Month
- PS5
- Polls
- Features
News Just What Is Going on with Sony and Indie Dev Giant Squid?
Sword of the SIE
There’s been some speculation overnight that Sony may have strengthened its relationship with indie developer Giant Squid. The ever-eagle eyed Gematsu noticed both the platform holder and Santa Monica studio filed a joint European trademark for the game Sword of the Sea, which recently released to rave reviews.
- Sony
- Giant Squid
- PS5
- Sword of the Sea
Now you're the critic
Sony’s rolled out an update for the PS Store which allows you to write and submit full-length reviews. Only accessible on the web-based storefront for now, the new feature has been in testing for quite some time, but is now available to everyone. It allows you to submit a 4,000-character review to go with your rating, which...
- Sony
- PS5
- PS4
- PS Store
News Ghost of Yotei Follows in Tsushima's Footsteps, Dominates Japanese Charts on PS5
Mountainous
Ghost of Yotei looks set to be a bit of a blockbuster in Japan, as its initial sales figures have just been revealed. According to the latest Famitsu software charts (as reported by Gematsu), the PS5 exclusive shot straight to number one, shifting 120,196 copies. As always, it should be pointed out that these Japanese charts only count...
- Sony
- PS5
- Ghost of Yotei
- Japan
- Sales
News Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Rebirth Get a Physical PS5 Double Pack on 3 Discs
Out on 4th December
Square Enix has announced a physical release of the Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth double pack (which it currently offers digitally) shall release on 4th December 2025. The two RPGs are bundled together across three Blu-Ray discs, and pre-orders are live now on the Square Enix Store. Costing...
- Square Enix
- PS5
- Final Fantasy
News Want More Silent Hill on PS5? You May Not Have to Wait Long
Townfall awaits
Are you loving Silent Hill F? The release has been fighting hard for our Game of the Month award, and has been attracting acclaim all over social media since its release. But if you’ve completed the campaign, you may be wondering what’s next? Well, rumour has it Silent Hill: Townfall may not be far away. While the source is...
- Konami
- PS5
- Silent Hill
- Rumours
News PS5 Animal Crossing Clones Are Now Just Blatant Rip-Offs of the Nintendo Series
Say hello to Anime Village Online
Would you believe us if we told you the lead image for this article was a screenshot of Animal Crossing: New Horizons? We're willing to bet you would, but it's actually not: this is Anime Village Online, an actual game you can wishlist now on the PS Store, with a target release date of 2027. Here's the pitch from...
- Wisnu Sudirman
- PS5
- Anime Village Online
News Zangief's New Look in Street Fighter 6 Really Didn't Need to Go This Hard
Introducing Mech Zangie-F
We already knew Zangief would be getting his Outfit 4 at part of next week’s big Street Fighter 6 update, from 15th October. (Which also includes C. Viper as a new DLC character.) But man, Mech Zangie-F really didn’t need to go this hard. He looks like a cross between the Russian grappler and Jack-8 from Tekken 8...
- Capcom
- PS5
- PS4
- Street Fighter
- DLC
News PS4's Record-Setting US Sales Pace Is Being Comfortably Beaten by Switch 2
5% ahead over first three months
PS4 is no longer the fastest-selling console in the US, according to Circana sales data. As we touched upon earlier in the week, over its first three months on the market, the Switch 2 has beaten Sony’s sales record by 5%. According to analyst Mat Piscatella, writing on
- Sony
- PS4
- Nintendo
- Sales
- Hardware
News Troubled Hyper Light Drifter Dev Cuts Losses with New Game, Confirms Layoffs
Hyper Light Heart Breaker
Heart Machine, the talented studio behind 2016 indie gem Hyper Light Drifter and the eye-popping Solar Ash, has confirmed that it's making an unspecified number of layoffs. The developer launched its ongoing project, Hyper Light Breaker, into early access on PC at the start of the year. However, the Hyper Light Drifter...
- Heart Machine
- Industry
News New Game+ Headlines Indiana Jones PS5 Update, Out Tomorrow
All for MachineGames' 15th birthday
Wolfenstein, Indiana Jones developer MachineGames turns 15 this month, and to celebrate, it's releasing a new update for the latter that adds New Game+, additional voice language options, and the Cairo outfit. The Swedish studio shares more details in the video above. These additions answer community requests as...
