TodayMon, 13th May 2024

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  News Assassin's Creed Shadows the Actual Name of AC Red, Reveal This Week

  Update: Out for PS5 on 15th November

  Update: It's been noticed in one of the YouTube descriptions for the cinematic trailer that Assassin's Creed Shadows releases on 15th November 2024 for PS5. There's no PS4 version. Original story: Ubisoft has today confirmed the next entry in the Assassin's Creed series, which has up until today been known as...

  • 4h ago
  • Ubisoft
  • PS5
  • Assassin's Creed
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  News Religious Indie Game INDIKA Handed Final PS5 Release Date of 17th May

  After minor console delay

  Following a short delay that pushed the console versions past the original PC launch, it has been confirmed INDIKA will release for PS5 later this week on 17th May 2024. An experience steeped in religious faith mixed with platforming and puzzle solving, the unusual game can be seen in action in the trailer above. Since the...

  • 5h ago
  • 11 Bit Studios
  • PS5
  • INDIKA
  • Release Dates
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  Review Braid, Anniversary Edition (PS5) - A Gorgeous Revisit of an Indie Classic

  Back and back and back again

  It feels oddly surreal to be reviewing a classic like Braid in the year 2024. If one were to rewind back to 2008 when it first released onto Xbox Live Arcade, the video game landscape would look far different than it does today. Braid, alongside other indie classics like Super Meat Boy and Fez, reshaped the entire indie...

  • 5h ago
  • Reviews
  • Thekla
  • PS5
  • Braid: Anniversary Edition
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  News New Fallout 4 PS5 Update Is Available to Download Now

  A small 189.4MB patch

  As promised by Bethesda at the end of last week, the developer has today released a new PS5 patch for Fallout 4 that works to improve its suite of graphical options alongside "further fixes and improvements". The update is available to download now on PS5, weighing in at a tiny 189.4MB. You'll have it downloaded and installed...

  • 5h ago
  • Bethesda
  • PS5
  • Fallout
  • Patches
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  News PS Plus Adds Two Hour Trial for PS5's The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered

  Joining the club

  If you’re yet to sample one of PlayStation’s greatest ever games, there’s no excuse for PS Plus Premium members: Sony has added a two hour trial of The Last of Us: Part 2 Remastered to the top-tier of its subscription service. That 120 minutes should give you just enough time to see the title’s controversial twist, which...

  • 6h ago
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • The Last of Us
  • PS Plus
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  News Alan Wake 2's Haunting Soundtrack Out Tomorrow, Includes 35 Tracks

  Available for streaming and purchasing

  The official Alan Wake 2 soundtrack, composed by Petri Alanko, will be made available across a variety of platforms for streaming and purchase from tomorrow. 35 music tracks designed to capture "the emotion, tension, and mystery of the game’s story" will be streamable on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music,...

  • 7h ago
  • Epic Games
  • PS5
  • Alan Wake
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  News Among Us Is Getting More Roles, Better Lobbies, More Later This Year

  New roadmap lays it all out

  You don't see or hear too much about Among Us these days, but it remains a popular social deduction game. As it turns out, developer Inner Sloth is far from done with the title — it recently highlighted all its plans for the remainder of 2024, with some pretty big changes incoming. Over on the studio's website, it's...

  • 8h ago
  • Innersloth
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Among Us
  • Updates
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  News PS1 Emulation Comes To iPhone Via Gamma

  Time Extension 32-bit classics on your smartphone

  It's now possible to play PS1 games on your iPhone thanks to a new app called Gamma. Developed by ZodTTD (AKA Benjamin Stark) – an individual who has a long history in the world of emulation – Gamma is pretty feature-rich. It supports Bluetooth controllers, runs on both the iPhone and iPad, supports cloud...

  • 9h ago
  • Emulation
  • PS1
  • PlayStation
  • iPhone
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  News Next Week's Huge PS Plus Purge Now Extended to 35 PS5, PS4 Games

  Teardown, Darksiders games, and Wreckfest added

  Sony is having a significant clearout of PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium games on 21st May 2024, and the long list of titles leaving the two tiers has just been extended by another 10 games. What first stood at 25 games was extended by one by the addition of Ho

  • 9h ago
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • PS Plus
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  5

  News CM Punk Joins the WWE 2K24 Roster in DLC Pack This Wednesday

  Alongside the Dudley Boyz and more

  Returning WWE fan-favourite CM Punk is the headline addition of the first WWE 2K24 DLC pack, releasing this coming Wednesday, 15th May 2024. His first appearance in the games since WWE 2K15, the wrestler will be part of the ECW Punk Pack, which also includes tag-team partners Bubba Ray Dudley, D-Von Dudley, and...

  • 9h ago
  • 2K Sports
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • WWE 2K
  • DLC
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  News EA Exploring 'Thoughtful Implementations' of In-Game Advertising

  Ad-ded value

  Electronic Arts, the publisher everyone loves to hate, isn't doing itself many favours among already-jaded onlookers. The company's CEO, Andrew Wilson, has already talked about implementing generative AI into its development processes, but that same earnings call saw him discuss another contentious idea: in-game ads. Asked directly...

