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Wednesday10th Dec 2025
News Sony's India Hero Project Brings a Cosy Adventure Game to PS5 in April 2026
Fishbowl gets a release window
Fishbowl was introduced to the world via Sony's India Hero Project program last year, and soon, it'll be making its way to PS5. The cosy, melancholy adventure game from developer imissmyfriends.studio doesn't have a concrete date yet, but it's narrowed its release window to April 2026: The game has you playing as...
News Evo 2026 Games Revealed, Lack of Marvel Tokon Raises PS5 Release Date Questions
Mortal Kombat goes MIA
The game lineup for Evo 2026 has been officially unveiled, and while it's clearly going to be a stacked event, there is one notable omission that's already sparking some debate. Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, the Marvel-based brawler from Arc System Works that's being published by Sony, has not been named as an Evo 2026 or Evo...
News Almost Killed by Xbox Layoffs, John Romero's Next Game Has 'Survived'
But it will be quite different now
Legendary game creator John Romero has confirmed his next project has "survived cancellation" after Microsoft cut its funding for the project as part of a wave of layoffs earlier this year. Speaking at a video game expo in Madrid, Spain (via Eurogamer), Romero announced during a panel that the game had been saved,...
Filmmaker names some of his favourite games
Prolific film director Guillermo del Toro is a big fan of video games, and it sounds like the modern God of War titles rank among his absolute favourites. Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, he's asked what the best game he's ever played is, and he names several classics in his long answer, but...
News Give Indiana Jones a Temple of Doom Outfit in New PS5 Update
Dressed up for Pankot Palace
MachineGames has handed Indiana Jones and the Great Circle yet another free PS5 patch that adds a new outfit to the game, this time themed around a scene from the Temple of Doom. Having downloaded the update, you can open up the Outfit tab within the pause menu and select the brand new Pankot Palace outfit. This is...
Mini Review Milano's Odd Job Collection (PS5) - A Quirky PS1 Time Capsule Reopened
All work, all play
We don’t know what we’ve done to deserve it, but we’re living in charmed times for retro re-releases. Case in point: PS1 minigame compilation Milano’s Odd Job Collection – better known as Mirano no Arubaito Collection in Japan – has arrived on Western shores for the first time, having debuted over 26 years ago...
News Netflix Says Warner Bros Games Doesn't Hold 'Any Value' in $82 Billion Acquisition
Game plan
In case you missed the big news, Netflix has entered into an agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in a deal worth a stonking $82 billion. While this primarily concerns the movie and TV business, the deal also includes Warner Bros. Games and all its subsidiaries and IPs, including NetherRealm Studios (Mortal Kombat), Rocksteady...
News This PS5 Action Strategy Hybrid from Inti Creates Looks Like a Long Lost PS1 Game
A real ActRaiser
Fans of ActRaiser, it’s time to pay attention: Inti Creates has announced an all-new action strategy hybrid named – wait for it – Kingdom’s Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster. The main takeaway here is that the game blends city building with side-scrolling combat, drawing comparisons to Square Enix’s...
News The Last of Us Co-Director Will Reveal His Next 'Creatively Charged' Title at The Game Awards
The next from us
Bruce Straley spent decades at dev Naughty Dog, where he’s credited as the co-game director on a variety of hit titles, like Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, The Last of Us, and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. That’s not a bad resume, eh? But after getting burnt out on AAA game development, he left the Sony first-party in 2017 and...
News Sony Hypes Halo PS5 in Its Hot Games of 2026 Trailer
How times change
If you travelled back in time just a few years and told us Halo: Campaign Evolved would feature in a PS5 montage trailer, we genuinely wouldn’t believe you. But here it is, one of 15 titles featured in a two-minute hype trailer, which we reported on yesterday. Sony’s nestled the Xbox first-person shooter alongside first-party...
News Mystery Game Awards Reveal Is a New Divinity RPG, as Riddle Is Finally Solved
Trademarks spill the beans
Fans of Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios (ourselves included) are starting to believe that Geoff Keighley's big tease for The Game Awards has something to do with a new Divinity project. For those totally out of the loop, Larian had created its own fantasy RPG universe — Divinity — long before it was handed...
