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News Horizon Zero Dawn Gets 60FPS Patch on PS5, Available Now
Update 1.53 unlocks boost
Horizon Zero Dawn has been treated to a surprise patch that allows the open world title from Guerrilla Games to run at 60 frames-per-second on PlayStation 5. You will still be running the game in backwards compatibility, but update 1.53 enables the feature and can be downloaded right now. The most important patch note for...
News Latest PS Store Sale Offers Discounts on Hundreds of PSVR Games
Virtually giving them away
This week's brand new sale on PlayStation Store has arrived, and it's all about PSVR. Sony's first virtual reality headset is coming up on five years old, and in that time it's built up a pretty substantial library. If you've missed out on any VR titles, now's your best chance to get some immersive gaming goodies on the...
News Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer Promotes PS5 Controllers
Peter Parker learns marketing
Boy did Sony make Marvel fans wait for the Spider-Man: No Way Home teaser trailer. Excitement has been at an all-time high these past few days following a supposed leak, but now the superhero fandom has been satisfied with a first look at what happens when the web-slingers true identity is revealed. Naturally, Peter...
News Death Stranding Director's Cut Will Debut Gameplay at Gamescom Show
Extended look at PS5 re-release
Geoff Keighley will write a new chapter in his love affair for game creator Hideo Kojima later this week as "an extended look at the gameplay of" Death Stranding Director's Cut is confirmed for Gamescom Opening Night Live. Taking place on Wednesday, the host simply teased the gameplay footage will be lengthy alongside...
News PS5's Lighter, Revised Hardware Model Has Already Gone on Sale
Stock hits UK and Australia
Update: Eurogamer.net notes that the new PS5 model has quietly rolled out in the UK as well. The website published photographs sent in by a reader, showcasing the updated model's infamous new screw. The console was purchased from Smyth's Toys over the weekend, confirming that Sony is now distributing this lighter model in...
News Sony Patent Points to Dynamic, Evolving PS Store Pages
Changing with the times
Like it or loathe it, the way we play games is changing. Lifecycles are longer than ever before, with seasonal updates keeping things fresh years after launch. It’s something that Sony’s paying close attention to, and may influence the direction it takes the PS Store. A new patent spotted by Op Attack and shared on Reddit...
News Sony Investing in External Japanese Development Group
A core part of PlayStation's identity
Sony, effectively, shuttered Japan Studio earlier this year, retaining Astro’s Playroom developer Team Asobi and expanding it into a fully-fledged first-party team. Many, however, feel that PlayStation is turning its back on its home nation, with Gran Turismo 7 maker Polyphony Digital being its only other...
News PlayStation Studios Boss: I Encourage Our Teams to Be Fiercely Daring
Company wants to break boundaries
Sony has established itself as one of the best publishers in the video game business, but also one of the most daring. Titles like – to name just a few – The Last of Us: Part II, Returnal, and God of War are not simply brilliant, but they’re also disruptive and bold. PlayStation Studios boss Hermen Hulst’s...
News PS5, PS4 Playtime Website Encounters Turbulence As Sony Bans Accounts
Data disruption
Brilliant independent PlayStation playtime website PS-Timetracker has encountered turbulence, as Sony has banned all of its associated accounts. Members could voluntarily send a friend request to a PSN user in order to have their gameplay sessions logged by the website, but Sony nuked all of the associated usernames earlier this...
Poll Did You Buy Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut?
Iki Island awaits
Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut is out right now on both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 — but are you joining Jin Sakai on his new adventure? In case you don't know, Director's Cut includes the Iki Island expansion, which, as stated in our Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut review, we absolutely love. It whisks our samurai hero...
News Promising PS4 Exclusive WiLD Has Allegedly Been Canned
Hardly WiLD news
Let’s not beat around the bush: WiLD looked incredible. The ambitious open worlder helmed by Michel Ancel and his Wild Sheep Studio was announced as a PlayStation 4 exclusive eons ago, but with the Rayman maker retiring from games and development seemingly stalling for an entire generation, word is that it no longer exists...
Not when other companies are doing it for free
If you've read our Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut review, you'll already know that we're big fans of the new Iki Island expansion. We'd go as far to say that Jin's new offshore adventure is worth the price of admission alone — but the reality of the situation isn't so simple. Having played the...
Hands On Lock-On Magazine Is a Love-Letter to the World of PlayStation
Shame it's now sold out
Print media is dead. It's a fact which has been clear for some time, at least in the realm of video games. The internet has rendered the majority of magazines irrelevant, because print can never hope to keep up with the fast-paced nature of the games industry, nor can it be expected to challenge a media which is capable of...
