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PlayStation is a video game console platform developed by Sony, with the PlayStation 5 (PS5) as its current generation hardware. It serves as a gaming platform supporting both physical disc-based and digital game distribution, hosting titles from major publishers like SEGA, Capcom, and Insomniac Games. The platform operates an online network service that enables multiplayer gaming and digital purchases, though it has experienced service outages affecting both digital and disc-based gameplay.
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Phase 2 brings Suisui's debut and Aemeath's return, while Qingxiao and Jingran's 3.6 confirmation means serious planners are already counting pity cycles.
Valve's reference box proves the living room PC dream was never about raw specs — it's about SteamOS finally growing up enough to make your actual library feel native on a TV.
Tom Holland just admitted the new Spider-Man movie stole its best moves straight from Insomniac's games — and honestly, the games earned it after years of doing the homework Hollywood forgot to do.
SEGA's betting a $50–60 price tag on a debut studio's deliberately campy zombie action RPG launching into the most brutal action-RPG season in years — and the 'Glorious Idiot' edition name might be the most honest marketing in months.
Hiroyuki Kobayashi's post-Capcom debut trades survival horror for a zombie romance where you swap limbs like weapons and a flamboyant phoenix named Zaza Hotfeathers might be friend, foe, or something far stranger.
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Former Resident Evil and Devil May Cry producers unleash a pop-punk zombie slayer with Sega's backing, though the studio's quiet split from NetEase adds an unexpected layer of intrigue.
Sony's digital-only pivot buys breathing room on $700 hardware, but the exit toll is a generation of casual players who never needed a console to begin with.
A promising debut action RPG launches this week, but PlayStation players still don't know if they're getting 30 or 60 frames per second — and for a small studio betting everything on launch momentum, that silence could cost them the audience they've earned.
Capcom's latest quarter reveals a 93% digital reality where even consoles are ditching discs, and a Resident Evil remake just dethroned the series' 15-year sales king.
With CrossWorlds barely cracking 2,000 concurrent players on Steam, SEGA's decision to lead with TMNT over Jet Set Radio feels less like celebration and more like triage for a kart racer still searching for its audience.
QubicGames' latest no-strings giveaway hands trophy hunters a six-hour platinum and signals how publishers are rewriting the rules of console marketing — one free license grant at a time.
The Simpsons take over Fortnite's Reload mode this Thursday with a 50-player Springfield map, nine iconic POIs, a brand-new Tactical Assault Rifle, and a mini-season that might be the most detailed crossover Epic's ever built — servers come back around 6 AM ET if all goes smooth.
The real Star Wars fantasy isn't the Force — it's scraping by as a scavenger, running a cantina, or navigating syndicate politics just to keep your ship in the air.
The data is in! Following the weekend open beta for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, one player has done the work and discovered which character was the most popular among enthusiastic players. Fighting game player and webtoon creator AlietteFaye gathered data on character usage from players at Vibrani
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Final Fantasy Final Fantasy VII Revelation Final Fantasy XIV Final Fantasy XVII RPG Square Enix Square Enix Who’s going to be put in charge of making Final Fantasy XVII ? It’s a question on fans’ minds, and one that even came up onstage during Final Fantasy XIV ‘s Berlin Fan Fest over the weekend. N
Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek, who has worked on games like Portal , Half-Life 2: Episode One and the Left 4 Dead series among others, has offered his own thoughts on the discussions surrounding the end of physical games media . In a new YouTube video, Faliszek said that Sony’s announcement isn’
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe The Big Bang Theory © HBO Max AI slop that’s produced as a bit is still AI slop. Someone should have informed the creative team behind the upcoming Big Bang Theory spin-off Stuart Fails to Save the Universe of that before they decided to put out the show’s first epi
Fit For A Spartan: Win a 1:18 Replica of a Special Halo-Inspired Ride - XBOX Wire Skip to main content XBOX Join Game Pass Browse Games Deals with Game Pass XBOX Cloud Gaming Games home Shop all console games Shop all PC games Cloud games XBOX Play Anywhere Free-to-Play games Optimized for XBOX Seri
With the upcoming physical release of Grand Theft Auto 6 lacking a disc, as well as Sony’s announcement about the end of PlayStation discs in 2028, there has been quite a bit of discussion about the future of games and physical media. In an interview with IGN , former co-founder of Rockstar Games, D