Scraps back-to-back sub-series releases
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s sales are way down compared to its predecessors, and now Activision has come out and commented on the situation. While the game has still managed to top the charts in many countries, its performance has been described as “terrible” by some analysts, after it launched
Tuesday9th Dec 2025
News 'It's Fun and Looks Amazing': PSVR2's Next Must-Have May Be Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
"We're pretty close"
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is out now on the PS5 and it’s excellent, but it’s bound to get even better when it adds optional PSVR2 support next year. Those of you who own the headset will know Gran Turismo 7 becomes even better when paired with Sony’s headset, and we’re expecting similar from Xbox Game Studios’...
News PlayStation Teases 2026 PS5 Games in New Trailer
Halo! 007! Wolverine! Saros!
PlayStation has published an all-new sizzle reel trailer that looks to tease only a selection of the PS5 titles you can look forward to playing in 2026. In order from start to finish, the titles included are listed below with their release dates where applicable: Marvel's Wolverine Resident Evil Requiem — 27th...
News Fatal Fury PS5, PS4 Will Return with a Second Season of DLC Fighters
Next up?
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves clearly didn’t sell anywhere near as well as SNK perhaps hoped after it plastered the fighter everywhere. But it looks like it’s done enough for a second season of DLC. While there are no details just yet aside from the fact that it’s happening, the legendary Japanese developer proudly flaunted the news...
News PlayStation Wrap-Up 2025 Live Now, Get Your Gaming Stats for the Year
Track your playtime, Trophies, and more
You have done your Spotify Wrapped for 2025, so now, how about you do the same for games? The annual PlayStation Wrap-Up service, which reveals all your gaming stats for the year, is live now. Follow this link to start getting your PlayStation Wrap-Up for 2025, with the page live until 8th January 2026...
News Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Leaks in Age Rating Listing
Reveal at The Game Awards?
In case you were still doubting the existence of an Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remake from Ubisoft, here is yet more proof that the project is real: the new version has leaked via a PEGI age rating listing. The game will be called Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced. Age ratings are usually made public in this manner...
News PlayStation Confirmed for the Game Awards with a New Look at PS5 Exclusive Saros
Housemarque's shooter in the spotlight
PlayStation has announced its participation in this year's Game Awards, and it's showing off its very next PS5 exclusive title. Saros, the new game from Returnal developer Housemarque, will be part of the spangly, year-ending show, as confirmed on PlayStation's social channels: All we know is we're getting...
Nobody can, by the sound of it
China has entered the video game space in a massive way over the last few years, and Shuhei Yoshida, formerly one of PlayStation's most beloved executives, reckons studios in the country have a big advantage over those in Japan. Speaking in an interview with 4Gamer (translated by Automaton),
News Key Square Enix Shareholder Publicly Criticises Weak Game Sales, Company Management
Square one
One of Square Enix's major shareholders has doubled down on its criticisms of the publisher, to the point where it's publicly released a 100-page presentation (yes, really) in an attempt to highlight its perceived problems. The shareholder in question is Singapore-based activist investment fund 3D Investment Partners, which as alluded,...
News PS5 Police Sandbox The Precinct Gets Huge K-9 Companion Update
Top dog
Another major update for The Precinct has dropped on PS5, allowing players to team up with their very own K-9 unit while patrolling the sandbox city. We're big fans of Fallen Tree Games' police sim, so it's nice to see it receive such a significant patch almost seven months since its release. The update also boasts "key improvements", but...
News Fallout Star Ella Purnell Would Rather Play Concrete Genie Than GTA 6
"It's a lovely game"
Ella Purnell, star of the Fallout TV series, has touched on the subject of 2026's biggest upcoming game, Grand Theft Auto 6. In a video interview about the impending Fallout Season 2, Purnell and co-star Kyle MacLachlan are asked whether they'll be playing Rockstar's open world blockbuster. Purnell says that she'll "give it...
News PS Store Leaks Resident Evil Requiem Character in Updated Art
Ahead of TGAs on Thursday
You can always rely on the PS Store to leak something in the build-up to a showcase, and with The Game Awards now just two days away, it's done it again. It has long been rumoured that Leon S. Kennedy will be a large part of Resident Evil Requiem, despite the fact Capcom hasn't once shown him in trailers or gameplay. We...
News Capcom Name-Drops Mega Man, Ace Attorney, Devil May Cry Series for Future Expansion
A fresh dose of hopium for fans
Capcom has been killing it for many years now, with the majority of its games coming out to critical acclaim and sales success. It's been focusing on its most popular franchises, like Resident Evil and Monster Hunter, but it sounds as though the Japanese publisher may be turning its attention to some of its series...
