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News Slay the Spire Meets Sekiro in This Quirky PS5 Deck Builder
But its ace is all those waifus
Witch the Showdown is not your average deck builder – this game rewards quick reactions just as much as big brain thinking. Coming to the PS5 in 2027, the anime-style “parry action deck builder” is being billed as a boss rush release with an emphasis on precision. Here’s what the press release says:...
News Golf with Your Friends Again When Chaotic PS5 Sequel Tees Off This Fall
Golf with Your Friends 2 coming soon
Publisher Team 17 and developer Radical Forge have re-revealed Golf with Your Friends 2, the sequel to their popular crazy golf party game. The game was initially announced well over a year ago, but it's now planned for release in Fall 2026, and it's coming to PS5 along with pretty much everything else...
News Ecco the Dolphin Returns in Retro Collection Featuring a Brand New Game, But Will It Be on PS5?
No word on platforms yet
It's been a long time coming, but we now have the first official details about the return of a video game icon: Ecco the Dolphin. Developed by A&R Atelier in partnership with SEGA, the aquatic hero is coming back in Ecco the Dolphin: Complete, a remaster package featuring "all versions" of Ecco the Dolphin and Ecco: The...
News Akira Toriyama Worked on PS5's Dragon Ball XenoVerse 3 Before His Passing
AGE 1000 awaits
The late, great Akira Toriyama contributed directly to the creation of Dragon Ball XenoVerse 3, making the latest entry in Bandai Namco’s juggernaut anime RPG sub-franchise one of his final works before he passed in 2024. Coming to the PS5 next year, fans may remember this project was previously teased as an AGE 1000 title,...
News Low-Poly Stealth Throwback Revives PS1 Metal Gear Solid Vibes for PS5
Imposter syndrome
The original Metal Gear Solid will forever remain a masterpiece, but its unique isometric stealth action gameplay is a relic in this era of more sophisticated adventures. Spy Drops, an indie game already available on Steam and Switch, isn’t interested in advancing the genre; it’s taking us right back to 1998, when Hideo...
News Repair a Broken Android and Unlock Her Memories in This Lo-Fi PS5 Game
One man's scrap is another man's treasure
Lo-fi games like World of Horror and Needy Streamer Overload have really grown in popularity over the past few years, and Save My Scrap looks like a haunting take on the booming genre. This puzzle-based visual novel is based on a free game named Fix My Junk, but it’s a heavily expanded version confirmed...
News MLB The Show Creators Are Eyeing a New PS5 Rival
Konami taking Japanese baseball brand global
MLB The Show will finally have a real rival in the form of Konami’s PS5 console exclusive eBaseball: Pro Spirit 2026, which will launch worldwide for the first time on 16th July. There’s been growing interest in this Japan-only baseball sim for some time now, with many content creators importing...
News Upgraded Roblox Brings 'Smoother Gameplay' to PS5, Amid Increasing Scrutiny Over Child Safety
30% faster loading times and more
Unstoppable live service game Roblox is launching on the PS5 as a native app today, amid increased scrutiny over its approach to child safety. For those bemused by this news, the game has been available as a PS4 app since 2023, after Sony lifted longstanding restrictions on the game which originally prevented its...
News Industry Legend Ron Gilbert Is Bringing His Auto-Scrolling RPG to PS5 Next Week
Death By Scrolling coming soon
Legendary game designer Ron Gilbert and his studio Terrible Toybox are on the verge of releasing their latest game, Death By Scrolling to consoles. You may recall this game from last year's Gamescom Opening Night Live, where it was announced for PC. Now, the auto-scrolling roguelike RPG is bound for PS5, and what's...
News Enjoying Your Free PS4 Game? Here's a Look at Its Sequel, Coming to PS5
Even more graveyards to keep
For those of you who may have somehow missed the news last night, Graveyard Keeper is free for you to claim on the PS4 right now. There are no catches or hidden costs here; you don’t even need PS Plus. It’s a free game for you to claim and keep forever. That’s largely because dev Lazy Bear Games wants to raise the...
