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TodaySat, 20th Dec 2025
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 612
The final countdown
‘Twas the weekend before Christmas, when all through Push Square, you couldn’t find an editor – neither hide nor hair. That’s because everyone’s playing PS5, and here’s what’s on our list. Aaron Bayne: This week, I reckon I'm going to finish off Resident Evil 4. This has taken me an age to beat despite it not...
News PSVR2's Highly Anticipated Aces of Thunder Locks in a 3rd February Release Date
Fly high
Aces of Thunder, one of the most anticipated upcoming PSVR2 games, has locked in a 3rd February release date at last. Although the game can be played without Sony’s virtual reality headset, the dogfighting game from Gaijin Entertainment has been “made specifically with capabilities of the latest generation VR helmets in mind”. It...
News PS5 Enjoys a Decent November in the UK, Even Excluding Black Friday
But still down year-over-year
After some pretty apocalyptic console sales in the US this November, there were a few heart attacks this week when The Game Business initially erroneously reported some dreadful results for the UK. Fortunately, it was an error, and PS5 did decent for the month overall – even if it was down year-over-year. According...
YesterdayFri, 19th Dec 2025
News Claim 8 Free PS5 Avatars from Ghost of Yotei Dev Sucker Punch This Holiday
We Atsu a Merry Christmas
It’s the season of giving, and Ghost of Yotei dev Sucker Punch has a special treat in store for you. You can claim eight free PS5 avatars right now, inspired by the Seattle studio’s award winning exclusive. All you need to do is enter one of the codes below into the PS Store, depending on your region: Americas:...
News Zenless Zone Zero's Milestone Update Is One of the Most Generous in Gacha Gaming History
This is gooner be good
Zenless Zone Zero does appear to be the ugly duckling of HoYoverse’s gacha trilogy, often losing out to juggernauts Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail on the Sensor Tower revenue charts. But for the game’s many millions of fans that just means more and more rewards, and v2.5 – launching on 30th December – is a bit...
News Patapon 1+2 Replay Teases Free New Game Mode in Imminent PS5 Update
Forward march
Patapon 1+2 Replay, the Bandai Namco remaster of PlayStation's cult favourite rhythm strategy games, is getting brand new stuff. The publisher has teased a new game mode coming in a game update, slated for 22nd December 2025: "A FREE update with brand-new game mode is coming to Patapon 1+2 Replay," reads the video's description,...
Feature PS Plus Members Can Save Big on These 20 PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's January Sale
Early access to these discounted games
Sony is set to kick off an enormous January/Holiday sale on the PS Store soon, but before it gets properly started, PS Plus members have early access to a selection of the deals. If you're currently subscribed, you can nab some discounted games before anyone else. While it's a limited group of PS5 and PS4...
News Two Trails beyond the Horizon Demos Out Now, and One Is Exclusive to PS5, PS4
Van gang
Trails beyond the Horizon releases in just under a month, but you can jump in early thanks to not one, but two playable demos. It's a slightly strange way of doing things, but to be clear, these are two separate demos, each requiring their own download. The 'Story' demo (5.4GB) lets you play through the RPG's prologue, and you'll be able...
News Dave the Diver's In the Jungle DLC Around 10 Hours Long, Turns it into Animal Crossing
Dear villagers
Developer and publisher Mintrocket has peeled back the curtain a little more on its upcoming DLC expansion for its hit debut game, Dave the Diver. In a new dev diary, the team reveals some new details about In the Jungle, which is due for release in early 2026. In the video, it's said the DLC contains approximately 10 hours of new...
News Marathon Art Director Departs Bungie as the Game Enters Its Final Stretch
"I'll be enjoying playing the game as a fan"
Joseph Cross, the art director on Bungie's upcoming shooter Marathon, has announced his resignation from the company. Originally reported by Kotaku, Cross has now made this move official with a brief statement on social media: This comes just after Marathon's recent reintroduction following heavy...
News Sony, Honda's Electric Car Will Be the First Vehicle with Full PS5 Remote Play Integration
Can you feel it?
In a rare – and, honestly, not all that exciting – example of corporate synergy, Sony Honda Mobility has announced that its upcoming AFEELA electric car will feature full Remote Play functionality. This is something the organisation has been teasing for quite some time in all honesty, so we’re not sure why it decided to...
It's still getting trounced
Reports suggest new PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino couldn’t stand to see Sony’s floundering status in its native Japan, and so rushed through approval of a cut-price language locked model in order to stimulate sales domestically. Under previous management, the manufacturer had purportedly accepted its status in its...
