Sony secures semiconductor supply.

Since their release, gamers worldwide have faced the same struggle of getting their hands on next-gen consoles. This is due largely to a shortage of parts, namely semiconductors, central to the console production process. Well, PS5 consoles might soon be easier to acquire, according to Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki.

During the company’s quarterly earnings call (via Twinfinite), Totoki was asked about the global semiconductor shortage that has made PS5 stock so hard to come by since the console’s release last November. In response, Totoki told investors that Sony has not only set the target for the number of consoles it wants to sell this year but has also secured all the chipsets it needs to manufacture those consoles. It’s not clear exactly how many PS5 consoles Sony plans to ship, but Totoki also confirmed that the target for this fiscal year (which ends in March 2022) is more than 14.8 million units. Just over 10 million consoles have sold since launch, so there could be a significant influx of new consoles over the next year.

Alongside a semiconductor shortage, the global pandemic has impacted manufacturing and supply chains globally. When the consoles actually ship, dedicated scalping groups have caused further disruption, buying up and then reselling more than 60,000 new-gen machines in the weeks after the PS5 and Xbox Series releases.

Earlier this summer, Sony added to players’ confusion, inviting those who already owned their new console to buy another PS5. But, with the components now sourced, here’s hoping would-be PS5 owners have the chance to actually get their hands on the console.

For those interested, we have a big sale going on, a summer sale. Use the codes SIZZLE10 (summer)  to access discounts. The discount codes are only valid for the products listed on their respective URLs (linked above). This sale ends 9th August so move fast!

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Dodgeball Academia! Hunter’s Arena: Legends! The Falconeer!

We will take you through all the new games releasing on both generations of Sony’s console for this week. Admittedly, it is a pretty slow week with no jaw-dropping triple-A titles hitting stores, but there are definitely a few gems worth picking up. There’ll be plenty of eyes on Hunter’s Arena: Legends, which is free with PS Plus this month. Also, keep an eye out for Dodgeball Academia, as that one could prove promising as well. Click the link for a full list of all new PS5 game release dates in 2021.

USA

3rd August

• Hunter’s Arena: Legends (PS5, PS4)
• In Sound Mind (PS5)

5th August

• Dodgeball Academia (PS4)
• The Falconeer: Warrior Edition (PS5)

6th August

• Zengeon (PS4)

UK

3rd August

• Hunter’s Arena: Legends (PS5, PS4)
• In Sound Mind (PS5)

5th August

• Dodgeball Academia (PS4)
• The Falconeer: Warrior Edition (PS5)

6th August

• Zengeon (PS4)

You can grab yourself a copy of any of these titles from our Go2Games website.

For those interested, we have a big sale going on, a summer sale. Use the codes SIZZLE10 (summer)  to access discounts. The discount codes are only valid for the products listed on their respective URLs (linked above). This sale ends 9th August so move fast!

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Akiba’s Trip! Cris Tales! Last Stop!

This blog will take you through all the new PS5 and PS4 games releasing in physical retailers and as part of the PlayStation Store update this week. The summer weeks continue to be slow, but there’ll surely be niche interest in Akiba’s Trip: Hellbound and Debriefed, as well as Cotton Reboot and Cris Tales.

For a full list of all upcoming PS5 games, see here.

USA

19th July

• Summer Sports Games: 4K Edition (PS5)

20th July

• Akiba’s Trip: Hellbound and Debriefed (PS4)
• Cotton Reboot (PS4)
• Cris Tales (PS5, PS4)
  

22nd July

• Last Stop (PS5, PS4)
• Urban Trial Tricky: Deluxe Edition (PS4)

23rd July

• Blue Fire (PS4)
• Orcs Must Die 3 (PS4)

UK

19th July

• Summer Sports Games: 4K Edition (PS5)

20th July

• Akiba’s Trip: Hellbound and Debriefed (PS4)
• Cotton Reboot (PS4)
• Cris Tales (PS5, PS4)

22nd July

• Last Stop (PS5, PS4)
• Urban Trial Tricky: Deluxe Edition (PS4)

23rd July

• Blue Fire (PS4)
• Orcs Must Die 3 (PS4)

If interested, you can buy or pre-order any of these titles from our Go2Games website.

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New generation gaming is about to take off…

There haven’t been many exciting releases for the new generation console thus far, so for PS5 owners, it has been a slow burn up until now. You will be happy to know that this is due to change shortly, with the wealth of upcoming games being released in the second half of 2021. Many of these games were revealed across the last month or so throughout the various ongoing gaming showcases (e.g. E3’s individual showcases, EA’s Spotlight Series + Play Live, Sony’s State of Play etc.). We have had so many games revealed to us recently that it can be hard to keep track of them all. Well, fear not, we are going to take you through all of the biggest upcoming titles, as well as their release dates.

