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Sony giveth and Sony taketh away, with 10 games set to leave the company’s PlayStation Plus Extra/Premium service next month.

Microsoft has now announced its Xbox Game Pass line-up for the second half of February – including a bunch of notable departees.

With the Switch 2 likely to be mere months away from release, Nintendo has announced that they are discontinuing their Gold Points program.

Sony’s recent PlayStation State of Play showcase broke a bunch of viewership records for the company - with over 2 million concurrent watchers.

During the 1990s and early 2000s, instead of PlayStation, Nintendo and Xbox, the video games industry’s 3 console giants consisted of the aforementioned PlayStation and Nintendo – but also SEGA. Unfortunately, following the failure of the Dreamcast, the console maker would pivot to becoming a 3rd-party publisher. With Microsoft seemingly set to go a similar route, Xbox Head Phil Spencer has now directly addressed these comparisons.

Following their recent State of Play, Sony is reportedly planning to host a full-blown PlayStation Showcase later this Summer.

As part of Sony’s live-service push from a couple years ago, the console maker announced Fairgame$ back in May of 2023: a “fresh, modern take on the heist genre”. While we did not get any concrete release window at the time, one leaker has now claimed that the game has been pushed from its internal release of 2025 to some time next year.

Since its somewhat buggy launch last year, GSC Game World have introduced a ton of fixes to STALKER 2 – with patch 1.2 now bringing in over 1700 improvements.

Following a brief tease a couple weeks ago, Team Asobi have now released the latest patch for Astro Bot, bringing 5 new levels, PS5 Pro support and more.

Following the massive success of Astro Bot, Sony has confirmed that they plan to release more single-player family games in the future.

Despite suffering from supply chain issues for years, the PS5 has more than made up for the time lost – with the console having now sold over 75 million units.

During Sony’s State of Play, the company announced a bunch of titles set to come to PS Plus Extra/Premium – including Armored Core and day-one additions.

Following from 2021’s excellent Returnal, Housemarque is back with a new IP Saros: “the ultimate evolution of the [studio's] gameplay-first experience.”

After almost 10 years of waiting, Ultizero Games' Lost Soul Aside is finally coming to the PS5 and PC on the 30th of May.

Following its massive success last year, the team at ShiftUp have finally announced that Stellar Blade is coming to PC this June:

Late last year, we began to hear rumours that Sony Bend’s open-world zombie shooter ‘Days Gone’ could be getting a PS5 remaster in the wake of the release of Horizon Zero Dawn’s recent PS5 upgrade. Sure enough, during last night’s State of Play, Sony officially announced Days Gone Remastered alongside a bunch of nifty new additions.

Capcom seems to be gearing up for some new Resident Evil announcements, with RE5, 6, 7 and Origins all seeing new current-gen listings by the ESRB.

Forza Motorsport is back with another update, featuring new cars, an additional tour and quite a bit more – live right now:

As part of the company’s latest fiscal earnings report, Take-Two’s CEO confirmed that the publisher “would fully expect to support” Switch 2.

Obsidian Entertainment’s Avowed will be the first Xbox game to offer cross-buy with PC – but only through the Battle net launcher.

The PlayStation Network recently suffered from its biggest down period in well over a decade – second only to the infamous 2011 PSN outage. While not nearly as severe (lasting less than 24 hours), Sony has offered an apology to players, giving all PS Plus subscribers 5 extra days of service for free.

While details on its performance have been somewhat mixed, the team at Obsidian have now confirmed that Avowed will offer a 60fps mode on Series X at launch.

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach might be arriving sooner rather than later, with the sequel having now gotten an official rating in Korea.

Last month, following years of leaks, rumours and speculation, Nintendo finally officially announced and unveiled the Switch 2. That said, the presentation was brief and focused solely on the physical attributes of the new hardware – with the company promising a more in-depth look later down the line. Finally, the company has confirmed that we will be getting out first proper deep-dive Direct on the Switch 2 in early April.

Nintendo has updated its hardware and software sales figures, revealing that the Switch has now officially sold over 150 million units.

Back in August, we began to hear rumours that Microsoft was planning to bring Playground Games’ Forza Horizon 5 to PlayStation – following on from the likes of Grounded, Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves. Reports later claimed that this port had been internally delayed, but not cancelled. Finally, seemingly out of nowhere, Forza Horizon 5 has officially been announced for PS5.

Due to the highly-positive reception towards their introduction, Sony has promised to bring back its anniversary PS5 themes as a more permanent addition.

Just under two months on from its release, Microsoft has announced that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has surpassed 4 million total players.

Silent Hill 2 Remake continues to be a major win for Konami and Bloober Team, with the game having now surpassed 2 million copies sold.

Starting in 2026, Sony will no longer offer PS4-only titles as part of the console maker’s monthly PlayStation Plus Essential line-up: