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News Sony's Flogging Days Gone Harder Than a Freaker Who Keeps Getting Back Up
Alive and kicking
Days Gone has been the apple of Sony’s eye for a good six months now, and the publisher continues to find new ways to create promotional videos ahead of launch. This latest clip is billed as a gameplay trailer, but in essence it’s 30 seconds of YouTube pre-roll designed to push pre-orders as the title shuffles agonisingly close...
News God of War's Getting Its Own Full-Length Documentary Soon
And you can watch for free
Do you remember the original God of War trilogy shipped with a bunch of behind-the-scenes videos that you could watch once you completed the game? We were a little bit disappointed they never made it into last year’s critically acclaimed soft-reboot, but PlayStation’s gone one better: it’s shot a full-length...
News Spider-Man Uses Your PS4's Internal Clock for a Nifty Easter Egg
How about Shabbat
Ever spotted the Jewish NPCs out-and-about while swinging through New York City in Marvel’s Spider-Man? Well, one thing’s for sure, you won’t have seen them anywhere on Saturday, as the exclusive uses your PlayStation 4’s internal clock to give the characters their day of rest during Shabbat. The tidbit was confirmed by...
News Insiders Claim That Next Xbox Is More Advanced Than PS5
It begins
Sony officially unveiled the first details regarding the PlayStation 5 this week, catching the industry somewhat by surprise in the process. Many had expected Microsoft to move first at E3 2019 in a few weeks, but it seems the Japanese giant had other ideas. Of course, Xbox chief Phil Spencer alluded in Los Angeles last year that it will...
Poll One Year Old Today, Have Your Thoughts on God of War Changed?
Questions must be axed
Happy birthday, God of War! Sony Santa Monica's masterpiece is one year old today, originally releasing on the 20th April, 2018. The title was met with universal praise, farming countless 10/10 review scores, and walking away with dozens of Game of the Year awards. As far as we're concerned, it remains one of the PlayStation...
News God of War Superfan Wins Guinness World Record for Largest Memorabilia Collection
Grab some tissues
God of War has been celebrating its first year on the market for the past week, but Cory Barlog and the team at Sony Santa Monica studio also used the occasion as an opportunity to give back to the community. Emanuel Mojica Rosas in particular, who during a visit to the studio, was presented with the Guinness World Record for the...
Big savings on big games
The US PlayStation Store has just kicked off a flash sale over the Easter weekend, lasting from now through until 8am PT on 22nd April. It slashes the prices on multiple high-profile games such as The Division 2, Metro: Exodus, and
News Days Gone Counts Down to Launch with Free Theme and Avatar Pack in the US
No freebies for EU accounts
We'll all be playing Days Gone in exactly a week's time, and Sony is counting down to that fact with a free theme and avatar pack. This is a gift that is currently only available overseas in the US and Canada, meaning that those residing in Europe and the UK, such as ourselves, are out of luck. Follow this link and...
News Shooting for The Last of Us: Part 2 Is All Wrapped Up
2019, we hear you cry
Is The Last of Us: Part II actually releasing this year? A lot of people are starting to think so, and although we're not quite convinced just yet, it does seem as though the project has hit an important milestone. Over on Twitter, director and writer Neil Druckmann has stated that "the most ambitious cinematic shoot we’ve...
News PlayStation Shares Some of Dreams' First Early Access Creations
Bringing it all to life
Dreams launched in early access yesterday, and some of its initial creations are already popping up all over social media. Courtesy of the PlayStation Europe Twitter account, we've been able to get a quick look at what players are working on. Check out just some of the creations made in Dreams below. That'
Poll What Are Your Thoughts on the PS5?
The next-gen hype train has arrived
When we stepped into the Push Square office at the start of the week, we didn't think for a second that we'd be covering the PS5. And by that, we mean the actual PS5. Not rumours, not speculation, but concrete, official details on the next-gen console itself. It's been a wild ride to say the least. Of course, as...
News The Final Scene of The Last of Us: Part 2 Has Been Shot
The end
So, how is development coming along on The Last of Us: Part 2? We've no real idea, of course, but every so often we get a little clue. Neil Druckmann, director on the hotly anticipated sequel, has taken to Twitter to share that the very last scene in the game has now been filmed. The shot of the script does contain a spoiler, which is a bit...
News The Massive EU PlayStation Store Spring Sale Just Got Even Bigger
More games added
Earlier this month, Sony kicked off the Spring Sale on the European PlayStation Store. Featuring hundreds of titles big and small, it's another monster promotion, but it's just been taken up a notch. Even more games are now included, as the platform holder has announced on PlayStation Blog. Some of the additions include big, pretty...
