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Random Commemorative Launch Plaque of PS5 Catastrophe Concord Donated to Thrift Store
That's kinda sad
It doesn’t look like Chelsea Grace, an Outsourcing and Co-Dev Lead at shuttered developer Firewalk Games, has much love for Concord. She’s donated her commemorative launch plaque to US thrift store Goodwill, and you can now own this small piece of history. The framed piece includes the game’s box art and a copy of the PS5...
Random These PlayStation Gashapons Play Each Console's Start-Up Sound
"Toy capsules? I love these"
Bandai Namco is bringing a new line of officially licensed PlayStation gashapons to Japanese toy capsule machines. The keyrings cost ¥500 (~$3.50) apiece and are shaped like the controller from each PlayStation console generation. The novelty here, however, is if you press the start button they’ll play each...
Random Hideo Kojima Gave His Studio a USB Stick with All His Ideas on It
"How many years do I have left"
Industry icon Hideo Kojima is now officially past the age of 60 and after having an illness during the pandemic he's had some serious thoughts about his future. While he's currently got projects like Death Stranding 2: On the Beach in the pipeline, he's also very much mindful of the future of his studio after he's no...
Random This Stellar Blade Super Fan Sleeps with Eve Every Night
Sweet dreams
A Stellar Blade super fan, who claims to have played the PS5 console exclusive for over 1,100 hours, has shown off their shrine to heroine Eve. The impressive collection includes framed pictures, mugs, steel books, and acrylic stands. But the pièce de resistance is the bed set, which includes a massive image of the heroine’s face...
Random Square Enix, Nomura Have the Most Kingdom Hearts Social Media Exchange Imaginable
...What?
As it's been several more months since we went 1,000 days without any word at all regarding Kingdom Hearts IV, Square Enix's social media post highlighting a recent exchange between itself and director Tetsuya Nomura immediately perked our ears up. We really should have known better. Celebrating the series' 23rd anniversary (thanks,
Random You've Been Pronouncing Balatro Wrong (Probably)
"You dealt with that pretty well!"
In the same way that you've probably not been saying "gib" or "Scadutree" in the way their original creators properly intended, it's more than likely you've not been using the correct intonation when pronouncing "Balatro", the name given to the wildly successful poker-like from indie game dev, Localthunk.
Random Everyone's Talking About Cats' Testicles in Zenless Zone Zero on PS5
Even they jiggle now, too
Zenless Zone Zero is notorious for its, shall we say, buoyant anatomy. In a recent update for the HoYoverse gacha, there was controversy when the developer made it more difficult to peek up characters’ skirts. That decision was quickly reversed. Now everyone’s talking about the mog’s bollocks – credit to
Random Dark Souls 2 Fans Unwilling to Relinquish Established Acronym to Death Stranding 2
Kojima can prise it from our cold, Hollowed hands
Dark Souls II, admittedly the black sheep of the FromSoftware family, having not received the personal, sadistic attentions of Hidetaka Miyazaka, still has legions of fanatical defenders. These Hollow beings have risen in response to Hideo Kojima's alleged hubris, after that auteur creator casually...
Random Monster Hunter Wilds Fans Impressed by Capcom's Collection of Blades
You call that a knife?
Monster Hunter Wilds features a wide assortment of majestic creatures to ruthlessly hunt down for their resources, and not a few nightmarish abominations that simply cannot be suffered to live. Of course, you'll need your trusty carving knife to reap the rewards, and fans have been impressed to find the wide range of blades on...
Random There's a Run on Cheese Naan in Japan, and Monster Hunter Wilds Is to Blame
We'll take two
Mmmm, cheese naan. It’s comforting, filling, and outrageously delicious. It’s also selling out at Japanese restaurants right now, and Monster Hunter Wilds is to blame. Automaton reports that fans of the hit PS5 game have been storming Nepalese restaurants right around the country after seeing a cutscene in the game which depicts...
Random The Ultimate Git Gud FromSoftware Challenge, Completed
To the sound of a cottage industry collapsing
FromSoftware broke the brains of an entire generation of streamers with its masochistic series of Soulslike games, beginning with Dark Souls, spanning everything in between, before reaching peak ridiculous with Elden Ring. The difficulty inherent in the developer's games and additional self-imposed...
Random Was The Last of Us Teasing Intergalactic PS5 All Along?
Not the Savage Starlight we first thought
For the longest time, when the topic of a sci-fi game from Naughty Dog came up before the reveal of Intergalactic, fans of the developer always seemed convinced the in-game comic from The Last of Us, titled Savage Starlight, would be its basis and adopt the name. The made-up series is advertised throughout...
Random Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX Performance Referenced PlayStation
Who understood that reference?
