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News The Last of Us 2 Delayed to May 2020
Update: Delay confirmed
Update: Neil Druckmann has taken to the PlayStation Blog to confirm the delay to The Last of Us: Part II. The game will now be launching on 29th May, 2020. "While we’re relieved that we won’t have to compromise our vision, we’re disappointed that we weren’t able to avoid this exact situation," Druckmann says. "We...
News Cross-Play for ReadySet Heroes Should Give Dwindling Online Community a Boost
Coming 29th October
Poor old ReadySet Heroes. The Sony-published title hardly made a splash when it launched on PlayStation 4 and PC on 1st October, so much so that we reckon a good portion of you haven't even heard of the game to begin with. We awarded it a 4/10 in the Push Square review but one of our biggest criticisms, the lack of an online...
News This Is How Hard Sony's Pushing PS Now At the Moment
The Keita success
Sony’s always been very humble when it comes to PlayStation Now, keeping it out of the game streaming conversation when it’s still currently the only company on the market with a working solution. That’s changed since the Japanese giant dropped the price, as it’s been promoting the heck out of the subscription, running...
News Conan O'Brien Will Give You an Otter Hat in Death Stranding, Obviously
Otterly ridiculous
We think it's safe to say Death Stranding is going to be chock full of cameos. All those celebrity guests that have appeared in Kojima Productions' white hallway are probably going to crop up in the PlayStation 4 adventure somewhere. We know that Hideo Kojima's biggest admirer, the one and only Geoff Keighley, is in the game as a...
News Sony Job Listing Describes PS5 as 'Upcoming World's Fastest Console'
Gotta go fast
Now would be an interesting time to begin working at PlayStation. As the focus shifts from PS4 to PS5, we imagine there must be a great deal of excitement among all the teams at SIE. Handily, there are currently plenty of jobs going across all kinds of sectors, and we'd wager most of them are turning their attention to the next-gen...
Talking Point If Bluepoint Games Isn't Working on Demon's Souls, What's Your Dream Sony Remake?
Dreams v Reality
Bluepoint Games, the studio behind the masterful remake of Shadow of the Colossus, is working on its next project. Primed for PlayStation 5, it's more than likely going to be another Sony IP brought back from the dead that will be revitalized in all its 4K glory. The question is though, what game will it be? Rumours of a Demon's...
News The Last of Us 2 Is Trying to Create the Most 'Complex, Nuanced Character' in Gaming
"We're certainly not going to coddle her"
It's becoming increasingly clear that The Last of Us: Part II is going to be an emotional, stressful journey from beginning to end for most players. It's a game about getting revenge in a hostile environment after the world fell apart, and as its protagonist, it seems like Ellie really will be the centre of...
Review MediEvil - A Successful Resurrection of a Flawed But Fun Adventure
Undead and loving it
Remakes of fondly remembered favourites always have a tough call to make: should they remain faithful to the source material, or make improvements and changes to modernise the old-school design? The answer usually lies somewhere in between. MediEvil is the latest PSone classic to be brought back to life, and it errs on the side...
News Death Stranding Spoilers Abound as Leaks Spread Online
Tomorrow is out of your hands?
It's no secret that Death Stranding is currently in the hands of gaming media, YouTubers, and more ahead of the game's impending release. The review embargo has been well documented; we'll be reading up on Hideo Kojima's obscure PlayStation 4 title on 1st November. However, some people with early access to the game...
Hands On Iron Man VR Is the Next Big Thing for PSVR
Stark would be proud
It feels like major PlayStation VR releases have dried up as of late. Sure, the likes of Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot and Vacation Simulator were fun enough, but it doesn't seem like virtual reality has really made any waves since Blood & Truth nearly six months ago. It's a quiet period indeed, but there is one PSVR title we're...
Random Death Stranding Fan Art Is Getting Seriously Impressive
Tomorrow is in your paint brush
In just over two weeks, we’ll all be able to experience Death Stranding for ourselves. Imagine thinking you’d be able to say that in October 2019 six months ago. Anticipation for the PlayStation 4 exclusive is at an all-time high, so those talented in the arts have taken to creating their own images that capture...
Rumour PS4 Will Be Less Than $150 This Black Friday
How low can you go?
Sony’s shaping up to sell a lot of consoles this coming Black Friday 2019, as a leaked Walmart ad suggests that the system will be available for less than $150 this holiday. The savings apply to the standard 1TB Slim model, which doesn’t come with any software. Meanwhile, the PS4 Pro will purportedly be available at $299 –...
