Foamstars hosting Open Beta Party later this month

A new gold standard Xbox controller.

As previously announced during Sony's recent State of Play livestream, Square Enix's online battler Foamstars is getting an open beta, and it's available now on PS5. You can play the Happy Bath Survival and Smash the Star modes from now until 11:59pm PDT on Sunday, with eight characters up for selection. Your progress won't carry over into the full version, and while there will be a PS4 edition available at launch, this open beta isn't available on Sony's last-gen system.

The Ilysia VR team is planning for Early Access sometime this month. 

Six games are set to leave Xbox Game Pass in the next two weeks, including Trek to Yomi.

NVIDIA has announced that its latest DLSS version 3.5 will be launching on September 21. It had previously revealed that DLSS 3.5 will, in fact, be compatible with all RTX cards to help provide a boost to titles including the updated Cyberpunk 2077. This includes Ray Reconstruction to help provide an even more beautiful and realistic experience for titles that support it. New AI-powered techniques will make their way to tensor cores across the board for NVIDIA RTX cards with the highlight being Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 at release. Ray Reconstruction will replace hand-tuned denoisers, which resolve sampled rays with a NVIDIA supercomputer-trained artificial intelligence network that will generate higher-quality pixels between sampled rays.

Polyarc has announced that the Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss, their strategic spin-off from the celebrated Moss series of VR games, will be into open beta next week on 26th September across Meta Quest 2 and SteamVR – other platforms like PSVR 2 will likely be coming down the line.

Polyarc has announced that the Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss, their strategic spin-off from the celebrated Moss series of VR games, will be into open beta next week on 26th September across Meta Quest 2 and SteamVR – other platforms like PSVR 2 will likely be coming down the line.

In case you missed the memo, Marvel's Avengers is leaving storefronts at the end of September. Square Enix's live service-centred superhero action game will be no more after about three years on the market, leaving PS Store on 30th September 2023 (though you can still play it after this date). However, as spotted by GamesRadar, you can at least check the game out in its final weeks on sale for a seriously reduced price.

Turns out we didn't dream it, and Square Enix really is making a multiplayer shooter about foam. Yes, Foamstars is happening, and all jokes aside, it was pretty fun when we went hands on earlier this year. Soon, a lot more people will get the chance to check it out, as an open beta test is heading our way very soon.

Square Enix’s Splatoon-like multiplayer shooter Foamstars received a new trailer during the recent State of Play and a release window. It’s out in early 2024 for PS4 and PS5, but current-gen console players can try it out early with the upcoming open beta.

Square Enix has announced a Foamstars open beta will take place from 30th September through to 2nd October, giving PS5 players a chance to try out this foam-filled riff on Splatoon. The full game will launch in early 2024.

Square Enix will host a PlayStation 5 open beta test for FOAMSTARS from September 29 at 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET to October 1 at 11:59 p.m. PT / October 2 at 2:59 a.m. ET, the company announced.