It had been rumoured prior to his performance, but yes, Kendrick Lamar squeezed a subtle PlayStation reference into his Super Bowl half-time show. While the Philadelphia Eagles proceeded to rout favourites Kansas City Chiefs, the rapper took to the world’s biggest stage atop four platforms inspired by...
Random Build Communism with $165 Disco Elysium Poverty Chic Plastic Bag Bag
0.0001% of communism built so far
Seemingly taking a page straight out of classic Ben Stiller comedy, Zoolander, ZA-UM, the developer behind and entity currently in possession of the immaculate Disco Elysium IP, is offering a truly inspired piece of merch: based on the in-game Frittte! plastic bag used to gather up garbage (in exchange for abysmally...
Random Sony Enjoys Some Free Game Marketing with More Jeopardy! PlayStation Questions
Why not
Sony Pictures Television produces the evergreen American game show Jeopardy!, so it makes sense to throw some PlayStation questions into the mix, right? At least a couple of questions directly related to first-party PS5 games have appeared on the popular show recently, as shared on social media. Firstly, Insomniac Games highlighted a clip...
Random DOOM Ported to a New Portal, Now Playable Inside a PDF
Wonders never cease
We don't know where, or even if, the inherent need to port seminal shooter DOOM to the most unlikely hardware imaginable will ever cease. In any case, a high school student has somehow managed to convert id Software's eternally influential game to Portable Document Format (PDF), playable in a web-based browser. The future boss...
Random You'll Want to Plunge a Knife into Zayn Malik's The Last of Us Birthday Cake
Clicker or cake?
Like most reasonable people, we didn't think we'd be writing about British singer Zayn Malik's birthday cake when we woke up this morning. The performer, previously part of One Direction, recently celebrated his 32nd birthday, and posted about his cake on Instagram, because that's the sort of thing that happens now. However, it's...
Random Sony's Electric Car Encourages You to Flaunt Your Astro Bot Fandom
Oh, AFEELA good
Sony and Honda’s forthcoming electric vehicle AFEELA comes with all kinds of innovative features, but the one that’s caught our attention is how it allows you to flaunt your Astro Bot fandom. As part of a “themes” system – something the PS5 doesn’t even have – you can select from some of your favourite games, like the...
Random Kanye West Is Playing The Last of Us 2 on Survivor + Mode, Says It's the Best Game Ever Made
"This is not a sponsored post"
Kanye West may be a lot of things, but at least he has damn good video game taste. The Gold Digger singer posted a picture of his The Last of Us 2 progress on Instagram, confirming he’s playing the Naughty Dog sequel on its most difficult Survivor + setting. He’s probably going to need to get Stronger to reach the...
Random PS5, PS4 Shovelware Isn't Even Trying to Hide Its Plagiarism Anymore
Joel, is that you?
Those of you who’ve been unlucky enough to browse the PS Store lately will know it’s infested with AI art, knock-offs, and shovelware. However, the lack of curation is emboldening devs, as evidenced by the upcoming Forest Ranger Life Simulator. As you can see from the key art, it features a character who resembles Joel from...
Random Grizzled Red Dead Redemption Voice Actor Has an OnlyFans Account
"We need money, John"
Few character archetypes are as overtly masculine as the grizzled American cowboy, and few cowboys are as iconic as the legendary John Marston of Red Dead Redemption fame. All of that is just a pretence to say that John Marston actor Rob Wiethoff has started an OnlyFans account, not to make adult content, but to chronicle his...
Random Impatience for GTA 6 Reaches New Heights with Grand Taking Ages on PS Store
Parodying a parody
Grand Theft Auto 6 is on its way, but while Rockstar Games takes its sweet time with 2025's hottest game, anticipation and impatience have reached such fevered heights that it's bleeding onto the PS Store. What does that mean? Well, try looking up Grand Taking Ages VI, a recently listed game on Sony's digital storefront that...
Random Monster Hunter's Got to Have the Best Motion Capture in Gaming
Born to be Wilds
Creating some of the most memorable monsters in gaming can't be easy, but Capcom seems to nail it time and time again with its Monster Hunter series. Really, these fearsome beasts are the star of the show, but it's not just their designs that catch the eye — it's the way they move, the way they're so deliberately animated...
Random Even Clive from Final Fantasy 16 Is Begging for Bloodborne at 60fps
Surely you can't deny Clive, Sony
It almost doesn't matter what Sony does — nothing can placate the hunger that PlayStation fans have for anything Bloodborne. One of the most beloved exclusive titles to release in the last 10 years, the PS4 action RPG from Japan Studio and FromSoftware is held in incredibly high regard — and everyone is asking...
Random Super Smash Bros Maker Masahiro Sakurai Says He Bought a PS5 Pro Today
Super spend bros
Industry icon Masahiro Sakurai – the eternally young creator of the Super Smash Bros franchise and founder of Sora Ltd – plunged deep into his wallet today to purchase a PS5 Pro console. “I bought it,” he wrote on social media, next to an image of the supercharged system’s box. While the new system has sparked global...
