Emma Roth
You can still buy a PS5 at its original price.
Sony’s $50 price hike in the US hasn’t gone into effect yet on PlayStation’s website or at other retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, Target, and GameStop.
Sony Playstation Archive
Archives for August 2025
Jay Peters
More Legends.
Ghost of Yōtei will be getting a free, co-op Legends mode next year, and it sounds like the one added to Ghost of Tsushima after its launch. Yōtei will be released on October 2nd, and Sony shared a new trailer at Opening Night Live.
Richard Lawler
Helldivers 2’s Halo crossover, explained.
Once the PlayStation-published shooter is available on Xbox consoles on August 26th, there will also be a new Helldivers 2 x Halo: ODST Legendary Warbond available, with armor seats, weapon skins, ODST-themed player cards, and a Warthog-style vehicle pattern, for the price of 1,500 Super Credits that you can pick up in-game or purchase.
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Sean Hollister
Now that’s a PlayStation fidget spinner.
“This model is fan art created by myself, it is not endorsed by, sponsored by or affiliated with Sony or PlayStation,” writes Graham Watson on his Bambu crowdfunding campaign. (Here’s more about those.) Looks awesome; I hope Sony’ll give it the nod or even a little help!
Jay Peters
PUBG is moving on from PS4 and Xbox One.
Beginning November 13th, the console version of PUBG: Battlegrounds will only be supported on PS5 and Xbox Series X / S, Krafton says.
Richard Lawler
Helldivers 2 teases a Halo 3 ODST tie-in ahead of its launch on Xbox.
This trailer starts with the PlayStation logo and ends with a teaser for Xbox’s most prized gaming franchise, before the game arrives on Microsoft’s consoles on August 26th. Meanwhile, formerly Xbox-exclusive Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga is launching on PlayStation.
Are the platform wars over?
Dominic Preston
Sony sells its 80 millionth PS5.
Its 80.3 millionth, to be exact, half the lifetime sales of the PS2, the best-selling console of all time, and closing on the 87.4 million PS3 sales. Sony sold 2.5 million consoles over April-June, about the same as last year, but doubled its gaming profit thanks to game sales and subscriptions.
It lowered its forecast for the tariff hit, but that likely didn’t factor in Trump’s new threat of a 100 percent rate on chips.
Dominic Preston
Genshin Impact is too demanding for the PS4.
Developer HoYoverse is ending support for the game, which will leave the PlayStation store next month and stop working entirely next April. The devs blamed “limitations related to hardware performance and platform application size.”
Fortunately, Genshin Impact will remain playable on more powerful hardware like the PS5 and, um, your phone.
