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Tuesday13th Jan 2026
Re-ReFantazio
We honestly forgot this was coming out, but Metaphor: ReFantazio's 'Guidebook Edition' is available to buy now on PS5 and PS4. If you've got a better memory than us, you may recall that this bundle was announced in October of last year. At the time, fans were wondering whether Atlus was about to announce some kind of expanded...
News Control Resonant Not a 'Safe Sequel', Remedy Aiming to 'Push the Boundaries'
Will it resonate?
Remedy Entertainment isn't known for making safe bets with its games, so its latest comments on the upcoming Control Resonant shouldn't come as a big surprise. The game, a sequel to 2019's Control, was announced at the 2025 Game Awards, and will follow Jesse Faden's brother Dylan as he leaves the confines of the Oldest House amid...
Miyazaki comments on FromSoft fave
For many, PS4 exclusive Bloodborne is considered one of FromSoftware's top games, if not its best to date. The atmospheric Souls-like action RPG left a big impression on players with its brilliant art direction, haunting soundtrack, and engaging, challenging combat. It's a favourite for many fans, but it sounds...
News Arc Raiders Now a Huge Multiplayer Success Story at 12 Million Sales
960,000 concurrent players this month
While other live service efforts wilt, Embark Studios has proved there is still room for significant success in the online multiplayer games sector, as ARC Raiders has now sold more than 12.4 million copies since its October 2025 launch. A report from Business Wire reveals the game reached 10 million sales at...
News LEVEL-5's Inazuma Eleven Takes a Stride Closer to 1 Million Sales Milestone
Top of the league
Legendary Japanese dev LEVEL-5’s remarkable return to form continues in earnest with the ongoing success of Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, which has now topped 800,000 units sold across all platforms and is well on its way to the one million units milestone. The game launched late last year on 13th November, and topped 500,000...
News Hellblade Dev Plotting a More Gameplay Focused Successor, Presumably for PS5
Hack it
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 from Ninja Theory was pegged as a major console exclusive for the Xbox Series X|S when it was announced, after the original had found success on the PS4. The sequel was later be ported to the PS5 as part of Microsoft’s shifting console strategy, where it received a muted reception due to its short running time...
News Go Beyond the Conclusion to My Hero Academia in New PS5 Game All's Justice
Class action
My Hero Academia: All’s Justice will depict the finale to the superhero-inspired anime and manga sensation, so you’ll be able to relive the ending of the story in interactive form. But beyond that it will delve deeper into the lives and relationships of your favourite characters from Class 1-A in the Hero’s Diary. This, paired...
News Resident Evil Showcase Gives Us Another Look at Requiem This Week, Here's When to Watch
Will you be tuning in?
Capcom will host one final Resident Evil Showcase before its latest effort Resident Evil Requiem launches on PS5 from 27th February. The broadcast will get underway from 2PM PT / 5PM ET on 15th January, and you’ll be able to watch it live on YouTube. If you’re not sure when to tune in, here’s the start time across a...
Monday12th Jan 2026
Talking Point Did ANTHEM Deserve the Hate?
You're not singing anymore
ANTHEM is dead. Or at least, it soon will be, depending on when you're reading this. While the online looter-shooter never quite set the world on fire, it's worth remembering that there was quite a lot of hype behind ANTHEM ahead of its eventual release on the 22nd February, 2019. This was, after all, a new property from...
Feature 15 PS5 Predictions for 2026
What'll it be?
It's time once again for the Push Square team to stare into our crystal ball and predict what 2026 will bring for PlayStation. Each of us has come up with a trio of predictions about the next 12 months. Maybe it's a thoughtful rumination on where the medium is heading, or maybe it's just wishful thinking about a game we want to see...
News Dragon Ball Z Action RPG Kakarot Tops a Mighty 10 Million Sales
"The journey isn't over yet"
It's a universal law that when a Dragon Ball game sells, it sells really well. And that's exactly what's happened (or is currently happening) with Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. Originally released in 2020 for PS4 — and re-released for PS5 in 2023 — Kakarot has now sold a whopping 10 million copies. It hit 8 million in the...
News Persona Anniversary Site Mentions 'Next Chapter for the Series'
Six sells
A single sentence discovered through the official 30th Anniversary website for the Persona series has got fans dreaming of a big announcement. Said sentence reads: "Come celebrate the journey as we usher in the next chapter for the series." Seems like a bit of a tease, doesn't it? But before we get too excited, it should be stressed that...
News PS5 Reportedly Hands Forza Horizon 5 an Additional 5 Million Sales
Resulting in $300 million of revenue
The PS5 version of Forza Horizon 5 has now sold more than five million units since its April 2025 launch and made over $300 million in revenue for publisher Microsoft, one Alinea Analytics reporter claims. Rhys Elliott of the analytical firm posted to social media that, as of last week, Alinea Analytics...
