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Wednesday, Jul 3

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New PlayStation Shapes Collection Figures Include Aloy, Kratos, and Jin Sakai

Sony has teamed up with Spin Master to launch a new range of collectible figures based on PlayStation Studios franchises. Dubbed the PlayStation Shapes collection, the figures include Aloy and Varl from Horizon: Forbidden West, Kratos and…

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Battlefield 2042 Dead Space Crossover Announced, Limited Event Detailed

EA is combining two of its biggest franchises with the announcement of a Dead Space crossover event coming to Battlefield 2042. The event runs for one week, starting on July 9, and features unlockable rewards and a new bundle. What is the…

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The First Descendant Players Getting Compensated for Launch Issues

The First Descendant players, including those on the PS5 and PS4, are being compensated with rewards for the game’s launch issues. Nexon‘s free-to-play looter shooter just released, and is already one of the most popular games on…

Veteran Japanese Dev Defends Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Veteran Japanese developer Yoshiki Okamoto has spoken out in defense of AC Shadows amidst controversy surrounding its protagonists. Okamoto, who spent over a decade at Capcom alone, has rightfully pointed out that AC Shadows is a “fantasy…

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PS3 Losing 3 Multiplayer Games Soon, Last Chance to Earn Trophies

The PS3 and Xbox 360 are set to lose three multiplayer games by November, leaving players four months to mop up online trophies and achievements. The games in question are Battlefield 3, 4, and Hardline, which still have a sizeable player…

PS Stars Members Won’t Get a Chance to Grab Missed Days of Play Rewards

Sony has said that PS Stars Days of Play 2024 campaigns and their accompanying rewards are no longer active despite the month-long outage. The loyalty program, which is still in the process of being brought back online, went down in the…

Tuesday, Jul 2

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PlayStation Store Update Worldwide July 2, 2024

Each week Sony brings PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation VR, and PlayStation Plus owners new content, add-ons, games, and more. Here is the complete global PlayStation Store update. PlayStation LifeStyle catalogs the PlayStation…

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Unbound Difficulty Customization Detailed

Dragon Age: The Veilguard will come with four difficulty levels, including the new Unbound difficulty that offers a range of customization options. EA has now explained some of the gameplay aspects that players will be able to change when…

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GTA 6 Easter Egg Added to Grand Theft Auto Online

Rockstar launched Grand Theft Auto Online’s Bottom Dollar Bounties expansion last week, adding a variety of new content. However, while fans were paying attention to the new cars and missions, developers added a sneaky GTA 6 easter egg in…

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Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Okami Items Available in Demo

During the Capcom Next show, the publisher released a demo for Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess that allows players to unlock Okami tie-in items. By working together and completing a challenge, the Okami collaboration weapons and costumes…

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Dead Rising Frank West Voice Actor Explains Why He Isn’t in Deluxe Remaster

Dead Rising‘s Frank West voice actor Terence Rotolo won’t be returning for the Deluxe Remaster, and fans wanted to know why, so they went direct to the source. Capcom announced that the game will feature “new, high-end character modeling…

Lack of PS Portal Web Browser Continues to Annoy Players

The lack of a PS Portal web browser continues to vex players nearly eight months after the remote player launched. The issue keeps cropping up from time to time as players use workarounds to access a hidden browser tucked away in the…

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Games Run Better on PS5 Than Xbox Series X Because of Architecture, Say Tech Experts

A PS5 vs Xbox Series X performance analysis conducted by tech experts over at Digital Foundry finally explains why games tend to run better on the PS5. Despite Xbox Series X being labeled the most “powerful” console in the market today,…

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PlayStation Stars Back Online, Rollout Phased by Region

At long last, PlayStation Stars is back online after breaking the 2011 PSN outage record. However, the loyalty program is being brought back in phases, with Sony staggering the rollout by region. At the time of this writing, PS Stars is…

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Resident Evil 9 Is in Development With Resident Evil 7 Director Spearheading Sequel

At Capcom Next Summer 2024, it was confirmed that Resident Evil 9 is in development and is being fronted by Resident Evil 7’s Koshi Nakanishi. With much murmuring and rumors bubbling about what’s going on with the survival horror…

