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Thursday10th Oct 2024
News Forget Sonic, SEGA's Classic Arcade Shinobi Series Headed for Hollywood
Joe Musashi, coming to a cinema near you
One of SEGA's more overlooked mascots (with Sonic and Alex the Kidd getting all the attention), Joe Musashi, it seems, will get his shot at the big time. The Shinobi series, which began way back in 1987, is officially getting a film adaptation to be directed by Sam Hargrave for Universal, according to...
- SEGA
- Movies
- Shinobi
News Tetris Forever Compiles Over 15 Versions in Digital Eclipse's Latest Documentary Game
Coming to PS5 and PS4 this year
Digital Eclipse has unveiled the list of playable games in its upcoming compilation title, Tetris Forever. Celebrating one of the most popular and prolific video games of all time, this is the latest in the developer's Gold Master Series of interactive documentaries. Working with the Tetris Company, Digital Eclipse's...
- Digital Eclipse
- PS5
- PS4
- Tetris Forever
- Trailers
Wednesday9th Oct 2024
Guide Amazon Prime Day 2024 - Best Deals on PS5 and PS4 Games, Controllers, SSDs, 4K TVs, and More
Update: That's all, folks!
Update: And so, another year of Amazon Prime Day events has come to an end – we're sure we'll be doing it all over again next year. In the meantime, make sure to check out our guides to the best deals available this Black Friday and over Christmas for more shopping inspiration: <related ids="123215,108186">...
- Guides
- PS5
- PS4
- Deals
- Amazon Prime Day
News 14 More Games Join PS Plus Extra, Premium Next Week
Dino Crisis finally lands on Premium
Sony has today revealed the next monthly slate of PS5, PS4, and Classic titles that PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium can look forward to playing. Available from next week on Tuesday, 15th October 2024, the complete lineup is as follows: PS Plus Extra: October 2024: Dead Island 2 (PS5, PS4) |
- PS5
- PS4
- PS Plus
News PS5's New Welcome Hub Reportedly Now Popping Up in Europe
Here it comes
A major addition to PS5's UI was made in the last big system software update, adding a Welcome tab to your console's home menu. Initially only available in the USA, it appears that the new feature is now coming online in Europe. Sony unlocked this neat new feature first for those in the USA, with other territories to follow in a...
- Sony
- PS5
News Over 2,800 PS5, PS4 Games Score Discounts of Up to 90% Off
Pre-winter warmers
Sony has dropped another juggernaut sale on the PS Store for autumn, spanning over 2,500 games across PS5 and PS4. This is an absolutely colossal set of offers, with some games up to 90% off, including Borderlands 3 which can be yours for just £5.99/$5.99. Many games are enjoying their lowest ever prices in this promotion, so...
- Sony
- PS5
- PS4
- PS Store
- Deals
Zero hour
Close to two decades after its release, beloved PS2 arena fighter Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 has been handed a sequel in all but name. Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is a throwback of epic proportions — the kind of all-out, franchise-encompassing brawler that's been sorely missed beyond the Naruto Ninja Storm series. Zero's biggest...
- Reviews
- Bandai Namco
- PS5
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
News Sony Now Selling Refurbished PS5 Consoles
Update: Available now
Update (Wed 9th Oct, 2024 11:45 BST): The refurbished PS5 consoles have now appeared on Sony's official PS Direct store, strictly limited to just one per customer. You can pick up a refurbished console for £389.99, making this the cheapest way to get your hands on a PS5 directly from Sony. As we mentioned below, you'll...
- Sony
- PS5
News Fans Are Concerned Until Dawn PS4 Could Be Delisted Following PS5 Remake's Release
Not available for purchase, but almost certainly a bug
Update: While we haven’t received word back from Sony yet, it’s looking increasingly like this is a bug. Until Dawn shows as “not available for purchase” on the web store in some countries, but if you search for it on a PS5 or PS4 console, you can buy it no problem. This all suggests to...
- Sony
- PS5
- PS4
- Until Dawn
PS Store Sales Charts Astro Bot, Space Marine 2, and Sports Games Slug It Out in September
Who's on top?
Lots of great PS5 games arrived last month, and it made for a very competitive top five in the PS Store's download charts. Sony's cutesy robot platformer Astro Bot secured second place in Europe's chart, while it came in fourth across the pond. Meanwhile, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 managed second in North America and third in...
