Review Pragmata (PS5) - Brilliant Combat Is the Star of Yet Another Capcom PS5 Hit
To the moon and hack
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News MLB The Show Creators Are Eyeing a New PS5 Rival
Konami taking Japanese baseball brand global
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- PS5
- eBaseball
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News Cinematic Specialist Blizzard Helping Out on Fable's Cutscenes
Xbox exec highlights studio collab
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- Xbox Game Studios
- PS5
- Fable
News PS5's Fairgames Is a Free-to-Play Extraction Shooter, and It's Not Dead Yet
Private playtest planned for this weekend
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- PS5
- PC
- Fairgames
News Metro 2039 Goes Back to Its Roots for Series' Darkest Game Yet, Out on PS5 This Winter
Trailer, interviews, and gameplay in First Look showcase
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"I don't see the big deal"
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TodayThu, 16th Apr 2026
News MLB The Show Creators Are Eyeing a New PS5 Rival
Konami taking Japanese baseball brand global
MLB The Show will finally have a real rival in the form of Konami’s PS5 console exclusive eBaseball: Pro Spirit 2026, which will launch worldwide for the first time on 16th July. There’s been growing interest in this Japan-only baseball sim for some time now, with many content creators importing...
- Konami
- PS5
- eBaseball
- Announcements
News Cinematic Specialist Blizzard Helping Out on Fable's Cutscenes
Xbox exec highlights studio collab
Diablo and Overwatch developer Blizzard, famed for creating some of the greatest cinematics in the gaming industry, is lending its expertise to Playground Games as it works on Fable. Xbox's chief content officer Matt Booty talked up the collaboration in a fresh Official Xbox Podcast episode, touching on how "the...
- Blizzard
- Xbox Game Studios
- PS5
- Fable
News PS5's Fairgames Is a Free-to-Play Extraction Shooter, and It's Not Dead Yet
Private playtest planned for this weekend
We’re trying hard not to be too cynical until we’ve seen fresh gameplay footage, but you’ve got to ask what’s going on with PS Studios’ portfolio building these days. Fresh from the muted release of Marathon – an extraction shooter with an eye-watering budget and Bungie talent behind it – Sony...
- Sony
- PS5
- PC
- Fairgames
News Metro 2039 Goes Back to Its Roots for Series' Darkest Game Yet, Out on PS5 This Winter
Trailer, interviews, and gameplay in First Look showcase
Ukrainian studio 4A Games has shared a first in-depth look at its latest instalment in the Metro franchise: Metro 2039. Across a 15-minute deep dive, it shares the first trailer for the PS5 game, interviews with lead developers, and finishes with a brief slice of gameplay. With the title...
- Deep Silver
- PS5
- Metro
"I don't see the big deal"
The first full-length Street Fighter movie trailer is here, and it’s every bit the raucous and ridiculous popcorn fest we hoped for. We get a tiny taste of the 90s-tinged plot, which focuses on Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruiting Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) for the World Warrior Tournament...
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- Movies
- Trailers
News Lana Del Rey Finally Gets Her James Bond Theme Song with 007 First Light on PS5
Title track officially revealed
Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter, is behind the theme song for 007 First Light, it's been announced. The title track, simply named First Light, has been released on streaming services, and you can listen to it right now: Written and composed by Del Rey and David Arnold, with the former performing the...
- IO Interactive
- PS5
- 007 First Light
News More Expensive Than Ever, But Saros Will Put PS5 Pro to Work
Coming 30th April
If you need some way of justifying your PS5 Pro purchase — either before or, god forbid, after the recent price increase — then Saros looks to be one way of doing so. Housemarque has put out a new trailer today focusing on the upgraded console and what it brings over the base PS5 system. Catch it above. Amongst gameplay clips,...
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- PS5 Pro
- Saros
- Trailers
Time Extension "Powered by newly manufactured chips based on the originals"
Well, it turns out the rumours of Plaion Replai creating a new Neo Geo system were bang on the money, as the company has just announced the Neo Geo+ Advanced Entertainment System / AES. Launching on 12th November 2026, the Neo Geo+ AES (£179.99 / €199.99 / $249.99 / ¥32,800) is a...
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- Neo Geo
- Hardware
News Starfield PS5 Crash Patch Out Now, But It Only Partly Fixes PS5 Pro
See you next week
Bethesda has (sort of) delivered on its promise to fix Starfield's frankly shocking crashing issues on PS5 and PS5 Pro. Patch 1.000.003 is available to download now on Sony's system, weighing in at 1.445GB. However, as alluded, this hotfix does not address all causes of the game crashing. In fact, it only targets crashes on PS5...