News Level-5's Snack World Remake Drops Nintendo Exclusivity, Coming to PS5
Looks good enough to eat
Roguelike dungeon crawler Snack World, originally a 3DS and later a Switch exclusive, will make its PS5 debut at some point in the future. Legendary dev Level-5 didn’t confirm a release date. Another multimedia franchise from the Fukuoka-based firm, this game first debuted on the 3DS in 2017. It’d later release...
Tip of the hat to you, sir
We got Inazuma Eleven and Fantasy Life last year, and now legendary dev Level-5 has announced that Professor Layton will finally make his PS5 debut in 2026. The latest game in the series, Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, has just been confirmed for a simultaneous worldwide release on Sony’s cons
News PowerWash, House Flipper Fans May Want to Pay Attention to This Intriguing Handyman Sim on PS5
The Lift coming to consoles
If you're into busywork sims such as PowerWash Simulator or House Flipper, publisher tinyBuild is bringing what looks like a very promising new game to PS5 that's worthy of your attention. It's called The Lift, and it casts you as a handyman tasked with fixing up a giant facility plagued by supernatural oddities...
News Golf Gets Chaotic in PS5 Party Game with Lasers, Rocket Launchers, and Runaway Carts
Fore the griefers
If you enjoyed the chaotic nature of PS4’s Everybody’s Golf game – or perhaps the more recent Mario Golf on Switch – then you’ll probably want to pay attention to Super Battle Golf, coming to the PS5 this year. Already available on PC, the goals of this game remain somewhat similar to real golf, although the twist is...
News Warhammer Copies Vampire Survivors' Homework in Brand New Bullet Heaven PS5 Game
Warhammer Survivors coming to consoles
Vampire Survivors has a lot to answer for, inventing a whole new template for games to follow. One example is Warhammer Survivors, which is a particularly interesting case. Just announced for PS5, Warhammer Survivors is developed by Auroch Digital, but also involved is Poncle, the team behind Vampire...
News In the Absence of Virtua Tennis, Nickelodeon's Wacky Arcade Alternative Steps Up
Swing time
Y’know what, in the absence of a new Virtua Tennis or Hot Shots Tennis, we think we’ll settle for Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis: Next!. Due out on 28th May from Gameloft and Old Skull Games, this is your typical zany licensed affair, loosely inspired by the rules of tennis with power-ups and other paraphernalia. Featuring an eclectic...
News Former Resident Evil, Witcher Devs Unite for a Stylish New Action Adventure Game on PS5
Koshmar: The Last Reverie announced
Developer Purple Ray Studio has just announced Koshmar: The Last Reverie, a promising-looking action adventure game that's coming to PC and consoles. The studio is made up of industry veterans from across all kinds of teams, with past credits including the likes of Resident Evil Village, The Witcher 2: Assassins...
News Tell You What, This Parkour Platformer for PS5 Looks Sublime
It's giving Mirror's Edge, Uncharted, and Shadow of the Colossus
Have you heard of MOTORSLICE? Nah, us neither – but it looks brilliant. So, we know it’s reductive when games writers pull a bunch of popular names together to describe a new release, but this definitely looks like a mix of Mirror’s Edge, Uncharted, and maybe even Zenless Zone...
News Step Aside, Pokémon! This Ambitious PS5 Creature Catcher Swaps Pokéballs for Pokécubes
Aniimo officially announced for Sony's system
With lawsuits still flying between Pokémon and Palworld, leave it to a Chinese developer to step into the arena with its own next-gen creature catching game. In truth, despite some similar creature design, Aniimo does very much look like its own thing. So yes, while you’ll be catching mythical...
Here comes the Sun
Gust’s cutesy school girl JRPG series Blue Reflection will be getting a humongous PS5 overhaul, as part of the compilation bundle Blue Reflection Quartet. In addition to upgraded versions of the two mainline PS4 instalments, this bundle will also include a console port of the mobile and PC exclusive spin-off, Blue Reflection...
News PS5 FPS Alien Deathstorm Is Not to Be Confused with the Ridley Scott Movie, Despite Its Dev
We were confused, too
Okay, we’ll admit it: we’ve spent the hours since the Xbox Partner Preview thinking Rebellion’s new FPS Alien Deathstorm is related to the Ridley Scott movie. Actually, it’s not, but it wasn’t a wild assumption to make, seeing as the UK studio famously made Alien vs Predator for the Atari Jaguar back in 1994. (As...
Round Up Here's Every PS5 Game Announced in March 2026's Xbox Partner Preview
Stranger Than Heaven! Hades 2! The Expanse: Osiris Reborn!
With the inclusion of third-party games, Xbox livestreams have always held significant interest for PS5 players. But now Microsoft itself is a multiformat publisher, so they hold increased importance. Today, the manufacturer held one of its regularly scheduled Partner Previews, which...
News Hades 2 Finally Announced for PS5, and It Arrives in a Matter of Weeks
Thank the gods
We've been patiently waiting for this one! At long last, Hades 2 has been announced for PS5, and what's more, it's right around the corner. The highly acclaimed sequel to Supergiant's superb roguelike dungeon crawler Hades finally comes to Sony's console on 14th April 2026. Check out the slick trailer below: Hades 2 follows a new...
News Mecha Franchise PATLABOR Returns to PS5 in First Game for Over 20 Years
An arresting development
The last proper PlayStation game in the mecha multimedia franchise PATLABOR launched on the PSP in 2005, so the announcement of PATLABOR The Case Files is somewhat significant. While characters from the series did appear in Disaster Report’s spiritual successor City Shrouded in Shadow in 2017, it’s been slim pickings...
News Everything Is Not as It Seems in This Painterly PS5 Cozy Game
Unsettle down
Cozy games are dime a dozen on the PS5, but NIS America’s upcoming Village in the Shade looks to be taking the genre in a slightly more unsettling direction. All is fairly familiar in the opening exchanges of this announcement trailer: a painterly isometric world makes way for agricultural activities and everything in between. But...
Ready for the World Cup
Football’s governing body FIFA promised it would make a new game after EA Sports announced its intention to rebrand, and here it is: the rather predictable FIFA Heroes. The game will initially launch on mobile, but a press release mentions plans to bring it to “PlayStation” at a later date. It’ll feature full...
News We Didn't Expect This Minecraft Spin-Off to Get a PS5 Sequel
Dungeons and voxels
Minecraft Dungeons must have been a pretty successful experiment for Microsoft-owned studio Mojang, because it’s getting a sequel in 2026. Quietly teased this weekend during Minecraft Live, the new RPG-style adventure will bring more brick breaking and Diablo-inspired adventuring to Sony’s console. Here’s the blurb:...
News PickMon Drama Explodes as Pokémon, Palworld Clone Vanishes from Social Media
Can't we all be pals?
All is fair in love and plagiarism. Palworld, already in an intense battle with Nintendo’s legal team, will now take a taste of its own medicine, with PickMon due out on PS5 at some point in the future. The game shares PocketPair’s love for Pokémon designs, but throws in sur
News Starfield Finally Lands on PS5 in April with New DLC and Huge Updates
The most comprehensive Starfield ever
Two and a half years after the Xbox, PC release and following months of rumours, it's official: Bethesda RPG Starfield is coming to PS5, releasing on 7th April 2026. This is the biggest and most comprehensive version of Starfield to date, as the base game arrives on PS5 alongside its first expansion, Shattered...
News Little Nightmares Explores PSVR2 Horror in New Game, Out Next Month
Enter the Altered Echoes on 24th April
Bandai Namco has announced a fourth game in the Little Nightmares series will utilise PSVR2, and it's right around the corner. Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes is a VR-exclusive game, with a PSVR2 version, that launches next month on 24th April 2026. In a PlayStation Blog post, it is confirmed that the new...
