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PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium's monthly games have been typically revealed and then delivered all at once - this was still true in May - but June's selection of titles has introduced a major change with gradual rollouts stretched across a few weeks.

Sony has announced that it's ending support for its PS3 and PlayStation Vita stores globally in 2027. In select markets, support will end later this year.

PlayStation will stop making physical discs for PS5 and PS4 starting in 2028, implying that PlayStation 6 will be a digital-only console.

How about tackling File Explorer next?

Sony has announced today it's ceasing production of discs for PlayStation games, effective January 2028. Beyond that point, PlayStation games will be available digitally only. Notably, PlayStation games will continue to be sold at retail, just without a physical disc.

Three current Rockstar employees in the UK have accused the Grand Theft Auto 6 studio of effectively baking crunch into their contracts, overseeing a widening gender pay gap, and weaponising bonuses to make workers more compliant, in a new report. It comes as Rockstar gear up for the much-trumpeted console release of GTA 6 this November.

Sony is ending Physical disc production for PlayStation consoles starting in 2028, meaning new games will be digital only in 18 months.

UN panel says 'AI is neither inherently good nor bad,' but better safeguards around it are needed.

Rhythm Heaven Groove revives a musical cult classic in safe fashion, with only one or two surprises to keep an old formula fresh.

The de-specialized edition of a cult classic!

Capture the lag. I remember thinking that 2023's Tears of the Kingdom was the perfect bookend for Switch 1, a fitting sign-off for a generation which began with a transformative open-world take on Hyrule. But Switch 2 wouldn't arrive for another couple of years, which means it's a very different game that gets the 'swansong' label. And low-key as it is, Rhythm Heaven Groove is the perfect encore for a little system that sought to match the rhythms of 21st-century gamers. It's also perhaps the be...

The beat-matching classic returns in fine voice.

After nearly two decades of supporting the PS3 console generation, we wanted to let you know we will be closing the PlayStation Store on PS3, as well as on PS Vita. PlayStation Store on PS3 will close in select markets starting this year, followed by global closures for PS3 and PS Vita next year. That...

As consumer preferences and the broader entertainment industry continue to shift away from physical discs to digital, physical game disc production for all new games releasing on PlayStation consoles will be discontinued starting January 2028.  Following this date, new games will be available on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only. This transition has...

Apple CEO Tim Cook held "constructive" talks with EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen on Tuesday about releasing Siri AI in the bloc while complying with the bloc's digital rules, reports the Financial Times ($). An EU spokesperson told the publication the virtual meeting had involved a "constructive exchange on topics of common interest, on which the work continues." Siri AI will be available for free with iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 when they are released in September. However, the enhanced chatbot-style S...

Fenris Creations announced today that Carbon, their cross-platform game engine framework behind EVE Online (and EVE Frontier) is now completely open source

If I had a nickel for every time this happened, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

'Victory is defeat'.

"Why would a game developer bother to put forward their best work under these conditions?"

Helldivers 2's latest in-game campaign sees the champions of strategically mitigated democracy supervising the construction of yet another massive wall of pine-scented gas in space. Kicking off with the Frontlines of Freedom update, out now, it's a bid to keep those evil "fascist" Terminid insects away from Super Earth, building on the foundations of the abortive original "Termicide" campaign back in March 2024. It's also a pisstake of US president Donald Trump's dreams of constructing a massive...

Getty Images has moved to terminate a $3.7 billion merger with rival Shutterstock due to restrictions imposed by UK regulators.

Wolverine's metal claws are absent in the new season of X-Men '97 because Magneto removed them. This comes from a popular comics storyline.

Drill Rally and Boomerang Rally have been added to Mario Kart World as part of update 1.7.0, alongside stickers in photo mode.

New advertising from Xbox says that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 won't be on Game Pass at launch, but will land on the service eventually.

BlizzCon's new Blizzard Classic Cup even brings back Heroes of the Storm esports, and reignites some of StarCraft's most iconic rivalries.

But hey, at least an RTX 4060 is good enough to meet the recommended GPU specs. Wait, what?

If you were planning to spend hours making sure your chin looks just right and ensuring your eyes aren't too close together when you fire up Mass Effecty sci-fi RPG Exodus, I've got bad news. Rather than a slider-based character creator with ten million sliders controlling the likes of cheek yaw and ear curvitude, devs Archetype Entertainment have decided to set the majority of protagonist Jun Aslan's face in stone to make him a more defined person, leaving only the likes of hair and tattoos for...

BMW's X5 lineup finally has an electric option with impressive range.

As Rockstar employees move to pursue official union recognition following a series of high-profile sackings in 2025, new allegations are emerging related to Rockstar's treatment of its staff. In a new report published by Game Developer, multiple Rockstar developers have accused the company of failing to address gender-based pay inequity, actively pursuing and facilitating crunch culture in its United Kingdom-based offices, and weaponising bonus payments against employees.

You should be able to do whatever you want with hardware you purchase - and the ps5-linux project for the PlayStation 5 continues expanding Linux support

The foundation behind the open source Godot game engine have announced a crackdown on the use of generative AI by contributors, following a wave of "demoralizing", "low-effort slop" that has added to an already overwhelming quantity of requests for code review. While they'll still let people deploy the chatbot technology for smaller, "menial" jobs such as finding and replacing code, they're taking a stricter stance on "vibe coding" – aka, asking a bot to generate whole swathes of code – and will...

With more to come! Mario Kart World was updated to ver. 1.7.0 last night. We covered the full patch notes earlier, but we think it's worth highlighting the main feature for those who haven't caught up yet: Nintendo's added new Knockout Tour Rallies! As showcased in the above trailer, both the Drill Rally and the Boomerang Rally are now available in Knockout Tour races, providing you with two new routes to take across the map. To be clear, these don't add any new circuits, but it's nice to have s...

Funcom and Inflexion Games just announced a free four-part story expansion is coming for Conan Exiles Enhanced, starting July 21st

For the second time in a month, Battlefield Studios has altered the in-game language explaining how Battlefield 6 XP Boosters work, only to renege and claim it was done in error. This time, however, it's made players even more aggravated because of the way the message was delivered.

With Persona 4 Revival and Persona 6 on the horizon, fans of the long-running RPG series will be eating well in the near future, but a live-action Netflix show might be a more divisive offering.