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State of Play returns tomorrow

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State of Play is back tomorrow, September 24! Tune in live for news and updates on more than 20 upcoming PS5 and PS VR2 games from studios around the world.

The 30+ minute show begins September 24 at 3pm PT / 6pm ET | September 25 12am CEST / 7am JST on YouTube and Twitch, and will be broadcast in English and Japanese. See you tomorrow!

State of Play returns tomorrow

Regarding co-streaming and video-on-demand (VOD)

Please note that this broadcast may include copyrighted content (e.g. licensed music) that PlayStation does not control. We welcome and celebrate our amazing co-streamers and creators, but licensing agreements outside our control could interfere with co-streams or VOD archives of this broadcast. If you’re planning to save this broadcast as a VOD to create recap videos, or to repost clips or segments from the show, we advise omitting any copyrighted music.


Share of the Week: Astro Bot – Abilities

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Last week, we asked you to take Astro Bot’s new abilities for a spin using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:

Evo_Pixel shares Astro packing a punch with the Frog Gloves.

shimo_ps shares Astro blowing up to new heights with the Octo-Balloon.

kanon06 shares Astro shrunken down with the Mouse ability.

AutomotiveVP shares Astro blasting upwards with the Chicken rocket.

Doodlesgtm shares Astro pausing the scenery with the Time-Stopper ability.

KTKomedy2813 shares Astro soaking up in size with the Sponge ability.

Search #PSshare #PSBlog on Twitter or Instagram to see more entries to this week’s theme. Want to be featured in the next Share of the Week?

THEME: Astro Bot – VIP Bots
SUBMIT BY: 11:59 PM PT on September 25, 2024 

Next week, we’re rescuing some familiar faces in Astro Bot. Share moments with your favorite VIP Bots using #PSshare #PSBlog for a chance to be featured.

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Release Date Set for February 28, 2025!

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September 20, 2024 – SEGA is thrilled to unveil Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, a brand-new action-adventure title launching for PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4 on February 28, 2025. Starting from today, pre-orders are now available on each platform.

Details about the game’s cast, story, and combat system have also been revealed, along with a world premiere trailer.

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii places Goro Majima at the center of a story set after the events of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. Set on the tropical waters and islands of Hawaii, Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii offers an unpredictable assortment of high seas thrills. Sail aboard the Goromaru and enjoy hot-blooded battles, a treasure trove of minigames, and a colorful cast of characters performed by an all-star cast!

Story

After losing his memory, Goro Majima, a once-feared legend in the yakuza world, sets sail in search of treasure.

Half a year after teaming up with Kiryu for a massive battle in the Millenium Tower, Goro Majima washes up with the wreckage of a boat on the shore of a remote, sparsely populated island. With no memories—not even his own name—Majima joins forces with Noah, the young islander who saved his life, and embarks on a search for clues to his forgotten past. However, what waits for them is a powder-keg world where scoundrels vie for a legendary treasure.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard – hands-on report

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BioWare’s lore-rich fantasy RPG series makes its long-awaited return when Dragon Age: The Veilguard comes to PS5 on October 31, after nearly a decade since the last installment. The Veilguard takes place across the northern region of Thedas, giving players a chance to finally explore the magical city of Tevinter. As a first-time visitor to Thedas’ world of magic, my recent hands-on with the game was an enlightening introduction to the deep storytelling of the series grounded by the game’s intuitive real-time combat and enchanting visuals. 

Customize everything

My hands-on journey began by thoroughly exploring The Veilguard’s extensive character creator, following an opening animation highlighting where the story left off in Dragon Age: Inquisition. The Dragon Age series is known to offer highly detailed character customization, but I was surprised to see just how in-depth The Veilguard went with options to customize nearly every physical aspect of your character, from diverse head and body shapes to tattoos (options for face and full body), make-up, and facial scars. In particular, the various hair textures shown in the selection of close to 100 hairstyles look so detailed and realistic that you can see the care developers put into each hair follicle.