News A Free PS5 Baseball Sim Is Here to Shake Up MLB The Show
Stepping up to the plate
MLB The Show is no longer the only PS5 baseball sim in town, as a new Konami rival has arrived completely free-to-play. Available to download today, eBaseball: Pro Spirits is the latest entry in the Japanese publisher’s long-running – and acclaimed – Professional Spirits Baseball series. Previously this has been...
News Retro Sports Favourite Backyard Baseball Returns in a Brand New Game Later This Year
New kid on the block
A couple of years ago, the Backyard Sports series made a sudden return, and it now seems publisher Playground Productions is readying up a brand new game. Backyard Baseball is being revived in a fully 3D entry, with the intro sequence showing the transition to a new dimension: Developed by Mega Cat Studios, this new game...
News Guitar Hero Studio RedOctane Is Back with Stage Tour, a New Plastic Instrument Rhythm Game
Reunion tour
Remember when Guitar Hero was one of the biggest video game franchises on the planet? Well, some of the original devs do, and they've regrouped to produce a spiritual successor. RedOctane Games has announced Stage Tour, a rhythm action game built to be played using musical instrument peripherals. The studio has many former staff...
News Konami's Iconic X-Men Arcade Game Coming to PS5 Alongside Other Marvel Classics
With rollback netcode
Konami’s all-time classic X-Men: The Arcade Game is coming to the PS5 with six-player online and rollback netcode. The 1992 beat-em-up is considered among the genre’s finest, and was briefly ported to the PS3 in 2010, before being delisted a few years later. The game will be included as part of a new compilation from...
News Toaplan All-Timers Twin Cobra, Tiger-Heli Come to PS4 This Week
But there's a catch
Two iconic 80s Toaplan shooters will release on the PS4 this week, from 26th February – but there’s a catch to this M2 collection that’s worth pointing out. The base package will include arcade ports of 1985’s Tiger-Heli alongside 1988’s legendary successor Twin Cobra, both enhanced with various quality-of-life...
News Bluey Returns to PS5, PS4 in May with a Quest for the Gold Pen
No need to feel blue
Popular kids show Bluey has already made its debut on PS5 and PS4 with the simply named Bluey: The Videogame, but it's now getting something a little bit different. Having already launched on mobile devices last year, Bluey's Quest for the Gold Pen has now been announced for PC and consoles, including PS5 and PS4. The trailer...
News 'Finally, RAM I Can Actually Afford': Players Poke Fun at PC Building Simulator 2 on PS5
"Y'all got any more of that there, RAM?"
With the rising prices of RAM, there’s never been a worse time to build a PC really. In fact, some fans believe the upcoming PS5 release of PC Building Simulator 2 should belong in the “fantasy” genre, because only the very rich can afford multiple sticks of the previous component these days. This...
News Layers of Fear 3 Is What Bloober Team Was Teasing All This Time
A third layer of fear discovered
Horror specialist Bloober Team has announced Layers of Fear 3, a new entry in its original series that began in 2016. In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the studio revealed the game via a couple of videos. There's this moody promo which unveils the title at the end: And a longer video, in which Bloober Team...
News Kingdom Come: Deliverance Hits PS5 Today, Free Upgrade for PS4 Owners
Physical version on 15th May
Warhorse Studios has officially announced the native PS5 version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and it releases today, 13th February 2026. You can catch the reveal trailer above. Anyone who owns the PS4 version receives a free upgrade to the PS5 edition, which boasts 60 frames-per-second, and "enhanced visual fidelity...
News Fire Emblem Fans May Want to Pay Attention to Brigandine: Abyss for PS5
Based on long-running PS1 series
Naturally the PS5 will not be getting Nintendo’s new Fire Emblem game, so you may be looking for an alternative. Happinet’s Brigandine: Abyss, due out in 2026, may just tick that box. This is based on a long-running SRPG series, which started out on the PS1 all the way back in 1998. A sequel was released for...