News PS Plus Members Get Dibs on PS5, PS4's Humongous January Sale
First course
Long-time PS5 and PS4 players will know the January sale is usually the PS Store’s flagship annual promotion, often plunging the price of thousands of games. As the current End of Year promotion comes to its conclusion, PS Plus subscribers can get dibs on the best of the January sale early, ahead of its full roll out on Monday, 22nd...
News Don't Forget to Unwrap Your Winterfest Free Gifts in Fortnite Every Day
The most wonderful time of the year
Fortnite’s annual Winterfest has returned for another year, bringing back the Cosy Cabin and an array of free cosmetic presents for you to unwrap. But there’s a catch! This year, any days you miss won’t stack, so you need to login daily and open your presents to get everything. There are 14 gifts this...
News Sony Is Buying Snoopy for $457 Million in Surprise Acquisition
That'll cost more than Peanuts
Sony is buying Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and more characters from the Peanuts brand in a surprise deal worth $457 million. Charles M. Schulz’s iconic characters are particularly popular in Japan and Asia these days, where you’ll see all kinds of merchandise collaborations with retailers like Uniqlo and GU to name...
Sony review incoming
PlayStation Studios developer Naughty Dog has reportedly been enforcing mandatory overtime for its employees, as it attempts to get its next game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, "back on track". This is according to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, who writes that the project has missed "several" deadlines up until this point...
Thursday18th Dec 2025
News Run a Motorcycle Gang During Your Downtime in Yakuza 3's PS5 Remake
Holding out for a hero
When he’s not stitching clothes and helping out with homework at his Morning Glory Orphanage, seasoned Yakuza hero Kazuma Kiryu will be running his own motorcycle gang. Another side activity announced for upcoming remake Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties includes a mode named Bad Boy Dragon, where you’ll recruit a motley crew...
News Western Sales Have Saved the Trails Series, Falcom Boss Suggests
Beyond the horizon
It's no secret that Falcom's Trails series has flourished in the west over the last decade or so, with the Cold Steel saga introducing a whole new wave of players on PS4. In previous interviews, company CEO Toshihiro Kondo has confirmed that western sales now routinely eclipse Japanese sales of the same games — but it actually...
News Ghost of Yotei Wins Big in PS Blog's Game of the Year Awards
Big surprise there
The results are in for the PlayStation Blog's Game of the Year awards, and Sucker Punch's PS5 sequel Ghost of Yotei walks away with lots of wins. The open world action adventure scoops up Best PS5 Game, along with awards for Best New Character, Graphical Showcase, Art Direction, Audio Design, Accessibility, and Use of DualSense...
News The First PowerWash Simulator 2 DLC Pack Has You Cleaning Up Adventure Time on PS5
What time is it?
PowerWash Simulator 2 has been out for a couple of months or so now, giving dedicated cleaners a good amount of time to hose down the game's lengthy campaign. Now, developer FuturLab has announced the first premium DLC for its relaxing pressure washer sim, and it's collaborating with Cartoon Network to bring players to the land of...
News 'I Don't Think Prompting Is Art': The Last of Us Co-Creator Isn't a Fan of Generative AI
Bruce Straley has his say
Generative AI continues to be a very hot topic among the gaming community, and this week has seen some interesting swings on either side of the debate. CEO of Larian Studios, Swen Vincke, caused a lot of upset with his comments on how the team is utilising the controversial tools in the production of its next game,...
News The Fallout TV Series Will Have a Direct Impact on Fallout 5, Says Todd Howard
TV show shares canon with the games
One of Bethesda's most popular series is its nuclear wasteland RPG Fallout, and thanks to a successful TV adaptation, it's back in vogue. Season 2 is getting underway right now, and in new comments about it and the future of the Fallout games, Bethesda boss Todd Howard has made an interesting remark. Speaking to...
News Super Smash Bros' Oddball Precursor The Outfoxies Finally Gets Its PlayStation Port on PS5, PS4
30 years later
Namco’s platform fighter The Outfoxies was planned for PS1 some 30 years ago, and that PlayStation port has finally emerged this week courtesy of Hamster’s ongoing Arcade Archives series. If you’re not familiar with this 1995 title, you may be forgiven. Designed by Masateru Umeda for the NB-2 arcade hardware, many consider...
News The FIFA Video Game Will Return, on Netflix of All Places
You read that right
FIFA is such a confusing organisation because it’s probably better associated with EA Sports’ football video game than the controversial governing body which oversees the sport. Of course, when the publisher announced plans to rebrand as EA Sports FC a few years ago, FIFA insisted it would create a rival video game in time...
News 2016's The Division Now Runs Smoother Than Ever on PS5
Almost decade old shooter updated to 60fps
For as much criticism as Ubisoft gets, we’ll always commend the publisher for its post-release support. It really does do a brilliant job of keeping the communities of its games alive, and this story is yet another example of that. Tom Clancy’s The Division – the original New York instalment,...