- Bethesda
- PS5
- Indiana Jones
- Updates
News Konami Is on a Roll! Wins Back-to-Back Players' Choice Awards on PS Blog
On the ascent
Has any publisher won back-to-back Players’ Choice awards on the PS Blog before? We’re not going to sift through the entire history of the fan voted poll, but we reckon it’s unlikely. Konami has just pulled it off, though, following up Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater’s success in August with Silent Hill F in September...
- Konami
- PS5
- Silent Hill
- Metal Gear Solid
News This Year's Fortnitemares Has an All-Star Lineup on PS5, PS4
Scooby Doo! Doja Cat! Jason Voorhees! Ghostface! More!
If you haven’t played Fortnite for a while, then there’s truly never been a better time to get back into it. Alongside the recent addition of Kpop Demon Hunters – and the strongly rumoured Springfield map – Epic has announced the latest rendition of Fortnitemare
- Epic Games
- PS5
- PS4
- Fortnite
Wednesday8th Oct 2025
News Black Ops 6 Trial Will Let You Play the Full Single Player Story for Free on PS5, PS4
Why not?
You’d think Activision would be all-in on promoting Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 – especially after its relatively tame beta – but it’s actually putting a bunch of energy behind last year’s Black Ops 6 right now. Alongside a massive content drop as part of the pr
- Activision
- PS5
- PS4
- Call of Duty
News Next Expedition 33 Update Adds New Area, Bosses, Outfits for Free
As the RPG reaches five million sales
Sandfall Interactive today announced Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has now sold five million copies in five months, and to celebrate, an upcoming update will add a new location, late-game bosses, and new character outfits for free. There's no word on when the PS5 patch will be released, but here's what it'll...
- Kepler Interactive
- PS5
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Updates
News Now Xbox Owns Call of Duty, Sony's Investing Its Marketing Budget into Battlefield 6 Instead
Let them fight
Prior to Xbox’s acquisition of Activision, Sony would invest ungodly sums of money into Call of Duty’s marketing. This year, it’s decided to put that money behind rival Battlefield 6 instead, and the marketing is beginning to appear all around the world. For example, this billboard spotted in Hollywood shows the key art from...
- EA
- PS5
- Battlefield
- Marketing
News People Don't Buy Anywhere Near As Many Games As You Think
"Hyper enthusiasts are keeping things going"
Think about how many games release every single month. And then consider that more than 60% of US players purchase fewer than two new releases per year. It doesn’t really make economical sense, does it? And it’s why we often frown at the idea of publishers making shorter, cheaper software so we can...
- USA
- Sales
- Industry
Mini Review Yooka-Replaylee (PS5) - A Second Draft Worthy of the Banjo-Kazooie Comparisons
Turn the pagie
When Yooka-Laylee was released in 2017, it was a fine game. Many came in extremely excited for it but were largely let down overall; it turned out to be pretty middling at best. With that said, Yooka-Replaylee brings in a second draft that improves on almost everything. This isn’t a mere remaster — this is a revitalization that...
- Reviews
- PM Studios
- PS5
- Yooka-Replaylee
- Mini Reviews
News Dead Space's Isaac Clarke Is Now in Skate, And He Costs More Than His PS5 Remake
Daily grind
Beloved Dead Space protagonist Isaac Clarke has joined the world of EA’s free-to-play Skate reboot as a skin – but he’ll cost you more than his recent PS5 remake to buy. The full bundle, available for around two weeks at the time of writing, includes the following in-game items: Engineer Rig Skin Slasher Deck Isaac’s...
- EA Sports
- PS5
- PS4
- Skate
News Almost 5,000 PS5, PS4 Games Discounted in Player's Choice Sale
Here we go again
Another gargantuan PS Store sale has hit Sony’s servers, with almost 5,000 games discounted this time. The deals – which will run through 22nd October – are part of the Player’s Choice promotion, which according to the PS Blog celebrates “award-winning adventures, cult classics, and fan-favourite franchises”. While you...
- Sony
- PS5
- PS4
- PS Store
- Deals
Rumour American Civil War Assassin's Creed Game Cancelled Due to Fear of Controversy
War never changes
An Assassin's Creed game set during and after the American Civil War? It apparently existed, according to a fresh report from Game File. We write 'existed' because the project was apparently cancelled last year, and the details are only just starting to drip out of Ubisoft. More specifically, this would have been the most modern...
