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News New PS Store Sale Throws PS4 Games in the Bargain Bin
Castlevania! Yakuza! Catherine!
For the second week running, the PlayStation Store has been treated to a sale that falls on the short side. There are still some noteworthy deals here on PS4 titles, but this isn't the sort of bumper list you're used to. Nevertheless, these price drops are available until midnight on 1st December 2021, and they're all...
News PlayStation Direct Online Store Now Live in the UK, Germany
Other European countries to follow
Update (10/11/21): Following the launch of PlayStation Direct in Germany on Monday, Sony's online retail store is now live in the UK: You can access the UK version of the site through the link. PS Direct will be rolling out to other European countries in the near future, and we expect the below list of...
News Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection Rated for Release on PS5, PC in Australia
Fortune favours the bold
It looks like we won’t have to wait too much longer for buccaneering double-pack Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, as the Australian ratings board has classified the compilation for release. The set – which will include Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy – was announced for both the...
News The Tomorrow Children Will Return as Developer Q-Games Acquires IP Rights
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Q-Games, the studio behind The Tomorrow Children, has announced it now owns the rights to the obscure online co-op game. The PlayStation 4 title recently reached its five-year anniversary, although the game itself was shut down only a year after its launch. Sony has held the rights to the IP ever since, but in an unusual deal,...
News Guerrilla Games Details New Horizon Forbidden West Machines
Meet the Sunwing
The machines that roam the open world of Horizon Zero Dawn were definitely one of the most important and impressive factors in the original title, so it's no wonder Guerrilla Games is aiming to go even bigger and better with next year's sequel. The Dutch developer has penned a new PlayStation Blog post focusing on what the team...
News Hacking Group Claims Big PS5 Hack Breakthrough Has Been Made
So says Fail0verflow
A hacking group going by the name of Fail0verflow has today claimed it has made a huge step forward in breaking open PlayStation 5 security. A Twitter post covered by Eurogamer states the collective has gained access to internal PS5 root keys, which are used to decrypt the console's firmware. It reads: "We got all (symmetric)...
News Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann Concludes Work on The Last of Us TV Show
Director praises best TV crew in the world
Neil Druckmann’s television directorial debut has concluded. The Naughty Dog vice president, and The Last of Us scribe, has been in Canada working on the franchise’s high-profile HBO television adaptation – but his work is now over, and he’s heading back to his d
News Sackboy: A Big Adventure Marks Anniversary with Birthday Cake Skin
😋
It’s been almost a year since the PlayStation 5 launched, and Sackboy: A Big Adventure alongside it. Sony will mark the occasion with a brand new birthday cake skin, available from 12th November – presumably for free, although we’re still awaiting confirmation of that. The costume clothes the mascot in a scrumptious sponge hat,...
News The Persistence Enhanced Is Now a Free PS5 Upgrade with PS Plus
Now possible to upgrade
When Sony first set this month's lineup of free PlayStation Plus titles live on the PS Store, it wasn't possible to upgrade The Persistence to The Persistence Enhanced on either PS5 or PS4, as we originally thought it would be. However, it looks like the company has done a bit of work overnight to enable this as The P
News Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City Trailer Is All Prosthetics and Strawberry Jam
Biohazard
Sony’s big-screen adaptations of Resident Evil have, historically, earned the organisation a pretty penny, so it’s perhaps no surprise to see it pushing upcoming movie Welcome to Raccoon City with all its might. This new trailer consists of some new and previously seen clips, with plenty of prosthetics and strawberry jam. Seeing so...
News Sony Acquires Minority Stake in Publisher Devolver Digital
London Stock Exchange values indie label at nearly $1 billion
Update: Sony's investment in Devolver Digital has been made official. PlayStation tweeted recently to say it's "honored to be an investor" in the publisher: This follows reports earlier today that the deal was on the cards following Devolver's move to a publicly traded company on the...
News Scapes Will Return in Gran Turismo 7 on PS5, PS4
Racing sim turns photography sim
Scapes were such an awesome addition to GT Sport. For those of you who didn’t play the PlayStation 4 simulation racer, they effectively allowed you to place the cars from the game into “real world” environments, in order to photograph them. These come with authentic lighting data, effectively allowing you to...
News Sony's PS Vita Trademark Partially Revoked in Europe Because It Isn't Being Used
Awkward
Vita might mean life, but it seems Sony's interest in the handheld is practically dead. The platform holder almost shut down the device's PS Store, but backlash from fans forced it to walk back the decision. Now, the company is losing some of its rights to the term 'Vita' due to "non-use", which would be funny if it wasn't so tragic. Yes,...
