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News Horizon Hatred Simmers Once More As Sony Announces Movie Adaptation
Here we go again
Another Horizon adjacent announcement, another intense round of scrutiny as rowdy social media users accuse Sony of attempting to “force” the Guerrilla franchise on fans. During its CES 2025 press conference this week, PS Productions bigwig Asad Qizilbash confirmed his department is working with Columbia Pictures to bring Aloy...
News DualSense Edge Discounted in Europe, with a £10, €20 Price Cut
Still quite expensive, though
PlayStation's premium DualSense Edge controller has received a small price cut in European markets, down £10 / €20 from the recommended retail price of £209.99 / €239.99. US pricing, for the present, remains unchanged. Spotted by VGC, if that's enough to make you sit up and take notice, you can now get the PS5's...
News The Until Dawn Movie Isn't a Direct Adaptation, Will Feature New Story, Characters
They wendigo in a different direction
PlayStation Productions is clearly incredibly busy right now, especially after the company made several new announcements for game adaptations during CES 2025. One we already knew about was an Until Dawn movie, but new details reveal that it won't be a direct retelling of the game itself. The only link between...
News Housemarque Recruits PlatinumGames Dev of 11 Years as Lead Designer on Next PS5 Game
Time for action
Housemarque, the PS Studios team behind the excellent Returnal and many other arcade action games, has hired an ex-PlatinumGames developer as lead designer. Abebe Tinari has clocked just over 11 years at the Japanese studio, which is known for Bayonetta, Vanquish, and many more high-octane action titles. On his LinkedIn profile,...
News Sony Is Betting Big on the Global Growth of Anime
Giant wants to dominate rapidly expanding industry
Following its substantial investment into Kadokawa late last year, it’s no real surprise to see Sony doubling down on the global growth of anime content. During its CES 2025 press conference, however, it put that ambition on stage. A long presentation saw Aniplex president Atsuhiro Iwakami and...
News PS5 Accessories to Get New Midnight Black Colourway, Pre-Order from 16th January
PS Portal, PS5 DualSense Edge pad, earbuds, and Pulse Elite headset
Sony has announced some of its current PS5 accessories will receive a facelift in the form of a new colourway, painting the likes of the PS Portal, DualSense Edge controller, Pulse Elite headset, and Pulse Explore earbuds in Midnight Black. Pre-orders for the new variations go live...
News Do You Put Your PS5 in Rest Mode or Shut It Down?
To rest or not to rest, that is the question
In a welcome reminder that we aren't alone in the world, it appears the PlayStation faithful are evenly divided on the subject of Rest Mode. About 50% opt to power down partially after each gaming session, with the rest choosing to cut the connection completely. Getting lost in the weeds during a recent...
News Helldivers 2 Is So Big It's Already Getting a Hollywood Adaptation
Sony announces plans to bring shooter to cinemas
Wow, from plucky PS4 and PS Vita isometric shooter to one of the biggest games in the world to the big screen, huh? Someone will need to write a case study on the success of Helldivers 2 one day. While very few details were announced, PS Productions bigwig Asad Qizilbash took to the stage at CES 2025...
News Sony's Bringing Horizon Zero Dawn to the Big Screen with Live Action Movie Adaptation
PS Productions, Columbia Pictures to produce
Horizon Zero Dawn, originally planned to be a live action Netflix series, is getting a big budget movie instead. Announced during CES 2025, PS Productions bigwig Asad Qizilbash confirmed that his department is partnering with Columbia Pictures to bring Aloy’s origin story to life. No casting...
Live Watch Sony's CES 2025 Press Conference Right Here
Can you AFEELA it?
If you’re watching Sony’s CES 2025 press conference, then don’t expect enormous PS5 news. The manufacturer’s already said it’ll be focusing on AFEELA, its electric vehicle project with Honda, during this presentation. It’ll likely have other news on camera sensors, televisions, and more. But the company does specialise...
Talking Point Is PlayStation Right in Saying PC Isn't a 'Major Risk' to Console Business?
Does it compute?
Is the growing PC landscape a threat to PlayStation? Well, Sony doesn't seem fazed by it whatsoever, in new comments coming from a shareholders call. One shareholder asked whether Sony's increased reliance on externally-made exclusives (like Rise of the Ronin and Stellar Blade) is to help boost the user transition from PS4 to PS5,...
News PS5's Astro Bot Now the Most Decorated Platformer Ever with Over 100 GOTY Awards
No wonder he's always dancing
Astro Bot, the PS5 exclusive 3D platformer, is now the most-awarded game in its genre on record, accumulating 104 Game of the Year nods so far. That's according to this site, which tracks all Game of the Year awards attributed by eligible media outlets. The count isn't complete, but even if the figure stays at 104, it...
