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Insomniac Games has announced that five more Ratchet & Clank games will be added to PlayStation Plus Premium later this month. The news was revealed in aPlayStation Blogpost to coincide with the game’s 20th anniversary today. Joining the service on November 15 will be Ratchet & Clank, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Ratchet & Clank: Deadlocked, and Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction....

Sony’s gaming business has reported another record quarter in terms of revenue, as the PlayStation business continues its run as the corporation’s most fruitful division. On ThursdaySonyreported that its games and network division generated $5.86B in revenue and $0.751B in profit between July and Sept 2021. As shown in the data below collated byResetera, this representsPlayStation’s strongest ever Q2 period in terms of sales and revenue and the second biggest revenue quarter ever outside of a holiday window (Q3)....

Faced with the choice of three different packs from the start, knowing which is thebest Pokemon TCG Pocket starter packfor your goals can make collecting or battling much easier. PokemonTCG Pocketis designed to scratch the itch of opening packs and collecting beautiful cards. But there’s also a diluted version of the TCG battle system in there to put them to use.Rerolling in Pokemon TCG Pocketcan help you complete a collection or meta deck....

What is the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet release date? The new Pokémon games are confirmed to be launching later this year, and you can find all the news, trailers and pre-order information here. ThePokémon Scarlet and Violetrelease datewill mark the arrival of the next proper games in thePokémonseries, and the first ‘Gen 9’ Pokémon games. While Pokémon Legend: Arceus, which was released earlier this year, was considered a spin-off from the main series, Scarlet and Violet are very much the next ‘major’ Pokémon game instalments, the last of which were 2019’sPokémon Sword and Shield....

Prime Gaming, which is included with an Amazon Prime subscription, offers members a selection offree gamesto claim and keep. Depending on the game, these can be redeemed on the likes of theEpic Games Store,GOG,MicrosoftStore and Amazon’s ownPC GamesApp. Many of the games on offer this month are horror-themed, to tie in with Halloween. These include BioShock Remastered,Doom Eternal, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed andScorn. Cult 16-bit B-movie games Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol are also included among this month’s free games....

Amazon has revealed the latest round of freebies available for Prime Gaming members. Available as part of an Amazon Prime subscription, Prime Gaming offers members freePC gamesto keep and exclusive in-game content each month. October 2021’s free games areStar Wars: Squadrons, Alien Isolation, Ghostrunner, Song of Horror Complete Edition, Red Wings: Aces of the Sky, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures, Blue Fire, Tiny Robots Recharged, Whiskey & Zombies: The Great Southern Zombie Escape, and Secret Files 3....

PlayStation will seemingly implement special branding onto the boxes of cross-gen PlayStation 4 titles which offer a free upgrade to their PS5 versions. The box forUbisoft’sImmortals Fenyx Risingwas published on Thursday and offers the first look at the “PS5 upgrade available” badge. ForPlayStation 5,Sony Interactive Entertainmentpreviously indicated thatit was not promoting a unified free cross-generation upgrade programlikeXbox’s Smart Delivery. Instead, Sony had seemingly left such upgrade programs to the discretion of third-party publishers, with many titles includingMarvel’s Avengers,Cyberpunk 2077andDestiny2 choosing to offer pathways to their PS5 versions at no additional cost....

PlayStation 5 consoles and bundles will be available onlineat UK retailer Gameon Tuesday morning. The company didn’t specify what time the consoles will be available, although its recentPS5restocks have gone live at around 11am BST. “Tomorrow morning, we will be going live witha selection of PlayStation 5 Disc & Digital consoles & bundles,” the retailer said on Monday. “Due to the large amount of traffic, we operate a queuing system to make the process as smooth & fair as possible to our customers....

A Reddit user has created mock-up size comparison images to show how much smaller the new ‘slim’ PlayStation 5 is. Sonyofficially announced a new, smallerPS5model on Tuesday, which will be available in standard and Digital editions. According to Sony, the new PS5 console has been reduced in volume by more than 30%, and in weight by 18% and 24% respectively compared to the current model. However, while Sony’s announcement came with information on the new models’ dimensions, it didn’t provide a visual comparison to show how much smaller it is than the launch PS5 models....

In most action games you kill things in order to move past them. You might do so with a certain panache, playing Draugr pinball with your axe in God of War, or schooling a rival bounty hunter in Assassin’s Creed, but you fight, basically, to continue the journey. InCapcom‘s Devil May Cry V the journey is typically the last thing on your mind, and not just because the game’s setting – a shell-shocked alternate London engulfed in demon brambles – is rather tedious for all its grandeur....

How do you move on from Ash Ketchum? As iconic a main character as any, Ash KetchumisPokémon for multiple generations of fans. That being said, it was time to freshen things up. Jokes about being perenially 10 years old aside, Ash had climbed the mountain.He’d finally won. He’d finished the game. Now that we’ve had our farewell tour and heard that iconic “I wanna be the very best, intro one last time, Pikachu and Ash are enjoying some well-earned rest as we begin a new era in the anime with Pokémon Horizons....

It feels like damning with faint praise when you say that a game is perfect for Xbox Game Pass. However, it’s hard to think of a better way to describe Rainbow Six Extraction, and moreover, that’s no bad thing. Based in the world Rainbow Six Seige,Rainbow Six Extractiontrades the hyper-strategic, team-based multiplayer for a three-player survival game in which players must complete an objective in a small area, before moving on to the next....

Sega Sammy has said it plans to cancel Creative Assembly’s Hyenas and other unannounced projects. The move was announced on Thursday following a review of its games business. “In response to the lower profitability of the European region, we have reviewed the title portfolio of each development base in Europe and the resulting action will be to cancel ‘Hyenas’ and some unannounced titles under development,” it said. “Accordingly, we will implement a write-down of work-in-progress for titles under development....