TodaySun, 22nd Dec 2024

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  Game of the Year #10 - Persona 3 Reload

  Locked and reloaded

  High quality remakes of classic games have become quite commonplace over recent years, and for our money, Persona 3 Reload is one of the best around. This revival of the iconic 2006 PS2 RPG is, in a word, immaculate. From the refined art direction and visuals to the many mechanical improvements under the hood, Reload is both a...

  • 4pm
  • Game of the Year
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Polls
  • Features
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  20

  Game of the Year Stephen's Top 5 PS5 Games of 2024

  Joy to the world

  Our individual Game of the Year articles allow our lovely team of writers and editors to share their own personal PS5 picks for 2024. Today, it's the turn of assistant editor Stephen Tailby. 5: Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: I must admit, I didn't manage to finish this gargantuan game this year, but man, it's good. Improving on...

  • 11am
  • Game of the Year
  • PS5
  • Features

YesterdaySat, 21st Dec 2024

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  Game of the Year Best PS5 Action Game of 2024

  And... Action!

  Alongside our Game of the Year top 10 list and personal picks from the Push Square editorial team, we are recognising the best PS5 games of 2024 in select categories. Today is the turn of the best PS5 action game of 2024. Bronze Trophy: Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2: Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 does an outstanding job of making...

  • Yesterday, 8pm
  • Game of the Year
  • PS5
  • Features
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  47

  Game of the Year Push Square Readers Write About Their Favourite PS5 Games of 2024

  Your move

  For the first time here on Push Square, we invited readers to reach out to us via email, in order to share their thoughts on the best PS5 games of 2024. We received way more 'letters' than we anticipated, and the result is this bumper edition of a feature, which contains our favourite replies. From The Game Awards winner Astro Bot to the...

  • Yesterday, 4pm
  • Game of the Year
  • PS5
  • Features
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  14

  News Forgotten Falcom Crossover Fighter Ys vs. Trails in the Sky Is Coming West on PS5, PS4 in 2025

  Sky's the limit

  We're going to file this one under 'Announcements No One Ever Saw Coming, Not in a Million Years'. Ys vs. Trails in the Sky is being remastered and localised here in the West for the first time ever, 15 years after its original release. This is a crossover fighter that combines two of Falcom's core properties: Ys and Trails. It...

  • Yesterday, 12am
  • Refintgames
  • Falcom
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Ys
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  134

  Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 560

  The holidays await

  T'was the weekend before Christmas and all around Push Square... Well, actually it's just business as usual really. Here's what we're playing on PS5. Robert Ramsey: I plan on going back to my Game of the Year for 2023 over the holidays: Baldur's Gate 3. I just love a good fantasy adventure around Christmas, and Larian's RPG...

  • Yesterday, 11am
  • Talking Point
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • What Are You Playing
  • Features
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  2

  News Tetris Forever Adds Welltris to Playable Collection, More Updates in the Works

  Well, well, well

  Tetris Forever, the latest retro compendium from Digital Eclipse, has just received an extra playable version of everyone's favourite falling block puzzler. Once you've installed the latest game update, you'll be able to play Welltris — a game previously covered in the interactive documentary, and now you can check it out for...

  • Yesterday, 3pm
  • Digital Eclipse
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Tetris Forever
  • Updates

Friday20th Dec 2024

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  72

  News More Than 6,000 PS5, PS4 Games Discounted in Monstrous PS Store Sale

  Buckle up

  Sony is plotting one of its biggest PS Store promotions of the year, as the annual Holiday Sale bonanza beckons. Live on 20th December through 6th January, the Japanese giant says the list of discounted games is so long it can’t even reveal them all. The highlights, however, include the usual suspects: EA Sports FC 25, Call of Duty:...

  • Fri, 7:30am
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • PS Store
  • Deals
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  21

  News Now You Can Try One of the Most Underrated PS5, PS4 Games of the Year for Free

  Japan Studio fans mustn't miss out

  A demo for Slitterhead, one of the most underrated PS5 and PS4 games of the year, is available now. The free download depicts the full first chapter of the game – including its tutorial – and any progress you make will carry across to the full release, should you choose to purchase it. <related...

