A peripheral company forced to stop selling custom PS5 faceplates has returned under a new brand name and claimed it’s now “untouchable”. CMP Shells launched on Monday and isnow sellingblack ‘shells’ forPlayStation 5disc edition consoles. The shells cost $49.99 and will ship in February, the company claims. CMP is the latest iteration ofthe company first known as PlateStation5, which was then forced to rebrand as CustomizeMyPlates.com in October, before finallypulling its planned range of custom PS5 faceplates entirelydue to the alleged threat of legal action fromSony....

PlayStation 5’s Access controller will be released globally on June 05, 2025. Pre-orders will open on July 21, with the accessibility controller priced at $89.99 / £79.99 / €89.99 / $119.99 CAD / ¥12,980 JPY. Customers in the US, UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Portugal will be able to pre-order the Access controller fromSonythrough itsPlayStationDirect store, as well as from some retail partners. Initially announced in Januaryunder the codename Project Leonardo, the new peripheral is intended to help players with disabilities to play games more easily and comfortably....

Microsoft has announced a Psychonauts 2 release date of August 03, 2025. The launch date was confirmed alongside the release of a new gameplay trailer for the platform-adventure title. Psychonauts will be released forXbox Series X/S,Xbox One,PCandPS4. Developed byDouble Fine Productions, the title was originally scheduled to release in the fourth quarter of 2019, but it wasdelayedonseveral occasions. The sequel to 2005’s Psychonauts was revealed atThe Game Awardsin 2015, with Double Fine going on to raise over $3....

PUBG creator Brendan Greene has shared new information on his studio’s upcoming projects Prologue and Artemis, and has released a free tech demo called Preface: Undiscovered World. Greene, who’s best known as PlayerUnknown, announced back in 2021 that hehad decided to leave Krafton, the South Korean publisher that ownsPUBG Studiosand publishedPlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds(PUBG). At the time, Greene revealed that he was working on a new project called Artemis, and a precursor to it calledPrologue....

A mobile game based on Palworld is on the way, it’s been announced. South Korean publisherKrafton, which ownsPUBG StudiosandThe Callisto ProtocolstudioStriking Distance, announced that it has “signed a licensing agreement with Japanese game developer Pocketpair for the intellectual property ofPalworld“. “Through this contract, Krafton will expand the Palworld IP to the mobile platform”, it added. While it’s not yet clear whether the game will be a direct port of the console andPCversion of Palworld or something completely different, Krafton has at least confirmed that the mobile version “will be handled by the development team of PUBG Studios”....

Quantic Dream has become the second NetEase studio to release a statement this week confirming that it’s not been impacted by recent cuts to the Chinese company’s overseas games business. It was recently claimed thatNetEaseplans to divest itself of the majority of its overseas teams, potentially leading to the closure of more than a dozen game studios. While the tech giant hasstatedthat “all studios and projects are in constant review and evaluation”,it has also deniedsuggestions that recent cuts to some overseas teams are part of a wider change of strategy,insistingthat it “has not wavered in its global expansion plans”....

Remedy has announced plans to change the direction of its multiplayer project, codenamed Vanguard. According to theAlan Wake 2studio, the project will now have the new codename Kestrel and will no longer be a free-to-play multiplayer game. Instead, Kestrel will be a “premium game with a strong, co-operative multiplayer component”. The game, which is being published byTencent, had recently ended its proof-of-concept phase, at which pointRemedyand Tencent evaluated the project’s next steps....

Respawn has apologised for the launch state Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on PC. “We are aware thatStar Wars Jedi: Survivorisn’t performing to our standards for a percentage of ourPCplayers, in particular those with high-end machines or certain specific configurations,” the company said. When Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was released on Friday, PC players reported severe issues, including stuttering, frequent crashing, and issues wherein opening and closing the game too frequently as a result of crashes would lock players out of the game due to the DRM thinking it had been opened on several PCs at once....

Following months of speculation, a PC port of PlayStation’s PS5 console exclusive Returnal has been confirmed. The game is “coming soon,” according to a brief trailer shown duringThe Game Awards, putting to rest months of speculation that the game was heading to the platform. Returnalwas released forPS5last April and is Finnish studioHousemarque’s largest and most ambitious project, following several decades focused on 2D arcade-style shooters such as Super Stardust HD and Resogun....

The head of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio says the the first episode of Amazon Prime Video’s live-action series of Like a Dragon: Yakuza made him scream. In a video posted bySegaduring the San Diego Comic-Con, RGG Studio directorMasayoshi Yokoyamaexplained his reaction to watching the series for the first time. “There’s a major surprise at the end of episode one,” Yokoyama said. “When I saw the ending, I couldn’t help but scream....

Xbox has announced that Bandai Namco’s Scarlet Nexus is coming to Game Pass today. The news was announced duringXbox‘sTokyo Game Showpresentation, where Xbox corporate vice president Sarah Bond confirmed that the title was being added. “Game Pass truly is the best way to discover and play your next favourite game,” Bond stated. “And I’m pleased to share that today you can jump in and play the incredible RPGScarlet NexusfromBandai Namcowith Xbox Game Pass....

Sega could be poised to acquire Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish developer behind the Angry Birds series of games. According to a report in theWall Street Journal, which cites people familiar with the situation,SegaSammy Holdings is in talks to buy Rovio in a deal worth around $1 billion. The report suggests that as long as the talks don’t break down and aren’t drawn out for any reason, the deal could be done in a matter of days....

Bokeh Game Studio has published a new trailer for Slitterhead, offering an in-depth look at the game’s possession system. The trailer, which can be viewed below, featuresBokehCEO and the creator ofSlitterheadKeiichiro Toyamadiscussing the game’s setting. The game, which was first revealed duringThe Game Awardsin 2021, is set in mid-’90s Japan. “The core mechanic of this game is one word: possession,” said Toyama. “I don’t think this has been done before, but the main character is a spiritual lifeform without a physical body....