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Circana analyst Mat Piscatella said rising console prices are putting pressure on the U.S. market, which has seen Xbox and PlayStation sales sink to historic lows through August 2026. He added that the industry has not been in such a precarious position since the early 1980s, when video games suffered a major crash. -
Playground Games has opened pre-orders for Forza Horizon 6 on PS5 and confirmed that the game's first major paid expansion will launch on January 21, 2027. Premium Edition owners will also get early access to the game on the same day. Pre-orders are available through the PlayStation Store. -
Sony has already set a date after which new PlayStation games will stop coming out on discs. Buyers, it seems, don't agree with that decision yet. -
According to Jeff Gerstmann and VGC sources, Sony wants to bring back old PlayStation series. One of the first such projects could be a new Ape Escape from Evening Star. According to sources, Sony wants to hand individual franchises to small third-party studios under license, rather than developing the games solely in-house. -
PS5's home screen will get an anime section: Sony will launch it together with Crunchyroll in spring 2027
A console that already looks more and more like a media center is getting one more section, this time for anime fans. -
Alongside a PC release on Steam and GOG, eastasiasoft will publish the console editions of Dead of Darkness 2, which is headed to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. No release date has been announced.
The story follows Jun Takehara, who finds a wounded girl in the Appalachians and sets out to find help. That search brings her to Goldren Creek, where she is drawn into a nightmare. The game features 28 characters, each with a story tied to the mystery surrounding the town. -
Road to VR reported that Sony's XR patent portfolio covers 419 filings across the U.S., Japan, China, Korea, Europe and other regions, with rights to 43 U.S. patents recorded as transferred to Meta between June and September 2026. The patents, filed between 2010 and 2022, cover XR information processing, head-mounted displays, and virtual, augmented and mixed reality glasses. -
The Wi-Fi Alliance has certified two Sony devices with model numbers CFI-Y2000 and CFI-Y2105 — they’re apparently being prepared as updated versions of the PlayStation Portal. The documents contain no information about an OLED screen or a release date, so rumors about such a display remain unconfirmed. -
PlayStation users have noticed something unusual on the PS Store: Mafia 3, along with the DLC bundle, can currently be added to their libraries for free. Call of Duty: WWII has also become available at no cost. -
Shawn Layden Says PlayStation Going Disc-Free Could Hurt the Brand — Players Don't Own Digital Games
Shawn Layden, the former head of PlayStation's U.S. division, has pointed out that buying a digital game does not mean you actually own it and warned that Sony's move away from physical media could hurt the PlayStation brand. According to Layden, the company plans to stop releasing new PlayStation games on physical discs in January 2028. -
Former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden says the next console generation will need more than technical upgrades to justify a potential $1,000 price tag. He argued that improvements such as ray tracing and higher teraflop counts may not be enough to make the PS6 and Xbox Project Helix feel like a must-buy for consumers. -
Sony Interactive Entertainment released PS5 system software update 26.06-14.10.00 on October 1, 2026. The security-focused firmware patch is rolling out in phases, so it may not appear on every PlayStation 5 console at the same time. -
Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida says the console business does not need a fast cycle of upgrades, arguing that the current systems still have plenty of life left in them. He says players are satisfied with PS5 and Switch 2, and that neither consumers nor developers are clamoring for more powerful hardware. -
Several games have vanished from PlayStation Store and PS Plus — re-releases are being lined up to take their place
Several classic games have begun disappearing from PlayStation Store, after previously being available on modern consoles and through the PlayStation Plus catalog. Some of the delisted titles are tied to upcoming re-releases, but some versions of the games may never return in their previous form. -
Sony has opened applications in Japan for a PS5 Pro purchase lottery, and the company will decide winners if eligible entries outnumber the available stock. -
Blue Box Game Studios' long-dormant Abandoned listing is back on the PlayStation Store, and it now points to 2027. The studio has not commented on the update or explained what the date means, and the store page does not give release dates for the project's individual parts. -
A research write-up has mapped out how a PlayStation 3 bootloader key was recovered, but a finished CFW for Slim 3000-series and Super Slim consoles is not ready to download. -
The OverkillLabs team has released DeadCells-PS5-Native 0.1.0 — a project that runs Dead Cells for PlayStation 5 on Windows PCs without CPU emulation. It directly converts the game's x86-64 machine code into a standalone Windows executable — with no classic emulation. -
A new KytyPS5 compatibility update shows the PlayStation 5 emulator getting S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl far enough to open its main menu on PC, with the September 24 test assigning it a "Main Menu" status. But starting a new game still ends in a crash. -
Sony has already announced that starting in January 2028 new PlayStation games will no longer be released on physical discs. However, according to insider Moore's Law Is Dead, the company decided to find out ahead of time how ready developers are for such a transition. To that end, PlayStation conducted a large-scale survey of game industry representatives.
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