Physical Games PlayStation PlayStation 5 Sony © Dado Photos (Shutterstock) It’s been almost a month since Sony announced that it will end disc production for all new PlayStation games starting in 2028 , and the internet is still pissed. Case in point, angry fans are now organizing an “economic and g
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls pre-launch open beta has just wrapped up, having been open over the weekend. Sadly, those who ve given the fighter a go on PC over the past few days have run into a litany of issues, leaving developers Arc System Works apologising for the inconvenience and scrambling to
Sony gave fans their first look at God of War Laufey during June’s PlayStation State of Play, but the company did not share a release date at the time. Speculation about the launch window followed almost immediately, with industry insider NateTheHate pointing to a release in the first half of
The backlash against Sony s proposed all-digital future continues apace this week. The company, which recently announced plans to end all physical media within the PlayStation ecosystem , has faced massive pushback on its plans to kill off the manufacture and sale of discs by 2028, with fan petition
PlayStation makes a mockery of Xbox s multi-plat push by dropping God of War one day before Fable — Microsoft is helping advertise the fact PS5 has more content. way to join, simply enter your email below and get access. We will send a confirmation and sign you up to our newsletter to keep you updat
When Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders initially went live a little over a month ago, a number of retailers posted conflicting messages about which countries and regions the controversial code-in-the-box download code is actually going to work. Rockstar has since updated the GTA 6 support page with new
Steam is abuzz this week with a couple of long-anticipated launches, but in Forza Horizon 6 ’s case, at least, the game isn’t even out for what will be most of its players. The anticipated sequel in the open-world driving game series doesn’t officially launch until May 19, but owne
Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road Gift Codes and How To Redeem Them Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is now available worldwide. If you ve just bought it or are planning to, Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road Gift features gift codes or passwords you can input to earn special rewards. Some of these require being c
Category: Final Fantasy Nintendo Everything we know about Final Fantasy XIV Switch 2 edition: Trial, crossplay, subscription FFXIV on Switch 2 this August. | Published FR: Jul 26, 2026 04:21 pm Final Fantasy XIV Online is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 in August 2026. Square Enix announced this during
In 1993, Cyan Worlds’ Myst changed PC gaming forever. While few could get beyond the first few puzzles, the computer rendered landscape and vibey music illustrated what could be squished into nascent CD-ROMs. It was the best-selling computer game until The Sims, and still commands space to this day.
Ever since the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo’s home consoles have seemed a lap or two behind the competition. The lesser processing power and graphics have generated plenty of jabs and jokes towards the company, but it never stopped Nintendo from laughing all the way to the bank. In a new interview, Shiger
The open beta for Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is finally here, and it seems PC players are struggling with a host of issues unique to the PC port, prompting developer Arc System Works to issue an apology and troubleshooting guidelines over the weekend. As spotted by PC players have taken to s
Pokémon Pokémon TCG The Pokémon Company The Pokémon Company in Japan has introduced a new measure to counter Pokémon TCG scalpers: a “facial recognition system” that will check to see if someone has entered a store “more than once in one day,” and refuse re-entry to those who attempt to purchase fro
26, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT Michael Ingram is a Senior Contributor from the United States of America. Michael has been writing for GameRant since 2021, writing both analytically and fiction for years beforehand. Michael is a lifelong gamer whose first memories with video games come from being a four-year-
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Events MMORPG News Updates Videos TennoCon 2026 is in the bag, and in case you missed all of its reveals, Digital Extremes put together a recap page with all the info. This includes the new Origin System, gameplay in the Tau system, and a sentient metropolis. And this is just the beginning of the re
H as it really been two and a half decades since players first played Halo: Combat Evolved on the Xbox? How time has flown. I now find myself reviewing the third iteration of a modern classic. The remake of Halo: Combat Evolved adds several lovely touches to an already excellent experience, but it a
Sony has reportedly engaged its strictest social media rules for current and former staff across the company and its family of studios following its physical media announcement. That's according to Alanah Pearce, who worked at God of War developer Sony Santa Monica Studio as a writer until 2024. Ref