- Sony
- PS5
- PS4
- PS Store
- Sales
News Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Seemingly Afflicted By World of Darkness Curse
Paradox officially sick of the RPG game
In strict accordance with the traditions of The Masquerade, the ancient mandate that decrees all vampire kindred must live in a way that does not reveal their existence to humans, we haven't heard much about Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 lately. The sequel to one of the most groundbreaking CRPGs ever...
- Paradox Interactive
- PS5
- PS4
- Vampire: The Masquerade
Preview Planet Coaster 2 Pulls Back the Curtain on PS5 Theme Park Magic
Tricky but rewarding
There’s a thrill to roller coasters. As you clunk, clunk, clunk up the track, you start to contemplate your life. You should have asked that cute person out, should have called your mum more, shouldn’t have gotten on this terrifying contraption. And then, as you crest over the apex of the climb and see the world below you,...
- Frontier Developments
- PS5
- Planet Coaster
- Previews
- Features
Review Throne and Liberty (PS5) - Beginner MMO Is Plagued with Technical Issues
Not grindy, but not great either
Throne and Liberty is a fantasy MMORPG that debuted in Korea last December. Since its global launch the free-to-play game has dominated Steam's concurrent players and top-sellers charts. While it's certainly popular, a long list of technical issues and uninspired mechanics cast doubts over its longevity. You take up...
- Reviews
- Amazon Games
- PS5
- Throne and Liberty
Random Hideo Kojima's Chronic Back Pain Symptom of Carrying Video Game Industry, Fans Say
Back Hurtman's gone and done his back again
Beloved video game designer and industry icon Hideo Kojima has hurt his back again. For those of you who are not closely monitoring the situation, Kojima first publicly reported back pain on 24th September. While we are not medical doctors, in our opinion, this could be a flareup of that original injury,...
- Kojima Productions
- Industry
- Community
News Lawsuit Alleges Ubisoft Illegally Shared Users' Data with Meta
Sharing is caring
Another day, another fire for the folks over at Ubisoft to put out. The French firm is now facing a class action lawsuit that alleges it illegally shared personally identifiable information harvested from users of the Ubisoft Store with Meta, formerly Facebook. As
- Ubisoft
- Industry
News Silent Hill 2 PS5 Update Removes Italian Language Intro Spoilers
Mamma mia!
Silent Hill 2 players may have noticed a small update to the game upon booting it up. It was so tiny, in fact, that it didn't even warrant a writeup or the standard patch notes. Its primary purpose, apparently, was to remove an unfortunate subtitling snafu that resulted in Italian-language players being hit with a major story spoiler...
- Konami
- PS5
- Silent Hill
News Get Back to JRPG Basics with Physical Final Fantasy 1-6 Collection Anniversary Edition on PS4
Finally together
Final Fantasy I-VI Collection Anniversary Edition, which bundles together all six Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters in one convenient, physical location, is now available. You can pick it up from participating retailers in Europe and North America, or get your JRPG fix directly from Square Enix. <products id="28324"> For the...
- Square Enix
- PS4
- Final Fantasy
Don't speak
This is a pretty neat but predictable feature considering the subject material: upcoming PS5 horror A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead will feature an optional microphone toggle, which will detect any ambient sounds you make in real-life and consequently reveal your position in the game. That means any sneezes, coughs, sighs, or sudden...
- Saber Interactive
- PS5
- A Quiet Place
Tuesday8th Oct 2024
News Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero's Great Ape Vegeta Fight Is Driving Players Insane
Monkey tragic
A specific fight in the new Dragon Ball game is driving players up the wall — and having struggled through it ourselves, we can absolutely see why. Early on in Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero's story-based Episode Mode, you go up against Vegeta's Great Ape form — a giant enemy that offers up a much different challenge to your...
- Bandai Namco
- PS5
- Dragon Ball
Mini Review Kill Knight (PS5) - An Unrelenting Arcade Nightmare
Stress test
If you took the modern DOOM games and boiled them down to a pure, score attack, twin-stick action game, Kill Knight feels like the result. Playing as a bloodthirsty, undead warrior, the game is simply about killing hordes of demonic creatures as they swarm you in alarming numbers, while each stage shifts and changes around you. The odds...
