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Monday8th Dec 2025
Mini Review Skate Story (PS5) - The Most Unique, Most Stylish Skateboarding Game to Date
Hell is a halfpipe
We've played many great skateboarding games, but none have ever looked or felt like Skate Story. This isn't about chasing massive scores or finding crazy lines; it's a single-player journey through the underworld, playing as a crystalline demon on a mission to save himself. The Devil says he'll return the demon's soul if he can...
News We Could've Had Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on PS5 Much Sooner
How times change
A developer has revealed that a PS5 port of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 was initially turned down by Xbox — prior to the company's pivot to multiplatform releases. In an interview on XDA, head of the series Jorg Neumann speaks about bringing the game to PS5, including an anecdote about a much earlier pitch to bring it to...
News Yakuza / Like a Dragon Celebrates 20th Anniversary, Kiryu Fans Won't Want to Miss It
Be strong, kyodai
The Yakuza / Like a Dragon franchise is now officially 20 years old, and RGG Studio has produced a rather touching little video to celebrate. Said video shows the past 20 years of a man's life, as he goes from being an overwhelmed university student to a stressed out office worker. Granted, this doesn't sound very celebratory,...
News You'll Probably Be Able to Pre-Order Saros PS5 Soon
Two versions get age ratings
It looks like Housemarque plans to open digital PS5 pre-orders for Saros in the very near future, as standard and Digital Deluxe editions of the game were rated in Taiwan earlier today. Of course, with The Game Awards set to take place later this week, it appears likely that the PS5 title will appear during the show...
Rumour Sony's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic PS5 Remake May Soon Return
Or are they making Sith up?
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Sony announced Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake, a timed PS5 exclusive modernisation of the classic RPG. We first heard about this project way back in September 2021, but reported difficulties with development have significantly delayed its production. Now, rumour...
News Not Even Hideo Kojima Is Sure if Xbox Game OD Will Be Any Good
He's not sure "if it will work"
Hideo Kojima and his team have only ever made great games, but even he is unsure about how OD, the title he's making with Xbox, will turn out. In an interview with Ananweb (via Automaton), Kojima is asked about his upcoming projects now that Death Stranding 2
Rumour Dead Space Is 'On Ice', Could Be Sold Off to Help Cover EA's Acquisition Debt
Despite remake's success
Even though 2023's Dead Space remake was a hit both critically and commercially, publisher EA apparently has "no plans" to develop another instalment in the series. And perhaps even more revealing, there's now talk of the company selling the horror IP off, in a bid to correct the debt that'll inevitably envelop EA when its...
Review Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow (PSVR2) - A Disappointingly Thin Dishonored-Lite
Should have stuck to the shadows
Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow is disappointing. This latest from Vertigo Games, although developed by Maze Theory, had some real promise on the lead-up to launch. But having rolled credits, we don’t feel much beyond relief that it’s over. Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow is the continuation of a franchise that we last...
News AI Accusations Killed a PS5, PS4 Game in Two Days, and the Studio Behind It Is Shutting Down
Postal: Bullet Paradise ain't happening
Earlier this week saw the announcement of Postal: Bullet Paradise, a Vampire Survivors-esque "bullet heaven" title based on the longstanding shooter franchise. However, before you get too excited, know that the PS5/PS4 game has been cancelled — just two days following its official announcement. This is...
News Elden Ring Nightreign DLC Off to a Flyer with Two Million Launch Sales
Thank the Deluxe Edition for that
Elden Ring Nightreign players have turned up in their droves for the recently released PS5, PS4 expansion The Forsaken Hollows, with FromSoftware confirming the DLC has sold over two million copies. In a social media post, the developer shared the news in a graphic with the caption: "In the deepest recesses of...
News Tekken Director Katsuhiro Harada Announces Departure After 30 Years at Bandai Namco
K.O.
Katsuhiro Harada, director and producer of the Tekken series, has announced he'll soon leave Bandai Namco. The news comes as the fighting game franchise reaches its 30th anniversary. Harada has worked on every game in the series, with his career almost entirely focused on it over three decades. "I felt this was the most fitting moment to...
News Shenmue 4 Trailer Confirmed a Heartbreaking Fake as YS Net Threatens Legal Action
"This video has absolutely no connection to us"
Don’t play with our emotions like this. Seriously, this is cruel. Just where the hell did this shaky off-screen Shenmue 4 trailer come from, and is it AI? Well, it doesn’t entirely look like it to us, but you can’t be too sure these days. The trailer, for fans of the classic SEGA franchise, is...
