Tag: Ps Store
Feature 70+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in PS Store's Refreshed Summer Sale
PS5 and PS4 games going cheap we recommend
The PS Store's big Summer Sale continues, as it's been refreshed with new discounts. Running from now to 12th August, this is a 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...
Feature 8 Ways Sony Must Improve the PS Store for Our All-Digital Future
It's time for PlayStation to up its game
It’s been almost a month since Sony announced its decision to cease manufacturing physical games in 2028, and it hasn’t uttered a word since. While parts of the PlayStation community plot a blackout in protest, I think it’s also worth considering how the company could improve on its existing digital...
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...
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...
News This Backrooms Game Outsold Every PS5 Title on PS Store Last Month
You can thank the movie for that
Off the back of the recent film, excitement surrounding the Backrooms creepypasta is at an all-time high, and that's now translated into making Escape the Backrooms the best-selling PS5 game in the USA and Europe last month on Sony's digital storefront. Yes, for the month of June 2026, Escape the Backrooms outsold...
News PS3, PS Vita Digital Stores to Close Starting Later This Year
July 2027 for USA, UK
After 20 years of support, Sony will finally close the PS3 and PS Vita digital storefronts starting this year. In a PS Blog post, the platform holder announced that in Mexico, Honduras, and Nicaragua, support will end in August 2026. This will extend to Latin America and Middle Eastern countries in late 2026. All other major...
Feature Last Chance to Buy These 40+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Mid-Year Deals Sale
PS5 and PS4 games going cheap we recommend
The PS Store's Mid-Year Deals sale will soon be over, coming to an end tomorrow, 1st July 2026. Check out our recommendations while there's still time. There are thousands of PS5 and PS4 games included in the offer, and navigating all those can be a tall order. That's where this list comes in: we've...
News Sony Will Permanently Delete 550+ Movies You Already Paid For
"I won't be back"
If you own a movie on a Blu-ray, short of someone breaking into your house and running off with it, you own it forever. That’s not the case with digital purchases, of course, and this latest story is a timely reminder of why some PS5 fans are so frustrated with Rockstar’s decision to ship GTA 6 as a code in a box. If you’re...
Feature 20+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in PS Store's Weekend Offer Sale
Something for the weekend
Sony has introduced a new sale on the PS Store, discounting a select batch of games in a Weekend Offer. As the name suggests, these discounts are only sticking around over this weekend, running from 26th to 29th June, 2026. We've put together a list of games you may be interested in while they're going cheap. Currently...
News PS5 Shovelware Dev Confirms 'Stricter' Publishing Guidelines from Sony
Cleaning up the PS Store
Sony has waged war on the shovelware publishers taking over the PS Store, and slowly but surely we’re learning a little more about the platform holder’s process behind-the-scenes. Afil Games – the purveyor of low-effort software like Collie Call and Cute Bonfire – has confirmed that “PlayStation has been...
News PS5's 'Recently Played' Section Restored as Sony Seemingly Fixes Strange Security Concern
What's going on?
You may recall an unusual security issue that surfaced a little while ago, in which some PS5 accounts were breached by fooling customer service reps into providing access. Well, while it appears Sony is tightening things up, some users are reporting odd occurrences on their PSN profiles, and it's even stranger than the last...
Feature Last Chance to Get These 40+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Days of Play Sale
Cheap PS5 and PS4 games we recommend
The Days of Play sale is now on PS Store, running from now until 10th June 2026. Not much time left! As always, there are many, many PS5 and PS4 games going cheap, which means it can be a bit laborious browsing through it all. In this list, we've put together a smaller selection of PS5 and PS4 games we...
News PS5 Store's Shovelware Purge Is Getting More Interesting by the Week
One publisher yoinks library before Sony can act
More and more games are getting the axe from the PS Store, with some publishers seemingly starting to act before Sony’s eye of Sauron falls on them. In a social media statement late last week, Xeneder Team announced that it had made the “utmost difficult decision to delist a significant portion...
News PS5 Early Access Pre-Orders Truly Are Getting Out of Hand
Now they're becoming exclusive
We have been slating the PS5's early access pre-order incentives here on Push Square for some time now, but the latest example, tied to Control Resonant, just seems a bit sad. Overnight, at State of Play, the PS5 sequel was confirmed for a 24th September 2026 launch. If you pre-order the Digital Deluxe Edition of the...