Random Suda51 Claims to Have Met Mysterious Sales Maestro, Wario64
"I told him, 'Yeah, of course I know about Wario64. Wait a second - are you him?!'"
Eccentric developer Goichi "Suda51" Suda, the founder of Grasshopper Manufacture and creator of No More Heroes, claims to have met the person (or one of the persons) behind the beloved Wario64 X (formerly Twitter) account. If you've been a gamer in the age of social...
Random Forward-Thinking PlayStation Gamer Spends $2,000 on 24 Years of PS Plus
To avoid Sony's frequent price-hikes
It's one thing to proclaim you will be one of the PlayStation faithful for life and quite another to drop a cool two grand on banking PS Plus subscriptions. That's exactly what one power user has done "because of the absurd price increases the past few years", ensuring their access to Sony's Premium online...
Random PS2's Iconic Operating System Becomes Survival Horror in Upcoming Indie
Please insert disc
For everyone reading this article, PS2’s operating system will be a source of nostalgia. It also could be quite a frightening place – especially when your favourite game failed to boot. Usually a quick breath over the back of the DVD and a rub on the shirt could fix even the most scratched copy of GTA: San Andreas, but it was...
Random Killzone Superfans Want to License the IP from Sony
"We promise, we won't disappoint"
The creators of a Killzone fanzine have appealed to Sony to license the intellectual property to them, promising “we won’t disappoint”. Following comments made by Guerrilla’s art director Roy Postma, in which he implied the team was “done with” the first-person shooter franchise, the British-based...
Random Internet Trolls Tried to Downgrade Our Silent Hill 2 PS5 Review Score
In my restless dreams
We awarded Bloober Team’s brilliant PS5 remake of Konami’s iconic survival horror Silent Hill 2 a 9/10 because we genuinely believe it’s one of the strongest games of the year. At the time of writing, the title currently commands an 87 on Metacritic, suggesting the rest of the industry agrees. But not everyone is happy...
Random Xbox Boss Complains About X Button After Being Handed PS5 Pad
He's worried he may Push Square instead
A video clip of Xbox boss Phil Spencer at the Tokyo Game Show has gone viral after he jokingly complained about the position of the b:X button on the DualSense controller. “The b:X button’s in the wrong place,” he laughed. “b:X is supposed to be over there.” He then pointed to the position of the...
Random Scientific Study Proves PowerWash Simulator Puts You in a Better Mood
Cleanse your brain
Fans of PowerWash Simulator will all tell you how good it feels to play. The zen-like state you enter as you hose down huge levels in need of a deep clean is pretty unique, with every sweep of the pressure washer delivering an immensely satisfying dose of dopamine. Now, in a recent study, it's been proven that the game's...
Random You'll Wish Scrolling Beat-'Em-Up Resident Evil: Survive Was a Real PS5, PS4 Game
SuperS.T.A.R.S.
Resident Evil: Survivor on PS1 proved the versatility of Capcom’s franchise, as it transformed the series into a lightgun shooter. That gameplay loop was later repurposed for the PS Move titles The Umbrella Chronicles and The Darkside Chronicles. We’ve also seen the series transformed into a team-based shoo
Random We Regret to Inform You DOOM Has Been Ported to a Sex Toy
Did anyone ask for Dong DOOM?
For some unknown reason, the human drive to port 1993 classic DOOM to anything with a microchip remains strong, even three decades later. Famously running on calculators, freezers, and even Microsoft Notepad, we regret to inform you that someone got it working on an off-brand Fleshlight, modified so that it vibrates...
Random PS5 Dev Kit Thinly Disguised as 'Pizza Kit' Sells on eBay for $6,500
Pizza time
A PS5 development kit, under the guise of pizza-cooking equipment, has been sold on eBay for €6,050 — about $6,500. First brought to light by X user consolevariations, somebody has sold off a PS5 dev kit for a handsome sum, dressing it up as some sort of kitchen appliance. As you can see in the below image, the dev kit's V-shaped...
Random Euro 2024's Italy Manager Insists His Squad Isn't Banned from PS5
But must play responsibly
In a “controversy” that’s sure to please console maker Sony, the Italian national team appears to be embroiled in PlayStation-gate. Manager Luciano Spalletti has been critical of his players staying up too late on their PS5s in the past, and that prompted some speculation that he’d placed a blanket ban on the system...
Random What Happens to Your Digital PSN Library When You Die?
Banished to the void
What happens to gamers' digital games when they inevitably shuffle off this mortal coil? We've pondered this question many times in the dark hours before dawn, and it seems we aren't the only ones. A debate has picked up steam on Steam and other platforms about what happens to these increasingly valuable libraries we all collect...