Once I finished customizing my character for nearly half an hour (I could have spent hours on this), I played around with the new lighting preview feature. The new feature allows you to see your character in up to four different lighting settings to ensure your creation is faithful to your vision before you commence your journey through Thedas.

Similar to past games in the series the character creator is where you choose your combatant’s race and class. Additionally, The Veilguard adds a feature to pick between six Factions, including options for Grey Wardens, Veil Jumpers, Shadow Dragons, Lords of Fortune, the Mourn Watch, and Antivan Crows. Be sure to select carefully as a chosen Faction directly influences a character’s unique backstory and even future dialogue choices.

Combat with companions

The fast-paced and intuitive combat in Dragon Age: The Veilguard was the cherry on top of my experience with the game. As a self-described beginner when it comes to most game genres, the combat controls were easy enough to pick up while providing a high ceiling for the more advanced players to put together combo attacks with companions.

Celebrating 30 years of PlayStation with a nostalgic look

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As we continue our celebrations leading up to the 30th anniversary of the first PlayStation console launch, we have a special treat to reveal today that brings the past together with the present.

Introducing our PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection to celebrate this wonderful milestone.

Celebrating 30 years of PlayStation with a nostalgic look

The new limited edition designs pay homage to 30 wonderful years of gaming, a journey made possible by the passion and support of our fans and talented game developers. Reminiscent of the very first PlayStation console to launch on December 3, 1994, this limited edition offering utilizes the original PlayStation color design and integrates it into the latest line of PS5 hardware products.

The PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection will be sold in highly limited supply in the following options:

Dragon Ball Sparking Zero: hands-on report

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The world-famous Dragon Ball saga is no stranger to game adaptations, but there’s one Dragon Ball game series in particular that fans have held in high regard: The Budokai Tenkaichi series. The original Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi debuted on the PlayStation 2 back in 2005, followed by two sequels in 2006 and 2007 and a PSP installment in 2010.

Now, after years of fans waxing nostalgic over their love of those classic titles, Bandai Namco Entertainment and developer Spike-Chunsoft are bringing back the much-beloved 3D arena-fighting gameplay of Budokai Tenkaichi in Dragon Ball Sparking Zero – launching on PS5 October 11. We got our hands on a pre-release version of the game, and we’re here to tell you all about the awesome fighting that awaits.

A universe-rocking roster

Dragon Ball is a sprawling saga filled with a menagerie of memorable characters, and one of the first things you’ll notice about Sparking Zero is how huge the selection is. Besides familiar faces from Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, you’ll be able to control numerous characters from Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Super–and, if you preorder, you’ll have access to Goku (Mini) from the much-anticipated new Dragon Ball DAIMA series. Several characters have variations and transformations that reflect their growth over the series’ timeline, and these can be dramatically different from each other. Taking into account all of the characters, variations, fusions, and transformations, Sparking Zero’s starting roster is a whopping 181 playable characters.

But don’t feel intimidated by the amount of choices you have: many of the base controls are shared between characters, so you should be able to pick up a new character quite easily. You can also equip various capsule items acquired in the in-game shop to bolster your characters’ base abilities if you want to give yourself a bit of a boost, along with cosmetic items to up your aesthetic power level.

There’s a lot to do in Sparking Zero, but perhaps the best place to start is the Episode Battle, which has you playing through some of the series’ most important sagas through the eyes of its most prominent heroes–or villains. We tried out a few characters in this mode: Goku’s story and combat were a fairly simple introduction to the game’s mechanics, while characters like Frieza and Goku Black faced significantly more challenging one-against-many fights from early on. Depending on how fights go and the narrative choices you make, you might see the well-loved stories take some unexpected new directions.

If you’d prefer to get straight into battle, Tournament Mode is also open from the get-go. Here you can play recreations of famous events like the Cell Games and the Tournament of Power. You can even set up your own rules and fantasy bracket if you’d like.

