PlayStation 5 News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

There’s a new system software for your PS5, as Sony has released version 24.02-09.00.00 to the masses. But what does it do?

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is to receive story DLC and free add-ons, Ubisoft has announced.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed March 2024’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalogue and Classics titles.

Arrowhead Game Studios has quietly introduced flying bugs to Helldivers 2.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi has said that further expansions of the card game Queen’s Blood are a possibility.

The latest PlayStation 5 system update is rolling out now, with new features including console light dimming and DualShock controller improvements.

Around six months ago, the retro specialists at Digital Eclipse released the first edition of its new collection, the Gold Master Series.

Grandia HD Collection will finally be released for Xbox and PlayStation consoles this month.

Sony has released a new trailer for Team Ninja’s Rise of the Ronin, which is viewable below.

Frontier Developments has announced F1 Manager 2024.

The remake of System Shock will be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in May.

Star Wars Jedi series director Stig Asmussen has announced the formation of his own studio, Giant Skull.

2K has given the first full details on Top Spin 2K25, including the game’s release date.

Monster Hunter World has now sold 25 million units worldwide, according to Capcom.

The mid-19th century was a period of enforced change and upheaval in Japan, as the United States and the West took rather forceful measures to open the country up to trading and end a traditionally isolationist policy. The move would impact everyone in the country from the Shogun, through the clans, and the regular people. Not everyone was happy with the possibility of such change, with Rise of the Ronin featuring the Veiled Edge, a group of skilled blade wielders and assassins who will defy the Shogun.

The Battlefield series has lost another high-profile figure in the form of Craig Morrison, who has left his role as studio creative director at EA‘s DICE.

Square Enix has provided an update on the PC version of Final Fantasy 16.

MultiVersus will officially return on May 28.

Sea of Thieves is currently the top of the pre-order charts on numerous PlayStation 5 digital storefronts.

The return of MultiVersus could be officially announced today.

The worst thing about Balatro is that it’s so good that we have to take time away from Balatro to write this review.

Let's set the clock back to a time when games were a procession of hack-and-slash violence proceeding from the left to right sides of the screen. Poppy Works' recently released throwback beat ‘em up mines the late-90s sixth-generation aesthetic, with a 2.5D action platformer steeped in extravagant bio-mecha anime style, and a wave-slash Strider Hiryū could only dream of. It’s a punchy, chaotic stretch of button-mashing and relatively short – perhaps intended to inspire those replay-ready leaderboard chasers – but it’s outright begging for more in the way of combat diversity, and any portions where the game requires straight-up platforming feel like a drag.

A demo for the PlayStation-published action game Stellar Blade briefly appeared on the PlayStation Store on Friday.

Former Xbox, Sega and Electronic Arts executive Peter Moore believes that “serious questions” are being asked about the future of console generations.

You probably subscribe to PlayStation Plus for online gaming and a catalog of on-demand games, but your subscription also comes with access to a selection of free movies as part of Sony Pictures Core. Here's how you can start watching today.

Sucker Punch has teamed up with Nixxes to bring its acclaimed samurai epic, , to PC on May 16, 2024. was highly requested by PC gamers after Sony began its venture to bring more of its acclaimed PlayStation-exclusive catalog to the platform with titles such as the first two titles — which were also successfully ported by Nixxes — , and .

Details of the Epic Games Store’s Spring Sale have leaked ahead of its official announcement.

Hogwarts Legacy developer Avalanche Software has moved to “set some expectations” for the game’s free summer update.

Helldivers 2 was the UK’s best-selling game in February following an impressive launch.

Capcom has made a Dragon’s Dogma 2 character creator tool available ahead of the game’s release this month.

Insomniac Games released a new update for the PlayStation 5 exclusive . The patch adds fan-requested features, including a New Game+ mode, mission replay, and Time of Day options. The update also adds several new accessibility options and general improvements.

The sequel to Valiant Hearts is released on consoles and PC today.

The recently released remake of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons reportedly struggles with performance on consoles, especially on Xbox Series S.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has enjoyed the second-best week 1 sales of any physical PS5 game in Japan.

Arrowhead Game Studios has announced Helldivers 2’s latest Warbond.

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson has outlined the transformative impact he believes generative artificial intelligence can have on the company and the wider games business over the next five years.

Microsoft held its second Xbox Partner Preview event on Wednesday.

GSC Game World's cult classic survival horror shooter series, is finally coming to consoles. The series sees players exploring an alternate version of the present-day Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, in search of strange phenomena following a second Chernobyl disaster in 2006 that spawned numerous nature-defying anomalies, artifacts, and mutants.

An unannounced STALKER Legends of the Zone Trilogy has been spotted ahead of an official reveal.

Sony has secured the complete Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy as a console exclusive.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced a PC version of Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut.

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios is not being acquired by Sony, according to its CEO.

WWE 2K24 has censored archival footage of Vince McMahon during certain sections of its Showcase mode.

The console versions of Dragon’s Dogma 2 won’t have any graphics modes, according to director Hideaki Itsuno.

