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News Vintage Retro Sports Games Preserved on PS5, PS4 from 30th January
Acceptable in the 90s
One of the few real highlights of this generation thus far has been the abundance of retro game compilations, preserving classics on contemporary hardware. Accolade Sports Collection is honestly one that will be difficult to recommend, as this selection of retro sports releases will have aged like milk. However, we appreciate...
News Black Ops 6, Warzone Ranked Play Will Be Less Sweaty Soon on PS5, PS4
Season 2 will bring "the ability to disable cross-play for console players"
We aren't sure why this wasn't already the case, but Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone players will soon be able to disable cross-play with PC in the restricted Ranked Play mode, which Activision hopes will "improve the gameplay experience." This news follows the firm's...
News Civilization 7 Goes Gold Ahead of Series' Simultaneous Launch Debut
A new golden age
Rejoice, fellow map-gazers: Firaxis' long-awaited Civilization VII is fast approaching and will be on us before you know it, arriving on PS5 and PS4 alongside PC on 11th February. Putting some final pieces of the puzzle into position, Civ VII has officially gone gold. Physical editions are now locked and loaded ahead of a first for...
News Platinum Trophy for Imminent PS1 Game MediEvil 2 on PS Plus Premium
40 Trophies to earn in total
Set to drop on PS Plus Premium inside the next 12 hours, there's a Platinum Trophy attached to the PS5, PS4 release of PS1 classic MediEvil 2. The full Trophy list has appeared on Exophase, though it doesn't appear to be joined by one for Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings — at the time of writing, at least. There...
News Hollow Knight: Silksong Still a 'Real' Game and 'Will Release'
It's been 84 years...
One of the most anticipated indie games of all time, Hollow Knight: Silksong is "real, progressing, and will release", with fans still begging for an update more than five years after its original announcement. The comment comes from a Team Cherry employee in marketing and publishing, responding to a fan asking how the game is...
News The Worst Tomb Raider Game Should Play a Bit Better in PS5, PS4 Remaster
New control scheme, restored content for Angel of Darkness
Generally regarded as the worst Tomb Raider game ever, PS5 and PS4 players will soon be able to subject themselves to Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness by way of a second Lara Croft remastered collection. It's out next month, but as a new blog post on the Tomb Raider website shares, the...
News Hollow Knight: Silksong Dev Trolls Fans with Delicious Chocolate Cake
856 days and counting
Hollow Knight: Silksong still doesn't have a release date, but that hasn't stopped developer Team Cherry from trying to have its cake and eat it, too. Having tortured its fanbase for years with an admirably lackadaisical pace of development, the devs are now trolling players with a picture of a piece of chocolate cake. This...
Poll Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for January 2025?
Plus or minus?
The first batch of PS Plus Extra and Premium games for 2025 have been revealed, and as always, we want to know your thoughts. Extra, Sony's middle subscription tier, had some great months in 2024, dishing out loads of highly rated releases across the year. Some would argue that it's been the most consistent of the three PS Plus...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 564
And chill
With the launch of Dynasty Warriors: Origins, the 2025 release schedule has finally begun. There's lots to look forward to over the next 12 months, so get a move on with those backlogs and catch up to the present so that we can enjoy all of the promising titles ahead. This is what we're playing this weekend, either old or new. Aaron...
News Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Sales Reach New Heights as Game Celebrates Sixth Anniversary
Watch your altitude
Bandai Namco has announced a new sales milestone for the brilliant Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. Now six years old, the campy combat flight sim has sold over six million copies across all platforms. The publisher also notes that this means the series as a whole has now surpassed 20 million units. "Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown is...
News Switch 2 Reveal Indirectly Adds Credence to Halo PS5 Rumours
Loving Nate the Hate
After countless leaks and rumours, Nintendo's Switch 2 has finally been officially announced, and the industry is now patiently awaiting further information in a few months' time. It's always exciting when a new console is on the horizon, and as mentioned, they usually bring a lot of rumours and leaks with them. Notably,...
Preview Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Is an Absurd, Great Twist on Like a Dragon
Hands on impressions after two hours of play
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is the sort of video game name where the subtitle warrants a sentence all to itself. Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. RGG Studio has always embraced the series' comical facets, but not until now has it ever been so blatant and — quite frankly — proud of them. After more...
News Stylish PS5, PS4 Fighter Bleach: Rebirth of Souls Reveals Story Mode, Combat System, and More
Don't call it a comeback
Bandai Namco's released a meaty new trailer for Bleach: Rebirth of Souls, covering the brawler's combat system and various game modes — including its story adaptation. Combat-wise, we can't help but think that Rebirth of Souls looks pretty interesting. It's got the kind of simple fundamentals that you'd expect from a...
