Anime open world NTE’s pre-launch livestream has concluded, confirming fans can earn an eye-watering 470 free pulls when v1.00 launches for PS5 on 29th April.

As the Perfect World outing is eliminating 50/50s from its gacha system, that’s enough to unlock five free characters, including the Standard Board, which guarantees one free S-Rank within 50 pulls.

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Platinum Trophy #21: Carto

Date Earned: 25th October 2020

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Uber-industrious Korean outfit Pearl Abyss is taking a week off from its unprecedented update cycle this weekend while it takes extra time to test Crimson Desert’s next PS5 patch, which could be its biggest yet.

Fans have gotten used to a game-changing update every Saturday since the open world adventure launched on 19th March, but in a message addressed to Greymanes, the studio said it’d be taking its time with its next fix.

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April's PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium offerings have been announced, and as always, we want to know if you feel like you're getting enough bang for your subscription buck.

Extra has, at least from our perspective, given us another set of intriguing titles.

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After the hustle and bustle of previous weeks, next week's PS5 and PS4 lineup is a little more subdued.

Among the highlights, we'd point to deck builder pseudo-sequel Vampire Crawlers and experimental multiplayer game Tides of Tomorrow.

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She may have famously crooned about video games, but it seems Lana Del Rey is only just getting around to upgrading to the PS5.

A photograph circulating on social media shows the singer with her husband Jeremy Dufrene wielding a freshly purchased PlayStation console.

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There are only a couple of days left to play the six PS5, PS4 games leaving PS Plus Extra for the month of April 2026, so consider this your last chance to give them a go before you have to pay to access them.

Six games depart the middle tier of PS Plus Extra on Tuesday, 21st April, 2026, at which point they are replaced with the new lineup confirmed earlier this week. The PS5, PS4 games leaving on Tuesday are:

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And so we've reached the weekend once again, which can only mean one thing: time to play some games! Here's what's keeping us occupied.

Aaron Bayne

Excited to say that I'm playing Saros this weekend! I've been dying to get my hands on this one!

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Exactly a month after the last major update to PSVR2 darling, Synth Riders, yet more content is on the way.

While the last update added a more robust stat and XP system, this time out, we're getting more music courtesy of the Dua Lipa Music Pack.

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SNK’s excellent – and robustly supported – Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves will receive a “major update” on 24th April to celebrate its first anniversary.

All of the details will be outlined during a YouTube livestream on 23rd April, but we certainly wouldn’t rule out new modes and content given just how well this title has been supported. Balance improvements are also inevitable.

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Expedition 33 and Dispatch developers Sandfall Interactive and AdHoc Studio have walked away as the two big winners from the 2026 BAFTA Game Awards, both earning three awards on the night.

Expedition 33 won Best Game, Best Debut Game, and Performer in a Leading Role (Jennifer English as Maelle).

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Look, Astro Bot may just be the best mascot PlayStation's ever had, and you only need to look at how much merch there is of the little guy to see that.

The little robot platforming hero adorns various T-shirts, mugs, and accessories, but he's also perfect for toys, as we've already seen with various figurines.

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Earlier this week, IO Interactive unveiled the theme song for its James Bond action adventure, 007 First Light. Now, we've seen the title sequence that'll play alongside it when you begin the game, and it's about as Bond as you could expect.

Obviously, some might want to watch it for the first time when they play the game itself, but if you're interested to see how it looks, here it is:

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Wuthering Waves’ big second anniversary update is coming 30th April, bringing with it enough rewards to keep its core players engaged.

Among the offerings are new licensed motorcycle liveries inspired by a slew of popular properties, including Resident Evil and Pragmata from Capcom, as well as animes Kaiju No 8 and Haikyu.

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While there are no shortage of Metroidvanias flooding the PS Store these days, Castlevania’s side-scrolling era is a well that remains largely untapped.

Saint Slayer: Spear of Sacrilege unashamedly draws inspiration from Konami’s 1987 NES classic, delivering a mostly delightful action platformer with fun combat and some surprisingly smart set-pieces.

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The original Metal Gear Solid will forever remain a masterpiece, but its unique isometric stealth action gameplay is a relic in this era of more sophisticated adventures.

Spy Drops, an indie game already available on Steam and Switch, isn’t interested in advancing the genre; it’s taking us right back to 1998, when Hideo Kojima’s 32-bit masterpiece originally released.

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Lo-fi games like World of Horror and Needy Streamer Overload have really grown in popularity over the past few years, and Save My Scrap looks like a haunting take on the booming genre.

This puzzle-based visual novel is based on a free game named Fix My Junk, but it’s a heavily expanded version confirmed for PS5.

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Bloober Team may have more from the world of Cronos: The New Dawn to share, if a new social media post is anything to go by.

The developer has posted two cryptic messages over the past 24 hours, with the first captioned: "The loop persists." It's now just followed that up with a second post: "The mystery remains unsolved… The future holds more answers." Within the image, there's the phrase: "LZRS28."

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Sony has been battling the PS Store's infestation of shovelware lately. It's been wiping thousands of low-quality, low-effort games from its digital storefront in a bid to keep the quality bar that bit higher.

Unfortunately, while it's a valiant effort on the company's part, more and more of them pop up all the time, but Sony might want to pay attention to one upcoming game in particular.

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Crossovers are relatively common these days, but sometimes they can still surprise. We couldn't have predicted this pairing, for example: Phasmophobia and Alan Wake.

Yes, the two horror titles are crossing paths in an upcoming event.

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PocketGame has returned to social media a couple of weeks after going dark, following the reveal of its clear Pokémon and Palworld rip-off game Pickmon. What's different this time, though, is the clone carries a new name: Pickmos.

Yes, that is indeed a single letter change: Pickmon has become Pickmos.

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Announced last month, Fortnite's Save the World mode is now free-to-play on PS5, PS4, and all other platforms.

Save the World is the PvE co-op campaign the game initially launched with, and it's where Fortnite's signature build feature originated.

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EA has released the latest update for The Sims 4 on consoles, and it marks a fairly significant change with regards to community-made content.

Version 2.31 is available to download and install now on PS4, and the headline news is that it introduces the Marketplace to the console version of the popular free-to-play life sim.

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Nihon Falcom has announced Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter will launch for PS5 on 17th September 2026, continuing the story it brought back with the remake of the first Trails in the Sky game. You can catch a new trailer above.

There are physical and digital PS5 versions available, and a special Collector's Edition has already been available to pre-order for some time now. Interestingly, the Japanese version of 2nd Chapter comes bundled with a download code for a remastered version of the original Trails in the Sky game, but there's no mention of the offer in the West.

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If you've got a hankering for a retro-styled RPG with bags of in-depth gameplay potential, then you need to keep an eye on Monster Crown: Sin Eater.

This is the follow-up to the first Monster Crown, which launched for PS4 back in 2022. It's another creature taming adventure, complete with a lovely old school art direction, turn-based combat, and even a branching storyline centred around player choice.

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