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TodayWed, 24th Apr 2024 News New PS5 Firmware Update Adds Community Game Help Feature, Here Are All the Patch Notes What does version 24.03-09.20.00 do? Sony has just released the latest PS5 system software update — always a glorious day on Planet PlayStation. Coming in at just over 1GB, it's available to download and install now. The question is, as always, what does the update do?
As per the official patch notes, there are a few improvements, mostly... News Next Free Lords of the Fallen Update Turns the PS5 Game into a Roguelite Modifier system available today Lords of the Fallen developer Hexworks has revealed the final free content drop in its post-launch roadmap will take the form of a roguelite modifier system, and it's available on PS5 today. When beginning a fresh playthrough or jumping into New Game+, you'll now have the chance to change the way the game plays and... News Gori: Cuddly Carnage Gets Meow Release Date Trailer on PS5, PS4 Don't be a pussycat It seems that the cat is indeed out of the bag, as we now have a release date and some additional gameplay for the slightly disturbing Gori: Cuddly Carnage. Prepare to skate 'n' slash your way through a freakish feline world from 29th August on PS5 and PS4.
Almost the anti-Stray, Gori couldn't offer a more radically different... News Baldur's Gate 3 PS5 Physical Deluxe Edition Is Back in Stock But for how long? Baldur's Gate 3's extremely tempting PS5 physical Deluxe Edition was revealed in September and almost immediately sold out, with the expansive RPG launching first as a digital-only title. Demand convinced developer Larian Studios otherwise; the first round of orders is due to leave warehouses by the end of April. Keep this next... News Over 1,500 PS5, PS4 Games Discounted in New PS Store Sale May the force be with you A wallet busting array of PS5 and PS4 games have been discounted in Sony's latest PS Store sale, with over 1,500 titles up for grabs at up to 80 per cent off. Highlights include Monster Hunter Rise and Resident Evil 4 for record lows of just £8.24 and £15.05 respectively. The offers will run through 8th May.
Other... News Embracer CEO Admits Mistakes Were Made: 'I Could Take a Lot of That Blame Myself' Wingefors comments on mass layoffs Following the collapse of a "verbal agreement" reportedly worth $2 billion with the Saudi-funded Savvy Games, Embracer Group entered into a brutal nine-month restructuring programme that resulted in the loss of some 1,400 employees and the cancellation of dozens of unannounced games. CEO Lars Wingefors, whose... News Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered Update Quietly Removes Sexy Lara Croft Pinups Did you think we wouldn't notice? The recently released and evocatively named Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered starring Lara Croft allowed an entirely new generation of gamers to experience the formative action platformers for the first time. But it seems that in the last update, released a couple of weeks ago, sexy pinup posters of Croft herself have... News Fortnite Festival Season 3 Update Adds Support for Rock Band 4 Guitar Controllers Everyone loves an encore Just yesterday, we learned that Billie Eilish would be headlining Season 3 of Fortnite Festival, the free-to-play music mode which has slowly but surely cornered the periphery market. With the update now live, there were a few welcome extra additions. For starters, guitar controller support for Harmonix's previous effort,... YesterdayTue, 23rd Apr 2024 Guide PS Stars Guide: All Campaigns and Solutions (April 2024) Your ultimate guide to Sony's loyalty scheme PS Stars, or PlayStation Stars, is a free loyalty program for PS5 and PS4 which enables you to earn PS Store credit, free games, and Digital Collectibles. If you're a PS Plus subscriber, then you'll earn additional Points based on each PS Store purchase you make.
In this PS Stars guide, we're going to... News PS Plus Premium Adds Four New PS5, PS4 Game Trials Primal urge Four new game trials have been added to PS Plus Premium, letting you play a small chunk of the selected titles in order to see what they're about.
