Tag Archives: PS5

Following the announcement that Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled has sold 10 million copies a ‘leaker’ is claiming that a port is coming to current-gen and PC.

Gears of War: Reloaded is launching very soon. To ensure the game's multiplayer servers and crossplay functionality are all working correctly, a playtest did take place last weekend, but many encountered issues. As a result, a second playtest weekend is now coming up.  The Coalition and Microsoft have confirmed that …

In a surprising announcement, Beat Saber has officially ended support for PSVR and PSVR2 – with multiplayer being shut down early next year.

The video games industry is bigger than it's ever been, with the Nintendo Switch becoming one of the best selling consoles of all time and the PS5 currently outpacing the PS4 despite supply setbacks. Even so, it is surprising to see just how lucrative the current generation has been for Sony, with the PS5 having generated more profit than all previous PlayStation consoles combined.

As they do each month, Sony has announced the line-up of titles set to leave PlayStation Plus in mid-July, including Dying Light 2, Crisis Core: FFVII and more.

Bungie has been quiet on the subject of Marathon since the game's alpha ended earlier this year. The game had been on track for a September launch but today, Sony and Bungie made the surprise announcement that the game has been delayed indefinitely. 

In just 3 days, Stellar Blade sold over 1 million copies on Steam, pushing total units across both PC and PS5 to 3 million.

Final Fantasy 16 had a surprise release on Xbox earlier this month. Now that gamers have had a chance to get a decent amount of playtime with the game, issues have arisen.  The console benchmarking experts at Digital Foundry have published their test results for Final Fantasy 16 on Xbox …

Despite reportedly being cancelled in 2022, it appears as though Rockstar is gearing up to announce current-gen versions of Red Dead Redemption 2 this week.

CDPR revealed that they are making The Witcher 4 with a console-first mentality. Even so, the Series S version hitting 60fps will be “extremely challenging.”

The PlayStation 5 has finally surpassed the PS4 in terms of monthly users – with the current-gen system accounting for roughly 2/3rds of all active systems.

The danger with subscription services is the ever looming threat of monthly price increases. As it turns out, both Sony and Microsoft may have price increases coming in the near future, for PlayStation+ and Game Pass.  As part of Sony's annual business update this week, Hideaki Nishino, CEO of SIE, …

Sony received a lot of praise for its efforts on PC initially, but complaints quickly came in when Sony began delisting games from sale in hundreds of countries. Sony has dropped its controversial PSN account requirements for its PC games after much backlash and now, a few games that had …

We have known for a while now that the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake would include the Snake vs Monkey mode, but only on PlayStation consoles. Now, Xbox has its own alternative - Bomberman. 

The last couple of PlayStation-published PC titles, like Spider-Man 2, Until Dawn and The Last of Us 2, have failed to garner headlines. That changes this week with the launch of Stellar Blade, with the PC version amassing an impressive 100K concurrent players on day-one.  Stellar Blade: Definitive Edition is …

The MindsEye launch was already not going to plan, as a crucial day-one patch for the game had been delayed for one console platform. Now with the game widely available, players have discovered nothing but issues, from wide ranging bugs to poor optimisation. As a result, Sony has begun offering …

This month’s PlayStation Plus Extra / Premium titles include a bunch of solid titles – alongside the day-one addition of FBC: Firebreak.

Many of Sony's internal studios have been mismanaged in recent years, with many single-player focused studios being pushed into live-service projects. One such studio was Days Gone creator, Bend Studio, which has just had its next game cancelled.  According to sources speaking with Jason Schreier, Bend Studio had been working …

Later this year Sony is bringing new functionality to its DualSense controllers via a software update, letting you pair them to multiple devices simultaneously.

Ever since Microsoft began to bring its library of Xbox titles over to the PlayStation, we’ve seen two of the console’s ‘Big Three’ added – those being Forza Horizon 5 and the upcoming Gears of War: E-Day. It appears as though the 3rd pillar of the Xbox brand is set to branch out, with datamined APIs suggesting that Halo is coming to PlayStation “very soon.”

MindsEye, the new game from former Rockstar producer, Leslie Benzies, is about to have a somewhat complicated launch. The game releases on PC and consoles today but will require a day-one patch to play ‘as intended'. Unfortunately, this patch will not be made available to those buying the game on …

Super Meat Boy first released over 15 years ago and became an instant hit through the Xbox Live Arcade on Xbox 360. Now, the gore-filled platformer is making a grand return, this time in 3D. 

A few years ago, a number of CD Projekt Red developers, including the director behind The Witcher 3, left the company to form a new studio, Rebel Wolves. At the start of this year, their first game was revealed to be The Blood of Dawnwalker. Last night during the Xbox …

Microsoft closed out the Xbox Games Showcase with the reveal of this year's Call of Duty game. We're in for another year of Black Ops, with Black Ops 7. The hook for COD campaign fans is the return of David Mason, the main protagonist of Black Ops 2.  Call of …

One of the best Game Pass titles of 2022 ended up being a brand new IP from Squanch Games – High on Life. Now several years later, a sequel has been announced, and it will be releasing later this year.  High on Life 2 has been announced for 2025. Assuming …

Just as the leaks predicted, Persona 4 Remake did appear at the Xbox Games Showcase this evening. The game is being rebuilt in the same fashion as Persona 3 Reload, under the official title ‘Persona 4 Revival'.  Unfortunately, the trailer for Persona 4 Revival was incredibly short, giving us just …

Black Myth Wukong had a very odd release. While the game was originally announced to release on both PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, the game ultimately only released on PlayStation consoles. Microsoft said there was an exclusivity agreement in place, the studio behind Black Myth Wukong denied that was the …

Sony PlayStation has unveiled its first wireless fight stick codenamed “Project Defiant”. This new controller aims to empower fighting game enthusiasts with enhanced flexibility, offering wireless connectivity using the PlayStation Link technology and a traditional wired connection. Project Defiant has been designed from the ground up specifically for fighting games, …

Despite launching weeks later, Forza Horizon 5 has already outsold Assassin’s Creed Shadows on PS5 – currently sitting at 2.2 million copies sold.

During Sony’s State of Play, the console maker teased some of its upcoming PlayStation Plus games – including the day-one addition of Sword of the Sea.