Tag: Patches
News Housemarque Issues Saros PS5 Patch for Bug Fixes, Update Out Now
We're on version 02.000.003 now
Here's a quick one: Saros developer Housemarque has today updated the PS5 exclusive and issued version 02.000.003, available to download now. It's a very simple set of patch notes that predominantly focuses on bug fixes, like issues in the Overlord Rush mode and problems affecting Trophy unlocks. Perhaps the most...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Gets New Game+ Patch, More Than Three Years After Its 'Final' Update
Its most requested addition
It's been more than three whole years since Assassin's Creed Valhalla got its "final" update, all the way back in February 2023. But somehow, and for some reason, Ubisoft has actually gone back to its best-selling instalment, and is about to deliver Valhalla's most requested patch. New Game+ will be coming to the open...
News Silent Hill: Townfall Keeps Changing Difficulty, Patch 1.6 Adds Hard Mode
Plus more balance changes to general difficulty
Having just adjusted the behaviour of its worst enemy and made a baffling puzzle actually solvable, Silent Hill: Townfall is back with yet another round of changes and updates to its overall difficulty. Update 1.6 is available to download now on PS5, and first and foremost, it adds a hard difficulty...
News New Cyberpunk 2077 PS5 Patch Is Great News If You're Argentinian, CDPR Clarifies Update
Mystery solved
A new Cyberpunk 2077 patch is available to download now on PS5, but there's currently no official mention of what it actually does. The update weighs in at a not-insignificant 1.2GB, and it arrives just five days after Patch 2.5, which was of course a major content drop. As such, I'm guessing that this new update features various...
News The Witcher 3 Remastered Patch Specifically Targets PS5, PS5 Pro Crashing Problems
CDPR provides new details
CD Projekt Red has released a quick hotfix for The Witcher 3 Remastered, specifically on PS5 and PS5 Pro. This platform-exclusive patch apparently improves the game's overall stability, "to help ensure a more reliable experience". It's a mere 500MB download. There aren't any patch notes for this one since it's just a...
News Ghost of Yotei Gets More Complete with PS5 Patch Fixing Bugs and Black Screens
Sucker Punch cleans up expanded re-release
Sucker Punch has pushed out a ~1.2GB patch for last week’s Ghost of Yotei: Complete Edition, cleaning up some bugs and unexpected black screen errors. Ironically, the expanded re-release is now even closer to being, well, complete. Writing on social media, the Seattle-based studio said: “Patch 2.07...
News CD Projekt Red Delivers The Witcher 3 Remastered Fixes, Improvements in Patch 5.01
Available to download now on PS5
There's been some variation in the technical experience some people are having in The Witcher 3 Remastered, so CD Projekt Red has been quick to deploy updates on PS5 to fix any lingering issues. Case in point: patch 5.01 is available to download now. The update delivers enhancements and tweaks to gameplay, the UI,...
News Nerfs to Silent Hill: Townfall's Worst Enemy Are Substantial, Hard Puzzle Also Tweaked
The Weight gets hit hard
Screen Burn promised it would be addressing the worst enemy encounter in Silent Hill: Townfall, and boy has it in a new PS5 patch available now. The Weight, a monster that stalks you in a few sections and has an instant one-hit kill attack, has been heavily nerfed in the update. As per the developer, these are the changes...
News Wolverine PS5's Controversial Fart Trails Can Now Be Toggled in Story Sequences
"Based on community feedback"
I personally think the fall out over the scent trails in Marvel’s Wolverine may be one of the biggest overreactions in recent gaming memory, but fair play to Insomniac for responding to the (often robust) feedback. It’s already included options to disable the feature for collectibles, and reduced the opacity of...
News Wolverine Adds Sony's New QSSR Tech as Default on Base PS5 in Latest Patch
Insomniac living up to its name
As announced moments ago, base PS5 hardware is getting a big update, with the introduction of QSSR – a simplified version of Sony’s proprietary upscaler, better known as PSSR. And one of the first games to take advantage of the feature is Marvel’s Wolverine, enabled by default with v1.002, available now. The...
Here we are again
The Witcher 3 Remastered just got its first update on PS5 (version 5.000.020), following its launch a few days back. The patch is 1.1GB in size, and promises to fix some lighting issues, particularly in areas where everything seems just a bit too dark. And that's the only real detail we have here on Sony's system. The patch...
News Fantastic Sandbox Cop Game The Precinct Gets a Huge Update on PS5
Truck yeah
The Precinct was something of a standout game for me last year. For those unfamiliar, it's a sort-of-top-down sandbox title where you play as a rookie cop. You patrol the fictional Averno City, tackling dynamic crimes that spring up across the map. It's really good fun, and its sandbox design is always throwing crazy scenarios at you,...