News Ghost of Tsushima Patch 2.12 Will Rebalance Legends Multiplayer Mode
Balanced like the blade
Sucker Punch has announced a new patch for Ghost of Tsushima, taking the game to version 2.12, or 2.012.00 on PlayStation 5. This incoming update is focused on Legends, the excellent co-op multiplayer expansion added to the game not long after launch. There's a laundry list of patch notes to go through, but almost everything...
News Insomniac Scaled Back Marvel's Spider-Man Boss to Cut Down on Crunch
And make it resonate harder
We often hear a lot about the crunch conditions at major developers like Naughty Dog and Rockstar, but we rarely learn about what they’re doing to reduce workload for their teams. Ted Price, the boss of Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac Games, shed a little light on that during a fireside chat at industry event...
Video PS Plus Games Not Working on PS Vita? Try This
Fix up
While PS Vita support may now have ended almost 10 years after the console originally released, we're convinced that there’s still life in the portable yet. That’s why it came as a bit of a shock recently to be greeted by two error codes when trying to play PS Plus games on the device. Both of which may prevent a certain sect of players...
News Dreams Joins Forces with Ghostbusters: Afterlife for Official Mini-Game Based on the Movie
Watch the cast play it, too
Dreams is whatever you want it to be, and Media Molecule is using that potential to forge some amazing collaborations with other brands. The latest of these is a team-up with Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the new reboot of the classic film franchise. Dreams community members SlurmMacKenzie and byvsen were contacted by the...
News PS Store Remasters & Retro Sale Lists PS4 Games for Cheap
NEO! SMT! PS2 games!
A new PlayStation Store sale hits Sony's digital storefront today, themed around remasters and retro titles. It's one everybody can get involved with too since it consists entirely of PS4 games. All of these titles can, of course, be played through backwards compatibility on PS5 and you've got until midnight on 17th November...
News Sony Quietly Squashes PS5's Dead Battery Concerns
Recharged
You may recall a furore earlier in the year, when it emerged that Sony consoles, like the PlayStation 5 and PS4, could potentially be rendered unplayable in the future due to an oversight in their design. The summary is this: the systems use an internal battery to verify Trophy unlocks, which need to be authorised by pinging a PSN server...
News Sony Flying in PS5 Stock to Meet UK Christmas Demand
Three planes touch down with consoles
Sony is going to try its absolute best to meet the demand for PS5 Stock this Christmas season as the company begins flying systems into the UK onboard gigantic Boeing 747 aeroplanes. Three deliveries have already been made using the aircraft and The Sun understands two more are on their way between now and the...
News Gran Turismo 7's Kaz Yamauchi Compares Car Liveries to Canvases
Picture perfect
Sony’s short but sweet behind-the-scenes video series for Gran Turismo 7 has continued in earnest, this time focusing on the simulation racer’s livery editor. Series creator Kazunori Yamauchi explains how some liveries are “inextricably” tied to historical motorsport moments, and thus have influenced Polyphony Digital’s...
News Kratos, Nathan Drake, More Cameo in Champions League Promo
Captain Kratos
Update 2: Sony's now released an official video of its new Champions League idents, which includes a bunch of previously unseen clips featuring Nathan Drake among others. You can watch it above. Update 1: Whoops! Looks like we doubled up on this story – that’s what this author gets for taking a day off. Anyway, you can watch a...
News PS Plus Games for November 2021 Are Available to Download Now
Time for a reckoning
There's no better way of welcoming in the penultimate month of the year than with a bumper lineup of PlayStation Plus titles, with six free games on offer this time around. They can all be redeemed, downloaded, and played now across the UK and EU, with availability opening up across the US as the day goes on. Go to the PS Store...
News Sony Uploads PS4 Trailer for Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Approaches 1 Million Views
Sure, why not?
One of the stranger moments last week was when Sony uploaded a PlayStation 4 specific trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the open world spin-off game which launched last year. You may recall that the game was originally announced for the PS5, before the “we believe in generations” debacle started and it was quietly...
News You Can Save Scum Using Returnal's New Suspend Cycle Feature on PS5
The power of the cloud
Returnal is an excellent arcade shooter that recently got that little bit better with its latest patch. A widely recognised criticism was that players couldn't save and quit part way through a run, forcing you to either see the run to the end or give up your current progress if you needed to stop playing. Housemarque finally...
