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Star Wars Outlaws and Red Dead Redemption 2 Headline the PlayStation Plus May Game Catalog Drop - Sony's Tuesday Refresh Adds Eight Titles for Extra and Premium, Brings Back Rockstar's Open-World Epic, and Hands Premium Subscribers the PS1 Time Crisis Remaster With Gyro Aiming
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Star Wars Outlaws and Red Dead Redemption 2 Headline the PlayStation Plus May Game Catalog Drop - Sony's Tuesday Refresh Adds Eight Titles for Extra and Premium, Brings Back Rockstar's Open-World Epic, and Hands Premium Subscribers the PS1 Time Crisis Remaster With Gyro Aiming

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.

Sony's PlayStation Strategy Just Reversed Six Years of PC Ports - Hermen Hulst Tells Staff in a Monday Town Hall That Single-Player PlayStation Studios Games Will Stay Locked to PS5, With Ghost of Yotei's PC Port Reportedly Scrapped and Marvel's Wolverine, Saros, and Intergalactic Locked to Console Exclusivity
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Sony's PlayStation Strategy Just Reversed Six Years of PC Ports - Hermen Hulst Tells Staff in a Monday Town Hall That Single-Player PlayStation Studios Games Will Stay Locked to PS5, With Ghost of Yotei's PC Port Reportedly Scrapped and Marvel's Wolverine, Saros, and Intergalactic Locked to Console Exclusivity

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 Pulls the Trigger on Another PlayStation Plus Price Hike - Essential Monthly Goes to $10.99, Three-Month to $27.99, Effective May 20 for New Members, With India and Turkey Catching It Across the Board and 'Ongoing Market Conditions' Cited as the Reason
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Sony Pulls the Trigger on Another PlayStation Plus Price Hike - Essential Monthly Goes to $10.99, Three-Month to $27.99, Effective May 20 for New Members, With India and Turkey Catching It Across the Board and 'Ongoing Market Conditions' Cited as the Reason

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.

Ticket to Ride Just Got Its Round the World Ticket - Marmalade Bundles All 10 Expansions Plus Two Ticket Packs Into One Buy, Drops Poland as the Tenth Map, and Teases Pennsylvania as the Next Big Reveal
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Ticket to Ride Just Got Its Round the World Ticket - Marmalade Bundles All 10 Expansions Plus Two Ticket Packs Into One Buy, Drops Poland as the Tenth Map, and Teases Pennsylvania as the Next Big Reveal

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 Pulls Back the Curtain on Saros With Finding Carcosa: Becoming Arjun - A New PS5 Featurette Tracks How Rahul Kohli Found Arjun Devraj's Voice in an LA Traffic Jam
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Housemarque Pulls Back the Curtain on Saros With Finding Carcosa: Becoming Arjun - A New PS5 Featurette Tracks How Rahul Kohli Found Arjun Devraj's Voice in an LA Traffic Jam

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.

PS Plus May 2026 Catalog Locks In Star Wars Outlaws and Red Dead Redemption 2 for a May 19 Drop, With Seven Extra Titles and Time Crisis Joining the Premium Classics Vault
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PS Plus May 2026 Catalog Locks In Star Wars Outlaws and Red Dead Redemption 2 for a May 19 Drop, With Seven Extra Titles and Time Crisis Joining the Premium Classics Vault

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 Just Took a $765 Million Impairment Loss on Bungie — Marathon Failed to Land, Destiny 2 Kept Sinking, and the 2022 Acquisition Has Now Burned Through More Than 20% of Its $3.6 Billion Price Tag
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Sony Just Took a $765 Million Impairment Loss on Bungie — Marathon Failed to Land, Destiny 2 Kept Sinking, and the 2022 Acquisition Has Now Burned Through More Than 20% of Its $3.6 Billion Price Tag

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.

PS5 Sales Just Cratered 46% as Sony's Earnings Pivot Hard to AI — Naughty Dog and San Diego Studio Are Already Shipping a Tool That Generates Facial Animation in Seconds, Plus a Hair Pipeline That Eats Real-Life Video and Spits Out Strand-Level 3D Models
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PS5 Sales Just Cratered 46% as Sony's Earnings Pivot Hard to AI — Naughty Dog and San Diego Studio Are Already Shipping a Tool That Generates Facial Animation in Seconds, Plus a Hair Pipeline That Eats Real-Life Video and Spits Out Strand-Level 3D Models

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.

Horizon Hunters Gathering Resurfaces With a Closed Test #2 Teaser — Guerrilla's Co-Op Spin-Off Adds Two New Hunters, an Ashwater Valley Episode, Hard and Merciless Difficulty Tiers, and Solo Mode With NPC Allies for the May 22-25 PS5 and Steam Test
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Horizon Hunters Gathering Resurfaces With a Closed Test #2 Teaser — Guerrilla's Co-Op Spin-Off Adds Two New Hunters, an Ashwater Valley Episode, Hard and Merciless Difficulty Tiers, and Solo Mode With NPC Allies for the May 22-25 PS5 and Steam Test

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's NACON Connect Dev Diary Just Sold the Hardest Pitch Yet for Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish — A First-Person Open New York Where Talking a Vampire Down Beats Shooting It
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Teyon's NACON Connect Dev Diary Just Sold the Hardest Pitch Yet for Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish — A First-Person Open New York Where Talking a Vampire Down Beats Shooting It

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 Is Carrying Xbox on PS5 — But the Rest of Microsoft's Multiplatform Gamble Is Reigniting the Exclusivity Debate
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Forza Horizon 5 Is Carrying Xbox on PS5 — But the Rest of Microsoft's Multiplatform Gamble Is Reigniting the Exclusivity Debate

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.

Coffee Talk Tokyo Pours Its First Late-Night Brew on May 21 — Toge Productions Returns With Latte Stencils, Lo-Fi Jazz, and a Whole New Cast of Tired Souls
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Coffee Talk Tokyo Pours Its First Late-Night Brew on May 21 — Toge Productions Returns With Latte Stencils, Lo-Fi Jazz, and a Whole New Cast of Tired Souls

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 Announces R-Rated Animated Bloodborne Movie at CinemaCon — JackSepticEye Co-Producing
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Sony Announces R-Rated Animated Bloodborne Movie at CinemaCon — JackSepticEye Co-Producing

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 Arrives on Console — Community-Created Content Finally Reaches PlayStation and Xbox
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The Sims 4 Marketplace Arrives on Console — Community-Created Content Finally Reaches PlayStation and Xbox

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.

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction Is the Retro Arcade Brawler You Didn't Know You Needed
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction Is the Retro Arcade Brawler You Didn't Know You Needed

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.