Sharpened steel
Before we begin: If you're looking for an overview of the base game, check out our in-depth Ghost of Tsushima PS4 review. All of the points that we made in that review also apply to Ghost of Tsuhima: Director's Cut. In this review, we're concentrating on what's new. Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut revitalises Sucker Punch's open...
News Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut Solves PS5 Save Transfer Woes
Simple samurai
We’d had some indication from the likes of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Saints Row The Third Remastered that Sony had solved the PlayStation 5’s curious save transfer system, but Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut puts any scepticism beyond doubt. In order to move your progress from the PS4 version to its next-gen...
News Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut Launch Trailer Sets the Scene for Iki Island
Out on Friday
Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut is just two days away from its launch on PlayStation 5 and PS4, so it's now time for a flashy launch trailer to remind you what this expanded re-release is all about. Of course, the new Iki island expansion is the centrepiece of the Director's Cut, adding a brand new location to explore just off the...
News Two New PS Store Sales Contain Over 1,500 PS5, PS4 Game Deals
Scarlet Nexus! Dishonored! Yakuza!
The grand PlayStation Store summer sale has come to an end, so Sony has decided to immediately replace it with two more bumper lists of PS5 and PS4 price cuts. One focuses on indie titles while the other is all about games discounted to a specific price point, but both sales will stick around until midnight on 1st...
News Hades Dev Says Returnal Is One of His Favourite Games This Year
And Housemarque reciprocates
Hades is finally available on PlayStation 5 and PS4, and as you may have heard, it's a fantastic rogue-like action game. It's certainly one of the highest profile indie games in recent memory, and has been incredibly well received; it was even in contention for Game of the Year at 2020's Game Awards. PS5 owners have been...
News Hidden The Last of Us 2 Multiplayer Assets Hint at Mysterious Mode
Is that a Battle Royale map?
Naughty Dog insinuated, prior to the release of The Last of Us: Part II, that its multiplayer mode had evolved into something much bigger. We know, from recruitment drives, that it continues to work on the standalone online component,
Talking Point How Would You Improve PS Plus?
Better games? PS Now? More services?
After what appeared to be a fairly hot streak of quality PlayStation Plus line-ups earlier this year, it feels like the chatter surrounding Sony's premier subscription service has once again returned to discussing how to improve it. This month's free PS Plus games clearly played a part in shaping that...
News There's Talk of New Twisted Metal and WipEout Games for PS5
Classics making a comeback
The rumour mill keeps a-churning, and while we’re always suspicious of social media sources, we suppose these sound sensible enough. First up is Tom Henderson, a DualShockers scribe who has a prolific track-record with Battlefield leaks. He posted a cryptic Sweet Tooth image alongside the caption 2023, presumably hinting...
News We're Nearing a Year Since the Last Major PlayStation Press Conference
No first-party exclusives announced for PS5
In little over four weeks, it’ll be a year since the last major PlayStation press conference. While we have been treated to a handful of State of Play livestreams into 2021, Sony has been infamously secretive about its upcoming software slate. In fact, at the time of typing, there’s not a single...
News PlayStation Renews Long-Term Partnership with UEFA Champions League
Die besten
The UEFA Champions League – Europe’s flagship club football competition, and the holy-grail for virtually every team across the continent – has been sponsored by PlayStation for over two decades now, and that partnership will continue through 2021 to 2024. Sony has announced that it’s renewed its collaboration with the tournament,...
News Such Is Sony's Secrecy, Fans Hope New PlayStation Banners Mean Impending News
They probably don't
It’s been almost a year since the last major PlayStation press conference, and the company’s communication has come in waves over the past few months. There’ll be periods where we get plenty of updates from the organisation; there’ll also be periods where the firm disappears into the shadows, and leaves us with very...
News Kevin Costner's Field of Dreams Crops Up in MLB The Show 21 Update
If you build it, they will come
The stadium from cult classic Kevin Costner sports romp Field of Dreams has been added to MLB The Show 21, as the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox get ready to take to the Iowa field in real life later this week. For those of you who don’t know, the 1989 movie casts Costner as farmer Ray Kinsella, who hears...
Rumour Sony Planning More Expensive PS Plus Option That Could Include Crunchyroll
PS Plus+
We've been saying for a while now that Sony needs to think about revamping its PlayStation Plus subscription service. Currently, subscribers get a handful of 'free' PS5 and PS4 games every month, supplemented by exclusive PlayStation Store discounts and, sometimes, other Sony-based benefits. Playing (most) multiplayer PlayStation games...
