Andrew Webster
It’s (almost) Sony’s turn.
A week of gaming news chugs on, and up next is PlayStation’s latest State of Play. It kicks off at 5PM ET and is expected to last around 40 minutes.
PlayStation
For more than 25 years, Sony’s PlayStation has been synonymous with gaming. It’s given players experiences like God of War, The Last of Us, and Final Fantasy VII alongside technological innovations from CD-ROMs all the way up to 4K, VR, and cloud gaming. There have even been attempts at portable gaming with the PSP and Vita. Across multiple generations the company has been a pioneer, starting with the original PlayStation and continuing with the PS5.
Ash Parrish
Elden Ring Nightreign’s ‘Let Me Solo Her’ patch is live.
Nightreign’s been out for a little less than a week and it already has its first balance patch. Announced last week, FromSoftware is deploying an update that’ll give players a much easier time tackling the game’s challenges solo.
In addition to a number of bug fixes and general balance updates, solo players will now earn more runes overall and will automatically revive once during night boss fights.
Sheena Vasani and Brandon Widder
It’s dangerous to go alone, but do it anyway.
Ash Parrish
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Cameron Faulkner
Richard Lawler
The Last of Us season two finale pulled in 3.7 million viewers.
As Deadline notes, the cross-platform viewer number that (HBO) Max just released for last night’s finale is down from the season premiere’s 5.3 million, but the company expects that “The audience will grow significantly due to low viewing levels over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.” According to the press release, the show’s global audience now numbers more than 90 million.
If you’ve seen the finale, what do you think about where the show is headed now?
Jay Peters
Ash Parrish
Senua’s Saga comes to PS5.
With several exclusives including Indiana Jones, Forza Horizon 5, Pentiment, and more launching on PS5 and Nintendo Switch, the Xbox cross-platform floodgates have opened in earnest and there’s another game coming. This time it’s Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 arriving on PS5 this summer. For the PS5 version of Ninja Theory’s immersive supernatural viking thriller, the developers are offering an enhanced edition of the game with new features that will also come to Xbox and PC as an update.
Ash Parrish
Jay Peters
Jade Raymond has left PlayStation.
Bloomberg has the story. Raymond, also a former Google Stadia exec, had founded and led the PlayStation-owned Haven Studios, which has been working on a multiplayer heist game called Fairgames.
According to Bloomberg’s report, Fairgames had been scheduled for a fall 2025 release, but that has been pushed to spring 2026.
PlayStation Executive Jade Raymond Leaves Studio She Founded
[bloomberg.com]
Dominic Preston
Ash Parrish
Virtua Fighter 5 comes to the Switch 2.
During the Virtua Fighter spring 2025 direct, Sega has announced that Virtua Fighter 5: R.E.V.O., released on Steam earlier this year, will be coming to PS5, Xbox Series S/X, and the Nintendo Switch 2.
R.E.V.O. is actually a port of 2021’s Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown with the extra bells and whistles of 4k resolution and other goodies including the fighting gamer’s favorite feature: rollback netcode. The console edition of Virtua Fighter 5: R.E.V.O. doesn’t yet have a release date yet but hopefully we’ll get one soon.
Dominic Preston
A DualSense for the beach.
Sony’s latest limited edition PS5 controller takes its design from Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, with an intentionally / annoyingly off-center Drawbridge logo at its heart. Kojima Productions helped with the design apparently, and doesn’t he look proud? Preorders open on May 22nd, ahead of the game’s launch on June 26th.
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Andrew Webster
Jay Peters
Gameplay 4 Borderlands.
Sony and Gearbox just aired a 20-minute deep dive on what it’s like to actually play Borderlands 4. It looks like a Borderlands game, but that’s not a bad thing; when Borderlands works, the loop of finding newer and flashier guns is excellent, and it seems like 4 will have some nice improvements to the formula.
The PlayStation Blog has a big post about the game, too. It’s launching on September 12th.
Jay Peters
Balatro on PlayStation Plus.
The poker roguelike will be available as part of May’s PlayStation Plus lineup, which also includes Ark: Survival Ascended, Balatro, and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. You can grab the games starting May 6th.
The game is on Xbox Game Pass, too.
Image: PlayStation
Ash Parrish
Doom: Returnal.
The Slayer approacheth. Every day we get closer to the May 15th release date of Doom: The Dark Ages. In the lead up to launch, id Software has been drip feeding fans new trailers and tidbits to keep the hype high. With this latest update, the developers at id are showing off an all new location, the cosmic realm, new Lovecraftian enemies, and new combat mechanics that are gonna look mighty familiar to anyone who’s played Returnal.
Andrew Webster
Jay Peters
PlayStation Plus is getting more expensive in Canada.
Wario64 shared the new prices for 12-month subscriptions, and you can see the previous prices on MobileSyrup. Sony announced higher PlayStation Plus prices in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia due to “global market conditions” last week.
PS5 hardware got price hikes in the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand earlier this week.
Dominic Preston
The game is an architectural puzzle mystery that is all-consuming.
Ash Parrish
Jay Peters
Indy comes to PS5 next week.
Here’s a launch trailer for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which releases on April 17th, and a blog post detailing some PlayStation-specific features for the game.
On PS5 Pro, you can expect “optimized console performance” that “ensures you achieve higher and more consistent frame rates.”
Andrew Webster
Richard Lawler
Digital Foundry confirms ‘VRR stutter’ reports on PS5 and PS5 Pro.
The framerate counters over at Digital Foundry looked into reports of noticeable stutters every eight seconds for games like Elden Ring and Spider-Man Remastered while using variable refresh rate, testing 19 games with a number of displays and comparing to Xbox versions where available.
Some games they tested (Gran Turismo 7, God of War Ragnarok) didn’t have the problem, and while it’s unclear why it is happening, it does seem to be PS5-specific, and sometimes takes 20 minutes or more to show up.