Feature Last Chance to Get These 65+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's End of Year Deals Sale
The best games in the current sale
We're into the next big sale in PS Store's never-ending carousel of offers. The current sale is named End of Year Deals, and it runs from now until 22nd December 2025, so there's not much time left to take advantage. Somehow, it's an even bigger sale than usual, with over 4,500 items included. That's a crazy...
News Starfield PS5 Announcement Imminent as Bethesda Shows Big Changes Behind-the-Scenes
In a galaxy not-so far away
It looks like Starfield’s long rumoured PS5 port will finally be announced in 2026, as speculation suggests Bethesda recently held some kind of event for content creators to outline upcoming expansions and improvements. The game, as many of you will know, was announced for Sony’s system eons ago. But when Microsoft...
News Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter Set to Be One of Falcom's Greatest Games in Fall 2026
Sky's the limit
Developer Falcom and western publisher GungHo Online Entertainment have confirmed a release window for Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter on PS5. Given that Trails beyond the Horizon is out in just over a month from now (with NIS America publishing), we fully expected 2nd Chapter to hit later in 2026 — and that's exactly what's...
News Horizon Rip Off Removed from Steam as Sony, Tencent's Fierce Legal Battle Suddenly Concludes
Confidential settlement agreed
It looks like Sony’s achieved what it wanted and nuked Horizon copycat Light of Motiram from the Internet, as it’s agreed a “confidential settlement” with creator Tencent and the case has been closed. Confirmation comes courtesy of court documents submit
News PS5 Wins a Nightmarish November for All Console Hardware in the US
The worst on record since 1995
PS5 may have won the big Black Friday battle in the US this November, but the hardware market is in a bit of a mess. The latest Circana industry report reveals that hardware spending dropped 27% year-over-year, with just 1.6 million consoles being sold in total. That number combines all devices from all...
Wednesday17th Dec 2025
News The Game Awards Keeps On Getting More and More Popular
171 million livestreams, viewership up 11%
There'll come a time when The Game Awards eventually reaches its peak viewership and flattens out, but 2025 won't go down as that year: the show has once again recorded an increase in viewership over 2024. Last week's ceremony attracted "an estimated 171 million global livestreams of the full broadcast",...
News Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Gameplay Deep Dive Announced for Next Week
That's rad
Developer RGG Studio will host a 'Direct' livestream for Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties next week, showcasing gameplay systems and mechanics. If you're already interested in the upcoming remake, then this should be a decent watch. We already know that Kiwami 3 is making changes to how Kiryu fights — he's got a whole new weapon-based...
News Hogwarts Legacy Tops an Absurd 40 Million Copies Sold
Not even including subscriptions
Warner Bros has confirmed that Hogwarts Legacy has now sold more than 40 million units since its release in 2023. The last reported sales update came in March 2025, when the game had surpassed 34 million copies sold. This means Hogwarts Legacy has shifted another six million units since then. The post confirming the...
Talking Point With Expedition 33 Winning Best Indie Game, What Does 'Indie' Mean to You?
An old debate returns
What does "indie game" really mean these days? Questions about this terminology have been circulating for years, but as the video game landscape evolves, they return every so often as people continue to wrestle with it. Cut to The Game Awards 2025, where — among many others — Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 picked up the...
Black sheep?
Circana analyst Mat Piscatella has once again provided a breakdown of the USA's video game market, this time for the month of November, and it makes for interesting reading regarding Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. The good news for Activision is the FPS continues the series' streak of being the bestselling game in its launch month...
News Terminator Survivors Delayed Indefinitely, Drops Co-Op Multiplayer
Don't know when it'll be back
Terminator Survivors, a survival action game from Nacon, has been indefinitely delayed. The last we heard was that the game was planned for release in 2025, but seeing as there's about two weeks to go, that's not happening. In a statement on the game's Steam page, developer Nacon Studio Milan announces the delay, with...
News Just Like Vampire Survivors, Vampire Crawlers Is Going to Destroy Your Free Time
Careful out there
Developer Poncle is following up its brilliantly compelling bullet heaven game Vampire Survivors with something slightly different, but it looks no less addictive. Vampire Crawlers, announced earlier this year, is a dungeon-crawling, deck-building spin on the original, and in this new gameplay trailer, it looks like it has just as...
Got your card
Credit where credit’s due: Capcom has been doing a wonderful job of making many of its classic titles available on modern hardware. Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection is next in its preservation effort, bringing seven Nintendo DS titles to the PS5 and PS4 on 27th March. That date appears to have been leaked by Sony, because at...