News Unfortunately, PS5's Disc Drive Add-On Shortage Doesn't Seem to Be Getting Better
January blues
Now we're the other side of the holidays, we were hoping to start seeing some improvement regarding the PS5 disc drive situation. However, the add-on is still suffering from shortages and inflated prices from scalpers. Since the PS5 Pro's launch in November, the disc drive — compatible with the "slim" PS5 and PS5 Pro — has been...
News What Time Is Sony's CES 2025 Press Conference?
Don't expect much PlayStation news
CES, or Consumer Electronics Show, always feels strange coming so soon after Christmas, but the event will run next week, from 7th January to 10th January in Las Vegas. And on the eve of the convention, there’ll be Sony’s annual press conference, scheduled to stream from 5PM PST / 8PM EST on Monday, 6th...
News The Composers of Intergalactic PS5 Just Won a Golden Globe for Their Challengers Soundtrack
Let them cook
Composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, perhaps best known as Nine Inch Nails, have a distinctive sound unlike anyone else. And ahead of their work on Naughty Dog’s new game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, the pair just scooped a Golden Globe for their efforts on Zendaya’s messy sports romance, Challengers. <related...
News PS5's Awesome Welcome Hub Was Designed by a Small, Passionate Team
"We loved the idea"
Sony has iterated on the PS5’s user interface faster than previous formats, and it’s been much more open to experimentation, too. The console’s customisable landing screen Welcome Hub was introduced with little fanfare last year, and has quickly gone on to become an appreciated addition for millions upon millions of users...
News Naughty Dog Sold to Sony to Avoid Being 'Crushed' by Cost of Game Dev
Things are much better these days
Acquired by Sony in 2001 for an undisclosed sum, Naughty Dog is today considered the crown jewel among PlayStation's first-party studio family (although Insomniac has certainly been putting in work of late). In a LinkedIn post (thanks, Eurogamer), co-founder A
Rumour PlayStation Is Working on Reviving Some of Its 'Deep Cut' Franchises
"At least a couple" in development
It's been freshly claimed that Sony is currently working to bring back some of PlayStation's dormant first-party game franchises. This comes from VGC's Andy Robinson, speaking on the outlet's latest podcast episode (time stamped above). As the conversation turns to Sony's recent statement about considering...
News Helldivers 2 Dev Is Starting to Think About What's Next
High concept stages
Helldivers 2 is a live service game designed to last for several years, but while the brunt of Swedish dev Arrowhead’s workforce focuses on new content for the co-op hit, creative director Johan Pilestedt is beginning to ponder what’s next. “With 10 minutes to 2025: what are your expectations and desires for what the...
News Almost 3,000 Massive PS5, PS4 Deals Added to PS Store
Whatever floats your boat
With the New Year now here, Sony has rebooted its colossal January Sale with almost 3,000 more PS5 and PS4 games and add-ons. Many of the titles are at their lowest ever price point, with some noteworthy names among the list. <related ids="176099"> All of the deals will expire on 18th January, so you’ve got a...
News Helldivers 2's Creative Director's Latest Comments Have Landed Him in Hot Water
Again
One thing that’s been clear ever since Helldivers 2 burst onto the scene and became one of the biggest games in the world is that Swedish developer Arrowhead has no media training. Why would it, though? The original Helldivers was a modest success at best across multiple platforms, but no one really expected its successor to be this big...
News This Awesome LEGO PS2 Set Will Be Officially Considered for Production
Getting emotional
A user-submitted LEGO PS2 set has gained enough support to be considered by LEGO to be made official and put on sale. This comes from the LEGO Ideas site, where anyone can submit their dream LEGO project and hope to gain supporters. If they get 10,000 within a certain time frame, the project moves into a review phase at the Danish...
Random Kanye West Is Playing The Last of Us 2 on Survivor + Mode, Says It's the Best Game Ever Made
"This is not a sponsored post"
Kanye West may be a lot of things, but at least he has damn good video game taste. The Gold Digger singer posted a picture of his The Last of Us 2 progress on Instagram, confirming he’s playing the Naughty Dog sequel on its most difficult Survivor + setting. He’s probably going to need to get Stronger to reach the...
News Nintendo Fans Are Desperate to Know How Close Switch 2 Will Get to PS4's Power
The question everyone's asking
It’s 2025, and Nintendo still hasn’t officially announced the Switch 2. The company has acknowledged some kind of new hardware, confirming it will be backwards compatible with existing software – but we’re still waiting for a reveal trailer, despite a spate of hardware leaks. Earlier in the week, photographs...
