The UKIE Video Game Awards 2024 took place last night, with Sad Owl Studios' Viewfinder taking home UK Game of the Year alongside best console game.
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The House of Mouse has churned out excellent games for PlayStation in recent years, whether they’re programmed exclusively for the PS5 or PS4 titles that can be played on the PS5 as well. Whichever version you have, you can experience the same magic playing fun Disney games as you can get from watching any Disney movie or show.
Now that Disney owns Marvel, Star Wars, and various other franchises, more games than ever seemingly fall under the 'Disney' umbrella. Below we've outlined five of the best Disney (or Disney adjacent) titles you can play on your PS5 right now. You can also check out our list of the best PS5 games overall.
Disney Dreamlight Valley is the perfect life sim game for Disney Adults who love Animal Crossing, can’t get enough of Stardew Valley, and wish to interact with their favorite Disney characters outside of the theme parks. You play as a custom avatar that works to bring the titular land back to its former glory after it's plagued by the Forgetting, a supernatural event that caused some of the Disney characters living in Dreamlight Valley to lose their memories and others to flee to their homeworlds as a result of the Night Thorns.
Although rebuilding Dreamlight Valley and constructing homes for the people who left it takes a lot of hard work and resources to forage for, you get to befriend every Disney character you meet, even the villains. The game provides a pretty chill experience right that you can share with the whole family sitting on your living room couch.
Read our review of Disney Dreamlight Valley .
Although it was released on the PS4 in 2019, Kingdom Hearts 3 pairs remarkably well with the PS5 thanks to Square Enix making its graphics more enhanced than its predecessors. The game follows Sora on yet another adventure with Donald and Goofy to regain his Power of Waking after failing his Mark of Mastery exam in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance; Riku and King Mickey searching for Aqua, Terra, and Ventus; and Kairi and Lea (formerly Axel of Organization XIII) training to become Keyblade wielders themselves — all in preparation for the final battle against Master Xehanort.
In addition to new gameplay mechanics such as Attraction Flow and Athletic Flow, Kingdom Hearts 3 has worlds inspired by Toy Story, Monsters Inc., Big Hero 6, Tangled, and Frozen (complete with the obligatory “Let It Go” cutscene). It also has the Re:Mind expansion, adding more meat to the main game’s story and offering you the chance to test your mettle against the data versions of Organization XIII members and the mysterious Yozora. If you’re up for the challenge, that is.
Overall, it's an excellent installment in the Kingdom Hearts franchise and worth playing while we wait for Kingdom Hearts 4.
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The UKIE Video Game Awards 2024 took place last night, with Sad Owl Studios' Viewfinder taking home UK Game of the Year alongside best console game.
Finding ways to level up members of your party fast in is the best way to deal with various challenges found throughout your adventure. As enemies and bosses get stronger in later story Chapters, your team needs to be prepared for tougher fights. Taking the time to farm EXP through different tasks will let your party grow in strength to face future obstacles head-on.
Xbox Game Pass has confirmed another day-one game for 2024 in the form of The Alters. The next title from award-winning developer 11 Bit Studios is still without an official release date, although the Polish company committed to bringing it to PC, consoles, and Xbox Game Pass sometime this year.
Denis Villeneuve’smovie adaptations of Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel, Dune, has become a cultural and commercial hit. That’s big for Team Hollywood, but I still have a hard time believing that Dune has done more for movies than it has for video games — so long as you ignore the kerfuffle over whether it influenced Star Wars.
One of Remedy's best games is coming to Xbox Game Pass this month. Microsoft's subscription cycles through new titles each month, adding new titles while removing others. Recently, major titles such as the and remakes, and have been added to the subscription.
Warner Bros has said it plans to focus on free-to-play and live-service games going forward, despite premium, standalone, single-player RPG Hogwarts Legacy being the best-selling game of 2023.
Suika is the puzzle gift that keeps on giving. The viral Watermelon Game that launched a thousand non-Switch-exclusive clones has added another promising offering to its line-up of Suika-like twists on the simple fruit-merging game.
A Disney Dreamlight Valley player has made impressive recreations of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. Disney Dreamlight Valley is a charismatic mix of life simulator and adventure, where players meet the heroes and villains of Disney and Pixar. Another aspect that Gameloft's title is known for is its customization options.
Between them, ’s two most recent titles, and, have established and maintained a variety of popular gameplay features. However, it may be time to set aside one such staple of the games unless major changes are put into effect to keep the gameplay fresh. The franchise constantly provides new experiences, but this also means that many individual mechanics seldom appear for more than one or two games.
Last week, we asked you share moments from your go-to comfort game using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:
Picking a new, high-end PC gaming monitor isn’t fun. Once you know your budget, you then have to consider the image resolution, refresh rate, and size that’s right for your desk, not to mention the actual quality of the screen. Even after you select a brand, you’re still stuck sifting through monitor names that read like poorly considered email passwords. Do you want the S32BG85 or the OL231UHD? (Only one of those is real!)
It’s been a minute since we’ve had a solid discount on the PlayStation 5, but Best Buy has the first big deal of the year. Right now you can pick up the Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 bundle for just $449.99 (was $499.99). This bundle includes a copy of the game and the newer, slim version of the disc-based PlayStation 5. At its regular price, this bundle already saves you the $69.99 cost of buying the game on its own. And, with Best Buy’s $50 off sale on top of that, it’s effectively paying you to play Spider-Man 2.