News Sony Makes PS5 Music Video with Award-Winning Korean Girl Group QWER
No fake idols detected
Fresh from scooping the best band gong at this year’s Asia Artist Awards, rising Korean stars QWER have been signed by Sony to promote PS5 this Christmas. A brief trailer shows the gals powering up a DualSense and exchanging holiday gifts, before a magical blue ticket flies past the screen with the message: “Be Happy...
News Divinity Dev's Comments on Generative AI Trigger a Total Social Media Sh*tstorm
"Holy f*ck, guys"
Wow, if you were on social media overnight, you’ll have witnessed an unholy sh*tstorm surrounding comments made by Larian gaffer Swen Vincke. As part of a much bigger Bloomberg interview – where he confirmed the new Divinity game will be turn-based and released potentially sooner than expected – he commented on his com
Tuesday16th Dec 2025
News 'The Majority of the Studio's on It': Bethesda Gives an Update on The Elder Scrolls 6
"It's progressing really well"
Can you remember when The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced? Do you remember what year that was? We'll give you a second to guess. The game was announced during Bethesda's E3 2018 showcase with a very brief CG teaser. Yep, that was over seven years ago, and we've seen nothing of the project since. At the time, we wrote...
News Sucker Punch Enters a New Era as Co-Founder Brian Fleming Departs
New studio heads confirmed
In a move that seems to have been planned behind-the-scenes for quite some time, Sucker Punch co-founder Brian Fleming has announced his departure from the Seattle-based studio after three decades of service. The bigwig has overseen the creation of legendary PlayStation series such as Sly Cooper, inFAMOUS, and most...
News 'This Is Going to Be Us Unleashed': Divinity Is Baldur's Gate 3 Dev at Its 'Next Level'
It will be a turn-based game
Larian Studios is talking a big game with its next RPG, Divinity. After hitting the mainstream with Baldur's Gate 3, at over 20 million copies sold, the developer is only aiming to make even bigger titles. It sees Divinity as such a significant leap, in fact, that it's describing the project as Larian Studios at its...
News Pragmata Seemingly Off to a Strong Start as It's Added to Over 1 Million Wishlists Worldwide
Are you day one?
A game’s success will pretty much always be determined by how many copies it sells, and subsequently how much money it makes its publisher. But these days, a good place for a title to start is by being added to a potential customer’s wishlist. And Capcom has announced today that its upcoming hack-‘em-up Pragmata has already...
News Mobile Ratchet & Clank Game Expands to New Regions as Testing Continues
In range(r)
While you may find the rollout of smartphone shooter Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble a little odd, it’s not all that unusual for mobile games. The spin-off has been available in the Philippines for a little time already, but is now rolling out in several Nordic countries, including Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. This will...
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Finally Gets New Finisher Animations in Patch 1.1.7, Out Now
Killer moves
Patch 1.1.7 for Assassin's Creed Shadows has dropped just in time for the holidays. It's available to download now on PS5, weighing in at around 4.5GB. In truth, this isn't the kind of update that makes sweeping changes to the open world adventure — but it does include something that players have been asking after for months: new...
News Dead Island 3 Officially Confirmed in the Least Interesting Way Possible
Won't be out for a while
Developer Dambuster Studios, the team behind the surprisingly solid Dead Island 2, has now confirmed Dead Island 3 is in development. Having already teased a new instalment in the series earlier this year, the developer has now made it official, albeit with the least fanfare one could imagine. The news comes via a
News These 4 PS Plus Games Will Leave the Service in January 2026
Farewell, Kazuma Kiryu
The final update for PS Plus goes live today, and is already available in some territories, which means we now also have the list of PS5, PS4 titles leaving the service in January 2026. The following four games leave PS Plus Extra on 20th January 2026, as per the Last Chance to Play section: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man...
News Praise Be! Cult of the Lamb's Massive Expansion Woolhaven Launches Very Soon on PS5, PS4
Year of the lamb
Devolver Digital and Massive Monster have announced a release date for Cult of the Lamb's upcoming expansion pack, Woolhaven. The paid DLC will be available on PS5 and PS4 from 22nd January, 2026, meaning it's just over a month away. It seems like it's a very robust expansion, too. "Almost doubling" the base game, according to...
News Monster Hunter Wilds' Mega Title Update 4 Out Now on PS5
Thank Gog for that
Weighing in at a chunky 8.9GB on PS5, Title Update 4 for Monster Hunter Wilds is available to download now. This is arguably the game's biggest update yet, as it attempts to expand and improve the experience pretty much across the board. There's a new creature to fight — the elder dragon Gogmazios — the endgame grind has...