Hands On Predator: Hunting Grounds Has a Ways to Go Before It Realises Potential
Target acquired
Sony has made it clear that its catalogue of multiplayer-focused titles needs some fleshing out. The days of MAG and SOCOM are long gone, so the hardware manufacturer has employed developer Illfonic to develop a worthy online asymmetric experience that could act as a bit of a test bed before we head into the next generation...
News MLB The Show 20 Swings for the Fences from 17th March
Chicago Cubs' magician on the cover
MLB The Show 19 is currently free on PlayStation Plus, but as the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals prepare to do battle for the title of World Champions, developer Sony San Diego has announced next year’s instalment in its flagship baseball franchise. Scheduled to release from 17th March, MLB The Show 20...
News Death Stranding's Launch Trailer Will Be Its Own Mini Masterpiece
And it's finished
Say what you will about industry auteur Hideo Kojima: he knows how to cut a trailer. The former Konami man has been personally editing outstanding teaser videos for his titles for years now, and every promotional piece he’s put out for Death Standing thus far has been a mini masterpiece. That he’s wrapped up the launch trailer...
News PS5's Devkit Looks Like a Monster in Visualisation
Beast mode
We’re beginning to get a better idea of what the PlayStation 5’s devkit looks like, and these visualisations based on a leaked photograph give us the best view yet. Rendered by Dutch website Let’s Go Digital, the images are based upon
News PS Plus Is Paying for the Pizza This Weekend with UK Domino's Deal
Pick one with pineapple
Enjoying your Sunday evening? It could be about to get even better, as PlayStation Plus members in the UK can order any pizza, any size from Domino’s Pizza for the reduced rate of £10.99 through here. This means that you can stock up on a large Texas BBQ and American Hot for a little over a £20 note – not exactly a bad...
Random This Is What a Storm Could Look Like on PS5
Bring the rain
There’s nothing better than a big storm to add plenty of foreboding atmosphere to a scene. Batman: Arkham Knight, for example, was set in a perpetually rainy sandbox – it was depressing, but it suited the miserable mood of Rocksteady’s game. How good could thunder and lightning look on PlayStation 5, then? Real good if this...
News Days Gone Developer in Pre-Production on Next Title
Next-gen beckons
Days Gone was a huge hit for first-party developer Sony Bend, and now the Oregon-based outfit is beginning pre-production on its next project. Senior Staff Lighting Lead Jeremy Vickery – who led the lighting team on Deacon St John’s debut – revealed on his LinkedIn profile that he’s “now involved in the pre-production...
News First PS5 Devkit Photograph Finds Its Way Online
V for vendetta
Remember when the first sketches of the PlayStation 5 devkit popped up online and we weren’t sure whether they were real or a hoax? It’s since emerged that the heavily ventilated box with the cut-out ‘V’ shape is indeed the real deal, and you’ll find it in the office of dozens of developers around the world. Want more proof:...
News Did Hideo Kojima Actually Have the Idea for Death Stranding More Than Seven Years Ago?
"A game that connects people"
Much has been made of how quickly Death Stranding has come together. Announced at E3 2016, it wasn't until December of that same year that the game was even running on a PlayStation 4 engine - Horizon: Zero Dawn's Decima engine. Clearly, a lot of work has gone into the
News Insomniac Games Celebrates Sony Acquisition By Partying the Night Away
Shu Yoshida with the goodies
It's been exactly two months since Sony acquired Marvel's Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games, but it appears that the team at the Burbank campus has only just gotten around to celebrating the purchase properly. The studio has put on a special team lunch for all employees, with the likes of PlayStation's Mark Cerny and...
News Free Update Adds New Challenges to PSVR Shooter Blood & Truth
Available now
One aspect of Blood & Truth we love is its "gun-fu" combat. Sure, you can blast away enemies as in any other shooter, but this PlayStation VR action game takes things up a notch, allowing you to spin weapons around, reload in mid-air, and more. It makes for extremely expressive and tactile shooting ranges, and it's great fun...
News Death Stranding Gets a Fresh Japanese Trailer with Glimpses of New Footage
Tomorrow is in your hands
We've certainly had our fair share of Death Stranding trailers -- but how about one more for the road? A brand new promo has found its way onto PlayStation Japan's YouTube channel, showing off the Hideo Kojima oddity one more time before next month's launch. While most of it is made up of previously released material, there...
Feature How We Think Horizon: Zero Dawn 2 Will Champion PS5's Biggest New Features
Guerrilla's sequel primed to be the face of PS5
We're in an exciting time for PlayStation. While Sony itself is behaving rather reclusively about its next-gen machine, details about PS5 are starting to emerge. Wired recently revealed a few morsels of information, detailing some of the new bells and whistles that will take
News PS5 Price Will Land Between $400 and $500 Says Poll, But $500 to $600 Isn't Out of the Question
Start saving
Last week, we hosted a poll following on from the latest PlayStation 5 info dump. We asked readers about the cost of the next-gen console, offering five different options ranging from below $300 to above $600. Over 1,800 of you voted, and you can see the results below. As it turns out, 45 per cent of readers reckon the PS5 will be...