- Ubisoft
- Assassins Creed
- Rumours
News New PS Plus Game Alan Wake 2 Offers All Its DLC at a Bargain Price
Just £4.50 / $6 for the Deluxe Upgrade
One of 2023's best games, Alan Wake 2, is now part of PS Plus Essential. The base PS5 game is special, but if you're already eyeing up the two pieces of DLC for the full experience, you're in luck: they're on sale now. As part of today's new PS Store Player's Choice Sale, the Deluxe Upgrade option for the g
- Remedy
- PS5
- Alan Wake
Review Little Nightmares III (PS5) - Faithful Sequel Keeps It Creepy, But Plays It Safe
Better off Alone
Playing through Little Nightmares III feels like slipping back into a familiar dream, one longtime fans will recognise the moment it begins. Supermassive Games hasn’t tried to reinvent the series in any wild way, opting instead to mirror the grotesque horror and endearing puzzles that have defined Little Nightmares from the...
- Reviews
- Bandai Namco
- PS5
- Little Nightmares III
News Nifty New PS5 Merch Spotlights Some of Sony's Most Beloved Brands
All arriving in Walmart
Sony may be shutting down its official PlayStation Gear store, but merch is becoming an increasingly important part of its business. It’s no surprise, then, it’s partnering with Walmart on a bunch of exclusive items inspired by some of its most beloved brands. These products will be available both online and in select...
- Sony
- PS5
- Merchandise
- USA
News Aug 2025 USA Sales: Massive Month for Single Player Games, PS5 Can't Catch Switch 2
Helldivers 2 doesn't chart on Xbox, but could be an error
August 2025 was a big month for single player games, with both Mafia: The Old Country and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater charting third and fourth respectively on the all-formats best-sellers list. Neither game could overcome NBA 2K26 or Madden NFL 26 as you’d expect, but these are...
- USA
- Sales
- Charts
- PS5
- PS4
Tuesday7th Oct 2025
News First PS Plus Extra Game for October 2025 Leaked
It's another strong PS5 addition
Last year's excellent PS5 remake, Silent Hill 2, will headline the PS Plus Extra game lineup for October 2025, according to reliable leaker BillBil-Kun. Shared in a Dealabs report, they state the Bloober Team and Konami title is heading to PlayStation's middle subscription tier. This month's selection is scheduled...
- PS5
- PS4
- PS Plus
- Leaks
News October 2025 PS Plus Essential Games Available to Download Now
Alan Wake 2 joins PS Plus today
You've been made to wait longer than usual because of the way the calendar has fallen over the past few weeks, but the three new PS Plus Essential games for October 2025 are now finally available to download now. It's actually been a while since the PS5, PS4 lineup was revealed, so here's a reminder of what you can...
- PS5
- PS4
- PS Plus
Easy breezy
If you've been playing Ghost of Yotei over the last few days, then you'll have probably noticed just how open its open world actually feels. Player freedom was pushed as a major selling point leading up to the PS5 exclusive's launch, and we dare say that the game delivers on its promise; its open world design does a great job of teasing...
- Sony
- PS5
- Ghost of Yotei
News Sony's Acquisition of Bungie Continues to Be Questioned as Destiny 2 Falls Off a Cliff
Again
Destiny 2, the ongoing live service shooter from Bungie, is seriously struggling to retain players right now. To be fair, the game does have a fairly sizeable DLC coming up in December — you know, the Star Wars one — but at the time of writing this article, there's some real doom and gloom surrounding Destiny 2 as a whole. A particularly...
- Sony
- Bungie
- PS5
- Destiny
News Oblivion Remastered's Physical PS5 Release Will Include the 'Base Game on Disc'
But we still have questions
If you’ve been eagerly anticipating the physical version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, due out on 13th October, may we recommend you exercise some caution. As spotted by notorious social media mogul Wario64, the box art for the PS5 version has been updated to include an ‘Internet Required’...
