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Thursday18th Jun 2026
News Yakuza Creator's Gang of Dragon PS5 Game Really Does Seem Dead
More evidence the developer is no more
While it seems unlikely we will ever get official confirmation out of NetEase, it does indeed appear Gang of Dragon, from Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi and his new development studio, has been quietly cancelled. Back in March, it was reported publisher NetEase was planning to pull its funding of Nagoshi...
News New PS5 Game Mega Man: Dual Override Will Be Playable at Gamescom
Blue bomber run
Ahead of its release in 2027, anticipated side-scroller Mega Man: Dual Override will make its playable debut at Gamescom in August. A demo will be playable in Capcom’s booth, alongside Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen and Onimusha: Way of the Sword. There’ll also be various activities around Street Fighter 6. We haven’t seen...
Wednesday17th Jun 2026
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 PS5 Ports Now Official, Launching in July
All thanks to Iron Galaxy
Treyarch has revealed the PS5 ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 are a real thing, confirming they'll be releasing next month thanks to the work of Iron Galaxy. In a very low-key announcement done on social media, the developer simply said: "It's official: the original Black Ops and Black Ops 2...
News Spider-Man 2 PS5 Gets New Suit from Brand New Day Movie on 28th July
Unlock the Fresh Start Suit
Alongside a new trailer for next month's Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie, it's been confirmed the new suit Peter Parker wears in the film will be made available in Marvel's Spider-Man 2. As part of a free update coming on 28th July 2026, three days before the flick is out, you'll be able to don the Fresh Start Suit in...
News Vampire Survivors Dev 'Reviewing' Fortnite Collaboration Due to Epic's Use of Generative AI
Taking a stand
Fortnite maker Epic is, perhaps unsurprisingly, all-in on generative AI – proudly so. It released various videos earlier this week, showing how it’s incorporating the controversial technology into its workflow, from concept art creation through to environmental models and everything in between. Separately to this, the dev...
News 'There Are Other Xbox Studios in Trouble': Ominous Reports as Microsoft 'Bloodbath' Looms
Messed up
We’ve all read the rumours regarding Xbox’s incoming exodus, but things sound worse than initially imagined behind-the-scenes. In a revelatory recap video, Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier says there are more studios than just Ninja Theory, Double Fine, and Compulsion Games in trouble. All three developers, who’ve made multiple...
News Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Details Will Be Absolutely Everywhere in August
A DLC blowout is coming
Capcom finally blew the minds of Dragon's Dogma fans last week, when it revealed Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen — a full-blooded expansion for the 2024 action RPG. But outside of tiny details that people have been able to pick out of the reveal trailer, we don't have a whole lot to go on. Plus, players have been praying for...
Preview Like a Greatest Hits Game, Remedy Peaks in Control Resonant
The best of both Remedy worlds
There are far too many games coming out and nowhere near enough time to play them all in September. You could fuel a backlog for the next six months off its releases alone, so to cut through all the noise, I'm here to tell you Control Resonant is the one to pay attention to most. Off the back of its other series,...
News Persona 4 Fans Torn Over Remake's Totally New English Voice Cast
Now it's Persona-l
Many a Japanese RPG fan would argue that Persona 4, or more specifically, Persona 4 Golden, has one of the most iconic English dubs in the genre. It features performances that have helped define the characters themselves. Everyone who's played Golden in English knows Troy Baker's Kanji Tatsumi, Yuri Lowenthal's Yosuke Hanamura,...
News Sony Reiterates God of War Laufey Is 'Coming Soon' to PS5
Out in the next 12 months?
It really does look like we could be playing God of War Laufey inside the next 12 months, as PlayStation is again leaning into the fact the PS5 title is "coming soon". The platform holder made the claim upon the game's reveal in its State of Play livestream at the start of this month, and it's making the point again in a...
News How About a New PS5 SSD Upgrade? That'll Be $3,000
SanDisk prices new 8TB SSD that high
SanDisk has unveiled a new range of PS5-compatible SSDs, and the prices are eye-opening to say the least. If you want to go all the way and store more than just a Call of Duty title or two on your console, then the 8TB version will cost you a whopping $2,960. This is the new Optimus GX Pro range of solid-state...
News Just Weeks After Launching Highly Rated PS5 Game Luna Abyss, the Team Has Been Laid Off
Kwalee Labs is gone
Kwalee Labs, the development team behind the recently released Luna Abyss, has just been made redundant. The team was only made up of nine people, but all of them suddenly find themselves out of work despite launching the aforementioned game, which has been received very well by critics and players. The news comes from...
News Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster Gets Surprise PS5 Patch, Adding New Game+, Settings, and More
A tactical choice
Square Enix has just pumped out a surprise patch for Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles — and it's a pretty significant one. An enhanced (and slightly expanded) remaster of the stone cold classic strategy RPG, The Ivalice Chronicles released for PS5 and PS4 back in September of last year. It's barely been mentioned by...