News When Is the Death Stranding Review Embargo?
When will Death Stranding reviews arrive?
Death Stranding is very nearly here. Kojima Productions has wrapped up development and review copies are out there -- it almost doesn't seem possible. Hideo Kojima's crazy game about Norman Reedus and a baby escaping black blob monsters is real? And it's coming out in about two weeks? Yes, it's all very...
News PS5's Controller Could Reduce Latency with PlayStation Now
Direct input
Sony’s been in the streaming business for years now, but it’s finally taking it seriously. As reported earlier today, PlayStation Now will continue to be supported on the PlayStation 5, and the console’s controller could have a big advantage for those looking to subscribe to the service. As discovered by Dutch website Techtastic,...
Feature Uncharted 2 Kickstarted a New Age of First Party Success for Sony
10 years of hits
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. It's a notable game for so many reasons, but many will simply remember it as an unbelievably strong sequel. Naughty Dog was already a highly regarded studio, but with its follow-up to Drake's Fortune, the developer cemented itself as one of the most talented in the...
News Unsurprisingly, PlayStation Now Will Be Available on PS5
The future is now
Sony has really started pushing PlayStation Now recently, dropping the price of the service and adding blockbuster PlayStation 4 games to its lineup. It comes as no real surprise, then, to hear that the company will be bringing PS Now to the PlayStation 5, which is launching late next year. In an interview with Japanese...
News Fans Want Ex-Ghostwire: Tokyo Director Ikumi Nakamura to Join Sony
Sound the Siren
Ex-Ghostwire: Tokyo creative director Ikumi Nakamura captured the attention (and hearts) of gamers around the world when she revealed Tango Gameworks’ next project at E3 2018 earlier in the year. Unfortunately, she’s since parted ways with the Tokyo-based studio, and fans are hoping that she may have a future with Sony’s...
News PlayStation Awards Returns to Celebrate PS4's Biggest Sellers in Japan
Live in December
Sony's annual PlayStation Awards ceremony highlights the year's best selling software in the company's homeland. This year's event has now been dated for 3rd December, and will recognise Asia's best performing PS4 games. While most of the awards are based on sales, there are one or two outliers. The user's choice award, for...
News EU PlayStation Store Halloween Sale Has Plenty of PS4 Treats
And that's no trick
The regional PlayStation Stores will often have their own sales, but occasionally there's some crossover. The Halloween sale is one such example; the North American sale just got started, but those in Europe can now also celebrate the haunting holiday. Lasting through to 1st November, there's a wide range of spooky scary PS4...
Talking Point What if the PS5 Could Play Games from Every PlayStation Console?
A pipedream?
Here’s an outlandish idea: what if the PlayStation 5 could play games from every PlayStation console ever made – including the handhelds? To be clear, that would include: PS5, PS4, PS3, PS2, PSone, PS Vita, and PSP – the manufacturer’s entire 25 year history, in one device. Obviously, we wouldn’t expect the next-gen console to...
News US PS Store Sale Spotlights Spooky Titles Ahead of Halloween
Player beware, you're in for a scare
Fancy something a little darker to celebrate the shorter days? Sony’s celebrating Halloween with a new US PlayStation Store sale, spanning dozens of spooky titles – including essentials like Alien: Isolation ($11.99), Outlast ($4.99), and Resident Evil 2 ($29.99). There are some confusing inclusions here –...
News Google Stadia Brings PS Now's First Real Competitor on 19th November
The streaming wars start now
PlayStation Now may have been discarded from the conversation, but it’s still the only game streaming service currently on the market. That changes on 19th November, as Google gears up the release of its Stadia initiative. The launch will be limited to begin with, as the search engine giant sells off its Founder’s...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Developer Guerrilla Games Is in Sweden to Do Motion Capture Work
Horizon: Zero Dawn 2?
Guerrilla Games, the Dutch developer that brought us Horizon: Zero Dawn and the Killzone series, is hard at work behind the scenes and has been for a number of years. One of Sony's key first-party studios, Guerrilla is presumably prepping a sequel to the aforementioned open world adventure, and so news of the company's latest...
News MediEvil's PS4 Trophy List Has an Achievable Platinum
Old School Sneaky
MediEvil's PlayStation 4 release is just over a week away now, which means it's time for its Trophy list to make its way online early. Exophase, as usual, has the full list of trinkets you'll be able to earn in this remake of the PSone classic, and it looks like earning the Platinum Trophy won't be too hard of a task. In order to...