We fight like Saiyans

When you leap into a battle, you’ll be using 3D space to move in every direction to get the advantage over your foe as you dash, fly, attack, fire energy blasts, charge your ki, and react to your opponent’s actions. It feels incredible to utilize your combat techniques and the environment sk

God of War Ragnarök brings a host of new features to PC, available tomorrow

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God of War Ragnarök is available tomorrow on PC. *  

All of us at Santa Monica Studio, alongside our development partners at Jetpack Interactive, are thrilled to be able to bring the sequel to God of War (2018) and the final chapter of the Norse saga to all our fans on PC. Alongside a new trailer, we’re also happy to share a short overview of the additional features and support we’ve included for launch.

New features in God of War Ragnarök PC

Debuting in the PC version of the game and soon to be added to the console version are two new settings to help you customize the way you play.

Reduced puzzle hints option

A new option in the Gameplay Settings tab, enabling this will reduce the frequency with which you hear puzzle hints from your companions.

 Cinematic Audio Description

Enabling the Audio Description setting under the Audio Accessibility menu will play audio descriptions of visual events during cinematics. These descriptions will provide additional contextual information alongside the spoken dialogue to create a more detailed experience for players with low vision.

God of War Ragnarök brings a host of new features to PC, available tomorrow

Streamer alerts

As a thank you to all of our fans who take the time to stream the game to their friends and communities, we created custom alerts for you to use.

Want Kratos to give your new subscriber a nod or Thor to rejoice at a channel follower? Get the full set or download individually on the Santa Monica Studio website!  

  • New follower 
  • New subscriber
  • New donation
  • New gifted subscription 

Fan kit

We’ve got a new fan kit ready for our launch on PC! Head to the Santa Monica Studio website here to get access to social media banners and wallpapers, includ

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster: 12 ways Capcom renovates Willamette Mall

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(For Singapore) Welcome PlayStation 5 Pro, the most visually impressive way to play games on PlayStation

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UPDATE: PlayStation 5 Pro will launch in Singapore on November 7, 2024 with Suggested Retail Price (SRP) of SGD 1,069. Pre-order will begin from September 26, 2024 in participating retailers


Over the last four years since the launch of PS5, we’ve worked hard to continuously evolve the console experience and deliver the great games our players expect from us. Today, I’m incredibly proud to announce the next step in that evolution and welcome PlayStation 5 Pro to the PlayStation family – our most advanced and innovative console hardware to date.

(For Singapore) Welcome PlayStation 5 Pro, the most visually impressive way to play games on PlayStation

We developed PS5 Pro with deeply engaged players and game creators in mind – as many have asked for a console that runs even higher fidelity graphics with smoother frame rates at 60FPS. We achieved this on PS5 Pro with several key performance features.*

  • Upgraded GPU: With PS5 Pro, we are upgrading to a GPU that has 67% more Compute Units than the current PS5 console and 28% faster memory. Overall, this enables up to 45% faster rendering for gameplay, making the experience much smoother.
  • Advanced Ray Tracing: We’ve added even more powerful ray tracing that provides more dynamic reflection and refraction of light. This allows the rays to be cast at double, and at times triple, the speeds of the current PS5 console.
  • AI-Driven Upscaling: We’re also introducing PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, an AI-driven upscaling that uses a machine learning-based technology to provide super sharp image clarity by adding an extraordinary amount of detail.

PS5 Pro provides gamers with amazing graphics at high frame rates. You can hear Mark Cerny, lead architect for PS5 Pro, discuss the key innovations from PS5 Pro in the following video presentation. This presentation provides a deep dive into the key performance features that make PS5 Pro truly special.

Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 494: Bot Thoughts

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Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com!

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Howdy folks! The PlayStation Podcast gang returns to continue the discussion on Astro Bot, including segments with and without spoilers. The team also talks Animal Well and A Short Hike.

Stuff We Talked About

  • Next week’s releases:
    • The Plucky Squire | PS5
  • PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for September: The Plucky Squire, Night in the Woods, Road 96, Chernobylite, and more
  • PS5 Pro announcement
  • Astro Bot – How team Asobi created a unified vision for fun
  • Destiny 10th Anniversary
  • The Plucky Squire – Reveals explorable city Artia
  • Animal Well
  • A Short Hike
  • Astro Bot (Spoiler-cast starts at 31:50)

The Cast

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