PS5 News - Page 7
November2024
News Unique Puzzler Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Seems Set for PS5, PS4
New age ratings from PEGI spotted
It appears Lorelei and the Laser Eyes will be making its way to PS5 and PS4 following an initial Nintendo Switch launch earlier this year, with PEGI now providing age ratings for PlayStation versions. The updated PEGI page was spotted by Gematsu, which suggests a PS5, PS4 release date of today, 14th November 2024...
News Conspiratorial Fans Think PS5 Ad Teasing December State of Play, PlayStation Showcase
Grubb says hold your horses
Just yesterday, we brought you word of Sony's jazzy new PS5 ad, reminding us that Play Has No Limits. Apparently, we weren't operating on a high enough level to catch Sony clearly telegraphing a PlayStation Showcase or State of Play for 3rd December 2024, which is what some conspiratorial fans now believe. In a...
News Devil-Filled Baldur's Gate 3 Has Fans in Vatican City
"Wish I could see their mod list. Bet it’s absolutely gnarly"
Revolutionary RPG Baldur's Gate 3 kicks off with an unforgettable jaunt aboard a Mindflayer Nautiloid, with the interplanar vessel fatefully arriving in Avernus, the Dungeons & Dragons' equivalent of biblical hell. Developer Larian Studios has revealed that two copies of the game...
News LEGO Horizon Adventures Sets Odd Precedent, Lacking PS5 Pro Support
A brave new world
Sony's latest first-party release, LEGO Horizon Adventures, is now available, but curiously, it lacks support for the firm's shiny new box, the PS5 Pro. While the spirited Horizon adaptation isn't necessarily a graphical powerhouse (like the recently upgraded Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered), it's still not a very promising start...
News 17 Games Land on PS Plus Extra, Premium Next Week
PS3 series Resistance on Premium!
Sony has today confirmed the lineup of PS5, PS4, and Classic games coming to PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium for the month of November 2024. There are 17 titles in total, and they'll all be available to download and play next week on 19th November 2024. Here's what active members have to look forward to: PS Plus...
News Street Fighter 6 Brings Ryu, Chun-Li, Cammy to Destiny 2 in Themed Items
Emotes, Ghost shells, and finishers from 19th November
Three classic Street Fighter characters will be used as inspiration for a set of newly themed items in Destiny 2. On 19th November 2024, Ryu, Chun-Li, and Cammy will be brought to the Bungie universe by way of new emotes, finishers, and Ghost shells, presumably purchasable using real money. You...
Review Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (PS5) - A Timeless RPG, and a Gorgeous Nostalgia Trip
Golden oldies
You always know what you're getting with a mainline Dragon Quest game. The series is pretty much the epitome of consistent, having stuck to its timeless Japanese RPG formula for decades. But that comfy feeling of familiarity somehow hits even harder with Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake — a powerfully nostalgic rebuild of a true classic...
News Star Trek Actor Voices Sylens in LEGO Horizon Adventures
Tim Russ voices the character in LEGO form
Tim Russ, the actor best known for playing Tuvok in Star Trek, has been confirmed as the voice actor for Sylens in LEGO Horizon Adventures following the sad passing of Lance Reddick, the original voice for the character. It is not known yet whether Russ will be playing the role permanently for the eventual...
News Demonic RPG The Thaumaturge Bites PS5 Next Month, Demo Out Now
PS5 release date set for 4th December
The Thaumaturge developer Fools Theory has announced the PS5 port of its demonic, detective RPG will release on 4th December 2024, nine months after the original PC launch. In the fairly well-received isometric RPG, you shall play a well-seasoned thaumaturge who seeks to unravel their "troubled past" in Warsaw,...
News No Xbox Games Are Off the Table for Release on PS5, Says Phil Spencer
No "red lines"
Ever since Xbox's initial steps into multiplatform releases, fans have been wondering where the company will draw the line. Earlier this year, a quartet of previously Xbox-exclusive titles made their way to PS5 and PS4 (Sea of Thieves, Pentiment, Grounded, and Hi-Fi Rush), and with a new comment from top exec Phil Spencer, it sounds...
