Battle macabre puppets in a twisted soulslike take on well-known children’s tale, use your wits to survive sprawling maps filled with threats and relive an iconic anime first-hand with the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup for August. Lies of P, Day Z and My Hero One’s Justice 2 will be available to PlayStation Plus members from August 5. PlayStation 15th Anniversary Avatars As we announced a couple of weeks ago,...
Seven months ago, Tencent, the world’s biggest gaming company, revealed a new project: Light of Motiram, a futuristic open-world game from studio Polaris Quest where machines rule the land. If that sounds familiar, the actual trailer and its cybernetic animals only further implied a specific inspirational source: Sony and Guerrilla Games’ Horizon series. Now Sony is taking Tencent to court over it. Filed on July 25, the lawsuit intends to...
Sony Interactive Entertainment is giving fans an early Evo gift with a first look at the company’s first fight stick, the FlexStrike. The arcade stick-like controller, previously known as Project Defiant, had been attached to the upcoming 4v4 fighting game, Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, and was previously teased during Sony’s June 2025 State of Play. Now, more details have emerged regarding the fight stick, with Sony providing in-depth information about...
Genshin Impact version 5.8 is coming soon, adding the yearly summer-themed event for some fun in the sun. Unlike previous summer events, the area added as part of this event will be permanent, so while you will need to complete the events within a set time, you’ll be free to explore the area at your own pace. Below, we explain when Genshin Impact maintenance starts and ends, alongside the release...
The Evolution Championship Series (Evo) returns to Las Vegas from August 1-3, hosting players from more than 60 countries around the globe for a weekend of high-stakes competition. Tens of thousands of the most passionate members of the fighting game community will reunite at the Las Vegas Convention Center for the second year in a row to celebrate the games that unite them – with only the top competitors bringing...
It’s a special time of year for fighting game fans and competitors gearing up for the Evolution Championship Series (Evo) in Las Vegas this weekend. To kick off this exciting week, we’re pleased to share new images and the official name for Project Defiant, now called FlexStrike wireless fight stick. Play Video As announced during the June 2025 State of Play, FlexStrike is the first fight stick controller designed by...
It’s been a long time coming, but duos is descending on Elden Ring Nightreign at the end of this month alongside a handful of neat quality of life changes. There’s a new trailer showcasing the two-player mode, but I want to call attention to a small moment within that footage that playfully pokes fun at the way diehard Nightreign fans approach the game. It only lasts a few seconds, but...
Last week, we asked you to share the friendly and villainous side characters of Death Stranding 2: On The Beach using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: youarerexam shares Neil with his gun raised moving through shadows EmperorHal shares Tomorrow tossing an apple in the air carletto0809 shares a nightmarish version of Dollman sorathluna shares Fragile playfully posing for a picture calisarah1998 shares Rainy basking in the nighttime air...
Nightfarers will be able to explore Limveld as a duo — intentionally, that is — in Elden Ring Nightreign starting July 30, developer FromSoftware and publisher Bandai Namco announced Friday. Patch 1.02 for Elden Ring Nightreign will add Duo Expeditions, offering an alternative to solo play and three-player expeditions. Patch 1.02 will also include various quality-of-life UI improvements, including more Relics filtering options, Bandai Namco said. The option to play as...
Action role-playing game Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is charting some rough waters in the days after launch. Despite its gameplay being top-notch Soulslike action, Wuchang has debuted to nearly 16,000 “mostly negative” reviews on Steam at the time of this writing. It’s only been able to amass so many reviews because so many pirate warriors are playing it; Wuchang’s 24-hour peak player count sits at over 131,000 players on Steam. The...