- Reviews
- PlaySide
- PS5
- Kill Knight
- Mini Reviews
News Boy! God of War Ragnarok Will Be PS5 Pro Enhanced
Axe and you shall receive
The list of all PS5 Pro enhanced games is steadily growing larger as we crawl towards the console's November launch. The latest addition is Sony's own God of War Ragnarok — a pretty obvious candidate, to be fair. The action RPG has gained the telltale label on PS Store, confirming Santa Monica Studio will be making use...
- Sony
- PS5
- PS5 Pro
- God of War Ragnarok
Poll Are You Playing Silent Hill 2?
Welcome back
Remaking a beloved game from a series that's long since lost its way can't be easy, but the day of Silent Hill 2's revival is upon us. Many were sceptical of this project given Konami's treatment of its once classic franchise, but the remake has actually gone down incredibly well. "Bloober Team has faithfully and respectfully recreated...
- Konami
- PS5
- Silent Hill
- Polls
- Features
News SEGA Has Been Quietly Killing It This Year, Regularly Publishing Bangers
Credit where it's due
Plucky Japanese publisher SEGA has had quite a tumultuous journey over the 64 years since the company was founded. From early coin-operated machines to its own tilt at the console market, these days, the firm is a publisher of games, and it's been putting out some real bangers of late. As noted in a thread on ResetEra, if you...
- SEGA
- Industry
News LittleBigPlanet 3 Will Be Taken Off PS Store on 31st October
Currently costs £15.99 / $19.99
After years of online server issues relating to hackers, it has been confirmed the PS4 version of LittleBigPlanet 3 will be permanently removed from the PS Store on 31st October 2024. All its DLC will be taken offline on the same day, though you can guarantee yourself access to the game beyond the expiry date as long...
- Sony
- PS4
- LittleBigPlanet
- PS Store
The same old blood Rush with a new touch
We’ve had more fun with EA Sports FC 25 than we have with any soccer sim for quite some time. Perhaps that’s because, outside of the review period, we largely abandoned EA Sports FC 24 – or perhaps, whisper it quietly, it’s because the footie franchise is in a good place. Either way, a ton of...
- Reviews
- EA Sports
- PS5
- EA Sports FC 25
News Original Director 'Very Happy' with Bloober Team's Work Remaking Silent Hill 2 on PS5, PC
"It’s been 23 years!"
Original Silent Hill 2 director Masashi Tsuboyama has praised the work done by developer Bloober Team to modernise the horror classic, which was released to rave reviews (and some tragically hurt feelings). Tsuboyama excitedly proclaimed that he looks forward to playing "the even more immersive remake of Silent Hill 2"...
- Konami
- PS5
- PC
- Silent Hill
Mini Review Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports (PS5) - Arcade Effort Doesn't Feel Great
That's all, folks
The problem with Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports is it doesn’t feel fun to move. Characters like Road Runner should be a joy to nimbly navigate around a cartoon football field, but he’s as slow and unwieldy as Elmer Fudd – in fact, it doesn’t matter whether you’re Yosemite Sam or Sylvester the Cat, there’s a tardy...
- Reviews
- GameMill Entertainment
- PS5
- Looney Tunes
- Mini Reviews
News Making Metaphor: ReFantazio, Persona's Immaculate Menus Is 'Really Annoying', Says Director
"It takes a lot of time"
Astonishingly stylish, Atlus is currently the reigning champion in UI design, with its legendary Persona series scoring full marks in this regard. The imminent Metaphor: ReFantazio is no slouch in this department, either, and Studio Zero director Katsura Hashino was recently asked about its gorgeous menu design, and you can...
- Atlus
- PS5
- PS4
- Metaphor
News Detroit: Become Human PS4, PC Sales Evolve Past 10 Million Paid Units
The future is now
Quantic Dream's 2018 sci-fi thriller Detroit: Become Human has become something of a sleeper hit. The developer announced that the title has passed the nice, round 10 million copies sold milestone on PS4 and PC.The studio points out that these are paid units, so presumably, even more, picked it up via services like PS Plus. Last...
- Sony
- PS4
- PC
- Detroit: Become Human
News Ubisoft Comments on Buyout Reports, Says That It 'Regularly Reviews Options'
Corporate machinations
After reports suggested the founding Guillemot family and Chinese publisher Tencent were in talks to take Ubisoft private, Reuters noted a 30% jump in the firm's floundering stock price. It's clear investors have an appetite for such a move, so the French publisher has been forced to comment on recent "press speculation". In...