News Dead Rising Remaster Adds PS5 Pro Support, Casual Mode
Reflections never looked better
A recent update for the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster has added PS5 Pro support to the undead mall explorer, with the most notable feature being ray tracing. A new toggle in the options menu lets you activate "more realistic reflections on glass and water surfaces", of which there are many in the game. The official Dead...
Review LEGO Horizon Adventures (PS5) - Dull Design Lets Down This Gorgeous Spin-Off
Abridged too far
Nobody could've expected LEGO Horizon Adventures, a playful, plastic take on one of PlayStation's most popular franchises. Aloy's main games are laden with thick sci-fi lore, serious themes, and complex mechanics; squeezing all of that into an all-ages spin-off has always felt like a tall order. The result is a game that delights us...
News GTA Trilogy Massively Upgraded on PS5, Patch Out on PS4 Now Too
Grove Games' name removed from project
Update #2: Players on PS4 are now reporting they too have received the new patch for the GTA Trilogy that implements the original art direction. It's a 4.054GB update on PS4. Update #1: While the GTA Trilogy has been massively upgraded on the PS5, restoring its original art direction, the patch is not...
News Songs of Silence Finds Harmony Between Real-Time, Turn-Based Strategy on PS5
Welcome back, Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Songs of Silence is a compelling blend of turn-based strategy with real-time combat, boasting a painterly, art-nouveau aesthetic. Fresh from Steam's Early Access, this daring blend of mechanics is available now on PS5. Reminding us, encouragingly, of our beloved Heroes of Might & Magic series (but with...
News ARC Raiders Unveils Promising Extraction Loop in Gameplay Reveal
Go big or go home
We haven't heard much from the Arc Raiders front recently, so we were pleasantly surprised to see a hefty chunk of gameplay emerge in the last few hours. The co-op shooter turned survival extraction game from Embark, the studio behind The Finals, looks to be coming along nicely. In the six-minute gameplay reveal, we get some...
News Play Has No Limits in Sony's Latest Live-Action PS5 Ad
Push play to the max
Hearkening back to the PS5's original slogan, "Play Has No Limits," Sony has released a light-hearted, live-action ad to remind you of this. We don't know if it quite lives up to the drama and tension of Playtopia, and it certainly can't hold a candle to the PS3's legendary Long Live Play, but overall, it's pretty good. The...
News Stellar Blade Will Spread Its Wings to PC in 2025
Giving Nexus Mods time to increase server capacity
PS5 exclusive Stellar Blade was one of the standout releases of the year, with developer Shift Up commanding the attention of gamers with lightning-fast combat and scantily-clad heroine Eve. The game was considered a success, selling more than a million copies, and Shift Up expects to sell
News Sea of Stars Now Has Combat System Its Developer Always Wanted
Free update also adds co-op
Sea of Stars has today received its free Dawn of Equinox update across PS5 and PS4 consoles, which seeks to provide a "definitive edition" of the RPG's combat system, implement co-op features, and enhance other aspects. It's available to download now, and you can see it in action in the trailer above. Combat and co-op...
News Stellar Blade's Eve Bags a New Body Double for PS5 Favourite's Upcoming Update
Yoon love to see it
Fans of Stellar Blade protagonist Eve will know developer Shift Up based the character’s body on real-life South Korean model Shin Jae-eun, but for the game’s upcoming update, it’s scanned a new star: cosplayer Yoon Seol-hwa. The model confirmed the news on
News Survive in Style with Forever Skies Demo's PS5 Exclusive Airship Skin
Available to play now
Forever Skies, a PS5 console exclusive survival game, now has a free playable demo on the PS Store. Weighing in at about 10.5 GB, you can now download and play a sample of the sci-fi adventure, which is due to arrive in early 2025. It has you exploring a ruined Earth and staying alive inside your airship base, hovering above...
News PS5 Slim Price Drop Confirmed, $380 Until 24th December
Knocks $70 off until Christmas Eve
Sony has announced by way of a new PS5 advert that the base PS5 Slim console will be available on sale at $380 until 24th December 2024. It hasn't confirmed on what date the temporary price cut will take place, though previous rumours have suggested 22nd November, or around Black Friday, is when the sale will be...