The latest patch for Helldivers 2 has now been released.

Capcom has announced a new digital event that will take place across two broadcasts over the next week.

As we’ve covered multiple times on the site, video games are slowly being accepted into other mediums beyond the gaming space. For example, Nintendo has made a literal theme park celebrating Mario and will have Donkey Kong and others join him soon. Then, you have seen Mario and Sonic in big-budget movies that have done incredibly well for themselves, with more on the way. Then, in the live-action space, things like Naughty Dog’s treasured franchise have proven you can do Emmy-worthy content based on video games. But the real question we want to ask is, is Square Enix really trying to do the same thing?

Have you updated your toaster recently? Though this may sound silly and far-fetched, we’re rapidly approaching the stage where everything is connected and able to receive over-the-air updates.

Larian Studios has said the physical version of Baldur’s Gate 3 will now come on four discs and likely be delayed to April.

The official MultiVersus X account has posted its first update in over eight months, seemingly hinting at plans to launch the game soon.

Sony has released this month’s first PlayStation Plus games.

Arrowhead Game Studios has teased plans to introduce mechs in Helldivers 2 in the near future.

Nixxes Software and Guerrilla Games have revealed the Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition PC specifications, which are viewable below.

Warner Bros. Discovery has again said that it sees the biggest growth opportunities in gaming in the free-to-play and live service spaces.

While PlayStation 5owners may be desperately waiting for the console's next major release, they might want to turn their attention toward the catalog of games that are due for a major remaster. Since Sony's console and many of its associated franchises span all the way back to the 1990s, it stands to reason that some characters and franchises would be forgotten amongst those that proved more popular. Sometimes, that's not enough to keep a series dormant since the actual game fans originally slept on was so good, Sony sees it fitting to give it a second chance.

The Epic Games Store version of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been delayed once again, right before the day it was set to be released.

Footage from Free Radical’s cancelled TimeSplitters game has been shared online by the team’s head of art.

Ubisoft’s second $70 game, Skull and Bones, has seen its price reduced significantly less than three weeks after its release.

Activision has detailed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone Season 2 Reloaded.

The PlayStation 5 is in a curious place right now. The system is technically on a pace that eclipses its predecessor, one of the best-selling systems of all time. That’s impressive. However, it’s a bit murkier on the software side of things and the business side of things. Sony announced that there wouldn’t be a 1st party game from a familiar franchise until at least March of next year. Then, you have to recall the Sony layoffs that rocked the gaming industry last week when they let 900 people go from their global studios. So, yeah, it’s been a weird start to 2024.

“Evolution is a mystery, full of change that no one sees”. So go the lyrics to the theme music for Evolution, one of the WWE’s greatest ever factions.

A PC version of 2020’s Ghost of Tsushima could be announced next week,  it’s claimed.

EA and Bioware are reportedly confident that Dragon Age: Dreadwolf will be released this year.

The DualSense Edge is more than twice the price of a standard DualSense PlayStation 5 controller, but it comes with the extra features and customizations you’d expect from a premium gamepad.

Countless PS5 deals and discounts were available during Black Friday and the holidays. If you missed out, now you can get the newer PS5 Slim Spider-Man 2 bundle for the lowest price we've seen yet, only $449.

Ori developer Moon Studios will present a digital showcase for its new game, No Rest for the Wicked, later today.

Guerrilla’s multiplayer Horizon game is reportedly not among a number of recently cancelled PlayStation titles.

A number of Rockstar Games developers have criticised the company for telling employees they must return to the office full-time in April.

The concurrent player count for the Steam version of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has dropped so much since launch that it’s now frequently lower than that of Gotham Knights.

Very early in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, you’ll be riding chocobos in the vast open-world areas of the map. Unlike the previous game, you’re not stuck in the cramped undercity slums of Midgar. You’ve got a huge world to explore, and if you want to get around faster, you’ll need chocobos. The first chocobos are unlocked automatically, but eventually you’ll need to hunt them down yourself – and these chocobo hunts get increasingly more difficult. Later in the games, getting chocobos is its own little puzzle. Instead of taming them, the tricky part is sneaking up on them.

Crash Team Rumble support is winding down, as next week’s content update will be its last.

Skylanders and Crash Bandicoot developer Toys for Bob has announced plans to go independent.

Embracer Group is reportedly set to sell Saber Interactive in a deal worth up to $500 million.

Some Tekken 8 players have reacted with anger at the addition of microtransactions to the game, via a premium currency.

Gameplay footage showing off playable mechs in Helldivers 2 appears to have leaked.

Square Enix has published a Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth launch trailer to coincide with the game’s release today.

Rockstar Games has reportedly requested that employees return to the office full-time as it approaches the final stages of development on Grand Theft Auto 6.

Insomniac Games has released a public statement in response to layoffs at the studio announced this week by parent company Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile will be released worldwide on March 21, 2024, Activision has announced.

Electronic Arts has closed Ridgeline Games, the studio formed in 2021 to work on a future Battlefield single-player game.