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News - November, 2021
Tuesday30th Nov 2021
News Spider-Man, Raid Arrive in Enormous Marvel's Avengers Update
Dropping on 30th November
A new War Table for Marvel’s Avengers has been published, outlining everything you can expect to be added to the game in its massive 30th November update. This, of course, is the one that adds Spider-Man for PlayStation 5 and PS4 players, and despite what you may have thought previously, he looks fantastic in this new...
News Dying Light 2 Finally Goes Gold Ahead of February 2022 Release Date
Light in the dark
Several delays down the line and Dying Light 2 has finally gone gold, meaning that it's ready to ship. The open world, zombie-bashing RPG is set to release on the 4th February, which gives developer Techland a bit of time to prepare for the big day. If you're a Dying Light fan, then this news will likely prompt a sigh of relief...
News GTA Trilogy Patch 1.03 Fixes Another Boatload of Bugs, Adds 'Cloud Cover' on PS5, PS4
Bit by bit
GTA Trilogy has a new update on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. As you'd expect, it promises to fix another huge list of bugs in all three games. Somehow, the patch notes are even longer than last time, so you'll have to forgive us for all of the scrolling that you're about to do. There are a couple of notable graphical improvements...
Hands On Kid A Mnesia: Exhibition Is a Truly Haunting Tribute to Everything Radiohead
You won't forget it
It’s almost quaint to think that Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac albums were considered such esoteric, difficult listening twenty years ago. With the benefit of hindsight they are simply part of the natural progression in sound from The Bends to the beloved OK Computer, doubling down on that album’s themes of alienation and...
News The Amazing History of PlayStation Mural from Astro's Playroom Is Now Available on Mugs
We'll drink to that
Insert Coin might have made a name for itself with its line of gaming-related clothing, but it's been producing accessories and merchandise for a while as well. One of its latest lines, in fact, is a series of coffee mugs. Normally, we wouldn't worry too much about stuff like this, but these mugs feature an image you might...
News The Game Awards Snags Sting for Live Arcane: League of Legends Performance
What Could Have Been
The Game Awards always features some kind of musical performance, and 2021's event will be no different. Geoff Keighley and his team have somehow convinced Sting — of The Police fame — to sing us a song from Arcane. For those who might not know, Arcane is a highly rated and recently released animated Netflix show based on...
News YouTube App on PS5 Now Supports HDR with Latest Update
Click the like button
If you make any use of PlayStation 5's YouTube application, you might have noticed that, earlier this week, it received a patch. We didn't think much of it, especially as PS5 still doesn't let you see patch notes on the system. However, the small update added something pretty nice: HDR support. Yes, after installing the latest...
News Major Dreams Update Makes Creation Easier with Templates, Adds New Media Molecule Game
Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale available now
Media Molecule has just released a huge new update for Dreams, and it's targeting both sides of the game: play and creation. With version number 2.35, the studio is introducing a major new feature to DreamShaping, the part of the experience in which you create things, but it's also releasing an original...
News BBC iPlayer Is Now Available on PS5
TV app finally makes the jump
BBC iPlayer, the movie and TV application available on basically everything, has been absent on PlayStation 5 this past year. Today, though, the corporation has finally brought the app to PS5. It's now available for PS5 users to download via the Media screen. Just go into the All Apps section and look for BBC iPlayer...
News Farming Simulator 22 Harvests 1.5 Million Sales in First Week
E-i-e-i-oh
When editor Sammy Barker is out of the office, it falls to another Push Square staffer to cover anything with the word 'Simulator' in the name. To that end, here's an update on Farming Simulator 22: it's sold more than 1.5 million copies in the space of a week. It's a significant milestone for developer Giants Software; this is the first...
News Dauntless Comes to PS5 on 2nd December with Cross-Gen Support and Improved Visuals
DualSense support, faster loading, new Trophies
Dauntless is a popular free-to-play action RPG that puts its own spin on the beast-slaying formula from Monster Hunter. It's been available on PlayStation 4 for a while now, but with PS5 having been out for over a year now, some fans have been hoping for the game to make the jump. Fortunately,...
News Fall Guys Season 6 Is Live Right Now on PS4
Download patch 1.33 now
Fall Guys Season 6 has arrived today on PlayStation 4, and it invites you to a Party Spectacular. After downloading update 1.33, the latest patch for the game, you'll be able to join the fun and check out all the new seasonal content. Among a litany of bug fixes, Season 6 introduces several new levels, obstacles to...
Monday29th Nov 2021
News The Witcher 3 PS5 Targets Q2 2022 Release Date
CDPR reiterates
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition — more commonly known as The Witcher 3's PlayStation 5 version — is targeting a second quarter 2022 release, CD Projekt Red has reiterated in its latest investor briefing. Just to be clear, that's anywhere from the the beginning of April until the end of June. Not hugely surprising...
News Cyberpunk 2077 PS5 Version Aiming for Q1 2022 Release, Major Update Planned
Next time in Night City
In its latest company briefing, CD Projekt Red has confirmed that it's aiming to release the PlayStation 5 version of Cyberpunk 2077 in the first quarter of 2022. The developer reveals that it'll also be launching a "major" update on all platforms alongside the next-gen edition. There are no details on what this patch will...
News PS Store End of Year Deals Sale Is Live Now, Discounts Hundreds of PS5, PS4 Games
Assassin's Creed Valhalla! Lost in Random! Dreams!
Black Friday? What's that? Reeks of old news to us. Sony's certainly ready to move on from the huge PlayStation Store Black Friday sale, and it's replacing it with, you guessed it, another massive sale. PS Store's End of Year Deals promotion gets started today, and is
Mini Review Evil Genius 2: World Domination (PS5) - A Compelling, Cat-Stroking Tycoon Title
Excellent
Evil Genius 2: World Domination pairs traditional tycoon gameplay with tactics to create one of the more unique strategy titles on the market. As one of four cat-stroking wrong’uns, your task is to build an evil underground empire in a spy-fi thriller that, when executed effectively, will see the world bow to your reprehensible plans...
News Albert Wesker Artwork from Resident Evil 4 Remake Allegedly Leaked
When it rains you need an Umbrella
We told you earlier that the Thanksgiving holiday had brought the rumour-mill to life, and here’s another humdinger: Albert Wesker artwork from Capcom’s apparent Resident Evil 4 Remake, all allegedly leaked by voice actor DC Douglas himself. It’s claimed that the below sketches were sent privately to fans on...
News Would You Kindly Read This Rumour About BioShock Isolation?
In rapture
The video game industry is still in a post-Thanksgiving food coma, so indulge us while we dig into a rumour or two from sketchy sources. Perhaps the biggest emerging this holiday weekend pertains to BioShock Isolation, the apparent title of the fourth entry in 2K Games’ immersive sim series. Word comes way of Oops Leaks on Twitter [We...
News Tales of Arise Survey Sparks Hope for Tales Remasters
Xillia, please
A rather in-depth Tales of Arise survey from Bandai Namco is being passed around online (you can take it yourself by clicking through here). It asks some pretty interesting questions, about both the game and your own gaming habits. It covers all of the usual stuff, like how much you enjoy various features in Tales of Arise and whether...
News PlayStation Partner Awards 2021 Celebrates Hit Games This Week
Sony's industry event returns
The annual PlayStation Partner Awards are happening this week in Japan, taking place on the 2nd and 3rd December. The event highlights hit games that released this year, with Sony handing out awards to the developers. To be clear, this has never been a consumer-focused show like The Game Awards. It's very much an...
News UK Sales Charts: Black Friday Discounts a Boon for Guardians of the Galaxy, FIFA 22
Every 1's A Winner
Black Friday, which lasts basically the whole of November if you ask retailers, has once again had an impact on the UK's physical games charts. While not as successful as last year — GamesIndustry.biz notes a 10 per cent decline in sales compared to the same weekend in 2020 — there are still a handful of games bouncing up the...
Sunday28th Nov 2021
News Marvel MMO in Development at DC Universe Online Team
Marvelous
An investor presentation has prematurely revealed that the developer of DC Universe Online is working on a Marvel MMO. Dimensional Ink Studios, which is the Texas-based division of the Daybreak Game Company, is heading up the project, with ex-Cryptic Studios co-founder Jack Emmert leading the charge. Unfortunately, that’s all we know...
Saturday27th Nov 2021
Guide Upcoming PS5, PS4 Games for December 2021 and January 2022
Chorus! Among Us! Rainbow Six Extraction!
Believe it or not, we're now in the final month of 2021 and looking ahead to the new year. Pretty much all of this year's major games for PlayStation 5 and PS4 are out, and it seems as though things will be quietening down in December and January. That's not to say there's nothing to look forward to, though...
News Dying Light 2 Won't Infect Much of Your PS5's SSD
Dead good
The trend of smaller-than-expected file sizes on the PlayStation 5 continues, with Dying Light 2: Stay Human weighing in at just 21GB. This is pre-patch so could bloat come its delayed 4th February launch, but is obviously quite small for a major AAA open world game. Sony’s vaunted Kraken compression technology has been generally driving...
News PS Vita Exclusives Freedom Wars, Soul Sacrifice to Have Servers Shuttered
Sacrificial
Two high-profile PS Vita exclusives, Freedom Wars and Soul Sacrifice, will have their servers deactivated on 24th December, 2021. Both titles, published by Sony in response to its loss of Monster Hunter exclusivity, were built around co-operative play, and maintained relatively dedicated communities to this day. While you can still play...
News Rust Console Edition Expands with Bigger Maps, Tech Trees, and More
Feelin' rusty
Rust Console Edition, one of the Best PS4 Survival Games, has expanded with its Devastation Unleashed update. Available now on the PlayStation 4, this revision adds some key features to the core experience, including Tech Trees and larger maps of up to three kilometres in size. This should give you a bit more space to settle down. The...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 404
Turkey edition
For our American readers, we sincerely hope you’re enjoying the holidays, and had a happy Thanksgiving celebration. For everyone else, well, we hope you’re having a great week, too. Shall we WAYP? Sammy Barker, Editor: I'm having a blast with Mafia: Definitive Edition, a game that's been in my backlog since it launched last...
Friday26th Nov 2021
Rumour PS Plus PS5, PS4 Games for December 2021 Leaked Early
It's time for Godfall
PS Plus' selection of PlayStation 5 and PS4 games for December 2021 look to have leaked early, with reliable French website Dealabs getting the jump once more. The free PS5, PS4 games included in December 2021's update aren't due to be announced until 1st December due to the way the dates fall, but the site in question says we...
News Fanatec's Gran Turismo 7 Racing Wheel Available to Pre-Order from $700 Now
Compatible with PS5, PS4, and PC
Update: Pre-orders have now officially opened on Fanatec's official Gran Turismo 7 racing wheel, with prices starting from $699.95/€699.95. Despite the initial sticker shock, this is actually a great price for the technology that the manufacturer is offering, and if you're planning to spend a lot of time with...
News Fan Clamouring for Assassin's Creed Origins 60FPS Update on PS5 Continues
Will Siwa ever know 60fps?
Ever since Ubisoft pushed a surprise PlayStation 5 update for Assassin's Creed Odyssey — allowing the PS4 game to run at 60 frames-per-second on Sony's current-gen console — fans have been wondering whether Assassin's Creed Origins will get the same treatment. Odyssey's update arrived back in August, so what's the hold...
News Is Returnal DLC Being Teased by Developer Housemarque?
Mysterious image surfaces
Historically, Housemarque is usually very good at supporting its games post-launch with updates and DLC. Of all its games, though, Returnal seems the most ripe for expansion with additional content. The PlayStation 5 shooter has had plenty of patches to bring it up to speed — including the addition of the much-requested...
News CDPR Still Confident It Can Turn Cyberpunk 2077 Around
"We're working on updates all the time"
We've been writing about the woes of Cyberpunk 2077 for close to a year now, and it's crazy to think that developer CD Projekt Red is still trying to 'fix' the open world RPG. As you may have heard, the PlayStation 5 version of the game was delayed out of 2021 and into 2022, along with all of its plann
News Mobster XCOM Empire of Sin Makes It Count with Massive Content Drop
Available on PS4 now
A colossal content drop for prohibition-era strategy game Empire of Sin is available on the PlayStation 4 now, largely transforming the game. The free Precincts update rebalances and retunes many aspects of the alarmingly in-depth XCOM-esque outing, making some of the release’s mechanics more meaningful. Precincts effectively...
News Train Sim World 2's Sherman Hill Crosses Wyoming in Iconic Expansion
Wyoming wanderers
An historic route connecting Cheyenne to Laramie in Wyoming is the backdrop for Train Sim World 2’s newest expansion, Sherman Hill. Available now, the add-on depicts an iconic rail first built in the 1860s, which is currently serviced by Union Pacific and its third-generation Diesel engines, the EMD SD70Ace and EMD SD40-2...
Talking Point What Are You Thankful for in Gaming?
A look at the positivies
Thanksgiving has come and gone for another year, but there’s still plenty to be thankful for. While the spirit of the American holiday focuses primarily on family and friends, there’s lots to be appreciative of in gaming as well. If you’re reading this site then it’s probably your preferred pastime, and in a year...
Thursday25th Nov 2021
Great but overlooked PS4 games you should play
What are the best hidden gems on PS4? What are some overlooked or underrated PS4 games you should try? The PlayStation 4 has a seriously rich and diverse library of games, with thousands upon thousands available. It's obviously impossible to play everything, even if a game comes highly recommended. With...
Endure and survive
What are the best PS4 survival games? Survival games are one of the most popular genres of late, putting players in challenging scenarios and forcing them to overcome with limited resources. In this article, we’re going to list the best PS4 survival games, with an emphasis on titles that force you to scavenge for resources and...
News Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection Now Rated for Release on PS5, PC in North America
Surely coming soon
Naughty Dog’s remastered PlayStation 5 double-pack Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection has taken another step closer to release, after being rated by North American classifications body, the ESRB. It previously passed certification in Australia. The compilation, featuring
News 400-Page Hardback Book Documents PS Vita's Ten Year History
Vita means life
With the PS Vita approaching its tenth anniversary, author Sandeep Rai has launched a Kickstarter for a 400-page book documenting the entire history of the now-discontinued device. Vita Means Life – which was targeting a goal of £6,000 but has already surpassed £15,000 at the time of writing – promises to “take a look back at...