News Fortnite OG Sticks Around As Permanent Mode from 6th December
Back to the beginning
You won’t need to wait for an annual dose of Fortnite nostalgia, as Epic Games is bringing back Fortnite OG as a permanent mode from 6th December. Rumoured earlier in the month but officially confirmed today, the mode will take the popular Battle Royale back to its very origins, with a Season 1 that reverts the release back...
Reminder PS Plus Extra, Premium to Lose 18 Games in a Week
Kingdom Hearts, RDR2 on their way out
Sony will announce the full lineup of PS5, PS4, and Classic titles coming to PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium for its November 2024 refresh tomorrow, but what's just as noteworthy about this month's rotation is the number of games on their way out. As confirmed almost a month ago, it's been a while since the...
News Black Ops 6 Drives Monthly PS5 Sales Growth in the UK, 75% of Players Purchase on PlayStation
Business as usual
Sales of the PS5 in the UK rose 27% month-on-month this October, propelled by the release of the Xbox-owned Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. An enormous 75% of the game’s full-price sales were made on PlayStation platforms, with the title’s Game Pass availability shrinking series owner Xbox’s share to just 11%. Sales of the Xbox...
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard Sales Keep Pace with Dragon's Dogma 2, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth in UK
"It's not earth shattering, but it isn't terrible"
Dragon Age: The Veilguard appears to mark the critical return of developer BioWare, but its commercial impact remains harder to parse almost two weeks after launch. At least in the UK (the seventh-largest individual market for games globally), The Veilguard reportedly performed comparably to...
News Square Enix's New AAA Games Are Being Trounced by Final Fantasy 14
Profitable MMO segment still winning
The venerable MMO Final Fantasy XIV, once considered an abject failure, is now pointed to as an example of a video game redemption arc. Over the years, Square Enix has come to rely on the regular, predictable profits it draws from the title's vast player base, and the massively multiplayer game has become one of...
News Blizzard Hits Nostalgia Button, Overwatch: Classic Launches on PS5
"Heroes and balance from popular moments in the game’s history"
As the lifespan of certain games is increasingly measured in decades, an interesting play we keep seeing from developers is to revert to an earlier, presumably better state. World of Warcraft Classic found phenomenal success in this, as did Fortnite OG and Apex Legends' Season 23. It...
News Someone's Definitely Gonna Rebuild PS5's LEGO Horizon Adventures in Real Life
If they have the right bricks
With LEGO Horizon Adventures, Studio Gobo and Guerrilla have made it pretty clear that the whole game has been constructed using true-to-life LEGO pieces. The result is a seriously impressive and consistent visual style, but a new video frames it another way. If you have the right bricks, you can rebuild anything you...
Sweep the new board
SEGA’s released a surprisingly generous update to the PS5 and PS4’s only real Mario Party alternative, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Sweep the Board. Available now, for free, everyone who owns the game will be able to enjoy an entire new board, inspired by the Hashira Training Arc from the manga and anime. This includes...
News Indiana Jones Looks Like an Adventure Worth Waiting for on PS5
Looking like a Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the next title from MachineGames, and rather than blasting Nazis away with OTT weaponry in Wolfenstein, you'll be beating them up with shovels and rolling pins. Launching on PS5 next Spring after a brief period of Xbox exclusivity, publisher Bethesda has just put out a new gameplay...
News NieR: Automata's Weird and Wonderful World Invades PS5 Hit Stellar Blade this Month
Tons of new outfits! Photo mode! Much more
Zany merchant Emil from NieR: Automata will set up shop in the world of Stellar Blade from 20th November, bringing 11 all-new cosmetic items to the title. This anticipated collaboration, announced earlier in the year, is being pitched as a crossover marked by the “mutual respect” between Shift Up’s...
News PS5 Pro Brute Forces Better Performance in Monster Hunter Wilds' Beta
But a native patch will be needed
Monster Hunter Wilds’ recent beta was, let’s be honest, wildly unfinished. Whether you enjoyed the demo or not, running on PS5 in Performance mode the game looked hideous, with some of the poorest image quality we’ve seen all generation. A new comparison test shows how the PS5 Pro may be able to improve the...
