Timeline
Tuesday8th Aug 2023
News PS Stars May Finally Be Integrated into PS5 Soon
Privacy settings suggest it's on the way
It looks as though PS Stars is finally heading to PS5. The loyalty scheme launched almost a year ago, and has been accessible exclusively via the PlayStation mobile app since. However, Sony stated the functionality would eventually be built into PS5's system software, allowing you to use it on your console...
News A Space for the Unbound Gets Gorgeous Physical PS5 Collector's Edition
Embarking Q1 2024
A Space for the Unbound was released earlier this year, and we quite liked it. If you enjoyed the gorgeous pixel art game yourself, or you like the look of it, then you might be excited to learn that Physical and Collector's Editions are in the offing. Telling the surreal story of Atma and Raya, two high-school sweethearts in...
News WrestleQuest Hit with Unexpected Stunner, Launch Delayed by Progression Bug
"We could never bodyslam our fans like that"
Turn-based sports game WrestleQuest has been pinned at the eleventh hour, with developer Mega Cat Games announcing that a bug causing "players to lose their save game progress" was discovered during final checks. WrestleQuest was previously slated to launch today, 8th August, and is now expected to launch...
News Hacker Plaguing Overwatch 2 Livestreams Actually People's Hero John Cena
"Sometimes a face you can't see is just what the world needs"
A mysterious and enigmatic figure known only as The Enigma has been hacking into the streams of some of Twitch's biggest stars, bearing "warnings of the looming threat of Null Sector, an antagonistic group of Omnics that will soon invade the world of Overwatch". This individual has been...
News Devil May Cry's Hideki Kamiya Says Japanese Devs Should Be 'Proud' of the Term JRPG
A different perspective
Hideki Kamiya, the creator of both Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, and CEO of PlatinumGames, says that Japanese developers should be "proud" of the term JRPG and thinks it "should be celebrated moving forward". These comments come in response to those made by Square Enix's Naoki Yoshida earlier in the year, who isn't a fan of the...
News Baldur's Gate 3 Feast Continues, Cracks Steam's Top 10 Most Played Games List
Larian demands a worthy foe; FromSoftware, CDPR stand unbowed
Baldur's Gate 3's meteoric rise off the back of its PC launch alone continues unabated, breaking fresh ground by the hour and blowing minds by the second. The monstrous CRPG has been eating well, already swimming with exclusive company, heralded as one of the best video games ever made...
Monday7th Aug 2023
News Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Officially Announced, Launches This November
On your feet, soldier
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the expected next entry in the long-running shooter series, and that's exactly what we're getting. After a handful of leaks, Activision has now made it official with the above teaser trailer. It doesn't tell us a whole lot about the game itself, although it's something of a known quantity...
News Promising Platformer The Plucky Squire Delayed to 2024
Pops up a little later than planned
Devolver Digital has a lot of games in the works, it turns out, and now, a few of them are being delayed into next year. While most of the titles affected aren't listed for release on PS5 or PS4, one of them is — The Plucky Squire. This inventive, 2D/3D action platformer is now scheduled for 2024. "It turns out...
Feature Tren Sends Media Molecule's Dreams Out in Style
The little game that could
Conversation surrounding Media Molecule and Dreams is bittersweet at the moment; the game's arrival on PS Plus precedes the developer taking a step back from its creation platform and, largely, moving onto pastures new. However, it's important to remember the studio's efforts that led us to this point. It's been supporting...
News Like a Dragon Gaiden Story Details Have Us Drooling Over Another Deadly Drama
Kiryu's at it again
It's hard to find a more consistent franchise than Yakuza Like a Dragon (we promise we'll stop doing that at some point). Even the series' weaker instalments are packed with memorable moments and typically sick fights, and it feels like you can always count on Kazuma Kiryu and the gang to provide a mostly gripping story. Like a...
News Evo 2023's Funniest Moment Has People Talking About Tekken x Street Fighter Again
"Get out! Get out of here!"
Remember Tekken X Street Fighter? The Bandai Namco project was announced during the PS3 generation as something of a contrasting companion to Street Fighter X Tekken — another supposed crossover of the two popular fighting game franchises, but in the style of Tekken, rather than Street Fighter. However, unlike its...
News Red Dead Redemption Out on PS4 This Month, Not a Remaster
Port costs $50
Rockstar Games has today announced Red Dead Redemption is coming to PS4 later this month on 17th August 2023. Its DLC Undead Nightmare will be bundled in, but this is a mere port of the original game. Whilst it was rumoured, this new version is not a remaster or a remake. There is a new trailer, which you can view above. This is al
News The Last of Us Voice Actors Reprising Roles for Halloween Attraction
New dialogue for scare maze
It's been confirmed The Last of Us voice actors Troy Baker (Joel) and Ashley Johnson (Ellie) have reprised their roles to provide dialogue for a Halloween attraction at Universal Studios in California and Florida next month. The event allows attendees to work their way through a scare maze based on the Pittsburgh location...
Deals Top PS5 Products Reduced to Black Friday-Level Prices in Sony Summer Sale
Update: US and UK deals now live
Update: As well all the UK deals featured in our article below, several US retailers have now gone live with similarly great PlayStation offers. You'll find discounted PS5 consoles, DualSense controllers, games and more at the stores listed below. Here are direct links to the sales: Amazon Best Buy Walmart Target
Round Up Baldur's Gate 3 Reviews Suggest It's One of the Best RPGs Ever Made
Early impressions are ridiculously positive
It's felt like Baldur's Gate 3 would be a hit for quite some time, but we didn't quite expect it to have such a colossal impact just days after its PC release. The highly anticipated RPG isn't out on PS5 until next month, but early reviews, impressions, and reviews-in-progress are painting a frankly...
And what was the best tournament?