Random Hideo Kojima Finds His Ideal Live-Action Solid Snake
Prepare to be body scanned
Hideo Kojima, the auteur creator of Metal Gear Solid, appears to have the legendary video game series on his mind. He's also a massive fan of George Miller's Mad Max franchise, and one face amongst the cast of post-apocalyptic characters introduced in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga seems to have struck a chord with the developer...
Random Stellar Blade Has Reached Peak Marketing with a Limited Edition Burger
Only available in Australia
Sony has been pushing the PS5 exclusive action game, Stellar Blade, pretty hard both before and after its launch back in April, but this new collaboration is next level. An Australian restaurant chain has joined forces with the game to cook up a special edition burger, available only for a limited time. Gami Chicken...
Random Get Crafty with These Cool Horizon Forbidden West Papercraft Models
Creasing up
Fans of papercraft may be interested to know there are a couple of official Horizon Forbidden West paper models. Over on the series' official site, scroll down on the community page and you'll find altogether more flimsy versions of two of the game's machines, waiting for you to fold them into shape. You can freely download and print...
Random GTA 6 Inspires a Real-Life F1 Miami Race Promo
Congrats to Lando Norris
Lando Norris fans will forever remember the 2024 Miami F1 Grand Prix for the likeable driver's first-ever racing win, but there was something else notable about the weekend's video promotions: a GTA 6-inspired clip used to advertise the weekend in general. Utilising the same song from the trailer of Love Is a Long Road by...
Random One-Button Tekken 8 Bot Attracts Thousands of Viewers as It Beats Real Players Online
Tekken the p*ss
Now this is the kind of crazy gaming scheme that we can get behind. Over the last few days, a Twitch channel called JimMashima (very good) has been attracting thousands of viewers to its Tekken 8 livestreams — but a real person isn't behind the action. Indeed, this is a bot with a singular purpose: to mash just one button and see...
Random Someone's Porting PS1 Classic WipEout to the Playdate
Why not?
If you’re not familiar with the Playdate, it’s the dinky yellow handheld with a crank that’s actively coveting a hobbyist, indie game development crowd. It’s home to a number of unique experiences already, but for PlayStation fans, this may be the most intriguing outing yet: Psygnosis’ legendary PS1 racer WipEout, rendered in...
Random I Met My Favourite Korean Cheerleader Because of Eve and Stellar Blade
To Dahye for
As the only British baseball fan on Planet Earth, I had one simple mission when I first arrived in Taipei: to choose a local team to support. Taiwan is infatuated with America’s former favourite pastime, and it’s even dedicated a spot on its $1,000 note to a celebrating squad. After much deliberation, I settled on the Rakuten...
Random We're In Awe of Metaphor: ReFantazio's Box Art
Princely
There's nothing quite like video game box art that makes you stop and say "wow". Admittedly, it's been a while since such a cover caught our eye, but we simply can't gawk at the newly revealed box art for Metaphor: ReFantazio and not write an article about it. The upcoming RPG looks to be a stunner in terms of art direction, and the cover...
Random The Brutal PS1 Driver Intro Even Bested F1 Pro Lewis Hamilton
Verstapp-ed in his tracks
The world is divided up into two types of people: those who have beaten Driver on PS1, and the rest who never got past its absurdly difficult tutorial. Lewis Hamilton, a seven-time F1 Championship winner, is one of the many who couldn't. In a new video uploaded to the Mercedes-AMG F1 YouTube channel, the professional racer...
Random Lara Croft Tops Mario as the Most Iconic Video Game Character of All Time, Apparently
Agent 47 is third...?
Well, BAFTA was clearly looking for headlines with this news, and boy has it got them! The British Academy of Film and Television Arts recently hosted a poll asking people to vote for the most iconic video game character of all time — and the results are, to be frank, shockingly inept (but obviously quite interesting). Yep,...
Random Seven Years Later, No Man's Sky's Reputation Is Slowly Improving
"Guys, we might hit Very Positive one day"
No Man's Sky has become synonymous with ambitious developer overreach, a cautionary tale of what can happen when publishers do nothing to reign in out-of-control hype. When the game was released in 2016 and failed to meet sky-high expectations set in no small part by Hello Games director Sean Murray...
Random Vladimir Putin Considers Creation of Russian Gaming Console
In an effort to develop Russia's native games industry
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly instructed his government to begin exploring the creation of a Russian games console in an apparent attempt to reboot the Russian gaming industry. That's according to the Russian-controlled state media apparatus RT (thanks, VGC), which details a...
Random You'll Probably Want This Streets of Rage Action Figure
Axel to grind
SEGA is really embracing its history these days, and it’s resulted in ongoing development of several nostalgic franchises, like Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi. But it’s also commissioning some cool merchandise collaborations, and you’ll probably want to add this Axel from Streets of Rage to your wishlist. Described as the...