- Ubisoft
- Industry
Monday7th Oct 2024
Review Metaphor: ReFantazio (PS5) - Brilliant, Memorable RPG Is One of Atlus' Finest Works
More than meets the eye
Spearheaded by a trio of veteran developers best known for their outstanding work on the Persona series, Metaphor: ReFantazio is the dawn of a brand new IP from Atlus. In its structure and mechanics, it feels comfortingly familiar, but in its fantastical setting and bold style — both in terms of visuals and audio — it...
- Reviews
- Atlus
- PS5
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
News PS5 Pro Prompts Sony's Disc Drive to Rocket Up the Charts
Physical fever
PS5 fans want physical media, and Sony is giving them a means to use it. In the aftermath of the PS5 Pro’s announcement, we reported how the Japanese giant’s universal Disc Drive accessory was selling out, and now we have data in the UK of just how well it performed. According to a sweeping analysis of September 2024’s hardware...
- Sony
- PS5
- Hardware
News PS5 Fans Believe Halo Could Make Its PlayStation Debut
Hope they don't Flood the market
A contingent of PlayStation fans believe Xbox stalwart series Halo could make its PS5 debut in the future. As part of the Halo World Championships overnight, Microsoft made some surprise announcements: developer 343 Industries has been renamed Halo Studios and all future franchise entries will be created using...
- Microsoft
- PS5
- Halo
News Until Dawn Is One of Sony's Worst Performing PC Ports to Date
But not as bad as Concord
We noted recently that the novelty of PlayStation’s PC releases appears to be dying off, and Until Dawn is another game that’s struggled to really make an impression on storefront Steam. The remake, which launched late last week, peaked at just 2,607 concurrent players, making it the worst Sony debut since Concord and...
- Sony
- PC
- Until Dawn
Tuesday8th Oct 2024
News Classic PS4 Racer DriveClub Is Now a Decade Old
A social racing superstar
DriveClub, the legendary PS4 racer from shuttered Runcorn studio Evolution, has such an interesting story. Originally announced alongside the PS4, the game had been intended as a launch title – we even played it in a big London church Sony had rented to showcase the new system prior to its release. But
- Sony
- PS4
- DriveClub
Monday7th Oct 2024
News Infamous Silent Hill 2 Comic Sans Sign Found in the Trash in PS5, PC Remake
Where it belongs
The excellent PS5, PC remake of Silent Hill 2 officially launches in less than 24 hours, but part of what's made the wait for fans so excruciating is it's not the first attempt to update and improve the PS2 classic. In 2012, an HD Collection for PS3 was released (with Silent Hill 3 included) that's widely regarded as one of the...
- Konami
- PS5
- Silent Hill
News Alien: Isolation Sequel Announced, in Early Development
10 years later
10 years after the release of the original game, Creative Assembly has revealed a sequel to Alien: Isolation is now in the early stages of development. Creative director Al Hope shared the announcement in a post to Twitter, saying: "Today, I'm delighted to confirm, on behalf of the team, that a sequel to Alien: Isolation is in early...
- SEGA
- Alien
- Announcements
News PS5 Exclusives Astro Bot, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Lead Golden Joystick Nominations
Voting is now open
Future Publishing's annual Golden Joystick Awards is underway, with nominees for (almost) all of its categories now live and ready to receive votes. Unlike a lot of industry award ceremonies, the Golden Joysticks are decided by public vote. You can have your say on this year's nominees through the link, with voting closing on 1st...
- PS5
- PS4
- Golden Joysticks
- Awards
Round Up Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero PS5 Reviews Go Super Saiyan
Is the Metacritic over 9,000?
We’re deep into our Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero playthrough and fully intend to bring you our verdict very soon. However, in order to properly put the title through its paces – including its all-important online mode – we’re delaying our write-up for a few more days to bring you a thorough review. That hasn’t...
- Bandai Namco
- PS5
- Dragon Ball
- Round Up
- Features
News Fiona Feeds You Dessert in PS5, PS4's Venus Vacation Prism: Dead or Alive
Sweet thing
So far, it looks like Venus Vacation Prism: Dead or Alive will be focusing on characters from PC game Dead or Alive Xtreme 3. The second heroine to be added to the upcoming “immersive romance adventure game” – due out on PS5 and PS4 in Asia with English subtitles early next year – is Fiona, a character who made her debut in the...