News BioWare's Biggest Failure ANTHEM Shuts Down Today
Offline and unplayable forever
An entire BioWare game will disappear today, as the time has arrived for the developer to switch off the online servers for ANTHEM, its PS4 flop of 2019. As an online-only experience, the title will no longer be playable in any form on any console or PC once access has been revoked. An exact time for the server...
Guide Best Single Player Games on PS Plus
The best single player games on PS Plus ranked and rated
What are the best single player games on PS Plus? While there are many excellent multiplayer games on PS Plus, it features countless brilliant experiences for solo players too. There's nothing quite like getting invested in a single player journey through an epic adventure. In fact, it's...
Guide These 3+ PS5, PS4 Games Are Coming Out This Week (12th-18th January)
Trails beyond the Horizon! God Bless, or Goddess!
2026 has barely started, so it's another pretty quiet week on the PS Store this time. However, there's one big game worth paying attention to: Trails beyond the Horizon will be eagerly anticipated by fans of The Legend of Heroes franchise, and rightly so. Here are all the new games coming out this...
News Xbox's Avowed Will Be $20 Cheaper When It Launches on PS5
Microsoft discounts RPG for re-release
Xbox first-party RPG Avowed will cost $20 less than it did at launch when it releases on the PS5 next month, from 17th February. Microsoft originally flogged the Obsidian adventure for $69.99 when it first arrived on Xbox Series X|S and PC – although it was also included in Game Pass, of course. But...
News A Month After PS5 Performance Update, The Division: Definitive Edition Leaks
NYC awaits
You may recall prior to Christmas, the team at Ubisoft updated 2016’s The Division to run at 60fps on PS5. It’s not unusual for the French publisher to support its software years after release, but we thought this was a particularly nice touch from the firm, considering the age of its New York-based looter shooter. But now, a banner...
Sunday11th Jan 2026
News Former PS4 Exclusive Detroit: Become Human Has Now Sold 15 Million Copies
Long legs
One-time PS4 exclusive Detroit: Become Human has now surpassed a remarkable 15 million sales. The game – which first launched on PS4 in 2018 and was ported to PC a year later – has taken seven years to achieve the milestone, and was likely helped by hitting rock-bottom prices on Steam over the holiday period. Indeed, the game’s...
Saturday10th Jan 2026
Feature Going Platinum #7: Burnout Paradise Remastered
Take me home
Platinum Trophy #7: Burnout Paradise Remastered Date Earned: 2nd April 2018 Dopamine Index: stars:5 Burnout Paradise launched all the way back in 2008, and it remains my favourite open world racing game to this day. Anyone who knows me will be familiar with my love for this series, and while I prefer the stage-based approach of the...
Poll Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for January 2026?
Plus or minus?
We hope you're ready for another whole year of judging PS Plus games, because we're about to kick things off with January 2026's PS Plus Essential lineup. This selection was announced over the holidays, so you might have actually missed it while you were busy gorging on all kinds of delicious food and drink. But have no fear, we're...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 615
Shirts off
Want to know a secret? We banked the last three or so WAYPs way early in December. Yeah, it’s not a very exciting secret, is it? But that means, starting this week, we’re back in real-time! Jamie O'Neill: I'm happily addicted to drifting around corners in Arcade Archives Ridge Racer, so I've dug out my old disc to play the nostalgic...
News Fable Has Been 'Targeting' PS5 for a While, Potentially Day and Date
Not just a fable
In case you missed it, Xbox officially announced its Developer Direct presentation, due to take place at the end of January. The company has announced a trio of games that will be the main focus of the show. These include Forza Horizon 6, Beast of Reincarnation, and Fable. Unlike the other two games, the latter of these is...
News Maybe There Is Still Hope for the Final Fantasy 13 Trilogy on PS5, After All
Young staff have nostalgia for PS3 era
These days, you can play almost all the Final Fantasy games in some form on the PS5. Perhaps the biggest absentee is the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy, which for PlayStation players remains restricted to the PS3 hardware. To its credit, Microsoft offers upgraded versions of Lightning’s adventures on the Xbox...
Friday9th Jan 2026
News Divinity Dev's Boss Backpedals on Generative AI, But Not All the Way
AI-ay-ay
Larian Studios, the team behind Baldur's Gate 3 and the upcoming Divinity, have been answering questions from fans on Reddit today, and the team clarified its position on the use of generative AI. A little while ago, head honcho Swen Vincke ruffled feathers with his comments about using the technology in the development process, but it...