News This New Co-Op Stealth Action Game from ACQUIRE Brings Tenchu Vibes to PS5
Infiltrate alongside allies
As much as we loved the old Tenchu games on PS1, sometimes you need to start over to recapture the magic. That’s what veteran Japanese dev ACQUIRE appears to be doing with Yakoh Shinobi Ops, a new PS5 co-op game which can best be described as Tenchu-like. The big twist here is the four-player component, which seems...
News Konami Is So Back It's Even Making an All-New JRPG for PS5
Please be excited
A big theme of the latest State of Play centred on Konami, and just how back the iconic Japanese publisher is. Fans will recall there was a period where the company seemed more focused on Japanese gyms and pachinko than video games, but it’s now regularly churning out top-of-the-line titles, with last year’s Silent Hill F and
News Gothic Action RPG Crimson Moon Announced for PS5
Play solo or co-op
Developer ProbablyMonsters has announced Crimson Moon, an action RPG for PS5 coming in 2026. Check out the debut trailer below: Set against a gothic fantasy backdrop, the game is clearly inspired by Souls-likes, but it doesn't seem to quite be one itself. You play as a Nephilim, a half-human, half-angel charged with fighting...
News Big Walk, from the Makers of Untitled Goose Game, Strolls onto PS5 and PS Plus in 2026
Walk the walk
If you've wondered what House House, the team behind Untitled Goose Game, has been up to, now you know: they're making Big Walk, and it's just been announced for PS5. What's more, the game will join PS Plus Essential's monthly games lineup when it launches later this year. Big Walk is a social, online co-op adventure game, in which...
News Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition Is Real, and It Launches Tomorrow on PS5
Yeah!
After some leaks and rumours, Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition has been officially announced. Developed by Digital Eclipse, the game is a retro collection that gathers together various different versions of the character's first adventure. It launches digitally tomorrow, 13th February 2026, while a physical launch is planned for June this...
News God of War: Sons of Sparta Is the Long-Rumoured 2D Game, Out Now on PS5
It's a shadow drop
There have been rumours about a 2D God of War action game for what feels like eons, and now we finally know it's real. God of War: Sons of Sparta is its name, and it's now on PS5. Set in Kratos' youth, the game's story centres around the young warrior and his brother Deimos as they undergo training at the Spartan Agoge...
News MGS Master Collection Volume 2 PS5 Announced, Metal Gear Solid 4 Is Free of PS3 Jail
Out on 27th August
Konami has finally announced it's doing a second volume of the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection, and it's coming to PS5 on 27th August 2026. The second bundle will contain: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Both titles will come with a Screenplay Book and a Master Book. More bonus...
News Kena: Scars of Kosmora a Bigger and Better PS5 Sequel, Out in 2026
With support from PlayStation
Ember Lab has finally revealed what it's been working on since Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and it's a sequel called Kena: Scars of Kosmora. The follow-up releases later this year for PS5 and PC, and you can catch the announcement trailer above. Through the support of PlayStation, the second Kena title is said to be bigger...
News Romeo Is a Dead Man Dev 'Almost 100% Certain' It'll Release Another Game in 2026
Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Romeo Is a Dead Man, the oddball action game from Grasshopper and industry legend Suda51, is out now on PS5. But the industrious Tokyo-based studio has more to come – and is “almost 100% certain” it’ll release a second game in 2026. It’s keeping the specific details of that project under wraps. Here’s what...
News Awful PS5 Dino Shooter Code Violet Will Get a Sequel... for Some Reason
It's called Code UltraViolet
Code Violet, the poor PS5 dinosaur shooter released last month, was a bad game. That doesn't mean it can't get a sequel, though, as Teamkill Media has today announced Code UltraViolet. The follow-up is possible because of the "overwhelming success" Code Violet has apparently experienced, and "the incredible support from...
