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TodayWed, 2nd Apr 2025

  • News Stylish Archery the Focus of New Elden Ring Nightreign Character

    FromSoftware introduces Ironeye

    Elden Ring Nightreign studio FromSoftware has introduced another of its playable characters for the upcoming online spin-off to its 2022 smash hit. Ironeye is their name, and they're bringing a bow and arrow to the ever-changing Limveld along with some seriously flashy parkour moves. See them in action in the new...

    • Bandai Namco
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Elden Ring
    • Trailers
  • News GTA: Vice City Has Been Ported To Sega Dreamcast

    Time Extension Update: Now in beta, alongside GTA III

    Mon 24th Feb 2025 One of the more welcome surprises of 2024 was the revelation that GTA 3 would be unofficially ported to the Sega Dreamcast. Developed by a team led by SKMP and built using KallistiOS software, the port was an incredible example of what Sega's 128-bit console is capable of in the right hands...

    • Sega
    • Dreamcast
    • Homebrews
    • GTA
  • Feature Nintendo Switch 2 Direct - 5 Things for PS5 Fans to Pay Attention To

    Switching it up

    After months of waiting – perhaps even years for some – the Nintendo Switch 2 will get its long-awaited blowout today. Alarmingly, as we write this, very little has leaked. We know there’ll be a new Mario Kart game for the console, as it was revealed alongside the system itself. Other than that, though, there’s an air of...

    • Sony
    • Nintendo
    • PS5
    • Industry
    • Features
  • Guide The Last of Us 2 Guide: A Full 100% Collectibles Walkthrough

    Your ultimate The Last of Us 2 resource

    The Last of Us 2, or The Last of Us: Part II, is the sequel to Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed survival horror game, The Last of Us. We awarded the game a 10/10 in our The Last of Us 2 review, describing it as an "essential sequel". The game is available now on PS5, PS4, and PC. In this The Last of Us 2...

    • Guides
    • The Last of Us 2
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PC
  • Guide PS Stars Guide: All Campaigns and Solutions (April 2025)

    Your ultimate guide to Sony's loyalty scheme

    PS Stars, or PlayStation Stars, is a free loyalty program for PS5 and PS4 which enables you to earn PS Store credit, free games, and Digital Collectibles. If you're a PS Plus subscriber, then you'll earn additional Points based on each PS Store purchase you make. In this PS Stars guide, we're going to...

    • Guides
    • PS Stars
    • PS5
    • PS4
  • News Remaster Specialists Are Ready to Target the PS3 Next, And We Can't Wait

    Ready those re-releases

    There are so many great games, lost to time and locked to the PS3. The console’s unnecessarily complicated architecture mean Sony’s never really entertained the idea of backwards compatibility, meaning many games can only be played using PS Plus Premium cloud streaming on the PS5. But that’s where remaster specialists...

    • Nightdive Studios
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS3

YesterdayTue, 1st Apr 2025

  • News The Oblivion Remake Will Release This Week, Says Bold New Rumour

    We'll soon find out

    We've going to be very happy when the supposed Oblivion remake is finally announced. Not because it's actually real, but because we won't have to cover these increasingly tedious rumours. The latest 'insider' information to do the rounds originates on social media (of course). A user by the name of Detective Seeds — who, to be...

    • Bethesda
    • PS5
    • The Elder Scrolls
    • Rumours
  • News Halo Series Might Not Come to PS5 in the Way You're Thinking

    Not the full collection of games

    For months now, persistent rumours have claimed the Halo series shall be making its way to PS5 alongside many other Xbox games like Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, Gears of War, and

    • Xbox Game Studios
    • PS5
    • Halo
  • News April 2025's PS Plus Essential Games Available to Download Now

    Dead or alive, you're coming with me

    PS Plus Essential users can now treat themselves to the well-regarded RoboCop: Rogue City and two further PS5, PS4 titles as the service's April 2025 selection of games are now available to download. You have got until 5th May 2025 to redeem them to your PSN account, with the full lineup looking like this:...

    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS Plus
  • News Sony Stealthily Increases the Size of PS5, PS4's Needlessly Restrictive PS Store Wishlist

    We'll heart that

    It looks like Sony has quietly bumped the number of items you can add to your PS Store wishlist. The feature – a necessity for digital plazas – has often been criticised for being needlessly restrictive, limiting the number of items you can add to 100. We’ve regularly butted heads with the cap, being forced to rethink our...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS Store
  • News Assassin's Creed Shadows a Big Sales Hit in US, Beaten Only By Monster Hunter Wilds

    One of 2025's best-sellers

    Ahead of the latest US sales charts, Circana (formerly NPD) analyst Mat Piscatella has given us some insight into how well Assassin's Creed Shadows performed, following its launch on the 20th March. According to Circana's data, Ubisoft's open world RPG immediately cemented itself amongst the best-selling games of 2025 so...

    • Ubisoft
    • PS5
    • Assassins Creed
    • Sales
  • Guide Upcoming PS5 Games for April and May 2025

    No time to sleep

    It's fair to say that there haven't been any quiet moments in the PS5's release schedule so far this year, and April and May continue that trend. Among the highlights are Betheda's duo of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and DOOM: The Dark Ages. Then there's uber-promising RPG debut Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to look forward to...

    • Guides
    • PS5
    • Deals
  • News Tekken 8 Season 2 Patch Notes Are Here, Insane Buffs Have Fans Asking If It's an April Fools' Joke

    Heat death of the universe

    Season 2 of Tekken 8 is here, and a huge, game-spanning balance update is available to download right now on PS5. There was a lot of commotion leading up to this patch, and it's safe to say that it's now causing meltdowns. Having been previewed across a couple of developer videos, the worry was that Season 2 would make...

    • Bandai Namco
    • PS5
    • Tekken
    • Patches
  • News Solid PS2 Action Platformer Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy Gets Surprise PS4 Remaster, Out Now

    The curse is lifted

    For us, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy was one of those PS2 games that we used to see all the time in the preowned sections of GAME shops — and over 20 years later, it's making a surprise comeback. Okay, that was a bit mean. Sphinx was — and hopefully still is — a solid PS2-era action platformer, complete with cooky...

    • THQ Nordic
    • PS4
    • Sphinx
    • Release Dates
    • Trailers
  • News Legendary Trophy Hunting Game My Name Is Mayo Returns with New PS5 Remaster

    And it's no April Fools joke

    The game that arguably started it all, iconic Trophy hunting game My Name Is Mayo has returned this April Fool's Day in a PS5, PS4 remaster that's available now. My Name Is Mayo: Remayo costs just £1.69 / $1.99 and boasts of "revamped 4K graphics" and "50 Trophies including a Platinum!" A Trophy guide has already been...

    • Green Lava Studios
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • My Name Is Mayo
  • News Sniper Elite Dev Rebellion Records Its Biggest Launch Yet with Atomfall

    Game played by 1.5 million people

    British developer Rebellion has revealed last week's release of Atomfall marks the studio's biggest launch in its history, with 1.5 million people playing the PS5, PS4 detective gem. The game released on Xbox Game Pass on day one, which will have helped to bolster its player stats. What's worth noting, though, is...

    • Rebellion
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Atomfall
  • News Bandai Namco's PS5 Patapon Remasters Will Fix Issues Sony Didn't Bother to on PS4

    Better late than never

    Sony already remastered rhythm RPG Patapon and its sequel Patapon 2 for PS4, which you would think would make Bandai Namco’s licensed Patapon 1+2 Replay bundle redundant. But that’s actually not the case, because the Japanese publisher is putting a bit more thought into this compilation than original maker Sony did...

    • Bandai Namco
    • PS5
    • Patapon
  • News PS5, PS4 Users Can Avoid PC Hackers After New Call of Duty Update

    Crossplay option restricts to consoles only

    While crossplay is an overall excellent feature that every multiplayer game should support, it does introduce some flaws when console and PC players are matched against one another. Hacking is still prevalent on PC despite many measures to stop it, and it can result in an unfair experience for console...

    • Activision
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Call of Duty
    • Updates
  • News The Last of Us Showrunner Isn't Concerned About Bella Ramsey's Ellie Looking Too Young in Season 2

    More interested in "emotional maturity"

    Craig Mazin, showrunner on HBO's The Last of Us TV adaptation, has commented on concerns about Bella Ramsey's appearance in the upcoming Season 2. Ramsey (21) has a very youthful appearance, which worked rather well for playing a 14-year-old Ellie in The Last of Us Season 1. However, fans have been worried...

    • Sony
    • PlayStation Productions
    • The Last of Us
    • TV
  • News The Last of Us 2 Is Better Than Ever On the Go with Steam Deck Support

    Native play beats PS Portal

    Sony's better-than-expected PS Portal device will no longer offer the best handheld experience for The Last of Us 2 Remastered, as developer Naughty Dog has confirmed the Steam Deck will be officially supported when the PC port arrives later this week. Rather than streaming the game from your PS5 via an internet...