News Control Resonant Made Easier After Player Feedback, PS5 Patch Live Now
Small update makes a big difference
Control Resonant launches on PS5 today, and developer Remedy is already addressing feedback it's received from critic reviews and early access players. While the game has been received incredibly well, a lot of reports covering the opening hours of the experience mention difficult combat where you die way too...
News Dawnwalker's First Big PS5 Patch Adds an Even Easier Difficulty Mode and Improves Combat
Sun's up
The Blood of Dawnwalker is set to receive its first major update next month. In an interview with Eurogamer, director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz gives us something of a patch preview, outlining a few key features. For starters, another difficulty option is being added. Perhaps surprisingly, this setting will be the easiest of the bunch,...
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Frame Rates Massively Improved with Patch 3.2 on PS5, PS5 Pro
Top Dogma
Patch 3.2 for Dragon's Dogma 2 released overnight, and it's made huge changes to the open world RPG. The update reworks fundamental bits and pieces of the game, while also improving the user experience in some pretty significant ways. You could argue that it verges on being a kind of re-release. But the most surprising improvement of all...
News Colossal, Game-Changing Dragon's Dogma 2 Patch 3.2 Out Now on PS5
Arise, Arisen
As Capcom promised, the biggest ever update for Dragon's Dogma 2 is available to download now on PS5. And when I write 'biggest', I don't just mean that it's packing the most improvements; this thing is 48GB in terms of file size. To be fair, update 3.2 basically rewrites the game, ahead of the Dark Arisen expansion which launches on...
News Dragon's Dogma 2's Game-Changing PS5 Patch Dated, But Slightly Delayed
The big one
Capcom has long promised a major update for Dragon's Dogma 2, dropping ahead of its Dark Arisen expansion on the 9th October. Previously, this patch was scheduled for late August, but the developer's now confirmed that it'll be arriving a little late, on the 1st or 2nd of September depending on your timezone. At least we've got a date!...
Guide Elden Ring: All Patch 1.05 Notes
Every Elden Ring update detailed
What are all Patch Notes in Elden Ring? The newest game out of FromSoftware will be continually updated well past its launch in February 2022 with new patches that add new features, fix bugs, and, adjust specific items. This article is designed to document all of them, providing easy access to anyone looking to see...
News Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter Gets Surprise PS5 Patch, Hardcore Fans Celebrate Changes
Coming to terms
You'll never hear me say a bad word about Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter — it's a truly excellent remake and RPG in general — but it did ship with one undeniable issue. Indeed, the game's English localisation was just a little bit off. Certain terms that were established in other Trails games were essentially reworked with more...
News Halo: Campaign Evolved PS5 Update Lands Next Week with Tech Fixes
A better Sgt. Johnson and updates to Jackals
Halo Studios has announced a new PS5 update for Halo: Campaign Evolved will go live next week that includes a raft of fixes and technical improvements. There'll be more to the patch, but the developer has shared some of the biggest things it's fixing with the update: Improvements to Sgt. Johnson to...
News Oblivion Remastered Could Finally Be Fixed on PS5 as Bethesda Promises 'Optimisations' Patch
Take your time
It's been roughly 16 months since The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered launched on PS5, and the open world revival still runs poorly on Sony's system. Although a couple of post-release updates did smooth performance to some extent, it remains a noticeably choppy game, plagued by frame rate issues and hitching as it loads assets...
News Silent Hill 2 Patch Broke Remake on PS5 Pro, and Konami Is Investigating
Cursed
Silent Hill 2 is an awesome game, but its PS5 Pro implementation was noted as an early lowpoint for Sony’s pricey platform. The company’s since massively improved its proprietary upscaler PSSR, and the supercharged system is regularly turning in outstanding results as a consequence. And now a new 6GB patch for the Bloober Team developed...
News AC Black Flag Resynced Improved with 5GB PS5 Patch This Week
Blow off steam without the blowpipe
The acclaimed – and best-selling – Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced will get further PS5 improvements and refinement from tomorrow, 4th August, as part of a new 5GB patch, v1.0.6. Available to download from around 10AM ET / 7AM PT, the main improvement includes the ability to hide the blowpipe from...
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Dev Confirms Hard Mode Is Finally Coming
Through the fire and flames
Dragon's Dogma 2 will finally be handed a hard difficulty mode, hopefully putting one of the game's most prominent issues to rest. The game has a very uneven difficulty curve as you level up, to the point where the vast majority of enemies that you encounter become incredibly easy to defeat. The combat system itself is...
News 5 Years Later, Cyberpunk Shooter The Ascent Confirms Major PS5 Update as Dev Teases Sequel
Always ascending
First released in 2021 for Xbox and PC, before hitting PS5 roughly a year later, The Ascent is celebrating its fifth anniversary today. If you've never played it, The Ascent is a bombastic twin-stick RPG-shooter set in a bustling cyberpunk world. It's solid in terms of gameplay, but it's really the game's overall aesthetic and...