News PS5's PS Store Shovelware Purge Continues with the Removal of More Garbage Games
Another one bites the dust
Sony is at the end of its tether with PS5 shovelware, and it’s now removing games at a remarkable rate. We’ve already reported on thousands of crappy titles that have been pulled from the PS Store, but the platform holder is on a crusade at this point. The next to fall is
News James Bond Tops Another Chart, 007 First Light Was the Best-Selling Game on PS Store in May
Smooth talker, smooth seller
007 First Light looks to be more and more of a success for IO Interactive, as PS Store data for its release month reveals the James Bond origin story was the best-selling game on the PS5, PS4 digital store during May. This is across the USA, Canada, and European territories, which Sony tracks in its monthly downloads...
Webnetic getting the boot
Sony has waged war on shovelware, and has thus far eliminated thousands of low-effort, low-quality games from PS Store. Now, it seems potentially thousands more will be removed very soon. Publisher Webnetic has announced its library of games will not be available on PlayStation in the coming days, though in its statement,...
News PS Store Days of Play Sale Live Now with 2,000+ PS5 Game Deals
RE Requiem! Ghost of Yotei! Dispatch!
Sony has started rolling out its range of Days of Play discounts and deals for 2026, with the PS Store its first stop. More than 2,000 PS5, PS4 games have been put on sale, all available until 10th June 226. The sale is now live in the UK and across Europe, with the USA gaining access later in the day. Below...
News PlayStation Days of Play Sales Start Tomorrow with Physical and PS Store Offers
Deals live from 27th May to 10th June
Sony has now confirmed its Days of Play promotion will return for 2026 from tomorrow, offering discounts and deals on a variety of PS5 accessories and games, both physically and digitally. The sale lasts from 27th May to 10th June, and as was previously rumoured, there are not any PS5 console discounts in the...
Feature Last Chance to Buy These 25+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Next Level Savings Sale
Recommended PS5 and PS4 games going cheap
After an unusual hiatus, the Next Level Savings sale arrived, but it's only live for a couple more days. Running until 27th May, you don't have long to grab a bargain. As always, there are thousands of PS5 and PS4 games included in the offer, which means it can be a bit laborious browsing through it all...
News PS Store Deals Tab Returns, Confirms Next Sale for 13th May
Crisis over
As has become the norm in the digital age, PlayStation's PS Store has at least one sale going on at any given time — or, that's typically true, at least. A new sale was expected to begin today, 7th May 2026, but this has failed to materialise at the time of writing, which is highly unusual. It means the PS Store currently doesn't...
News Poor Start for PS5 Exclusive Saros as First Sales Data Emerges
Arjun 'avin a laugh?
Sales numbers for video games aren't often made public unless they hit major milestones or are particularly impressive; otherwise, we're relying on charts and estimates to try and glean how well a game is selling. That's where we are with Saros, Sony's latest first-party PS5 game that officially launched a few days ago, on 30th...
Feature Last Chance to Buy These 25+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Weekend Offer Sale (Europe)
Games going cheap this weekend
The European PS Store's Weekend Offer sale ends in a matter of hours, concluding just before midnight tonight, 4th May 2026, so you don't have long left to take advantage. This limited-time deal includes hundreds of PS5 and PS4 games brought down in price, and there are some great titles in there of all shapes and...
Feature Last Chance to Buy These 45+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Big Games Big Deals Sale
Discounted PS5 and PS4 games we recommend
The latest sale on the PS Store is live now, but not for much longer; you have until 6th May 2026 to grab your bargains. Named the Big Games Big Deals sale, it has thousands of PS5 and PS4 games included, and that can make it tough to find the stuff you want. In this list, we've put together a smaller...
Feature Last Chance to Buy These 60+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Spring Sale
Recommended PS5 and PS4 games going cheap
The PS Store's latest offer, simply named the Spring Sale, is on right now, and it's running until 22nd April 2026, so there's not much time left to grab a bargain. With thousands of PS5 and PS4 games included in the sale, it can be difficult to browse through all that, which is where this guide comes in...