Block party
Tetris was and is a global phenomenon that remains pick-up-and-play perfection to this day, and its history is lovingly chronicled in Digital Eclipse's latest: Tetris Forever. It charts the franchise's entire history, from the brainchild of Alexey Pajitnov to its popularity explosion as a Game Boy pack-in and beyond. A far cry from the...
News Younger Gamers Cited as One Reason for MGS Delta: Snake Eater Remake
So they know the stealth series exists
Konami has revealed that one of the reasons behind its upcoming remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is to allow the "newer, younger" generation of gamers the chance to experience the stealth franchise on modern hardware. Spotted by GamesRadar in the 46th (and
News Black Myth: Wukong PS5 Physical Copies Available in December
No monkey business
Those of you holding out for Black Myth: Wukong's anticipated PS5 physical edition will soon feel relief, as boxed copies will hit shelves next month on 12th December. PM Studios is handling the logistical end of things and confirmed that the date will be the same for UK fans (thanks, Eurogamer). This release will mark the game's...
News LEGO Horizon Adventures Is Getting a Surprisingly Huge Marketing Push
Thunderjawesome
Sony clearly believes LEGO Horizon Adventures has the potential to significantly grow the popularity of Guerrilla’s franchise, because it’s giving the game a surprisingly big marketing push. A new trailer, featuring the song Tubthumping by British band Chumbawamba, is running in movie theatres and on television. It’s only a...
News This Is Your Last Chance to Order PSVR's Free PS Camera Adaptor for PS5
An essential accessory
For those of you who still have an original PSVR headset kicking around, you may want to act fast if you haven’t ordered a PS Camera adaptor yet. If you didn’t know, the PS Camera used a proprietary port on the PS4 which isn’t available on the PS5. Therefore, in order to connect the accessory to Sony’s current...
News PS5 Pro Makes Unpatched PS4 Software 'More Palatable' on High-Res Displays
Nice to have
We finally have some expert analysis of how PS5 Pro’s new PS4 Image Enhancement toggle works, and what it actually achieves. Digital Foundry has released a rigorous test, and the results are noticeable if unremarkable. It’s worth reiterating, once again, that this feature is not the priority of the PS5 Pro. Effectively, it adds a...
News PlayStation Has Swiftly Solved Its Profitability Problem
The graphs are going up
You may remember over the past year there’s been a lot of handwringing over PlayStation’s profitability. As is so often the case, this all got bundled up with Xbox’s issues, and numerous thinkpieces were written about the console market as a whole. Well, Sony’s largely already solved the issue. In its latest earnings...
News Infinity Nikki Will Be the Next Big Thing on PS5
Style it out
If you’ve not been keeping up with Infinity Nikki, the dress-up RPG which already has over 30 million pre-registrations, then this overview trailer should help get you up to speed. It outlines the general storyline – returning character Nikki and her cat Momo have once again returned to the mystical realm of Miraland – as well as...
News PS5 Pro Pre-Orders Are Stronger Than PS4 Pro, But Scalpers Are Losing Money
All according to keikaku
While we all ranted and raved about the PS5’s unavailability at launch, tech enthusiasts tend to act like unless a product is completely sold out and being sold at a significant mark-up on reseller websites, it’s a failure. That of course is not the case, and if a manufacturer has produced the right amount of stock to...
News Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Dev 'Heartbroken' by Passing of Venom Voice Actor
Candyman star Tony Todd passes away aged 69
Insomniac Games says it’s “heartbroken” by the passing of Tony Todd, the veteran actor who voiced Venom in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and the star of hundreds of movies, including most famously Candyman. Deadline reports that Todd passed away aged 69 on 6th November at his home in Los Angeles. The...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 554
The professionals
It's a big weekend for PS5 players, as the PS5 Pro is available now. Obviously not all of you will be playing on Sony's spangly new system, but we're sure many of you will be. Here's what's keeping us occupied. Aaron Bayne: With the PS5 Pro finally here this weekend is dedicated to testing out all those sweet Pro Enhanced games,...
