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Thursday27th Nov 2025
News Cult Hit PS5 Horror Game Cronos: The New Dawn Cracks Half a Million Sales
Scary good
Bloober Team, developer and publisher of Cronos: The New Dawn, has announced that its sci-fi horror adventure has surpassed sales of 500,000. The company used the game's official social channels to make the announcement: These days, Bloober Team is perhaps best known for its very well-received remake of Konami's horror classic Silent...
News GTA 6 Gameplay 'Leaks' Are AI-Generated Nonsense, Creator Owns Up After Backlash
Trust nothing
The hype surrounding GTA 6 is off the charts, and with about a year to go until the game is out, that leaves plenty of time for shenanigans. Recently, new, "leaked" footage of the sandbox action title started appearing online, and quickly went viral, attracting millions of views on social media. These clips came from X user...
News Looks Like PS5 Is Going to Clean Up This Black Friday
Early sales from Spain paint a positive picture
It’s particularly early days, but it looks like Sony’s various global PS5 price promotions are going to do the business this Black Friday. Sales data from Spain confirms the company sold 41,000 units in the country for the week spanning 17th November through 23rd November. By comparison, the...
News Yakuza Kiwami 3 Becomes an Orphanage Sim with Massively Expanded Morning Glory Minigames
Daddy cool
If you ever played the original Yakuza 3 on the PS3, you may recall its notoriously slow start. The game spends several hours in Okinawa, with seasoned protagonist Kazuma Kiryu retired from the Yakuza lifestyle and running his Morning Glory orphanage. (As an aside, it was renamed the Sunshine Orphanage in the Western versions of the...
News Arknights: Endfield to Offer 50-60 Hours of Action in Its PS5 Technical Test
Getting underway on 12th December
A big new beta test for upcoming automation open world Arknights: Endfield will get underway on PC and mobile from 28th November, but it’ll continue on the PS5 from 12th December. The test will include an estimated 50 to 60 hours of gameplay, in an unfinished work-in-progress format, ahead of the title’s...
News Visionary Director Quentin Tarantino Realises a 20-Year Dream within Fortnite on PS5, PS4
Yuki's Revenge
For over 20 years, Quentin Tarantino has dreamed of a new Kill Bill chapter named Yuki’s Revenge. And, in a sign of the times, he’ll realise that vision within Fortnite’s upcoming season, from 30th November. Built in Unreal Engine in collaboration with Epic Games, the long-awaited chapter will feature character models from the...
Wednesday26th Nov 2025
Talking Point Does PS5 Have a Sequel Problem?
Bigger and better?
There's a silly notion going around that the PS5 has no games, which is of course nonsense, but when you stand back and look at some of the console's biggest titles, there is an interesting pattern. Many PlayStation fans have fond memories of the PS4 era, a time in which Sony was doubling down on its first-party efforts...
News SEGA Actually Admits Persona 5 Royal-Style Re-Releases May Result in Stunted Game Sales
Buyers can be "hesitant"
Well, well, well... How the tables turn. For a long time now, Atlus, and by extension, parent company SEGA, have dabbled in re-releasing their games. Typically, these re-releases feature expanded and / or improved content, and are often labelled as 'definitive' versions of the original title. Generally speaking, potential...
PSA The Original Yakuza 0 Will Be Delisted Forever When Director's Cut Drops on PS5
0 hour
When Yakuza 0 Director's Cut releases on the 8th December for PS5, the original Yakuza 0 — the PS4 game — will no longer be available to purchase digitally. This delisting has now been confirmed by SEGA, so if you want to play Yakuza 0 in its initial form at some point in the future — and you're not planning on grabbing a physical copy...
News Cyberpunk 2077 Now at a Staggering 35 Million Sales as Work on Sequel Continues to Ramp Up
Major leagues
It's actually mad to look back on the beginnings of Cyberpunk 2077 and compare that time to where the game is now. It's taken basically five solid years of updates — along with one hell of an expansion — to turn things around, but the open world RPG is now a colossal commercial success, with developer CD Projekt Red confirming...
News Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders Makes It onto PS5 Just in Time for Christmas
It'll be Lonely (Mountains) this Christmas
An early indie hit this year was Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders, and it's taken the best part of a year to finally slalom its way onto PS5. The game finally has a release date on Sony's system; it arrives on 3rd December, which is near-perfect timing for some cosy Christmas chill time. Here's its initial...
News Final Fantasy X Was the 'Ultimate Perfection' of the Series, Says Dragon Quest Creator
Ob-Jecht-tion
Opinions will always be split on the best iteration of Final Fantasy, and so it's interesting to hear that living industry legend and Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has shared his own thoughts on the franchise. Once upon a time, Dragon Quest was in direct competition with Final Fantasy; the two properties vying for the RPG crown back...
