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UK retailers are dropping the PS5 price as part of their Black Friday deals. The cost of the standardPS5fell to a historic low of £379 last week, but its price has now dropped even further as Black Friday (November 24) approaches. At the time of publishing, UK retailer ShopTo is selling the disc PS5 for£359.85 via its eBay outlet, which is the cheapest we’ve ever seen it. Here’s a list of some of the most notable PS5 Black Friday deals in the UK as of November 20....

The apparent specs for the as-yet unannounced PlayStation 5 Pro console have been shared online. Documentation explaining the console’s specifications was initially leaked by YouTuberMoore’s Law is Dead, before being detailed byInsider Gamingthen verified byIGN,which says the document comes fromSony Interactive Entertainment‘s Developer Network. The specs suggest that thePS5Pro’s CPU will be identical to that of the standard PS5, but that the new console will have a ‘High CPU Frequency Mode’ which increases the CPU by 10% to 3....

Sony has announced that the classic PlayStation themes, first debuted during the PlayStation 30th anniversary celebration, are coming back permanently starting this week. Last year,Sonyreleased aPS5updatethat let players customise aspects of the console’s operating systembased on different console generations. This included the PS1 boot-up animation as a new start-up sequence, and a variety of themes based on PS1,PS2,PS3,PS4, or the 30th Anniversary, which could be applied to the home screen and other areas....

Rare has announced Everwild, a “truly original” new IP set in a “natural and magical world.” The game was announced atMicrosoft’s X019 event in London, where it was confirmed that the game is still in pre-production. “WhileEverwildis still early in development, we are very excited about the unique potential of the game we are creating,” studio head Craig Duncan said in a prepared statement. “The Everwild team is focused on building an experience that allows for new ways to play in a natural and magical world,” he added....

Rare hasn’t discussed Everwild much yet because it’s still exploring how the title’s core themes will translate into gameplay, according to studio head Craig Duncan. Everwildwas officiallyannounced at Microsoft’s X019 event in November 2019, when it was confirmed that the title was still in pre-production. Set in a “natural and magical world”,Everwild is being helmed by executive producer Louise O’Connor, aRareveteran who has worked on animation for Conker’s Bad Fur Day andBanjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, and studio creative director Simon Woodroffe, whose last game was Sumo’s Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed....

Launching into Xbox Game Pass has been “a huge success” for survival action game Atomfall, according to Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley. Atomfall, which is set in an alternate, post-apocalyptic 1960s England, was released forPC,PlayStation 5, andXboxlast month. The game has been a big success forRebellion, attracting more than 2 million players since launch. Speaking toGI.biz, Kingsley claimed this was in large part helped by the marketing support and discoverability boost of Game Pass, where the game appeared day-and-date....

Arkane Studios has confirmed how mission and character progress in Redfall is handled when the game is played in co-op. The open-world FPS, which sees players battling to defeat a legion of vampires who have cut the island town ofRedfalloff from the outside world, is playable solo or with a team of up to four-players in co-op. Speaking toIGN,ArkaneAustin studio and creative directorHarvey Smithrevealed that campaign progress is tied to the host when playing in co-op, whereas character progress carries over for all players....

The number of concurrent players of Redfall on Steam has dropped so low that it now reaches single figures every day. When the game launched five months ago, it was played concurrently by thousands of players for a while, hitting a peak of 6,124 concurrent players at some point. However, as noted byPCGamesN, the game’s concurrent player count now dips so low that there are certain times of the day where it’s not possible to fill a full four-player co-op lobby because there are fewer than four players playing the game....

The Steam database entry for what is almost certainly Returnal continues to receive regular updates as an eventual reveal appears to be all but guaranteed. In May,SteamDBlogged the presence of a new product in the database which goes by the codename ‘Oregon’. While it wasn’t immediately clear what the game is, certain localisation strings in the game’s listing make it clear that it’s aPCport ofReturnal. Now the site’s history page shows that the in-development game continues to get new builds on a daily basis....

Scream star Neve Campbell will play a recurring character in the Twisted Metal TV series coming to Peacock. Deadlinereports that Campbell, who has appeared in all five Scream movies and is also known for her roles in The Craft, Wild Things and Party of Five, will play Raven in thePlayStationProductions show. Raven, who first appeared in Twisted Metal Black (the fifth game in the series), is a gothic character who hates conforming and drives a hearse named Shadow....

Sega and Nier series creator Yoko Taro have officially announced their upcoming mobile game, 404 Game Re:set. Teased earlier in the week, the mobile title reimagines classicSegagames as attractive women, who represent an evil version of Sega. In a trailer for the game, a narrator refers to “a distorted world where Sega reigns at the top of the world and controls everything”. He continues: “This is due to the power of the girls known as Cast, who were born when Sega gave its games an indentity....

Sega says Yakuza and Persona mobile games could be on the way. As reported byMobilegamer.biz,Sega‘s co-COO Shuji Utsumi appeared at the Roviocon event in Helsinki today to discuss Sega’s mobile future followingits acquisition of Angry Birds studio Rovio. Utsumi reportedly said that new Angry Birds animated projects are in production, and that new Rovio games were in development forPCand console. He also made a reference to a Sonic and Angry Birds crossover, joking that the two IPs were currently “dating”....

The first time Sonic Generations was released, the Sonic franchise was in a very different state to the one it’s currently in. Having just started to emerge from a lengthy funk with numerous low-scoring games, Sonic Generations was the second critically-acclaimed Sonic title in a short period (following a year after the Wii-exclusive Sonic Colours). Instead of trying to throw in all manner of distracting new gimmicks like talking swords, motion controls and werehog transformations, Sonic Team decided that the best way to take Sonic forward was to look back, resulting in a wonderful mis-mash of nostalgia and novelty....