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New MLB The Show 25 gameplay and modes revealed

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We at San Diego Studio are thrilled to give you your first look at MLB The Show 25, launching March 18. As we celebrate 20 years of The Show, we’re deepening fan-favorite modes like Road To The Show and introducing an all-new mode in Diamond Dynasty called Diamond Quest. And, of course, gameplay remains our top priority, just like every year.

New MLB The Show 25 gameplay and modes revealed

Road To The Show

  • Begin your Road To The Show journey by playing two to three games in High School, and play three to four College games in The Amateur Years.
  • Build the Road To The Show ballplayer you want, the way you want to. Utilize a revamped attribute progression system for more control over your player’s development, including crafting Perks to your liking.
  • Hear authentic High School and College audio – hear the clank of metal bats and the rattle of chain link fences.
  • RTTS/Player Lock will feature a variety of all-new Impact Plays and Quick Time Events for all positions and baserunners. 

Franchise

  • This year, in the Franchise mode, choices matter, consequences are real, and time is precious as a revitalized Free Agency system adds risk/reward elements, strategy, and excitement to the pursuit of the top free agents each offseason. 

Expanded Diamond Dynasty and more

  • Sets and Seasons will not be returning in MLB The Show 25. 
  • Diamond Dynasty in MLB The Show 25 offers two new places to play: Diamond Quest, a risk-and-reward board game-like mode, and a highly competitive multiplayer mode in Weekend Classic featuring some of the best rewards. 
  • Speaking of rewards, fans can earn top rewards in their favorite modes at various points in the year, and new Team Affinity Programs will be the go-to place for fans to unlock items and players unique to their favorite MLB team.

Gameplay Improvements and Expansion with ShowTech

  • Hundreds of new animations for extreme realism across the whole game, including all-new Rob HR’s, Hot Shot catches, on-

Helldivers 2: Servants of Freedom Warbond launches February 6

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Let’s be honest, Helldivers: Super Earth is worth it. No matter what “it” is. All Helldivers share this belief, and fanatical loyalty is expected from all citizens of Super Earth. But the Helldivers need to demonstrate their allegiance. They need to look like the democratic disciples they are inside, and the only way we know to properly show it off is with the gear from our next Warbond*: Servants of Freedom which launches on February 6.

Helldivers 2: Servants of Freedom Warbond launches February 6

So what does true devotion to Democracy look like?

Hellbombs. It looks like Hellbombs. They really send a message: liberation is big, loud, and happening all around you. It gets the spirit of democracy soaring, and gets a lot of other things soaring, too, like buildings, Bile Titans, and Automaton industrial sites. Now, imagine you’ve got that kind of freedom strapped to your back. That’s the B-100 Portable Hellbomb, a beacon of democratic truth in a convenient backpack format, which can be easily activated by you or a helpful teammate. Just be sure to drop the pack and clear the area once it’s active, because the B-100’s got a ten-second countdown that can’t be canceled.

How do you make the Sickle do more? Overclock it and bring some heat. The LAS-17 Double-Edge Sickle is pure agony meets ecstasy as it starts to burn the wielder as well as everything in its path. Shoot through the pain, Helldiver.

To help you spread liberty around, you could equip the GP-20 Ultimatum–a front-loading grenade pistol for your secondary slot. The Ultimatum packs a punch like a grenade launcher on steroids, designed for closer-range use. But handle it with care, or you might accidentally liberate yourself along with the enemy. 

There’s a new kind of throwable in Servants of Freedom, too. The G-50 Seeker is a small drone that follows you and explodes near enemies when detected. The Seeker can also target pinged enemies, like sending it on a little crusade.

The IE-3 Martyr and the IE-12 Righteous medium armors have robe and cloak-inspired details and co

(For Southeast Asia) PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for February: Payday 3, Sol Cresta, Pac-Man World Re-Pac

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Plan the ultimate heist, team up with talkative weaponry then jump and chomp your way through an island adventure with the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup for February! Payday 3, High on Life and Pac-Man World Re-Pac will be available to PlayStation Plus members from February 4*. 

Let’s take a closer look at the games. 

Payday 3 | PS5 

Revel in the thrill of a perfectly planned and executed heist in this high-octane, co-op FPS experience for up to four players online. Step ou

Players’ Choice: Vote for January 2025’s best new game

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The new year is in full swing, and January is done. What did you enjoy most about last month’s title lineup? 


How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation Blog will open a poll where you can vote for the best new game released that month. After the polls close we will tally your votes, and announce the winner on our social channels and PlayStation.Blog. 

What is the voting criteria? That’s up to you! If you were only able to recommend one new release to a friend that month, which would it be? Note: re-released games don’t qualify, but remakes do. We define remakes as ambitious, larger-scale rebuilds such as Resident Evil 4 (2023) and Final Fantasy VII Remake.