The new trials are as follows:
Exoprimal (PS5, PS4)
GRIS (PS5, PS4)
Shadow Warrior 3 (PS5, PS4)
Trek to Yomi (PS5, PS4)
All of them are your standard one hour News Another Day One PS Plus Extra Game Available to Download Now The second of three PS Plus Extra has delivered the second of three PS5 games it has slated to arrive on the service the moment it releases across April and May 2024. Tales of Kenzera: ZAU is rolling out now across the UK, Europe, and the USA. Dave the Diver was already made available with the general April 2024 service refresh, then the third day... News Shift Up Reveals 'Secrets' of Stellar Blade's Physical PS5 Packaging We're not complaining It seems we aren't the only ones counting down the hours until the release of the PS5 exclusive Stellar Blade. Developer Shift Up has posted an impossibly drawn-out clip of the "secrets" contained within the game's PS5 physical box, which, as far as we can tell, amounts to a reversible cover/dust jacket and a download code for... Review Grounded (PS5) - Little Bites Pack a Big Punch A backyard filled with things to do As we continue to see walls being torn down between platforms, more people are getting exposed to former exclusives than ever before. On the PlayStation side, we're getting our first look at Grounded, formerly only available to Xbox and PC players for the last four years. If you're not in the Xbox ecosystem, you... News Avatar Game Gets a Rare 40FPS Mode in New PS5 Patch Part of patch 3.2 out now Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has been updated to support a new graphical mode running at 40 frames-per-second while boasting higher resolutions. Available to download now on PS5 as part of patch 3.2, the mode can be used on 4K TVs that support up to 120Hz. Prior to this, Avatar PS5 only had Quality and Performance Modes,... News EA Japan Exec Criticises Rating Board for Apparent Stellar Blade Special Treatment "What's going on CERO?" Just yesterday, we brought you word that the upcoming PS5 exclusive, Stellar Blade, would be released in all regions entirely uncensored, including Japan, which developer ShiftUp seemed especially pleased with. An executive at Electronic Arts Japan has called out what they see as a double standard with the Japanese Computer... News Prepare for Stellar Blade PS5 Launch with Online Comic Eve vs. Tachy Sony and Shift Up have published an online comic book for Stellar Blade that appears to serve as a quick prequel to the events of the main game. Available to read through this link, it sees protagonist Eve and another character called Tachy sparring together, and then speaking of an upcoming mission to reclaim Earth. This is what you... News Atari Revives Classic Video Game Brand Infogrames What's old is new again The name Infogrames will ring a bell for many gamers out there; the name appeared on many popular titles on pretty much every platform. Now, the brand is making a comeback. Atari has announced the revival of Infogrames as a new publishing label.
It'll publish and distribute games "that fall outside the core portfolio of IP... Random We're In Awe of Metaphor: ReFantazio's Box Art Princely There's nothing quite like video game box art that makes you stop and say "wow". Admittedly, it's been a while since such a cover caught our eye, but we simply can't gawk at the newly revealed box art for Metaphor: ReFantazio and not write an article about it.
The upcoming RPG looks to be a stunner in terms of art direction, and the cover... News SMT 5: Vengeance Offers '75 More Hours of Gameplay', Says Atlus "The best Shin Megami Tensei 5" The original Shin Megami Tensei 5 on Nintendo Switch is already a long game, clocking in at around 70 hours if you want to see most of what the RPG has to offer — and its expanded re-release, Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance, will apparently double that runtime. That is, if you play through the game twice, since... News Long-Time SMT Series 'Demon Artist', Kazuma Kaneko, Departs Atlus After 35 years with the legendary developer Kazuma Kaneko, whose career as a character designer at legendary JRPG studio Atlus has spanned almost four decades, has officially left the company. Kaneko has joined COLOPL, a developer and publisher headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, where he will work on a new IP.
News comes to us through a creator... News Fallout Games Attract 5 Million Users in One Day Due to Popularity Surge TV show does the business Almost five million players were immersed in a Fallout game across a single day as a result of the TV show's popularity, Bethesda has revealed. Without saying when — but presumably on the weekend — the franchise's official Twitter profile shared that more than one million people played Fallout 76 within a single 24-hour... News Billie Eilish Takes to Fortnite Festival Main Stage, Seemingly Confirming Leaked Roadmap Billie Bossa Nova The Bad Guy herself, Billie Eilish, will be the next musical megastar to grace the Fortnite Festival mainstage, following in the footsteps of Lady Gaga and The Weeknd. Eilish revealed she will take the stage today, 23rd April, presumably with a list of free-to-player bangers.
Eilish's inclusion is incredible enough in its own... News Zenless Zone Zero Release Date Potentially Leaked via Apple Store Update: Pre-registration campaign is underway Update: Just as we published this article, HoYoverse has announced that pre-registration for the game is available now. As is common for the developer, it'll be tracking the total number of players who sign up, and will be promising bountiful in-game rewards if it reaches its ambitious 40 million players... Rumour Sonic Frontiers 2 in the Works, Say Multiple Sources Gotta go fast again Rumblings of a follow-up to SEGA's Sonic Frontiers are currently doing the rounds. Referred to simply as Sonic Frontiers 2, a couple of known leakers have said the project is currently in development.
First, X user Daniel Richtman shared a post with his Patreon followers claiming the open zone platformer sequel is in the works... News Mega Man Legends 2's Japanese Prologue Is Finally Getting An English Fan Translation Time Extension Courtesy of the fan translation group Hilltop Works The fan translation group Hilltop Works has announced that it is translating the Japanese-exclusive prologue to Mega Man Legends 2 into English.
