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News Sony Quietly Pulls 'Eslop' Titles in Face of Mounting Pressure
Draining the swamp
Last week, IGN published a report on the increasing amount of "eslop" cluttering up digital storefronts, a cause we here at Push Square were only too willing to throw our own, only slightly less formidable weight behind (at least, as far as the
News The Order: 1886 Dev Pitched a Sequel to Sony, But Was Denied
Co-founder thinks bad reviews were to blame
Ready at Dawn co-founder has revealed the now-shuttered studio pitched a sequel to PS4 exclusive The Order: 1886 to Sony, but was denied the chance to make it. Speaking to MinnMax in an interview on YouTube, Andrea Pessino shared he believes Sony didn't green-light another game based on the poor critical...
Rumour God of War Is Taking a 'Younger' Kratos Back to Greece
My life is yours!
Apparently, the next God of War game is going back to the series' Greek origins, and will star a "younger" Kratos. That's according to reliable insider Tom Henderson, speaking on his weekly Insider Gaming podcast. Rumours have been swirling around a new God of War title for ages, with the most recent whispers suggesting that the...
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...
News Stellar Blade Dev Offers an Early Look at Protagonist Eve's Prototype Character Model
Eve-olution
It’s not often we get a look at early in-development footage for our favourite games, so this Stellar Blade clip warrants attention. At just 30 seconds, it gives us a glimpse of an early version of protagonist Eve’s character model. “This is what Eve looked like in the early days of development,” the Korean studio said...
News All Eyes on Rumoured State of Play Later This Week
Love is in the air
While there’s been no comment or confirmation from platform holder Sony, the industry’s most notorious crystal ball gazers all believe there’ll be a State of Play this week. Reliable tipsters like Jeff Grubb, Nate the Hate, and Brazil have all tossed their hats into the ring, although it’s uncertain exactly
News PSN Downtime Raises Fresh Questions About PS5's Future Functionality
Reasons to be concerned
In an era where gaming increasingly emphasises online connectivity, there are undeniable benefits, like the unprecedented connectivity we enjoy in our games and the way titles can be updated and improved post-release in response to feedback. But there are issues, too. While it’s (mostly) sunshine and rainbows while the...
News Free PS Plus Extension for All Members Affected by PSN Outage
Sony will add five days of service to your current sub
PSN was offline for almost an entire day on Saturday, in what was the longest outage since 2011’s infamous hack. While services have now mostly resumed, Sony has promised that all PS Plus members will receive five days of free service as compensation for the down time. <related...
News PlayStation Fans Could've Had Another Resistance Game, But Sony Said No
Resistance 4 denied
When is Insomniac Games going to make another Resistance game? Well, it sounds like the studio tried, but it didn't get the green light from Sony. In a wider interview with Kinda Funny Games (embedded), Ted Price, who will soon depart his position as CEO, opened up about PS3's sci-fi first-person shooter series, revealing that a...
News Bloodborne, Uncharted, More Confirmed for PlayStation Concert's Set List
Music to our ears
In case you forgot, Sony is planning a worldwide tour of PlayStation: The Concert, a musical event featuring tracks from various first-party games. Now, the platform holder has announced a bunch of additional titles that'll feature during the concert. Attendees will be able to hear music from Bloodborne, Uncharted, Journey,
News Helldivers 2 Got a Significant PS5 Pro Upgrade and the Dev Didn't Say Anything
Time to dive back in
At some point in the recent past, Helldivers 2 appears to have been improved rather significantly on PS5 Pro — except developer Arrowhead Studios didn't make any kind of official announcement on the subject. That's according to a new analysis from the eggheads over at Digital Foundry, who say that the co-op shooter has...
News PS Plus Premium Subscribers Offered Free LEGO Horizon Demo
PS5 Trial lasts for one hour
Sony has today added to its list of Time Limited Trials on PS Plus Premium with a free LEGO Horizon Adventures demo for top-tier subscribers on PS5. Members will get to try the game for one hour from the moment they boot it up, which is enough time to work through a few levels and explore the hub world. Since release,...
News PlayStation to Absorb Dev Tools Division SN Systems
Company was acquired in 2005
SN Systems is not a name that will necessarily be familiar to PlayStation fans, but it’s been creating development tools for Sony since the early 90s, and was acquired by the company in 2005. Despite being a wholly owned subsidiary, it’s remained an independent entity, working exclusively on creating software for...
