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News PS6's Rumoured Handheld Is Getting More Tangible by the Day
Specced out
Tech experts Digital Foundry have compiled a fresh wave of rumours regarding PS6’s rumoured handheld option, which is looking more and more like a tangible upcoming product by the day. Despite being potentially years away, the speculation comes courtesy of KeplerL2, a highly reliable AMD leaker who revealed many of the PS5 Pro’s...
News Death Stranding 2 Feedback Was 'Too Good', So Hideo Kojima Made Big Changes
Afraid of the game being "mainstream"
During testing, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach was proving to be too good, spurring on director Hideo Kojima to make some changes to the game. That's according to musician Yoann Lemoine (Woodkid), who has collaborated with Kojima Productions on the upcoming sequel's soundtrack, in a recent interview with...
News Sony Lifts Region Locks on Its PC Games, Including Helldivers 2, The Last of Us, More
Hundreds of countries no longer restricted
After just over a year, hundreds of countries can now once again purchase Sony's catalogue of Steam games. When Helldivers 2 launched on PC, players were uproarious about having to link a PlayStation Network account in order to play. Sony took this a step further, making its first-party titles
News 38% of PS Plus Members Are Paying More for Extra, Premium
"We will continue to add more value"
More people than you think have upgraded their PS Plus subscriptions. As part of an investor presentation today, PlayStation boss Hideki Nishino confirmed that 38% of all PS Plus members are subscribed to the more expensive PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium
News Sony Seems Eager to Explore Anime to Appeal to Younger Audiences
More adaptations on the way?
One potential danger with Sony’s thriving PlayStation business right now is that its audience is ageing, and younger players seem less enamoured with consoles than in generations past. Kids are, by and large, happy playing the likes of Roblox and Minecraft on tablets or cheap laptops, and don’t have the same...
News Sony's PS6 Strategy Is 'Top of Mind', Cloud Streaming to Remain Ancillary to Local Play
Silver lining
In a business interview, PlayStation's top executives are asked about the future of the platform, and as can be expected, it sounds like it's a top priority within the company right now. Asked whether cloud streaming negates the need for a new console (and whether PlayStation is making one), president and CEO Hideaki Nishino makes it...
News Stellar Blade's PC Mods Do More Than Remove Eve's Nanosuit
Oh boy
Following its record-breaking release on PC this week, Stellar Blade’s modding community has gone into overdrive. There are currently hundreds of different fan-made patches you can apply to your game, many of which depict buxom heroine Eve in various states of undress. But modders are getting much more creative than that: some updates...
News Switch 2 Can't Achieve a Great Experience on Big Screens, PS5 Boss Implies
This will go down well
Sony is keeping a keen eye on the Nintendo Switch 2, which has been obliterating sales records worldwide since its release last week. But while it believes PS5’s new competitor will bring energy to the gaming industry at large, it’s not overly concerned about its impact. That’s because, according to boss Hideaki...
News 'We Won't Make the Same Mistakes Again': Sony Reflects on PS5's Catastrophic Concord
But will not give up on live service
Sony’s vowed not to repeat the mistakes it made with the PS5’s ill-fated live service shooter Concord, saying its “reviewed its processes […] to deeply understand how and why the title failed to meet expectations”. Speaking candidly as part of a choreographed investors roundtable, PS Studios boss...
News Sony Taking 'Very Measured' Approach to Picking Which PS5 Games Get PC Ports
Sony wants to retain value of console
It might feel like PlayStation is throwing the majority of its first-party games on PC these days, but the company's top dogs want to ensure the value of PS5 isn't diminished. In a recent Sony business interview, SIE president and CEO Hideaki Nishino and studio business group CEO Hermen Hulst explain the...
"There are multiple participants who drive the game industry"
Sony’s said that competition from rival console manufacturers drives it to innovate, although it’s not overly worried about Xbox’s potential exit from the business. PlayStation boss Hideaki Nishino was asked rather bluntly during an investors meeting whether he believes it’ll be...
News You Didn't Find This Secret Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Minigame for Four Years
Insomniac Games reveals all
There’s a secret, unfinished minigame in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – and you didn’t know about it. In fact, no one did outside of Insomniac Games, as it’s only just been publicly revealed four years after the title’s original PS5 release. Effectively, when you go to Zurkie’s, before you enter there are...
News Stellar Blade Goes Nuclear on PC, Obliterates All Sony Single Player Records on Steam
Eve-y peasy
Stellar Blade has released on PC, and it's instantly set a new record for Sony. The hit action title racked up an impressive 99,980 concurrent players on Steam at launch, which is more than any previous Sony-published, single player game has managed. Of course, the single player caveat is necessary here since Helldivers 2 was such a...