If you're a Mega Man Legends fan, you might already be aware that Mega Man Legends 2 has a somewhat unusual name in Japan, being released in the country... Monday22nd Apr 2024 Review TopSpin 2K25 (PS5) - A Killer Serve 13 Years in the Making Ace It's been 13 years since PlayStation fans last got their hands on a digital racquet in the TopSpin series. In that time, we've jumped two console generations, and the industry has seen a massive shift towards the live service model. Put together, what does that mean for the series' return in TopSpin 2K25? Good things, apparently, as Hangar... News Excellent PS5 Game Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Joins EA Play on Thursday After recent price increase Update: It appears the PS Store jumped the gun somewhat, as it's now been confirmed Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will join EA Play on Thursday, 25th April 2024. Active members will be able to download and play the full game then.
Original Story: One of 2023's greatest action-adventure games, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is... News Latest Sony Patent Wants to Take the Grind Out of Games by Playing Them For You Auto-play, anyone? Sony loves filing patents for gaming ideas that'll, more than likely, never come to fruition. It's done it again with a recent listing that focuses on the idea of "auto-playing portions of a video game".
Essentially, an auto-play feature would mean a game takes over control and plays itself during segments that a player might... Review Tales of Kenzera: ZAU (PS5) - Heartfelt Metroidvania on the Simple Side Love never changes There's something about playing Tales of Kenzera: ZAU that never feels quite right. Whether it's the slow, sluggish controls or frustratingly frequent one-hit kills, reaching any sort of flow state where you're vibing and jiving with the latest EA Originals title is nigh-on impossible. It's a very stop-start experience at odds... News Physical PS5 Copies of Resident Evil 2, 3, and 7 Briefly Listed by Romanian Retailer Coincidence? A Romanian retailer briefly listed physical copies of three of Capcom's more recent Resident Evil titles (Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard), fueling speculation that those who prefer discs to digital might soon have the opportunity to opt for some more. The three RE titles listed all have native PS5 digital... News Fear Not, PS5 Exclusive Stellar Blade Remains Uncensored in All Regions All of them If you were concerned that the PS5-exclusive Stellar Blade, out 26th April on PS5, might run afoul of Sony's censors, fear not. Developer ShiftUp is advertising that the game will remain entirely uncensored in all regions, including Japan.
We'll be honest: this wasn't something we'd even considered could be a problem (or a prospective... News Tales of the Shire Turns The Lord of the Rings into a Hobbit Life Sim Out on PS5 later this year Private Division has announced its Hobbit life simulator Tales of the Shire will release for PS5 later this year. Confirmed in an all-new reveal trailer viewable above, it matches stylised visuals with simulation mechanics like home decoration, friendship making, and exploration.
Any other confirmed details are scarce,... News Embracer Group Is Now Splitting into Three Separate Companies Embrace the chaos Embracer Group, the company best known for acquiring an obscene number of studios, publishers, and intellectual property and then laying off thousands when that didn't work out, is set to split into three separate entities. Following its massive restructuring plan, the business is dividing into a trio of companies, each with their... News Silent Hill 2 Remake Protagonist James Seemingly Got a Quiet Makeover Not that we're complaining It seems the protagonist of Konami's Silent Hill 2 remake, currently in development at Bloober Team, has received a quiet redesign or perhaps had a face-lift. It's unclear whether this change comes in response to fan feedback from the trailer shown during the State of Play showcase held earlier this year, the negative... News Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion Actor Set for Next D&D Adventure As the evil lich, Vecna Baldur's Gate 3 fans who still haven't gotten their fill of everybody's favourite vampiric sadist, Astarion, can now look forward to an all-new adventure alongside Neil Newbon. The actor portrays the ultimate evil antagonist, Vecna, in a one-shot tabletop adventure, putting in an appropriately imposing vocal performance as... News Ex-Psygnosis, WipEout, Skate Devs Announce New Studio Starlight Games Multiple games in the works Starlight Games is a brand new, UK-based development studio, and it has some real video game veterans among its ranks. Furthermore, the new team has hit the ground running, with several titles already at various stages of production.
The studio is founded by Gary Nichols, a Psygnosis alumnus, and he's joined by a senior... News Naoki Yoshida Says Final Fantasy 14 Update Will Fix Dawntrail's Dead, 'Lifeless Eyes' Like mirrors to the soul Last week, Square Enix unveiled the official PC benchmark and accompanying trailer for the upcoming Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Dawntrail. The trailer gave fans glimpses of new in-game areas, enemies, and combat upgrades. While that all went over rather well, the game's decade-old character creation engine is drawing ire... News Fanmade Sonic 3 Remaster 'Angel Island Revisited' Now Playable On PlayStation Vita Time Extension "Consider this a 'beta' release" The popular Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles fan remaster Angel Island Revisited has been ported to the PSVita, after almost three years of development.
Angel Island Revisited, just to give you a bit of context, was originally released for Windows computers and is also available for Linux, MacOS, Android, and...