News PS Plus Essential Games for December 2025 Announced
The last batch
Sony has today revealed the final lot of PS Plus Essential games for 2025, rounding out December with a bumper list of five PS5, PS4 titles. All available to download from Tuesday, 2nd December 2025, you get the following: LEGO Horizon Adventures (PS5) | Review Killing Floor 3 (PS5) The Out
News Lies of P Dev 'Will Not Disappoint' with Upcoming Games, Says Director
"We are working really hard"
Neowiz and Round8 Studio created one of the best-loved Souls-likes outside of FromSoftware with Lies of P, and it sounds like the team isn't resting on its laurels. Speaking to GamesRadar following Overture's Best Game Expansion win at the
News Beyond Good & Evil 2 PS5 May Not Be Dead Just Yet
New job listing appears online
There seems to be at least a couple of people at Ubisoft still working on Beyond Good & Evil 2, in amongst its Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed remakes. A new job listing for a Technical Sound Designer was posted online by the French publisher within the last 24 hours, and the position is tied directly to the...
News Yakuza Kiwami 2 Has All-Important 60FPS Performance on PS5 Alongside Free Upgrade
Finally
Bafflingly buried within the questions and answers section of SEGA's Japanese website, the publisher finally confirms that Yakuza Kiwami 2 will run at 60 frames-per-second on PS5. The fantastic remake is being re-released for Sony's current-gen system on the 8th December, and it'll be a free upgrade for those who already own the PS4 version...
News Updates and New Gameplay for PS5's Romeo Is a Dead Man Coming in Grasshopper Direct
Romeo, Romeo
Developer Grasshopper Manufacture has announced its third ever Grasshopper Direct, this time with a focus on its upcoming madcap action game, Romeo Is a Dead Man. Announced during a State of Play earlier this year, Romeo Is a Dead Man is a hyper-violent action title we've not seen a huge amount of yet, but our next glimpse at the game...
News Yakuza 0, Kiwami, Kiwami 2 Get Discount PS5 Upgrade Paths, But Only for PS4 Digital Owners
Kiwami 2 is free
SEGA has confirmed that those who own Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami, or Yakuza Kiwami 2 on PS4 can take advantage of discounted upgrade paths when buying the new versions on PS5. All three PS5 re-releases are due to launch on the 8th December, but there is a catch in that these upgrade paths only apply to the digital versions of the PS4...
News Skate Improves Replays, Adds New Tricks, Party Voice Chat, More in Season 2 on PS5, PS4
Early access continues
The early access, free-to-play revival of Skate has been met with a mixed reception so far, but it seems developer Full Circle is keen to turn things around with some significant updates in Season 2. The major update to the sandbox skating sim starts on 2nd December, and you can get a rough idea of what to expect in this daft...
News We Now Know the First Game Confirmed for The Game Awards 2025
Who's turning up?
Despite its name, The Game Awards has never been just about handing out awards. Alongside recognising the year's best and brightest, Geoff Keighley's December show revels in game announcements and updates for future titles. Whether that's to its benefit or its detriment is an argument for another day, but with huge viewing figures...
News Destiny 3 Allegedly in 'Extremely Early Development', Could Be a Tentpole Title for PS6
But likely many years away
Rumour has it that Bungie has started preliminary work on Destiny 3, which if true would comfortably become one of Sony’s biggest releases for the PS6. The speculation comes courtesy of Colony Deaks, a known Destiny leaker and dataminer who’s revealed accurate information in the past. Writing on X (or Twitter), the...
News Open World Dress-Up Game Infinity Nikki's Biggest Ever PS5 Update Is Out Now
'Shroom for more
Infinity Nikki is, believe it or not, a full year old – and that means its enormous v2.00 update is almost upon us. Due out on 25th November – or 26th November, depending on your time zone – this free update will dramatically expand upon the dress-up open world. Among the new inclusions are several outfits augmenting the...
News In Destiny 2's Darkest Moment, Bungie Is Betting on Star Wars to Bring Players Back
Renegades does look good, to be fair
It’s no secret that Destiny 2 has fallen on some pretty hard times. Chaos within the company’s upper-management, a dwindling player base, and bad decisions have caused Sony to step in and start to enforce its influence over the $3 billion developer. The Japanese giant recently noted during a financial call...
News Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves' First Season Concludes with Mr. Big Next Month
Big time
SNK has really been cranking out Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves’ first season of content, which was effectively included for free with all copies of the PS5 and PS4 fighter. Hot on the heels of Chun-Li’s addition recently, it’s announced that Art of Fighting’s Mr. Big will join the roster from 9th December. You can catch him in...