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reveals Players' Most Popular Class, Race, and Faction
Data Age
BioWare's always been quick to share player statistics for its games. In particular, the developer used to spark heated debates amongst fans whenever it revealed data for Mass Effect. And while we doubt that these early points of interest for Dragon Age: The Veilguard will prove very surprising, they still provide some welcome insight into...
Guide How to Transfer Data from PS5 to PS5 Pro
All data, games, saves, and media covered
How do you transfer data from PS5 to PS5 Pro? With some base PS5 owners looking to upgrade their own PlayStation hardware to what PS5 Pro offers, the topic of your current data and how it's transferred to the upgraded console quickly arises. In this guide, we're going to reveal how to transfer data from PS5...
News Genshin Impact's Already Enormous Open World Grows Even Bigger in New PS5, PS4 Update
Find time
Genshin Impact’s life-consuming campaign will add an enormous influx of content with its v5.2 update, due out on 20th November. As we’re still deep in the Natlan arc, this will add several new environments to the map, where you’ll be able to hang with new tribes and “investigate a mysterious accident” as part of the latest event...
News Rep PS5's Astro Bot in Style with Official, Adorable Clothing from Insert Coin
Don an icon
Sony and Team Asobi have been doing a pretty great job of keeping Astro Bot in the news cycle since its launch in September. That's largely thanks to a series of free speedrun levels, which are being added to the 3D platformer each week. However, Insert Coin Clothing — which makes officially licenced clothes and accessories related to...
News PS5 Pro Could Cost Almost $1,000 if Proposed Tariffs Are Imposed
Price hike
If you already think PS5 Pro is overpriced, then it could be about to get even more expensive in the US – and potentially through no fault of Sony’s own. Gizmodo reports that, following Donald Trump’s election victory earlier this week, he could impose tariffs of up to 60% on Chinese exports once he assumes office in January next...
News Sony Promises It'll Launch Major PS5 Single Player Games Every Year Moving Forwards
Back on track
Sony shocked PS5 fans earlier this year when it said there’ll be no major first-party games in 2024. The quote was a little misinterpreted, as it still released Game of the Year candidate Astro Bot, among others. Either way, that won’t be the case moving forwards. Speaking with investors as part of
News Sony Comments on Concord Disaster, Says Game Should Have Been Tested Earlier
User testing and internal evaluation needed to be sooner
Sony has claimed it should have been performing internal tests of Concord earlier than it was to spot the mistakes that led to its disastrous launch. Speaking during a Q&A session part of its latest Q2 financial earnings call, Sony president Hiroki Totoki said the firm is still going...
News Astro Bot Sells 1.5 Million PS5 Copies Inside Nine Weeks
37% considered "new users"
The latest quarterly earnings report for Sony reveals Astro Bot has sold 1.5 million copies during its first nine weeks on the market, as of 3rd November 2024. This means it's already selling better than the likes of Demon's Souls, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and Returnal across roughly the same timespan after launch...
News Sony Ships 65.5 Million PS5 Consoles, in Line with PS4
77.7 million PS5 games sold
Sony has confirmed via its Q2 results for fiscal year 2024 that it's now shipped 65.5 million PS5 consoles, with a total of 3.8 million systems sold within the quarter itself. The company sold 1.1 million fewer PS5 boxes this quarter compared to the same one for the previous fiscal year, but sales of games are on the...
News MultiVersus Underperforms, Another $100 Million Blow for Warner Bros
Tough time for Raven to arrive
Publisher Warner Bros Discovery announced that free-to-play brawler MultiVersus (developed by Player First, which it recently acquired) has significantly underperformed, another $100 million hit to gaming revenue in 2024. Add to that the $200 million Harley and the rest of the Suicide Squad made off with, and it's been...
News Larian Studios Confirms Baldur's Gate 3's PS5 Pro Enhancements
Party-wide buffs
Attentive members of the community noticed last week that Baldur's Gate 3 would be enhanced on PS5 Pro, and now we have the specifics. Larian Studios says the game's Quality and Performance modes on Sony's shiny new hardware have been refined "to achieve crisp console visuals without sacrificing smooth performance." Timed to...
