Game developers explain what makes God of War (2018)’s combat tick

Innovation is king when it comes to video games, especially when reinventing a beloved franchise. Developers are challenged with balancing what fans loved about the series’ origins while modernizing the experience and providing surprising gameplay enhancements that players didn’t even know they wanted. Few developers understand this task better than Santa Monica Studio, which reimagined […]

Players’ Choice: Vote for September 2022’s best new game

September has come and gone, and with it some amazing games! Which new release will take the Players’ Choice crown? Vote in the poll below to help decide! How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation.Blog will open a poll where you can vote for the best new game released that month. […]

Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 441: Virtual Walkers

Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or RSS, or download here Hey y’all! This week the team sits down with Amy Allison and Mark Lester of Skydance Interactive to chat about The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2: Retribution, currently in development now for PS VR2. Stuff We Talked About […]

Share of the Week: Robots and Machines

Last week, we asked you to spin your gears and share robots, droids, and machines from the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: RevolutionAndre shares Kit from Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart in macho machine mode. sorathluna shares a Slitherfang coiling up in the desert in Horizon Forbidden West. […]

Indies highlights coming to PS4 & PS5 in October 2022

It’s October, and you know what that means–freaks and frights are abounding! There’s no better time to dive deep into some wildly experimental and stylish survival horror than the Halloween spooky season, and this month’s PlayStation Indies delivers on that front. As for the “freaks”–well, we’ve got a gaggle of very strange creatures and some […]

All Hallows’: The Land of Lost Dreams is calling…

Spooky season is nearly here – and what could be scarier than a purgatory dimension haunted by half-finished ideas and forgotten concepts? Our annual made-in-Dreams Halloween celebration is nearly ready to welcome you – and all of your cruelly abandoned WIPs, you monster – to The Land of Lost Dreams. This year, we asked the […]

Sackboy: A Big Adventure is coming to PC on October 27

That’s right! PlayStation’s iconic woolen hero is heading to PC! We’re so excited that a whole new audience of players is going to get the chance to join Sackboy on his big adventure. Today, we’re delighted to be able to reveal details of the new features and enhancements that you can look forward to when […]

PlayStation Stars launches in Asia today, with additional markets coming soon

What an exciting moment for PlayStation! Today marks the first regional launch of our new loyalty program – PlayStation Stars. I am pleased to usher in this new initiative for our PlayStation community, launching first in Asia, which celebrates our players’ achievements with fun and delightful campaigns and the ability to earn rewards such as […]

The PS5 features bringing A Plague Tale: Requiem to life

Hi everyone! I’m Nicolas Bécavin, Lead Engine Programmer on A Plague Tale: Requiem. The game launches on October 18, and I’m here to give you a little preview of what you can expect tech-wise! Taking the next-gen leap We decided to develop A Plague Tale: Requiem on PlayStation 5 to set ourselves completely free from […]

PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for October: Hot Wheels Unleashed, Injustice 2, Superhot 

Today we’re happy to reveal the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup for October. There’s superhuman clashes in the form of Injustice 2, big racing thrills with tiny cars in Hot Wheels Unleashed and the electrifying strategic combat of Superhot. PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra and Premium members can add these three titles to their game library […]