News Latest WRC 10 Update Adds Acropolis Rally, More Historical Cars and Events
November update out today
It's a game that's been bubbling away pretty quietly, but developer KT Racing has been updating WRC 10 with additional content and fixes since launch in September. Monthly updates have added rally courses, vehicles, and more to the experience, meaning it's now a more fleshed out game. October's update brought in the Renties...
Wednesday24th Nov 2021
News Resident Evil Village Wins Game of the Year at Golden Joystick Awards
Also best PlayStation game
Resident Evil Village has won its first Game of the Year accolade at this evening's Golden Joystick Awards, where it was crowned the Ultimate Game of the Year and the PlayStation Game of the Year. It then also won the Best Audio and Best Performer (Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu) categories. The Golden Joystick Awards...
News Street Fighter 6 Is Probably Going to Be Revealed Next Year
Luke launches this month
In the latest Street Fighter V developer update, Capcom suggests that we'll be seeing the next game — supposedly named Street Fighter VI — at some point in 2022. A message at the end of the video reads "we'll be back with more news about the future of Street Fighter". If rumours are to be believed, the next Street...
Guide Best Podcast and Relaxing Games for PS5 and PS4
Chill out
What are the best podcast and relaxing games for PS5 and PS4? While there are plenty of immersive, story-based experiences on Sony’s systems, sometimes you just want to unwind with a podcast and keep your hands occupied. We’re defining “podcast games” as titles that allow you to switch off while you play, enabling you to put the...
News Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles Finally Gets 60FPS Mode on PS5
Plus two playable demons
A new update is out for Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. The game's been available for over a month now, but the lack of a dedicated 60 frames-per-second mode on PS5 has been a sticking point for some players. Thankfully, as promised by developer CyberConnect2 before release, a...
News Challenging PS5, PS4 Brawler Sifu Won't Have Difficulty Options at Launch
Prepare yourself
Sifu has always looked unforgiving in its various gameplay trailers, and now it's been confirmed that the game won't have difficulty options — at least not at launch. Speaking to MP1st, producer Pierre Tarno said that difficulty settings may be something that's added later on. "We want Sifu to challenge players and to encourage...
News NEO: The World Ends With You Didn't Meet Square Enix's Sales Expectations
The end?
Square Enix's latest financial report makes for rather standard reading, but one detail is already being passed around online. NEO: The World Ends With You released back in July, and the stylish JRPG sequel was a hit with players. However, Square Enix notes that the game failed to meet its sales expectations. The report reads: "While NEO:...
News Psychological Thriller Martha Is Dead Spooks PS5, PS4 in February 2022
Physical version available
The Golden Joystick Awards has gotten in on the act of sharing game announcements alongside rewarding developers for their efforts over the past year, so as Resident Evil Village was crowned Game of the Year, a few select titles hinted at what's to come. Psychological thriller Martha Is Dead was one of the
News Ghost of Tsushima and Sackboy Enter the Fray in Fall Guys Season 6
The party starts on 30th November
Fall Guys is about to kick off a Party Spectacular with Season 6, the latest major update to Mediatonic's popular spin on the battle royale formula. What you might not be expecting, though, is that some proper PlayStation royalty is on the guest list. In the above cinematic trailer for the new season, it's revealed...
News The Cadillac Seville by Gucci Is Now In Your Hot Wheels Unleashed Car Collection
Drift in style
Have you been playing Hot Wheels Unleashed lately? Ever thought to yourself that this game about little die-cast toy cars driving around orange plastic tracks isn't boujie enough? Well, you're in luck, because developer Milestone has teamed up with Cadillac and Gucci to bring a super fancy vehicle to the arcade racer. As you can...
News Neat Indie Game Tails of Iron Gets Free Bloody Whiskers DLC, Out Now
Lots of post-game content
We've only heard good things about 2D indie game Tails of Iron, so news it has today been treated to a free expansion only makes us want to check it out even more. This is a new slice of content that adds lots of things designed for when you've actually finished it. The Bloody Whiskers expansion includes "a new post-game...
News Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon Plunders PS4 on 13th December
DLC in development
Didn't get enough Shovel Knight with the beloved platformer? Developer Yacht Club Games has been beavering away at spin-off Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon for years now, but it's finally ready. The game, which combines dungeon crawling with block puzzles, releases for PlayStation 4 on 13th December. We've embedded a trailer from...
News Dragon Ball: The Breakers Trailer Tells You Everything About This Weird Spinoff
A thorough Breakersdown
If you've been wondering what the heck the recently announced Dragon Ball: The Breakers actually is, you're in luck. Bandai Namco has released a very informative 11-minute trailer that explains the game in detail. The gist of it is that you either play as a lone 'raider' or as one of seven 'survivors' in this weird...
Tuesday23rd Nov 2021
Guide Best Sports Games for PS4
The best sports games on the PlayStation 4
What are the best sports games for PS4? Whether you’re a die-hard footie aficionado or a casual basketball gazer, there’s no question that sports games are by far some of the most popular on consoles like the PlayStation 4. Spanning both hardcore simulations and more arcade-like adaptations, we’ve...
News Tekken 7's New Definitive Edition Is Hilariously Overpriced
KO
Listen, we love Tekken 7, but the newly released 'Definitive Edition' of the 3D fighter is a bad joke. Not because of the content — it includes the base game alongside all of the DLC — but because of the pricing. Fighting game re-releases usually sell at a discount, but Bandai Namco's decided to go all-in on Tekken 7 Definitive Edition. Head...
News New Skyrim Patch Fixes Black Screen Bug and Other Tech Issues on PS5, PS4
Out now
Update: The new Skyrim patch is available to download now on PS5 and PS4, weighing in at around 700MB. Hopefully it corrects the various technical problems that have popped up following the release of Anniversary Edition, and the free update for Special Edition. Original Story: Bethesda has confirmed that it's working on a new update for...
Mini Review Death's Door (PS5) - Indie Darling Is a Tightly Designed Joy
Open up
Death's Door released to rampant critical acclaim on other platforms earlier in the year, and it's easy to see why. This is a lovingly crafted isometric action-adventure, stacked with engaging exploration, tense action, and a wonderful atmosphere. It draws obvious inspiration from The Legend of Zelda as you journey across an interconnected...
News A Group of Fans Are Reviving PS3's Online Multiplayer with Emulated Servers
Killzone 2! Warhawk! MotorStorm!
The PlayStation 3 had a lot of cracking online games, didn't it? Even from Sony itself, there were plenty of offerings for those looking to get stuck into some multiplayer. Whether it was the vehicular battlefields of Warhawk or the mucky racing of MotorStorm, there were lots of ways to play together. Unfortunately,...
News Oh God, Twelve Minutes Is Coming to PS5, PS4 Next Month
Prepare yourself
You have probably heard all about its story after the Xbox One, PC release earlier this year, and now you can experience it all for yourself: Twelve Minutes comes to PlayStation 5 and PS4 on 7th December 2021. A new trailer can be watched through here, with the game starring Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy, and Willem Dafoe. It's a...
News The First Episode of Guerrilla's Official Horizon Podcast, GAIA Cast, Is Available Now
Give it a listen
Update (23/11/21): The GAIA Cast's very first episode is now available for your listening pleasure across various platforms. We've embedded the YouTube version above. To recap, Guerrilla Games has created a new podcast series taking a deeper look at the story and characters in Horizon Zero Dawn and its imminent sequel, Horizon...
Soapbox I Think I'm Over Trophies
Locked
I’ve never been what some would affectionately label a Trophy whore, but they have utterly captivated me for well over a decade now. I earned my first PlayStation gong in Super Stardust HD the day Sony rolled out the feature; my first Platinum was Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, the first game to feature the now-iconic silvery-blue pot. In...
News Terminator: Resistance Gets Surprise DLC on PS5, Out Next Month
Annihilation Line
The PlayStation 5 version of Terminator: Resistance is being treated to a surprise expansion named Annihilation Line, arriving on 10th December 2021. It will not be available for PS4. This expansion is set during the events of the main game and follows Kyle Reese as he explores "the land beyond the Annihilation Line". Said to be...
News PlayStation Accused of Gender Discrimination in Lawsuit
Security analyst seeks unfair dismissal
A lawsuit filed in California is suing Sony for gender discrimination and unfair dismissal. First reported by newsletter Axios, the legal proceedings have been lobbied by former IT security analyst Emma Majo, who alleges that women at PlayStation were paid less than their male peers and were denied promotions...
News Rocket League Prepares for Turkey and Football with NFL Fan Pass
Thank you, Thanksgiving
Rocket League is reopening the tailgate this week, ahead of Thanksgiving’s football fiesta. Starting from 23rd November, the NFL Fan Pass will be available once more from the release’s Item Store, bundling in all of the previously released crossover content – as well as a brand-new set of decals. It’ll set you back...
News PS5 Rating Spotted for the Poorly Received Serious Sam 4
German rating uncovered
German ratings board USK has handed an 18+ age rating to a PlayStation 5 version of Serious Sam 4, which hasn't been confirmed at the time of writing by developer Croteam. The game does have a PS4 version on the way, but this new bit of information all but confirms it's getting a native PS5 edition too. A
News Fall Guys Season 6 Is a Party Spectacular Set to Be Revealed Later Today
Livestream to show off new stages and more
Fall Guys has become one of those games where it still feels brand new, but it simultaneously feels like it's been around forever. We suppose there's not anything quite like Mediatonic's competitive multiplayer platformer, and it's being constantly updated with new levels, features, and cosmetics. As a...
News Sackboy Celebrates Thanksgiving with Free Turkey Costume in A Big Adventure
Gobble wobble
Our readers across the pond will be celebrating Thanksgiving this week, with the big day landing on Thursday 25th November. Whether you'll be tucking into a big family feast or not, we can all at least be thankful for free stuff, right? Speaking of which, Sackboy: A Big Adventure is continuing its spree of complimentary DLC with a...
News Rock Band Dev Harmonix to Create 'Musical Journeys' for Fortnite After Epic Games Acquisition
Working on the Metaverse
Rock Band developer Harmonix will “create musical journeys and gameplay for Fortnite” after being acquired by Epic Games. The studio, which first made a name for itself with the Sony published PlayStation 2 rhythm games Frequency and Amplitude, became something of a titan in the industry during the PS3 era, owing to the...
News Dreams' Community Awards Ceremony The Impys Returns in February
Nominations are open now
Whether you pay it any mind or not, Dreams forges on, and it's gearing up to celebrate another year's worth of community creations. Yes, the third annual Impy Awards has been officially announced, recognising the achievements the game's user base has reached over the last 12 months. As always, there will be an awards...
Monday22nd Nov 2021
Review Farming Simulator 22 (PS5) - Agricultural Effort Is Franchise's Biggest and Best Yet
Grow up
Despite its niche subject matter, Farming Simulator is a breakout brand that’s been growing [Hur-hur – Ed] in popularity with each instalment. Farming Simulator 22 represents the biggest release yet for German developer Giants Software: it’s self-published, packing more licensed content than ever before, and features crossplay between...
Guide Farming Simulator 22: Best Mods
Expand your agricultural experience
What are the best mods in Farming Simulator 22? You're able to expand your game in Giants Software's agricultural sim with vehicles, tools, maps, and gameplay alterations found in the Downloadable Content section of the release's main menu. These mods introduce completely new ways to play, thus significantly...
News Warzone Pacific Map Launch Delayed by One Week
Vanguard content pushed back too
Activision has delayed the launch of Call of Duty: Vanguard Season One back to 8th December 2021, pushing back new maps, modes, and weapons for the World War II shooter by six days. This means the new Caldera map for Warzone has suffered the same fate, with 24 hours of early access for Vanguard owners now slated to...
News All Marvel's Avengers Cosmetics Pegged at $3,400
Assemble those dollar bills
In a headline that perhaps isn’t a surprise for a live service game, one Marvel’s Avengers fan has taken the time to calculate the cost of all of the title’s cosmetics – and it adds up to an eye-watering $3,317. While all of this content is, of course, completely optional, it’s an astounding figure for a release...
News DNF Duel Doesn't Have Confirmed Platforms or a Release Date, But It Does Look Stunning
New Arc System Works fighter is a beaut
First announced around this time last year, DNF Duel is a fighting game based on long-running South Korean franchise Dungeon Fighter. Primary development is being handled by Arc System Works — the extremely talented Japanese company behind Guilty Gear Strive, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and other jaw-dropping...
News Rural Japanese Mystery Nostalgic Train Coming to PS5, PS4
Set in photo-realistic scenery
Nostalgic Train, a mystery game set in the rural Japanese countryside, will release on the PlayStation 5 and PS4 on 25th November, after attracting interest on Steam and Nintendo Switch. Described as a walking simulator, the release includes two modes: the story and a “free roam” option where you can explore the...
News UK Sales Charts: Battlefield 2042 Settles for Third While Spider-Man: Miles Morales Swings Back
Gotta catch 'em all
Unfortunately for any games releasing in the same week, Nintendo published a duo of new Pokémon games, and both of them occupy numbers one and two on the UK's latest physical games chart. It means that Battlefield 2042, one of the bigger PlayStation launches of the season, debuts in third place. The PS5 version accounts for half...
News Cricket 22 Delayed on PS5, PS4 Due to Aussie Star's Sexting Scandal
Max Paine
Not much happens on the field during cricket matches, but plenty occurs off it apparently. While British cricket finds itself embroiled in an institutional crisis involving racist remarks reported by Azeem Rafiq, Australia has been rocked by a sexting scandal surrounding now ex-captain Tim Paine. All of this has unfolded days prior to the...
News Spider-Man Gameplay Shared in New Marvel's Avengers Hands On
I came in like a wrecking ball
There might be $3,317 worth of Marvel's Avengers cosmetics to buy, but it's because of that you get the likes of Spider-Man's upcoming expansion for completely free. Arriving on 30th November 2021, IGN was lucky enough to go hands on with the web-slinger for two hours, except the video above isn't a result of that.
