The final update for Destiny 2 went live a little more than two weeks ago, on June 9, 2026. Today, in the wake of Bungie putting the game and franchise it had been working on for over a decade down, the studio announced its latest round of layoffs, as a statement shared on its official X (formerly Twitter) account reads "we unfortunately could not continue operating at our previous size." This is, unfortunately, exactly what was expected to happen with Destiny 2's sunsetting. It hadn't even been 24 hours between the announcement that Destiny 2 would stop receiving content updates […]

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Epic's recent announcement that Unreal Engine 5.8, and even more so the upcoming Unreal Engine 6, include integration with Claude and Gemini (as well as support for custom models) to "greatly reduce the tedious work in authoring content to leave more time for creative exploration, and increase the amount of iterations a team can make to polish their content" was predictably met with skepticism from the anti-AI crowd. Still, that's not a universal reaction. Other veteran developers, such as Rich Vogel (whom I interviewed a few months ago on the state of the MMO genre), are far more pragmatic and […]

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Between 2020 and 2025, Sony pursued a substantial strategic shift: releasing its prized PlayStation exclusives on PC, albeit often with a significant delay, to maximize profit and reach a new audience. Here's a list of all the games that were released during this timeframe: Game PC launch Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition August 7, 2020 Days Gone May 18, 2021 God of War January 14, 2022 Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered August 12, 2022 Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales November 18, 2022 Sackboy: A Big Adventure October 27, 2022 Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection October 19, 2022 Returnal February 15, 2023 The Last […]

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Last year's Ghost of Yotei is currently this year's best-selling first-party PlayStation Studios title, according to a new report from Alinea Analytics. The latest from Sucker Punch is closing in on an estimated 5 million copies sold since launch, the report claims, and as we officially transition to the back-half of 2026, it's estimated 1.1 million copies sold within 2026 is carrying the load for PlayStation's first-party portfolio. That's not the biggest shock, considering the only other first-party PlayStation releases so far this year are Marathon and Saros, both games that received heavy critical praise, but neither has been able […]

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After getting a small tease from actor Peter Stromae, it was finally revealed during today's State of Play that yes, Until Dawn 2 is coming, though not from Supermassive Games. Instead, it's being made by Horizon: Call of the Mountain developers, Firesprite Games, and it'll arrive on PS5 sometime in 2027. The game is not some attempt at a continuation of the story from the first game, but is instead a standalone experience with brand new characters and a new cast behind it, and "true to form, a modern horror experience packed with intrigue, emotion, twists, and the kind of […]

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Back in March, a report from Bloomberg pointed to PlayStation moving away from bringing its first-party, narrative-driven single-player games like God of War, Ghost of Yotei, Saros, and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet to PC. Multiplayer games like Marathon and Helldivers 2 will still head to other platforms, but not single-player titles. Now, a new report from Bloomberg adds that today, in a town hall meeting, Herman Hulst, chief executive officer of studio businesses at PlayStation, told staff that single-player narrative games will be PlayStation console exclusive titles going forward. It's the latest nail in the coffin of PlayStation's short-lived PC-PS5-parity-era, […]

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Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yotei developer Sucker Punch Productions is ready to move on to whatever its next project will be, as the studio confirms that its Legends multiplayer spin-off mode that was a surprise hit with Ghost of Tsushima has already received its last major update for its Ghost of Yotei iteration. In a PlayStation Blog post, Sucker Punch confirmed that the raid update added last month was, in fact, the final major update that Ghost of Yotei: Legends would receive. "The Raid was our last major planned update for Legends. It finishes the story of the […]

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Saros, the new third-person bullet-hell shooter from PlayStation Studios' team Housemarque arrived right at the tail-end of the past month on April 30, and while it's undoubtedly a hit with critics (our own Kai Tatsumoto included), it doesn't appear to be making the same impact on the sales charts, at least according to the latest estimations from Alinea Analytics. The firm's latest report focused on the new first-party PS5 exclusive title, estimating that it has been able to sell over 300,000 copies in its first two weeks on PlayStation store shelves, with an estimated $22 million in gross revenue earned […]

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We've seen a lot of estimates about Marathon's individual commercial performance, all of which has muddied the waters on whether the game has actually done well. Some charts have been more favourable, while the reality of its daily concurrent player numbers on Steam and its reported development costs tell a more negative story. Well, Sony's latest financial report spelled it out pretty clearly that Marathon and Bungie as a whole have underperformed. But it doesn't look like the company is giving up on the game anytime soon. Sony reported a massive impairment loss of nearly $800 million due to Bungie […]