And just like that, another annual Evo event is over. Just in case you had no idea if was happening, Evo 2023 took place over the weekend, welcoming thousands upon thousands of fighting game competitors and spectators. Most of the tournaments were streamed live online, with the finals for Marvel vs Capcom 3, Tekken...
News Square Enix Bafflingly Backtracks on Final Fantasy 16 Sales, Blames 'Slow' PS5 Adoption
Publisher's "high expectations" not met
Is there a more baffling big publisher than Square Enix? Just last month, the Japanese company issued a statement saying that it considered sales of Final Fantasy 16 "extremely strong" after the PS5 exclusive had surpassed 3 million copies in under a week following its launch. Now, however, new Square Enix...
News Sonic Superstars' Brand New Villain Character, Trip, Designed by Classic Sonic Veterans
Naoto Ohshima and Takashi Iizuka join forces
Lest we forget, we're getting a new 2D Sonic game later this year. Sonic Superstars combines the old, familiar gameplay fans expect from the classic games with new visuals, zones, and abilities. On top of all that, though, the title will mark the debut for a brand new character to the series. Trip is her...
News Reptile, Ashrah, and Havik All Set for Mortal Kombat 1
Sareena is a Kameo Fighter
A new Mortal Kombat 1 trailer has revealed Reptile, Ashrah, and Havik have joined the list of all confirmed characters in the upcoming PS5 game, set to release on 19th September 2023. The roster of Kameo Fighters has also been refreshed with Sareena. Check out the new trailer above. "Reptile, also known as Syzoth, is a...
News UK Sales Charts: PlayStation Exclusives Return to Top 10 Thanks to PS5 Bundle Deals
Sizzlin'
Sony's big summer sale brought us deals on lots of PS5 games and accessories, but crucially, the console itself saw a nice price drop. Us Brits love nothing more than a bargain, and the combo of sales on hardware and software has brought the platform holder's games back into the boxed top 10. God of War Ragnarok, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles...
News Diablo 4 Season of the Malignant Progression Bug Will Be 'Fixed in a Few Days'
Mondayitis
Diablo 4 players frustrated by a seasonal progression bug in the game's first live offering, Season of the Malignant, will be glad to know relief is on the way, although it's still almost a week out. Blizzard head honcho Mike Ybarra was proudly displaying his own seasonal progression on X when a fan highlighted a
News Battle Royale Naraka: Bladepoint's Obligatory NieR Crossover Content Is Coming to PS5
Swarming with swords
Proving to be an extremely lucrative tail for Square Enix, NieR: Automata is crossing over with another series full of swords and stabwounds: Naraka: Bladepoint. Characters from across the expanded NieR universe are bravely venturing into a free-to-play MMO world inspired by legends from the Far East, and we probably should have...
News Battle for Bloodborne PS5 Enters New Phase as Modders Port 60fps Patch to Retail Hardware
No refunds, no returns
A secret war has been fought in the shadows for years now by combatants who have fought tirelessly to achieve their ultimate goal: getting FromSoftware's excellent PS4-exclusive Bloodborne running at a locked 60fps (1080p) on PS5, at all costs. The tenacity and perseverance demanded by the Soulslike player (or some say...
News Embracer Starts Shutting Studios as the Downsides of Consolidation Surface
Sadly predicted
The Embracer Group is a Swedish video game media holding that, for years now, has been quietly acquiring smaller studios, and a frankly ludicrous number of them at that. With 131 internal video game studios and 15,000 staff worldwide, it seemed too unwieldy to manage, and sure enough, a mass round of layoffs was announced, with the...
News Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Orders Skyrocket on PS5 Following PC Launch
Against all odds
Baldur's Gate 3 has had a monstrous launch on PC, with its passage into this plane of existence so powerful Steam itself was made to shake. Unsurprisingly, the positive buzz around this one has been infectious, and PlayStation players are eager to get to grips with it, pushing the RPG to the top of pre-order charts in the largest...
News Guilty Gear Strive Season 3 Kicks Off This Month with Johnny and a Game-Changing Update
Looking cool, joker
Guilty Gear Strive's game-changing update, which kicks off Season 3, launches on the 24th August — and it doesn't arrive alone. Infamous swordsman Johnny is finally back as the first DLC character of this fresh season, and he looks more stylish than ever before in his reveal trailer. There are going to be four more DLC...
Sunday6th Aug 2023
News Original Raven Returns in Tekken 8 Alongside Coffee-Loving Newcomer Azucena
Go ninja
Tekken 8 went big at Evo 2023 with two incredibly cool character trailers. The first, embedded above, is for Raven — and we don't mean Master Raven from Tekken 7. That's right, the original Raven, who first appeared in Tekken 5, is back — and he's clearly been practicing his clone ninjutsu. Raven's trailer also gives us a look at a new...
News Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Finally Gets a November Release Date, Free Version Announced
Granblue reality
Okay, we've finally got a release date for one of the Granblue Fantasy games coming to PlayStation this year. Enhanced and expanded fighting game Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising will be unleashing supers on PS5 and PS4 from the 30th November. Just to be clear, Rising will be a $49.99 release, making is slightly cheaper than your...
Guide Evo 2023 Schedule Day 3: All Start Times and Where to Watch
Stream all the action
When is Evo 2023? If you're asking that question, you're probably set on watching the world's largest fighting game tournament unfold over the course of the weekend. The Sony-backed event runs over the course of three days, and all of it is being streamed live on Twitch. Just so that you don't miss out on the action, we've put...
News Here's Your First Real Look at the Return of Fatal Fury
City of the Wolves
SNK rolled out a new trailer for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves — now its official title, by the way — at Evo 2023, giving us our first real look at the currently in-development fighting game. It's been almost exactly one year since the project's initial teaser — which basically consisted of some concept art — but now...