News Anticipated JRPG Sequel Trails through Daybreak 2 Gets a Big Demo Next Week on PS5, PS4
A Trails trial
Publisher NIS America has announced its plans to release a playable demo for Trails through Daybreak 2 on both PS5 and PS4. Dropping next week, on the 24th January, the demo sounds rather robust. You'll be able to play through the game's opening up until the start of Chapter 1 — which clocks in at a good few hours. You can then...
News Why Hasn't Sony Done Anything with Bloodborne? Shuhei Yoshida Has a Theory
Ex-PlayStation exec weighs in
For a long time, a burning question among PlayStation fans has been why Bloodborne remains untouched. Well, Shuhei Yoshida, who just exited the company, has offered his theory on the subject. Speaking to Kinda Funny Games in a recent interview, Yoshida says that the beloved FromSoftware action RPG is "one of the most...
News Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Unloads PS5, PS4 Combat Overview Trailer
Shiver our timbers
Looking increasingly ship-shape, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii arrives next month on PS5 and PS4 worldwide on 21st February. SEGA has offloaded a solid gameplay overview trailer (using an impressive number of pirate puns) to hold you over in the meantime, highlighting Majima's suitably savage combat options. The Mad Dog...
News Ubisoft Might Relinquish Some of Its IP to a New Venture to Boost Publisher's Value
New-bisoft
According to a new report, Ubisoft stakeholders Tencent and the Guillemot family are considering starting up a new venture and migrating some of the publisher's IP across. Word comes from Bloomberg in a paywalled story that cites people familiar with the situation. Apparently, the two entities are weighing up the possibility of starting...
News Lil Gator Game Is Getting a Lil Bigger with DLC Expansion, In the Dark
Will you snap it up?
Publisher Playtonic Friends and developer MegaWobble have announced an expansion for the adorable action adventure, Lil Gator Game. Arriving on PS5 and PS4 in 2023, the cutesy title will become a fair bit larger with the expansion, entitled In the Dark. Said to double the size of the game, In the Dark takes players underground...
News Evo 2025 Lineup Announced as New Fatal Fury Joins Tekken 8, Street Fighter 6, and More
Get ready for the next battle
Set to take place on the 1st to the 3rd of August, this year's Evo has confirmed its lineup of main games. Eight titles will take centre stage, including Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, which releases for PS5 and PS4 in April. SNK's latest will be joined by the usual heavy hitters (and the classic Marvel vs. Capcom...
News 11 New Games Are Coming to PS Plus Extra, Premium Next Week
January lineup announced
Sony has announced the first batch of games coming to PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium in 2025. January's additions will arrive next week on the 21st, bolstering both the Extra games catalogue and the Premium retro titles lineup. The games are as follows: PS Plus Extra: January 2025: God of War Ragnarok (PS5, PS4) |
News New PS Store Sale Hands Out Big PS5, PS4 Game Discounts
1,400+ PS5, PS4 titles on offer
Sony has today set a new PS Store sale live, themed around New Year Deals that offers PS5, PS4 game discounts from today until 29th January 2025. Below you'll find a selection of the best offers available in the sale: Gran Turismo 7 25th Anniversary Edition — £53.99 / $49.49 (40% / 45% off) Ratchet & Clank:...
News Lunar Remastered Collection Brings Two Classic RPGs to PS4 in April
Lunar phases
Publisher GungHo Online Entertainment has announced that Lunar Remastered Collection will release on the 18th April for PS4. The collection was announced back in September of last year, targeting a spring 2025 launch. But now that we've got an official date, it's worth pointing out that there's no mention of a PS5 version in the press...
Reminder PS Plus Extra, Premium Lose These 11 Great Games in a Week
Play them before they're gone
Sony is set to reveal the first batch of PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium games for 2025 tomorrow, but more urgently for current members, the day they arrive also marks the removal of 11 great PS5, PS4 titles from the service. From 21st January 2025, the following 11 games leave the two tiers, rendering them unplayable...
Random You'll Want to Plunge a Knife into Zayn Malik's The Last of Us Birthday Cake
Clicker or cake?
Like most reasonable people, we didn't think we'd be writing about British singer Zayn Malik's birthday cake when we woke up this morning. The performer, previously part of One Direction, recently celebrated his 32nd birthday, and posted about his cake on Instagram, because that's the sort of thing that happens now. However, it's...
News Metaphor: ReFantazio PS5, PS4 Patch 1.11 Brings Neat Menu Updates
Speed up the process
Atlus has issued a rare Metaphor: ReFantazio patch for all consoles and PC that adds a few new menu options that make navigating them quicker and easier. Updating the PS5, PS4 editions to version 1.11, the update introduces the ability to change your battle formation and swap party members in and out from both the main menu and...