Game of the Month Here's Every Winning PS5 Game for 2025
As voted by you
Well, we've done it. For the first time in Push Square history, we had an official Game of the Month for every single month of 2025. Through the magic of public polls, we had our loyal readers determine the best PS5 game of each month, and we must admit that you lot have pretty good taste. Just to tie a neat little bow on the...
News SAND: Raiders of Sophie Takes Sea of Thieves to the Desert on PS5 This March
Build your own mobile base
Sea of Thieves has proven popular enough to establish its own genre on PS5, and SAND: Raiders of Sophie looks like it’s building on the blueprints introduced by UK dev Rare. This is a PvP extraction shooter – stick with us!!! – where you’ll build giant walking bases known as Tramplers and use them to loot valuable...
News ARC Raiders Is a $40 Game Partly Because of Helldivers 2
Team decided "that is where we should sit"
While many of the most popular games these days are free-to-play, there's still plenty of room to find success with a premium release model, and ARC Raiders is a prime example. It was initially planned to be a free game, but switched to a traditional launch with a price tag, and has been hugely popular...
News Sony Needs to Move Mountains to Get Samson: A Tyndalston Story on PS5
A hardboiled hit
We’re not entirely sure how we missed the announcement of Samson: A Tyndalston Story, but by ‘eck does Sony need to move mountains to get this game on the PS5. Currently only announced for PC by studio Liquid Swords, which is comprised of a gaggle of ex-Avalanche veterans, this looks like the spiritual successor to the...
News PS5 Adventure Duskfade Looks Like It Was Made for Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter Fans
Inspired by "classic 3D action platformers"
We know we have a lot of fans of Sony's PS2-era platformers here on Push Square, so here's a game you might want to keep on your radar: Duskfade. Coming to PS5 in 2026, it's a 3D action platformer adventure that looks like it studied in the school of noughties platformers like Ratchet & Clank and Jak &...
News PS5's Denshattack! Looks Like the Long Lost Dreamcast Game of Our Dreams
And it's on time for a Spring 2026 release
There’s very little new information about railway-based extreme sports game Denshattack! in this interview trailer, but we’re posting it because it just looks so cool. The team, Undercoders, comes from Barcelona – and it’s clearly got a lot of love for early noughties SEGA, with Jet Set Radio and...
News Don't Forget, No Sleep for Kaname Date Will Shed Its Switch Exclusivity Soon
Coming to PS5 in February
Fans of AI: The Somnium Files may not need reminding, but it’s worth pointing out that the latest game in the series will sheds its Nintendo Switch exclusivity on 26th February. No Sleep for Kaname Date – From AI: The Somnium Files launched last year, but here’s your first proper look at the PS5 and PS4 version...
Review Code Violet (PS5) - Gooner Shooter Can't Get It Up
Code Blue
Code Violet begins and ends with quotes by the renowned painter and inventor Leonardo da Vinci. That feels appropriate — not because this game will be remembered for time immemorial like the Mona Lisa, but because, much like one of Da Vinci's early flying machine sketches, the game is ambitious but never actually gets off the ground...
News Sony Removes Resident Evil Copy Ebola Village Trailer from YouTube
"What next? COVID City?"
With the official PlayStation YouTube channel just emerging from its festive slumber, the focus on games like Ebola Village are amplified. And the platform holder is getting roasted for promoting this Resident Evil knock-off, which clearly draws inspiration from the likes of Resident Evil Village, among others. The game...
News Watch Street Fighter 6's Alex Kick the Sh*t Out of Final Fight's Hugo in DLC Trailer
The man with no allies arrives
Street Fighter 6 may make some baffling decisions, like the latest Fighter Pass featuring artwork of characters not included in the game – but when it brings the heat, the world takes notice. And so, you’re probably going to watch this first teaser trailer of Alex, who’s joining the roster Spring 2026. As...
"You don't deserve to live beyond today"
SNK promised we’d learn more about Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves’ second season early this year, and here’s our first taste: Kenshiro of Fist of the North Star fame is seemingly joining the roster. It’s an unexpected announcement, and while it’s technically not official just yet, we think the...
News Xbox Action RPG Towerborne Totally Reworked for PS5 Release This February
You've got the tower
Towerborne, an Xbox-published action RPG that's been in early access on Steam since May 2024 — and Xbox since May 2025 — is now heading to PS5 on the 26th February, as part of its full 1.0 release. It's interesting to note that Towerborne has actually been a free-to-play title up until now, with cosmetic microtransactions...
News Xbox Exclusive RPG Avowed Is Coming to PS5 in February with Major New Features
A-wowed
Avowed, Obsidian Entertainment's Xbox exclusive RPG, is finally confirmed for PS5, and it's coming to Sony's console very soon. The game hits PS5 on 17th February 2026, a year after its initial launch last year, with pre-orders on PS Store opening soon. Set in the Pillars of Eternity universe, Avowed is a first-person fantasy RPG in...
