Welcome to 2024! The time for ponderous Christmas reflection is over, as we reset ahead of what looks to be another action-packed year. The coming months are especially outrageous for PS5: January alone will play host to the likes of Tekken 8 and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth – two titles which are looking utterly essential, and will likely be Game of the Year contenders come the end of December.
Could Marvel's Blade Come to PS5? Bethesda Declines to Comment | Push Square
16.12.2023 - 15:14 / pushsquare.com / Phil Spencer / Geoff Keighley
Marvel’s Blade was announced during The Game Awards earlier this week, a massive budget third-person action game set in a reimagined Paris. Development, however, is being handled by Microsoft studio Arkane Lyon – the team formerly behind titles like Dishonored and one-time PS5 console exclusive Deathloop.
But fans have noticed that despite the game being created by an acquired Microsoft subsidiary, the trillion-dollar tech titan has yet to actually claim the title as an exclusive. The debut trailer, for instance, has not been uploaded to Xbox’s YouTube channel – and the Xbox Wire only links to a Bethesda.net post, which doesn’t mention Xbox once. In addition, there were no Xbox logos or bumpers during Geoff Keighley’s awards ceremony when the title was revealed.
So, what gives? Well, our friends at VG247 put the question to the publisher, and it declined to comment. So, could the game still come to the PS5 in the end? Well, when it acquired Bethesda, bigwig Phil Spencer did say that exclusivity would be determined on a “case-by-case” basis. We wonder if, in this case, development is still far too early for anything to be decided.
Personally, we wouldn’t expect Marvel’s Blade to ever release on a PlayStation platform; it’s possible Marvel may have mandated a multiformat release here, but that ignores the existence of the Marvel’s Spider-Man series, which has been exclusive to PS5, PS4, and PC thus far. Still, with this game unlikely to release until 2025 at the earliest, there’ll be plenty of time for Bethesda to make its position clear.
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It’s more likely that it’s so far away. That they haven’t committed to bring it to the current generation of Xbox. Than that they are considering bringing it to PlayStation.
What happend to considering us like family? Anyway it all comes down to the money, like with cod, its going to be multiplatform. They don't really care about the game, its just a peace offering.
Why are we getting this with every Bethesda game?
They’re a 1st party Xbox Studio, so the answer is highly likely no.
Might as well ask is Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 coming to Xbox.
The silence tells it all.
“Insiders” have said that any Marvel IP licenses after 2022 has to be multiplatform. Wolverine likely tbr lays exclusive if true.
@HeeHo
I think some are still unable to grasp that Bethesda are no longer a multi-platform studio.
I do wonder if Microsoft has changed its approach to exclusivity after the ActiBlizz acquisition given that they were forced to make compromises. Maybe they've realised that it's not beneficial for them to make games
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05.01.2024 / 01:05
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05.01.2024 / 01:01
Push Square Readers' Top 10 PS5, PS4 Games of 2023 | Push Square
The time has come to unveil the best PS5 and PS4 games of 2023… according to readers of Push Square! As is tradition, we presented the community with a shortlist of 50 PlayStation titles near the end of last year. Readers were asked to vote for up to five of their favourites.
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05.01.2024 / 00:57
Super Mega Baseball 4 Is Coming to PS5, PS4's EA Play Catalogue | Push Square
If you’re an EA Play subscriber, then you’ll have a new title to test out very soon: Super Mega Baseball 4. It’ll be available for members to download and play from 11th January. EA obviously acquired developer Metalhead Studio a little while ago, and this was its first release under the mega-publisher’s umbrella. The added budget showed in the final product, too: it integrated a ton of former baseball stars into its roster.
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05.01.2024 / 00:50
Push Square Readers' 20 Most Anticipated PS5 Games of 2024 | Push Square
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Indefinitely Delayed Phasmophobia Will Come to PS5 'Soon As It's Ready' | Push Square
Eagerly anticipated ghost-hunting game Phasmophobia was a hit on Steam, and the wait for it to come to PlayStation has been torturous, plagued by repeated delays and at least one fire. Developer Kinetic Games posted a development roadmap, which still doesn't give us a date but does promise that the console release, when it does arrive, will benefit from gameplay reworks and performance upgrades.
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31.12.2023 / 00:25
Quiz: Push Square's PlayStation Quiz of the Year 2023 | Push Square
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31.12.2023 / 00:11
Surprise! PS5 Exclusive Stellar Blade Has Been Delayed to 2024 | Push Square
If you were anticipating an action-packed weekend of Stellar Blade action, then you probably should have known better to be honest. Despite being scheduled to release in 2023, it was pretty clear earlier this year that Korean developer Shift Up’s console debut would take a little longer to launch on PS5. It’s now been included in a list of PS Blog highlights, with a 2024 release window attached.
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16.12.2023 / 15:21
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Fans Miffed After Apparent Snubbing at The Game Awards | Push Square
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is one of the biggest games of the year, and we were big fans, even if it didn't stray enough from the established Insomniac formula for our taste. Still, it seems we weren't the only ones surprised to find that, despite being nominated in seven separate categories, Sony's latest PlayStation exclusive didn't bag a single statue at The Game Awards.
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16.12.2023 / 15:20
Rumour: PS5 Pro Specs Could Leak Very Soon as Dev Kits Go Out to Studios | Push Square
We've had no official word on a PS5 Pro, but that hasn't stopped rumours about a souped-up model from circulating. Rumblings about a half-step upgrade, much like what happened with PS4 and PS4 Pro, have been doing the rounds for a while now, though nothing substantial has emerged yet. Now, though, new word from Insider Gaming's Tom Henderson suggests we might be hearing more about the machine pretty soon — whether Sony likes it or not.