- Bethesda
- PS5
- Starfield
- Patches
News Tekken 8's Turning Point Arrives Out of Nowhere, Devs Finally Listen with Patch 3.00.02
No longer Tekken the p*ss
Well, we didn't see this one coming. When Bandai Namco confirmed that Tekken 8 would be getting a mid-April patch, there were zero expectations — most players just assumed that it would include minor tweaks since it hasn't been billed as a key update. But as it turns out, patch 3.00.02 — the first patch since the big...
- Bandai Namco
- PS5
- Tekken
- Patches
News 'I Feel Like I Just Got Started': The Last of Us' Troy Baker Says the Best Is Yet to Come at 50
He ain't done yet
Troy Baker, one of the most prolific actors in video games, has said he still feels as though he's "just got started" despite his impressive body of work. You could throw a dart at any number of notable games released in the last 15 years or so, and you'll have pretty good odds of hitting one featuring Baker's voice or performance...
- PS5
- Troy Baker
News Pokémon Dev's New PS5 Game Might Be Slightly Cheaper Than Expected
Reportedly a $60 game
Pre-orders for Pokémon developer Game Freak's newest PS5 title, Beast of Reincarnation, will supposedly go live in the near future, and you may not need to pay quite as much money for it as you were probably expecting to. The ever-reliable Dealabs leaker BillBil-Kun has shared some details ahead of the public reveal — which...
- Fictions
- PS5
- Beast of Reincarnation
News PSVR2 Will Take Off Again When Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 Arrives Later This Month
Support coming very soon
Asobo Studio, the developer behind Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, has announced that the promised support for PSVR2 is coming very soon indeed. During a broader livestream covering a variety of updates on the game, the team discusses Sim Update 5, which sounds like a pretty major next step, particularly for those playing...
- Xbox Game Studios
- PS5
- PSVR2
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
- Updates
All better
Amazon MGM Studios has paused production of its live-action Tomb Raider TV series after Sophie Turner, who plays Lara Croft, has sustained an injury. As reported by Deadline, a statement from the studios says it's a "minor injury", and while she recovers, the show's production has been briefly put on ice. "As a precaution, production...
- Amazon
- TV
- Tomb Raider
Free bird
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is continuing to add to its already large and varied roster of playable characters, today bringing Red from Angry Birds to the beloved kart racer. It's easy to forget that SEGA acquired mobile game developer Rovio a little while back, but Red is indeed a SEGA character these days, so it makes sense for him to...
- SEGA
- PS5
- PS4
- Sonic Racing CrossWorlds
- Updates
News PS5 State of Play Definitely Not Happening on 16th April as Unconfirmed Rumour Whiffs
Cross it off your calendar
Very reliable sources had hinted a State of Play could take place this week, on 16th April, but we’ve now comfortably passed the window where it looks likely to take place. While there is a slim possibility of Sony announcing and hosting the show on the same day, this would be out of character for th
- Sony
- PS5
- State of Play
News Red Dead Redemption PS5 Physical Edition Leaks, Out on 7th May
First game's PS5 version on a disc
It looks like the PS5 version of Red Dead Redemption will be released on a disc in physical form next month, according to a new retailer listing from Spanish store Wakkap. Portal Viciados picked up and reported on the store page, sharing a release date of 7th May 2026 for the boxed version and a €32.90 (~$38)...
- Rockstar Games
- PS5
- Red Dead Redemption
News There Are Too Many PS5 Games, But You Should Try This RPG for Free
10% PS Plus pre-order discount if you decide to buy
With so many goddamn games coming out every single week, it’s tough for titles like NITRO GEN OMEGA to stand out. It’s a good thing that dev DESTINYbit has dropped a free demo on the PS Store, then, giving you a chance to put the RPG through its paces before it officially arrives on 12th May...
- DESTINYbit
- PS5
- NITRO GEN OMEGA
- Demos
- Release Dates
News PSN Down for Some, Service Mostly Now Restored
Down and out
There are widespread reports of a PSN outage circulating online, with PS5 and PS4 owners noting an inability to play multiplayer games. We just tested our console and were able to login, but did have some issues playing some of our online-only games. Sony has yet to officially acknowledge the downtime, but from what we’re seeing,...
- Sony
- PS5
- PS4
- PSN
News How Could We Forget About SOL Shogunate, the PS5 Action RPG About Samurai on the Moon?