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Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Release Date Confirmed for PS5

Capcom‘s Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster has a confirmed release date, and both a digital and physical edition are planned. Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster release date and trailer Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will hit PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and…

Monday, Jul 1

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Hardcore Shooter Bloodhound Out Now on PS4 & PS5

Kruger & Flint’s hardcore throwback shooter Bloodhound has spilled onto PlayStation consoles in all its gory glory. In Bloodhound, the player takes on the role of a member of a secret faction of the Templar order, which must stop the…

PS5 and PS4 Releases: Every Game Release Date for Week Beginning July 1, 2024

We enter the second half of the year on a quieter note, although the list of new PS5 and PS4 games for the week beginning July 1, 2024, does have some notable titles. The highlight of the week is likely to be Zenless Zone Zero, the latest…

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Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Video Goes Behind the Scenes of Shooter Sequel

Focus Entertainment and Saber Interactive have released a new Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 video going behind the scenes on the game. From Clive Standen playing Lieutenant Titus to the art team, developers, and QA teams, today’s video…

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PSN Down, Services Including Game Streaming Being Impacted (Update: It’s Back Up)

Update: It’s back up. PSN down reports have been coming in today, Monday, July 1, largely from users in North America, and Sony has confirmed on its official website that the PlayStation Network and its assorted services are currently…

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No, Sony Isn’t Ending PlayStation Game Discs

Wild speculations emerged over the weekend that Sony Interactive Entertainment is gearing up to cease production of PlayStation game discs, after a Japanese report was taken out of context. Although the report itself is in English, it…

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PlayStation Stars Downtime Now Surpassing 2011’s Infamous PSN Outage

PlayStation Stars has now been down a tad longer than 2011’s infamous PSN outage, with no resolution in sight. All set to break its past record, Sony Interactive Entertainment has not provided a time frame for restoration of the loyalty…

PlayStation’s Housemarque Working on AAA Action Game

PlayStation Studio Housemarque is working on a AAA action game featuring boss fights, if an official job ad is anything to go by. The Returnal developer sought a senior game designer in an ad published just two days ago, suggesting that…

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PS3 Backwards Compatibility Rumors Catch Steam as Sony’s Mark Cerny Files Patent

PlayStation architect Mark Cerny has filed a fresh patent for backwards compatibility, giving rise to speculations that Sony is working on bringing PS3 games to PS5 natively. However, Cerny’s history of filing similar patents and the…

Friday, Jun 28

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Cyberpunk 2077 Devs Want to Make the Sequel More Authentically American

The sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 is in development at the CD Projekt Red studios in Boston and Vancouver. The main reason for creating the Boston studio was to let CDPR develop Cyberpunk and The Witcher simultaneously. However, the developers…

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Astro Bot PS5 File Size Is Larger Than Elden Ring

Astro Bot’s file size has been revealed, and it’s not a small game. While Astro’s playroom, which comes pre-loaded on PS5, is only around 11 GB, the sequel takes up more space than the base game of Elden Ring. What is Astro Bot’s file size…

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Release Date Delayed to Avoid Life Is Strange

Don’t Nod has delayed the release date of its upcoming narrative adventure Lost Records: Bloom & Rage to avoid the release of the next installment of Life is Strange. Life is Strange: Double Exposure is set to be released on October 29,…

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FromSoftware Owner Kadokawa May Have Confidential Info Leaked After Ransomware Attack

FromSoftware’s owner, Kadokawa, recently suffered a massive hack. The ransomware attack has disrupted multiple of the company’s subsidiaries and claims to have downloaded 1.5 terabytes of data. Did FromSoftware have confidential…

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Ubisoft Condemns Harassment of Assassin’s Creed Shadows Devs

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has made a rare statement condemning the ongoing harassment of Assassin’s Creed Shadows developers over the game’s protagonist, Yasuke. Internet trolls have been identifiying and targeting the game’s devs over…

Bend Studio Seemingly Fed Up With Days Gone 2 Discourse

Bend Studio staffers seem to have had enough of the chatter surrounding the non-existent Days Gone 2. The original release has garnered a cult following, and ever since its developers revealed that Sony turned down the pitch for a sequel,…