Reaction Sony's Surprise PS5 Reveal Was a Stroke of Genius
Shock and awe
We’ve been here before, haven’t we? I remember the halcyon days of 2013, when a less jaded Sammy and a much smaller Push Square quivered with anticipation as Sony announced the PlayStation Meeting which would later play host to the PlayStation 4. The event was revealed days after a cunning Kaz Hirai had told a business broadsheet...
News PS5's Price Will Be 'Appealing to Gamers', Says Cerny
But what does that mean?
There’s no question that the PlayStation 5 sounds incredible, but considering its impressive roster of features, it also sounds pretty pricey. As you probably already know, SSD drives don’t exactly come cheap – and nor does
News PS Move Poised to Persist into PS5 Generation
Wand-erful
If you went back to 2010 and told us that the PlayStation Move would not only be relevant ten years later but actually sought after, we’d have spat in your Vanilla Coca-Cola. Sony’s illuminating wands were seen as the losers of the motion control war, beaten out by the vastly more popular Nintendo Wii and Xbox Kinect. But while those...
News God of War Gets Its Very Own Card Game, Launches Later This Year
Card of War
God of War is a year old this month, and it seems Sony isn't stopping at just free themes and avatars. Board game developer CMON has announced that it's hard at work on a card game based on Kratos' Norse adventure, imaginatively named God of War: The Card Game. "In God of War: The Card Game,
News Days Gone Will Eat a Whopping Portion of Your PS4's Hard Drive
Freakin' huge
Days Gone is a monster in pretty much every sense of the word, with the title taking up an outstanding 67GB of hard drive space. This is the full size of the title once its day one patch has been installed, which itself is around 20GB. Considering the sheer amount of pre-rendered video that’s in the game, it’s not an enormous...
Round Up Everything We Know About PS5 So Far
All of the next-gen headlines
Sony took the entire industry by surprise today, effectively announcing the PlayStation 5 as part of a Wired exclusive on an otherwise ordinary Tuesday afternoon. The super-charged console, which is promising revolution rather than evolution, has been built using the same blueprints as the PlayStation 4 – meaning that...
News Sony Wants to Give Devs Time to Adjust to PS5's Capabilities
Studios already have devkits
Sony surprisingly announced the official existence of the PlayStation 5 today, outlining various details about the next-gen console. And tucked away in Wired’s article is confirmation that developers already have access to the device – and that the company is ramping up the deployment of devkits in order to ensure...
News Sony's Censorship Guidelines Tackle Sexually Explicit Depictions of Underage Characters
Company concerned about global reputation
As has been obvious for some time, Sony is cracking down on sexually explicit material as it pertains to questionably aged characters. While the specifics of its regulations remain underwraps, a Wall Street Journal report on the recently introduced policy reveals that the Japanese company has become...
News US PlayStation Store Discounts God of War Series in Anniversary Sale
Boy, those are some good prices
As has now been well documented, the excellent PlayStation 4 exclusive God of War is now a year old, and Sony is celebrating with videos, freebies, and more. As part of these festivities, the entire series is now going cheap over on the North American PS Store, including the latest and greatest. The Norse adventur
News Sony Not Yet Ready to Talk About PS5 Price, Games, or Services
Just the specs for now
In case you haven't heard, the PS5 has been revealed. Well, in text form, at least. Wired has published an exclusive article all about Sony's next-gen machine. It includes a load of technical specifications and other drool-inducing details. In short, the PS5 sounds like a monster of a console. But what about the other...
News PS5 Specs Expand to Ray Tracing, Bringing Hollywood Effects to the Home
New territory for consoles
We’ve published a lot of information on the PlayStation 5 today, but you may be wondering about the console’s hardware specifications. Well, according to a new Wired article, the system’s built upon an AMD chip as expected. “The CPU is based on the third generation of AMD’s Ryzen line and contains eight cores of...
News PS5 Will Support 8K Graphics
Future proofed
8K televisions certainly aren't mainstream just yet -- some would argue that even 4K displays aren't quite mainstream yet -- but it's been confirmed that the PS5 will support 8K graphics. In Wired's PS5 info blowout article, it's stated that Sony's next-gen device will be able handle 8K resolution, but right now, it's obviously...