Oh, lord
There was a brief moment late last week where fans were convinced The Game Awards’ mysterious statue tease was related to Lords of the Fallen 2. For those out of the loop, Geoff Keighley has been posting about an activation outside of Los Angeles, which is hyping up a reveal expected at this week’s awards ceremony. While there have...
Guide These 13+ PS5, PS4, and PS Plus Games Are Coming Out This Week (8th-14th December)
Yakuza 0! Microsoft Flight Simulator! Skate Story!
This week is likely going to be the last big window for new releases on the PS Store, because the games need to stop coming out at some point, right? It's a big one all the same, with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Skate Story, several Yakuza re-releases, and Terminator 2D: No Fate all vying for...
News Honkai: Star Rail's Milestone PS5 Update Allegedly Postponed Due to Political Tensions
Sweet dreams
HoYoverse updates run like clockwork, so the fact the sci-fi RPG Honkai: Star Rail’s milestone v4.0 update has been delayed by two weeks is quite a surprise. As part of its most recent Special Programme, the dev announced that v3.8 will run for eight weeks as opposed to its usual six weeks. It said in a statement earlier today that...
News Cancelled First-Party PS5 Game Leaks Online in Gameplay Videos
The scrapped PS5 title from Deviation Games
In the formative years of the PS5 generation, Sony made a number of agreements with third-party developers to publish their projects. Deviation Games was one of them, but its game was cancelled in early 2024. Now, footage of what it was working on has been published online. Leaked by
Sunday7th Dec 2025
Feature The Game Awards 2025 Predictions: PS5 Games, the Muppets, and Geoff Keighley's Shoes
What's gonna happen?
The Game Awards is so close, we can practically hear Geoff Keighley's platitudes about the current state of the industry already. It's always a wild ride, watching the show as we do every year, despite things kicking off at half past midnight UK time. By the show's end, we're sleep-deprived, delirious, and questioning why we...
We're all connected
Hardware sneak Moore’s Law Is Dead has kickstarted a fresh chain of rumours about PS6’s purported portable incarnation. On a recent YouTube video, he shared an anonymous email from a dev about PS5’s recently added low power mode. According to them, Sony is eager for more devs to take advantage of it, and provided...
News 'It's a Huge Upgrade': PS5 Pro Poised to Improve Massively in 2026
PSSR U Red E?
Sony’s not been shy about the fact that it’s actively working on improvements to the PS5 Pro, and specifically its PSSR upscaling technology. Support for the system has been mixed since the supercharged system’s release in 2024: some games benefit greatly from the enhanced hardware, while others have undoubtedly underwhelmed...
News Promising PS5 Console Exclusive Phantom Blade Zero Will Get a Release Date at The Game Awards
This is going to be big
S-GAME promised it would announce a release date for its highly anticipated PS5 action game Phantom Blade Zero before the end of the year, and all will be revealed at The Game Awards next week. There’s really not much more we can add to this story, but writing on X (or Twitter), the official account for Geoff Keighley’s...
News PS5 Dominates USA and UK on Black Friday, Comfortably Outsells All Its Rivals
On top
PS5 absolutely obliterated its rivals in the UK this Black Friday, selling an outrageous 62% of all console hardware during the week ending 30th November. To put the number into perspective, the newly released Switch 2 – in its first Black Friday – made up 23% of the sales, while the Xbox Series X|S occupied 10%, and the original Switch...
Saturday6th Dec 2025
Feature Going Platinum #2: The Witness
You should've seen it
Platinum Trophy #2: The Witness Date Earned: 21st February 2016 Dopamine Index: stars:4 Something I've only just thought of: I never earned a single platinum Trophy before I started writing for Push Square. It was only after I became involved with this website that my interest in Trophies started to really take hold. Fun...
News Major Monster Hunter Wilds News Expected Next Week
Livestream planned for Monday
Capcom will provide an update on flagship game Monster Hunter Wilds and its upcoming RPG spin-off Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection during a livestream next week. Scheduled to get underway on 8th December on YouTube, the livestream will include news about Wilds’ highly anticipated Title Update 4, which is...
News Train Sim World 6's First Japanese Railway Route Looks Breathtaking in PS5, PS4 Teaser Trailer
And breathe
Train Sim World 6’s first Japanese railway route the Tadami Line was announced all the way back for Train Sim World 4, so there are certainly criticisms that can be levelled at dev Dovetail and its partner Union Workshop for taking this long to get the content out. But this teaser trailer does confirm the content is coming together at...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 610
Three weeks until Xmas
Have you put your Xmas decorations up yet? Now we're in December, you have our permission. Go get it done and play some games. Aaron Bayne: It's a mixture of things for me this weekend. I'm playing a bit of Elden Ring Nightreign with my mates, I'll be checking out the Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora third-person mode, I'm...