- Koei Tecmo
- PS5
- PS4
- Dead or Alive
News By the Way, Foamstars Is Now Free-to-Play on PS5, PS4
And it's pretty good fun
The gaming world seems to have forgotten, but Square Enix released Foamstars earlier this year on PS5 and PS4. This multiplayer shooter sadly didn't set the world on fire, but the upshot is that it's now completely free-to-play. As of 3rd October 2024, Foamstars costs nothing, and as with all free-to-play games, you don't...
- Square Enix
- PS5
- PS4
- Foamstars
Mini Review Parcel Corps (PS5) - A Speedy Dispatch, Not a Special Delivery
Fragile Express
Delivery games vary drastically from simple delivery driver simulators to more complex titles such as Death Stranding, where you traverse treacherous terrain to complete your daily drops. However, Parcel Corps, the cel-shaded, extreme sports delivery game from Billy Goat Entertainment, sticks to a more familiar concept, providing the...
- Reviews
- Secret Mode
- PS5
- Parcel Corps
- Mini Reviews
News PS5's Astro Bot Is Having a Much Better Launch Than Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart in the UK
Hot bot
The UK's software charts for the month of September are here, courtesy of GamesIndustry.biz, and it's good news for Astro Bot. Team Asobi's brilliant platformer lands at number five in the overall run of things, including physical and digital sales data. One interesting statistic is that the game's sales in its first four weeks are 24 per...
- UK
- Sales
- Charts
- PS5
- PS4
Angel fleeced
The life of a sports game reviewer can be a miserable one, but while much of Visual Concepts’ culturally colossal NBA 2K series is recycled year-on-year, it rarely settles for raw iteration. This is a developer that, for all its faults, genuinely appears committed to creating the best sports sim on the market – and it tends to lap...
- Reviews
- 2K Sports
- PS5
- NBA 2K25
News Until Dawn Movie Wraps As PS5 Remake Releases
Here we go again
Principal photography has concluded on the Until Dawn movie, a couple of months after it got underway. Sony announced that filming had started on the adaptation on 6th August, and now it has concluded on 4th October. The flick will enter post-production next. Lights Out director David F. Sandberg has led this project, with a script...
- Sony
- Movies
- Until Dawn
News Pathologic 3 Comes to PS5 Next Year, Time Travel Confirmed
Change key story events to your gain
A third entry in the strange and unique Pathologic series has today been announced for PS5, with a view to release in 2025. The newest instalment brings back Daniel Dankovskiy and equips him with a new time-travelling mechanic that allows you to revisit key moments in the narrative and alter their outcomes to...
- HypeTrain Digital
- PS5
- Pathologic
- Announcements
News Romantic Slice of Life SINce Memories Makes a Move on PS4 This Month
Classic visual novel series makes Western debut
MAGES’ romantic slice of life SINce Memories: Off the Starry Sky will make a play for the PS4 from 23rd October. This is significant because the Memories Off series dates all the way back to the PS1 in 1999, but has never received an English localisation before. This particular entry first launched...
- PQube
- PS4
- SINce Memories
- Release Dates
Review Until Dawn (PS5) - Killer Teen Slasher Snags a Pricey New-Gen Remake
Graveyard shift
Ballistic Moon’s remake of Until Dawn is proving one of our most difficult review assignments of the year. Here’s the rub: Supermassive Games’ cult interactive movie is still very much one of the best examples of the genre you can find on any console, and we highly recommend you play it. However, the PS4 version is just...
- Reviews
- Sony
- PS5
- Until Dawn
Random Internet Trolls Tried to Downgrade Our Silent Hill 2 PS5 Review Score
In my restless dreams
We awarded Bloober Team’s brilliant PS5 remake of Konami’s iconic survival horror Silent Hill 2 a 9/10 because we genuinely believe it’s one of the strongest games of the year. At the time of writing, the title currently commands an 87 on Metacritic, suggesting the rest of the industry agrees. But not everyone is happy...
- Konami
- PS5
- Silent Hill
- Random
Saturday5th Oct 2024
Poll Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for October 2024?
Plus or minus?
Hold on, when did Sony actually announce October's PS Plus Essential games? This is the question we found ourselves asking when we sat down to write this article, confusion clouding our already weekend-weary brains. But then we realised that October's lineup was revealed as part of the most recent State of Play — which was broadcast...
- PS Plus
- PS5
- PS4
- Polls
- Features