News Here's How You Unlock Halo's PS5 Platinum Trophy Next Month
The full Trophy list revealed
The release of Halo: Campaign Evolved doesn't just mark the first appearance of Master Chief on PlayStation, but also the first time you can earn a Platinum Trophy in the series. Halo Studios has published the Trophy list a month early, allowing aspiring Spartans the chance to chart their course to 100% completion well...
News New Senua Game Reveal Used as a Way to Sell Ninja Theory to Suitors
Xbox had decided to sell the studio before reveal
Microsoft allowed Ninja Theory to announce a new title in Senua while preparing to either shut it down or sell it off, and according to Game File journalist Stephen Totilo, that was all part of its plan. As part of a deep dive article covering the news of Xbox plans to rid itself of Ninja Theory,...
News Housemarque Hints Its Next PS5 Game Could Be Smaller Than Saros
"There are interesting opportunities we'd like to look at"
Sony studio Housemarque says it fully feels like a PlayStation first-party now it’s shipped its first game since being acquired in 2021. Fans will know the Finnish outfit has been a long-time PS Studios partner, but it wasn’t officially added to the Japanese giant’s roster until after...
Tuesday16th Jun 2026
News Halo: Campaign Evolved Goes All-In on PS5 Pro Support as Xbox Bets Big on Rival Console
Green with envy
In a move that would have loyal soldiers of the Xbox 360 console war era questioning their sanity, Microsoft is investing an awful lot of resources into making it seem like PS5 Pro will be the place to play Halo: Campaign Evolved. Now, obviously, it makes sense for the Team in Green to prioritise PlayStation users in this instance...
News Hellraiser: Revival Will Become PS5's Most Gruesome Horror Game This October
What the hell
Horror fanatics will want to pay attention to this one. Hellraiser: Revival has just received a release date, and it's launching in plenty of time for the Halloween season. This extremely violent survival horror experience arrives on PS5 on 8th October, 2026. A new trailer makes the announcement, and although many of the grisly...
This is the end
Ubisoft has blown the lid off the final update for Assassin's Creed Shadows — and it's packing a lot more than most people were expecting, including myself. Firstly, it adds a brand new main story chapter that completes the tale of protagonists Naoe and Yasuke. The duo will have to face off against two elite Templars who have...
News Devil May Cry 6 Feels Inevitable as DMC 5 Sales Set All-Time Record, Seven Years After Release
Jackpot
The success of Devil May Cry 5 is borderline mind-blowing at this point. Capcom's outstanding action game has simply never stopped selling since its initial launch back in 2019, and now, if you can believe it, it's just set an all-time record for annual sales. According to the publisher's latest business update, Devil May Cry 5 sold a...
News UK Gamers Question Hobby's Future as Government Bans Kids from Social Media
Impacts everyone 16 and under
It's highly likely that a social media ban for anyone aged 16 or under will soon be implemented in the UK, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer is confident of new legislation being passed before the end of this year. So why the heck am I writing about this on a PlayStation-specific website? Well, it's because the proposed...
Rumour Gaming Industry 'Bloodbath' Imminent, as Sony, Microsoft, and More Brace for Mass Layoffs
Bethesda, BioWare, and more named
A summer of utter carnage reportedly awaits the games industry, as mega publishers like Sony, Microsoft, and others look to cut entire studios loose. This is according to reputable French journalist Sylvain Trinel, who took to social media overnight in response to the ongoing chaos over at Xbox. Trinel comments...
News PS Plus Premium's Brilliant PS2 Classic Gitaroo Man Arrives with Full Trophy Support
You win!
Until they launch on the service, it's never a sure thing if a PS Plus Premium retro release will feature Trophies on PS5 and PS4. Some do, some don't. Fortunately, the latest addition to the classic games library comes fully furnished with a set of digital trinkets to earn. Gitaroo Man, from Koei Tecmo and Liona Interactive (then known...
News 12 PS Plus Extra Game Removals for July 2026 Confirmed
Bye bye July
The merry-go-round of PS Plus Extra games continues to turn, and while today sees the arrival of some new titles, others are leaving the subscription service next month. A total of 12 PS5 and PS4 games are now confirmed for removal from PS Plus Extra in July, with roughly a month from now (16th June 2026) left to play them before they...
News Put Echoes of Aincrad: Sword Art Online to the Test in Lengthy PS5 Demo, Out Now
Echoes of echoes
Based on everything that's been shown so far, it's fair to say that Echoes of Aincrad: Sword Art Online is the most ambitious Sword Art Online game yet. At the very least, it's got the biggest budget of the bunch. And so it'll be interesting to see how well its playable demo is received. Said demo's going to launch for PS5 next...