News Riot's Free-to-Play Fighter 2XKO Out on PS5 in a Few Weeks
A legendary 2026 awaits
Surprise! League of Legends maker Riot Games’ free-to-play fighter 2XKO will sucker punch the PS5 in January 2026, and you can wishlist the release right now on the PS Store so you don’t miss it. This game was announced ages ago and has gon
News Cryptic Game Awards Statue Teaser Rumbles on with New Riddle
regal.inspiring.thickness
Just what the heck is Geoff Keighley teasing? With a post on X, the presenter and producer of shows like The Game Awards and Summer Game Fest has sent fans into a spin, trying to pick apart a mysterious message. Here's what Keighley has posted: The text in the post is a phrase that, when searched on navigation site...
Friday5th Dec 2025
Big Blue World
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is hoping to make a big splash with its upcoming tie-in DLC, From the Ashes, a full-blown expansion that we recently got to try out. Between flying the skies on our Ikran and taking out the new Na’Vi Ash Clan enemies, we sat down to speak with From The Ashes’ narrative director, Aoife O’Friel, to...
News Splitgate 2 Is Being Renamed as Well as Relaunched, Arrives Later This Month on PS5, PS4
Meet Splitgate: Arena Reloaded
Splitgate 2 is coming back to PS5 and PS4 very soon, and not only has it been given a total overhaul, it's also got a new name. Now called Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, the free-to-play multiplayer FPS relaunches on 17th December 2025: The above trailer showcases some gameplay before design director Josh Watson gives...
News PS5 Metroidvania MIO: Memories in Orbit Launches in a Post-Silksong World in 2026
Hopefully it's memorable
You may have forgotten about MIO: Memories in Orbit, a Metroidvania action platformer announced earlier this year. Well, publisher Focus Entertainment has finally announced a release date; it comes to PS5 very soon, on 20th January 2026. MIO is the name of the little robot you play as. They've lost their memories, and...
News GTA 5 Protagonist Michael Returns in GTA Online Mansions Update
Out on 10th December for free
Michael, one of the three main characters from the single player story in GTA 5, will return to the GTA Online part of the experience next week in a free update. You can get a bit of visual context in the trailer above. Across a new series of missions featuring the protagonist, you shall work towards earning your very...
News One of 2025's Most Beloved and Adorable Games Is Setting Up Shop on PS5
Tiny Bookshop is on the way
Tiny Bookshop, a highly acclaimed indie title that released earlier this year on PC and Switch, is confirmed for release on PS5. The cute and cosy adventure trundles onto Sony's console on 10th April 2026, both physically and digitally. In the game, you run a mobile bookshop you can take to different areas, setting up...
News Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War Turns Helldivers 2 into a Retro, PS2-Era FPS
Complete with FMVs
Satirical sci-fi is in at the moment, with Helldivers 2 taking off massively last year, and its direct inspiration, Starship Troopers, is getting in on the action. Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War is a freshly announced single player first-person shooter set within the universe of the much-loved sci-fi action movie. It's not...
News Hogwarts Legacy, Mortal Kombat Publisher Warner Bros Bought for $82 Billion by Netflix
Harry Potter, Game of Thrones IPs included
Netflix has entered into an agreement to acquire Warner Bros Discovery for $82.7 billion, which includes the publisher's video game developers and IPs. This means that, should the deal go through, the ownership of Mortal Kombat team NetherRealm Studios, the Hogwarts Legacy developer Avalanche, and other...
News Cairn, the Dark Souls of Climbing Games, Finally Nails Down a Release Date on PS5
And it's not too far away
Cairn, the mountaineering survival game, has a release date at last. It's coming to PS5 very soon, releasing on 29th January, 2026, as revealed in its latest trailer: The game is from the team behind Furi and Haven, and is something entirely different yet again. Playing as expert climber Aava, your goal is to reach the...
News Resident Evil Requiem Is at The Game Awards with a 'New Look'
Now less than one week away
The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley has confirmed Resident Evil Requiem will be part of the announcements in next week's show. Capcom is bringing a "new look" at the PS5 game, which will presumably be another trailer. Keighley's tweet revealing the game's inclusion also comes with a slightly new piece of key art,...
News PS5 Sci-Fi Action RPG SOL Shogunate Is Samurai in Space, and It Looks Awesome
Moon knights
SOL Shogunate has just been announced for PS5, and it looks like the most video game-y video game you could hope to see. In development at independent studio Chaos Manufacturing, the game is a single player sci-fi action RPG all about samurai in space: The game is set in an alternate future in which humanity has spread across...