News We Almost Got a Brand New Jumping Flash Game for PSVR2
Gone in a flash
Sony has been delving into its back catalogue a little more recently, and it seems it's going right back to the beginning, according to former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida. Speaking to VGC, the indie games advocate revealed that Jumping Flash was on the cards to make a comeback with an original virtual reality game, but it...
News PS5's Death Stranding 2 Gets Another New Trailer, But It's Not Like the Others
As in, it's normal
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is right around the corner, and you may have noticed it's been getting a lot of exposure, especially in the lead up to launch. That makes perfect sense, of course, but one could argue we're reaching a point of over-saturation with all these confounding and brilliant trailers, interviews, panels,...
Guide PlayStation Studios: All Sony First-Party Developers and What They're Working On
Every PlayStation exclusive project
What are all PlayStation Studios developers and what are they working on? In this PlayStation Studios guide, we’re going to list all of the Japanese giant’s subsidiary game makers, along with their current projects. We’ll be updating this article regularly, as new titles are announced. Note: We've focused...
News Days Gone Dev Hit with Layoffs, Loses 30% of Staff
Roughly 40 people lose their jobs
Days Gone team Bend Studio has suffered a wave of layoffs that means 30% of its workforce will lose their jobs, a post from Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier reports. This translates to around 40 people being laid off. In a Bluesky post, Schreier said: "Sony's Bend studio, which cancelled a live-service game...
News Yep, PlayStation's PC Games Will Be Playable on Xbox's New Handheld System
Everything on everything
You probably saw this over the weekend, but Microsoft has now formally announced its upcoming handheld device, the ROG Xbox Ally. Made in partnership with Asus, the machine is essentially a handheld PC running Windows, and it will allow you to play your Xbox library natively, via the cloud, or remote play. What's more,...
News DualSense PS5 Controllers Will Soon Be Able to Pair with Multiple Devices At Once
Sony teases new feature
PS5's DualSense controller is one of the best pads you can use, especially when its bells and whistles are really taken advantage of, and it seems Sony isn't quite done throwing new features at it. In a social post out of nowhere, PlayStation has announced that an update is planned for the controller that will allow it to be...
News Sony's Legend of Zelda Movie Releasing a Little Later to Make It 'As Good As It Can Be'
This is Miyamoto
Just in case it had slipped your mind, Nintendo has partnered with Sony Pictures to make a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie. Initially planned for a global theatrical release on 26th March, 2027, none other than Shigeru Miyamoto himself has announced a slight delay: The film is now pencilled in for 7th May, 2027 — not a...
News Sounds Like Switch 2 May Have Obliterated PS5's Launch Record in France
Sony's system launched during the pandemic, remember
In a story that you’re likely to see regurgitated all over the web across a multitude of different regions this week, it sounds like the Switch 2 may have absolutely obliterated PS5’s launch record in France. Now there’s important context to keep in mind here: Sony’s current console...
News Kick Back with More Mind Blowing Death Stranding 2 PS5 Gameplay
Hope you're not on a media blackout
You probably feel like you’ve seen more than enough at this stage, but if you’re still curious about how Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is shaping up weeks prior to its 26th June release date, there’s a lot more to enjoy in this game premiere, hosted by Hideo Kojima and Geoff Keighley. With guest...
News Stellar Blade's Story Continues in Monstrous NIKKE: Goddess of Victory Crossover
Can collecting! Minigames! Costumes! More!
Shift Up boss Hyung-tae Kim has described both character action game Stellar Blade and smartphone smash hit NIKKE: Goddess of Victory as “akin to his children”, and so his company is going above and beyond with this upcoming collaboration.
News Tencent Buys 15% Stake in Helldivers 2 Dev Arrowhead for $80 Million
A little more than ten cents
Arrowhead Game Studios, the developer behind the enormously successful Helldivers 2, has a new stakeholder in Chinese conglomerate Tencent. The company has just acquired 15.75 per cent of shares in the studio, costing them $80 million. Arrowhead's co-founders own the rest of the business, with the remaining shares...
News Days Gone Remastered Gets Another Update on PS5, Here Are the Patch Notes
All fixed up
Developer Bend Studio hasn't cast out Days Gone Remastered to the Freakers and called it a day — it's been making steady improvements to the game with a series of updates, and the latest of these is now available. You can download and install patch version 1.030.000 on PS5 right now, adding yet more fixes and improvements to the open...
