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Astro Bot Now Has Over 90 Levels After Getting More Free Ones Today
10.7.2025
Astro Bot, one of the best PlayStation 5 games around, is growing a bit bigger. Today, the wonderful platformer is getting five new and totally free levels via an update. And developers Team Asobi are teasing something special if you beat them all. Read more
PlayStation Says Marathon Is Learning From Concord's Mistakes As It Doubles-Down On Live Service Gaming As A 'Key Strategic Pillar'
13.6.2025
It was just four years ago that Sony promised to launch 12 live service games by early 2026. Since then, many of those have been delayed, canceled, or taken offline. But that doesn’t seem to be deterring the console maker. PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst said in a new business update that live...
Mass Layoff At Days Gone Studio After Live Service PlayStation Game Canceled
10.6.2025
Days Gone maker Bend Studio has been hit by layoffs. Roughly a third of the first-party PlayStation team was reportedly cut following the recent cancelation of an unannounced live service project. Read more
Sony's Newest PlayStation Studio Is Made Up Of Destiny And Fortnite Vets Making A Multiplayer 'Frog-Type' Game
7.5.2025
A new team has joined the ranks of PlayStation’s first-party studios. Alongside Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Housemarque and others now sits teamLFG, a group of ex-Bungie developers working on a mysterious “frog-type” multiplayer project. I have a lot of questions, too.Read more
PlayStation Hit With More Layoffs Following Recent Game Cancellations
4.3.2025
The PlayStation-owned studio Visual Arts was hit with with fresh layoffs this week amid a further restructuring of Sony’s U.S. game development operations. While some of the cuts included staff who had contributed to recently canceled projects like an upcoming live-service game at Bend Studio,...
God Of War Multiplayer Game And More Canceled Following Concord Flop
17.1.2025
Questions about Sony’s live-service plans continue to mount. The company confirmed two games were canceled at Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games, responding to a report by Bloomberg that the PlayStation 5 maker had canned two projects were part of the company’s ongoing multiplayer push. Neither studio...
Where's Bloodborne 2? Former PlayStation Exec Has A Theory
16.1.2025
Bloodborne came out over eight years ago. No FromSoftware game has lived more rent-free in the minds of all the studio’s fans. A sequel to the Sony-published PlayStation 4 exclusive seems like an obvious choice, but one still hasn’t come. Why not? Outgoing PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida...
Sony Shuts Down Studio Behind Concord Less Than Two Years After Buying It
29.10.2024
Firewalk Studios is shutting down, Sony announced in a press release on Tuesday. The team was responsible for Concord, the company’s sci-fi hero shooter that bombed so badly it was taken offline just weeks after it’s launcher earlier this year. The news comes less than two years after...
Bloodborne Remaster Still MIA, But ESRB Leak Confirms Horizon Zero Dawn PS5 Port
18.9.2024
A new rating for a yet-unannounced Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered was spotted on the official Entertainment Software Rating Board website, seemingly confirming the previously rumored remaster. Read more
Bungie Hit By Layoffs And Massive Restructuring Despite Success Of Destiny 2: The Final Shape
31.7.2024
Bungie is about to undergo major changes. The Destiny 2 maker is laying off hundreds more employees, integrating more deeply with its parent company Sony, and spinning off one of its in-development games into a separate PlayStation Studio. CEO Pete Parsons called it a “difficult and painful day”...
Hands-On With Astro Bot: Pure Joy
12.6.2024
I can’t remember the last time I played a PlayStation game and felt this happy. I’ve loved plenty of first-party Sony games and their expensive melding of Hollywood cinematics, refined gameplay, and dense systems. Astro Bot is in many ways the antithesis of that. It’s no less refined, perhaps even...
Sony Announces Smaller PlayStation Showcase Featuring 14 Games
29.5.2024
Sony’s big summer PlayStation showcase has turned out to be a smaller State of Play event scheduled for May 30. The company announced it will include updates on new first-party games coming to PlayStation 5 as well as PS VR2.Read more
PlayStation Cancels Multiple Games Amid Massive Job Cuts
27.2.2024
This morning, Sony revealed that it is adding to the ever-growing pile of industry layoffs. In official posts, the company announced it had “initiated a reduction” in workforce. These cuts will impact a variety of PlayStation’s first-party studios including Insomniac Games, Guerrilla, Naughty...
What Hacked Files Tell Us About The Studio Behind Spider-Man 2
20.12.2023
Insomniac Games quickly established itself as one of the most prolific studios within PlayStation after Sony acquired it for what seems like a bargain at $229 million four years ago. 2020's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, 2021's Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and this year’s Spider-Man 2 showed that...
Horizon Forbidden West Is The Next Big PS5 Exclusive To Get Ported To PC
27.9.2023
Horizon Forbidden West will come to PC in “early 2024,” Dutch port house Nixxes Software confirmed today. The sci-fi action-RPG marks the latest in a steady drumbeat of Sony’s first-party exclusives making the jump from PlayStation 5 to Steam and the Epic Games Store. Read more
Resident Evil Village Is Getting A VR Port For PS5
3.6.2022
Who needs a real haunted house when you can put a fake haunted house on your face? If you own a PlayStation 5, stepping into a digital realm will be a lot easier soon. At today’s State of Play showcase, Capcom revealed that its 2021 horror game Resident Evil Village will be available...
Games Industry Mourns Coffee Talk Creator, Who Passed Away At 32
29.3.2022
It’s with a heavy heart that we must report that Mohammad Fahmi, the creator of the beloved barista visual novel Coffee Talk and a notable figure in the Indonesian game development scene, passed away over the weekend. He was 32 years old. A cause of death hasn’t been specified at this time.Read more
Demon's Souls, One Month Later
12.12.2020
Can you believe it’s been a month since flagship PlayStation 5 game Demon’s Souls released? I feel like I’ve spent every waking hour of the past 30 days with the Bluepoint Games remake. While the game is mostly the same as the PlayStation 3 original, the community has been hard at work sussing...
It’s Super Easy To Make Kanye West In Demon’s Souls
8.12.2020
Unlike the original Demon’s Souls, the PlayStation 5 remake includes a fairly robust character creation system. While I was mostly content to make a generic, purple-skinned lady for my first playthrough, folks have been able to craft some interesting characters.Read more
Those Weird Noises In Demon’s Souls? Just A Glitch, Says Sony
4.12.2020
After weeks of speculation, we finally have an answer regarding those loud, seemingly random sound effects haunting the Demon’s Souls remake: Sony told Kotaku they’re a glitch, nothing more.Read more