    • Sony
    • PC
    • The Last of Us
  • Interview "Let's Make Great F**cking Games" - The Legacy Of Monolith Productions

    Time Extension Monolith Productions co-founder Toby Gladwell reflects on the company's history

    On February 25, 2025, it was announced that the Washington-based developer Monolith Productions would be closing its doors for good, causing a mass outpouring of grief from all corners of the games industry. Since its formation back in 1994, the developer had built up a...

    • Interviews
    • Features
    • Monolith Productions
  • News Iconic PS1 Fighter Rival Schools Returns in New Street Fighter 6 Fighting Pass

    Crazy diamond

    Rival Schools is back – well, sort of. A new Fighting Pass launching in April for Street Fighter 6 will allow you to unlock various avatar outfits inspired by the legendary 1997 brawler. Among the unlockable items includes a school uniform with a giant Josuke-style pompadour, as well as Akira Kazama’s motorcycle helmet. You can...

    • Capcom
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Street Fighter
    • Rival Schools
  • News Anger Foot Is a First-Person Hotline Miami-Like That's Kicking Down the Door of PS5

    Age rating spotted

    Devolver Digital appears to be bringing Anger Foot to PS5, and Hotline Miami fans might want to pay attention. As spotted by the ever-vigilant Gematsu, the game has been rated for release on PS5 by PEGI, Europe's game classification board. Age ratings like this are usually indicative of an imminent release or announcement, so we...

    • Devolver Digital
    • PS5
    • Anger Foot
  • Poll Vote for Your PS5 Game of the Month (March 2025)

    Loads to choose from

    Historically, March has always been a busy month for new releases, as publishers look to squeeze things out just before the end of the fiscal year — and March 2025 was no different. Last month was peppered with new PS5 games of all shapes and sizes, with extremely highly rated co-op romp Split Fiction kicking things off in...

    • Game of the Month
    • PS5
    • Polls
    • Features
  • Interview Inside Honkai: Star Rail - PS5's Biggest and Most Ambitious Live Service RPG

    A deep dive into HoYoverse's huge hit ahead of its second anniversary

    With the second anniversary of Honkai: Star Rail mere weeks away, we had the opportunity to reflect on one of the PS5’s most successful live service efforts with Lead Game Designer Chengnan An at GDC in San Francisco last month. Our interview was wide-ranging, digging into the...

    • HoYoverse
    • PS5
    • Honkai: Star Rail
    • Interviews
    • Features
  • News Fall Guys Finally Has Ranked Mode in Latest Update on PS5, PS4

    Playing for all the beans

    Fall Guys has been around for the best part of five years, and has gone through many changes in that time, but now, developer Mediatonic is finally implementing a much-requested feature: Ranked Knockout. Available in the game now as part of the latest update, Ranked Knockout does what it says on the tin — the clumsy...

    • Epic Games
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Fall Guys
    • Updates

Monday31st Mar 2025

  • Guide 80+ PS5, PS4 Games You Should Buy in PS Store's Spring Sale (North America, Europe)

    Discounted PS5 and PS4 games we recommend

    PS Store's latest sale has arrived, and it's a big one. The Spring Sale features thousands of PS5 and PS4 games, as well as DLCs and other digital add-ons. It stretches from now right through to 23rd April, 2025, with a refresh happening half way through on 9th April. There's an overwhelming number of games...

    • Guides
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • PS Store
    • Deals
  • News Sony Reportedly Gearing Up to Sell You The Last of Us on PS5 One More Time

    Will it be the last of The Last of Us?

    A brand new physical retail edition of The Last of Us is on the way. That's according to a new report from reliable gaming leaker billbil-kun, via Dealabs. Apparently, a physical release of a "special edition of a game in The Last of Us franchise" is heading to stores in the future. Unfortunately,...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • The Last of Us
    • Leaks
  • Guide These 9+ New PS5, PS4 Games Are Coming Out This Week (31st-6th April)

    Croc! Koira! Feudal Bros! More!

    We’re rounding up all of the big new PS5 and PS4 games coming out this week. This is probably the quietest week of the year, with retro remaster Croc: Legend of the Gobbos probably the biggest highlight. Here are all the new PS5 and PS4 games coming out. New PS5, PS4 Games This Week (31st-6th April):...

    • Guides
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Release Dates
    • Features
  • News One of the Strangest Games Ever Made Is Officially Coming to PS5, PS4

    Shame it's pants

    Panty Party Perfect, a kind of dating game crossed with underwear combat, appears to be poised for the PS5 and PS4. The eagle-eyed Gematsu spotted a Taiwanese rating for the release earlier today, and that’s usually sign an announcement is imminent. It’s probably worth pointing out this is unlikely to get a Western release...