News Another Grimdark, Warhammer 40,000 Co-Op Shooter Announced for PS5
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide arrives in December
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is officially coming to PS5, initially launching on PC and Xbox in 2022. Faithful servants of the Emperor of Mankind can serve Him by battling Nurgle's endless, rotting hordes in intense four-player cooperative gameplay from 3rd December. A co-op survival shooter in the vein...
News Don't Forget PS5 Pro Also Makes Big Improvements to PSVR2
Headset heaven
There’s been very little coverage of how the PS5 Pro is improving PSVR2, but we’ll have a lot more for you on that front in the coming days. In the meantime, we thought we’d share with you how a couple of major titles are leveraging Sony’s new hardware to improve their games. First, it’s worth noting the platform holder’s...
Boy, this sounds like a good update
A new patch for Santa Monica Studio’s outstanding God of War Ragnarok is available to download right now, and it introduces PS5 Pro performance improvements for everyone who purchased the system today. There are few surprises here, but some nice little additional toggles. Enhanced Mode, the flagship new...
Hands On Serious Pop-In the Only Problem with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Massive PS5 Pro Boost
Cloud nine
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was plagued by an astoundingly blurry performance mode when it first released on PS5 in February of this year. Obvious graphical limitations were put in place so that the RPG could run at 60 frames-per-second; it played just fine, but it could look rough outside of cutscenes. With the PS5 Pro, Rebirth has gained...
News Black Ops 6 Gets One of the Biggest Call of Duty Updates Ever in Season One
Six multiplayer maps, new Zombies map, and new Resurgence map
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be treated to one of the series' biggest-ever seasonal updates on 14th November 2024 as Season One begins across both the new game and Warzone. Some of the content will be available on day one and other bits will be rolled out throughout the season. In...
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard's First PS5 Update Out Now, Adds Mass Effect Armour, Fixes Bugs
Behind the Veil
The first post-launch update for Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be dropping at some point this week, developer BioWare has confirmed. The full patch notes won't be released until the update is actually available, but it sounds like some decent adjustments are incoming. The studio gives a brief overview of what to expect, writing:...
News This Time Next Year, You Could Be Playing GTA 6 on Your PS5
Rockstar's almost ready to report a robbery
In some ways we can’t believe we’re even writing this sentence, but this time next year, you could already be playing GTA 6. The anticipated open worlder has always had a tentative release date of 2025 attached, and Take-Two insists it’ll be out “in the fall of calendar 2025”. That’s more or...
Hands On $700 Later and Dragon's Dogma 2 PS5 Pro Performance Is Still Far from Perfect
The cycle continues
Touted as a game that could greatly benefit from the PS5 Pro's arrival, Dragon's Dogma 2 takes advantage of Sony's new system through several graphics settings that were recently added via an update. Those familiar with Capcom's open world RPG will know that the title has struggled to attain smooth technical performance since...
News 'Mind Boggling' Horizon Forbidden West Has the Best Console Image Quality Ever on PS5 Pro
Lightyears beyond base PS5
Horizon Forbidden West, and its recently remastered predecessor Horizon Zero Dawn, is comfortably one of the best looking games you can play today. And it’s no surprise to see it already pushing the PS5 Pro to its limits, as developer Guerrilla Games have always been tech wizards. Speaking about the upgrade in a recent...
Trust the Pro-cess
Well, here we are. Today marks the launch of a new PlayStation console — a mid-gen upgrade in the form of PS5 Pro. Boasting more capable internals and touting Sony's AI-powered PSSR, the angle is that the Pro will let you run PS5 games at higher resolutions without sacrificing performance. The best of both worlds, you could say,...
News Helium Heights Hands Astro Bot PS5 Its Fourth Speedrun Level
Playable now via PS5 update
The fourth of five free Astro Bot speedrun levels is available now on PS5, titled Helium Heights. Download the new PS5 update and you'll be able to start recording times to the online leaderboard for this new stage, which is based around the balloon device Astro uses to temporarily float up in the air. You can catch a...