  • 10h ago
  • EA
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Industry
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  News Square Enix to 'Aggressively' Pursue Multiplatform Strategy from Now On

  Say goodbye to those PS5 exclusives

  Square Enix has confirmed in a new medium-term business plan that it intends to "aggressively" pursue a multiplatform strategy across PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, and PC platforms. Instead of allowing select AAA games from its biggest series to be locked onto one system, the company will look to "build an...

  • 11h ago
  • Square Enix
  • Industry
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  News Single Player Animal Well Has a Secret Puzzle that Requires 50 Players to Solve

  Of course, the community is all over it

  Surpise-hit indie Animal Well was released late last week and already seems to have trapped a sizable number of players with its gorgeous pixel aesthetic and world full of secrets to uncover. Despite being a single player game, one particular secret puzzle will supposedly require 50 players working in concert...

  • 15h ago
  • Bigmode
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  News Fresh Sony Studio Reportedly Staffed by Former Deviation Games Devs

  Jason Blundell back on deck

  Following Deviation Games' closure and the mothballing of the high-profile PS5 game it was working on, it was unclear where the studio's storied talent would surface next. According to one former Deviation dev, many of the affected staff have formed a mysterious new studio at Sony, again working on an as-yet-unknown IP...

  • 16h ago
  • Sony
  • Industry
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  News Sony Delists Ghost of Tsushima PC from Steam Regions in Line with Helldivers 2

  Where it stops, nobody knows

  Following Sony's decision last week to delist Helldivers 2 in 170 regions worldwide on Steam, it seems this will be the firm's PC stance moving forward, and it has since done the same for the imminent PC release of Ghost of Tsushima. More regions have been added to the list, taking the total number of territories...

  • 17h ago
  • Sony
  • PC
  • Ghost of Tsushima
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  News Fans Positively Review Bomb Hi-Fi Rush in Wake of Xbox’s Closure of Tango Gameworks

  Good?

  In a development you don't see every day, following the closure of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, swarms of fans have expressed their outrage by positively review bombing the game on Steam. This reverse review bombing campaign has resulted in several thousand Positive new reviews rising to the top since the news of Bethesda's...

  • 18h ago
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • Helldivers
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  News Helldivers 2 Players Given Second Chance to Secure New Anti-Tank Stratagem

  Ask not what Super Earth can do for you...

  With the week Helldivers 2 players just went through IRL, distracted by Sony's regrettable own-goal and subsequent reversal, it should be no surprise that the ongoing Galactic War effort has suffered similarly, with the situation looking worse all the time. Having failed to contain the Terminid Supercolony...

  • 19h ago
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • Helldivers

YesterdaySun, 12th May 2024

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  Soapbox The Trouble With Limited Run Games, And How To Fix It

  Time Extension "There has to be a better standard of quality"

  It’s odd to me that we live in a time where a video game getting a physical release is now considered a big deal. As someone who’s probably from the last generation which grew up before the age of digital distribution, I still distinctly remember when physical game releases were the only game...

  • 1d ago
  • Features
  • Soapbox
  • Limited Run Games
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  Rumour Is LEGO Horizon Aloy's Next Big PS5 Adventure?

  Bricked

  An unexpected rumour has surfaced this weekend regarding the possibility of a LEGO-themed Horizon game. In truth, the speculation is vague, and it’s not clear at this stage whether the collaboration involves a full-blown PS5 title or a physical set, similar to the one featuring the Tallneck which sold out around the world last year. In...

  • 1d ago
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • LEGO
  • Rumours
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  News Vague Sly Cooper PS5 Game Rumours Debunked

  "No truth to this one, sorry to say"

  Speculation of a second game in production at Ghost of Tsushima studio Sucker Punch Productions tied to the late Sly Cooper series has been doing the rounds this weekend, but none of it's actually true. Alongside a presumed follow-up to the developer's samurai hit, Jeff Grubb of Giant Bomb suggested the team may...

  • 22h ago
  • Sony
  • Sly Cooper
  • Rumours
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  News Switch's Demon Slayer Board Game Rolls a PS5, PS4 Port in July

  Launched on Switch last month

  The board game adaptation of goliath manga and anime series Demon Slayer is coming to PS5 and PS4, after debuting meekly on Nintendo Switch last month. The title couldn’t top 20,000 sales in Japan during Golden Week, and so Sony subsidiary Aniplex will be hoping the CyberConnect2 title sells a little better on...

  • 1d ago
  • SEGA
  • Aniplex
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Demon Slayer

Saturday11th May 2024

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  Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 528

  May this journey lead us starward

  Another week has come to a premature conclusion, so it's time to discuss what we're playing this weekend. There's tons to choose from, so here's what's keeping us busy. Aaron Bayne: I'm on the final boss of Stellar Blade so the aim is to get through that. Hopefully with a bit more ease than the last couple of...

  • 3d ago
  • Talking Point
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • What Are You Playing
  • Features