News Hitman 3 Will Be Getting a Second Year of Content
Trilogy played by 50 million players
Hitman 3 will keep on trucking with more post-launch content as part of a second year of support, studio IO Interactive has announced. This will take the form of "new maps, storylines, modes and ways to play", one of which is the Elusive Target Arcade. Arriving in January 2022, it will dramatically change how...
News Kojima Productions Expands into TV, Film, and Music
Headed by former PlayStation face
Kojima Productions has today announced it is expanding its reach with a new division focused entirely on film, TV, and music. The new team will be based in Los Angeles and led by Riley Russell, formerly of PlayStation. He spent almost 28 years at the company, occupying positions such as chief legal officer and VP of...
News Street Fighter Stars Ryu, Chun-Li, and Akuma Join Free-to-Play Fighter Brawlhalla
Akuma matata
Brawlhalla is Ubisoft's free-to-play platform fighter, and like most of the publisher's games, it's been supported way past its initial release with all kinds of new content and updates. The latest addition to the game sees some serious fighting game royalty join the roster: Ryu, Chun-Li, and Akuma from Street Fighter are available now...
Sunday21st Nov 2021
News FIFA 22 Giving Away Free Next-Gen Players in Ultimate Team on PS5, PS4
Play between 15th December and 14th January
Anyone who plays FIFA 22 between 15th December and 14th January will be rewarded with a free next-gen FIFA Ultimate Team player. The promotion – spotlighting some of the best young talent in European football right now – includes players like cover star Kylian Mbappe and Manchester City forward Phil...
Saturday20th Nov 2021
News GTA Trilogy Patch 1.02 Fixes Huge List of Bugs on PS5, PS4
It's a start
A big bug-squashing update for GTA Trilogy is now live on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. It arrives following an apology from Rockstar, in which the company stated that it has "ongoing plans to address the technical issues and to improve each game going forward". And boy does this remastered collection need it. The bugs and...
News EA Sports Rebrands Madden NFL 22 for Big Bo Jackson Promo
Bo knows
Tecmo Bowl cheat code and real-life Raiders running back Bo Jackson has taken over Madden NFL 22, as part of a mid-season ‘Bo Knows’ promo inspired by the NFL and MLB legend. The update, available now, spans all facets of the game – and even replaces the traditional cover stars Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, at least temporarily...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 403
The holidays are almost here
We're just about at the end of the busy release schedule, and on the cusp of the holidays, so it's time to unwind and catch up on all of the games that you've missed. With so many deals flying around, we're sure you've added to your backlog, and have an abundance of games to play. Sammy Barker, Editor: After a couple...
News MLB The Show 21 Goes to Bat with Almost a Month of Double XP
As new Finest cards roll out
MLB The Show 21 is reaching the end of its lifecycle now the real-world season has concluded, but if you’ve just bought Sony San Diego’s baseball sim during Black Friday, there’s an otherworldly amount of content to dig through. This week saw the release of Team Affinity 5 – where you complete challenges with...
Friday19th Nov 2021
News PS Store Black Friday Sale Live Now, Here Are the Best PS5, PS4 Deals
PS5 exclusives! Guardians of the Galaxy! Psychonauts 2!
Here it is: the big one. The PlayStation Store Black Friday sale is live now across the UK, EU, and US storefronts, lasting until midnight on 30th November 2021. Should we cut the slack and get straight to the deals? Let's do it. For starters, Sony has cut the price of many of its first-party...
News PS Plus 12-Month Memberships Just £29.85 in the UK
ShopTo goes low
12-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions have today been discounted on the PS Store to coincide with the big Black Friday sale, taking 33 per cent off the price. However, if you head to ShopTo
News Rockstar Apologises for the State of GTA Trilogy on PS5, PS4
PS5, PS4 buyers don't get access to original versions
Rockstar has today apologised for the launch state of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition in a post on its official website. The studio writes: "We want to provide an update regarding the unexpected technical issues that came to light as part of the launch of Grand Theft Auto: The...
News New PS5 Breakdown with Mark Cerny Is a Fascinating Watch
How the PS5 was designed
Honestly, we could listen to Mark Cerny talk for hours. The veteran game developer and hardware specialist is most well known for his work on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Cerny helped spearhead the creation of both consoles, and in this new video from Wired, he talks us through all of the decisions that had to be...
News Thymesia Is a Bit Like Bloodborne with Backflips, Coming to PS5 in 2022
New blood
Another day, another Souls-like action RPG is brought to our attention. But wait, don't click off this article just yet! Thymesia actually looks pretty darn cool in this new gameplay trailer, which confirms that the game will slash its way to PlayStation 5 in 2022. The press releases gives us an intriguing overview: "Set in a hauntingly...
Talking Point Is Sony Being Stingy with PS5's First-Party Pricing?
For the payers
Sony does what Nintendoes – well, when it comes to the price of its first-party games, at least. As many of you will know, PlayStation has decided to bump up the MSRP of its exclusives for the PlayStation 5, meaning you’ll be paying an eye-watering £69.99/$69.99 a pop – and if you were banking on PS Store sales to make the...
Talking Point What PS Plus Games for December 2021 Do You Want?
When will December 2021's PS Plus lineup be announced?
What are the December 2021 PS Plus games for PS5 and PS4 and when will the December 2021 PS Plus games be announced? The final PlayStation Plus update of the year is near, and fans will be hoping for a big one before the holidays arrive. On this page we're going to share all of the rumours and...
News There's 'Zero Chance' of Dying Light 2 Being Delayed Again
Definitely out in February
It's been a very long road to release for Dying Light 2. First announced at E3 2018 and confirmed for a release in spring 2020, it was then delayed indefinitely. The game resurfaced earlier this year with the hope of hitting a release date early next month. It was
Poll Did You Buy Battlefield 2042?
Out here in the Battlefield
'Tis the season for first-person shooters, and EA's back with another Battlefield this year. Battlefield 2042 has divided opinion during its pre-launch phase, both with critics and consumers. There's a general sense that 2042 has been rushed to market, but EA and developer DICE have promised long-term support. The game's...
News Original GTA Games to Be Restored on PC, But No Word on PS Store
Gone but not forgotten
Rockstar has apologised for the “unexpected technical issues” which have derailed the GTA Trilogy’s launch, and has promised swift action to “address” the issues and “improve each game going forward”. A patch will be deployed on the PlayStation 5 and PS4 in the coming days, with “ongoing plans” to enhance the...
News EA Sports Still at Risk of Losing the FIFA Name as 'Bitter Dispute' Rages On
Money, money, money
It came to light last month that EA Sports might have to rename its FIFA video game franchise. Basically, the actual FIFA — the Fédération Internationale de Football Association — wants EA to cough up more money for the rights to its name, and the publisher didn't seem keen on giving in to the demands. It was even...
News Pac-Man Museum+ Chomps PS4 with 14 Games Next Year
Wakka-wakka
There’s a lot of Pac-Man about to (Pac-)Land on the PlayStation 4: a whopping 14 games, in fact. Pac-Man Museum+, which is due out next year, includes (almost) every Pac-Man game ever released, in one tidy bundle. As you progress through the games, you’ll unlock cosmetics and extras, making this a true celebration of the iconic pill...
Thursday18th Nov 2021
News Sony Shares Huge List of PS Store Black Friday Offers, Starts Tomorrow
Deals on many PS5, PS4 games
The PlayStation Store Black Friday sale officially gets underway tomorrow, bringing with it lots of deals on PS5 and PS4 games. Sony has today shared a complete list of every title that will be included in the sale, and it makes for pretty good reading. Recent PS5 releases are included as well as PS4 classics. We'll have...
Review Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition (PS5) - A Stain on Rockstar's Record
Aw, sh*t
Where do we even begin with the GTA Trilogy? Recreating Rockstar’s trio of seminal sandboxes for contemporary consoles should have been a slamdunk, but it’s ended up with more criticism than Tommy Vercetti’s Hawaiian-inspired shirts. This is a compilation that succeeds solely on the strength of its core content, with developer Grove...
News PlayStation's Jim Ryan Admonishes Activision in Internal Email to Employees
Amid ongoing allegations against juggernaut publisher
PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has reportedly criticised Activision in an internal email to employees, according to Bloomberg. The correspondence, read by journalist Jason Schreier, calls out the Call of Duty publisher for its inadequate response to allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment,
News WWE 2K22 Looks Like It Could Be a Smackdown on PS5, PS4
MyGM returns
More news was promised for January 2022, but as 2K Sports admits, it simply couldn’t keep quiet any longer. Here’s the headline: WWE 2K22 looks like it could actually deliver, after years of dreadful wrestling games. This is definitely a teaser trailer, with more information to follow next year, but it should be enough to have fans...
News Hunt Showdown Gets PS5 Patch, Will Run at Up to 60FPS
Part of update 1.7
Hunt: Showdown update 1.7 will soon be on its way to PlayStation 4, but if you happen to be playing the tense title via backwards compatibility on PS5, you can also look forward to a frame rate boost. Previously locked to 30 frames-per-second, this new patch unlocks the frame rate, allowing it to reach up to double what it could...
News There's a Game on PS Store That Costs Just 12 American Pennies
Or 10p for us Brits
It wasn't that long ago that video game prices were rather flat; most would cost about the same, regardless of what was on the disc. However, these days, prices run the gamut from £70 (or potentially more) for top end experiences, all the way to less than a quid. The digital, self-publishing age lets games of all shapes and...
News Sony AI and Polyphony Digital Partner on Enticing Gran Turismo Study
Deep learning based on visual cues
A new branch within Sony imaginatively named Sony AI has partnered with Polyphony Digital on a paper which explores the possibility of teaching artificial intelligence how to drive cars in Gran Turismo based on visual cues. The paper, authored by Ryuji Imamura, follows a similar document published in 2020, whereby...
News Warner Bros Announces MultiVersus, a Free-to-Play, Smash-Like Platform Fighter
Beat up Bugs Bunny on PS5, PS4
This has been rumoured for a little while, but now it's official: MultiVersus is Warner Bros' answer to Super Smash Bros. The game is a platform fighter, meaning you'll secure victory by knocking opponents off-screen, and it's set to feature a varied range of well-known characters. The likes of Batman, Tom &...
News Deathloop Update 1.2 Has Improved Enemy AI
Plus FOV and motion blur options
One of the common criticisms with PlayStation 5 console exclusive Deathloop is its poor enemy AI. Arkane Studios has claimed it's meant to be that way to make the time looping mechanic easier to manage, but it's still something fans point towards when listing negatives. Update 1.2 will be welcomed by them then...
News Capcom Reiterates Pragmata 2023 Delay with Weird Little Video
We don't know why
Look, we don't even really know what Pragmata is. The seemingly sci-fi Capcom project was first announced during Sony's PlayStation 5 reveal event, and we've seen bugger all of it since. Back then, it was targeting a 2022 release date (it seemed so far away!), but at the start of this year, Ca
News The Crew 2 Goes Crazy Taxi in The Contractor Season
Free to play this weekend
Yes, there’s a much better open world racer on the market right now, but for PlayStation players, sadly, The Crew 2 is the best it gets. And credit where credit is due: Ubisoft has continuously updated this game since its launch a couple of years ago, and fostered an impressively active community as a consequence...
News GTA Trilogy Owners Loot Free Liberty City Prison Coveralls in GTA Online
As part of ongoing GTA 3 celebrations
If you’ve bought and played any of the games in the GTA Trilogy, then you’ll be eligible for the free Liberty City State Penitentiary Coveralls in GTA Online – assuming you login before 25th November and have connected your PlayStation Network account to the Rockstar Social Club. This is the same outfit...
News Dreams Central, a Social Entertainment Hub Made in Dreams, Hits Kickstarter
Back ambitious project now
A handful of ambitious creators are aiming to push Dreams to its limit — one group is building a social hub before the creation suite is even capable of online play. While Dreams Central will remain an offline experience to start with, the PlayStation Home-inspired project is looking seriously impressive, and we're...
News Sifu Release Date Moved Forward to 8th February on PS5, PS4
Kick ass
In a move that you don't see happen too often these days, slick looking PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 brawler Sifu has had its release date pushed forward. It was set to launch on the 22nd February 2022 — following a delay out of this year — but now it's kicking and punching onto Sony's systems two weeks earlier, on the 8th February...
News Sifu Explains Crunching Combat and Unique Ageing System in New Gameplay Trailers
Master yourself
Sifu has dropped two new gameplay trailers, which should give everyone a much better idea of what the stylish beat-'em-up is all about. The first video, embedded above, details the game's crunchy looking combat. As expected of the developer that brought us the brilliantly animated and surprisingly in-depth Absolver, Sifu's action is...
News Solar Ash Demands Multiple Playthroughs for Platinum Trophy
Finish the game in under three hours
Solar Ash is creeping up on its 2nd December 2021 release date, and today its Trophy list has gone live on Exophase. It is a collection of digital trinkets that seemingly require multiple playthroughs if you want to unlock the Platinum Trophy, with gongs for finishing the game on the hardest difficulty setting...
News Tencent Acquires Minority Stake in Yooka-Laylee Dev Playtonic
Team retains IP control
The spending spree of Chinese company Tencent continues as Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic confirms it has sold a minority stake to the technology firm. The investment will be used to expand the studio from a single team to multiple, improve the developer's headquarters, and expand to new locations. Playtonic retains full...
Wednesday17th Nov 2021
News Sony's Black Friday Deals Focus on PS5, PS4's Biggest Blockbusters
FIFA! Far Cry! Deathloop!
There are over 1,200 indie titles discounted on the PS Store right now, but PlayStation’s anticipated Black Friday sale looks set to aim squarely at the biggest blockbusters available for the PlayStation 5 and PS4. While it’s extremely unlikely there’ll be any hardware deals due to the
Hardware Review Sabrent's PS5 SSD Heatsink Offers Console Convenience
Easy installation is a big win
Sony has enabled the PlayStation 5’s expanded storage slot, allowing you to dramatically increase the amount of software you can have installed at once. Rather than creating a proprietary solution, the manufacturer has instead opted for standard NVMe M.2 SSDs, which should help drive prices down as they become more...
News Call of Duty: Vanguard Multiplayer Is Free for the Next Four Days
Very early free trial available
Sledgehammer Games will be offering an uncharacteristically early free trial of Call of Duty: Vanguard multiplayer for the next four days, coinciding with the release of classic map Shipment. Available to download from tomorrow and then playable until 22nd November 2021, you'll be granted access to the full online...
News Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Gets Ray Tracing Mode in New PS5 Update
Plus many bug fixes
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy has today been patched to version 1.05, implementing a new ray tracing mode to go alongside the options prioritising visual quality and the frame rate. Weighing in at 1.414GB, it is available to download now on PlayStation 5. The update also brings with it a secret save rollback feature for anyone...
News Big PS Store Indie Sale Includes 1,200 PS5, PS4 Game Deals
The Pathless! Outer Wilds! John Wick!
If you like indie games, boy does Sony have the PlayStation Store sale for you today. PS Prices is tracking a whopping 1,221 new price drops on PS5 and PS4 titles starting today through until 1st December 2021, and the vast majority of them are all from independent developers. We'll only be able to scrape the...
News Shark Action Game Maneater Shines with Ray Tracing Update on PS5
Lots of possible ray jokes but they don't a-manta much
Have you been playing Tripwire Interactive's "ShaRkPG" Maneater on PlayStation 5? Playing as an ever-evolving shark, you become an apex predator, able to chow down on sea life and pesky humans alike. The game definitely resides in the chummy waters of AA titles, but that's no bad thing — in...
News Spider-Man Will Have Some Pretty Cool Suits in Marvel's Avengers on PS5, PS4
Here's the first seven coming to the game
Perhaps the best thing about Marvel’s Spider-Man is the sheer array of suits and costumes that Insomniac Games packed into the open world adventure, and the upcoming web-slinging add-on for Marvel’s Avengers will be no different. Crystal Dynamics has revealed seven suits on its website which will be...
News Take on Cosmic Tasks in Heavenly Bodies, Coming to PS5 and PS4 on 7th December
Possible PS Plus game
First announced before the PlayStation 5 was even priced, developer 2pt Interactive has confirmed Heavenly Bodies will launch for Sony's current-gen console and PS4 on 7th December 2021. That is the same day December 2021's free PS Plus titles will be available, so there's a possibility the title in question will be offered as...
News UK Readers, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Is £25 with a Tesco Clubcard Tomorrow
Intergalactic savings
Here’s an unexpected headline: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be £25 with a Tesco Clubcard from tomorrow. As part of the supermarket giant’s attempts to encourage everyone to sign up for its loyalty scheme, you’ll be able to use your Clubcard against a physical copy of the platformer on the PlayStation 5 to get it...
News Saints Row Delayed All the Way Back to August 2022
Team needs more time
The release schedule for February 2022 just got slightly lighter as developer Volition confirms it has delayed Saints Row to 23rd August 2022. The game was originally launching on the same day as Elden Ring for PlayStation 5 and PS4. Now it becomes a summer release, lending the studio more time "to create the best Saints Row...
Talking Point What Were the Best PS5, PS4 Hidden Gems of 2021?
Show some love
We try our best here at Push Square to lend as much coverage to as wide a range of games as possible, but even then, so many titles slip through the cracks. It leaves us playing catch up at the end of the year playing all these wonderful recommendations that passed us the first time. Maybe you're exactly the same, prioritising the...
Mini Review A Short Hike (PS4) - A Sweet, Simple, Animal Crossing-Lite Experience
A walk in the woods
A Short Hike's title does an awful lot of heavy lifting when it comes to describing this game. It truly conveys the core experience in a way many game titles don't. Playing as Claire, an anthropomorphised bird, you are tasked with, you guessed it, going on a short hike. You can jump, fly, and climb, all of which you’ll need to...
News RGG Studio Working on New Games That Aren't Yakuza or Judgment
Say no to Kamurocho
RGG Studio, the SEGA developer behind the Yakuza series and the Judgment games, has confirmed that it has new projects in the works — and these projects aren't related to Yakuza or Judgment. The information comes from a fresh interview with Famitsu (as translated by Gematsu), in which the company outlines its current plans. As...
News Unknown Dev Making Good Progress on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
"Quite some time" before release date revealed
Development of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is said to be going well according to Paradox Interactive, but who it is actually doing the work we still don't know. Hardware Labs was taken off the project at the beginning of this year and replaced by another team. The game's troubled production...
News Embracer Group Acquired 37 Studios This Year, and Wants to Match That in 2022
THQ Nordic, Koch Media parent company is still hungry
Embracer Group isn't a name many people are familiar with, but you will have heard of the publishers and developers that fall under its vast umbrella. THQ Nordic, Koch Media, and Deep Silver are all part of it, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. This is the company that pops up every couple...
Talking Point What Are Your Thoughts on the PS Blog in 2021?
The state of Sony's official website
While we consider Push Square to be a place for passionate PlayStation fans to gather and discuss their preferred pastime, the PS Blog is Sony’s official home and the place to get news straight from the horse’s mouth. Often we’ll take that information and extrapolate on it here, adding commentary and polls...
Tuesday16th Nov 2021
PlayStation 4's best looking games
What are the best PS4 graphics? There are many handsome games on the PlayStation 4, but in this article we’re going to list the titles that truly dazzle with both their artistic and technical achievements. Whether it’s sprawling open worlds or densely detailed cinematic adventures, these are the best looking...
Guide Best PS4 Fitness and Health Games to Exercise with and Lose Weight at Home
Exercise with PlayStation 4 and enhance your home workouts
What are the best PS4 fitness and health games to exercise with lose weight at home? While most PlayStation 4 games tend to place you in a solitary position, the console is also home to several superb titles which will get you on your feet and working up a sweat. Following the coronavirus...
Ratchet & Clank up for GOTY
You'll watch for the announcements, but The Game Awards also like to reward the greatest games of the past year with flashy trophies to commemorate their quality. It's back to being in person for 2021, and so we'll get a few live speeches from some of the developers up for the coveted gongs. This year feels like an odd...
News The Most Ridiculous Dragon Ball Game Yet Has Just Been Announced for PS4
Multiplayer survival?!
Well, we never saw this one coming. Bandai Namco has announced a brand new Dragon Ball game — but it isn't at all what you'd expect. Titled Dragon Ball: The Breakers, it's an eight-player survival game, where one player steps into the role of an overpowered villain (playable baddies include Cell, Frieza, and Kid Buu at...
Poll What Game Will Win at The Game Awards 2021?
Cast your vote
You've seen the (questionable) nominations for The Game Awards 2021, and with the show now just a few weeks away, what game do you think will win the coveted Game of the Year prize on 8th December 2021? This is a year without an obvious winner as the quality of titles released has been fairly consistent, but without a clear standout,...
News Horses Trot onto the Set of The Last of Us' TV Show
Jackson has been recreated in Canmore, Alberta
Filming is continuing in earnest on The Last of Us’ television adaptation, despite series creator Neil Druckmann returning to his day job at Naughty Dog. The focus of shoots at the moment appears to be on the town of Jackson, which doesn’t feature significantly in the first game but may have had its...
News Even GTA Trilogy's Rockstar Social Club Integration Is Disappointing
Social hubbub
We don’t mean to kick Chop while he’s down, but GTA Trilogy’s list of disappointments extend to its Social Club integration as well. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Rockstar social network, this is a browser-based experience that plugs into most of the label’s games, and allows you to connect with friends and...
News Remote Play on Android 12 Has Been Updated to Support DualSense PS5 Controllers
Plus more DualShock 4 functionality
When was the last time you used Remote Play on any PlayStation? Here at Push Square Towers, it's something we're glad exists, but we rarely if ever take advantage of the tech. Still, lots of people do, especially with all those smartphones out there. Following the launch of Android 12, Sony has released a fresh...
News New Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin Screenshots Show Kings, Queens, and Pirates
Stranger and stranger
Square Enix has released a bunch of new screenshots for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, showing off secondary characters and a few combat scenarios. As we all know, Stranger of Paradise is already weird — what with its chaos-obsessed protagonist and his fondness for Limp Bizkit-sounding rock — and these...
News Loads of New Dying Light 2 Gameplay Leaps Online
Dying for more
If you've been yearning for new Dying Light 2 gameplay videos, then today is your lucky day. Loads of previews for the upcoming open world title have just been published, and there's a huge amount of footage to pick through. As expected, it all looks very similar to the original Dying Light — at least on a fundamental level...
News Relaxing Sandbox Grow: Song of the Evertree Plants Some Fantastical Seeds on PS4 Today
Grow up
Prideful Sloth, the Australian-based developer that delivered the rather relaxing Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles back in 2017, has returned to PlayStation 4 with its next game. Out today (that's the 16th November 2021) on Sony's last-gen console, Grow: Song of the Evertree looks to expand upon the whimsical gameplay of its predecessor...
Monday15th Nov 2021
News The Elder Scrolls 6 Isn't Coming to PS5, But It's Not About 'Punishing Other Platforms'
That's according to Xbox boss
Microsoft now owns Bethesda, its library, and is responsible for any upcoming projects. While there was much handwringing from fans and the media at first, we now know that the former third-party publisher’s projects will no longer release on PlayStation. There are obvious exceptions: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim...
Hands On FromSoftware Puts Its All into Elden Ring
Rise, Tarnished
Elden Ring feels like everything FromSoftware has been doing for the past 12 years all at once. Sure, you could probably describe its latest title as open world Dark Souls and be more than halfway there, but to do so would ignore the obvious undertones of Bloodborne and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice that help make this new title stand...
News Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition Is a Free Upgrade for Owners of PS5, PS4 Original
Gameplay improvements, new content, and more
Oddworld: Soulstorm launched earlier this year on PlayStation 5 and PS4, much to the delight of its loyal fans. While in some ways it was a solid step forward for the classic series, the game launched with more than its fair share of issues. Poor enemy AI, progression-blocking bugs, and all kinds of other...
Review Sherlock Holmes Chapter One (PS5) - Not One of Frogwares' Best
False start
Visiting the island of Cordona to pay respects to his late mother, it takes a young Sherlock Holmes no more than 30 minutes to discover a dead body and a case ripe for solving. It isn't much more than a tutorial, designed to introduce you to Frogwares' usual detective mechanics. However, it's also the first example of how Sherlock Holmes...
Here we go again
It's being torn to shreds on Metacritic and its unbelievable bugs have already spawned countless internet memes, but we have no doubt that GTA Trilogy will pull some serious sales numbers. Whether the game deserves commercial success if obviously up for debate (the developer has at least
News Impressive Project Awakening Footage Emerges from Cygames Tech Showcase
That's some next-gen foliage
Remember Project Awakening? Publisher Cygames announced the game all the way back in 2018, and it feels like we're still no closer to playing the action RPG. It's always looked visually stunning in any trailers or footage, but the title remains elusive. We're not even sure about platforms; officially, it's only listed...
News PS Store on PS Vita Facing Wide-Spread Issues Around the World
NP-2244-2 error ongoing for almost a week
Sony has agreed to keep the PS Store online on the PS Vita, after previously announcing plans to discontinue it – but make no mistake, maintenance for the system’s storefront is at the very bottom of its list of priorities. Perhaps that would explain why error code NP-2244-2 is persisting after almost a...
News Call of Duty: Vanguard Reportedly Has Series' Worst UK Launch in 14 Years
But still UK's second biggest game launch of 2021
While Call of Duty: Vanguard enjoyed the UK's second-biggest game launch of 2021 earlier in the month, only second to FIFA 22, the latest entry is reportedly off to the worst start sales-wise for 14 years. 2007's revolutionary game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on PlayStation 3 is the only one to...
News PS4 Spotted in Shin Megami Tensei V Datamine
Currently a Nintendo Switch exclusive
Despite fairly close ties to PlayStation platforms, Shin Megami Tensei V from Atlus launched earlier this month as a Nintendo Switch exclusive. It's supposedly an excellent JRPG and considered "the best entry" yet by our friends over at Nintendo Life, so it's no surprise PS5 and PS4 owners are feeling a little...
News The Game Awards 2021 Nominees Will Be Announced Next Week
A tight year
Game of the Year should actually be interesting this year, because as far as this author is concerned, there hasn’t really been that one single standout that everyone appears ready to rally behind. You may have a different opinion, of course – that’s fine – but while there have been lots of great releases this year, it doesn’t...
News Remember Outriders? It's Getting a Big Free Update This Week
Full expansion arrives in 2022
Be real for just a second before we go over the details of this update: did you forget that Outriders released this year? Because we sure did! The looter-shooter launched for both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on the 1st April, 2021 (cue April Fools jokes), and quite frankly, we've heard bugger all about the title...
News Geoff Keighley Spent a Lot of Money on Visual Effects for The Game Awards Teaser
Are you hyped yet?
The Game Awards is coming, and Geoff Keighley wants you to know about it. The producer/presenter loves to build up hype for games and his yearly shows, and it seems he's going all-out with 2021's award ceremony. The above trailer made its debut yesterday, and it's about as flashy as anything we've ever seen from the show. The...
Rumour Beyond Good and Evil 2 'Still Several Years Away'
Sequel still in development
What's going on over at Ubisoft? Beyond Good & Evil 2, officially announced in 2017, is seemingly no closer to completion today, and recent hearsay suggests it's still nowhere near finished. Tom Henderson, a games journalist who will often post leaks and rumours via Twitter, claimed to have heard that the game is...
News Finger Fitness Is a Home Workout for Your Hands Using PS5's Adaptive Triggers
Remember to post pictures of your progress on Instagram
Ever have difficulty unscrewing the cap from a bottle of Pepsi? You, sir, need stronger fingers – and fortunately Finger Fitness is here to help. Stealthily slipped onto the PS Store this Sunday – a holy day for Trophy hunters – this PlayStation 5 exclusive leverages the DualSense’s...
News UK Sales Charts: It Might Be Underperforming, But Call of Duty: Vanguard Is Still Top Dog
Bullet sponge
As you'll no doubt have read about recently, Call of Duty: Vanguard has been struggling in the UK. At this point, the game is a low point in the franchise's recent history — at least in terms of sales. You can learn more about that through here, but even with the comparably low sales, Activision's shooter is still number one in the...
News Plan A Short Hike on PS4 This Week
It has a Platinum Trophy
First announced for PlayStation 4 earlier this year, it was confirmed this past weekend that A Short Hike will release on 16th November 2021. That's tomorrow if you're reading this at the time of publication. A new trailer accompanies the news, and PR company Popagenda shares some very important news: the game will have a...