News Gran Turismo Copycat Forced to Change Its Name for Release on PS5, PS4
Gran Carismo no more
Sony has been battling the PS Store's infestation of shovelware lately. It's been wiping thousands of low-quality, low-effort games from its digital storefront in a bid to keep the quality bar that bit higher. Unfortunately, while it's a valiant effort on the company's part, more and more of them pop up all the time, but Sony...
News PS5's PS Store Is Getting a Netflix-Style Makeover Soon
Refit en route
In addition to redesigning the homepage of the PS5, it looks like Sony is also plotting some sweeping changes to the PS Store. An image circulating on social media from the system’s beta program shows a new-look layout for the storefront, complete with large Netflix-style tiles and a bunch of different filtering tags. You can see...
News Sony Delists 100s More Crappy PS5, PS4 Games, Including Jesus Simulator
Wonder if it'll rise again
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Sony is not playing around with poor quality software on the PS Store anymore. The company’s delisted thousands of cash grabs this year alone, and this morning it’s swept away hundreds more. News first emerged on PSNProfiles, but we’ve been able to corroborate the...
News For All the Talk About Crimson Desert, Nothing Beats MLB The Show on the US PS5 Chart
Home run
It shouldn't come as much of a surprise to learn that Crimson Desert was one of the best-selling games on the PS Store for the month of March. The open world action game has been the talk of the town ever since its launch, and overall it's been selling like mad; it's over 4 million copies at this point. However, what we hadn't really...
News 50% Off All PS Store Purchases with New Cash App Offer
Save up to $50 on your purchase
In the USA, a new offer on Cash App is handing users a 50% discount on PS Store purchases, allowing them to get PS5, PS4 titles for significantly cheaper than normal. Screenshots of the discount are doing the rounds on social media right now, and there are numerous reports of the offer working. This is a one-time use...
News PS5's Dynamic Pricing Debacle Appears to Extend to the US Now
These are dark times
Sony’s controversial new dynamic pricing appears to have rolled out in the US. While the practice originally seemed limited to a slew of regions in Europe, evidence is beginning to emerge of its implementation in the US, specifically with the new Spring Sale. Deals account Cheap Ass
Feature Last Chance to Buy These 50+ PS5, PS4 Games 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. The sale ends on 25th March, meaning you only have a couple of days to take advantage. As expected, the sale contains literally thousands of digital items going cheap. That...
Crackdown on shovelware continues
Sony is getting more and more aggressive with shovelware on the PS Store. You may recall earlier in the year it delisted hundreds of titles from publisher ThiGames, the company behind “classics” like The Jumping Pizza. Now it’s axed hundreds more from two more publishers, with their entire catalogues nuked...
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...
News 'This Should Be Illegal': PS5's Dynamic Pricing Roundly Criticised by Disgusted Sony Fans
"That is f***in' dirty"
There’s no two ways about it: Sony is testing dynamic pricing on the PS Store, and we’ve seen evidence of it ourselves. For those who aren’t aware, this works by adjusting the price of PS5 titles on a per user basis. So, a power user in one country may see a different discount to a casual player in another. The best...
Feature Last Chance to Get These 40+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Dealmania Sale
Cheap PS5 and PS4 games we recommend
Ring the bell, it's sale time on the PS Store — but not for much longer. Sony's latest bargain bonanza, named Dealmania, is upon us, and it runs until 11th March 2026, meaning there's only a couple of days left. There are thousands of PS5 and PS4 games with discounted prices, which can be a lot to browse...
News Some PS5 Users Really Are Paying More for Their Games on PS Store Than Others
Sony's still testing out dynamic pricing
A few months ago, we reported on some strange, inconsistent pricing spotted on the PS Store, and it seems this hasn't gone away — and may have become even more widespread. Over on good old Reddit, someone shared their experience while looking at Assassin's Creed Unity, which recently received an update...
News Nothing Was Ever Going to Catch Resident Evil Requiem in PS Store's February Chart
Barnstormer
Resident Evil Requiem has been a huge success for Capcom already, and Sony's latest PS Store download charts only serve to echo that fact. The new horror action title is number one on both the North American and European PS5 charts, beating out February's other new releases like Nioh 3, Reanimal
News PS Store Adds Another Layer of Transparency to PS5, PS4 Game Pricing
Rolling out globally
The PS Store has gradually been getting better throughout the PS5's lifecycle, and another update has arrived on the console storefront to make your purchases that little bit more informed. In an update that's rolling out globally at the time of writing, Sony has made it so that a game's PS Store page now shows the price at...