How are nominees decided? The PlayStation Blog editorial team will gather a list of that month’s most noteworthy releases and use it to seed the poll. 


    Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 507: Rogue Metaphor

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    Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com!

    Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here


    Howdy, folks! This week the crew sits down to talk about this week’s news. This week, Tim and Kristen discuss their playthroughs of Dynasty Warriors: Origins, Alien: Rogue Incursion, and Metaphor: ReFantazio.

    Stuff We Talked About

    • Next week’s release highlights:
      • Kingdom Come: Deliverance II | PS5
      • Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator | PS5
    • MLB The Show 25 cover athlete reveal
    • Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered camera flythrough mode
    • Destiny 2 – Act 3 Heresy details
    • Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PC features
    • PlayStation Plus February Monthly Games
      • Payday 3
      • High on Life
      • Pac-Man World Re-Pac
    • Dynasty Warriors: Origins
    • Alien: Rogue Incursion
    • Metaphor: ReFantazio

    The Cast

    Share of the Week: Waterfall

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    Last week, we asked you go chasing in-game waterfalls and share your best moments using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:

    mariprosilva shares a massive waterfall in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

    M_Joe_Hort shares a waterfall with a moose standing before it in Red Dead Redemption 2.

    xenobitz strikes a pose in front of a waterfall in Infinity Nikki.

    MrioMoreno5 shares walking across a rope in front of waterfalls in Sea of Stars.

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    call_me_xavii shares Aloy taking a break in front of a rocky waterfall in Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered.

    snejku23 shares the light hitting a lost city a top a waterfall in Uncharted: Lost Legacy. 

    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: Climb
    SUBMIT BY: 11:59 PM PT on February 5, 2025 

    Next week, we’re climbing up. Share characters climbing or ascending to great heights from the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog for a chance to be featured.

    Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 goes full tilt into the past, live now

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    Heya PlayStation fans. It’s time to grab your Glider and hop off the Battle Bus as Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 is now here. This Season brings back some of your favorite OG POIs like Shifty Shafts, Junk Junction, and of course, Tilted Towers.

    Unleash your inner Fort Knight as Fortnite’s new OG Season will bring back OG loot like the Boogie Bomb, Minigun, and more. Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 starts today and wraps up March 25, 2025. Let’s dive in a little more on what to expect from this blast from the past:

    Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 goes full tilt into the past, live now

    Revisit your old haunting grounds at these Chapter 1 Season 2 POIs:

    Go Full Tilt at Tilted Towers

    Ah, Tilted Towers, the concrete jungle…, it’s a beautiful sight with its towering high-rises. This fan-favorite POI is home to Chests, high vantage points, and danger. Not to mention, it’s loot-a-palooza with the slew of apartment complexes and offices. Let’s be honest, we all know you’re gonna drop here first.. And potentially 99 of your opponents.

    Fortnite OG Tilted Towers

    Find your function at the Junk Junction

    A plethora of loot awaits you in this scrapyard paradise, but stay alert— at  Junk Junction, every car stack and rubbish pile could be obscuring a sneaky opponent. Be sure to stop by (or harvest) the iconic Metal Llama on your way out.

    Fortnite OG Junk Junction

    Hide or shriek at the Haunted Hills

    The dilapidated Haunted Hills lurk just below Junk Junction on the Island. It is full of abandoned tombs, crumbling architecture, and probably creeping opponents, too.

    ​​Fortnite OG Haunted Hills

    Cause chaos at Snobby Shores

    Snobby Shores is the perfect place to be as unneighborly as possible.. Rumor has it there’s an underground bun

    Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.55 details revealed, live today

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    Gran Turismo players! This month’s Gran Turismo 7 update delivers a wide range of cars, from the original Gran Turismo F3500-A formula car to the Hyundai IONIQ 5 N ’24. Be sure to experience the next-generation racing AI agent, Gran Turismo Sophy is now available on Autodromo de Interlagos and Mount Panorama Circuit. 

    Update 1.55* for Gran Turismo 7 is available as of Wednesday, January 29 at 10:00pm PT / January 30 at 6:00am GMT / 3:00pm JST. 

    Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.55 details revealed, live today

    *Internet connection and Gran Turismo 7 game required for update. 

    4 new cars added this month

    Gran Turismo F3500-A 
    (Can be purchased from Brand Central)

    An original formula car created in the image of classic F1 cars. 

    The F3500-A is a Gran Turismo original formula machine born from a deep admiration for early 1990s F1 cars. 

    Looking at its construction, the chassis is made from negative molded carbon fiber which was the style at the time. The suspension arrangement also uses a classic layout, featuring horizontally mounted shock absorbers actuated by pushrods and bell cranks. 