  • Fri, 1pm
  • Bokeh Game Studio
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Slitterhead
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  101

  News Industry Analyst Argues Either Sony or Microsoft Will Need to Exit the Console Market

  Three's a crowd

  One of either Sony or Microsoft must exit the console space, argues analyst group DFC Intelligence. That’s because it believes there isn’t “room for more than two major console systems” and it doesn’t expect Nintendo to go anywhere. “Sony or Microsoft will struggle mightily in a distant third place – largely depending...

  • Fri, 5pm
  • Industry
  • Analysts
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  66

  Rumour The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Is Getting an Unreal Engine 5 Remake in 2025

  Stop right there criminal scum!

  Before the all-encompassing juggernaut that was and still is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, there was The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. A classic open world RPG experience — which has been the source of countless internet memes over the years — Oblivion is still great fun to actually sit down and play, despite its...

  • Fri, 9pm
  • Bethesda
  • The Elder Scrolls
  • Rumours
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  40

  News Final Fantasy 7 Devs Suggest Which Rebirth Girl Is Best (for Cloud)

  Perhaps, in another lifetime?

  While conventional wisdom and the original Final Fantasy VII might suggest to some that Aerith is the "best" girl for the stoic but surprisingly sweet swordsman, Cloud Strife, the developers in the Remake trilogy (and fate) see things differently. It's no secret that the ongoing story in Rebirth is not a straight...

  • Fri, 3am
  • Square Enix
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Final Fantasy
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  55

  News Reminder That Horizon Forbidden West Is Simply Stunning on PS5 Pro

  Remains a technical marvel

  Since the PS5 Pro came out, we've somehow spent even more time gaming, checking out how the additional horsepower has improved past games and the new features it allows. Sony also wants to remind you of how awesome its pricey new upgrade is, releasing a trailer showing off 2022's Horizon Forbidden West enhanced on the PS5...

  • Fri, 5am
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • Horizon
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  95

  Random Former IGN China Editor Refutes Game Science Crying Claim

  "In fact, I didn’t even see anyone crying at the event"

  On Monday, still coming down from the unexpected high of The Game Awards, we alluded to an emotionally charged event that allegedly occurred in the audience. Former IGN and Sony Santa Monica writer Alanah

  • Fri, 8am
  • The Game Awards
  • Industry
  • Culture
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  16

  News If PS2 Launched In 2024, This Is What Its Reveal Trailer Would Look Like

  Time Extension "The future"

  Back when the PS2 arrived in 2000, the internet was still in its infancy, so we didn't get a glitzy reveal trailer showcasing the features of the console which would eventually become the best-selling device of its type. In the modern era, hyping up gaming gear with flashy trailers is all part of the promotional strategy, and it's hard...

  • Fri, 2:05pm
  • PS2
  • PlayStation
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  66

  News Splash Water on Your Favourite Waifus in the New Dead or Alive Game for PS5, PS4

  "The fabric becomes transluscent"

  Venus Vacation Prism: Dead or Alive Xtreme is a little different to past spin-off titles in Ninja Theory’s series. Rather than focus entirely on minigames, it’s more of a dating sim, where you’ll spend most of your time wooing the six buxom ladies featured in the release, and observing the outcomes. There are...

  • Fri, 12pm
  • Koei Tecmo
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Dead or Alive
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  32

  News Helldivers 2 Dev Arrowhead Takes Blame for Killzone Pricing Blunder

  "This one is on us"

  Helldivers 2 has enjoyed a typically chaotic couple of news cycles this past week. Following the leak that a collaboration with Sony and Guerrilla Games would bring Killzone 2-themed content to the game, its subsequent, immediate release confirmed this. Unfortunately, developer Arrowhead appears to have set the price too high,...

  • Fri, 2am
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • Helldivers
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  127

  Poll What Are Your Gaming Plans for the Holidays?

  'Tis the season

  For many of you reading this, the holidays are finally here. A much-needed break awaits, stretching from now until the New Year (if you're lucky). Or maybe you just got done with school, and you've got an even longer vacation on your hands. Ah, to be young again... Anyway! As is tradition here on Push Square, we want to know if you...