News PowerWash Simulator Folds In VR Team, Putting Further Support on Ice
PSVR2 version looking more unlikely than ever
PowerWash Simulator developer FuturLab has announced that it will not continue with plans to support PowerWash Simulator VR. CEO Kirsty Rigden says that the team loves and supports VR, but with some unfilled vacancies on the primary team, job security for the studio must always come first. FuturLab made...
News Fatal Fury's Mai Makes the Jump Over to Street Fighter 6 Next Month
Out on 5th February
Capcom has revealed by way of a new gameplay trailer that the second crossover character in Street Fighter history will be available from 5th February 2025. Mai from the Fatal Fury series is joining Terry Bogard in Street Fighter 6, and you can catch a glimpse of how she plays in the trailer above. Mai utilises a mixture of...
News Japan Sales Charts: There Are Just Two PS5 Games in the Entire Top 30
Living in a Nintendo world
Nintendo's total domination in its home turf of Japan continues with the latest physical sales information (thanks, Gematsu). In the final weeks of 2024, the top 30 games almost exclusively comprise Switch software, with just a couple of exceptions. In the week ending 5th January 2025, Astro Bot appeared in 20th and...
News Luck Be a Landlord, the Roguelike That Inspired Balatro, Is Finally Coming to PS5, PS4
Spin to win in February
Luck Be a Landlord, a roguelike arcade game released on PC and mobile in 2023, is heading to consoles at last. The indie title, made by developer TrampolineTales, is coming to both PS5 and PS4 on 6th February, 2025. If you're out of the loop, Luck Be a Landlord is a game in which you must spin a customisable slot machine in...
News UK Sales Charts: Mortal Kombat 1 Combo Breaks a Very Familiar Top 10
Dry January
The UK's latest physical games chart features almost exactly the same set of games in its top 10 as the previous week. This doesn't come as some huge shock, as things typically stagnate a little after the holiday season and before big new releases start to drop. The only new addition to the top 10 is Mortal Kombat 1, which moves from...
News Local Co-Op Warms Up for Fortnite Festival on PS5, PS4
Party like its 2007
Fortnite Festival, in some ways the spiritual successor to the Rock Band series, is getting local co-op, a feature that has surprisingly been absent so far. With the advent of Festival Season 7, up to four players can play (guitar) on the same console, and provided you have friends, you could even try and recreate the late-2000s,...
News Dry Your Eyes, Devil May Cry Will Seemingly Ride Again in Fortnite
Better than nothing, right?
Rumours of a Devil May Cry, Fortnite crossover have been swirling since 2023, but at long last, the Son of Sparda and friends seem set to arrive in 2025. That's according to credible leakers in the community (thanks, Eurogamer), who say that Capcom's iconic IP is "coming soon" to Epic's ongoing multiverse. Outside of...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 563
It's not for nothing
We're deep into January now, which means we can finally stop saying those three little words: Happy New Year. There. That's the last time you'll read it. Thank goodness! Aaron Bayne: After blitzing the first season of the show in a day, I'm now buckling down for my tenth playthrough of The Last of Us: Part 1. That's right,...
All PS5, PS4 games lists for PS Plus Essential, Extra, and Premium
What are all PS Plus games? Sony's PS5 and PS4 subscription service, PlayStation Plus, is jam-packed with hundreds of games available to members. On this page, we're going to tell you everything you need to know about PS Plus, including a full list of all PS Plus games across all...
News British PS5, PS4 Survival Game Atomfall Could Be a Great Alternative for STALKER Fans
W.A.L.K.E.R.S.
Developer Rebellion has just released a new overview video for its upcoming action survival game, Atomfall. Set in 1960s post-apocalyptic Britain, it looks like it could be a solid alternative to titles like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Fallout, and even Far Cry. Drawing inspiration from the real-world Windscale fire nuclear disaster, this...
News The Brilliant Hitman: World of Assassination Reaches an Incredible 75 Million Players
It's a hit, man
IO Interactive's Hitman: World of Assassination, housed within Hitman 3 on PS5 and PS4, has now reached an impressive milestone of 75 million total players. The developer made the announcement on its social channels today: "Achieving this as an independent studio is monumental," the post reads. "IOI is more solid than ever,...
News Elden Ring Nightreign Network Test Sign Ups Available Now
Play a "portion" of the multiplayer game
First a surprise announcement at The Game Awards last month and now soon to be playable, the sign-ups for the Elden Ring Nightreign network test will go live from tomorrow. To register and be in with a chance of taking part, you'll need to go to the official website page for the game when sign ups are...