- Bethesda
- PS5
- The Elder Scrolls
- Oblivion
News PlayStation Gear Merch Store Closing Down, Sale Live Now
Going offline on 31st December
PlayStation's official merchandise store, PlayStation Gear, will shut down on 31st December 2025, it's been shared. The UK, EU, and USA homepages for the website now have the following message at the top: Thanks for visiting PlayStation™Gear Store. This site will be closing December 31st. Our Customer Service team...
- Sony
- Merchandise
News Metaphor: ReFantazio One-Year Anniversary Event Announced, 'Special Message' Teased
Re-ReFantazio
We're very quickly approaching the one-year anniversary of Metaphor: ReFantazio. Crazy, huh? Well, maybe not that crazy, but the game still feels fairly fresh in our minds. Anyway, in order to celebrate the occasion, Atlus and its in-house development team Studio Zero will be hosting an anniversary live stream this week, on the 10th...
- Atlus
- PS5
- PS4
- Metaphor
News Sony Reveals Icon Blue PS5 DualSense, Quite Possibly the Bluest Controller Ever
Blue team
If you're a big fan of blue — the colour, that is, not the early 2000s boy band — then you'll be over the moon to hear that Sony's got the perfect premium product for you. Just unveiled, the 'Icon Blue' DualSense PS5 controller is very blue. It's a limited edition pad, and it's launching later this month. There is a catch, however...
- Sony
- PS5
News Remember the Indie Game Furi? Well, It's Getting a Live Action Series, and It Looks Bad
One to skip, perhaps
The boss rush bullet hell action game Furi from French studio The Game Bakers is a memorable 2016 release for the PS4. Such was its popularity, it was later even ported to the PS5. And now it’s getting a miniseries starring Barty Shepherd and Yanick Ghanty, releasing straight to streaming from 8th November. We’ll be...
- Midnight Embers Productions
- TV
- Furi
A strong start
There’s still a market for physical games on the PS5, and Ghost of Yotei has done particularly well. The Game Business’ Chris Dring reports that early indications for the samurai sequel are “really, really good”, with the physical release topping the UK sales charts this week. It beat out the eternal juggernaut EA Sports FC...
- Sony
- PS5
- Ghost of Yotei
- UK
- Sales
News Battlefield 6 PS5 Physical Copies Break Street Date, Full Game on Disc
But online seemingly required, even for campaign
Twitchy Battlefield 6 players are already beginning to receive their physical PS5 copies of the game ahead of its release later this week, on 10th October. And there’s good news for fans of boxed copies: the full game is included on the disc. Now, this excludes any inevitable day one patches, so...
- EA
- PS5
- Battlefield
News Wolverine PS5 Actor Was Allegedly Paid a 'Hefty Sum' to Star in Xbox's Answer to Uncharted
He'd eventually end up in Gears of War 4
A thoroughly researched video essay from Did You Know Gaming? reveals that Microsoft wanted to create a rival to Uncharted on the Xbox One – and Marvel’s Wolverine star Liam McIntyre was hired to portray the protagonist. The story dates back all the way to the late PS3 days, when Sony found enormous...
- Industry
- Uncharted
- Xbox Game Studios
News Beloved PS1 Adventure Broken Sword 2 Is Getting the Reforged Treatment, Out Next Year on PS5
Gorgeous George
When it comes to point and click adventures, Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror is an all-time classic — and it's being remastered in early 2026 for PS5. This will be the second time developer Revolution Software has 'reforged' a title from the iconic series, having released Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars Reforged around...
- Revolution Software
- PS5
- Broken Sword
- Trailers
News Peter Molyneux Very Nearly Became a First-Party PlayStation Dev
"One of our best kept secrets"
Sony wanted to buy Bullfrog, the legendary UK studio founded by Peter Molyneux. As part of a 30th anniversary piece published by The Game Business, veteran PlayStation producer Martin Alltimes revealed that the platform holder came incredibly close to adding the Theme Park maker to its stable of studios. He revealed:...