  • Fri, 6:30pm
  • Polls
  • Features
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  News Diablo 4 Squares Up to Path of Exile 2, Goes Free-to-Play on PS5, PS4 Over the Holidays

  Hell-o there

  If you're looking for something to play over the holidays, Blizzard wants you to at least consider giving Diablo 4 a shot. The action RPG's expansion, Vessel of Hatred, was well received earlier this year, but there's absolutely zero doubt that the game as a whole has been overshadowed by Path of Exile 2 — which launched just a...

  • Fri, 8pm
  • Blizzard
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Diablo
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  38

  News A Portent of the End Times, Skibidi Toilet Has Come to Fortnite PS5, PS4

  *Toilet flushing*

  Embodying modern culture's highs and lows, we regret to inform you that Fortnite's Skibidi Toilet crossover is now live. First leaked, then officially confirmed, for 2,200 V-Bucks or your local equivalent, you can enjoy plunger pickaxes, a Plungerhead character skin and associated backpack, and the Gen Alpha icon, Skibidi Toilet...

  • Fri, 4am
  • Epic Games
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Fortnite
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  56

  News Even in a Wacky Nautical Spin-Off, Yakuza Just Feels Wrong in English

  Japanese only

  Nah, we just can’t do it. Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii may be a wacky nautical spin on the long-running series, but it still just doesn’t sound right in English. To be fair to SEGA, it’s assembled one helluva cast here. Matt Mercer, best known for voicing Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil and Jotaro Kujo in JoJo’s...

  • Fri, 2pm
  • SEGA
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Like a Dragon
  • Yakuza
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  35

  News CD Projekt Red Won't Say Which, If Any, Current Consoles Can Handle The Witcher 4

  But wants to support all major platforms

  One of The Game Awards 2024's biggest moments was a lengthy cinematic trailer for The Witcher 4, which is set to star a recast Ciri in the lead role. The trailer, which CD Projekt Red says is "using assets and models from the game itself" and running on an "unannounced Nvidia GeForce RTX" graphics card, is...

  • Fri, 7pm
  • CD Projekt Red
  • PS5
  • The Witcher 4
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  News Action Figure Shooter Hypercharge Is Building Hype for Possible PS5, PS4 Port

  Toy war-y

  Hypercharge: Unboxed, a shooter all about sentient toys, is floating the idea of a port to PS5 and PS4. The game launched earlier in 2024 on Xbox systems to a warm reception, and now developer Digital Cybercherries is looking to bring its unique title over to PlayStation as well. On its socials, the team asked its followers if a port to...

  • Fri, 3pm
  • Digital Hypercherries
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Hypercharge
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  10

  News Eerie Survival Driving Game Pacific Drive Is Getting a TV Adaptation from Horror Legend

  Atomic Monster picks up TV rights

  An early indie hit in 2024 was Pacific Drive, a unique supernatural survival game that's all about exploring a mysterious exclusion zone in a banged up station wagon. This premise, the loose story, and involved, engrossing gameplay has made it somewhat of a cult hit, and it's still receiving meaningful updates too...

  • Fri, 4pm
  • Kepler Interactive
  • PS5
  • Pacific Drive
  • TV
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  10

  News That Was Fast: Paramount Confirms a Fourth Sonic Movie for 2027

  Hopefully it's better than the actual Sonic 4

  Hot on the heels of the theatrical release of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Paramount Pictures has confirmed that a fourth instalment in the movie series is on the way. As reported by Variety, the company tentatively slated Sonic the Hedgehog 4 for release in spring 2027. The Sonic films have been big hits for...

  • Fri, 11:15am
  • SEGA
  • Paramount
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Movies
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  News Genshin Impact's New Best Girl Rides a Motorcycle Through Teyvat on PS5, PS4

  Tons to look forward to in next major update

  Natlan’s main storyline will come to a conclusion in Genshin Impact’s next enormous update, scheduled to release on 1st January for both PS5 and PS4. The new content will make the motorcycle riding Pyro Archon, Mauvika, playable for the first time. She’ll headline the first phase of the banner,...

  • Fri, 6pm
  • HoYoverse
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Genshin Impact
  • Updates