News The House of the Dead 2 Remake Lives! Launches This Spring 2025
More classic arcade action is back
Forever Entertainment has today confirmed its The House of the Dead 2: Remake will release on PlayStation systems in Spring 2025, roughly five years after it originally confirmed that the project was in the works. A new trailer shows off the enhanced version, which features "faithful" gameplay and remastered...
News Nautical Yakuza Goes Viral As Fans Fall in Love with New Piratical Like a Dragon on PS5, PS4
Ship shape
Could a gag game end up out-pirating the real pirate games? That’s the question Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii fans are pondering. SEGA hosted a short livestream to reveal new details about the forthcoming nautical escapade earlier this week, and some of its naval combat footage has gone viral. Many have pointed out how it...
Guide New PS5, PS4 Games This Week (13th January to 19th January)
Origins
What new PS5 and PS4 games are releasing in physical retailers and as part of the PS Store update this week? Two big Japanese titles launch this week, with Dynasty Warriors Origins and Tales of Graces f Remastered. Click through the links for a full list of all new PS5 games release dates in 2025,
News Hose Down Wallace & Gromit in PowerWash Simulator's Cracking New DLC
Vengeance most filthy
Cult hit PowerWash Simulator has collaborated with several familiar franchises and worlds with its premium DLC, and it's just announced the next Special Pack: Wallace & Gromit. With the latest film in the iconic British series, Vengeance Most Fowl, recently released, the cheese-loving inventor and his loyal pooch are back...
News Gardening Puzzler Botany Manor Out for PS5, PS4 This Month
Likely priced at £22.49 / $24.99
Having initially been dated for late December, it's been confirmed today Botany Manor will receive its PS5, PS4 ports in a few weeks time on 28th January 2025. You can check out a new trailer above. In the game, you'll explore an English stately home in the 19th century, looking to solve puzzles in order to grow...
News Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Won't Lock New Game+ Behind Paid DLC
Unlike Infinite Wealth
Some welcome news has arrived from the latest Like a Dragon Direct broadcast: upcoming action adventure Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii won't be placing its New Game+ mode behind a paywall. If you're not sure why that's a big deal, it's because Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, which launched last year, sold New Game+ as...
News A Decade Later, Director Says Shadow of the Colossus Film Still Happening
Running up that hill
The first whispers of a film adaptation of the already cinematic Shadow of the Colossus began in 2010. After several creative reshuffles, The Flash director Andrés Muschietti was hired in 2014. Over a decade later, Muschietti claims it's still happening. Speaking on Radio TU's program
News Industry Journalist Says Xbox Game Pass Does Increase Premium Sales, But Mainly on PS5
High tide lifts multi-platform ships
Former GamesIndustry.biz journalist Christopher Dring (now contributing to VGC again, you love to see it) says that one of the unexpected upsides to Xbox's Game Pass subscription service, at least for Sony, is that certain additions to the service can have a "strong impact" on PlayStation sales. In an industry...
News Ken Levine Spills the Beans on Irrational Games' Closure Post BioShock Infinite
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
One of the best-written games ever made, BioShock Infinite was infamously a nightmare to work on. It required a herculean effort to complete "Project Icarus" from everyone at Irrational Games, including creative director and lead writer Ken Levine. A critical and commercial success by every metric, within a year of...
Let's Stars again
First announced back in September 2022, PS Stars is essentially Sony's PlayStation rewards scheme, with a few extra bells and whistles attached. At the time of writing, the service is still missing from the PS5 itself — despite the platform holder saying that there were plans to integrate it on console. Indeed, Stars has been...
News The State of the UK's Physical Games Market Might Explain PS5 Pro's Lack of Disc Drive
Digital world
The UK has seen dwindling physical game sales for several years now, but 2024 may have seen the most dramatic shift yet. Year-on-year, the country's video game revenue for 2024 was down 4.4 per cent overall, but physical sales specifically were down by nearly 35 per cent. Digital sales by comparison were overall down by one per cent...
News Looks Like DOOM 64 Is Getting a Native PS5 Port
Notch up another release for the series
Released in 1997, DOOM 64 was developed and published by Midway Games and was considered the pinnacle of the series at the time, despite being a spin-off. Decades later, it was ported to PS4 in 2020 by Nightdive Studios and included as a pre-order bonus for DOOM Eternal. According to an updated ESRB listing,...
News Pre-Orders for Metaphor: ReFantazio's Hefty Hardcover Strategy Guide Now Open
Future Press tome releasing on 28th February
We awarded the excellent Metaphor: ReFantazio an enviable #2 ranking in Push Square's official Game of the Year top 10, and it really is very good. Fittingly, an accompanying Future Press hardback strategy guide has been in the works and is now available for pre-order. It's expected to sh
