More temporary PS5 price cuts are coming to Europe this week

The release date for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is exactly two weeks away now, so it’s about time for another Night City Wire episode. Tune in on Thursday, September 14 at 11 AM ET for the next Night City Wire and see the most in-depth look yet for the Phantom Liberty expansion as well as what’s new in the base game of Cyberpunk 2077 with the 2.0 update.

It’s a somewhat slow week in streaming TV; sure, as ever you’ve got a million shows that you could catch up on, current or otherwise. But as far as actual new premieres go, it’s a relatively quiet week.

Super Bomberman R 2 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC, and Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster for Switch are the highlights of this week’s Japanese video game releases.

In an interview with Famitsu, Starfield lead and Bethesda frontman Todd Howard stated that the game's mod support «will be available next year» (obtained via machine translation), which likely refers to Starfield's equivalent to the Creation Kit modding tools for Skyrim and Fallout 4.

Do you ever think about what certain people had achieved at your age, or worse, much younger? It's a pretty sobering tangent to wander down as one desperately tries to sleep in a stuffy room — and there's definitely a mosquito in here. What? Anyway, 13-year-old Max Trest is developing a co-op action game exclusively for PS5.

Sony’s engagement with enthusiasts is non-existent in the PS5 era, so of course we know very little about the imminent Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. We have to accept what we can get, then: like these new images of Peter Parker and Miles Morales in their respective default suits. As you’d expect from developer Insomniac Games, both outfits look ludicrously detailed.

The new NFL season got underway overnight with the Detroit Lions narrowly edging out perennial favourites the Kansas City Chiefs, but if you have no interest in an American football simulator like Madden NFL 24, you may want to sit tight for Wild Card Football, which is due out on PS5 and PS4 in October.

We’ve known for quite some time that Sony, in its current guise, doesn’t care much for its core consumers – but overnight, it proved it. The platform holder nonchalantly announced price hikes to the annual tiers of its various PS Plus subscriptions – and these are significant jumps, not just minor alterations.

One of the worst-received PS Plus Essential refreshes has now arrived: Saints Row, Generation Zero, and Black Desert are available to download across the UK and Europe, with the USA set to join the fun later in the day. They are yours to keep for as long as you maintain a subscription to the base tier, and they'll be available for claiming until Tuesday, 3rd October 2023.

With the frankly flabbergasting PS Plus price increases announced overnight, Sony is in need of a win for its subscriptions – and a big one at that! One way it could curry favour with long-time members is by upgrading its PS2 emulator, allowing it to bring back classics from the early noughties alongside the PS1 and PSP titles it’s been adding as a PS Plus Premium perk.

Microsoft is set to launch its abusive-voice reporting feature for Xbox consoles. Announced in July, it lets gamers submit inappropriate remarks heard while playing multiplayer titles. The system captures a 60-second clip saved to the console; you then have 24 hours to complete the report. The feature arrives this week in the September update for Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. However, it’s initially limited to the “select English-language markets” of the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

The Quintessential Quintuplets: Five Promises Made with Her for PlayStation 4 and Switch, and Virche Evermore: -EpiC:lycoris- for Switch are the highlights of this week’s Japanese game releases.