News Stellar Blade Dev's Ambitious New Cross-Platform Project to Be Published by Tencent Subsidiary
Affiliate assisting on dev too
Korean dev Shift Up already has an existing relationship with Tencent subsidiary Level Infinite on saucy smartphone shooter NIKKE: Goddess of Victory, so it’s perhaps not a surprise to see the company step in to publish its next title, Project Spirits. The game – developed using Unreal
News Sony Poised to Publish PS5 Hit Death Stranding 2 on PC
Bridging the gap
Sony will publish Death Stranding 2: On the Beach for PC in the relatively near future, if an ESRB rating is to be believed. The original game was ported to other platforms by 505 Games, but this preceded the platform holder’s strategy of bringing more first-party titles to storefronts such as Steam. It took roughly eight months...
Tuesday25th Nov 2025
"That's something I'm interested in"
Capcom recently prompted a backlash from fighting game fans when it revealed plans to place its official Street Fighter 6 finals behind a paywall — but fresh comments from Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada perhaps shed a little light on why the publisher's going down that road. The answer is money, obviously, but...
News Splitgate 2 Is Coming Out of Beta and Officially Relaunching in December on PS5, PS4
One more time
Remember Splitgate 2? This free-to-play multiplayer shooter arrived back in the summer, but following heavy criticism, developer 1047 Games took it back to a beta phase. Well, after many months of work, it seems the game is almost ready to come back. The studio has confirmed that the beta phase will finish on 4th December, and will...
Poll Five Years of PS5 - How Would You Rate Sony's Console?
5 on the five
The PS5 is now officially five years old, having launched across the US, Europe, and most other major markets by this time back in 2020. So, now that we have half a decade of experience with Sony's current-gen console to draw on, we want to know what you really think of the PS5. Has it lived up to expectations? Have the games been...
News New Weapons, Stratagems Take Helldivers 2 to the Jungle in Latest Premium Warbond
Python Commandos arrives soon
Helldivers 2 has announced the next premium Warbond coming to the game, and it looks purpose-built for destroying bugs. The Python Commandos Warbond is set to arrive on 2nd December 2025. Here's the trailer to give you an idea of what to expect: Players can look forward to several new weapons and stratagems,...
News Gaming Journal A Profound Waste of Time Features Astro Bot in Gorgeous New Issue
Let's go Astro
There aren't many surviving video game magazines today, but miraculously, some new ones pop up every so often, and they've evolved into seriously premium products. One such example is A Profound Waste of Time, a gaming journal crowdfunded by readers, and its sixth issue is currently accepting pledges on Kickstarter. This one may be...
Of course
Well, we're not sure anyone saw this crossover coming. Just confirmed by Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed Shadows' next collaboration will be with... Attack on Titan. The super popular manga and anime property will be featured in a new quest, which seems to task Naoe and Yasuke with stopping a titan transformation. No, we're not making this up...
News Space Marine 2's Super Support Continues as Huge Patch 11 Drops on PS5
The Emperor's benevolence knows no bounds
You've got to admit, the post-launch support for Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 has been stellar. The crunchy action shooter has received numerous, significant updates since its release in September of 2024 — and rather miraculously, it's showing no signs of slowing down. The game's latest patch —...
News 'Not Enough Time, Not Enough Money': The Dismal Vampire Bloodlines 2 Was Doomed from the Start
Ex-dev spills some blood
Much has already been written about Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 and its desperately troubled development, but it's still interesting to hear about the project from someone who was actually there, on the inside. In a rather revealing interview with Cat Burton on YouTube, Dan Pinchbeck, the game's creative...
Guide Best Action Games on PS Plus
The best action games on PS Plus, ranked and rated
What are the best action games on PS Plus? Across its three tiers of membership, PS Plus contains countless fantastic action games, and we're here to find the best of them. Action is a genre that's very broad, but by and large, we're talking about combat-centric experiences that deliver...
News Far Cry TV Series Officially Announced, from Creators of Fargo and Always Sunny
Quite the combo
Ubisoft and FX have announced a TV adaptation of the popular open world shooter series, Far Cry. The official social channels for the franchise recently posted about the news, calling the TV show an anthology series: As reported by Variety, the show comes from Noah Hawley and Rob Mac (formerly McElhenney); the former is credited...
News You Can Buy a Fully-Fledged PS5 for the Same Price as a Less Powerful Xbox Series S Right Now
A no brainer
There was a lot of hand-wringing at the start of the generation about the lower-powered Xbox Series S and its potential impact on the PS5. For many armchair analysts at the time, Microsoft had stumbled upon a masterstroke: its more affordable next-gen hardware would help get consumers through the door, and paired with the seemingly...