News Bloodborne PSX Is a Cease and Desist Disaster Waiting to Happen
From hunter to hunted
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: promising fan project gets shutdown prematurely after behemoth publisher deems it to be infringing on its property. In the defence of Sony, it’s generally not as trigger-happy as the likes of Nintendo and Rockstar, but given the publicity pointed at Bloodborne PSX, we’re almost...
News Mafia: Definitive Edition Joins PS Now Along with Final Fantasy IX, Celeste
Totally Reliable Delivery Service too
Just like the reliable rumour suggested, Mafia: Definitive Edition and Celeste will indeed be coming to PlayStation Now as part of tomorrow's November 2021 update. The two additions have been confirmed by Sony, and will be joined by Final Fantasy IX and Totally Reliable Delivery Service. All of them will be
News Naughty Dog Marks 10 Years of Uncharted 3 with Special Blog Post
You did good, kid
Here's a milestone likely to make you feel old: today marks the 10th anniversary of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. It really has been a decade since Naughty Dog put out the third instalment on PlayStation 3, just over 18 months before The Last of Us hit. Since then, the game has been remastered as part of Uncharted: The Nathan...
Reminder Today's Your Last Chance to Get October 2021's PS Plus Games
Still time to let hell loose
If you've been slacking and haven't already redeemed this month's lineup of PlayStation Plus titles, you might want to get on that sooner rather than later. Today is the final day to claim October 2021's free PS5, PS4 games as part of PS Plus; those being Hell Let Loose on PS5, and Mortal Kombat X and
News Shuhei Yoshida Shows a PlayStation Game Running on a Portable for the First Time Since PS Vita
Decked
This was the dramatic moment indies evangelist Shuhei Yoshida showed a PlayStation game running on a portable for the first time since the PS Vita. Sony dropped out of the handheld market when its PSP successor failed to find an audience, but Yoshida – formerly the boss of PlayStation Studios – was always a big believer in the device...
News PS4 Sales Have Dropped Off Enormously Since PS5's Release
Just 200k sales in previous quarter
At one point in time, the PlayStation 4 looked like it would rival the PS2 to become the best-selling console of all time – but now that seems impossible. In the quarter spanning July through September, the system sold just 200k units, taking its lifetime tally up to 116.6 million. In the same period, the supply...
News PS Store Weekend Offers Cover MLB and Ubisoft Games
AC Valhalla! Immortals! Microtransactions!
Sony is back with yet another set of PlayStation Store Weekend Offers, which this time around are all about MLB The Show 21 and two Ubisoft games: Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Immortals Fenyx Rising. These discounts are available until midnight on 1st November 2021, so don't let any trick or treating get...
News PS Plus Subscribers Up Year-Over-Year, Nearing 50 Million
Plus 1.3 million
After a slight blip earlier in the year, PS Plus subscribers have rebounded in the quarter spanning July through September, with Sony retaining 47.2 million active members. This is a significant increase on the same period year-over-year, where Sony tallied 45.9 million members – a record at the time, during the height of the...
News Excellent PS Plus Game The Persistence Playable with or without PSVR
Free PS5 upgrade as well
PS Plus game The Persistence, developed by new Sony first-party studio Firesprite, has been advertised as a bonus for PSVR owners to celebrate the headset’s anniversary. However, it’s worth pointing out that even if you don’t own PlayStation’s virtual reality perip
News Kazunori Yamauchi Shows Off More Gran Turismo 7 in Another Behind the Scenes
Respect the cars
There’s not an enormous amount of substance to these Gran Turismo 7 behind the scenes videos, but series creator Kazunori Yamauchi’s passion for cars is unparalleled, and thus they are essential watching. In this latest clip, he talks about how racing is a social experience: there’s the collaboration of the engineers and...
News Sony Establishes PlayStation PC Label to Spearhead Porting Push
Gee-pee-you
Sony’s push to PC is getting serious. Eagle-eyed Steam users noticed overnight that the platform holder had renamed the publisher of some of its PC ports from PlayStation Mobile to PlayStation PC LLC, and now VGC, via
News Win PS5, PS4 Avatars and Themes in New Community Event
Seize the Throne
Sony is starting a new PlayStation community event next week that will reward entrants with exclusive avatars on PS5 and PS4, and a theme on PS4. Grand prizes include a PS5 console, a set of rings themed around the classic PlayStation buttons, and a bundle containing $100 of PS Store credit along with a Pulse 3D wireless headset...
News PS5's Returnal Wins Its First Game of the Year Award
Start the cycle
Could this be the start of a run for PlayStation 5 exclusive Returnal? Despite it only being the end of October, the Develop:Star awards were hosted in Brighton last night, with Housemarque’s roguelike taking home a total of two gongs: Best Visual Art and that all-important Game of the Year. It was a big night for Sony, with...