Thursday8th Jan 2026
News Ubisoft, Bandai Namco, More Showing Up for the New Game+ Showcase Today
When will we rest
It's the first full week of 2026, and already there's a video game presentation to watch. The inaugural New Game+ Showcase is happening this week, on 8th January 2026: As you can see in the announcement post, this new show, put together by streamers and content creators, is promising to shine a light on 45 games. We don't know...
Game of the Month Terminator 2D: No Fate (December 2025)
As voted by you
We may have just wrapped up our Game of the Year coverage for 2025, but there's still one little thing we've got to take care of before moving on to 2026 in full... We are, of course, referring to Game of the Month. December's release schedule might have been overshadowed by all of the aforementioned Game of the Year discourse, but...
News Ambitious PS5 Pirate RPG Sea of Remnants Has Bags of Style in Latest Trailer
PC alpha test coming soon
You may remember Sea of Remnants from a State of Play last year; it was one of the more intriguing games announced during the show. Coming from NetEase and Joker Studio, Sea of Remnants is a free-to-play pirate RPG adventure set in a stylised world inhabited by wooden puppets. Its latest trailer is here, and the game...
News JDM: Japanese Drift Master Brings Anime-Inspired Street Racing to PS5 in February
All updates included
Having skidded onto Xbox late last year, JDM: Japanese Drift Master has now locked in a PS5 release date. It'll screech to Sony's current-gen console on the 6th February, bringing anime-inspired street racing to the PlayStation Nation (yes, it's 2026 and we're still writing that). It's worth noting that JDM launched on Steam...
News Big Updates on Massive Xbox Games, Bound for PS5, Later This Month
Forza! Fable! Beast of Reincarnation?
As was quietly teased towards the tail-end of last year, around the same time as The Game Awards, a big Xbox Developer Direct will take place on 22nd January at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM GMT. If you’re not sure what time that is in your country, we’ve included a guide below: 6:00PM GMT 22nd Jan 2026...
Review Trails beyond the Horizon (PS5) - Trails Takes an Impressive Step Towards the End
Don't look back
Right, first things first, do not play Trails beyond the Horizon if you haven't already beaten Trails through Daybreak and Trails through Daybreak 2. Even by Trails standards, Horizon is ridiculously dense; the events of this long-awaited sequel rely heavily on you having intimate knowledge of past titles, and so even if you have...
News Sony May Be 'Planning Its Entire Calendar' Around GTA 6, Says Jason Schreier
Apparently it's still not "content complete"
Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, one of the best-known journalists covering video games, has made some interesting comments on the status of Grand Theft Auto 6. Speaking on the Ringer-Verse podcast's gaming show Button Mash, Schreier is asked how confident he is in the game's current official release...
"You'd think it would be possible"
Sony announced a new collection of console covers for the PS5 this week, and these ones look seriously nice. The HYPERPOP collection – which also includes DualSense controllers – relies on strong, vibrant colours and a gradient effect, which kinda makes the design look like negative photos or X-Rays or...
News Fortnite's South Park Collab Revealed, Brings Multiple Characters, Cartmanland, More
Calling it Quints
Epic Games has officially lifted the lid on Fortnite's crossover event with South Park, and it looks like a great new event for fans. You can catch a glimpse at what this 'Born in Chaos' event has to offer in the announcement trailer, which kicks things off with a great animated short showing how the characters end up in the...
News Try the Spiritual Successor to Parasite Eve, Coming to PS5 in 2026
But demo is only on Steam for now
Square Enix is never going to do the sensible thing and make a new Parasite Eve, so we’re relying on the ambition of one small Chinese studio to do it for us. Parasite Mutant received a positive response when it was announced last year, and now you can try it out ahead of its PS5 release later in 2026. The catch?...
Rumour Indiana Jones Dev to KO More Nazis in Wolfenstein 3 on PS5
Multiple sources confirm project
Swedish studio MachineGames is best in class when it comes to knocking out Nazis, and fresh from the critical success of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, it looks like it’s turning its attention back to Wolfenstein. The dev previously worked on the acclaimed efforts Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein 2:...
News Life Is Strange Reunion Pairs Max with Chloe Once More on PS5
Unannounced game leaks
An unannounced Life Is Strange game, subtitled Reunion, has been leaked for the PS5 by European ratings board PEGI. The upcoming game will likely be richly received by franchise fans, as it will see series protagonist Max Caulfield reunited with Chloe Price, her BFF – and eventual love interest – from the original game...