News Sony Is Actually Advertising PSVR2 This Black Friday
Virtually unheard of
PSVR2 can sometimes feel like a forgotten footnote to the PS5 generation, but Sony is putting some fresh marketing energy behind the accessory this holiday. Specifically, with the headset discounted by $100 this Black Friday, the platform holder is actually advertising the device for once. An all-new montage trailer focuses on...
Tough luck
A picture is beginning to form around Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and for the executives at Activision it’s not a particularly pretty one. What we’re generally seeing from all the data we have available thus far is that the first-person shooter is selling significantly worse than Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and has debuted way below...
News Suddenly the PS5 Pro Doesn't Look That Expensive Anymore
DRAM currently costs more than an entire console
Ever since the pandemic in 2020, it feels like we’ve been bouncing from one global crisis to another. In the tech sphere specifically, we’ve seen semi-conductor shortages and tariffs impact products like gaming consoles. Now, the AI boom is having a profound effect on the price of DRAM, with...
Monday24th Nov 2025
News The Much Maligned PS5 Shooter Marathon Returns for Another Playtest in December
Not a sprint
Bungie's sci-fi extraction shooter Marathon will soon be playable again for a limited time, and you can sign up to take part. The game has had a rough time of it, what with an art-related mishap and a general lack of interest, but the
News Marvel Cosmic Invasion Hypes Up Its Heroes with Stylish Opening Cinematic
Who are you playing?
It's not long before we can finally get our hands on Marvel Cosmic Invasion, a pixel art beat-'em-up from the team behind the great Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge. Launching on 1st December 2025, publisher Dotemu has released the full opening animation to keep fans excited in the run up to release: Those...
News Persona, Metaphor Director Says JRPGs Are on the Brink of a New Era
"JRPG 3.0"
It's a very interesting time for Japanese RPGs — and not just because Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sparked all sorts of arguments amongst genre enthusiasts. Indeed, it feels like we've been hitting some serious highs with JRPGs of late, with critically acclaimed titles like Metaphor: ReFantazio and Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Just Had the Worst Japanese Retail Launch in Series History
Not gone well, then
It's been an unusually rocky ride for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which has been widely panned and appears to be selling below the series' usual pace. While Activision has yet to provide any official sales information itself (which is kinda telling on its own), some data has begun to emerge, including a weak UK launch and, now, a...
News Ghost of Yotei Huge Patch 1.1 Out Now on PS5, Adds New Game+, Armour, and Much More
Full patch notes revealed
Update 1.1 for Ghost of Yotei has arrived, and as promised, it brings some significant features and improvements to the open world title. New Game+ is the headline act, letting you replay the whole game with your skills and equipment intact, while also introducing fresh weapon and armour upgrades, as well as cosmetic...
Poll What Review Score Would You Give Dispatch?
A heroic effort?
Now that all of its episodes are out — and we've had time to actually process AdHoc Studio's interactive superhero show — we want to know what you think of Dispatch. For those completely out of the loop, Dispatch is a pretty casual, choice-driven adventure based around a superhero dispatch service, and its story is spread...
News Another PS Plus Extra Game for December 2025 Announced
And this one will be available day one
Highly promising celestial extreme sports game Skate Story will be included at no extra cost with PS Plus Extra on day one when it launches on 8th December. Sony confirmed the surreal inclusion in a PS Blog post, announcing that all members will be able to download and play the game in its entirety when it...
Mini Review Morsels (PS5) - This Gross Little Roguelike Is Tastier Than It Looks
Pet food
Morsels is one of those roguelike action games that feels impenetrable at first, but once you start learning its obscure language, it becomes more and more rewarding. You play as a mouse trying to fight back against the tyranny of feline overlords, and you do so with mysterious cards that transform you into various strange creatures...
News Stellar Blade Is Sony's Most Successful Single-Player PC Game to Date, Says Shift Up
Putting in a good shift
Developer Shift Up has revealed some of its own data about Stellar Blade, the Sony-published action game that launched on PC earlier this year. The game, which features main character Eve on a quest to save the planet from monstrous forces, is reportedly the "best-selling PlayStation-exclusive launch IP in history",...
News 'We Want to Innovate': The Witcher 4 Dev Finds Inspiration in Baldur's Gate 3
Talk the talk
When you think of landmark western RPGs of the modern era, it's likely that two games immediately come to mind: The Witcher 3, and Baldur's Gate 3. It's obviously the latter that's had more impact in recent times, setting a new benchmark for choice-driven adventures — to the point where it's now being named as an inspiration for The...