News PS5's Brilliant New State of Play Breaks Records for Sony
Mission accomplished
The latest State of Play, which aired just hours ago on 4th June, is already the most viewed ever. With 2.8 million views at the time of writing, the broadcast is comfortably above Horizon Forbidden West’s dedicated livestream, as well as 2022’s summer State of Play. It’ll be really interesting to see if Ghost of...
News Stellar Blade's New Body Double Teases Outfit from Upcoming DLC
Yoon Seol-hwa models upcoming looks
While the body of Stellar Blade’s Eve was originally based on Shin Jae-eun, the character appears to have a new double these days. We reported previously that cosplayer Yoon Seol-hwa had stepped into the high heels of the heroine, and it looks like the same is true for the game’s upcoming
News 'Why Isn't PlayStation in This Space?' Sony Pondered Before Greenlighting Marvel Fighter
A very good question
Since it acquired co-ownership of fighting game tournament EVO, Sony has been heads down on brawlers like Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8. The manufacturer co-markets practically every title that releases in the space, and it’s become the de facto format for titles in the genre. But, aside from perhaps the PS3 and PS Vita’s...
Reaction Sony Finally Understands the Assignment with One of the Best State of Plays of the PS5 Era
State of yay
It hasn’t hurt PS5’s popularity in the slightest, but Sony’s showcases have been mixed for many years now. There have been good ones, like last year’s stream featuring Ghost of Yotei, but this felt like the company finally understood its assignment. <related ids="183236"> The thing with State of Plays, and E3 press...
News James Bond, Silent Hill Among the Most Viewed Trailers at State of Play
All the trailers ordered
While it’s far from a scientific demonstration of overall interest, it’s always fun to see which trailers from the latest State of Play proved the most popular on PlayStation’s official YouTube channel. The numbers across the board are incredible for this year’s show by the way, with 2.7 million watching the English...
News New PS5 Firmware Update Appears to Fix VRR Stuttering Issues
Another problem seemingly solved
Tech experts Digital Foundry recently ran a big expose on PlayStation’s VRR support, affecting both PS5 Pro and PS5. While we’d encourage you to read the article in its entirety, for the purposes of brevity we’ll summarise. VRR, or Variable Refresh Rate,
News Here's Fighting Game Fan Maximilian Dood's Viral Reaction to PS5, PC's New Marvel Fighter
Safe to say he liked that
YouTuber Maximilian Dood is well known for his love of fighting games – specifically the Marvel vs. Capcom franchise. You may recall he absolutely lost his mind when Capcom announced its PS4 compilation about a year ago, and he’s even self-funded a graphical patch for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, which was a notoriously...
News Sony Is Making Its Own Official Wireless Fighting Stick for PS5, PC
No price just yet
With the announcement of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, and the fact that Sony has been working overtime to establish PS5 as the premiere platform for fighting games, we suppose an official fight stick seemed inevitable. And here it is: Project Defiant, a wireless fight stick designed for PS5 and PC which uses PS Link to provide...
News The Brilliant Astro Bot DualSense PS5 Controller Is Making a Comeback
Fresh faced
Of all PS5's special edition DualSense pads, the Astro Bot one has to be among the best. Based on the in-game DualSpeeder, players were able to purchase the white and blue special edition controller around the PS5 game's launch last year, but it's no longer in production. Fortunately, that's about to change; Sony is re-releasing the...
News Ghost of Yotei PS5 Gameplay Showcase Confirmed for July
Ghosting
Ghost of Yotei did indeed show up at the latest State of Play — but we didn't get to see much of the upcoming PS5 exclusive. Yep, this was a classic bait and switch, with the above trailer dropping a tease for another State of Play which will give us a Ghost of Yotei gameplay deep dive. It's happening at some point next month. We knew...
News Astro Bot Is Getting Even More Free DLC Challenge Levels Next Month on PS5
The fun never ends
Astro Bot has had a string of great (and free) DLC, and that trend is set to continue. Team Asobi has announced five more challenge levels are coming to the game, free of charge, on 10th July 2025. The new stages will join the others in the Vicious Void galaxy, and will bring the game's total number of stages to over 90. On PS...
News PlayStation Gets Guilty Gear Dev to Make Insane Marvel Fighting Game for PS5
When's Mahvel?
Well, who saw this one coming? The fighting game masters at Japanese developer Arc System Works have been brought in to make a new Marvel brawler — and it's being published by Sony under the PlayStation Studios umbrella. Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is coming to both PS5 and PC in 2026 — but we've already been given a good eyeful...
Live Watch Sony PlayStation's State of Play Here (4th June, 2025)
Saros? God of War? Resident Evil? Wolverine?