News PS3 Games Could One Day Get Emulated on PS5
A pipedream
Implicit Conversions, the developer porting the PlayStation classics available with PS Plus Premium to PS5 and PS4, is “dreaming about” adding PS3 support to its proprietary Syrup emulator. The emulator currently supports a wide array of retro systems, and allows said software to be updated with contemporary quality of life...
News Consoles Here to Stay, PS5 to Be Supported into Next-Gen, Says PlayStation CEO
The Console Wars will be fought by future generations
If you were concerned that consoles were dying, you may rest easy, at least for the foreseeable future. PlayStation co-CEO Hideaki Nishino says that, despite the bet on cloud gaming finally appearing to pay off, hardware such as consoles, controllers, and screens aren't going away anytime soon...
The grift that keeps on giving
Naughty Dog has, for some reason, become an enemy of the Internet – or at least a vocal contingent of social media users. Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet has been attacked unprecedently, despite us knowing very little about the project. And now Stellar Blade developer Shift Up has had to speak out in support of...
News Unfazed by Concord, Sony Doubles Down on Exploring Service Games
One of these bets has to pay off
Of all the wild stories that crossed our desk in 2024, Concord's chaotic launch and subsequent removal from history after just two weeks stand out. We may never know how much money Firewalk Studios and Sony ultimately sunk into the project (certainly far too much). Still, the days of a first-party multiplayer release...
News Expect PS Portal's Glacial Rollout of New Features to Continue
Sony will "make incremental steps based on community reception"
The PlayStation Portal is perhaps Sony's most unlikely success in recent memory. Since one joined the family, we can certainly attest to spending even more time playing games. A year after launch,
News Sony Says The Last of Us 2 Can Be Considered a Holiday Season Classic
Move over, Die Hard
While Naughty Dog's incredible follow-up, The Last of Us Part II, mostly stands out in our minds for the intensely violent nature of some of its more fraught scenes, PlayStation (and, by extension, Sony) thinks it could make for a pretty decent holiday season IP, provided you squint hard enough. On X, the official PlayStation...
News PS Portal Owners Spend More Time Playing PS5, Says Sony
Play has no limits
PS Portal was roundly panned by the enthusiast PlayStation fanbase when it was announced, but it’s clear that as the peripheral has established itself, it’s turned out to be an enormous success. The streaming device has dominated Circana’s accessory sales charts all year long, beating out similarly priced hardware like the...
News Sony Promises It Hasn't Abandoned the Famous Franchises from Its Past
"We are continually looking at opportunities"
While the history of PlayStation has always been about its continuous reinvention from generation to generation, some enthusiasts have taken umbridge with the platform holder’s apparent reluctance to revisit franchises from its past. This discourse peaked during around the release of Astro Bot; while...
Quiz Push Square's PlayStation Quiz of the Year 2024
Test yourself on 2024's biggest and weirdest stories
Right, come on, you've had your Christmas Day fun, now it's time for a real test of knowledge. Pop some headphones on to block out Aunty Margaret's carolling, force another mince pie into your overstuffed belly, and put down that fortune-telling red fish thing you got in your cracker — it's quiz...
News More Than 6,000 PS5, PS4 Games Discounted in Monstrous PS Store Sale
Buckle up
Sony is plotting one of its biggest PS Store promotions of the year, as the annual Holiday Sale bonanza beckons. Live on 20th December through 6th January, the Japanese giant says the list of discounted games is so long it can’t even reveal them all. The highlights, however, include the usual suspects: EA Sports FC 25, Call of Duty:...
News Reminder That Horizon Forbidden West Is Simply Stunning on PS5 Pro
Remains a technical marvel
Since the PS5 Pro came out, we've somehow spent even more time gaming, checking out how the additional horsepower has improved past games and the new features it allows. Sony also wants to remind you of how awesome its pricey new upgrade is, releasing a trailer showing off 2022's Horizon Forbidden West enhanced on the PS5...
News Helldivers 2 Dev Arrowhead Takes Blame for Killzone Pricing Blunder
"This one is on us"
Helldivers 2 has enjoyed a typically chaotic couple of news cycles this past week. Following the leak that a collaboration with Sony and Guerrilla Games would bring Killzone 2-themed content to the game, its subsequent, immediate release confirmed this. Unfortunately, developer Arrowhead appears to have set the price too high,...
News Helldivers 2 Devs Gift Players Second Wave of Killzone Crossover Content for Free
First set availability window extended
Following its two-step forward, one-step back strategy, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has confirmed its Killzone crossover, the first part of which is now live. While the longed-for Killzone content is appreciated, the developer is asking what players are calling an exorbitant price for the Helghast kit,...
