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News The Audio in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Is Unreal
Hear this
Everyone’s talking about the visuals in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and rightly so – it’s a true next-gen tour-de-force. But let’s take a moment to appreciate the audio work, which also appears to be a cut above what we’ve come to expect from existing PlayStation 4 games. We watched the trailer a second time with our...
News PS5 Release Date Purportedly Pencilled for Mid-November
Xbox Series X will release first
You don’t need a crystal ball to predict that the PlayStation 5 will launch in mid-November, but a new report from VGC suggests Sony is eyeing the narrow window intensely. The website claims that, in the UK at least, the platform holder has booked significant advertising for the week commencing 13th November...
News Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Will Release in PS5's Launch Window
Extended gameplay footage stuns
We got an extended look at raw Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart gameplay footage captured directly from a PlayStation 5 console during Gamescom Opening Night Live today, and wow – we’re running out of superlatives! The title very much looks like an animated movie brought to life, with the screen filled with moving...
News PS5 Uses Bluetooth 5.1, Wi-Fi 6 for Improved Performance
An under-the-hood upgrade
Documentation submitted by Sony in Peru reveals that the PlayStation 5 will take advantage of Bluetooth 5.1 and Wi-Fi 6, meaning that its wireless performance will be better than the existing PlayStation 4. While it’s hardly a surprise that the Japanese giant is using the latest standards available for its next-gen...
News Sony Sets Up Its Own PS5 Pre-Order Page, Only Available to US Residents
Register your interest
Update: While the prospect of ordering your PlayStation 5 directly from Sony may sound appealing, it's worth mentioning that this offer is only open to those with a US-based shipping address. That means you will be able to purchase from anywhere outside the US, but if your address is set to a location outside the country then...
News PS Plus Temporarily Discounted In USA, Europe
But only for new and lapsed subscribers
Update: Sony's rolled out a 25 per cent discount on PlayStation Plus subscriptions in USA as well, meaning you can grab 12 months of service for $44.99. The same restrictions apply, so you'll need to be a new or lapsed member. And the deal will run through 8AM PT on 1st September. Original Story: Sony’s...
News PS4 Firmware Update 7.55 Is Available to Download Right Now
But what does it do?
It's that time yet again, folks -- Sony has released another all-important PlayStation 4 firmware update. System software patch 7.55 is available to download right now on your console, weighing in at 471.4 MB. However, the question is: what does it actually do? Are there any new features? Let's take a look at the official patch...
News Huge PlayStation Store Indie Sale Has Lots of PS4 Games Going Super Cheap
GRIS! MediEvil! Pathologic 2!
When the PlayStation Store wants to go for it, boy does it. The latest sale to hit the digital storefront is incredibly vast, discounting a ludicrous amount of PlayStation 4 indie games down to some pretty absurd prices. We've got a long list of titles available for less than £1.99/$2.49 while bigger independent hits...
News Girl Who Face Modelled The Last of Us 2's Dina Reacts to Seeing Herself In-Game
There are tears
The number of people this applies to must be incredibly small, but it has to be pretty weird seeing your own face in a game, right? Cascina Caradonna provided the face model for Dina in The Last of Us: Part II, and after recently playing through the original classic, she is now starting to play the sequel on her YouTube channel. Of...
News The Last of Us 2 Glitches Compilation Proves Naughty Dog Isn't Perfect
The Last of Bugs
The Last of Us: Part II is one of the most polished games we’ve ever played – except when it isn’t! Look, any interactive software is susceptible to bugs and glitches, and the Naughty Dog sequel is no different. In this video, we’ve compiled some of the silliest moments from Ellie’s sophomore adventure, but keep in mind...
News Uncut Ratchet & Clank PS5 Gameplay Demo Will Be Shown During Gamescom Opening Night Live
Ratcheting hype
Hype master Geoff Keighley has confirmed that PS5 title Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be putting in an appearance during Gamescom Opening Night Live 2020 later this week. Keighley promises a "world premiere demo" of the game running on Sony's next-gen system. The event organiser goes on to say that this will be "a full,...
Is PlayStation Now coming to PS5?
Will PlayStation Now be coming to PS5? How will PS Now work on PS5? Sony's on-demand gaming service has been growing steadily on PS4, but the question remains how it will expand to PS5 in the future. As part of our PS5 guide, we're going to take a look at what we know about PS Now on PS5 so far. For more...