News F1 2021 Adds Jeddah Corniche Circuit in Free Update Today
Final free track joins the calendar
Codemasters has been steadily adding any missing circuits to F1 2021, this year's simulation of the motorsport. While most of the calendar was in place, three notable tracks were missing. With today's free game update, the third and final of these will make its debut in the game. The Jeddah Corniche circuit, a...
Video Can Spider-Man Save Marvel's Avengers?
A great amount of responsibility
A lot has changed in Marvel’s Avengers since last September when it launched. And while it may not have excelled completely at being a successful live-service platform, through continued support by way of new Hero Events and story expansions, Square Enix has done all it can to do Earth’s Mightiest Heroes justice...
News Back 4 Blood Is Still Harder Than Intended, Developer Working On It
Difficulty tweaks incoming
If you've been spending any time on Turtle Rock's co-op zombie survival game Back 4 Blood, you might have noticed it's a surprisingly tough shooter. As it so happens, the difficulty is actually higher than intended, and the studio is working to get the level of challenge back on track. While some updates for the game have...
News OlliOlli Dev Picked Up by Take-Two
In good company
OlliOlli developer Roll7 has been acquired by Take-Two, the company that also owns Rockstar Games and 2K. The team will now fall under the Private Division publishing label, which was already planning to put out its next game OlliOlli World prior to the purchase. That's now slated to launch early next year on PlayStation 5 and PS4 in...
Sunday14th Nov 2021
News GTA Vice City's Fan PS Vita Port Pitted Against Nintendo Switch Remaster
Stacks up
PS Vita may have been a bit of a commercial blunder from Sony, but it will go down in history as one of the more revered handhelds ever released. In addition to its likeable hardware and software library, modders got a lot of mileage out of the device, and one prolific piece of homebrew prepared by Rinnegatamante and The Fl0w enabled you...
News Happy Chaos Goes Guns Blazing in Guilty Gear Strive, Out 30th November
Happy now?
Guilty Gear Strive is getting its third DLC character on the 30th November for season pass owners, and the 3rd December for everyone else. And, as many predicted, it's Happy Chaos — the, er, chaotic gunslinger from the game's story mode. He looks especially tricky in this first glimpse at gameplay. For those who might not know, Happy...
Saturday13th Nov 2021
News Unsurprisingly, the GTA Trilogy Is Getting Review Bombed on PS5, PS4
Push Square's review still a way away
If you’re wondering where the Push Square review of the GTA Trilogy is, we didn’t receive the game until its official launch date at 3PM UK time on 11th November, so we’re still busy working our way through what is an enormous package. Don’t expect us to deliver our final verdict for at least another...
News Elden Ring's PS5 Framerate Is Seemingly Smoother When Running PS4 Version
Better in backwards compatibility
Elden Ring’s anticipated Closed Network Test is running this week, and you can find out more about access times and how to participate through here. Obviously, this is all based on unfinished code, and so FromSoftware will certainly optimise the RPG before its release in February. However, the framerate on the...
Poll Did You Buy Skyrim Anniversary Edition?
Good to see you, traveller
Look, you're probably sick of reading about Skyrim Anniversary Edition, and frankly, we're a bit sick of writing about it. But come on, we do these 'did you buy' polls for every big release — and it doesn't get much bigger than a new version of Skyrim! Anniversary Edition arrives ten whole years after Skyrim's original...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 402
There's plenty to pick from
Wow, what a busy week! Between the likes of Battlefield 2042, the GTA Trilogy, and the umpteenth re-release of Skyrim, we've really had our work cut out keeping on top of it all. It's always fun when the release schedule is so stacked, though, and here's what we've been playing. Sammy Barker, Editor: It's looking like...
Friday12th Nov 2021
Guide Elden Ring Closed Beta: Dates, Times, and What's Included
When is the Elden Ring beta?
When is the Elden Ring closed network test on PS5 and PS4? What are the dates and times for Elden Ring's beta, and what will be included? FromSoftware's upcoming action RPG, Elden Ring, was delayed recently, but publisher Bandai Namco is giving fans the opportunity to play the game early via a closed network test. In...
Dragon it out
Available as either a full release priced at £47.99 / $49.99 or as a discounted upgrade to 2016's Special Edition, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition is quite simply the best version of Skyrim to ever grace a PlayStation console. Although, admittedly, that's not saying much. The original game on PS3 was and still is a...
Hands On Is the GTA Trilogy Really That Bad on PS5, PS4?
A number six with extra dip
In response to the headline: honestly, no. As is so often the case when there’s an online backlash, the reality isn’t quite as bad as the memes would lead you to believe – but make no mistake, the GTA Trilogy deserves better, and Rockstar has its work cut out rectifying this sorry state of affairs. This is a...
News GTA Trilogy's Rain Is Giving Fans a Headache
Also, upscaling causes copious spelling errors
GTA Trilogy has some well-documented graphical bugs and glitches, but the rain is one of the standouts. This clip from GTA San Andreas perhaps shows it off best, as it essentially resembles white streaks all over the screen. To make matters worse, the rain doesn’t hit any pools of water, so you get a...
News Here's the Obligatory GTA Trilogy PS5, PS4 Bugs and Glitches Compilation
Didn't take long
This was coming, wasn’t it? When we reported on unrest among fans regarding the limited GTA Trilogy media available prior to release, we always got the sense a sh*tstorm was brewing – and, well, here it is. Yesterday we shared some scruffy screenshots from the PlayStation 5 and PS
News GTA Trilogy Patches and Updates Already in the Works for PS5, PS4
A fix up
It’s no real surprise for updates and patches for a game to be in production the second they ship, but some would argue that GTA Trilogy needs them more than most. While we’ve already pointed out in our GTA Trilogy PS5 and PS4 hands on that the game isn’t quite as bad as the social media backlash would lead you to believe, it’s...
Feature PS5 Report Card - How Is It After One Year?
PS5's first year in review
Yes, it really has been a full year since the launch of PlayStation 5. Sony's latest console debuted exactly a year ago today — in the US, at least — and we've been spending the last 12 months getting to know the white and black box. The question is: how is the PS5 faring after one year? Are all the fancy hardware...
Guide Battlefield 2042 Release Dates: How to Play Early
How to get a head-start in multiplayer
How do you play Battlefield 2042 early? The official release date of Battlefield 2042 is 19th November 2021, but if you want to get a head-start in multiplayer, then you'll want to know how to play early. There are a few ways you can begin levelling your account up before launch day. In this Battlefield 2042...
Guide Best PS4 Superhero Games
No spandex required
What are the best PS4 superhero games? Surely any one that imbues you with an amazing otherworldly power like flight, laser vision, or perhaps the ability to shoot sticky web fluid from your hands! Whatever your preferred way of saving the world, the good news is you’re never left wanting when it comes to wearing tight spandex...
News October 2021 NPD: PS5 Is Still the Best-Selling US System of the Year
But in dollar sales, not units
The PlayStation 5 is still battling with the Nintendo Switch to be the best-selling US console of the year, but stock limitations mean it may eventually lose out over the all-important holiday period. Sony is outselling the Nintendo hybrid when it comes to dollar sales (or revenue), but the House of Mario’s machine...
News PlayStation Studios Has More than 25 PS5 Games in the Works, Jim Ryan Reiterates
Most unannounced
Believe it or not, the PlayStation 5 has just turned one year old. We've survived a full 12 months with Sony's new hardware, and the company has marked the occasion with a PlayStation Blog post from top brass Jim Ryan. While it's mostly a letter of thanks to the fans, one detail jumps out, and it's not to do with year one at all...
News Guilty Gear Strive's Third DLC Character Teased, Will Be Revealed This Weekend
Let's rock!
Guilty Gear Strive is still meant to be getting its third DLC character before the year is out, and it looks like the identity of this mysterious fighter will be revealed over the coming weekend. In fact, it's a big weekend for fighting games in general. Red Bull Gaming's Red Bull Kumite is happening over the next couple of days in Las...
Poll What's Your Favourite PS5 Game So Far?
Share your top three
Today marks the first anniversary of PlayStation 5 following the hardware's US launch on 12th November 2020, and a lot of games have come out during that time. Things got off to a flying start with a very strong launch lineup, and Sony has persisted by keeping owners engaged with a variety of exclusive titles throughout 2021...
News Demon's Souls, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Among Most Played PS5 Games
Putting in the hours
Happy birthday, PlayStation 5! The console is a year old today, and it's had plenty of wonderful games within that time already. Which ones have been played the most so far, though? SIE president Jim Ryan has the stats, and in a new PS Blog post, he's outlined the top 10 most played PS5 games. To be honest, the list isn't all...
News PlayStation's Seize the Throne Community Event Handing Out Free Avatars Now
First stage cleared
A little while ago, Sony announced a brand new PlayStation event called Seize the Throne, which has been running since the start of November. Designed to encourage the community to play a variety of PS5 and PS4 games and use their Share functionality, the event tasks participants with reaching certain point thresholds, with...
News The Good Life Patch Bumps PS5 Performance to 60 Frames-Per-Second
Fixes flickering environments
There’s a lot to like about SWERY’s oddball English life-sim The Good Life, but it’s not without issues. As noted in our review, the game has some odd flickering environments on the PlayStation 5, which ruin the presentation when playing with backwards compatibility. That issue will be solved with the release’s...
News GTA Trilogy Adds Iconic 90s Cheat Big Head Mode
Make those character models even uglier
GTA Trilogy has attracted its fair share of criticism for its ugly character models, unsightly rain, and array of bugs and glitches – but it does have one redeeming feature: Big Head Mode. Disco
News Knuckles Is the Latest Crossover Character to Join Fall Guys on PS4
Fall Guys and Knuckles
It's been a little while since the last costume collab in Fall Guys, so we were due another one. Sonic the Hedgehog made the leap to Mediatonic's battle royale platformer some time ago, but now it's the turn of another SEGA character. Yes, Knuckles the Echidna is now a jelly bean outfit: The character is available in-game...
Thursday11th Nov 2021
News GTA Trilogy's Inevitable Backlash Is Already Brewing
Sprunk a leak
Update: More unusual and amusing images from the GTA Trilogy are beginning to emerge online, and while we're still uncertain of how representative they are of the final product, they're certainly a hoot: One fan also spotted this shop window in Vice City, which has an incredible three spelling errors on it:
News Skyrim Special Edition Free PS5 Upgrade Out Now
Four Creation Club DLCs also free
If you own The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition on PlayStation 4, you can now take advantage of the free PlayStation 5 upgrade. Head to the game's product page and you should see the option over on the right of the screen. The PS5 version of the open world adventure is around 16GB in size. It runs at 60...
News GTA Trilogy's PS5 Framerate Analysed, And It Ain't Pretty
See you 'round, like a quarter pound
Making games is really difficult, but when it comes to Rockstar’s remasters of the classic PlayStation 2 Grand Theft Auto titles, you could be forgiven for expecting slick performance on Sony’s supercharged PS5 console. This is, after all, a system that runs releases like Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart at a...
News Gran Turismo 7's Tracks Achieve Tangible Realism on PS5, PS4
Sony officially releases leaked videos
Update #2: The second leaked Gran Turismo 7 video, focusing on the racetracks from the game, has been officially published. In this clip, series creator Kazunori Yamauchi believes that Polyphony Digital has reached a level of realism that is "tangible", and he points to changing weather conditions and lighting...
News GTA Trilogy Pulled from PS Store After Early Unlock Debacle
Here we go again
The GTA Trilogy was supposed to unlock at 10AM ET worldwide, making it a simultaneous launch around the globe. As you can probably tell from our homepage, that didn’t go well: the game released in countries like New Zealand at midnight, meaning fans have been digging in for nearing 24 hours now. Rather than just unlock these...
Round Up Battlefield 2042 Reviews Share Early PC Impressions
PS5, PS4 console code not available yet
Battlefield 2042 is out tomorrow for PlayStation 5 and PS4 if you've picked up either the Gold or Ultimate Edition, but it looks like select outlets have gotten their hands on the online FPS early via PC code. Today they've been allowed to post reviews based on those few days of playtime. This opportunity...
News Marvel's Avengers Trailer Shows Off Spider-Man In All His Glory
PlayStation exclusive hero coming soon
Yesterday, we got our very first glimpse of Spider-Man in Marvel's Avengers with a pretty cool image. Now, though, we have a full-on trailer, revealing the character in full. The video sets up the webhead's appearance in the game, which introduces the superhero with the event Spider-Man: With Great Power...
News Japanese Publisher Implies PlayStation Audience Is Transitioning to PC
Gone for good
For decades now, PlayStation has been the home to Japanese games – particularly the countless smaller projects that come out of the country. However, in recent years, software sales have been dwindling domestically – and with the PlayStation 5 continuing to be supply constrained, one unnamed executive has insinuated that Sony’s...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's New Festival Is Live, Offering Unique Rewards and Activities
Spirit farer
It's been a big week for Assassin's Creed Valhalla, coming off the back of its latest update which added Tombs of the Forgotten, new skills, and more. But if you've already smashed through all of that stuff, there's now something new to hold your attention. Live on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, the Oskoreia Festival (yes, we had to...
Poll 10 Years Later, What Are Your Thoughts on Skyrim?
Dragonborn for this
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is officially ten years old. How time flies, eh? The open world role-playing game first released for the PlayStation 3 on the 11th November, 2011 — and boy was it a mess. Skyrim ran extremely poorly on Sony's old console — even after it had received a boatload of updates — but its poor technical...
News PS5 Stock Is Not Going to Get Any Easier to Find
Sold out
Sony is selling a lot of PlayStation 5 consoles, but it’s struggling to meet demand. Those of you who are trying to get your hands on the console will know that PS5 stock is sporadic and in short supply, and it sounds like the situation will not be resolved any time soon. In fact,
News That Weird Radiohead Game Hits PS5 on 18th November
At least it's free
Kid A Mnesia: Exhibition. If the name doesn't ring a bell, it was that weird trailer from the PlayStation Showcase back in September. It's based on Radiohead and it's confirmed to be launching for PlayStation 5 on 18th November 2021. A new trailer has been released to accompany the release date announcement, and it is just as...