    The power unit is a light and compact 3.5L naturally aspirated V12. Using pneumatic valves, it can reach 15,000 rpm, and variable length funnels on the intake system ensure ample torque across the rev range. 

    The screaming sound of the exhaust at high RPMs is a unique quality of naturally aspirated systems that cannot be recreated with turbochargers. The transmission is a 6-speed semi-automatic box with paddle shifters, which has been mounted laterally to avoid any interference with the shape of the rear diffuser. 

    Looking towards the aerodynamics, the monocoque uses a high nose design. Unlike modern front wings which tend to hang down from struts, this one uses an anhedral design where the wing spreads out diagonally from under the nose. There are several different wings, both front and rear, as well as engine cowl shapes available, allowing you to customize the car to your personal tastes.

    Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PC features and ray-tracing options detailed, out tomorrow

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    Hey everyone, we’re just one day away from bringing the latest epic chapter in the Marvel’s Spider-Man franchise to PC, where you’ll battle as Spider-Men, Peter Parker and Miles Morales, against a rogue’s gallery of iconic Marvel Super Villains, including the monstrous Venom and the ruthless Kraven the Hunter.

    With the game launching soon, I’m excited to share more about the awesome new PC-enhanced features the team at Nixxes has been working on.

    Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PC features and ray-tracing options detailed, out tomorrow

    Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, created by Insomniac in collaboration with Marvel, is a technological and graphical showcase utilizing tools like ray-tracing to bring the city of Marvel’s New York to life. On PC, you’ll encounter a variety of new ray-tracing options with individual quality settings to finetune performance and fidelity across a broad range of hardware configurations. 

    Ray-traced reflections quickly catch your eye in the skyscraper-filled city of Marvel’s New York as you swing along its many glass surfaces. Meanwhile, we’re offering ray-traced interiors, shadows, and ambient occlusion options that add an additional layer of believability with realistic shadows and increased depth to the game. 

    If you have a high-performance PC with Super Hero-tier hardware, you can take advantage of our increased raytracing geometry detail setting. This enables the use of higher quality meshes for raytracing, resulting in more detailed and realistic reflections. You can also use the raytracing object range slider to increase the range at which objects are considered for raytracing. Furthermore, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC includes NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction1, which improves raytracing quality on supported hardware. Let me introduce you to Menno Bil, Graphics Programmer at Nixxes, to tell you more about this feature:


    “NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction aims to achieve more detailed raytracing features by combining two separate temporal processes in a frame: denoising of the raytracing features and upscaling of the entire frame. By combining these steps, ray reconstruction keeps more useful information over multiple frames to add small details in raytracing effects that can otherwise be lost.

    In Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC with ray reconstruction enabled, we see more detailed ray-trac

    Introducing MLB The Show x Homage apparel partnership

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    Today, MLB The Show is excited to announce our new partnership with Homage, a renowned brand in the apparel industry. This MLB The Show x Homage collaboration creates the first officially licensed line of attire for MLB The Show fans to purchase while celebrating the legacy of MLB The Show through Homage’s expertise in quality, culture, and design.*

    “Marking the 20th anniversary of MLB The Show is a celebration of baseball’s enduring legacy brought to life through gaming,” says Homage Founder Ryan Vesler. “Collaborating with MLB and Sony to create apparel that honors this milestone is a privilege. Our designs pay tribute to the game’s legacy, blending its innovative spirit with vintage elements that echo the golden era of baseball, uniting generations of fans both on the field and off.”

    This special-edition apparel collection honors two decades of MLB The Show’s gameplay experience, and features designs inspired by the game’s past and present. From the excitement of creating your own ballplayer in Road to The Show to reliving some of the sport’s most iconic moments on the field, we look forward to sharing even more design reveals and offerings in the coming months.

    We’re excited to share our first t-shirt as the initial drop from the MLB The Show x Homage collection featuring MLB The Show 25’s cover athletes: Paul Skenes, Elly De La Cruz, and Gunnar Henderson. These rising stars represent the bright future of the game and set the stage for even more unique designs to come.

    As a sneak peek, we’ve also prepared a little behind-the-scenes imagery and footage of the art process that went into the creation of the MLB The Show x Homage collection. Can you guess which design will be on deck next? 

    Be sure to mark your calendars to take a lead on the competition for upcoming drops and subscribe to our social channels on X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, sign up for The Scouting Report, and visit TheShow.com for more details on future offerings including:

    • February 2025 – Gameplay “Deep Cuts” Collection
    • March 2025 – Player-Inspired Collection**

    The MLB The Show x HOMAGE collection’s first offering will be available today, January 29, 2025, at https://homa.ge/MLBTS.

    *Currently only available in the U.S.

    **Over the course of the season, select player styles will also be available at the official MLB Store NYC, MLB Team Shops, and MLBShop.com after March 18.

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