News We Didn't Have a New Carmageddon on Our 2026 PS5 Bingo Card
And it's a roguelite this time
Oh wow, we didn’t expect to see a new Carmageddon game get announced before Christmas. Obviously, the controversial vehicular combat franchise has a long history, with the second game in particular proving somewhat popular on the PS1, despite attracting dreadful reviews. The franchise got a bit of a soft reboot on...
News About Fishing Is an Angling Game with an Awesome Retro Aesthetic
Silent gill
All is not quite as it seems in upcoming angling sim About Fishing, which creator The Water Museum says has been “made out of love for Shenmue and SEGA Bass Fishing”. We can certainly see the Dreamcast vibes. The trailer starts out light-hearted enough, as two polygonal characters share a portion of curly fries next to a misty lake...
Preview Avatar PS5 Is Transformed in Third-Person, Expanded in From the Ashes DLC
An evolving Pandora
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - From the Ashes is a bigger deal than we initially thought. The third paid DLC for Massive Entertainment’s 2023 movie tie-in offers up a 25-hour campaign, a new region, and the highly requested third-person mode. But what really struck us was a greater sense of what was described as “brand...
News Sony's All-In on Exciting PS5 Action RPG The God Slayer, Despite an Xbox Version Existing
An unusual re-reveal
There was confusion this week when steampunk action RPG The God Slayer was announced for Xbox Series X|S as well as PS5 and PC. The game had been revealed as part of Sony’s China Hero Project programme, but there was no mention of the scheme in the title’s latest trailer. This led us to assume that the project had expanded...
Guide Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Beta: All Start Times, How to Play, and What's Included
All you need to know about the Marvel Tokon beta
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, Sony's superhero fighting game, comes out sometime in 2026, but fans will be able to give it a try very soon with the second closed beta test. The closed beta will give you a chance to play the Arc System Works tag-team fighting game, but what are all the details? In...
News New PS5 Controllers Said to Be Optimised for Better Battery Life
Making the most of it
Sony has allegedly optimised the internals of the DualSense controller in order to ensure longer lasting performance. A whole heap of testing from a Polish console modder and so-called controller technician reveals that the latest model of the PS5 pad (CFI-ZCT2W) optimises performance for longer play sessions. He points to...
News Banjo-Kazooie Creator Rare Heaps Praise on PS5, PS4 Fan Game Made in Dreams
Grunty's impressed
We've not checked in on Dreams for a while, but it seems the community is still plugging away at the PS4 create-'em-up. As it so happens, this week saw the release of Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbomania, an unofficial but very good 3D platformer from one of Dreams' best creators, Eupholace. The game is a short but very well-made 3D...
News Romeo Is a Dead Man Will Be One of PS5's Craziest Action Games When It Launches in February
Release date announced
One of the more interesting games on the horizon is Romeo Is a Dead Man, the next effort from Suda51's studio, Grasshopper Manufacture. Announced during a State of Play, the game now has an official release date, and it's surprisingly soon. The game comes out on 11th February, 2026: You play as Romeo, a man who very nearly...
Thursday4th Dec 2025
News Future Total War Games Will Finally Invade PlayStation
This means war
The Total War series has long been at the centre of all things strategic in gaming — but the franchise has always maintained a PC focus. That's going to change with future titles, however. During the property's 25th anniversary showcase, British developer Creative Assembly basically confirmed the new direction, stating that Total...
News Sony London's Cancelled PS5 Game Seemingly Revived as Cast Outs
Early access beta in 2027 on PS5
At least some of the work, ideas, and inspiration that went into the now-cancelled PS5 game from shuttered PlayStation developer London Studio have found their way into Cast Outs, a newly announced game from a team containing eight former London Studio developers. Cast Outs is an online co-op game set in an urban...
Search results
Google has revealed the most searched-for video games of 2025, and the top 10 makes for a pretty interesting read. Now, obviously, search engine trends aren't everything — but they do offer meaningful insight into what the general public's actually bothering to investigate. And in terms of gaming, they can suggest the ebb and flow...
News We'll Soon See Whether Heavy Rain Dev's Live Service Multiplayer Gamble Pays Off
Spellcasters Chronicles' beta is live
Quantic Dream, the French studio behind the likes of Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human — games that have all been very closely tied to PlayStation — has just launched its first beta for Spellcasters Chronicles on PC. If you haven't been keeping up, Spellcasters Chronicles marks a...
News The Game Awards Hype Video Is a Nice Reminder It Isn't All About the Trailers
Even though it kinda is
In case you hadn't noticed, The Game Awards is almost upon us once again. Geoff Keighley's annual show celebrates the present and the future of the medium, and in about a week's time, we'll all be gathered around our screens watching to see what trailers are there, and which new games are announced. While the trailers and...