- Sony
- PS1
- Bullfrog
- Peter Molyneux
- Industry
News Bungie's Maligned FPS Marathon Makes Its Return in Closed Technical Test This Month
We go again
Sony’s got a lot riding on Marathon. It needs the game to be a success. It’s such a shame, then, that the title’s been a bit of a disaster so far. Aside from the drama involving stolen assets, the extraction shooter just hasn’t captured all that much mainstream attention. Look, we
- Bungie
- PS5
- Marathon
News Vampire Survivors Online Co-Op Confirmed, Will Probably Crash Your Game in Record Time
No survivors
Devilishly addictive roguelike Vampire Survivors has a big update on the horizon, and one of its key additions will be online co-op. Yep, it's finally happening: you'll be able to gang together with up to three other players and — potentially — reduce the game's frame rate to ruins at a faster rate than ever before. And we mean...
- Poncle
- PS5
- PS4
- Vampire Survivors
- Patches
News Zelda-Like Mina the Hollower Pushed Back for Last-Minute Improvements
Delayed just weeks before PS5 release
Yacht Club Games has made the decision to delay its Zelda-esque PS5 game Mina the Hollower, only weeks before the Halloween launch was scheduled to take place. In a post on the developer's official website, it's explained that despite the developer "working tirelessly day and night to finish development for...
- Yacht Club Games
- PS5
- Mina the Hollower
- Delays
News Devil Jam Puts a Heavy Metal Riff on Vampire Survivors for PS5
Head bangin'
We’ve reached the point of Vampire Survivors’ popularity where various other developers are copying it. Not all of these are worth reporting on, but we do think Devil Jam has some “juice”, so to speak. The game is a fairly shameless riff on the iconic auto-battler, but it finds a sliver of its own identity through its heavy...
- Rogue Side
- PS5
- Devil Jam
- Announcements
News Sonic Goes for Gold with New Multi-Year Marketing Alliance with the Olympic Games
Gotta go fast
We tend to always associate SEGA with the Olympic Games, perhaps because of its various licensed tie-ins over the years – and, of course, the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series. But at Paris in 2024, the publisher stepped away from the event, leaving something of a hole. Now, the Japanese publisher has announced a new...
- SEGA
- Olympics
- Sonic
News PowerWash Simulator 2 Will Wash Away Your Worries Later This Month on PS5
Water relief
PowerWash Simulator 2 will spray you with a dose of easy-going gaming this 23rd October, when the sequel releases on PS5 for £19.99/$24.99. And what else is there to say on this game? Well, we have a word quota to fill, so we better keep typing. (There’s not really a word quota, but we can’t just post a single sentence, can we?)...
- FuturLab
- PS5
- PowerWash Simulator
- Release Dates
News Minecraft Builds a Road to Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds on PS5, PS4 This Week
"I am Steve"
SEGA seems set on ensuring Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds fans have plenty of reasons to boot up the release. Hot on the heels of last week’s Hatsune Miku Festival – where you could unlock various themed goodies inspired by the Vocaloid star – the publisher has announced that Steve and Alex et al from Minecraft will be reaching the...
- SEGA
- PS5
- PS4
- Sonic Racing CrossWorlds
- DLC
Monday6th Oct 2025
News PS6 May Go Uncontested as Rumours of Next-Gen Xbox Cancellation Force Microsoft to Comment
What would that mean for Sony?
The web is, perhaps tediously, once again awash with speculation of Xbox’s unclear future. A tough week for the Redmond firm – in which it raised Game Pass prices by 50%, causing its cancellation website to crash – has culminated in fresh speculation that its next-gen console may be cancelled. The source is not...
- Microsoft
- Sony
- PS6
- Industry
- Rumours
Feature Last Chance to Get These 50+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in PS Store's Tokyo Game Show 2025 Sale
Cheap PS5 and PS4 games we recommend
To celebrate this year's Tokyo Game Show, which recently came to a close, Sony has organised a Tokyo Game Show 2025 sale on PS Store. Running until the end of 8th October, the sale includes, as always, thousands of PS5 and PS4 games. If you don't have time to browse through that many discounts, we have some...
- Sony
- PS5
- PS4
- PS Store
- Deals
News Red Dead Redemption 2 Still Coming to PS5, It's Claimed
Leaker says PS5, Xbox ports do exist
The previously rumoured current-gen ports of Red Dead Redemption 2 still "exist" and are still coming out, according to reliable leaker NateTheHate. Speculation surrounding upgraded console versions dates as far back as 2022, but the claims became significantly more legitimate earlier this year when the same...
- Rockstar Games
- PS5
- Red Dead Redemption
- Rumours