News Mark Cerny Says the PS5's Specialised Solid-State Drive Is the 'Key' to Next-Gen
Developers asked Sony for it
The PS5 will make use of a "specialised" SSD, or solid-state drive, allowing for crazy fast load times and unprecedented console game performance. Said SSD is "key" to the next-gen console, according to Mark Cerny, the brain behind the PS4, and now, the upcoming PS5. Cerny describes the introduction of an SSD as "a true...
News Sony on Google Stadia: We're Cloud Gaming Pioneers
"Our vision should become clear"
Sony’s next-generation console will not forego the staples that we’ve come to expect from a PlayStation platform. It will still feature a disc drive, and you will be able to play games using physical media – it’s as traditional as hardware comes in those respects, then. That doesn’t mean that the Japanese...
News Sounds Like Death Stranding Could Release on Both PS4 and PS5
Cross-gen Kojima
There's a lot of information to soak in from this PlayStation 5 article from Wired, but something tucked away near the end has grabbed our attention. Whether Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding will appear on PS5 as well as PS4 has been up for debate for a while now, and although nothing has been confirmed, the report seems to imply the...
News Sony Has Been Building PS5 for Four Years Already
Much more than a "mere upgrade"
Sony has been working on the PlayStation 5 for the past four years, meaning that work got underway at some point in 2015 – little over a year after the PlayStation 4 launched. According to a new Wired article, the system is not being built as a “mere upgrade” like, say, the PS4 Pro before it. Instead, the...
News Don't Worry, PS5 Will Have a Disc Drive
Physical media still part of the system
We now know that the PlayStation 5 will be backwards compatible with PS4 games, thanks to this exclusive report from Wired, but what about physical copies specifically? Will PS5 be able to read discs? Good news: it'll support physical media as well as digital. "For example, the next-gen console will still...
News PS5 Will Innovate How Game Audio Is Processed
Has a custom unit for 3D sound
One of the things that frustrated system architect Mark Cerny during the transition from the PlayStation 3 to the PlayStation 4 is how audio didn’t really change. It’s one of the things he’s trying to rectify with the PlayStation 5, and Sony’s new console will come with a custom chip designed specifically to...
News PS5 Will Be Compatible with PSVR, Says Mark Cerny
Sony says VR is "very important"
In the huge information blowout regarding PlayStation 5 today, lead system architect Mark Cerny has affirmed Sony's stance on PSVR, and how it'll come into play when next gen arrives. Essentially, the current PlayStation VR unit will work with PS5. Although Cerny isn't willing to give up any details about the future...
News Sony Has Just Revealed the PS5, Not Launching This Year
Super-powered console already in the hands of devs
Sony has just announced the PlayStation 5 – or, to be more specific, its “next-gen console”. An exclusive article published by Wired today reveals intricate secrets about what the company has been cooking – and it gives us a much better idea of what to expect. In short, it’s super-powered,...
News That God of War One Year Anniversary PS4 Theme Is Hiding a Secret Message
But does it mean anything?
A few days ago, Sony and Santa Monica Studio celebrated the first anniversary of God of War with a couple of free goodies, such as the above PlayStation 4 theme. It's a nice gesture in itself that fans will certainly appreciate, but little did we know that there's more to it than you might first think. Ever vigilant
News Dreams Early Access Is Rolling Out Right Now on PS4
Snag your copy before it's too late
It's finally here, everyone -- Dreams Early Access launches today on PlayStation 4, and it's beginning to show up on the PlayStation Store across Europe. If you need a link, click here to go to the game's page. It might not be live where you are just yet, but it should be available to purchase any minute now...
Guide Dreams Early Access - Dates, Times, and Everything You Need to Know
How and when to get the early version of Dreams
Media Molecule's Dreams has been a long time coming, and while it's technically still not done, we're now just hours away from the arrival of the Early Access release. Following on from the successful beta test, the studio is now ready to release its highly ambitious creative sandbox to a wider...
News PS Plus Is Offering More and You May Not Realise It
Added bonuses
There’s a post on PlayStation’s Hungarian Facebook page which is getting a lot of attention today, suggesting that PlayStation Plus is about to get “even better”. It’s led to all kinds of speculation, as you may expect, spanning additional free games through to new features. But what you may not know is that PS Plus Rewards...
News Watch Nolan North and Troy Baker Play Through Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Role playing game
This is pretty interesting. Nolan North, most famous for playing Nathan Drake in the PlayStation exclusive Uncharted series, has said before that he doesn't really play the games once they come out. However, last year, he and fellow voice actor Troy Baker began a YouTube channel named Retro Replay, a let's play channel where the...