News Sony's Sending Out a New Wave of PS5 Marketing Emails
"PS5 is coming"
Sony seems to have kicked off a new wave of PS5 marketing, as the company's been sending promotional emails out to those on its PlayStation mailing list. Said emails have been doing the rounds ever since that weird PS5 advert went live last week. We got our own email around that time, too. Anyway, fans are wondering whether this...
News Indie Dev Demonstrates How Bad PS Store Discoverability Can Be
Descenders and buried
The PlayStation Store is fine if you know how to deal with its idiosyncrasies, but discovery for lesser known titles is pretty poor. While the plaza will promote major releases like FIFA 21 and Fortnite pretty heavily, you’ll need a lot of luck if you’re hoping to get found as a relatively unknown indie game – as this...
News Bizarre PS Store Game for PS5, PS4 Testing Accidentally Published
What do we have here?
Sony made a big blunder overnight, accidentally publishing a $0.49 test client onto the PlayStation Store for consumers to purchase. The “game” – named Whale Whale Whale: What Do We Have Here? – mentions “early server development and integration” in its description. It also refers to both the PlayStation 5 and...
News YouTuber Racks Up Millions of Views Unboxing Rare, Retro PlayStation Gear in ASMR
And the press kits are getting crazier
Whatever your opinion of ASMR, the cult Internet phenomenon that sees YouTubers talking in a hushed voice to trigger a sensory response, there can be no denying it’s big business. Some of the more popular content creators have millions upon millions of subscribers and earn thousands of dollars with each new...
News PS5 Sounds Like the Most Social System Ever Made
Keeping you connected
There’s still so much we don’t know about the PlayStation 5, and the user experience remains a huge question mark. There have been rumblings about how Sony plans to integrate game menus into the system software itself, and we’ve also reported on
Quiz How Well Do You Know God of War?
God of Quizzes
The God of War series is one of PlayStation's most iconic. Kratos has been a first-party icon since the original released on PS2, and remains a hugely important character for Sony. The franchise has been a massive success in its 15-year history, but how much do you remember? In this quiz, we're going to test your knowledge of this...
News The Last of Us 2 Changes the Credits on Grounded, Permadeath
New full-length songs
If you’re good enough to beat The Last of Us: Part II on either Grounded or Permadeath difficulty, Naughty Dog has included a bonus treat to reward your efforts. As spotted on Twitter overnight, beating the game on the title’s hardest difficulty setting will play Joel’s rendition of Pearl Jam’s Future Days, which is...
News Sony Stresses, One More Time, That PS5 Will Release This Year
"It will happen"
Sony debuted a new PlayStation 5 commercial this week, and it’s already racked up nearly two million views on YouTube. However, with the PS5 price and PS5 release date remaining under wraps, there’s still a big question mark over whether the device will deploy this year as
News Marvel's Iron Man VR Free Update Adds New Game+ And More Weapons
Quality of life improvements too
If you can't get enough of Marvel in video game form as you await the launch of Marvel's Avengers, why not check out the PlayStation VR experience released earlier this year focused entirely on Iron Man? Marvel's Iron Man VR quietly became a great game and it's about to get even better as
News Future PS5 Ads Will Focus on Different Areas
Games, we assume
You’ve surely already seen the PlayStation 5’s first commercial, but if you haven’t then you know what you need to do. You can watch it here – don’t worry, we’ll wait for you. All done? Good, then we can tell you what Sony’s marketing bigwig Eric Lempel had to say about it, as part of an interview with
News PS5 Launch Window Has the 'Best Line-Up We've Ever Seen in the History of PlayStation'
Sony talks up PS5 games
Sony's hardly going to say anything different, but it sounds very confident in PlayStation 5's early software line-up. SIE's global head of marketing Eric Lempel has been talking to GamesIndustry, mostly about the brand new PS5 advertisement, but he goes on to tease what sounds like a great first few weeks for early...
News PS5 Launch Is a 'Massive Challenge on Every Front'
COVID-19 does its worst
There is absolutely no doubting that the coronavirus pandemic has had a huge impact on the preparation, marketing, and roll-out of the PlayStation 5, to the point where some are surprised it'll even launch this year. Sony has recognised that in a new interview with GamesIndustry.biz, where it speaks of the monumental...
News Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Will Use PS5 to Convey Spider-Sense
Tingling
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, as one of the flagship PlayStation 5 launch titles, will take full advantage of the DualSense controller to convey the lead character’s spider-sense. Writing on the
News PS5 Promo Partially Filmed in Actress' Apartment to Maintain Social Distancing
Advert created in COVID conditions
Sony has just revealed the first global advertisement for PlayStation 5. It's a flashy production, sporting some seriously impressive CGI alongside a single human performance. How did this thing get made, given the current climate? Fortunately, we have a couple of tidbits that detail how the promo came to be...