Physical Games PlayStation Sony The PlayStation 5 console generation will be Sony’s last with a physical format attached to it. The company is ending discs in 2028 around the time the PS6 launches. It sucks. But if you’re one of the people mourning the loss of physical games, the good news is that y
Article / Highlight · News RPGs Coming This Week, July 26–August 1, 2026 – Everyone is Here! by,, and on July 26, 2026 Sometimes you wonder how so many releases happen on the same day. In this edition of RPGs Coming This Week, our special day is Thursday, July 30th, wherein most of our 11 (or
007 First Light's first major post-launch update, Patch 1.1.0, is here, introducing "fixes and improvements for over 200 issues reported by the community and our internal playtesters". "From crash fixes and clipping issues to infamous achievement unlock bugs, this update demonstrates our team's comm
God of War Laufey joins packed February 2027 release schedule Matthew Wilson 3 hours ago Featured Tech News , Software & Gaming February 2027 is shaping up to be an incredibly busy month for game releases. Not only will we see titles like Fable, Persona 4 Revival and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis,
Image via EA Category: EA Sports FC EA Sports FC 27 release date countdown, platforms, and system requirements All details sorted here. Sourav Banik | Published FR: Jul 26, 2026 07:45 am EA Sports FC 27 is set for a global launch in September 2026, with early access expected for select editions ahea
Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green confirmed to IGN that the film is coming to Blu-ray, along with some hilarious outtakes that he described as “not PG-rated.” We got the chance to chat with Green, as well as Coyote vs. Acme star Lana Condor, at San Diego Comic-Con, where the two gushed about the h
Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green confirmed to IGN that the film is coming to Blu-ray, along with some hilarious outtakes that he described as “not PG-rated.” We got the chance to chat with Green, as well as Coyote vs. Acme star Lana Condor, at San Diego Comic-Con, where the two gushed about the h
Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser believes that, if players want their games released on physical media, then "companies should provide it." The former Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption developer opened up about the state of physical media in the gaming space during a conversation with IGN
Lavish Hospitality can double Pal drops, but the real trick is catching the Pal first and checking whether it has the trait before you butcher it.
Dead Man’s Sulphur is the league’s shiny craft currency, but Charts are what make the whole ocean loop click.
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Phase 2 brings Suisui's debut and Aemeath's return, while Qingxiao and Jingran's 3.6 confirmation means serious planners are already counting pity cycles.
Valve's reference box proves the living room PC dream was never about raw specs — it's about SteamOS finally growing up enough to make your actual library feel native on a TV.
Tom Holland just admitted the new Spider-Man movie stole its best moves straight from Insomniac's games — and honestly, the games earned it after years of doing the homework Hollywood forgot to do.
SEGA's betting a $50–60 price tag on a debut studio's deliberately campy zombie action RPG launching into the most brutal action-RPG season in years — and the 'Glorious Idiot' edition name might be the most honest marketing in months.
Hiroyuki Kobayashi's post-Capcom debut trades survival horror for a zombie romance where you swap limbs like weapons and a flamboyant phoenix named Zaza Hotfeathers might be friend, foe, or something far stranger.
Former Resident Evil and Devil May Cry producers unleash a pop-punk zombie slayer with Sega's backing, though the studio's quiet split from NetEase adds an unexpected layer of intrigue.
Sony's digital-only pivot buys breathing room on $700 hardware, but the exit toll is a generation of casual players who never needed a console to begin with.
A promising debut action RPG launches this week, but PlayStation players still don't know if they're getting 30 or 60 frames per second — and for a small studio betting everything on launch momentum, that silence could cost them the audience they've earned.
Capcom's latest quarter reveals a 93% digital reality where even consoles are ditching discs, and a Resident Evil remake just dethroned the series' 15-year sales king.
With CrossWorlds barely cracking 2,000 concurrent players on Steam, SEGA's decision to lead with TMNT over Jet Set Radio feels less like celebration and more like triage for a kart racer still searching for its audience.
QubicGames' latest no-strings giveaway hands trophy hunters a six-hour platinum and signals how publishers are rewriting the rules of console marketing — one free license grant at a time.
The Simpsons take over Fortnite's Reload mode this Thursday with a 50-player Springfield map, nine iconic POIs, a brand-new Tactical Assault Rifle, and a mini-season that might be the most detailed crossover Epic's ever built — servers come back around 6 AM ET if all goes smooth.