News God of War Director Reiterates That There Will Be No DLC
Just to be clear
God of War director Cory Barlog has reiterated that no, God of War ain't getting any DLC. Obviously it's been a whole year since the game launched, so at this point no one's really expecting any additional adventures with big daddy Kratos, but after a brief tease over on Twitter, Barlog quickly shot down any fresh speculation...
Soapbox One Year Later and God of War's Overall Quality Still Blows My Mind
Looking back at one of the PS4's best
Can you believe that it's already been one whole year since God of War launched? Sony just celebrated the game's anniversary by releasing a bunch of free avatars and a PlayStation 4 theme, and it got me thinking about just how good God of War is as an action adventure title. I think it's a game that oozes...
News Sony Offering Free Game of Thrones PS4 Theme and Avatars in the US
For a limited time only
The final season of the massively popular fantasy drama, Game of Thrones, has begun, and to celebrate, Sony's doling out some freebies for those in North America. In addition to the recent celebratory God of War goodies, you'll be able to get your hands on a dynamic PlayStation 4 theme and avatars based on the HBO show...
News God of War Celebrates One Year Anniversary with Thank You Video, Free Theme, and Avatars
Pour one out for the gods
In just under a week from now, 2018's God of War will officially be one year old. Releasing to a number of perfect scores and general praise across the board, it was also voted Push Square's Game of the Year by our team of budding Kratos appreciators. To mark the moment, a free PS4 theme can be downloaded from the Pla
News American Rapper LOGIC Is Apparently Going to Be in The Last of Us: Part 2
Photo evidence
Look, we may have had to google LOGIC to find out who he is, but given his apparent popularity, this story is a pretty big deal. The American rapper and producer (thanks Google) will have some sort of part to play in The Last of Us: Part II. He shows up alongside veteran voice actor Travis Willingham in a photograph that game writer...
Feature Days Gone PS4 Reviews Will Rev Up a Day Prior to Launch
When does the Days Gone review embargo lift?
It’s been a long wait, but Sony Bend will finally make its PlayStation 4 debut with Days Gone later this month – and we can confirm that we’ve already spent a good 10 hours on the back of protagonist Deacon St John’s bike. While we can’t share any impressions from the final build just yet, you...
News Media Molecule Confirms What Time You Can Get Your Hands on Dreams Early Access on PS4
On your mark
Last month, the release date for Dreams Early Access was finally confirmed, and we're now just a few days away from being able to jump in. On 16th April, this version of the game will go live on PlayStation Store, allowing players to go hands on with the suite of tools and start building some weird and wonderful stuff. But when exactly...
News Star Wars Actress: You're Gonna Die When You See Horizon: Zero Dawn's Sequel
"I know some secrets"
It looks like Guerrilla Games is working on a multiplayer title, but the colossal Dutch studio is big enough to support multiple projects now, and we suspect few of you will be surprised to learn that it’s beavering away on a follow-up to the wildly successful Horizon: Zero Dawn. Speaking at a Star Wars convention, actress...
News PSVR Shooter Blood & Truth Goes Gold In Plenty of Time Ahead of Release
Job done
PlayStation VR is set to have another impressive run of software this year, spearheaded by London Studio's Blood & Truth. The full game follow-up to PlayStation VR Worlds' London Heist, it'll involve you in an action-packed adventure with cockney criminals, and it looks impressive in the latest trailer. It's due out on 28th May, but...
News People Are Panicking Over Ghost of Tsushima's Progress
Job listing leaves fans in a frenzy
Sucker Punch is looking for a narrative writer to help flesh out Ghost of Tsushima’s open world, and it’s got some fans in a frenzy. The Seattle-based studio is after a scribe who can write “high quality dialogue under tight deadlines for a diverse cast of characters who live in the world of 13th century...
News Guerrilla Appears to Be Making a Multiplayer Game
Studio spearheading Sony's online push?
Guerrilla Games may have etched its name into the top game developer stage with single player role-playing title Horizon: Zero Dawn, but its back catalogue is packed with online multiplayer experiences. And with Sony suggesting that it’d like to do a little more in the online space, it looks like Dutch...
Feature 5 Overlooked PSVR Titles You Really Should Play
Virtually invisible
When we talk about PlayStation VR, there are a handful of games that usually come up as the best virtual reality experiences. There's absolutely no question that Astro Bot Rescue Mission, Beat Saber, and Tetris Effect, to name but a few, are top notch PSVR titles, but there's more to enjoy on the system than you might think. With...