News Almost 2,000 PS5, PS4 Games Discounted in Behemoth Sale
Bringing some indie energy
Sony’s plunged the price on another 2,000 or so PS5 and PS4 games, with indies generally being the focus – although there are exceptions. There are some tantalising new lows among the discounts, with the offers set to end on 20th February, so you’ve got a little time to make up your mind over what you want. As...
News MLB The Show 25 Takes You Back to High School on PS5, Adds a New Board Game Mode
Plus, ambush hitting and more
Fans of sports games will know that iteration is the order of the day, and MLB The Show 25 is no different really. While the series is celebrating its 20th anniversary, baseball lovers can look forward to refinement to San Diego Studio’s long-running series, as opposed to a full-scale revolution. The biggest changes...
News Copium as Second Bloodborne Fan Project Hit by Sony DMCA Takedown
"The nightmare swirls and churns unending"
There is a particular sadistic joy to being a modern Bloodborne fan. A decade on, short of a complete remake, we probably wouldn't even be interested in a remaster or 60fps patch at this late stage, but then, we're probably in the minority on that; Sony has struck another Bloodborne fan project with a DMCA...
News Become Servants of Freedom in New Helldivers 2 Warbond
Available from 6th February
Arrowhead Studios has revealed the latest premium Warbond for Helldivers 2, arriving later this week on 6th February 2025. Servants of Freedom kits Super Earth defenders out in metal armour, covering their entire face to leave a blank expression in the face of the bug and robotic onslaught that awaits. Take a look at...
News Shuhei Yoshida: A Mix of Technical and Business Reasons Held Dreams Back from PC, Mobile
A dream it shall remain
Dreams, the highly ambitious PS4 exclusive from Media Molecule, was famously one of Shuhei Yoshida's favourite projects while he was at the helm of PlayStation Studios. He touches on it briefly in a lengthy interview with MinnMax, looking back fondly on visits to the Guildford-based development team. "Meeting with people at...
News Backed by Sony for Years, Shuhei Yoshida Explains Why WiLD Was Cancelled
Tamed
WiLD, the ambitious open world game from Rayman creator Michel Ancel, was confirmed to be no longer in development last year, a full decade after announcement. Now, Shuhei Yoshida, the former PlayStation executive who was president of PlayStation Studios for years, has shared his view on why the game never saw the light of day. Speaking to...
"I was like, 'Oh my God!'"
While the PS Vita will go down as a commercial failure, its prospects weren’t that bad when it was announced. Yes, smartphone gaming was getting bigger at the time, but Sony matched the price of the Nintendo 3DS with a much more powerful machine, and the PSP had been hugely successful, selling over 80 million units. But...
News Report Investigates Why PS5's Store Is Still Drowning in 'Eslop'
'I could make Fart Fart Boobie Fart: The Game'
Stop us if you've heard this one before, but the PS Store is a complete mess, full of low-effort "simulator" games boasting AI-generated artwork and misleading gameplay claims. It's gotten so bad that (we'll say it) more legitimate games are getting bumped from the front page every day, and Sony has...
News Ex-PlayStation Boss Says Sony 'Can't Get Away' with a PS6 That Has No Disc Drive
Company has an obligation and responsibility
Beloved ex-PlayStation executive Shawn Layden doesn’t believe Sony can “get away” with an all-digital PS6. There has been concerns, since it released the PS5 Pro without a disc drive included, that the Japanese giant may be abandoning physical media. To be fair, it’s released all of its major...
News Abby's Muscles Less Relevant to HBO's The Last of Us Adaption
A shame to see those gains go to waste
Kaitlyn Dever, who will play Abigail "Abby" Anderson in Season 2 of HBO's adaptation of The Last of Us, didn't have to bulk up for the role. According to showrunner and Naughty Dog head honcho Neil Druckmann, this is, amongst other things, because "there's not as much violent action moment to moment." Speaking...
News Emergency Hotfixes Live for Botched Spider-Man 2 PC Port
Hotfix v1.202.0.0 to fix crashing issues
Sony's in-house PC port studio Nixxes Software has released two hotfixes today designed to help reduce the number of crashes players are encountering in Marvel's Spider-Man 2. The game's PC port released late last week in a poor state, with users facing frequent crashing issues. Some reported having their...
News Sony's Bloodborne 60fps Mod DMCA Takedown Was About the Name, Not the Patch Itself
In the copyright
Almost four years down the line, Sony has issued a DMCA takedown request against an unofficial Bloodborne patch that allows it to run at 60 frames-per-second. The news comes via the mod's creator, Lance McDonald, on social media: McDonald has said in the past that Bloodborne is just two lines of code away from hitting the...