News Huge Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Patch Out Now Ahead of Tomorrow's Major DLC Drop
New stages, balance changes, and more
With its Super Limit-Breaking NEO DLC set to release tomorrow (that's the 30th July), Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero just got an all-important patch that both prepares the brawler for its new content, and makes some big gameplay adjustments. The update brings three new stages, a new music track, reworks a few...
News Horizon PS5 Remaster Updated for Probable PS6 Handheld Support
Patch 1.09 out now on PS5
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered has today received a patch that adds a setting very few people on PS5 will actually use: support for the console's Power Saver mode. When activated, the Power Saver mode runs PS5 titles at lower settings in order to consume less electricity. As much as caring for the environment is becoming...
News Digimon Story Time Stranger 60fps Patch Out Now on PS5, Adds Photo Mode and More
Hello, Stranger
It's been over eight months since Digimon Story Time Stranger launched on PS5, but Bandai Namco apparently never forgot about its promise to improve the game's performance. The creature-taming RPG has been capped at a disappointing 30 frames-per-second since launch, but a freshly revealed update, which drops on the 9th July, will...
News Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster Gets Surprise PS5 Patch, Adding New Game+, Settings, and More
A tactical choice
Square Enix has just pumped out a surprise patch for Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles — and it's a pretty significant one. An enhanced (and slightly expanded) remaster of the stone cold classic strategy RPG, The Ivalice Chronicles released for PS5 and PS4 back in September of last year. It's barely been mentioned by...
This is the end
Ubisoft has blown the lid off the final update for Assassin's Creed Shadows — and it's packing a lot more than most people were expecting, including myself. Firstly, it adds a brand new main story chapter that completes the tale of protagonists Naoe and Yasuke. The duo will have to face off against two elite Templars who have...
News Starfield Patch Promises to Fix Its Biggest Crashing Issue on PS5, Two Months After Launch
Better late than never
Starfield has received yet another update on PS5, in the hope of finally addressing the game's remaining crash-related issues. It's been over two months since Bethesda's sci-fi RPG launched on Sony's system, and while the developer has done a lot to fix the game's most glaring performance woes in that time, it's only now just...
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Patch 3.1 Out Now, Big Improvements Prepare for Dark Arisen DLC
Huge patch notes revealed
Capcom plans to release two major updates for Dragon's Dogma 2 in the very near, and relatively near future. This news comes off the back of Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen being announced — a huge expansion that's dropping in October. The first patch releases tomorrow at the time of writing — that's the 10th June...
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Isn't Done Yet, Teases 'One Last Update'
Coming next week
Assassin's Creed Shadows will receive "one last update", according to a teaser posted on the game's official social media channels. This is despite Ubisoft claiming that support for the game had all but wrapped up roughly one year after its initial release. The teaser for Update 1.1.11 doesn't give anything away; all we know for...
News Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Cheats Live Now in New PS5 Patch
Another set of streamlined progression features
Just as it did upon the Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 ports of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Square Enix has today updated Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on PS5 with the selection of cheats the other two consoles get with their new versions. An update is live now on PS5, and having downloaded it, you shall...
News Tekken 8 Really Is Getting Back on Track After a Truly Terrible Start to the Year
Patch 3.01 is another win
Patch 3.01 for Tekken 8 has arrived alongside returning DLC character Kunimitsu — and it's actually turning out to be another significant win for Bandai Namco and the Tekken team. Just in case you haven't been keeping up, Tekken 8 was in a terrible state just several months ago. The big Season 3 update dropped in March,...
News Starfield PS5 Gets Yet Another Crash-Fixing Patch, Over a Month and Two Updates Later
Do it again
It's been over a month since Starfield launched on PS5, and the game still suffers from crashing issues. Up until now, Bethesda has delivered two patches specifically targeting Sony's console. Based on our own testing, these updates did seem to fix a number of crash-related problems, but the title remains a bit of a mess on a technical...
News Third Patch for Starfield PS5 Crashing Issues Coming Next Week
Bethesda still on the job
Bethesda has a third update for Starfield on PS5 (and this time also on Xbox Series X|S and PC) to push live next week, the RPG company confirmed. A social media post late this Friday afternoon speaks to the patch addressing "multiple crash and stability issues and several gameplay fixes", with the full list of tweaks and...
News Crimson Desert Patch 1.05 Live on PS5, Adds Boss Fight Replays and More
Try out Rematches and Re-Blockades
Another weekend, another Crimson Desert patch continues to be the mantra inside Pearl Abyss, as this morning, it's put out another update this morning to bring the PS5 game up to version number 1.05. Today's patch adds two previously confirmed features: Rematches (boss fight replays) and Re-Blockades. Now, when...