Video Why Skyrim Is Still the Ultimate Open World Fantasy RPG, 10 Years Later
House of the Dragon
Some games come and go, but rarely does one come along and have such a cultural impact that players are still talking about it a decade on. Originally released for the PlayStation 3 on 11th November, 2011, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is absolutely one of those games. A fact that’s being celebrated by Bethesda today with the...
Mini Review Epic Chef (PS4) - Silly Culinary Life Sim Mostly Hits the Spot
Kitchen quest
Epic Chef mixes together varied ingredients to create something rather tasty. It's a story-based adventure game about a man named Zest moving to a new town and rising through the culinary ranks, but the gameplay isn't just about cooking. While you'll concoct numerous recipes using weird and wonderful ingredients, the game is as much a...
News SteamWorld Headhunter Moves the Series to 3D in Third Person Co-Op Adventure
Follows the events of SteamWorld Dig 2
The SteamWorld games have always taken place on a 2D plane, but for the next entry in the series, the developer is literally adding a new dimension. SteamWorld Headhunter has just been announced by publisher Thunderful, and you can watch the teaser trailer above. There's very little information about the game...
News Far Cry 6 Vaas Insanity DLC Out Next Week
Featuring rogue-like elements
The first bit of paid Far Cry 6 DLC will launch on Tuesday for PlayStation 5 and PS4, featuring Far Cry 3 villain Vaas. The classic character will be playable in the expansion, which is said to feature rogue-like elements. "Starting with nothing more than a pistol to defend themselves, players will need to find new...
News Rainbow Six Extraction Will Be a $40 Game, Out 20th January
Friends play for free with Buddy Pass
Ubisoft has today slapped a 20th January 2022 release date on co-op shooter Rainbow Six Extraction and confirmed a starting price of $40 for the base game. If you buy the game, you will be able to invite two friends to play alongside you using the Buddy Pass system for up to 14 days. They don't need to own the...
Wednesday10th Nov 2021
Guide Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Best Skills
How to spend your skill points
What are the best skills to unlock in Assassin's Creed Valhalla? The open world adventure has a massive skill tree to explore, and weaving your way across its many, many branches can be daunting. With that in mind, we've broken down every core skill that you'll find in Assassin's Creed Valhalla. In this Assassin's...
Poll Rate Your Favourite PS3 Games
Help determine Push Square's best PS3 games list
Alright everyone, we need your help. In a move that we haven't at all stolen from our dearest friends over at Nintendo Life, we've decided to rank the best PlayStation 3 games. With Sony's last-last-gen console having its 15th anniversary on the 17th November (in North America, at least!), this seems...
News Did You Know the PS Store Wishlist Notifies You of PS5, PS4 Game Sales?
Tell me when NieR Replicant goes cheap
The PlayStation Store on PS5 still needs some work to make it one of the best online marketplaces around, but did you know the wishlisting feature notifies you of discounts for the games you mark as desirable? Sony sent out a tweet today documenting the feature, and we here at Push Square Towers couldn't quite...
News GTA Trilogy's PS5, PS4 Soundtracks Missing Songs from PS2 Originals
Michael Jackson and many more cut
With copies of the GTA Trilogy leaking all over YouTube and Twitch, series creator Rockstar has finally come out and revealed a few more details about its compilation. One of the big questions fans had pertained to the soundtracks, and we can now confirm that they’re identical to any post-2014 re-releases, meaning...
News PlayStation Direct Online Store Now Live in the UK, Germany
Other European countries to follow
Update (10/11/21): Following the launch of PlayStation Direct in Germany on Monday, Sony's online retail store is now live in the UK: You can access the UK version of the site through the link. PS Direct will be rolling out to other European countries in the near future, and we expect the below list of...
News GTA Trilogy PS5, PS4 Gameplay Shared Online
Footage from all three games
Update: Hours and hours of GTA Trilogy footage is now beginning to appear online. This stream embedded above is based on the PlayStation 5 version of GTA San Andreas, and we can see it running in 60 frames-per-second with all of its bells-and-whistles. The game definitely does look sharp, although it is ultimately still...
News EA Reportedly Greenlights New Fight Night, But Progress Paused by UFC
The lord giveth, the lord taketh away
Fight Night will re-enter the ring, according to a report by VGC – but EA Sports is prioritising a new UFC title first. It’s been over 10 years – and an entire console generation – since Fight Night Champion released on the PlayStation 3, leaving many to assume that EA had permanently shelved its boxing...
News Here's What Spider-Man Looks Like in Marvel's Avengers
Web-slinger revealed
And here he is. This is what Spider-Man will look like in Marvel's Avengers when the hugely popular character arrives on 30th November 2021 as a PlayStation exclusive. Supported by Thor, Iron Man, and Kamala Khan, the wall-crawler will be part of a Hero event that brings with it a ton of other content, including a new raid. You...
News New PS Store Sale Throws PS4 Games in the Bargain Bin
Castlevania! Yakuza! Catherine!
For the second week running, the PlayStation Store has been treated to a sale that falls on the short side. There are still some noteworthy deals here on PS4 titles, but this isn't the sort of bumper list you're used to. Nevertheless, these price drops are available until midnight on 1st December 2021, and they're all...
News No, Tommy Vercetti Still Can't Swim in GTA Vice City on PS5, PS4
Shark card
Forget those clickbait YouTube thumbnails that appeared to imply the contrary: Tommy Vercetti still can’t swim in GTA Vice City in the GTA Trilogy. Footage of Rockstar’s remaster is beginning to be shared online, and naturally one of the first things fans have been trying is jumping in the ocean. As you can see from the timestamp...
News Skyrim Anniversary Edition's Launch Trailer Showcases Ten Whole Years of... Skyrim
The one they fear
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim turns ten years old on the 11th November. And if you haven't already heard, Bethesda is releasing the game again. Skyrim: Anniversary Edition arrives on PlayStation 5, packaging the massive open world adventure and its expansions alongside a whole load of Creation Club content. New quests, player homes,...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Celebrates One Year Anniversary with Some Startling Player Stats
Big numbers
Assassin's Creed Valhalla first released a year ago today, on the 10th November 2020. The game was more than a bit buggy at launch — on PlayStation 4 especially — but the title's come a long way over the last 12 months. Indeed, in typical Ubisoft fashion, Valhalla has received loads of large updates — many of them adding new...
News Battlefield 2042 PS5, PS4 Pre-Load Available Now
For Gold and Ultimate Edition buyers
If you've pre-ordered either the Gold Edition or Ultimate Edition of Battlefield 2042 on the PlayStation Store, you should now be able to pre-load the game ahead of its early access release this Friday. The option went live at midnight in your local time zone, with a 43.293GB download and install triggered. If...
News The Game Awards to Feature New Game Announcements in the Double Digits
40 to 50 games present "someway or another"
The hype master himself, Geoff Keighley, has been working hard each year to turn The Game Awards into a huge end-of-year event, and it's reached a point where fans look forward to it as much as anything else. Airing each December, the awards ceremony also acts as a venue in which publishers make all kinds...
PS Store Sales Charts Far Cry 6 and FIFA 22 the Most Downloaded PS5 Titles
Back 4 Blood not far behind
Sony has released the PlayStation Store charts for October, and the top games last month are about what you'd expect. On the North American chart for PS5, it's Ubisoft's Far Cry 6 that comes out on top, with FIFA 22 following close behind. In Europe, the two games are reversed, with the football sim unsurprisingly taking...
News Guerrilla Games Hiring People with Live Service Experience for Unannounced Project
What a GaaS
Guerrilla Games will be full steam ahead working on Horizon Forbidden West right now, but studios of this size usually have future plans bubbling away in the background. We've no doubt that work may have already begun on the developer's next title, and judging by a new job listing, it's possible it could go the route of live service. A...
News RPG ELEX II Dated for 1st March 2022 on PS5, PS4
Collector's Edition detailed
Piranha Bytes has announced the sequel to its ambitious but janky 2017 RPG ELEX will launch on PlayStation 5 and PS4 on 1st March 2022. To mark the occasion, the studio has shared a look at the Collector's Edition, which will set you back a cool £139.99/$149.99. At least this one actually includes a copy of the game,...
Tuesday9th Nov 2021
News Elden Ring Closed Beta Codes Are Available Now
Feeling lucky?
Bandai Namco has started sending out codes for the Elden Ring closed beta test on both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. If you signed up for the beta near the end of last month, then you might want to check your emails. If you've been selected, a code should be waiting for you, along with information on when you can actually play...
News Fans Lament GTA Trilogy PS5, PS4 Secrecy
Soundtracks? Quality of life? Gameplay?
GTA Trilogy releases this week, and is available to pre-order and pre-load from the PS Store right now. For as undeniably exciting as that is, though, fans have started to feel a little restless: outside of a
Soapbox Please Don't Let GTA 4 Rot on PS3, Rockstar
Liam wants to go bowling again
By the end of this week, every mainline Grand Theft Auto game still worth a playthrough will be available on PlayStation 5 and PS4 — except for one. The badly named Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition remasters III, Vice City, and
News Glorious Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9 Bestiary Galleries Remind Us of Amazing Monster Designs
The best bestiaries
When we reminisce about old Final Fantasy games, we don't tend to think about the monsters — the strange and often wonderful beasts that inhabit the overworld map and numerous dungeons. But thanks to VGCatrography (DeviantArt and Twitter), we've been reminded of just how amazing these monster designs still are. VGCartography...
News Cancelled Batman Game Concept Art Shows Old, Bearded Batman Alongside Younger Hero
Batman Beyond?
Concept art from a cancelled Batman game has surfaced online, sparking all kinds of speculation about what could have been. Freelance concept artist Goran Bukvic released the drawings on ArtStation just recently, and now they're doing the rounds online. So why has it got people talking? Well, for starters, the artwork depicts an...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Patch 1.040 Out Now, Adds Tombs, Spooky Festival, New Skills, More
Bit late for Halloween
Update: Assassin's Creed Valhalla update 1.040 (as listed on PS5), is available to download now. It weighs in at around 4.6GB on Sony's current-gen console, but don't let the relatively small size fool you — this patch adds quite a bit of content to the already massive open world game. You can read all about the additions...
News Rockstar Readies for GTA Trilogy with Grand Theft Auto GIFs
Available to use on Instagram, TikTok, more
It’s probably not what fans were hoping for when they started to get antsy over the lack of GTA Trilogy footage prior to this week’s release, but Rockstar has rolled out a bunch of GIFs from the remasters, including GTA San Andreas’ iconic: “Aw sh*t, here we go again.” It does look like a...
News Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep Loots Standalone PS4 Release
A Wonderlands day
As an attempt to drum up interest in the upcoming Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Gearbox has broken out 2013 expansion Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep and released it standalone on the PS Store. Fully titled – and you may need to take a deep breath before you read this one – Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands...
News Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection Rated for Release on PS5, PC in Australia
Fortune favours the bold
It looks like we won’t have to wait too much longer for buccaneering double-pack Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, as the Australian ratings board has classified the compilation for release. The set – which will include Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy – was announced for both the...
Video Which Call of Duty Game Is the Best?
The Franchise Wars strike back
Call of Duty: Vanguard launched this past Friday to once again transport players to the dramatic theatres of war set across WWII. Such an event gave video editors Liam and Aaron a good excuse to duke it out in another edition of Franchise Wars, in which both video editors battle it out to debate their favourite Call of...
News UK Sales Charts: Call of Duty: Vanguard Storms the Top 10, Selling Best on PS5
Plus: Miles Morales swings back in
Activision's ever-popular first person shooter series might be wearisome with its annual releases, but never underestimate its popularity. Call of Duty: Vanguard debuts in the UK's boxed game chart at the very top, knocking FIFA 22 off its perch after multiple weeks as number one. The WWII shooter looks to be...
News Dead by Daylight's Newest Killer Is Sure to Find You Flapping
Murderous masterpiece
Teased earlier in the month, Behaviour Interactive has now unveiled Dead by Daylight’s newest killer: The Artist. A Chilean painter followed by a mysterious murder of crows, the surrealist ends up being maimed due to her work exposing local corruption. However, when she’s abducted by The Entity, she’s twisted into a...
News Classic GTA 3 Collectibles Showcased to Celebrate Anniversary
Brass knuckles! Baseball bats! Pepper sprays?
GTA 3 is now, incredibly, over 20-years-old – and classic fan channel GTA Series Videos has marked the occasion with footage of its impressive collection of memorabilia. Collector’s Editions were less common in the early PlayStation 2 era, so a lot of the goodies on display here were distributed to...
News Back 4 Blood Offline Single Player Progression Coming Next Month
More content detailed in roadmap
Probably the worst thing about Back 4 Blood at launch is the lack of progression when you're playing alone offline. The game isn't designed to be played that way, promoting online matchmaking whenever it can, but the option to still make some progress when you're on your lonesome would have been nice. Thankfully, the...
News The Tomorrow Children Will Return as Developer Q-Games Acquires IP Rights
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Q-Games, the studio behind The Tomorrow Children, has announced it now owns the rights to the obscure online co-op game. The PlayStation 4 title recently reached its five-year anniversary, although the game itself was shut down only a year after its launch. Sony has held the rights to the IP ever since, but in an unusual deal,...
News SEGA Trademarks 'Sonic Frontiers', Probably the Final Name of Upcoming Game
Rangers replaced?
SEGA has recently filed a bunch of new trademarks in Japan, one of which is Sonic Frontiers. As you may recall from earlier in the year, the publisher celebrated the hedgehog's 30th anniversary with a live stream event, showing off all kinds of Sonic-related projects. One of those was a teaser for the next mainline entry in the...
Monday8th Nov 2021
News Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 HD Removed from PS Store Today Temporarily
PS Now version pulled too
Multiple HD versions of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater are being temporarily removed from the PlayStation Store starting today as Konami works to renew "the licenses for select historical archive footage used in-game". This means the games in question will no longer be available for...
Review Call of Duty: Vanguard (PS5) - More Safe But Solid FPS Action
There's no Stalin this train
If Activision could pick and choose when the Call of Duty series is hot or not, this would be the year where it goes all guns blazing. The publisher faces more competition than usual as Battlefield 2042 and Halo Infinite go toe to toe with its premier FPS, tussling for both mindshare and your time. Consumers are spoilt...
