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PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino told investors AI is now a core pillar of Sony's PS6 strategy, already powering tools like the facial-animation system Mockingbird. Weeks earlier, Hideo Kojima said in a Washington Post profile that he isn't interested in AI making art. Together, the two moments capture where the industry's biggest players actually stand on AI right now.
Bethesda debuted the launch trailer for Fallout 76: Infestations at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, the latest free update bringing a fresh threat to Appalachia across PC, Xbox and PlayStation.
A full recap of Sony's June 2, 2026 State of Play: Marvel's Wolverine opened with a September 15 date and God of War Laufey closed the show, between a barrage of fall release dates - Dune: Awakening, Control Resonant, Silent Hill: Townfall, Onimusha, Rayman Legends Retold, Dynasty Warriors 3, Ace Combat 8, Phantom Blade Zero - plus 2027 reveals (Tomb Raider, Until Dawn 2), new games and PS Plus additions.
God of War Laufey closed the June 2 State of Play with a roughly 20-minute gameplay reveal starring Faye, Kratos' late wife, fighting through the gods' afterlife known as the Everywhen. The Santa Monica Studio PS5 exclusive features a magical sword and soul-siphon combat, with Deborah Ann Woll voicing Faye alongside Perlina Lau and Jack Quaid, and Cory Barlog as head of creative.
Sony has dated its new accessory lineup: the FlexStrike wireless fight stick launches worldwide August 6 at $199.99 alongside Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls with pre-orders from June 12, the 27-inch QHD 120Hz gaming monitor with a DualSense charging hook arrives August 27 in the US and Japan at $349.99, and the Pulse Elevate wireless speakers slip to later in 2026.
The cult VR platformer-shooter series jumps to PlayStation VR2. System Critical 3's launch trailer shows off AltLab VR's solo-made, Mega Man-inspired run-and-gun action - arm cannon gunplay, gravity-defying jumps and tightly designed levels - following the Steam and Meta Quest releases of earlier entries.
Sony has confirmed a 60-minute-plus State of Play broadcast for Tuesday, June 2 at 2:00pm PT, kicking off with a new look at Insomniac's Marvel's Wolverine ahead of its September 15 PS5 launch alongside other reveals from PlayStation Studios and third-party partners.
Sony's May 19 PlayStation Plus Game Catalog refresh is live, headlined by Star Wars Outlaws and Red Dead Redemption 2 returning to the cloud library for Extra and Premium subscribers. Eight titles total, with Premium also getting a fully remastered Time Crisis with gyro aiming on PS4 and PS5.
PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst reportedly told staff in a Monday town hall that narrative single-player games will no longer be ported to PC. Ghost of Yotei, Marvel's Wolverine, Saros, and Intergalactic are locked to PS5; live-service titles like Marathon and Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls remain on PC. Existing PC ports stay for sale and supported.
Sony confirmed a third PS Plus Essential price hike since 2022, lifting monthly to $10.99 (from $9.99) and 3-month to $27.99 (from $24.99) effective May 20 for new subscribers. PS Plus Extra, Premium, and the 12-month Essential plan are unchanged. India and Turkey catch the hike on every renewal regardless of subscription tenure.
Marmalade Game Studio just launched the Ticket to Ride: Round the World Ticket - a bundle wrapping all ten expansions, two ticket packs, and forward access to future maps into a single buy. Poland drops as the tenth expansion, and Pennsylvania is confirmed as the next big addition.
Housemarque just dropped Finding Carcosa: Becoming Arjun, a behind-the-scenes featurette for Saros that follows actor Rahul Kohli through performance capture and reveals how Arjun Devraj's defining vocal register emerged from a rushed, traffic-jammed recording session in LA.
Sony confirmed eight games headed to the PS Plus Game Catalog on May 19, with Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws leading on PS5, Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 carrying the PS4 slot, and four soulslike-adjacent picks rounding out Extra before Time Crisis lands as the month's Premium classic.
Sony's FY2025 results add another $565 million Bungie writedown on top of October's $200 million one, totaling $765 million in impairments — more than 20% of the original $3.6B acquisition price. Sony cited Marathon's failed March launch (currently 6,000-15,000 concurrent on Steam) and Destiny 2's continued engagement decline.
Sony shipped 1.5 million PS5s in Q4 FY25 against 2.8 million a year earlier, blaming a global memory crunch driven by AI data-center demand. PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino spent the rest of the call pivoting to AI tooling — naming Mockingbird (facial animation, used by Naughty Dog and San Diego Studio) and an unnamed hair pipeline that converts video of real hairstyles into strand-level 3D groomed models.
Sony and Guerrilla just unveiled Closed Test #2 for Horizon Hunters Gathering, running May 22-25 on PS5 and PC (Steam) with sign-ups via the PlayStation Beta Program. The test adds two new playable Hunters (Ensa, an Oseram smuggler; Shadow, a Carja covert operative with a tame Stalker machine), a new region called Breakers' Bounty, an Ashwater Valley narrative episode, two new difficulty tiers (Hard and Merciless), and NPC-assisted solo play — quietly killing the cancellation rumors that have been circling the project for months.
Teyon used NACON Connect 2026 on May 7 to drop a Pillars of the Hunt dev diary for Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish. The first-person, single-player action-RPG sets you loose in an open New York where you can finish missions with stealth, gunplay, or a non-lethal Persuasion-and-Investigation build that talks vampires down instead of shooting them. Summer 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC, with Game Pass day one.
Forza Horizon 5 has reportedly pulled in over $300M and 5M+ copies on PS5, but Microsoft's other multiplatform ports are quietly underperforming — and combined with a 33% hardware revenue collapse, it's pushing Xbox to actively reconsider exclusivity ahead of the May 7 Project Helix reveal.
Toge Productions' cozy late-night cafe series returns May 21 with a new Tokyo setting, a 20-character cast, cold drinks, latte-art stencils, and a Tomodachill social-feed system that feeds back into dialogue. Andrew Jeremy is back on soundtrack duty, leaning into city pop.
Sony Pictures unveils an R-rated animated Bloodborne movie at CinemaCon 2026 co-produced by JackSepticEye and PlayStation Productions, promising a faithful gothic adaptation of FromSoftware's beloved PS4 classic.
The Sims 4 Marketplace is now live on PlayStation and Xbox, bringing community-created Maker Packs and Kits to console for the first time, with a free Country Kitchen Kit available until May 29.
Bitmap Bureau and Mattel team up for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction, a 2D arcade brawler launching April 28 with three playable heroes, 12 stages across Eternia, and two-player local co-op.