The real Star Wars fantasy isn't the Force — it's scraping by as a scavenger, running a cantina, or navigating syndicate politics just to keep your ship in the air.
The data is in! Following the weekend open beta for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, one player has done the work and discovered which character was the most popular among enthusiastic players. Fighting game player and webtoon creator AlietteFaye gathered data on character usage from players at Vibrani
0 Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Don t have an account? Register here. Create an account to bookmark articles. Already have an account? Sign in here. Xbox outage leaves many gamers in the dark, but Microsoft is aware of the issue Hello darkness, my old friend. Scott Duwe ustrating when you
Xbox is down, just days after PlayStation outage, and it affects both digital and "disc-based" games | GamesRadar+ .hawk-affiliate-link-container,.hawk-affiliate-link-container:hover,.hawk-affiliate-link-container:hover:visited,.hawk-affiliate-link-container:visited{border:none;text-decoration:none}
Final Fantasy Final Fantasy VII Revelation Final Fantasy XIV Final Fantasy XVII RPG Square Enix Square Enix Who’s going to be put in charge of making Final Fantasy XVII ? It’s a question on fans’ minds, and one that even came up onstage during Final Fantasy XIV ‘s Berlin Fan Fest over the weekend. N
Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek, who has worked on games like Portal , Half-Life 2: Episode One and the Left 4 Dead series among others, has offered his own thoughts on the discussions surrounding the end of physical games media . In a new YouTube video, Faliszek said that Sony’s announcement isn’
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe The Big Bang Theory © HBO Max AI slop that’s produced as a bit is still AI slop. Someone should have informed the creative team behind the upcoming Big Bang Theory spin-off Stuart Fails to Save the Universe of that before they decided to put out the show’s first epi
Fit For A Spartan: Win a 1:18 Replica of a Special Halo-Inspired Ride - XBOX Wire Skip to main content XBOX Join Game Pass Browse Games Deals with Game Pass XBOX Cloud Gaming Games home Shop all console games Shop all PC games Cloud games XBOX Play Anywhere Free-to-Play games Optimized for XBOX Seri
With the upcoming physical release of Grand Theft Auto 6 lacking a disc, as well as Sony’s announcement about the end of PlayStation discs in 2028, there has been quite a bit of discussion about the future of games and physical media. In an interview with IGN , former co-founder of Rockstar Games, D
Physical Games PlayStation PlayStation 5 Sony © Dado Photos (Shutterstock) It’s been almost a month since Sony announced that it will end disc production for all new PlayStation games starting in 2028 , and the internet is still pissed. Case in point, angry fans are now organizing an “economic and g
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls pre-launch open beta has just wrapped up, having been open over the weekend. Sadly, those who ve given the fighter a go on PC over the past few days have run into a litany of issues, leaving developers Arc System Works apologising for the inconvenience and scrambling to
Sony gave fans their first look at God of War Laufey during June’s PlayStation State of Play, but the company did not share a release date at the time. Speculation about the launch window followed almost immediately, with industry insider NateTheHate pointing to a release in the first half of
The backlash against Sony s proposed all-digital future continues apace this week. The company, which recently announced plans to end all physical media within the PlayStation ecosystem , has faced massive pushback on its plans to kill off the manufacture and sale of discs by 2028, with fan petition
PlayStation makes a mockery of Xbox s multi-plat push by dropping God of War one day before Fable — Microsoft is helping advertise the fact PS5 has more content. way to join, simply enter your email below and get access. We will send a confirmation and sign you up to our newsletter to keep you updat
When Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders initially went live a little over a month ago, a number of retailers posted conflicting messages about which countries and regions the controversial code-in-the-box download code is actually going to work. Rockstar has since updated the GTA 6 support page with new
Steam is abuzz this week with a couple of long-anticipated launches, but in Forza Horizon 6 ’s case, at least, the game isn’t even out for what will be most of its players. The anticipated sequel in the open-world driving game series doesn’t officially launch until May 19, but owne
Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road Gift Codes and How To Redeem Them Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is now available worldwide. If you ve just bought it or are planning to, Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road Gift features gift codes or passwords you can input to earn special rewards. Some of these require being c
Category: Final Fantasy Nintendo Everything we know about Final Fantasy XIV Switch 2 edition: Trial, crossplay, subscription FFXIV on Switch 2 this August. | Published FR: Jul 26, 2026 04:21 pm Final Fantasy XIV Online is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 in August 2026. Square Enix announced this during
In 1993, Cyan Worlds’ Myst changed PC gaming forever. While few could get beyond the first few puzzles, the computer rendered landscape and vibey music illustrated what could be squished into nascent CD-ROMs. It was the best-selling computer game until The Sims, and still commands space to this day.