    • COSEN
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Panty Party Perfect
  • News Evercade's Gremlin Collection 2 Revives Four PS1 Classics, Including Loaded And Re-Loaded

    Time Extension Hogs of War and Buggy also included

    Evercade fans are getting a second helping of Gremlin Graphics goodness thanks to the announcement of a new cartridge collection. Gremlin Collection 2 will ship on a Giga Cart and will include four PS1 titles: Loaded, Re-Loaded, Hogs of War and Buggy. Loaded and its sequel, Re-Loaded, are top-down shooters with...

    • Evercade
    • PS1
  • Review Venus Vacation Prism: Dead or Alive Xtreme (PS5) - Splashy Dating Sim Barely Gets Its Feet Wet

    Love island

    When Sony settled on the slogan “this is living”, we think it may have had Venus Vacation Prism: Dead or Alive Xtreme in mind. This eye-poppingly presented PS5 dating game may seem like an oddball outing, but Koei Tecmo has been working towards it for eons. Those of you with strong memories may recall Dead or Alive Xtreme on the...

    • Reviews
    • Koei Tecmo
    • PS5
    • Venus Vacation Prism: Dead or Alive Xtreme
  • News Almost All the UK's Boxed Copies of Assassin's Creed Shadows Sold on PS5 Last Week

    Who's laughing Naoe

    The UK's latest physical games chart is here, and Assassin's Creed Shadows is still top of the pile. It's number one for the second week in a row, with 84 per cent of the boxed copies sold being the PS5 version. While this is only physical sales in one country, it's clear the game is performing well for Ubisoft — a much...

    • UK
    • Sales
    • Charts
    • PS5
    • PS4
  • News PS5's Onimusha: Way of the Sword Is a Gory, Linear, 20-Hour Action Game, and Basically a Reboot

    Blast from the past

    If you're the type to bemoan the fact that AAA games just seem to be getting bigger and bigger, you'll like what Capcom's had to say about Onimusha: Way of the Sword. In a new interview with Famitsu (as translated by Automaton), director Satoru Nihei and producer Akihito Kadowaki drop some key information

    • Capcom
    • PS5
    • Onimusha
  • News Final Fantasy 9 Teases 'Various Projects' to Commemorate 25th Anniversary

    Celebratory website released

    A remake of Final Fantasy 9 has been rumoured for quite some time, and we may be on the cusp of seeing it revealed. The speculation originated in the infamous Nvidia leak from a few years ago, which has proven accurate on multiple occasions. Now a new website has launched ahead of the iconic PS1 RPG’s 25th...

    • Square Enix
    • Final Fantasy
  • News Starfield Could Have Released on PS5 Already, Work Has Been Ongoing for a While

    May this journey lead us Starfield

    Bethesda’s epic space opera Starfield, a game which was once described as “one of the most important RPGs ever made”, could have released on PS5 already. At least that’s according to well-connected Microsoft reporter Tom Warren, who was speaking as part of the Xbox Two Plus One podcast, where he implied...

    • Bethesda
    • PS5
    • Starfield
  • News Tony Hawk's Call to Remove Classic Tunes from Pro Skater 3 + 4 OST

    "It was my choice"

    Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 is shaping up to be a largely nostalgic trip down memory lane, with a few exceptions. The fourth entry won't feature free roam, which is certainly a blow. Another is the predictably controversial decision to remove or change classic tunes from its soundtrack, including hits from Alien Ant Farm, Iron...

    • Activision
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
  • News The Last of Us Boss Answers Its Most Profound Question: Was Joel Right?

    "You'd just come after her"

    Naughty Dog's groundbreaking The Last of Us franchise has posed a bunch of uncomfortable moral quandaries for players to grapple with. Perhaps the most profound of all is the decision made by protagonist Joel Miller at the end of the first game, and fans have debated its ramifications for over a decade now. Obviously,...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • The Last of Us
  • News Free The Sinking City Remaster for All Existing PS5 Owners

    Cthulhu'd have thought they'd be so generous?

    Embattled Lovecraftian open world The Sinking City – originally released in 2019 and caught in countless courtroom dramas since – is finally under the ownership of its original creator Frogwares. And with a sequel on the horizon, the Ukrainian team has announced a full free remaster. This will be...

