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For years now, PlayStation has put on a State of Play livestream during September, and that appears likely to remain the same in 2026. The reliable leaker NateTheHate2 has posted to social media that they're trying to find out the exact date, but "a State of Play in September is looking incredibly likely and soon". Looking back through the archives, the earliest a State of Play has ever taken place in September is the 9th.

Sony PS5 PS4 Horizon Forbidden West Going Platinum Features War of the machines Platinum Trophy #35: Horizon Forbidden West Date Earned: 23rd February 2022 Dopamine Index: I'm going to be very honest with you: I put off writing this Going Platinum for days. Not because I dislike Horizon Forbidden West (far from it), but because I'm just really tired of the same conversations circling around whenever the game is brought up.

A number of accessibility options are being added in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered, and now, thanks to developer CD Projekt Red's continued Gamescom livestreams (as screenshotted on Reddit), we know what's included. In a nutshell, these new settings are designed to remove much of the game's friction, while also giving players the ability to ignore some of The Witcher 3's more... tedious mechanics.

Nekcom PS5 Showa American Story Previews Features "I see" In a tiny Gamescom booth, in the business area separated from the hustle and bustle of the Koelnmesse chaos, NEKCOM founder Xiangyu Luo and I may have become BFFs. With a translator converting my questions into Mandarin, I’m not sure how much he understood – but his eyes lit up when I made a reference to Shenmue, my all-time favourite franchise. “[Series creator] Yu Suzuki is a genius,” he says. “When I went to Tokyo I visited him.

I’m not entirely sure how this rumour got started, but the web is awash with reports this weekend that Sony is considering reversing its stance on physical games. The manufacturer has announced plans to cease manufacturing discs in January 2028, which has led to a loud outcry from select customers, prompting an indefinite “blackout” of the PS5 console.

News Sony PS6 PS5 Industry Rumours An unlikely story Update []: Richard Browne – an industry veteran who’s worked at companies like Sony, Psygnosis, and Tencent, among others – has rubbished recent rumours which suggested PlayStation could reverse its decision on physical media. Browne said there was “no talk of Sony changing strategy at Gamescom” – I certainly didn’t hear any chatter about it – and that “all publishers are following their guidance for discless in 2028”. Just briefly.

I’ve been waiting for The Wolf Among Us 2 for an age. When I played the original, I was about 17-years-old, and my mates and I used to squeeze into my tiny bedroom to play the game on Xbox 360. So it was an odd sensation squeezing into a tiny booth at Gamescom to check out the sequel 13 years later. I sat down with Design Director Jess Hara Campbell and Principal Scene Coordinator Leslie Harwood to play a short hands-off demo of the long-awaited sequel.

News Sony Industry GungHo Sony Music strikes again One of the truly strange things about Sony is sometimes it feels like its divisions aren’t aligned. While the company has broadly gotten better at unifying its divisions, you still get oddities, like Sony Music subsidiary Aniplex supporting Switch and not PlayStation. And that inconsistency could continue with the record label’s decision to become a major shareholder in Japanese publisher GungHo Online Entertainment.

I may be about to say something blasphemous, but one of my least favourite things about previous GTA games is escaping the cops. I know, it’s basically the entire point of the game, but I’ve just never found it fun. Once pursued, you basically just drive your car as fast as you can, and try to avoid any police that spawn in your general vicinity. I find it quite irritating, personally. But I’m obsessed with the new Wanted system in GTA 6, which seems to have a lot more nuance to it.

Nvidia’s controversial new DLSS 5 filter, which caused a bit of a hullabaloo earlier this year, has leaked online – and instantly been implemented into pretty much every major PS5 game on the market. While previous iterations of Nvidia’s upscaling technology have broadly been praised – using reconstruction techniques to reduce computational load without impacting image quality – this version appears to use generative AI to alter artistic intent.