News PlayStation Lights Up Las Vegas Sphere as It Rounds Out 30th Anniversary Celebrations
Full circle
Sony has made a fair amount of noise about PlayStation's 30th anniversary, with special edition consoles, sales, and plenty more initiatives celebrating the original machine's release. To close proceedings out in style, the company has taken to Las Vegas' glitzy Sphere, lighting up the skyline with PlayStation-themed goodness.
News Sony Becomes Kadokawa's Biggest Shareholder As Companies Form Alliance
Hopes to further expand publishing of Kadokawa's games
Sony, it seems, will not acquire Kadokawa outright. Instead, the giant Japanese organisations have today announced a strategic capital and business alliance, which will see Sony become Kadokawa’s largest shareholder. The deal, scheduled to go through on 7th January, will see Sony purchase...
News Former Bungie Director Chris Barrett Suing Sony for Over $200 Million
Turns out being a director at Bungie can be lucrative
Former Destiny 2 and Marathon director Chris Barrett is suing Sony Interactive Entertainment. He claims that his firing for alleged inappropriate behaviour (detailed in a March Bloomberg report) was a pretence to avoid paying the $50 million he was owed under his employment agreement following...
News Mark Cerny Basically Confirms PS6 Partnership with AMD in PS5 Pro Tech Deep Dive Video
Flopflation Flive Flo
Sony has just released a new video, hosted by PlayStation's lead system architect, Mark Cerny. Speaking in his ever-calming dulcet tones, Cerny's video is basically a deep dive into the technical side of PS5 Pro, explaining how the new console ticks. It's a very interesting video if you're into the techy hardware side of...
News Long-Awaited Lost Soul Aside Locks Down a 2025 Release Date on PS5, PC
Chinese take on Devil May Cry is close
It’s been a long time coming, but the indie Devil May Cry signed to Sony’s China Hero Project for several years finally appears poised and ready for release. A new gameplay trailer coincides with a 2025 launch window, with the game now available to wishlist on both PS5 and PC.
News Helldivers 2's Killzone Crossover Has Been Officially Confirmed for PS5, PC
Democracy dies in darkness
In some news that's sure to put you in the festive spirit, it looks like there's still a flicker of life in the Helghast yet, with the long-dormant Killzone IP seemingly headed for a crossover event with the similarly authoritarian Helldivers 2. The two franchises couldn't be more perfect for one another, and as it seems...
News Veteran Helldivers Called to Arms in Omens of Tyranny PS5, PC Deep Dive
"They hate freedom, and want to destroy us"
Helldivers 2's big, free Omens of Tyranny update is live on PS5 and PC, and many veteran players have already answered Arrowhead's call, shedding their civvies, once more taking up arms for Super Earth. Omens of Tyranny introduces the much-anticipated
News Intergalactic PS5's Toxic Detractors Peddling Patently Fake 'Leaked' Story Details
Don't believe everything you read
Whatever your opinion on Naughty Dog's recently announced sci-fi adventure, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, it's received an overwhelmingly negative reaction from certain online circles. So strong has this wave of negativity been that these people are now spinning up their own rumours about the game and its...
News December's PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Are Available on PS5, PS4 Now
New frontiers
The latest selection of PS5 and PS4 games have now arrived on PS Plus Extra and Premium. December's selection of titles are live on their respective tiers of the subscription service, providing a total of 15 additional games to enjoy (including a handful of retro classics that were released slightly early). Here's a reminder of...
News Official PlayStation Blog Reveals Game of the Year Winners, Astro Bot Sweeps
Over 1.6 million votes cast
The official PlayStation Blog has revealed the results of its Game of the Year 2024 polls. Users were invited to vote across a number of categories, and the blog itself says that over 1.6 million votes were submitted globally. Imagine keeping track of all those! Anyway, the big winners include Astro Bot (which swept six...
"I promise to make you proud, dude"
Actress Tati Gabrielle is no stranger to Naughty Dog, having starred as the antagonist of Uncharted’s movie adaptation opposite Tom Holland. But in Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet she’ll take the lead role in Naughty Dog’s first new intellectual property in over a decade – and she’s over the moon at...
News Eve Is a Festive Firecracker in Stellar Blade's Surprise Xmas Update, Out Now on PS5
New minigame and seasonal rewards
The ever-industrious Shift Up is back with another unexpected Stellar Blade update, this time ahead of the holidays. Available from tomorrow, hub town Xion is getting a wintery glow-up, complete with Christmas trees and seasonal decorations. But that’s not all! A new minigame will be added to the area, with...
News Naughty Dog Turns Off Intergalactic PS5 Trailer's Comments As Discourse Turns Nasty
It's rough out there
Naughty Dog has disabled the comments on its official upload of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet’s debut trailer, as the discourse has soured in the aftermath of the title’s announcement. PlayStation has kept the comments up on its mirror, much to the surprise of some fans. A small, vocal section of the gaming populous...