    • Frogwares
    • PS5
    • The Sinking City
    • Announcements
  • News Monster Hunter Wilds Confirms Improvements Coming to Performance, QoL, and Weapon Balance

    Layered Weapons also incoming

    Just days ahead of Monster Hunter Wilds' huge Title Update 1, Capcom has confirmed its intent to improve pretty much everything about the action RPG going forward. In a surprisingly open letter from director Yuya Tokuda, we get some insight into the development team's current line of thinking — and although many of...

    • Capcom
    • PS5
    • Monster Hunter
  • Random This Stellar Blade Super Fan Sleeps with Eve Every Night

    Sweet dreams

    A Stellar Blade super fan, who claims to have played the PS5 console exclusive for over 1,100 hours, has shown off their shrine to heroine Eve. The impressive collection includes framed pictures, mugs, steel books, and acrylic stands. But the pièce de resistance is the bed set, which includes a massive image of the heroine’s face...

    • Sony
    • PS5
    • Stellar Blade
    • Random
  • News PlayStation Japan's Marketing Remains Unbeaten

    PS1 and only

    We've been saying this for ages, but marketing campaigns just don't get much better than PlayStation Japan's consistently superb efforts. The team's pumped out some amazing — and undeniably Japanese — ads over the years, and this latest video is no different. It's actually an expanded version of the 30th Anniversary commercial that...

    • Sony
    • Japan
  • Round Up DOOM: The Dark Ages Previews Hype Up a Slower But Bigger PS5 Prequel

    Stand and fight

    A batch of hands-on previews have arrived for the hotly anticipated DOOM: The Dark Ages, and it sounds like it'll be worth the wait. This prequel to the modern DOOM series is set for launch on 15th May, 2025, and while that's not very long to wait, these previews have us counting down the days. Overall, sentiment is very positive...

    • Bethesda
    • PS5
    • DOOM
    • Round Up
    • Features
  • News Over 70% of PS5 Fans Want Sony to License More of Its Dead Franchises Out

    Rise from your grave

    PS5 fans believe the best route to reviving some of PlayStation’s dead franchises may involve Sony licensing them out to third-party publishers like Bandai Namco. We’ve seen a trend recently of the platform holder offloading some of its dormant series, like Patapon and Everybody’s Golf, to other companies. It’s here...

    • Sony
    • PS5
  • Opinion Why You Should Be Hyped for Raidou Remastered, a Second Chance for a Classic Atlus RPG on PS5, PS4

    Raidou rides again

    People didn't seem to be all too impressed with the latest Nintendo Direct broadcast, but it did feature one specific announcement that got me off my chair — and in this article, I'm going to try and explain why you should be excited about the fact that it's actually happening. The drainingly-named Devil Summoner: Raidou...

    • SEGA
    • Atlus
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Raidou Remastered
  • News Promising PS5, PS4 Action RPG Delays Its Release Date Because It's Just Too Popular

    Legends never die

    Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade has been making waves in the action RPG space for a while now, but the title's just been hit with its third delay in the space of one year or so. It's not for the reasons you might expect, though. As Taiwanese developer 7Quark explains on social media, the studio and its partners have simply been...

    • 7Quark
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Yasha
    • Release Dates
  • Random Square Enix, Nomura Have the Most Kingdom Hearts Social Media Exchange Imaginable

    ...What?

    As it's been several more months since we went 1,000 days without any word at all regarding Kingdom Hearts IV, Square Enix's social media post highlighting a recent exchange between itself and director Tetsuya Nomura immediately perked our ears up. We really should have known better. Celebrating the series' 23rd anniversary (thanks,

    • Square Enix
    • Kingdom Hearts
    • Random
  • News Persona, SMT, Metaphor Dev Atlus Has Finally Set Up Its Own YouTube Music Channel

    All the bangers in one place

    Atlus has delivered some utterly iconic video game soundtracks over the last several decades — and so it's always baffled us that its music from properties like Shin Megami Tensei, Persona, and Metaphor isn't more easily accessible. Granted, the company has started putting select albums on streaming platforms in...

    • Atlus
    • Shin Megami Tensei
    • Persona
    • Metaphor
  • News PS5, PS4 the Last Consoles to Unbox Action Figure Shooter Hypercharge Later This Year

    They've been toying with us

    Let’s be honest, as PlayStation owners, it’s not often we get games last. Publishers and developers usually prioritise Sony’s systems, as the market is too large to ignore. In the case of uber-popular action figure shooter Hypercharge: Unboxed, the PS5 and PS4 platforms have been made to wait. The title – which...

    • Digital Cybercherries
    • PS5
    • PS4
    • Hypercharge Unboxed
    • Announcements