Soapbox Sony Is Doing Its Smaller Exclusives a Disservice
Sammy's irked by PlayStation's poor promotion
Concrete Genie isn’t the first PlayStation exclusive to get short shrift from publisher Sony, and it certainly won’t be the last. The platform holder’s back catalogue is peppered with interesting experiences that it failed to commit enough resources to: Puppeteer, Tokyo Jungle, Bound, Gravity Rush...
News Concrete Genie Has 'Nothing Specific Planned' for DLC
Watch this space, however
Concrete Genie is a lovely PlayStation 4 exclusive with extensive artistic features and mechanics. We say that because it feels like its launch last week passed pretty much everyone by, so much so that it debuted in the UK physical sales charts down in the 35th position. It's a nice, little game but it looks like the...
News Bloodborne Is the Best Souls Game, and Even Souls Creator Knows It
Miyazaki knows best
Every entry in the Souls series, spanning from 2009's Demon's Souls right up until its latest releases, is a bonafide classic. We'll never forget our first experience with Dark Souls, but when it comes down to which is the very best, we think the answer is quite clear. The PlayStation 4 exclusive Bloodborne takes top spot, and as...
News Death Stranding's File Size Will Eat Up a Fair Amount of Room on Your PS4
As expected
File size is something people are becoming increasingly concerned with, as modern games take up more and more precious storage space on our consoles. Red Dead Redemption 2 famously eats up more or less 100GB of space just on its own, and some other AAA games are trending that way too. What about Death Stranding, then? How much room will...
Reminder Sony's Celebrating the Third Anniversary of PSVR with a Big PlayStation Store Sale
VRy nice
PlayStation VR is now three years old, and Sony isn't letting that go totally unrecognised. In case you missed it, a PSVR specific sale is currently underway on both the European and North American PlayStation Stores, offering up lots of savings on a wide range of virtual reality titles. The sale lasts until 23rd October, meaning you have...
Random Untitled Goose Game Infiltrates Metal Gear Solid in Incredible Dreams Creation
Honk honk!
The creations coming out of Dreams just keep on getting better and better. That pesky goose from Untitled Goose Game is the next popular character to feature in a video game mashup only made possible by the upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive, and it has decided to take the place of Solid Snake and infiltrate Shadow Moses itself. The video...
Round Up All New PS5 Info from Sony - Name, Release Date, Controller, User Interface, and More
Sony spills the beans
Sony has dropped another PlayStation 5 information bomb out of nowhere, once again detailing the next-gen console in an exclusive Wired article. Although we're yet to see the machine, we now know quite a bit about it, including its official name, its confirmed release window, what its controller is like, what the console's user...
News PS5 Is 'Not Just About the Future, But Also About the Past', Insider Claims
Linked to Demon's Souls
We all thought we were gearing up for full PlayStation 4 backwards compatibility with the PS5 a few months ago, but after a vague statement from Sony suggested that it's possible not every current-gen game will work on Sony's next system, we started to have some concerns. However, while it's in no way confirmation of...
Poll What Are Your Thoughts on the PS5, Now That More Details Have Been Revealed?
Are you ready for next-gen?
For the second time, Sony dropped a PlayStation 5 info bomb out of nowhere earlier this week. The company confirmed that the console will indeed be called the PlayStation 5, and that it'll release in late 2020. It even detailed the machine's next-gen controller, and discussed its user interface. If you somehow missed the...
News Death Stranding PS4 Pre-Orders in the UK Can Get a Cool Alternative Cover
Higgs variant available now
We kinda like the standard Death Stranding box art, but a fair amount of fans have made it clear it's not what they want. The strange PlayStation 4 game from Kojima Productions is looking utterly bizarre, but by comparison, the key artwork adorning the box is pretty tame. However, did you know that there's an alternate...
Random Fanmade PS5 Boot Up Screen Is the Perfect Use of Nostalgia
PSone x PS5
Has Sony ever managed to do better than its original PSone boot up sequence? Those visuals and the audio that accompanies them are firmly planted in our own brains, becoming a part of childhood memories for many. Any PlayStation fan has at least some reverence for those couple of seconds before Sony's first console launches a game, so...
News Souls Director Miyazaki Says Making Bloodborne 2 Isn't His Call
Sony, we're waiting
Ah, the ever elusive Bloodborne 2. Will it ever get made? Does it already exist in some early form? We don't know, but we do know that the internet loves spreading rumours about it. Fortunately, this story isn't based on a rumour -- it comes from the words of FromSoftware president and Father of Souls Hidetaka Miyazaki, who told...