News Developers Can’t Stop Hyping Up the PS5 Controller
First-party chimes in
The PlayStation 5 DualSense controller sounds like it's genuinely going to revolutionise the way we interact with games, and developers appear to be chomping at the bit to tell us all about it. As part of a PlayStation Blog post detailing the first worldwide advert for the PS5, various first-party studios have detailed how...
News New PS5 Advert Officially Revealed
Feel more
Update: Sony has officially unveiled the new PS5 advert after it leaked earlier today. This video is an extended version of the below cut, but is largely the same. There's an emphasis on the PS5's major innovations that aim to immerse you even further in games. It's a flashy promo, and you can read more about it over on the PlayStation...
News Sony to Share More PS5 News and Info in the Coming Weeks
Patience is a virtue
With the console almost certainly scheduled to release in around three months, it’s probably a no-brainer that Sony plans to share more about the PlayStation 5 in the “coming weeks” – but considering we still don’t have a PS5 price or a PS5 release date, we’re not taking anything for granted in this coronavirus...
News Demon's Souls PS5 Remake Rated for Release in Korea, Japan
Is it a launch title?
It's no longer just Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales that can boast of a Korean rating as far as upcoming PlayStation 5 games go. The Demon's Souls remake joins the club, as spotted by Gematsu, and what's more, it has also been rated for release in Japan. Of course, these games were always going to launch in those territories...
News Ghost of Tsushima Patch 1.07 Boosts Stick Tolerance and Fixes More Bugs
Available to download now
Sucker Punch Productions has been very good about releasing a new patch for Ghost of Tsushima on a weekly basis ever since launch last month, and it's no different this time around. Patch 1.07 can be downloaded right now on PlayStation 4, bringing with it some smaller tweaks, fixes, and additions. The biggest of which is...
News PS5 UI Concept Imagined by Animator
How it could look
We’ve seen a few scant seconds of the PlayStation 5’s user interface thus far, as Sony teased it during its next-gen reveal event. Brazilian animator and graphic artist Paulo Manso has taken it upon himself to expand upon the sample, creating a concept of what the system’s main menu could eventually look like. It remains...
News This Is How Your PS4 Controller Works
Understand the engineering behind your pad
Considering how many hours we spend with a DualShock 4 controller in our hands, we’ve never really wondered how it all works. Oh, we complain about the short battery life or the wear and tear that can occur to the plastic of the analogue sticks – but how does it know that we, er, keep pushing square?...
News Sony Celebrates the UEFA Champions League Final with Free PS4 Theme
Die besten
Paris Saint-Germain have already booked their place in the UEFA Champions League final, but they’re likely to face stiff competition from German juggernaut Bayern Munich – unless Lyon can make it an all French final tonight with the biggest upset since, well, when they beat Manchester City the other day. You’ve no doubt already seen...
News PlayStation Store Games Under £16/$20 Sale Has Excellent PS4 Deals
Castlevania! Metal Gear! Ni no Kuni!
Bit of a weird name for this one, but we move. A new PlayStation Store sale is now live and it's titled Games Under Promotion -- we take this to mean a larger cluster of the usual Games Under £16 and Games Under £4 discounts that pop up time and again. This sale is now live through until midnight on 1st...
Reminder This Is Your Last Chance to Get a Bargain in PS Store Summer Sale
Act fast
If you've been eyeing up a PlayStation 4 game that is currently part of the PlayStation Store Summer Sale, you've only got a couple of hours left to claim it. The promotion ends at midnight on Wednesday as another set of deals takes over in the morning of the same day. The final round of the sale includes Final Fantasy VII Remake for...
News Ghost of Tsushima: Legends Will Not Have Any Microtransactions
And there are no plans to add them
Microtransactions are the bane of many gamer's existence, so much so they will actively avoid certain titles completely purely because they exist. That's taking things a little overboard in our opinion, but you will be happy to learn that the newly announced add-on to Ghost of Tsushima will not include any of them...
News Ghost of Tsushima: Legends Is a Free Co-Op Multiplayer Mode
Coming this year
Fresh from its record-breaking single player success, Ghost of Tsushima will enter the realm of online co-op later this year, as Sucker Punch refreshes the open worlder with a free update. Announced on the PlayStation Blog, the all-new Ghost of Tsushima: Legends mode will whisk up to four players away
News What's the Latest on the Rumoured Silent Hill PS5 Project?
