Sometimes, video game music transcends its original purpose as a soundtrack. A quick glance at the numbers on any music streaming service is testament that certain scores haunt players long after they have finished a game. In my case, Nier achieved the opposite. I was enthralled by its soundtrack before I’d even played the game….
Wow! Despite a shorter voting period than last year, voter turnout in this year’s Game of the Year polls shattered previous records, coming in at over 2.5 million total votes across all categories. Thank you! PS Blog readers declared Naughty Dog’s long-awaited follow-up The Last of Us Part II the clear champion this year, taking…
Arise, corsairs and sailors! Olija, our swashbuckling action-fantasy game, will set sail for adventure on PS4 January 28, 2021. Your PS4, a powerful gate to other worlds, will take you to Terraphage, a wild land filled with new challenges and ancient tales. I’m Thomas Olsson from Kyoto-based Skeleton Crew Studio, a small game studio with…
Online play comes to Sackboy: A Big Adventure today as part of a new title update.* And with it a new opportunity to experience the chaotic, slapstick multiplayer fun of Sackboy’s latest escapade. Our goal from day one of this project was to give players an excellent single-player platforming experience. But… we wanted that experience…
Happy holidays yokai hunters! As promised, I’m excited to announce the harrowing conclusion to Nioh 2, The First Samurai*, the final DLC expansion of our story from Team Ninja, is available today. To commemorate this occasion, I wanted to bring you some insight into the development of this third and concluding expansion which will bring…
Hey survivors! I’m Evan, founder of Dead Drop Studios, solo indie developer, and creator of the Outbreak series. I’m very excited to be back to discuss both the PlayStation 5 system and to announce brand-new next-gen versions of every title in the Outbreak series starting with Outbreak: The New Nightmare releasing on December 17, 2020….
Howdy folks, I’m Toby Ragaini, the content director at Proletariat, the developer of Spellbreak. Spellbreak is a competitive, free-to-play, third-person spellcasting game where you unleash powerful magic as you battle other players for supremacy. With the launch of Spellbreak’s first chapter, The Spellstorm, I wanted to introduce the fantastic fictional world that the game takes…
Well here we are… Sackboy: A Big Adventure has finally hit the shelves. Bursting with the most incredible roster of new (and old!) music, and built on a completely revamped interactive system, the soundtrack is by far the heftiest we’ve ever assembled for the franchise. So I wanted to take this opportunity to share a…
Hello everyone, I’m Julien “Patch” Desourteaux, the game director of Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood, *takes a deep breath* a beat’em up-oriented action-RPG. At Cyanide, this is our first major incursion into the action genre, and what better way to start than playing as a werewolf? As Cahal, you will take part in a bloody…
An icy wind blows through the Blunderdome for Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Season 3, decking the halls with wintry wonders. The whole world’s invited to the ‘Winter Knockout’ on December 15, delivering swathes of festive mayhem, including seven new Rounds, bountiful features and fresh costumes that are truly the snowy peak of Fall Guys fashion….