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.
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.
The PS5 has finally been bundled with the game that makes purchasing the console totally worth it. The Astro Bot PS5 bundle is $450 and goes on sale March 13th. It’s a PS5 slim model that comes with the disk drive and 1 TB of storage.
Not that you’ll need all that space because Astro Bot, 2024’s wholly correct Game of the Year, is the only game you’ll ever need to play on it.
While we wait for season 2 of The Last of Us on HBO (and maybe, but probably not, a third video game) Sony is putting out a new special edition PS5 controller. It’s covered in TLOU iconography and launches on April 10th — just a few days before the show premieres.
Split Fiction, the new game from It Takes Two developer Hazelight Studios, launches today on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. Because the game requires co-op play, Hazelight is bringing back the popular Friend Pass program.
With Friend Pass, if you own Split Fiction, you can invite a friend to play with you without needing to purchase a second copy of the game. Friend Pass is also cross-play enabled, making it easier than ever to find your Player 2.
In a new interview in Variety, Neil Druckmann, creative director of The Last of Us series, doesn’t seem confident the popular game turned HBO hit will get a third installment. “I guess the only thing I would say is don’t bet on there being more of ‘Last of Us.’ This could be it,” he says in the interview.
Which is odd because just last year Druckmann said he thinks there’s one more chapter left to the story.
Sony just issued a new update for the nearly 20-year-old console. This brings the software up to version 4.92 and, as Eurogamer notes, these updates are an annual occurrence to renew the Blu-ray player’s encryption key, so that you can still use the PS3 for watching new movies.
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Hazelight Studios’ keeps nailing it with its co-op games by doing simple things really well.
Xbox’s been hard at work bringing its exclusives to the PS5. There was Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, and Sea of Thieves to start, but now it’s targeting bigger releases like Indiana Jones and The Great Circle and Forza Horizon 5. Microsoft announced that it was targeting Spring of 2025 for the beautiful racing game’s release and now we have a confirmed date: April 29th. You can even pre-order the game to get early access starting April 25th.