There was a game here. It's gone now
Just a few months ago, the announcement of a new Silent Hill game on PlayStation 5 seemed like an inevitability. No matter whether it was a platform exclusive or not, rumours were rife of a reveal at Sony's Future of Gaming event and there was good reason to believe them. The thinking was that the project had...
News PlayStation Blog's The Drop Post Has Been Missing for Two Months Now
Radio silence
It's pretty safe to say that the recent revamp of the PlayStation Blog didn't go down all that well with everyone -- those residing anywhere outside of the US especially. Monthly PS Now updates regularly haven't included the full line-up of additions and PlayStation Store sale articles arrived late. However, the biggest casualty was a...
Random Deep Fake Puts Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst in Marvel's Spider-Man
Great power, great responsibility
These deep fakes are getting better – and, honestly, a lot creepier. We suppose it was inevitable that someone, somewhere would eventually put the cast of the 2002 Spider-Man movie in Marvel’s Spider-Man, and that someone is YouTube user BabyZone. Tobey Maguire features as the titular web-slinger, while Kirsten...
News There's Been a Big Scandal About Whether PS5 Can Run Games in 4K
But it's all hearsay
If you’ve pressed your ear close to social media this week, you may have heard some rumblings about the PlayStation 5’s purported “inability” to run games at native4K resolution. It’s been a big topic for days now, but it appears to have come to a head this weekend – with even one developer speaking out against the...
News The Last of Us 2 Is Sony's Third Best-Seller in US History
Already
The Last of Us: Part II launched in June, but revealed as part of the July NPD report, life-to-date dollar sales of the sequel are already the third-highest in Sony history. This means that only Marvel’s Spider-Man and God of War have sold more in the United States so far, and both have been available significantly longer. Despite topping
News The First 50 People to Platinum Ghost of Tsushima In Company Contest Got a Cool Prize from Sony
Keep your guard up
Apparently, Sony recently ran an "internal competition" regarding Ghost of Tsushima. As @Birdman_Drew -- game designer at Horizon developer Guerrilla Games -- explains, the first 50 employees to obtain the the title's Platinum Trophy were rewarded with a nice little prize. Arriving in a seriously neat wooden box, the top 50...
News Ghost of Tsushima Is Sony's Fourth Best Launch in US History
Sucker punch
Wow, the records keep getting broken for PlayStation’s first-party titles. According to the July NPD report, Ghost of Tsushima enjoyed the fourth biggest launch month dollar sales in US history for a Sony published title. That means, only Marvel’s Spider-Man, The Last of Us: Part II, and God
News PlayStation Heroes Appear Alongside Tom Hanks in Sony Puff Piece
Heroes are all around us
A new marketing puff piece, produced and released by Sony, showcases some of PlayStation’s biggest heroes alongside some of the organisation’s other major productions. Deacon St John from Days Gone stars with Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn and Kratos from God of War, as the increasingly entertainment focused firm shows off...
News PS5 Spin-Off Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Is a 'Complete Story'
Will do justice to the character
Insomniac Games revealed a new screenshot of PlayStation 5 exclusive Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales earlier today, and it accompanied the image with an interview that was published by Entertainment Weekly. In the back-and-forth between the publication and creative director Brian Horton, the developer explains...
News Here's a New Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales PS5 Screenshot
Just one
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales is the biggest next-gen launch game going right now, and we can't wait to catch our next glimpse of it in action following Sony's Future of Gaming event back in June. Entertainment Weekly has helped us along that path, however, with a brand new screenshot of the PlayStation 5 title. It doesn't really give...
News Ghost of Tsushima Has the Most Impressive Metacritic User Score of the Console Generation
For the Jin
We bloody love Ghost of Tsushima here at Push Square, but the open world adventure didn't resonate so well with everyone. The game sits at a very respectable but not quite mind-blowing 83 Metascore on Metacritic, but much like fellow PlayStation 4 exclusive Days Gone, Ghost has gone down brilliantly with its wider audience. The game...
News Everyone's Talking About PS5's Price Again
Concern over high costs continue
We’re still eagerly anticipating a PlayStation 5 price announcement, but speculation seems to ebb and flow in enthusiast circles, with the delay of Halo: Infinite this week seemingly bringing a fresh round of concern regarding the cost of Sony’s next-gen console. And infamous Games Beat reporter Jeff Grubb,...