News Spider-Man 2's Looking Like Another PC Own Goal from Sony
Terrible reviews! Underwhelming player counts
For a firm hellbent on extracting as much profit as possible from PC users, Sony’s not exactly doing a great job of it. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, already a PS5 best-seller, has really struggled since debuting on PC, attracting a peak player count of just 28k on Steam since its launch late last week...
News Sony Could Be Plotting a PS5 Livestream Around Valentine's Day
"What does your heart tell you?"
Leakers trade in credibility and are usually only as good as their last prediction. Considering veteran leakster Nate the Hate, in a spectacularly public fashion and coming right down to the wire, correctly predicted the exact date of the Nintendo's Switch 2 reveal in January, we're inclined to listen. Doubling down...
News Ex-Sony Boss Says Xbox Can Find Multiplatform Software Success, Just Like SEGA
At the cost of console "FOMO"
Former Sony exec Shawn Layden, who has never been shy about sharing his thoughts on one-time nemesis, Xbox, says Microsoft is incredibly well-positioned to become a multiplatform powerhouse like SEGA, provided the company ditches those pesky consoles. An interview podcast we find ourselves increasingly citing, one that...
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...
News PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 Themes on PS5 Will Leave Tomorrow, But Sony Is Working to Bring Them Back
They'll return "in the months ahead"
Sony has announced that the PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4 themes it created to celebrate the 30th anniversary of PlayStation will no longer be available on PS5 from tomorrow. However, they're not going away permanently. The firm has stated it's working behind the scenes to bring them back "in the months ahead". On...
News New Gran Turismo 7 PS5, PS4 Update Live Now, More Cars and Events
Latest free patch brings version 1.55
Gran Turismo 7 has been updated in the last 24 hours on PS5 and PS4, adding another monthly cycle of cars and events, as well as general updates. The patch brings the Polyphony Digital racer up to version number 1.55 and is available to download now. You can get a visual feel for what's in store in the trailer...
News Helldivers 2 Will Live as Long as You Keep Fighting for Super Earth
"We'll support it to hell and back"
Fear not, obedient citizens of Super Earth, Helldivers 2 support isn't stopping anytime soon; following the news that lead dev (and former Arrowhead CEO) Johan Pilestedt is going on sabbatical, players trained to take direction from authority figures began to get concerned. CEO Shams Jorjani has taken to the...
News Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Looks Truly Spectacular in PC Features Trailer
Spidey comes full circle
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was already a looker when it launched exclusively on PS5 in October 2023, receiving a face-melting upgrade on PS5 Pro a year later. Now, after 11 million copies sold, it's reaching the final phase of its commercial life-cycle
News New God of War Ragnarok PS5, PS4 Patch Unlocks New Game+ Armor Set
Access the Armor of the Black Bear set instantly
Santa Monica Studio has revealed a new God of War Ragnarok patch will go live for PS5, PS4 consoles tomorrow (30th January 2025) that brings forward the ability to transmog your gear and access to an armour set previously exclusive to New Game+. Having downloaded the update, the Armor of the Black...
News Xbox Was December's Biggest Publisher, and 64% of Its Sales Were on PS5, PS4
Your PlayStation is an Xbox
For the month of December, Xbox was the biggest video games publisher in the world — according to a recent number-crunching analysis. The data comes from Ampere, which states that $465 million was spent on games owned and published by Microsoft, making it the largest publisher of them all last month. This shouldn't...
News More Than 1,400 Top Rated PS5, PS4 Games Discounted Now
Games you simply can't afford to miss
The Critics’ Choice sale on the PS Store is live now, plunging the prices of over 1,400 highly rated games. That includes the likes of Astro Bot (£50.99/$49.79) and Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 (£44.99/$52.49). Here are some highlights we recommend paying attention to: Final Fantasy 16: £37.
News Following Ferocious PC Backlash, PSN Accounts Will Become Optional But Offer In-Game Rewards
Let off some Steam
Sony has announced a couple of changes to the range of first-party games it's bringing to PC, and it's good news all around. A particularly thorny issue is that players on PC have been forced to link up to a PSN account in order to play certain games — including a few that don't have any meaningful online functionality...
News Sony's Stocks Fly As Market Responds to New Corporate Hierarchy
Company is in good health
Sony’s stocks soared to a record breaking ¥3,527 (~$22) today in the aftermath of its corporate reshuffle announcement. <related ids="177426"> Earlier, the Japanese manufacturer confirmed that celebrated executive Hiroki Totoki will take over as the organisation’s CEO from 1st April. Having already steered...