News Elden Ring Frame-Rates and Resolutions Detailed for PS5, PS4 Pro, PS4
Raytracing will be added via patch
Bandai Namco has seemingly confirmed frame-rates and resolutions for Elden Ring through the publisher's own support page. Said page details technical specifications on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 Pro, and PlayStation 4, while also pointing out that raytracing will apparently be added via a patch on PS5. Here's...
Poll Did You Buy Call of Duty: Vanguard?
On the front lines
Another year, another Call of Duty — but the juggernaut franchise is in a slightly strange spot these days. Alongside its annual releases, Call of Duty now exists as a permanent and ever-growing gaming fixture thanks to Warzone and its immensely popular battle royale gameplay. We're left wondering where games like the newly...
News Hacking Group Claims Big PS5 Hack Breakthrough Has Been Made
So says Fail0verflow
A hacking group going by the name of Fail0verflow has today claimed it has made a huge step forward in breaking open PlayStation 5 security. A Twitter post covered by Eurogamer states the collective has gained access to internal PS5 root keys, which are used to decrypt the console's firmware. It reads: "We got all (symmetric)...
News PS5 Action RPG Lies of P Wants to Scratch Your Bloodborne Itch in New Gameplay Trailer
P for Pretty good
Inspired by the classic story of Pinocchio (no, really), Lies of P first caught our attention back in May, when it was announced for PlayStation 5. It's a Souls-like action RPG, and this new gameplay trailer has much more than a whiff of Bloodborne about it. The gothic style, the visceral combat... Familiar stuff. Lies of P...
News New Mass Effect Legendary Edition Stats Show 15% of Players Didn't Even Recruit Garrus
Calibrations needed
It was N7 Day over the weekend — Mass Effect's annual celebration — and BioWare provided some entertainment through a new set of player statistics based on choices from Mass Effect Legendary Edition. The stats make for an interesting read, highlighting things like character loyalty in Mass Effect 2, the endings of Mass Effect...
News Guerrilla Games Details New Horizon Forbidden West Machines
Meet the Sunwing
The machines that roam the open world of Horizon Zero Dawn were definitely one of the most important and impressive factors in the original title, so it's no wonder Guerrilla Games is aiming to go even bigger and better with next year's sequel. The Dutch developer has penned a new PlayStation Blog post focusing on what the team...
News Mass Effect Will Continue Declares New N7 Day Artwork
A tantalising tease
It’s been a particularly muted N7 Day so, frankly, you may be forgiven for forgetting about the event at all this year. Nevertheless, the team at BioWare has cooked up some new artwork to remind you that a brand-new entry in its space-faring series is in development: “Mass Effect will return,” the image defiantly declares...
News Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann Concludes Work on The Last of Us TV Show
Director praises best TV crew in the world
Neil Druckmann’s television directorial debut has concluded. The Naughty Dog vice president, and The Last of Us scribe, has been in Canada working on the franchise’s high-profile HBO television adaptation – but his work is now over, and he’s heading back to his d
Mini Review Panorama Cotton (PS4) - Technically Impressive 16-bit Rail Shooter in Unloving Port
Welcome to the infamy zone
It's pleasing that United Games Entertainment is working alongside ININ Games, and Ratalaika Games on port programming to bring Japanese only retro games to modern consoles, like the Mega Drive's Space Harrier-esque rail shooter, Panorama Cotton. It's magical to witness on ageing 16-bit hardware — which unimpressively...
Sunday7th Nov 2021
News 8 New GTA Trilogy PS5, PS4 Screenshots Show Off Improvements
New look
There’s less than a week until the GTA Trilogy releases on the PlayStation 5 and PS4, and label Rockstar is behaving customarily coy. Despite preloads from the PS Store already being live, the publisher has settled for a single 60 second trailer of these titles – and we still don’t know how much of the soundtracks will be intact, or...
News Sackboy: A Big Adventure Marks Anniversary with Birthday Cake Skin
😋
It’s been almost a year since the PlayStation 5 launched, and Sackboy: A Big Adventure alongside it. Sony will mark the occasion with a brand new birthday cake skin, available from 12th November – presumably for free, although we’re still awaiting confirmation of that. The costume clothes the mascot in a scrumptious sponge hat,...
Saturday6th Nov 2021
News GTA Trilogy PS5, PS4 Preload Rolling Out Now
Big smoke
There’s a week to go until the GTA Trilogy releases on the PlayStation 5 and PS4, and preloads are now beginning to go live around the world. Rockstar confirmed in a blog post that the PS Store would begin triggering downloads at approximately 12AM local time on 6th November, so depending on where you live the games may already be...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 401
Vanguard
If you’re in the UK, you can probably taste the scent of bonfires and fireworks from last night. Hopefully you had a happy, and importantly, safe 5th November. Of course, if you still haven’t had your fill of fireworks, there’s always the weekend. Here’s what we’re playing, when not drawing PlayStation shapes with sparklers...
Friday5th Nov 2021
Review Jurassic World Evolution 2 (PS5) - Dinosaur Park Builder Sequel Delivers
Open the door. Get on the floor. Everybody walk the dinosaur
Avid Push Square readers will undoubtedly recall that we rather liked 2018's Jurassic World Evolution. Making an amusement park full of dinosaurs that occasionally escape their confinement and eviscerate the slack-jawed tourists is what we're all about. Now the sequel is here — the...
Talking Point Why Aren't You Playing Knockout City with PS Plus?
It's a Knockout
Push Square has been singing the praises of multiplayer dodgebrawler Knockout City ever since its beta released this spring, but the title’s inclusion with PS Plus gives us another opportunity to wax lyrical about what is undoubtedly one of the best games of the year. If you’ve yet to download it and give it a try, then our...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Tomb of the Fallen Free on PS5, PS4 from 9th November
Tales from the crypt
Update: Ubisoft has teased the next batch of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla content, scheduled to debut from 9th November. A roadmap published to the series’ social media account confirms the free game activity, Tombs of the Fallen, will debut alongside a patch on 9th November. The time-limited event, Oskeiria Festival, will...
Guide Upcoming PS5, PS4 Games for November and December 2021
Battlefield! Call of Duty! Skyrim again!
The madness of October is over, and we're all full of Halloween treats, but the march of new releases is never done. We're now in the final two months of 2021, and while the sheer volume of new games is slowing down, we're still due a few of the year's biggest. November is particularly packed, mostly with...
News Skyrim Anniversary Edition Upgrade Prices Revealed
Save your coin
It’s been ten years since The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim launched, and it’s been re-released several times in the decade or so since. Next week, yet another version of the seminal Bethesda role-playing game will deploy, this time with the moniker The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition. This will be available as an upgrade...
News The Persistence Enhanced Is Now a Free PS5 Upgrade with PS Plus
Now possible to upgrade
When Sony first set this month's lineup of free PlayStation Plus titles live on the PS Store, it wasn't possible to upgrade The Persistence to The Persistence Enhanced on either PS5 or PS4, as we originally thought it would be. However, it looks like the company has done a bit of work overnight to enable this as The P
News Train Sim World 2, a Game with Over 350 Trophies, Will Not Get Any More
Also has exceeded DLC memory restrictions on PS5
Train Sim World 2, a gigantic platform for railway aficionados, will not get anymore Trophies – despite having the largest selection of trinkets in PlayStation history. Dovetail Games has, historically, included a new set of gongs with each DLC pack it publishes, but it revealed on its official...
News Portrait of a Murder Flocks to Dead by Daylight on PS5, PS4
Inked
Dead by Daylight has started to tease its next major update, Chapter 22, which looks poised to be an original killer. A new trailer, named Portrait of a Murder, shows illustrations of crows, while an in-universe website speaks of the collected works of Chilean artist C. Mora, who is “believed to have sparked the Large Scale Surrealism...
Round Up Call of Duty: Vanguard Reviews Praise Fun WWII FPS
Run for the trenches
Call of Duty: Vanguard is out for PlayStation 5 and PS4 today, taking the popular FPS franchise back to World War II. It feels like this latest entry hasn't been quite as anticipated as much as usual, but what's important is the quality of the final product. Some outlets were treated to early review copies and have been allowed...
News Elden Ring Will Have Performance and Quality Modes on PS5, According to GameStop
Prioritise resolution or framerate in From's next title
In case you somehow missed it, yesterday saw the arrival of an extended look at Elden Ring, FromSoftware's hotly anticipated action RPG. If you've been waiting for some proper gameplay footage, we now have nearly 20 minutes' worth, showing off exploration in the open world and combat against...
News Star Ocean: The Divine Force Details Environments in New Trailer
New locales spotted
Star Ocean: The Divine Force didn't leave the greatest first impression in Sony's latest State of Play showcase, but we're still more than willing to give the JRPG a shot. Following on from the initial announcement trailer, Square Enix has today published additional footage focusing on some of the environments and locations...
News eFootball 1.0 Release Delayed All the Way Back to Spring 2022
Refunds issued for Premium Player Packs
The bad news for Konami's latest football sim eFootball just keeps on coming as the Japanese publisher announces it has delayed the title's 1.0 release — originally scheduled for 11th November 2021 — all the way back to spring 2022. As a result, refunds are being issued for anyone who purchased the...
Thursday4th Nov 2021
News Elden Ring Collector's Edition Outed Ahead of Gameplay Reveal
Updated with Premium Collector's Edition
Update: The Elden Ring Collector's Edition you see above has now been confirmed to be real, but there's actually an even bigger and better version of it available. The Premium Collector's Edition contains everything in the standard Collector's Edition and bundles it with an official helmet replica of what...
News Elden Ring Looks Awesome in 20 Minutes of Gameplay Action
Combat! Exploration! Bosses!
Just as promised, FromSoftware has lifted the lid on Elden Ring with 15 minutes of raw gameplay focusing on combat, exploration, and some of the characters you'll meet in The Lands Between. Footage first focuses on the general open world before heading into Dungeons and a large fortress known as Stormvale Castle. We even...
News Spider-Man Finally Swings to Marvel's Avengers on 30th November
Alongside big content update
Well over a year since the game launched, Crystal Dynamics has confirmed PlayStation exclusive character Spider-Man will finally be added to Marvel's Avengers on 30th November 2021. The web-slinger will arrive as part of a Hero Event alongside lots of other content, including a new raid, skins, and challenges. You'll...
News Square Enix Insinuates Crystal Dynamics Was the Wrong Dev for Marvel's Avengers
Says the title produced a disappointing outcome
Ouch! Square Enix boss Yosuke Matsuda has insinuated that Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics may have been the wrong studio for Marvel’s Avengers. Speaking as part of an alarmingly candid annual performance report, via VGC, the executive assured shareholders that the publisher had learned from...
News The Elden Ring Network Test Won't Take Over Your PS5 SSD
It's a small download
If today's Elden Ring gameplay reveal has filled you with excitement and eagerness to play the full game, then we hope you signed up for the game's upcoming Network Test. Unfortunately, signs ups are no longer being taken so you're out of luck if this is the first you've heard of the closed beta, but emails are slowly being...
News Ghost of Tsushima Patch 2.12 Will Rebalance Legends Multiplayer Mode
Balanced like the blade
Sucker Punch has announced a new patch for Ghost of Tsushima, taking the game to version 2.12, or 2.012.00 on PlayStation 5. This incoming update is focused on Legends, the excellent co-op multiplayer expansion added to the game not long after launch. There's a laundry list of patch notes to go through, but almost everything...
News Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City Trailer Is All Prosthetics and Strawberry Jam
Biohazard
Sony’s big-screen adaptations of Resident Evil have, historically, earned the organisation a pretty penny, so it’s perhaps no surprise to see it pushing upcoming movie Welcome to Raccoon City with all its might. This new trailer consists of some new and previously seen clips, with plenty of prosthetics and strawberry jam. Seeing so...
News Sony Acquires Minority Stake in Publisher Devolver Digital
London Stock Exchange values indie label at nearly $1 billion
Update: Sony's investment in Devolver Digital has been made official. PlayStation tweeted recently to say it's "honored to be an investor" in the publisher: This follows reports earlier today that the deal was on the cards following Devolver's move to a publicly traded company on the...
News Battlefield 2042 Trophies Will Turn You into a Future Soldier
No dedicated Portal trinkets
Hot on the heels of Call of Duty: Vanguard revealing its Trophy list, Battlefield 2042 has done the very same thing. The list is focused entirely on multiplayer since EA DICE hasn't included a single player campaign this time, meaning you'll need an online connection to start earning them. Basic gongs include reaching...
News Take-Two Scraps Hangar 13 Game, Writes Off $53 Million
Like taking candy from a baby
A new project by Mafia developer Hangar 13 has been shelved by Take-Two, with the organisation writing off $53 million as a result. The release, codenamed Volt, has been in production since 2017, according to Bloomberg, and has apparently gone through “multiple iterations since it was first conceived”. According to...
News EA Believes Blockchain Based Games May Be Industry's Future
Uh-oh
EA boss Andrew Wilson – the Australian executive who pioneered Ultimate Team, for the record – believes that blockchain-based “play-to-earn” games could be the future of the industry. However, he caveated that “it’s still early to figure out how that’s going to work”, so don’t expect this dystopian future to arrive any time...
News RPGolf Legends Putts a Little Zelda on PS5, PS4
Five iron
What if, instead of the Master Sword, iconic elf Link was armed with a golf club instead? Well, you might end up with RPGolf Legends, an upcoming PlayStation 5 and PS4 title that’s clearly taken inspiration from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. This trailer shows how the protagonist stumbles upon the spirit of a golf club, which...
News Play Ghost Recon: Breakpoint for Free This Weekend
Progress will carry over
Oft-forgotten third-person shooter Ghost Recon: Breakpoint is hosting a free weekend of play starting today until the morning of 8th November 2021. You'll be able to access the whole game for its duration, including the new Operation Motherland update, and your progress will carry over should you choose to buy the full
News Sony's PS Vita Trademark Partially Revoked in Europe Because It Isn't Being Used
Awkward
Vita might mean life, but it seems Sony's interest in the handheld is practically dead. The platform holder almost shut down the device's PS Store, but backlash from fans forced it to walk back the decision. Now, the company is losing some of its rights to the term 'Vita' due to "non-use", which would be funny if it wasn't so tragic. Yes,...