News The 13-Year-Old PS4 Has a New Firmware Update, Here Are the Patch Notes
What does version 13.52 do?
Those still rocking a launch-day PS4 have had it for nearly 13 years, and Sony is still keeping its system software in good shape. A new firmware update for the aged console is available now, bringing it to version 13.52. Don't get too excited, though; it's not doing anything interesting or unexpected. Here's the single...
News 2 New PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Available to Download Now
Full lineup outside of UK, USA, and Japan
Today's the monthly PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium game update for active members, but as detailed last week by Sony, the firm is mixing things up in terms of how it delivers the PS5, PS4, and Classic titles. In the UK, USA, and Japan, it's spacing the announced games out across a few weeks.
News Iconic Actor Mark Hamill Joining Third Season of Twisted Metal's TV Show
Forcing his way in
According to movie snoop Jeff Sneider, Star Wars’ Mark Hamill has signed on to star in season three of Peacock’s surprisingly successful Twisted Metal television series. It's unclear what role the iconic actor will play, but he’ll feature alongside returning leads Anthony Mackie (John Doe) and Stephanie Beatriz (Quiet)...
News Hellblade Studio Hunting for Buyer, Days After Announcing New Game for PS5
It's barely been a week
A little over a week ago, Hellblade dev Ninja Theory announced Senua for the PS5 – but now it’s on the cusp of being closed down. The Cambridge-based developer – which previously worked with Sony on the PS3 game Heavenly Sword – was reportedly told by Microsoft that it will be shut down earlier today. But
News Several Xbox Studios at Risk of Closure, in Talks to Become Independent
Update: Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Compulsion named
This weekend has been awash with rumours about incoming Xbox studio closures, as new leadership wrestles with an almighty mess. While the speculation about the layoffs has been awful to witness on social media, Kotaku is now reporting that South of Midnight maker Compulsion Games will be among...
Monday15th Jun 2026
Site News Oh, Hi Everyone! Did You Notice Anything Different Here Recently?
Go on, be honest
Hello – it’s been a while since I’ve written one of these. I wanted to share a small update with you all about Push Square, which many of you may have already noticed. I know a couple of you mentioned it in the forums. Recently, we all sat around a big table with Rob’s Ringtons biscuits (they’re a northern thing,...
Rumour The Witcher Co-Op Action RPG in Development, and You Make Your Own Character
But there's no mention of consoles yet
Well this is a rather interesting rumour, isn't it? A new report from MP1st claims that CD Projekt Red has an unannounced co-op action RPG in the works at a currently unconfirmed studio — and it's set in the universe of The Witcher. This supposedly free-to-play project is targeting PC and mobile platforms...
Poll What's Your PS5 Game of the Year for 2026 So Far?
Halfway done
Look, you might not want to hear this, but we're now halfway through 2026 — and here on Push Square, that can only mean one thing... That's right, it's time to step back and take stock of the year so far. And what a six and a half months it's been. I know we're all going gaga over the upcoming release schedule — September and...
News If You're Itching for a Gothic Action RPG, Mistfall Hunter's Free Open Beta Is Now Live on PS5
Mistfell for it
Got a bit of a Soulslike itch? Fancy bashing your head against armour-clad enemies in a grim fantasy setting? Then you might want to check out the Mistfall Hunter open beta, which is available to download now on PS5. In truth, this one's totally passed me by — but I've seen it rack up some attention on streaming platforms like...
News Fable PS5 Looking Far Too Easy? Don't Fear, Harder Difficulties Will Be Available
"The guards haven't been drinking tea mid-shift"
While the response to Fable’s latest gameplay demo has been largely positive due to its in-depth life sim aspects, the game has come under fire for its “simple” combat gameplay. Fortunately, dev Playground has clarified that its latest video depicted ‘Story’ difficulty, the “gentlest way...
News Dead by Daylight Gets an Insane PS5 Graphics Upgrade for Its 10th Anniversary
Scooby Doo! Iron Maiden! Terrifier! So much more!
Dead by Daylight is probably one of the most successful live service games out there today, and Behaviour Interactive is taking the asymmetrical horror’s 10th anniversary extremely seriously. It’s announced a pretty unprecedented roadmap for the release, which includes so much content we don’t...
"We might have been heroes"
The sheer number of improvements Ubisoft is promising for Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced is impressive — but there's one big addition in particular that's got me excited to relive Edward's seafaring adventure. In the original game, Blackbeard was something of a mentor to Edward — a crazy old pirate who had...