New dev diary released
We have to admit, SOL Shogunate completely left our collective brain, but its silly, fun premise is enough to get us back in. Samurai and feudal Japan, but on the Moon? Sign us up. Developer Chaos Manufacturing has put out a timely reminder of its crazy action RPG, by way of a dev diary video that goes over the lore and...
- Chaos Manufacturing
- PS5
- SOL Shogunate
- Videos
News PS5's Phantom Blade Zero Gets Even Better with Drunken Sword Gameplay, Insane Motion Capture
Drink up
Just when you thought Phantom Blade Zero couldn't get much cooler, developer S-GAME pumps out a behind-the-scenes video in which we get to see a drunken sword fighting style. And to be fair, that's just one part of what is a very interesting watch. The video's packing quite a lot of gameplay clips, showcasing combat, bosses, environments,...
- S-GAME
- PS5
- Phantom Blade Zero
- Trailers
News Even Absolute Batman Is Included in LEGO Batman's All-Encompassing PS5 Game
Absolutely bricking it
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is coming very soon to PS5, launching on 22nd May 2026, and it looks like a very promising plastic superhero romp. Its big hook is that it's a celebration of everything Batman, blending together elements from various stories to tell the broad-strokes tale of the caped crusader — in...
- WB Games
- PS5
- LEGO Batman
YesterdayWed, 15th Apr 2026
News 8 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for April 2026 Announced
A trio of titles revealed
Sony is due to make its official announcement about additions to the PS Plus Extra and Premium catalogues later today, 15th April 2026, but as is usually the case, a selection of those games have been leaked early. The ever-reliable Billbil-kun reports on Dealabs about three of the games heading into PS Plus Extra's game...
- Sony
- PS5
- PS4
- PS Plus
News 20-Year-Old Sony JRPG Makes Surprise Return to PS5, PS4 Next Week, Free on PS Plus Premium
JRPGlee
Sony has, it seems, remembered to add some fresh software to PS Plus Premium’s glacially updated Classics Catalogue. Today’s PS Plus Extra and Premium update confirms that Wild Arms 4, the 2005 PS2 JRPG from Media.Vision, will be emulated on both the PS5 and PS4 and available starting 21st April. The previous three Wild Arms games are...
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- PS5
- PS4
- PS2
- Wild Arms
News Star Trek Fans, Buy This PS5, PS4 Game Now Before It's Delisted
Get a move on
If you’re a Star Trek fan and you have even a passing interest in the Telltale-inspired Star Trek: Resurgence, we’d recommend you drop everything and buy the game for your PS5 or PS4 right now. You can do so through here. Despite only releasing in 2023, the narrative-driven adventure has just been axed from Steam, mere hours after...
- Bruner House
- PS5
- PS4
- Star Trek
- Delistings
Mini Review Mouse: P.I. for Hire (PS5) - Elite Art with FPS Action to Match
Simply brie-lliant
It's efforts like Cuphead, and now MOUSE: P.I. for Hire, that provide the video game indie scene an everlasting attraction and curiosity: you'd never see a big-budget game dare go near such a striking art style. Polish studio Fumi Games has taken the rubber hose animation style of the 1930s and made a shooter out of it, placing...
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- Playside
- PS5
- MOUSE: P.I. for Hire
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News Hades 2 Gets Game-Changing Free Update Following PS5 Launch, Available to Download Now
Quality-of-life updates, balance changes, new content
The brilliant Hades 2 has just launched on PS5 at long last, and topping it off is a huge update from developer Supergiant Games. Available now, the free game update makes a long list of changes, fixes, and improvements to the roguelike dungeon crawler, and what's more, there's some brand new...
- Supergiant Games
- PS5
- Hades
- Updates
News Bloodborne Returns in Major Animated Movie, and Producer Jacksepticeye Couldn't Be More Excited
Top of the 'borne-ing
Bloodborne fans, you've finally been fed. While it may not be quite the news you're looking for, it seems there are still some at Sony who remember the hardcore action RPG exists. At CinemaCon, Sony Pictures has announced it's developing a Bloodborne animated movie, alongside PlayStation Productions and Lyrical Animation...
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- PlayStation Productions
- Bloodborne
- Movies
Rumour A God of War PS5 Prequel Not Starring Kratos Will Take Us to Multiple Mythologies
Myth busters
There have been a lot of rumours circulating about the future of the God of War franchise, and one concerning a spinoff prequel refuses to die down. Outlet MP1st has reported several key details about a supposed new game in the series, one that has previously been described as "a new franchise within the God of War universe"...