Ever since the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo’s home consoles have seemed a lap or two behind the competition. The lesser processing power and graphics have generated plenty of jabs and jokes towards the company, but it never stopped Nintendo from laughing all the way to the bank. In a new interview, Shiger
The open beta for Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is finally here, and it seems PC players are struggling with a host of issues unique to the PC port, prompting developer Arc System Works to issue an apology and troubleshooting guidelines over the weekend. As spotted by PC players have taken to s
Pokémon Pokémon TCG The Pokémon Company The Pokémon Company in Japan has introduced a new measure to counter Pokémon TCG scalpers: a “facial recognition system” that will check to see if someone has entered a store “more than once in one day,” and refuse re-entry to those who attempt to purchase fro
26, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT Michael Ingram is a Senior Contributor from the United States of America. Michael has been writing for GameRant since 2021, writing both analytically and fiction for years beforehand. Michael is a lifelong gamer whose first memories with video games come from being a four-year-
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Events MMORPG News Updates Videos TennoCon 2026 is in the bag, and in case you missed all of its reveals, Digital Extremes put together a recap page with all the info. This includes the new Origin System, gameplay in the Tau system, and a sentient metropolis. And this is just the beginning of the re
H as it really been two and a half decades since players first played Halo: Combat Evolved on the Xbox? How time has flown. I now find myself reviewing the third iteration of a modern classic. The remake of Halo: Combat Evolved adds several lovely touches to an already excellent experience, but it a
Sony has reportedly engaged its strictest social media rules for current and former staff across the company and its family of studios following its physical media announcement. That's according to Alanah Pearce, who worked at God of War developer Sony Santa Monica Studio as a writer until 2024. Ref
Physical Games PlayStation Sony The PlayStation 5 console generation will be Sony’s last with a physical format attached to it. The company is ending discs in 2028 around the time the PS6 launches. It sucks. But if you’re one of the people mourning the loss of physical games, the good news is that y
Article / Highlight · News RPGs Coming This Week, July 26–August 1, 2026 – Everyone is Here! by,, and on July 26, 2026 Sometimes you wonder how so many releases happen on the same day. In this edition of RPGs Coming This Week, our special day is Thursday, July 30th, wherein most of our 11 (or
007 First Light's first major post-launch update, Patch 1.1.0, is here, introducing "fixes and improvements for over 200 issues reported by the community and our internal playtesters". "From crash fixes and clipping issues to infamous achievement unlock bugs, this update demonstrates our team's comm
God of War Laufey joins packed February 2027 release schedule Matthew Wilson 3 hours ago Featured Tech News , Software & Gaming February 2027 is shaping up to be an incredibly busy month for game releases. Not only will we see titles like Fable, Persona 4 Revival and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis,
Image via EA Category: EA Sports FC EA Sports FC 27 release date countdown, platforms, and system requirements All details sorted here. Sourav Banik | Published FR: Jul 26, 2026 07:45 am EA Sports FC 27 is set for a global launch in September 2026, with early access expected for select editions ahea
Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green confirmed to IGN that the film is coming to Blu-ray, along with some hilarious outtakes that he described as “not PG-rated.” We got the chance to chat with Green, as well as Coyote vs. Acme star Lana Condor, at San Diego Comic-Con, where the two gushed about the h
Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green confirmed to IGN that the film is coming to Blu-ray, along with some hilarious outtakes that he described as “not PG-rated.” We got the chance to chat with Green, as well as Coyote vs. Acme star Lana Condor, at San Diego Comic-Con, where the two gushed about the h
Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser believes that, if players want their games released on physical media, then "companies should provide it." The former Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption developer opened up about the state of physical media in the gaming space during a conversation with IGN
Lavish Hospitality can double Pal drops, but the real trick is catching the Pal first and checking whether it has the trait before you butcher it.
Dead Man’s Sulphur is the league’s shiny craft currency, but Charts are what make the whole ocean loop click.