For more than 25 years, Sony’s PlayStation has been synonymous with gaming. It’s given players experiences like God of War, The Last of Us, and Final Fantasy VII alongside technological innovations from CD-ROMs all the way up to 4K, VR, and cloud gaming. There have even been attempts at portable gaming with the PSP and Vita. Across multiple generations the company has been a pioneer, starting with the original PlayStation and continuing with the PS5.
Bloomberg has the story. Raymond, also a former Google Stadia exec, had founded and led the PlayStation-owned Haven Studios, which has been working on a multiplayer heist game called Fairgames.
According to Bloomberg’s report, Fairgames had been scheduled for a fall 2025 release, but that has been pushed to spring 2026.
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During the Virtua Fighter spring 2025 direct, Sega has announced that Virtua Fighter 5: R.E.V.O., released on Steam earlier this year, will be coming to PS5, Xbox Series S/X, and the Nintendo Switch 2.
R.E.V.O. is actually a port of 2021’s Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown with the extra bells and whistles of 4k resolution and other goodies including the fighting gamer’s favorite feature: rollback netcode. The console edition of Virtua Fighter 5: R.E.V.O. doesn’t yet have a release date yet but hopefully we’ll get one soon.
Sony’s latest limited edition PS5 controller takes its design from Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, with an intentionally / annoyingly off-center Drawbridge logo at its heart. Kojima Productions helped with the design apparently, and doesn’t he look proud? Preorders open on May 22nd, ahead of the game’s launch on June 26th.
Sony and Gearbox just aired a 20-minute deep dive on what it’s like to actually play Borderlands 4. It looks like a Borderlands game, but that’s not a bad thing; when Borderlands works, the loop of finding newer and flashier guns is excellent, and it seems like 4 will have some nice improvements to the formula.
The PlayStation Blog has a big post about the game, too. It’s launching on September 12th.
The poker roguelike will be available as part of May’s PlayStation Plus lineup, which also includes Ark: Survival Ascended, Balatro, and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. You can grab the games starting May 6th.
The game is on Xbox Game Pass, too.
The Slayer approacheth. Every day we get closer to the May 15th release date of Doom: The Dark Ages. In the lead up to launch, id Software has been drip feeding fans new trailers and tidbits to keep the hype high. With this latest update, the developers at id are showing off an all new location, the cosmic realm, new Lovecraftian enemies, and new combat mechanics that are gonna look mighty familiar to anyone who’s played Returnal.
Wario64 shared the new prices for 12-month subscriptions, and you can see the previous prices on MobileSyrup. Sony announced higher PlayStation Plus prices in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia due to “global market conditions” last week.
PS5 hardware got price hikes in the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand earlier this week.
The game is an architectural puzzle mystery that is all-consuming.
Here’s a launch trailer for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which releases on April 17th, and a blog post detailing some PlayStation-specific features for the game.
On PS5 Pro, you can expect “optimized console performance” that “ensures you achieve higher and more consistent frame rates.”
The framerate counters over at Digital Foundry looked into reports of noticeable stutters every eight seconds for games like Elden Ring and Spider-Man Remastered while using variable refresh rate, testing 19 games with a number of displays and comparing to Xbox versions where available.
Some games they tested (Gran Turismo 7, God of War Ragnarok) didn’t have the problem, and while it’s unclear why it is happening, it does seem to be PS5-specific, and sometimes takes 20 minutes or more to show up.
Only 200 prototypes of the Nintendo PlayStation were ever made, and most were destroyed when the partnership fell through. What was believed to be the last remaining prototype in existence sold at auction for $360,000 in 2020, but Julian Domanski discovered that former Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Ken Kutaragi has had one stashed away in a closet, as spotted by Time Extension. Don’t expect it to hit the auction block any time soon.
The setting fans have been waiting for does not fail to deliver.
Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) and People Can Fly announced that they are working together on “a prototype for a new video game codenamed Project Delta (the “Product”), based on the intellectual property rights owned by the Publisher.” Killzone revival?
To celebrate God of War’s 20th anniversary, Santa Monica Studio is releasing Dark Odyssey-themed skins for God of War Ragnarök, merch, a 20th anniversary retrospective book set, and more. Read all the details on the PlayStation Blog.
Sony is just now giving its PlayStation Portal the fancy ad treatment, nearly a year and a half after its launch. Unsurprisingly, it’s aimed at families, by way of a busy dad. That tracks with Sony’s stats showing how the PS5 remote player is used.
An ad push following the beta testing of cloud game streaming is likely another strong indicator that Sony’s single-purpose device has proved successful.
Palworld’s crossplay update is coming soon. We don’t know exactly when, as the announcement states it’ll happen sometime late March. But expect to pal around with your friends on any platform within the next two weeks. Also, in celebration of the update, Palworld’s 25 percent off on the PlayStation store and Steam.