News Sony's Lost Soul Aside Was Rough at Launch, But Another Impressive PS5 Patch Is Out Now
Soul edge
Lost Soul Aside probably ended up being one of our biggest disappointments of 2025, but it's great to see developer UltiZero Games sticking with the Sony-published title well after release. The studio's just dropped another major patch — by our count, the fifth of its kind — adding a slew of new and improved content alongside some...
News Bethesda Issues Second Starfield PS5 Crashing Fix, Live Now
Sounds like the dev thinks it's fixed
After its surprisingly limited PS5 update for Starfield last week, which was designed to fix the crashing issues users are facing for just a single graphics mode on PS5 Pro, the publisher has another patch live now. As Bethesda puts it, here is what the update does: "We just released a hotfix for Starfield on...
News PS5 Pro Just Made Pragmata Even Better in New Patch
Update with native PSSR2 support now live
Capcom has pushed a new Pragmata update live today that adds official support for PSSR2 on PS5 Pro. There's some confusion here, as following a technical analysis from Digital Foundry, it was assumed the game already was utilising the newly enhanced feature. However, the Japanese publisher said this fresh...
News Starfield PS5 Crash Patch Out Now, But It Only Partly Fixes PS5 Pro
See you next week
Bethesda has (sort of) delivered on its promise to fix Starfield's frankly shocking crashing issues on PS5 and PS5 Pro. Patch 1.000.003 is available to download now on Sony's system, weighing in at 1.445GB. However, as alluded, this hotfix does not address all causes of the game crashing. In fact, it only targets crashes on PS5...
News Tekken 8's Turning Point Arrives Out of Nowhere, Devs Finally Listen with Patch 3.00.02
No longer Tekken the p*ss
Well, we didn't see this one coming. When Bandai Namco confirmed that Tekken 8 would be getting a mid-April patch, there were zero expectations — most players just assumed that it would include minor tweaks since it hasn't been billed as a key update. But as it turns out, patch 3.00.02 — the first patch since the big...
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Patch 1.1.10 Pushes PSSR 2 on PS5 Pro, Unshackles the Bo Staff
Bo selector
Ubisoft has confirmed that patch 1.1.10 for Assassin's Creed Shadows will drop tomorrow (that's the 7th April), and it's an important one for PS5 Pro users. As promised, this update will allow Shadows to take advantage of PSSR 2 — the Pro's recently upgraded upscaling tech. This means that you should be getting even better quality...
Private storage gets a huge buff, too
Another meaningful update for Crimson Desert has just dropped, and it features some very welcome improvements. While there's nothing here that we'd deem major, patch 1.02 — which weighs in at around 900MB on PS5 — should still make your life in Pywel more enjoyable. Highlights include a toggle for headgear...
News Crimson Desert Dev Keeps Its Promise, Replaces AI Art in Latest Patch
Art attack
Sick of seeing those seriously ugly AI-generated paintings in Crimson Desert? If so, we've got good news: they've been officially replaced. As part of the game's latest major update — which dropped over the weekend — developer Pearl Abyss has stripped the title of AI assets. While the change was mentioned in the full patch notes,...
News Crimson Desert Improves Image Quality on Base PS5 with Simple Upscaling
FSR 3 added to Performance Mode
Crimson Desert was not recommended on the PS5 at launch, largely due to its sub-par Performance Mode which launched without any upscaling at all. But in the game’s latest patch, Pearl Abyss has iterated upon the launch day product, adding in FSR 3 upscaling when the game is running in its 60fps format. While this...
News Major Crimson Desert Patch Out Now on PS5, Makes Countless Gameplay Improvements
Full patch notes released
Crimson Desert patch 1.01.00 is available to download now on PS5, and to say it's packed with improvements would be an understatement. It's honestly hard to pick out highlights from the patch notes because there's just so much stuff. The update includes better load times, better performance, a new 4K graphical toggle on...
News Tekken 8 Dev Responds to Disastrous Season 3 Backlash, Confirms New Update Schedule
Tekken it back
Following on from what can only be described as a disastrous launch, Bandai Namco has opened up on Season 3 of Tekken 8, acknowledging that the update has fallen short. "We recognize that the battle experience we intended to deliver has not fully met your expectations," the developer writes in a new blog post. "Moving forward, we...
News One of PS5's Most Graphically Intensive Games Patched to Support Low Power Mode
Forbidden power
Horizon Forbidden West may also be available on the PS4, but it’s still one of the PS5’s most graphically impressive games. There’s just no doubt about it. Now the Guerrilla console exclusive has been patched to support the system’s new low power mode, making it one of a few titles to actually support the feature. Sony