News MLB The Show 25 Skips PS4, Xbox Game Pass in Milestone Entry
All change on 20th anniversary
For the first time in several years, MLB The Show 25 players will not be getting a rough deal when they play on PS5. The series has been included at no extra cost with Xbox Game Pass for a while, a notable inclusion considering it’s developed by Sony subsidiary San Diego Studio. But that won’t be the case this...
News Hermen Hulst No Longer PlayStation Co-CEO, Still in Charge of First-Party
Hideaki Nishino takes sole control
A dramatic shake up of the Sony hierarchy has seen PlayStation ditch its dual CEO approach less than a year after it was introduced. Ex-Guerrilla Games managing director Hermen Hulst was appointed co-CEO alongside Platform Business Group bigwig Hideaki Nishino following the departure of Jim
News Helldivers 2 Lead Dev Will Start Work on Arrowhead's Next Game After Sabbatical
11 years of all things Helldivers
Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt has announced he'll start work on the next game from Arrowhead Studios after he's taken a sabbatical (an extended break from work). On Twitter, he said that after 11 years of working on the IP, he has "set aside" his family, friends, and himself. As such, he's taking...
Rumour God of War Will Tackle Egyptian Mythology in Next Game
Anubis-ginning
Now that God of War’s Norse storyline has come to a close, the question on every fan’s mind is: which mythology will Kratos intermingle with next? According to one report, the answer is Egyptian. As spotted by Insider Gaming, DanielRPK has posted on his paywal
News Turn Off the Lights with PS5's Midnight Black Range, Available to Pre-Order Now
All release on 20th February
Pre-orders for a range of PS5 accessories in a new Midnight Black colourway are available now at various retailers, from Amazon to PlayStation Direct to
News PS Productions Plotting a Resident Evil Movie Reboot
Zach Cregger on deck to write and direct
There have been multiple attempts to adapt Resident Evil for the big screen, with Paul W.S. Anderson’s efforts starring Milla Jovovich being the most successful. But now The Hollywood Reporter claims a “bidding war” is underway for a franchise reboot fronted by Zach Cregger of Barbarian fame...
News In the US, PS5 Is Selling Much Faster Than PS4 At a Higher Price
Increases gap in 2024
There’s been much doom and gloom about the PS5’s performance, but in the US at least, it’s selling faster than the PS4 at a higher price. Even more pertinently, it increased its advantage on the last-gen console in 2024. <related ids="177226"> Circana analyst Mat Piscatella reports that, through December 2024,...
News Could Wolverine PS5 Launch in 2025? Insomniac Avoids the Question
Neither confirms nor denies
Insomniac has avoided answering questions over whether Marvel's Wolverine could release for PS5 later this year in an interview with Variety. As part of the announcement that Ted Price will be retiring from the developer and replaced by three new co-heads, Variety interviewed the three new leaders and asked
News New PS5 Firmware Update Is Coming Today in Phased Release
What does version 25.01-10.60.00 do?
Sony has confirmed a new PS5 firmware update will be made available for its current-gen system today, updating the console to version number 25.01-10.60.00. Just like the previous one, this patch will be deployed in a phased release, so it may not be available for download immediately depending on your region...
News The Legend of Dragoon Just Got an Unexpected Patch on PS5, PS4
Better late than never
Classic PS1 JRPG The Legend of Dragoon just received a quiet patch on PS5 that allegedly fixes most of the issues in the version Sony released for modern platforms in 2023. The original is almost 20 years old at this point, and this latest version has been available for two years, so update 1,000.004 has appeared like a bolt...
News PS Plus Subscriptions on Sale, Up to 35% Off
Offer live until 4th February
Sony has discounted PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium subscriptions by up to 35 per cent for new users and anyone looking to upgrade their current membership. The offer is available now until 4th February 2025 to mark the Lunar New Year. The fine print explains all: "Join PlayStation Plus by February 4 and enjoy 35%...
News Astro Bot 'Almost' a Nintendo Beater, Says Reggie Fils-Aimé
The little bot that could
Astro Bot may have earned itself more than 100 Game of the Year awards, making it the most celebrated platformer of all time, but it's still not quite on the same level as Nintendo, according to Reggie Fils-Aimé. Formerly of Nintendo as the firm's president in America, he joked that Astro Bot "almost outdid Nintendo at its...
