PS5’s new system update is out now, adding Welcome hub and Party Share

The latest PS5 system software update is rolling out now, adding the new Welcome Hub, Party Share, and more. Welcome Hub is a new personalized space with customizable widgets and backgrounds on yourPS5home screen. Welcome Hub is a reimagined version of the Explore tab, which was previously only available in the U.S. It will roll out globally over the next few weeks, according toSony, starting today for select players in the US....

July 18, 2025 · 1 min · 203 words · Megan Turner

Rainbow Six Extraction gets a gameplay reveal video and September release date

Ubisoft has premiered the first official Rainbow Six Extraction gameplay and announced a September 16 release date for the game. The gameplay reveal video above and the cinematic trailer below were shown duringUbisoftForward on Saturday. Announced atE3 2019,Rainbow Six Extractionis a squad-based survival FPS developed by a new team withinUbisoft Montreal. Set several years in the future of the Rainbow Six universe, the co-op title sees players team up to combat a mutated alien parasite....

July 18, 2025 · 2 min · 257 words · Michael Trevino

Resident Evil Village gameplay video reveals animal hunting and upgrade systems

A new Resident Evil Village gameplay video has revealed how the game’s upgrade systems work. TheGame Informervideo below shows how players can hunt animals to obtain ingredients such as fish, meat and poultry that can be combined to cook permanent upgrades for Ethan Winters in The Duke’s Kitchen, such as reducing damage taken when guarding. Some larger animals like boars and rams will fight back when attacked, so players will have to decide whether risking precious ammo to kill them is worth the reward....

July 18, 2025 · 2 min · 221 words · Jesse Casey

Retro specialist Nightdive explains the difference between a ‘remake’ and ‘remaster’

Retro games specialist Nightdive Studios has explained the difference between video game remakes and remasters, according to its own definition. Nightdive, which has created a large number of re-releases including Turok, Doom 64, Blade Runner and Shadow Man, told VGC in a recent interview that it’s come up with an internal definition for what defines a “true remaster” as opposed to a “ground-up remake”. Re-releases of older games have become a mainstay on the video games calendar in recent years, but there does not appear to be much cohesion in the language used to describe them....

July 18, 2025 · 3 min · 526 words · David Wood

Review: MediEvil PS4 fails to modernise a cult favourite

“Sometimes dead is better,” reads an iconic line from Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, and one that seems rather fitting when it comes to MediEvil. Sony’s cultPlayStationaction-adventure game recently turned 21-years-old, and fans haven’t been treated to a new release since 2005’sPSPlaunch gameMediEvilResurrection (which was also a remake of the original). Cue this shiny newPS4offering courtesy of Other Ocean Emeryville, best known for handling the 3DS version ofMinecraft. It promises to reanimate the corpse of the first MediEvil once again, but – as Mr King’s warning suggests – when you bring back the dead the results aren’t always pleasant....

July 18, 2025 · 4 min · 715 words · Jessica Vargas

Samurai Jack is joining MultiVersus next week alongside ranked mode

Samurai Jack will join the free-to-play fighting game MultiVersus next week. The new trailer, which you can watch below, confirmed that the character will join the roster on July 23. The conclusion of the trailer also confirmed that Beetlejuice will be added to the game this season. Voice lines referencing the Tim Burton character have been in the game for several months. The Animaniacs are also referenced in the closing image of the trailer....

July 18, 2025 · 2 min · 304 words · Kristen Johnson

Sega confirms Yakuza: Like a Dragon release alongside a new trailer

Yakuza: Like a Dragon will release on June 20, 2025, Sega has confirmed. The action RPG will release on the 13th for current-gen consoles andSteam, and on “day one” whenXbox Series Xreleases in November. APlayStation 5version will arrive at a later date. The release date news was shared alongside a new trailer for the title, which you can view via the embed below. Originally released forPS4in Japan in January 2020,Yakuza: Like a Dragonis billed as “a complete reimagining of the franchise”, which debuted in 2005....

July 18, 2025 · 1 min · 153 words · Pam Freeman

Sega has announced the Sonic Symphony world tour concert series

Sega has announced the Sonic Symphony world tour concert series. Celebrating over 30 years of Sonic music, the tour will kick off later this year with concerts at the Barbican Hall in London on September 16 and the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on September 30. Music will be performed live by a full symphony orchestra and rock band, to the backdrop of iconic moments from the series being played on the big screen....

July 18, 2025 · 1 min · 211 words · Kimberly Boone

Sonic Frontiers’ first big free DLC is coming this week

The first major DLC update for Sonic Frontiers is coming this week. Segahas sent an email to players informing them that the DLC, which will be named the ‘Sights, Sounds and Speed Update’, will be rolling out on March 23. The email doesn’t give any further details about the DLC, though Sega did previouslypublish a content roadmap for 2023, and its plans for DLC 1 seem to fit in with the name of the first update....

July 18, 2025 · 2 min · 363 words · Erica Gardner

Sony is taking Concord offline, ceasing sales and offering refunds

Sony has announced plans to take new live service shooter Concord offline, pull the game from sale and offer refunds to all players who bought it. The news follows reports that the PS5 andPCgamemay have sold as few as 25,000 copiesacross both platforms since its release on August 23. The announcement was made in aPlayStation Blogpost by Ryan Ellis, game director atSony‘s Firewalk Studios. “Concordfans — we’ve been listening closely to your feedback since the launch of Concord onPlayStation 5and PC and want to thank everyone who has joined the journey aboard the Northstar....

July 18, 2025 · 3 min · 521 words · Marcus Huynh

Sony Japan confirms PS4 Pro and ‘all but one’ PS4 model have been discontinued

Sony Interactive Entertainment has officially discontinued the PS4 Pro and all but one model of the original PlayStation 4 in Japan. As reported by Japanese publicationGameWatch, the only last-gen console Sony will continue to sell in Japan is the standard Jet Black 500GBPlayStation 4“slim” model. All other PS4 consoles will disappear once current stock is sold, the publication reports, and SIE will divert production toPS5. There’s currently no confirmation on whetherPS4 Prowill be discontinued in Western markets....

July 18, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Ruth Edwards

Sony says PlayStation VR 2 will have ‘over 20 launch games’

Sony has said it will have more than 20 games ready for the launch of PlayStation VR 2. The launch games will cover both first-party and third-party titles, the corporation said during a business briefing on Thursday (see the slide below). “Right now, there is a considerable amount of money being spent on partnerships with independent and other third-party developers to secure a considerable pipeline of attractive VR content at the launch ofPlayStationVR2,” said SIE presidentJim Ryan....

July 18, 2025 · 2 min · 324 words · Tracey Adams

Sony’s Twisted Metal TV series is an action comedy from Deadpool’s writers

The first details about Sony’s upcoming Twisted Metal TV series have been revealed. According toVariety, the live-action adaptation ofPlayStation’s vehicular combat series will be an action comedy executive produced by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the writers of the Deadpool films and Zombieland. Michael Jonathan Smith, who wrote for and produced Cobra Kai, will write and also executive produce the show. It will focus on an outsider tasked with delivering a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland roamed by bandits in deadly vehicles, including the series’ trademark character, Sweet Tooth, a psychotic clown who drives a modified ice cream truck....

July 18, 2025 · 2 min · 281 words · Justin Garcia