- Sony
- PS5
- God of War
- Rumours
Sisterly love
Alex is less sure of the biological relationship between his Mum and adopted father Tom in a new Street Fighter 6 update. Capcom promised it’d make the wrestler’s backstory less incestuous in a patch, and now we can appreciate the changes. In the original version, Alex described his adopted father Tom as “a cousin of my Mum and...
- Capcom
- PS5
- PS4
- Street Fighter
- Updates
News Starfield PS5 Sales Estimates Leave Much to Be Desired
Wish upon a Starfield
According to newly released estimates, Starfield may not have had the strongest opening sales on PS5. Bethesda's sci-fi RPG released just last week on the 7th April, and for a while ahead of launch, it was ranking very highly on PS Store pre-order lists — and even topped them at one point. But initial estimates frame the...
- Bethesda
- PS5
- Starfield
News US PS5 Hardware Sales Hit a 2026 High Prior to Huge Price Increase
The peak before the collapse
Unsurprisingly, US consumers flocked to stores to pick up PS5 hardware prior to the console’s enormous price increase earlier this month. Circana analyst Mat Piscatella reveals that Sony’s console enjoyed its highest sales of 2026 so far during the week ending 4th April. The system’s price increase officially...
- Sony
- PS5
- Hardware
- Sales
News Highly Suspicious Dragon's Dogma 2 Update Adds to Heavily Rumoured DLC Hype
Heartbeats
It's all kicking off for fans of Dragon's Dogma 2 lately, as longstanding dreams of a DLC announcement are seemingly becoming more and more of a reality. Just overnight, players picked up on a huge backend update to the game on Steam. Now, generally speaking, Dragon's Dogma fans have learned not to put too much stock into these...
- Capcom
- PS5
- Dragons Dogma
Rumour Ubisoft to Give Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown's Core Dev Team Another Chance
Lost and found
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was one of those games that seemed to go down really, really well with everyone who played it — but it just couldn't shift enough copies to satisfy its corporate overlords. The very highly-rated side-scrolling action game released back in January 2024, and by the end of the year, we had confirmation...
- Ubisoft
- PS5
- Prince of Persia
News He-Man's Bad Ass PS5 Brawler Just Got Delayed Two Weeks Before Release
Everyone blame Skeletor
Oh no! Bitmap Bureau’s beautiful retro beat-’em-up He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction was due out in just two weeks, on 28th April. But now it’s been delayed until a nebulous date in the summer! Writing on X (or Twitter), publisher Limited Run Games said while the licensed brawler is...
- Limited Run Games
- PS5
- PS4
- He-Man
News Crimson Desert Sells 5 Million Copies in Less Than a Month
Another milestone reached for Pearl Abyss
Pearl Abyss has issued another sales update for its PS5 open world title Crimson Desert, confirming it's now sold more than five million copies. It achieved the milestone in less than a month, having launched on 19th March 2026. The game's social media profiles celebrated the new sales update with a post,...
- Pearl Abyss
- PS5
- Crimson Desert
- Sales
Tuesday14th Apr 2026
Live-action movie wraps filming
It still feels a little funny to say Sony Pictures is helping make a Legend of Zelda movie, but we are where we are. The company is partnering with Nintendo on the live-action adaptation of the beloved action adventure series. Sony Pictures recently announced at CinemaCon that filming has now wrapped on the project,...
- Sony
- Zelda
- Movies
Rumour Xbox Debating Whether to Make Its Games Exclusive Again
Internal talks at Microsoft reportedly underway
Microsoft is reportedly weighing up the idea of making Xbox games exclusive to its platform again, as fresh leadership evaluates the brand and looks to release Project Helix onto the market. Jez Corden of Windows Central makes the claim, stating on a recent podcast there's a "very very very big...
- Microsoft
- Xbox
- Rumours
Poll Do Crimson Desert's PS5 Patches Put Other Devs to Shame, or Is the Game Simply Unfinished?
Crimson with envy
Let's be real, the release cadence for Crimson Desert patches has been insane. In all of our years writing about video games, we've basically never seen such meaningful updates drop so quickly. Since its launch on the 29th March, Crimson Desert has pretty much received one big patch every week or so — and there are no signs of...