Random Super Smash Bros Maker Masahiro Sakurai Says He Bought a PS5 Pro Today
Super spend bros
Industry icon Masahiro Sakurai – the eternally young creator of the Super Smash Bros franchise and founder of Sora Ltd – plunged deep into his wallet today to purchase a PS5 Pro console. “I bought it,” he wrote on social media, next to an image of the supercharged system’s box. While the new system has sparked global...
News PS5 Pro Has One of Its First 8K Games in No Man's Sky
8K at 30FPS, plus a 4K 60fps mode
Sony might not be shipping the PS5 Pro with an 8K logo on its outer packaging, but that doesn't stop a handful of titles from supporting the 7680 x 4320 resolution. Gran Turismo 7 was previously announced as one game with an 8K mode on PS5 Pro, and now Hello Games has added No Man's Sky to the list. At launch, from...
News Stellar Blade a 'Gigantic Leap' on PS5 Pro, PSSR Better Than Native 4K Option
You better bel-Eve it
Stellar Blade is comfortably one of the best games of the year, and while we knew it would be upgraded for the PS5 Pro, we had no idea exactly how. It sounds like this may be one of the new system’s secret success stories, as Digital Foundry describes its upgrades as a “gigantic leap”. There are two options available,...
News Dynasty Warriors: Origins 4K PS5 Gameplay Is a Sight to Behold
Castle crashers
Originally part of the publisher's Tokyo Game Show presentation, Koei Tecmo has released a full 4K version of its Dynasty Warriors: Origins gameplay showcase. The video is over 15 minutes long, and takes us through an entire castle siege. On top of the heightened resolution, we've now got English subtitles — and so it's much...
Out Today PS5 Pro, the Most Powerful Console Ever
A new era begins
Ever since the PS5 released, fans had been pondering whether a PS5 Pro would follow. We didn’t find out officially until 10th September, when the system was announced alongside its unprecedented $700/£700 price point. Reaction has largely been mixed since then. While the reviews have largely been positive, and tech experts...
News Gran Turismo 7 Clocks Native 4K, 120fps on PS5 Pro Via Game Boost, Pre-Enhanced Patch
Blistering lap times
PS5 Pro is out today, and if you'd like to put Sony's shiny new machine through its paces, it sounds like Gran Turismo 7 might fit the ticket. Developer Polyphony Digital appears to have a handle on that extra horsepower; GT7 runs at a native 4K, 120fps on PS5 Pro, and that's without the all-important Enhanced patch required to...
News 20 Years Later, Identity of Metal Gear Solid 3 Eva Voice Actress Revealed
Got to be free
The identity of Metal Gear Solid 3's Eva (AKA Tatyana, Matka Pluku, Big Mama), the iconic spy who fought alongside Naked Snake and appeared in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, has finally been revealed. Listed in the credits as "Suzetta Miñet" back in the day, this was actually a pseudonym created to protect the...
Guide PS5 Pro vs PS5: Full Tech Specs Comparison
Is PS5 Pro more powerful than PS5?
Looking for a full tech specs comparison of PS5 Pro vs PS5? Since the upgraded console out of Sony is so expensive, you may be looking to learn exactly what $700 will get you over the base system. In this guide, we're going to present a PS5 Pro vs PS5: full tech specs comparison. PS5 Pro vs PS5: Full Tech Specs...
News Almost 3,000 PS5, PS4 Games Discounted for November
Hey big spender
Sony has plunged the price of almost 3,000 PS5 and PS4 games, with discounts of up to 95% off available from today through 22nd November. This will likely be the last big sale before Black Friday at the end of the month. There’s a lot to get through here, but some of the highlights include: Dragon’s Dogma 2 -...
News PS5 Pro Does a 'Much Better Job' of Enhancing Games Than PS4 Pro Did, Says Tech Experts
"The most powerful, forward-looking console on the market"
PS5 Pro finds itself in somewhat of a strange situation. The nature of the tech industry right now means it’s priced absurdly high at £700/$700, and while its jump is substantial, it lacks that obvious selling point of 1080p to 4K, which the PS4 Pro had. System architect Mark Cerny...