News Sony 'Hopes' to Launch PS5's God of War Laufey in the First Half of 2027
But plans could change
You could be playing Santa Monica Studio’s wildly ambitious God of War Laufey within the next year, assuming plans haven’t changed internally. The unfortunately named snoop NateTheHate2 – who leaked the existence of this game well in advance of its announcement at this month’s State of Play – wrote on
News Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth Sales Seemingly Spike After Revelation Reveal
Finish what you started
There's been a lot of debate over just how commercially successful Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth have proven to be — but I was always of the mind that the remake trilogy would have serious legs. In short, selling the second and third parts of a planned trilogy is always going to be difficult. Plenty of...
News PS5 RPG Dawnwalker Pulls a Witcher 3 with Free DLC Drops
More content after launch
Rebel Wolves seems to have seriously big plans for The Blood of Dawnwalker, with a recent trailer basically announcing sequels will travel to different time periods. It is quite the pitch for a debut developer, but before it can even get to those follow-ups, the developer has revealed it'll be supporting the first game...
Guide These 7+ PS5 and PS Plus Games Are Coming Out This Week (15th-21st June)
The Adventures of Elliot! UFC 6! Copa City!
The release schedule is thinning out at the moment, but don't worry, it becomes absolute bedlam in August. For this week, the biggest release is clearly Square Enix's The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, although EA Sports UFC 6 will be a big seller as well. Here's everything coming out this...
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Stripped of All PS5 Microtransactions as DLC Nears
Removed from sale on 25th June
Capcom has announced it's removing all of the microtransactions related to Dragon's Dogma 2 from sale, as it prepares the sequel for its Dark Arisen expansion in October. From 25th June 2026, the Dragon's Dogma 2 premium currency (Rift Crystals) will be taken off the PS Store, along with all the items you could...
News Campaign Early Access Now Included in Modern Warfare 4 PS5 Pre-Orders
Play one week early from 16th October
Infinity Ward has announced it'll once again offer early access to the single player campaign of its next Call of Duty title to anyone who pre-orders. If you pre-order Modern Warfare 4, you'll get to play the campaign one week early, from 16th October 2026. This is an incentive the team has offered to drive...
News Halo PS5 Poised to Sell Extremely Well, Topping PS Store Charts Around the World
Belief in Master Chief
It looks like Master Chief’s anticipated PS5 debut in Halo: Campaign Evolved is going to be a big hit, as the game is climbing the PS Store pre-order charts ahead of its release on 28th July. In several European countries, the title is already the most pre-ordered PS5 game by some margin, and it’s climbing the charts in...
Sunday14th Jun 2026
Opinion I'm So Glad Racing Games Are Finally Getting Interesting Again
Changing gears
I'm sure some people aren't going to like this, but speaking as a fan of racing games, I think they've been kinda boring for a while. I dunno, it's difficult. You look at racers over the last 10 years or so, and it's hard to argue against them in some respects. They're broadly very well made. The problem I personally have is that,...
Opinion PS Plus Users, You Should Play Final Fantasy 16 (But Only If You Play It Like This)
Burn it all down
I really like Final Fantasy 16, but there's no denying that it's another very divisive instalment in Square's decades-old series. While the franchise has always attempted to innovate with each new game, it's still easy to argue that 16 is the furthest Final Fantasy has ever strayed from its traditional JRPG roots. 16 is an action...
News Xbox Wants Faster Fallout, Elder Scrolls Games to Bolster Business
Will they come to PlayStation?
It’s hard to believe it’s been just one week since the Xbox Showcase, as Microsoft’s gaming division has been battered over the past few days – with CEO Satya Nadella being one of the people sticking in the boot. Speaking at Hard Fork Live, the Microsoft executive said it must turn Xbox into a “sustainable...
News PS5 Controller's Best Features Are Finally Working Over Bluetooth on PC
Devs do what Sony won't
Sony wants you to play on the PS5 obviously, but it’s more than happy to let you use your DualSense controller on the PC. Unfortunately, there are limitations when connecting a DualSense to a computer, but one industrious app developer is working to overcome them. A new beta release for DSX is showing immense promise,...
Feature This Somber Platformer, Now 15-Years-Old, Deserves a Revisit on PS5
Curiouser and curiouser
I don’t remember exactly when I fell down the Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole; I’ve always been a bit obsessed with the Lewis Carroll novel, dating all the way back to very early childhood. The nonsensical plot’s mix of fairytale whimsy with dark undertones has always fascinated me, and even today as an adult, I use an...
News Atelier Karia Makes Eating a Gameplay Mechanic on PS5
You are what you eat
For the most part, new game Atelier Karia: The Night Kingdom & the Guide of Memories sounds fairly familiar. Amnesiac protagonist? You bet. Item synthesising? Of course. An eating mechanic that changes how you look? Yea–wait, what?! Set in the continent of Aladiss, first introduced in Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories...