News Scapes Will Return in Gran Turismo 7 on PS5, PS4
Racing sim turns photography sim
Scapes were such an awesome addition to GT Sport. For those of you who didn’t play the PlayStation 4 simulation racer, they effectively allowed you to place the cars from the game into “real world” environments, in order to photograph them. These come with authentic lighting data, effectively allowing you to...
News Busted Soccer Sim eFootball Getting Bug Fixes This Week
VAR check
Konami’s disaster class soccer sim eFootball will get a patch this week, on 5th November, which should hopefully clean up some of the release’s bigger issues. Announced on the title’s rather sad looking social media account, v0.9.1 – we’re still not at v1.0.0, folks – “serves to fix bugs only, with detailed patch notes made...
News EA Sports PGA Tour Delayed Indefinitely
Par for the course right now
You may recall that, a little while ago, EA Sports announced its return to golf games. More than that, the publisher would be bringing it back with the official PGA Tour licence. For fans of quiet clapping and divots, this was rather exciting news, but it seems like there will be a bit of a wait. Initially planned to...
Wednesday3rd Nov 2021
News GTA Trilogy File Sizes Revealed for PS5
Won't steal too much space
The upcoming GTA Trilogy, due out next week, will not eat up too much storage space on your PlayStation 5. The ever-reliable PlayStation Game Size has crawled Sony’s servers, and dug up the all-important information ahead of the compilation’s release next week. Here’s all of the file sizes, pre-patch, according to...
News Psychonauts 2 Treated to a PS5 Patch
Better resolution and stability
The excellent Psychonauts 2 has been treated to an update that improves the title's resolution and stability when played on a PlayStation 5 via backwards compatibility. The patch note reads: "Improve PS4 version's resolution and stability on PS5." It does not look like the PlayStation community has discovered exactly...
News PS Store Remasters & Retro Sale Lists PS4 Games for Cheap
NEO! SMT! PS2 games!
A new PlayStation Store sale hits Sony's digital storefront today, themed around remasters and retro titles. It's one everybody can get involved with too since it consists entirely of PS4 games. All of these titles can, of course, be played through backwards compatibility on PS5 and you've got until midnight on 17th November...
News Insomniac Scaled Back Marvel's Spider-Man Boss to Cut Down on Crunch
And make it resonate harder
We often hear a lot about the crunch conditions at major developers like Naughty Dog and Rockstar, but we rarely learn about what they’re doing to reduce workload for their teams. Ted Price, the boss of Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac Games, shed a little light on that during a fireside chat at industry event...
News FromSoftware to Share 15 Minutes of Elden Ring Gameplay Tomorrow
Praise the sun
All eyes will be on Elden Ring tomorrow as FromSoftware confirms it will be sharing 15 minutes of gameplay ahead of a closed Network Test next weekend. The anticipated unveiling will get underway at 2pm GMT / 7am PT /10am ET on 4th November 2021, a tweet from the developer confirms. You'll be able to watch on YouTube and Twitch, and...
Mini Review Bloodshore (PS4) - Silly Interactive Action Movie Mayhem
Battle Royale with cheese
Battle royale is a term that sends shivers down the spine of many a gamer, evoking thoughts of garish, costumed shoot-'em-ups, egregious monetisation, and an entire generation of children for whom flossing has absolutely nothing to do with dental hygiene. Stop liking things we don't understand, kids. Play Yakuza. Anyway,...
News Marvel's Avengers Dumps Damaging XP Booster Microtransactions
Hulk smash
Crystal Dynamics has confirmed that, as of today, it’s removed the controversial XP and resource boosters from Marvel’s Avengers’ in-game store, as it takes the “first step in rebuilding [players’] confidence”. A few weeks ago, the title attracted immense ire from its community, after it introduced microtransactions which sped...
Mini Review Demon Turf (PS5) - Fresh 3D Platformer Blends Old and New with Style
Speed demon
In some ways, Demon Turf is quite old-school in design. This is a 3D platformer that wouldn't be out of place alongside your favourite PS1-era classics, with hub worlds containing numerous levels, collectibles to find, and bosses to beat. However, it evolves the formula with some interesting twists that modernise its gameplay, making it...
News Call of Duty: Vanguard's PS5, PS4 Trophies Unlikely to Demand Blitz Spirit
Platinum medals all around
Call of Duty: Vanguard looks like it’ll be a fairly straightforward Platinum on the PlayStation 5 and PS4, which is something of a rarity for the first-person franchise. Activision has really scaled down the requirements for this year’s game, prompting you to complete some mission specific objectives during the single...
Video PS Plus Games Not Working on PS Vita? Try This
Fix up
While PS Vita support may now have ended almost 10 years after the console originally released, we're convinced that there’s still life in the portable yet. That’s why it came as a bit of a shock recently to be greeted by two error codes when trying to play PS Plus games on the device. Both of which may prevent a certain sect of players...
News Dreams Joins Forces with Ghostbusters: Afterlife for Official Mini-Game Based on the Movie
Watch the cast play it, too
Dreams is whatever you want it to be, and Media Molecule is using that potential to forge some amazing collaborations with other brands. The latest of these is a team-up with Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the new reboot of the classic film franchise. Dreams community members SlurmMacKenzie and byvsen were contacted by the...
News Marvel's Midnight Suns Pushed Back to Second Half of 2022
Delayed out of March
Originally scheduled to launch in March 2022, Marvel's Midnight Suns has been delayed to the second half of next year on PlayStation 5 and PS4. Developer Firaxis Games confirmed the news on Twitter with a post explaining how the team needs "more time to make this the best game possible". The extra time will be used to add "more...
News Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 Delayed, Seemingly to 2023
Blizzard blockbusters pushed back
Activision Blizzard, the mega-publisher behind some of gaming's most popular franchises, has just delayed two key releases. In the company's latest quarterly financial report, it's stated that Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 have been pushed back. These two games are Blizzard's most hotly anticipated titles, and both...
News Rocket League Takes a Nice Shot with the BMW M240i
Coming this week
Rocket League, once a scrappy online multiplayer game designed as a successor to Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars, quickly evolved into a gaming phenomenon – and that’s why you now see brand crossovers, like this BMW one. Starting from 4th November, the BMW M240i will be available for a “limited time” within...
Tuesday2nd Nov 2021
News PS Plus Games for November 2021 Are Available to Download Now
Time for a reckoning
There's no better way of welcoming in the penultimate month of the year than with a bumper lineup of PlayStation Plus titles, with six free games on offer this time around. They can all be redeemed, downloaded, and played now across the UK and EU, with availability opening up across the US as the day goes on. Go to the PS Store...
News Sony Quietly Squashes PS5's Dead Battery Concerns
Recharged
You may recall a furore earlier in the year, when it emerged that Sony consoles, like the PlayStation 5 and PS4, could potentially be rendered unplayable in the future due to an oversight in their design. The summary is this: the systems use an internal battery to verify Trophy unlocks, which need to be authorised by pinging a PSN server...
News Call of Duty: Vanguard's PS5, PS4 Perks Are a Bit Embarrassing
This is what a marketing deal gets you
Remember when platform holders used to sign meaningful marketing arrangements? We lived through the entire PlayStation 3 generation, so we recall having to wait for Call of Duty map packs and Grand Theft Auto V expansions. In this era of cross-platform play, however, manufacturers are still desperately trying...
News Kratos, Nathan Drake, More Cameo in Champions League Promo
Captain Kratos
Update 2: Sony's now released an official video of its new Champions League idents, which includes a bunch of previously unseen clips featuring Nathan Drake among others. You can watch it above. Update 1: Whoops! Looks like we doubled up on this story – that’s what this author gets for taking a day off. Anyway, you can watch a...
News Large Far Cry 6 Patch Prepares Game for DLC, Fixes Bugs
Available to download now
Far Cry 6 has just deployed its first big patch since launch, and it prepares the game for a bit of free DLC, makes some gameplay updates and quality of life changes, and then fixes some bugs. It weighs in at 18.391GB on PlayStation 5, and the Ubisoft blog says the PS4 specific update will be "between 49 GB and 60 GB...
Welcome, foolish mortals
There’s a real craft that goes into the best of PSVR’s horror experiences, and Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife is masterfully executed. You play as a photographer — well, more accurately, the spirit of one — trying to solve your own murder as well as escape from an estate you seem to find yourself trapped in. But be...
News Sony Flying in PS5 Stock to Meet UK Christmas Demand
Three planes touch down with consoles
Sony is going to try its absolute best to meet the demand for PS5 Stock this Christmas season as the company begins flying systems into the UK onboard gigantic Boeing 747 aeroplanes. Three deliveries have already been made using the aircraft and The Sun understands two more are on their way between now and the...
News Skyrim Tabletop Game Is Yet Another Way to Play Bethesda's RPG
Arrow to the knee, lose a turn
Not content with publishing Skyrim on basically modern video game format, Bethesda wants to dominate your dining room table, too. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - The Adventure Game is a fully fledged tabletop RPG that brings the snowy region of Tamriel into the realm of board games. The game is being created by...
News Gran Turismo 7's Kaz Yamauchi Compares Car Liveries to Canvases
Picture perfect
Sony’s short but sweet behind-the-scenes video series for Gran Turismo 7 has continued in earnest, this time focusing on the simulation racer’s livery editor. Series creator Kazunori Yamauchi explains how some liveries are “inextricably” tied to historical motorsport moments, and thus have influenced Polyphony Digital’s...
Monday1st Nov 2021
News Bloodborne PSX Is a Cease and Desist Disaster Waiting to Happen
From hunter to hunted
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: promising fan project gets shutdown prematurely after behemoth publisher deems it to be infringing on its property. In the defence of Sony, it’s generally not as trigger-happy as the likes of Nintendo and Rockstar, but given the publicity pointed at Bloodborne PSX, we’re almost...
Review Riders Republic (PS5) - Try-Hard Extreme Sports Sandbox Is a Technical Feat
How do you do, fellow kids?
Ubisoft’s approach to open world game design has worn thinner than a snowboarder’s baggy pants, but the French publisher keeps returning to it because it works. Riders Republic does little to hide the fact that it’s effectively The Crew 2 in an extreme sports skin, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. This...
Poll Last Chance to Rate the Best GTA Games on PlayStation
The big score
GTA, or Grand Theft Auto, is arguably the biggest brand in gaming, rivalling juggernauts like Super Mario and Call of Duty. Originally created for the PlayStation and PC in 1997 by Scottish developer DMA Design – which would go on to rebrand itself as Rockstar North – the series has shipped more than 350 million units over the...
News UK Sales Charts: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Dances Into the Bestsellers
FIFA is still king, though
Not even the might of Marvel is powerful enough to quell the UK's love for the beautiful game. While FIFA 22 is still sitting pretty in number one, Square Enix's great superhero action caper, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, makes a strong start, debuting in second place. As has been the case with many high profile, third...
News Sony Uploads PS4 Trailer for Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Approaches 1 Million Views
Sure, why not?
One of the stranger moments last week was when Sony uploaded a PlayStation 4 specific trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the open world spin-off game which launched last year. You may recall that the game was originally announced for the PS5, before the “we believe in generations” debacle started and it was quietly...
Reminder Today's Your Last Chance to Get October 2021's PS Plus Games
Still time to let hell loose
If you've been slacking and haven't already redeemed this month's lineup of PlayStation Plus titles, you might want to get on that sooner rather than later. Today is the final day to claim October 2021's free PS5, PS4 games as part of PS Plus; those being Hell Let Loose on PS5, and Mortal Kombat X and
News You Can Save Scum Using Returnal's New Suspend Cycle Feature on PS5
The power of the cloud
Returnal is an excellent arcade shooter that recently got that little bit better with its latest patch. A widely recognised criticism was that players couldn't save and quit part way through a run, forcing you to either see the run to the end or give up your current progress if you needed to stop playing. Housemarque finally...
News Superb Co-Op Game It Takes Two Hits EA Play on Thursday
Only one subscription needed
It Takes Two is bringing its wonderful co-operative adventure to EA Play later this week, meaning anyone with an active subscription can download the game from the Vault and start playing either the PlayStation 5 or PS4 version. Access is granted from Thursday, and the best part is you will only need a single membership...
News Naughty Dog Marks 10 Years of Uncharted 3 with Special Blog Post
You did good, kid
Here's a milestone likely to make you feel old: today marks the 10th anniversary of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. It really has been a decade since Naughty Dog put out the third instalment on PlayStation 3, just over 18 months before The Last of Us hit. Since then, the game has been remastered as part of Uncharted: The Nathan...
News Mafia: Definitive Edition Joins PS Now Along with Final Fantasy IX, Celeste
Totally Reliable Delivery Service too
Just like the reliable rumour suggested, Mafia: Definitive Edition and Celeste will indeed be coming to PlayStation Now as part of tomorrow's November 2021 update. The two additions have been confirmed by Sony, and will be joined by Final Fantasy IX and Totally Reliable Delivery Service. All of them will be
News Greg Miller Demands Bugsnax DLC Trophies, Gets Them
"PlayStation gamers, I did this for you"
One of the (very few) noteworthy reveals from last week's State of Play presentation was that Bugsnax is being treated to a free expansion titled The Isle of Bigsnax at some point next year. It will add a new biome, big Bugsnax, hats, home customisation, and now Trophies thanks to the efforts of Kinda Funny's...
News Battlefield 2042 Has Some Pretty Diverse Maps in Latest Trailer
Cold as ice
Battlefield 2042 is fast approaching now, with just over two weeks to go until launch. From day one, the game will feature seven large scale multiplayer maps, with more to obviously follow later on. We already know about Orbital, the huge map with a rocket launch as its focal point, and now EA is showing off three more in this latest...
News Mr. Driller DrillLand Digs Up a PS5, PS4 Release Date
This is not a drill
This author remembers buying Mr. Driller, full-price, on the SEGA Dreamcast. It was barely worth ten notes, let alone forty, but there was no digital market and tiered pricing structure in those days – and it was still a ton of fun, to be fair. The eponymous miner will return on the PlayStation 5 and PS4 this week, as part of...
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