News PS5 Console Sales Reach 13.4 Million After Strong Q2 Period
3.3 million units sold during quarter
Sony has recorded its strongest ever Q2 revenue stream as part of a new quarterly fiscal report, generating $5.86 billion in revenue and $0.751 billion of profit from July to September of this year. As for how this translates to PlayStation 5, the system sold 3.3 million units during Q2, bringing total sales up...
Round Up What Was Announced During Sony's Latest State of Play Livestream?
All the PS5, PS4 reveals
Sony returned to the digital stage with a surprise State of Play livestream focusing on third-party developers earlier this week, promising new game reveals and important updates. But it was on the unorthodox day of Wednesday, starting at a late time across Europe so you'd be forgiven for missing the show. To help get those...
Talking Point Did You Enjoy Sony's Latest State of Play Livestream?
Share your verdict
To the pleasant surprise of many, Sony announced it would be hosting another State of Play presentation just a month after its big PlayStation Showcase blowout. While the show was confirmed to be focusing on third-party developers, we were still promised new game reveals and updates for ones we already know about. In terms of new...
Rumour PS Plus November 2021 PS5, PS4 Games Leaked Ahead of Reveal
One PS5, PS4 game confirmed
Update #2 (27th October 2021, 23:00): How many updates will we need to issue until we have the full list of free PS Plus games for the month of November 2021? Sony's latest State of Play showcase came and went, and the company decided to confirm just one of the PS5, PS4 games. That's the brand new title First Class...
Live Watch Sony PlayStation's State of Play Livestream Right Here (27th October, 2021)
Little Devil Inside! PS Plus! Other third-parties!
There's no question that the anticipation for this latest State of Play is muted, with Sony confirming the show will run for just 20 minutes, and some of that time seemingly dedicated to Little Devil Inside and PS Plus. This is going to be short, and hopefully sweet, but at least expectations have...
News PS Plus Members Get Free Fall Bundle in MLB The Show 21
As World Series gets underway
If you’re looking to flesh out your Diamond Dynasty team in MLB The Show 21, then PS Plus members can redeem a free Fall Bundle through 26th January, 2022. This offer is actually rather generous: you get a 42 Series Legend Pack, a Diamond Ballplayer Pack, and five The Show Packs. That’s worth a fair few Stubs. To...
News Apple Music Confirmed for PS5, Out Today
Access 90 million songs
After PlayStation 5 users spotted hints at possible Apple Music integration, Sony has confirmed the music streaming service will be available on PS5 starting today. Those already subscribed to the platform can log into their account and access 90 million songs, all of which can be played before, during, or after a play...
Rumour Sackboy: A Big Adventure Is Making the Jump to PC
Unravelled
Sackboy: A Big Adventure could be the next PlayStation exclusive to arrive on PC. References to the game's original codename — 'Project Marmalade' — have been found on Steam's database, and the title was also included in the infamous GeForce Now leak, which was picked apart earlier this year. However, these traces have apparently just...
Rumour Mafia: Definitive Edition, Celeste Coming to PS Now
Final Fantasy IX also on deck
You’ve already seen the November 2021 PS Plus rumour, but the same French source has also teased what we can expect from PS Now next month as well. While this obviously isn’t watertight and should be approached with some degree of scepticism, clearly this poster’s knowledge of Sony’s subscriptions is second to...
News PS Store November Savings Sale Has Over 750 PS5, PS4 Game Deals
Deathloop! FIFA! Chivalry!
It's not November just yet, but Sony is feeling the need to celebrate the penultimate month of the year ahead of time with a PlayStation Store sale packed full of PlayStation 5 and PS4 game deals. With some discounts lasting until 3rd November 2021 and others sticking around for an extra two weeks, you'll need to pounce on...
News Gran Turismo 7 Continues Behind the Scenes Look with Car Collectors
Game includes over 400 cars
There's nothing of any real substance in this latest behind the scenes look at Gran Turismo 7. Series creator Kaz once again sits his bottom on a stool and discusses his love for the motor industry and how the upcoming real racing simulator will reflect that, but we could listen to the man talk about his passion for cars...
News Sackboy Celebrates Spooky Season with Free Zombie Costume
Trick or treat
If you’re planning to dig into Sackboy: A Big Adventure this week, as the nights draw in and the temperatures drop, you’re probably going to want to grab this free zombie outfit and emote. Available from 29th October on the PS Store, the costume gives Sony’s ever-loveable mascot a spoopy makeover, an ideal accompaniment for your...