Are you planning to watch PlayStation’s State of Play? To be honest, we didn’t think it was happening this year, but Sony has come up clutch with a last-minute announcement. That means there’s been very little time to set expectations, but we know we’re getting 40 minutes of PS5 games from around...
News New PS5 Firmware Update Out Today in Phased Release
What does PS5 update 25.04-11.40.00 do?
Sony has confirmed that a new PS5 firmware update will go live starting today that's designed to improve the console's messaging system and usability "on some screens". Like previous system patches, it'll be delivered in a phased launch, so you might not get the option to download it straight away. The single...
News 2,500+ Killer PS5, PS4 Games Get Massive Discounts on PS Store
Many hit lowest prices ever
Not content with kicking our collective wallets’ asses with the enormous Days of Play sale, Sony has casually dropped over 2,500 more discounts onto the PS Store. <related ids="182925,182642"> There are some humdingers among these, with many titles at their lowest ever prices. We’ll bring you a full rundown of...
Guide What Time Is PlayStation's State of Play for June 2025?
Dates, times, and what to expect
Sony is bestowing upon us another State of Play, promising a whole bunch of announcements and updates on games heading to PS5. It should be an exciting watch for PlayStation fans, but when exactly is the livestream? On this page, we'll explain all you need to know about the upcoming State of Play. <related...
This was inevitable
As expected, mods are already beginning to emerge for Stellar Blade, expanding on heroine Eve’s already sizeable wardrobe. While there are already around 90 outfits to unlock in the game – with more to be bundled into the upcoming NIKKE: Goddess
Rumour Greek God of War Game Is a 2.5D Metroidvania
Smaller scale project in the works
With a new State of Play livestream confirmed for Wednesday, 4th June, speculation over whether the heavily rumoured new God of War game set in Greece will appear has kicked into gear. Though its presence in the show isn't mentioned, both Tom Henderson of Insider Gaming and the Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb...
News State of Play Confirmed for 4th June, 40+ Minutes of PS5 Games
Starts at 10pm BST / 2pm PT
There's growing belief amongst PS5 enthusiasts that Sony will announce a new State of Play broadcast this week. More specifically, some are expecting said announcement to happen later today, with the event itself taking place on Thursday. This would follow the patten of past shows. Now, it's important to note that all...
News Stellar Blade Split-Screen Mode Goes Viral, But Isn't Strictly Real
Double trouble
It's been reported that at one point in Stellar Blade’s lifecycle, Shift Up was planning to double down on the fun. A so-called secret unused co-op mode was alleged to have been uncovered by modders, but is actually just a function of Unreal Engine 5. The footage found by a
News Stellar Blade Dev Massively Upgrades 3D Scanning Tech Ahead of Sequel
Eye sore
The Korean developer behind Stellar Blade has massively upgraded its 3D scanning rig, ahead of the release of the title’s hotly anticipated sequel. The follow-up, which the studio already said would release by 2027, will almost certainly launch on the PS5 as Sony served as the publisher on the original game across both PC and console...
News Stellar Blade's PC Demo Peaks Higher Than Some Blockbuster Games, Runs Flawlessly
A positive start
Stellar Blade’s PC demo has blown up on Steam, peaking with highs of 26,443 concurrent players. That’s higher than some blockbuster games like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and close to the recent release of DOOM: The Dark Ages. Of course, the demo is free to try, but it’s already been available for over a year on PS5,...
News Death Stranding 2 Premiere Event Showcases the Game One More Time Before PS5 Launch
Hosted by Kojima's best friend
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has had a lot of publicity in the last few weeks or so, but it's not enough for Hideo Kojima. With the game due out in less than a month, Kojima Productions has announced a special "live game premiere" event, taking place on 8th June during the Summer Game Fest period. Hosted by Geoff...
News Japanese VTuber Usada Pekora Is in Death Stranding 2, and We Don't Know Why
"Should we have connected, Peko-chan?"
The original Death Stranding had some fun cameos, like Geoff Keighley and Conan O’Brien. While a little strange, these worked because they were based on real people. If you knew who they were, then it was an enjoyable Easter egg; if you didn’t, then it didn’t really feel out of place. We can’t say the...
News New PS5 Commercial Wants You to Play the Unmissable
New global campaign launched alongside Days of Play
Sony’s new PS5 commercial wants you to play the unmissable. Part of a new global marketing campaign launching alongside the platform holder’s Days of Play promotion, the overall theme of the advert is to give the impression you simply can’t miss out on the games available for Sony’s latest...