News LittleBigPlanet Fans Are Going Bananas Over a Returning Costume in Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Sacknana is back
Does Sackboy have one of the largest wardrobes in PlayStation history? It has to be up there at the very least, doesn't it? Think of all the outfits the little mascot has had throughout all his games, many of which came as DLC packs. He must have hundreds of costumes by now, and developer Sumo Digital is continuing the trend in the...
News Sony Completes Acquisition of Anime Giant Crunchyroll
Company looks to unify its anime business
With the deal having reportedly been under US Justice Department review earlier this year, there was debate over whether Sony would actually complete its acquisition of anime platform Crunchyroll. The buyout was officially announced back in December 2020, and now, the Japanese giant has confirmed that the...
News This Portable PS2 Is the Handheld of Our Dreams
Play, beyond
Yeah, the Nintendo Switch is cool and all, but have you ever played a portable PlayStation 2? Probably not, because Sony never actually made one, and while both the PS Vita and PSP had plenty of PS2 ports on them – well, they couldn’t play GTA: San Andreas, could they? This hobby project named the PS2 Eclipse by GingerofOz can,...
Random New Team ASOBI Recruits Get a Rad Custom PS5 Controller
New hire 🔥
Team ASOBI has transitioned from small Japan Studio division to fully-fledged first-party studio, and it’s marking the occasion with a new website and a recruitment drive. There’s a novelty for successful applicants, however: a lovely welcome pack for all new employees. The set includes a t-shirt, postcard, and steel water bottle.
Rumour Sony Targeting AAA Titles for Stunning Next-Gen PS5 VR Headset
Wants hybrid software playable both with and without headset
Sony is eager to propel virtual reality into a new era, as it targets AAA content for its next-gen PSVR headset, which sounds both incredible and seriously expensive. As part of a developer presentation earlier in the week – which we can corroborate did take place – the Japanese giant...
Ghost with the most
Ghost of Tsushima's co-op multiplayer is being heavily updated alongside the release of Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut later this month. It sounds like Sucker Punch has been hard at work adding to and improving the experience. But before we get into the updates, the bigger news here is that Legends is being released as a...
News Sony Is Absolutely Flying Financially Right Now
Bumps profit forecast
Ex-PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai has long since retired from his role as Sony CEO, but every quarter his work comes into focus a little bit more. For a man who has been memed for the last decade or so, he completely transformed the Japanese firm’s fortunes, and has set it on the positive path it’s currently on. No, it can’t...
News PS5 Will Meet Shipment Target as Sony Secures Chips Amid Semiconductor Shortage
Rapid growth
Sony is confident it will meet its aggressive PlayStation 5 shipment target, as it’s managed to secure the necessary components to meet its lofty goals. Despite an ongoing semiconductor shortage, the company has been bullish about its next-gen consoles prospects, already surpassing 10 million units sold through to consumers. For the...
News Sony's PS Plus Subscriber Count Just Dropped for the First Time
Loses 1.3 million subs
Update: Speaking during a webcast, chief financial officer Hiroki Totoki blamed the quarter's decline in PS Plus subscribers and overall monthly active users on the previous year's coronavirus lockdowns and how they increased game time activity (thanks VGC). "Of course, 104m is not a strong number, but are we looking at it as...
News PS4 Console Sales Limp to Just Over 116 Million
Pat on the back
The PlayStation 4 has had its time in the sun now as Sony focuses its manufacturing efforts on the company's new bit of hardware, meaning the last-gen piece of tech is sort of limping towards sales milestones instead of pushing for a last-minute dash. The company today recorded its results for Q1 of the 2021 fiscal year, and the PS4...
News PS Store Summer Sale Refresh Adds Another 250 PS5, PS4 Deals
Final Fantasy! Assassin's Creed! Pyre!
The PlayStation Store summer sale has been available for two weeks, so now seems like the right time to give it a bit of a refresh, doesn't it? Thankfully, Sony agrees and has spruced up its long list of PS5 and PS4 discounts with many new additions that are live right now on the UK, EU, and US storefronts...
News PS5 Still Dominant in UK, Almost Outsells Every Other Console Combined in July
Despite stock shortages
The PlayStation 5 is selling like mad in the UK — a region where Sony's console has been dominant since the start of the year. Last month, it was reported that the PS5 is "comfortably" the UK's best-selling console of 2021 so far — and July itself was another big win for the platform. Games Industry's Christopher Dring...