Feature Last Chance to Buy These 70+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Critics' Choice Sale
Top PS5 and PS4 games going cheap
Sony has introduced its latest offer to the PS Store, and this time it's the Critics' Choice sale. Closing on 25th February 2026, it contains thousands of digital goodies to browse through. To make that experience a little easier to manage, we've put together a shorter list of games we wholeheartedly recommend...
Feature Last Chance to Get These 30+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's PlayStation Indies Sale
Discounted PS5 and PS4 games we recommend
If the Critics' Choice sale isn't enough for you, Sony has now introduced a second offer on the PS Store — the PlayStation Indies sale. Closing on 25th February 2026, it features another big batch of PS5 and PS4 games going cheap. We've whittled down the sale to a more manageable list of recommendations...
Feature 10+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in PS Store's Weekend Offer Sale
Something for the weekend
Sony is going hard on the discounts lately, and now there's a new Weekend Offer sale on the PS Store, just in case you didn't have enough to consider already. As the name suggests, you only have from now until Monday 16th February to take advantage, so you might as well have a quick look, yeah? It's a deal with fewer...
News GTA 5 Gives ARC Raiders a Run for Its Money on the PS5 Download Chart
Still got it
You know the Grand Theft Auto 6 hype is getting to people, because GTA 5 is in the top three most-downloaded PS5 games for the month of January 2026. The PS5 port of the game is approaching four years old (GTA 5 originally launched on PS3 in 2013), so it's pretty impressive to see it going toe-to-toe with contemporary titles like ARC...
Feature Last Chance to Buy These 30+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's New Year Deals Sale
Discounted PS5 and PS4 games we recommend
The PS Store's latest sale is named New Year Deals, and it's another offer stacked with thousands of discounted games and add-ons for PS5 and PS4. It runs until 4th February 2026, so there's not long to go before it's over. To make browsing the sale a little easier, we've put together a list of...
News Fans Hope This Mysterious PS Store Listing Points to a PS Stars Replacement
What are Wallet Credits?
Last year, Sony quite suddenly dropped support for its PlayStation rewards program, PS Stars. While it had its flaws, the system gave customers the opportunity to earn back a bit of money in the form of PS Store credit. Unfortunately, now PS Stars is no longer active, we're back to there being no reward scheme at all. Now,...
Feature Last Chance to Buy These 50+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Refreshed January Sale
Check out these discounted games
Sony's enormous January/Holiday sale on the PS Store was recently refreshed with thousands of new discounts, but it's very nearly over. You have until 22nd January 2026, giving you only a few more days to make your purchases. To help navigate the huge sale, we've assembled the top discounted games that it has to...
News Sony Nukes Thousands of Shovelware Games from PS5, PS4
The jumping crackdown
Sony has seemingly taken action against one of the PS Store’s most prolific shovelware makers. ThiGames – the purveyor of fine titles like The Jumping Burrito – was one of the PS5 and PS4’s most prolific publishers, with more than 1,000 games available. Many of these were reskins of the same core idea, like The...
News Most Downloaded PS5 Games of 2025 Revealed, as Xbox's Forza Horizon 5 Tops Ghost of Yotei
Times have changed
PlayStation has revealed the 20 most downloaded PS5 games of 2025, split between North America and Europe. In truth, there aren't many surprises here. Annual sports games took both top spots, with NBA 2K26 winning out in NA, and EA Sports FC 26 taking the crown in EU. In both regions, the champions were followed up by a very...
News ARC Raiders Battles Sports Games for PS5 Download Dominance in December
Guns or balls?
Sony has shared the PS Store's download charts for the month of December 2025, and it's ARC Raiders putting up the strongest fight for the top spot on PS5. The popular sci-fi extraction shooter manages to topple NBA 2K26 in North America, but it has to settle for second in Europe, where EA Sports FC 26 rules the roost. ARC Raiders...
News Over 6,000 PS5, PS4 Games Discounted in Gigantic PS Store January Sale
Uh oh
This is it, then – the big one. Long-time PlayStation owners will know Sony always goes hard in the January sale: it’s the biggest and most important period of deals for the PS Store. And this year is absolutely bursting with games to buy, many of which are enjoying all-time lows or their first ever digital discounts. Remember, you can...