- Pearl Abyss
- PS5
- Crimson Desert
- Polls
- Features
News Seems Like American, Euro Truck Simulator 2 PS5 Releases Are Gonna Be a While Yet
Keep on trucking
You may recall that SCS Software announced both of its popular titles — American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 — for consoles a while ago, including PS5. Since then, the games have been available to wishlist on PS Store, but we've not hea
- SCS Software
- PS5
- Euro Truck Simulator
- American Truck Simulator
News Wuchang PS5 Dev Team May Be Gone for Good
Shifted to outsourcing and other projects
The Wuchang: Fallen Feathers development team within Leenzee looks to have dissolved, according to Chinese outlets and sources. Also picked up by Eurogamer, the PS5 title's producer and director Xia Siyuan left the company at the start of this year. As a result of the departure, employees were reportedly...
- 505 Games
- PS5
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
News Inevitable PS5 Sequel Marvel's Spider-Man 3 Teased in a Quickly Deleted Social Post
IYKYK
Insomniac Games is one of Sony's busiest and best studios, and while it's currently on the final stretch with Marvel's Wolverine, it appears as though development is already in progress on another superhero action adventure. Ben Jordan, who acts as the face model for Peter Parker in the Marvel's Spider-Man series, recently posted an...
- Sony
- PS5
- PS6
- Marvel's Spider-Man
News Sony Announces High-End Gaming Monitor for the Uber Sweats
Get IN(the)ZONE
In the midst of reports that PlayStation is moving away from its PC strategy, Sony’s INZONE gaming line is doubling down with a selection of high-end gaming products taking aim at the PC market. INZONE, a brand of gaming products that include headphones and monitors, has released some pricey yet stellar products in the past,...
- Sony
- PS5
- INZONE
News This Pragmata PR Gift Might Be the Most Insane Press Kit We've Ever Seen
Send it
Capcom is clearly going all out for its latest game, as it's sending creators one of the most elaborate gift boxes we've seen. Pragmata is due for release on 17th April 2026, and on top of reviews going live, the publisher is shipping out these big press kits to select streamers and influencers, and we've not seen anything quite like it...
- Capcom
- PS5
- Pragmata
Round Up Reviews Make MOUSE: P.I. For Hire's Art the Star of the Show
80 on Metacritic
One of the most promising indie games of 2026 so far, MOUSE: P.I. for Hire launches on PS5 later in the week. Ahead of launch, critic reviews have now been published to a current Metacritic rating of 80 for the PC version. So far, the verdicts published constantly praise the 1930s rubber hose art style, but there are criticisms out...
- Playside
- PS5
- MOUSE: P.I. For Hire
- Round Up
- Features
News Capcom's Already the Year's Best PS5 Publisher, and It's Only April
Capgod
With strong reviews for Pragmata dropping earlier this week, Capcom has now published three extremely highly rated games in 2026 — and we're only in April. Capcom's been killing it for so long now that it feels like most people just take the company's output for granted, but we need to stress just how difficult it is to release one banger,...
- Capcom
- PS5
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Devs Explain One of the Best Open World Weather Systems in Gaming
'Tis the seasons
One of the best things about Assassin's Creed Shadows — and in our opinion, one of the most overlooked — is the game's extremely detailed weather system. It's easily one of the best in the biz. We suppose that it's the kind of thing many players won't even pay proper attention to, but Ubisoft really did create something special...
- Ubisoft
- PS5
- Assassins Creed
News PS5 Already Winning GTA 6 Battle as PlayStation Drives 64% of GTA Online Spend
Eye-watering numbers emerge
GTA 6 is going to be a juggernaut on the PS5, and we finally have some hard GTA 5 data to illustrate why. According to information obtained via a recent Rockstar ransom attack, more than 64% of GTA Online’s weekly revenue is generated by PlayStation. The report reveals that the multiplayer game accumulates almost $10...
- Rockstar Games
- PS5
- GTA
- Grand Theft Auto
News The Original Gothic RPG Trilogy Gets Three Separate 2026 Release Dates on PS5, PS4
Have you Goth the time?
Announced last year, ports of all three original Gothic games are headed to PS5 and PS4 in 2026 — and now we've got official release dates. And yes, we're using dates, plural, because the three titles are all launching separately. The first Gothic drops this summer, on the 28th July. Gothic 2 arrives on the 29th...
- THQ Nordic
- PS5
- PS4
- Gothic
- Release Dates
News Silent Hill Dev Bloober Team Is the Busiest Horror Studio in the Business Right Now
Anything but silent
It's all go at Bloober Team right now. The studio, which specialises in horror games and is perhaps best known for its remake of Silent Hill 2, is expanding its leadership, GamesIndustry.biz reports. It seems the main reason behind the growth is to evolve Bloober Team into a multi-game studio. According to the report, the...
- Bloober Team
- PS5
- Industry