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Bungie's new extraction shooter, Marathon, is still trying to find its footing as the latest triple-A multiplayer shooter on the market. While it's been critically praised by many (myself included), it seemingly hasn't reached the level of commercial success that Bungie or PlayStation Studios hoped it would reach. Despite that, Bungie isn't letting on that it has any concerns about Marathon, and in a recent interview has just re-emphasized how it has long-term plans for the game. As we continue to see multiplayer games launch with plenty of excitement and hullabaloo, only to die within a year for a myriad […]

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One of the first major current-gen exclusives for the PlayStation 5 was Returnal, the bullet-hell rougelike from first-party studio Housemarque that arrived a few months after the launch of the console on April 30, 2021. Now, five years after that launch, Housemarque is back with a spiritual successor in Saros. Saros isn't a narrative continuation to Returnal, as it features a new cast of characters and a new story for players to dive into, but it is a sequel in terms of how the gameplay evolves from Returnal to Saros. This round-up will go through everything you need to know […]

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All the way back in 2021, a former Ubisoft producer, Jade Raymond, and PlayStation Studios came together to form Haven Studios, a new team that was set to make a new multiplayer-focused game for PlayStation, which was revealed to be a new heist shooter, Fairgames, two years later in 2023. As we've continued to wait for any sign of Fairgames' release, Raymond left the studio, it was rumored to be cancelled at one point, and now, a new report claims it has pivoted to be a new kind of game in what is seemingly the hottest genre around: extraction shooters. […]

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Last month, Bungie released its first new game in years (which is technically just a reboot of an old series). Marathon, a new extraction shooter for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, takes the first sci-fi world Bungie created and brings it into the modern-day gaming landscape, and according to a new report from Paul Tassi at Forbes, Bungie put aside a fair chunk of change to make it. In a report going over the first month of Marathon being on the market and in players hands, at the end of a list of different metrics about the game, Tassi […]

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Marathon may still be struggling to bring new players into the fold, but for the 380K average DAUs who can't seem to stop playing Bungie's new extraction shooter each day, part of what is keeping those players engaged is how quickly Bungie is reacting to player feedback, and it's rapid response time is on display once again with the game's latest patch. Marathon's update 1.0.5.3 is now live for players on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, and it brings with it a few bug fixes, but the most notable parts of it are the balance tweaks, and the fairly […]

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Yesterday, we learned that Sony and PlayStation had shut down yet another studio it had previously founded and added to the PlayStation Studios family. Dark Outlaw Games was founded by PlayStation in March 2025, and almost exactly a year later, PlayStation shut down Dark Outlaw Games, long before the studio had a chance to get its debut project out the door. Which, according to Dark Outlaw Games studio head Jason Blundell, a former Call of Duty developer who was one of the key developers behind the first four Black Ops games, would have been "a hell of a game," and […]

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Last weekend was the first weekend for two major additions to Marathon, the new extraction shooter from Bungie. A Ranked queue was added to the game for Marathon's sweatiest players, and its endgame raid, Cryo Archive, finally went live. Both are events that, in their initially set schedules, overlapped with each other on weekends. But not anymore, thanks to the latest example of Bungie being quick to respond to player feedback. Earlier this week, game director Joe Ziegler told players that the team would be discussing ways to make Cryo Archive more accessible, specifically mentioning issues players had like the […]

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Following the pre-launch sales estimation from data firm Alinea Analytics, the company has followed up with a post-launch sales estimate for Marathon, the new extraction shooter for Bungie. According to its latest report, after hitting almost 250K copies sold on Steam ahead of launch, nearly three weeks into the game being in players' hands, it has hit 1.2 million copies sold across all platforms, though most of its sales are said to still be coming from Steam. According to the report, about 800K of Marathon's sales are from people playing on PC through Steam, with the drop off to PS5 […]

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Almost exactly a year ago today, Sony and PlayStation Studios announced the founding of a new studio under the PS Studios banner: Dark Outlaw Games. The studio would be led by Jason Blundell, who had recently co-founded Deviation Games, an independent studio that was initially said to be working on a live service game for PlayStation. Blundell left Deviation shortly before it was shut down, and now, Blundell has seemingly gone down with the ship, as Dark Outlaw Games, just one year later, has reportedly been shut down. First spotted on ResetEra, user J-Soul shared that Dark Outlaw Games would […]

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The next major PlayStation Studios release for 2026, now that Bungie's extraction shooter Marathon is in players' hands, is Saros. The follow-up to Returnal from developer Housemarque, the game is set to arrive exclusively on PS5 on April 30, 2026, and looks like it'll be just as challenging and bullet-crazy as Returnal. As we get closer to launch, Housemarque has shown off more gameplay in a new trailer that also specifically showcases the PS5-exclusive features players will be able to enjoy when they load the game up next month. Things like haptic feedback and adaptive triggers on the DualSense controllers, […]

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