News Star Wars: KOTOR 2 Remake Is Also on the Cards, Includes Cut Content
Obsidian's cut content restored
As speculation surrounding the long-in-development Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake claims a re-reveal may be on the cards for this week, another report has suggested the RPG's sequel is also in line for a remake. As part of a wider article covering the Nintendo Switch port of Star Wars Knights of the...
News LEGO Batman Will Build the Hype with an Appearance at the Game Awards
Legacy of the Dark Knight update inbound
The Game Awards is fast approaching, and as expected, we're now beginning to learn about a handful of games that'll be present during the show. One of those is now confirmed to be LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, as announced via the game's social channels: It's not known exactly what will be shown...
News Xbox Ruthlessly Cancelled Perfect Dark, But Take-Two Just Hired Its Directors
After trying to rescue the project earlier this year
For whatever reason, Take-Two loves the version of Perfect Dark that The Initiative had cooking. In fact, it’s just hired the shuttered studio’s boss Darrell Gallagher and the game’s director Brian Horton. So, some background to this story first. You may recall that Microsoft cancelled its...
It's a good choice for newbies
Do you want a flight stick to enhance your Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 experience on PS5? One of the downsides to picking the game on Sony’s console right now as opposed to PC or even Xbox is that you only have one option when it comes to compatible flight sticks, although more are on the way. (More on that...
News The Boys Brings Some Much-Needed Heat to PSVR2 Next Year
Yeah, boy
Well, this may not technically be a first-party PlayStation project, but Sony hasn’t forgotten about PSVR2 entirely. In fact, the headset remains very relevant right now, with numerous noteworthy titles releasing for it. And Sony Pictures Virtual Reality has added another title for you to look forward to: a stealth action adaptation of...
Monday8th Dec 2025
News Highly Rated Switch 2 RPG Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma Adds to Packed February on PS5
Finally confirmed
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma has been handed an official release date on PS5. It launches on the 13th February, 2026. This one has seemed inevitable for quite some time. PS5 age ratings for the game surfaced before it had even launched on Switch 2, Switch, and PC earlier this year, and more recently, the title's PS5 Trophy...
News Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Is Still Stupidly Popular, Reels in 1 Million Monthly Players
Rock the dragon
You should never underestimate the enduring popularity of Dragon Ball — as evidenced by Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero. The bombastic fighter, which launched for PS5 back in October of last year, is still attracting a crazy number of players. At least, that's what producer Jun Furutani says. Speaking after the recent PlayStation...
News Cassette Boy Is Bringing Fez-Like World-Bending Energy to PS5, PS4, Free Demo Out Now
A new perspective
For some, Fez remains one of the best puzzle platformers in living memory, so it should be little surprise to see a handful of games taking inspiration from its world-twisting ways. One upcoming example is Cassette Boy, which was announced a while ago but now finally has a release date on PS5 and PS4. It comes out on 15th January...
News Tekken Mega Music Mix Dropped by Series Boss Harada, and It's 30 Years of Pure Nostalgia
Enter... the Tekken
Alongside the announcement that he's leaving Bandai Namco, legendary Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada has dropped a treat for fans in the form of a 60-minute music mix. The track, which at the time of writing is only available on SoundCloud, basically covers 30 years of Tekken history, mashing countless pieces of music together...
Stick the landing
Once the exclusive domain of the PC, demand has seen hardcore sims like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 land comfortably on consoles like the PS5. This particular venture into Sony airspace arrives approximately a year after it crash landed elsewhere, with dev Asobo Studio bundling in all of its various bug fixes from the past 12...
News PS5 Survival Gem The Alters Gets Big Free Content Update Today
New features, modes, and more
The Alters, a PS5 sci-fi survival title released earlier this year to widespread praise, is receiving its biggest update so far today that adds new features, customisation options, and modes to the experience. See it all in action in the new trailer. Once downloaded, with the patch going live today, you can install a...
News Bonus PS Plus Extra Game for December 2025 Available Now
Skate Story on the service now
You will get the full PS Plus Extra game lineup for December 2025 later this week, but as a bonus for subscribers, there is an entirely new game available to members as of right now. That title is Skate Story on PS5, and it joins the service as a new day-one game. Skate Story has been made by a single developer named...
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...