News PS Plus Games for August 2021 Available to Download on PS5, PS4 Now
Hunter's Arena! Plants vs. Zombies! Tennis World Tour!
Based on the results to our recent poll, there’ll be little interest in this news, but just as a heads up: August 2021’s free PS Plus games are available to download now. The selection has been largely panned by subscribers, despite Hunter’s Arena: Legends being a brand new title and both
Reminder Claim Your Free PS Plus Games for July 2021 Before They're Gone on PS5, PS4
Today's your last chance
Happy August, everyone! A new month means a fresh batch of PlayStation Plus games to look forward to, and the new lineup is scheduled to be ready for download starting tomorrow, 3rd August. However, before you get too excited about the impending update, don't forget about July's PS Plus games. Last month's offering for Plus...
News PS Now August 2021 Games Announced with NieR: Automata, Ghostrunner, Undertale Added
A highly rated trio
Three new games will soon be added to PlayStation Now, starting from the 3rd August. This month's lineup is made up of NieR: Automata, Ghostrunner, and Undertale. That's a rather diverse trio. Action RPG NieR: Automata is available for a good few months, while Ghostrunner and Undertale are permanent additions (at the time of...
News This Is the PS5 SSD System Architect Mark Cerny Is Using
"It's going to be sweet"
Sony is unlocking the PS5 SSD slot with a new firmware update, meaning you’ll be able to expand your internal storage with a high-speed solid-state drive. While these devices are expensive – you can find a full list of all compatible PS5 SSDs through the link – system architect Mark Cern
News Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Has Been Played for Over 11,000 Years
That's a lot of swingin'
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales is one of Sony's best-selling games of late. This should come as no surprise, given the huge success of its predecessor and, well, because it's Spider-Man. The game has sold 6.5 million copies to date across PlayStation 5 and PS4, and that's not the only awesome stat about the game...
News Astro's Playroom PS5 Dev Team Asobi Teases 'Most Ambitious Game Yet' on New Website
Shoot for the stars
Japan Studio may have been dissolved, but that's not to say PlayStation's completely left its home country. Amid the restructure, Tokyo-based Team Asobi has become one of Sony's youngest developers, and it's already won the hearts of fans with the Astro Bot games. The studio behind Astro Bot Rescue Mission and Astro's Playroom...
News Horizon Forbidden West Delayed to 2022, Says New Report
It's probably happening
Update: Well, it looks like this is probably happening after all. Following on from a rumour outbreak earlier today, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier has weighed in on the situation, reporting that Horizon Forbidden West will indeed be delayed into the first quarter of 2022. The PS5 and PS4 game had been targeting a 2021 release...
News PS4 Firmware 9.00 Entering Beta Phase, Will Allow You to View PS5 Trophies
Plus more new features
Sony's getting its act together with all its system software, isn't it? For PlayStation 5, the company currently has a huge update in beta which will make a large number of changes and improvements. However, PS4 is not to be left out — firmware version 9.00 is now in public beta for participants, and has one or two...
News PS5 Firmware Update Will Improve Create Mode Functionality
Let's get creative
This PlayStation 5 firmware update that's currently in beta testing sure has a lot of enhancements to look forward to. As well as allowing us to upgrade SSD storage, making improvements to the operating system, and displaying Trophy lists the way God intended, PS5's Create functionality is set to receive some nice quality of life...
Random PS2 Game Boxes Were Nearly Extremely Weird
Look at this thing
PlayStation games have always come in pretty ordinary boxes. The PS1 had its CD-like jewel cases, the PS2 kept things standard with a DVD box, PS3 shrunk things a little to match standard Blu-Ray releases, and it's been roughly the same since. Aside from its handheld machines, Sony's consoles have stuck to pretty regular game...
News Upcoming PS5 Firmware Will Display Trophy Lists Vertically
Horizontal Trophies on the way out
Trophy lists are a bit of a pain on PlayStation 5. When you view a game's Trophies on PS5, they're currently presented in a horizontal lineup, which matches other UI on the system, but isn't a particularly nice experience. The Trophy icon is nice and big, but its description is obscured because of the way the list...
News McDonald's Stream Week Delayed And Themed PS5 Controller 'No Longer Included'
Fries and burgers are always with you
Update 31st July: McDonalds Australia has delayed its stream week due to an issue with promotional materials, as detailed in a statement issued to Press-Start: “Unfortunately, McDonald’s stream week has been postponed and won’t be going ahead this Sunday. We are unable to confirm a new date for the...