July 2021:

                           (Source: Binary Haze Interactive)

• Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights – July 6 (PS5, PS4)
• Where the Heart Leads – July 13 (PS4, PS5)
• F1 2021 – July 16 (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One)
• Cris Tales – July 20 (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, Stadia)
• Tribes of Midgaard – July 27 (PS4, PS5)
• Little Devil Inside – July TBC (PS5, PC, PS4)
• Tour de France 2021 – July TBC (PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
• Last Stop – July TBC (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Switch)

August 2021:

                                         (Source: Supergiant Games)

• In Sound Mind – August 3 (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch)
• The Falconeer: Warrior Edition – August 5 (PS5, PS4, Switch)
• Foreclosed – August 12 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, Stadia, PC)
• Hades – August 13 (PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S)
• RiMS Racing – August 19 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One Switch, PC)
• Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut – August 20 (PS4, PS5)
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits – August 24 (PS5, PC, PS4)
• Hotel Life – August 26 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch)

September 2021:

 
(Source: Square Enix)

• WRC 10 – September 2 (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One)
• Kitaria Fables – September 3 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC)
• Life is Strange: True Colors – September 10 (Xbox Series X/S, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, PC, Stadia)
• Tales of Arise – September 10 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC PS4, Xbox One)
• Deathloop – September 14 (PS5, PC)
• Rainbow Six Extraction – September 16 (PC, PS4, Xbox One, PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
• Aragami 2 – September 17 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, PC)
• Diablo 2 Resurrected – September 23 (PC, Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S)
• Death Stranding: Director’s Cut – September 24 (PS5)
• Lost Judgment – September 24 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
• Ghostrunner – September 28 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
• Hot Wheels Unleashed – September 30 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch)
• Life is Strange Remastered Collection – September 30 (Xbox Series X/S, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, PC, Stadia)
• Blood Bowl 3 – September TBC (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Switch)

October 2021:

(Source: Ubisoft)

• Far Cry 6 – October 7 (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Stadia)
• Back 4 Blood – October 12 (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC)
• Demon Slayer – Kimetsu No Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles – October 15 (PS4, PS5)
• Battlefield 2042 – October 22 – (Xbox Series X, PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One)
• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – October 26 (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One and PC)
• Stray – October TBC 2021 (PS5, PC)
• Ghostwire: Tokyo – October TBC (PS5, PC

November 2021:

(Source: Rockstar Games)

• GTA 5 – November 11 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
• GTA Online – November 11 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
• Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker – November 23 (PS5, PS4, PC)

December 2021:

(Source: Techland)

• Dying Light 2 – December 7 (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC

TBA 2021 and beyond

(Source: Sony)

• Maneater: Truth Quest – Summer 2021 (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X, PS4, Xbox One)
• New Call of Duty 2021 – Late 2021
• Abandoned – Q4 2021 (PS5)
• Jett: The Far Shore – TBC 2021 (PC, PS5, PS4)
• Call of Duty: Warzone – TBC 2021 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
• SIFU – TBC 2022 (PS4, PS5)
• Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach – TBC 2021 (PS5, PS4, PC)
• Riders Republic – TBC 2021 (PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S)
• Horizon Forbidden West – TBC 2021 (PS5)
• Chorus – TBC 2021 (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Stadia)
• Dustborn – TBC 2021 (PS5, PS4, PC)
• FIFA 22 – TBC 2021
• Madden 22 – TBC 2021
• Arcadegeddon – TBC 2022 (PS5, PC)
• Forspoken – January 2022 (PS5, PC)
• Elden Ring – January 21, 2022 (PS4, Xbox One, PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
• Hogwarts Legacy – TBC 2022 (PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PC)
• Gran Turismo 7 – TBC 2022 (PS5)
• Gotham Knights – TBC 2022 (PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PC)
• God of War: Ragnarok – TBC 2022 (PS5, PS4)
• The Lord of the Rings: Gollum – TBC 2022 (PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch, PC)
• Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice – TBC 2022 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC)
• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – TBC 2022 ( PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, Stadia and Amazon Luna)
• Pragmata – 2023 TBC (PS5)
• Skull & Bones – TBC
• Zenith (VR) – TBC (PSVR)
• Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – TBC (PC, PS4, Xbox One, PS5, Xbox Series X and Switch)
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake – TBC (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC)
• Moss: Book II – TBC 2022
• The Elder Scrolls 6 – TBC
• Dragon Age 4 – TBC
• Indiana Jones – TBC
• Overwatch 2 – TBC
• Diablo 4 – TBC (Xbox One, PS4, PC)
• Final Fantasy 16 – TBC (PS5)
• BioShock 4 – TBC
• Beyond Good and Evil 2 –  TBC
• The Sims 5 – TBC

If interested, you can buy or pre-order any of these titles from our Go2Games website.

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Version 21.01-03.21.00 is being rolled out…

According to the on-console patch notes, the 902MB update to version 21.01-03.21.00 makes improvements to the system’s performance.

There may have been some changes that have not been mentioned (e.g. April’s quiet fix for a disc spinning issue).

The last update (21.01-0.3.20.00) fixed a battery indicator bug, resulting in the battery icon constantly blinking, indicating the controller as being on low battery even though it wasn’t.

The official patch notes also listed fixes for a PS5 screen reader issue and hidden games problem, plus improvements when copying games from USB to console.

Sony released PS5’s first major system software update globally on April 14, adding the ability to store PS5 games on external USB drives (but not play titles from them), and cross-gen Share Play, meaning PS5 users can let friends on PS4 remotely play their games, among other features.

Sony also made additions to the PlayStation smartphone app, including the ability to join a multiplayer session on PS5 from the app, manage PS5 console storage, compare trophy collections with friends, and sort and filter products shown in the PlayStation Store.

In a post on the PlayStation Blog at the time, Sony’s Hideaki Nishino stated: “We’re only scratching the surface of the many updates and improvements we’ve made across PS5, PS4, and PS App, so check them out and let us know what you think.”

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Including Nioh 2, God of War, Moving Out and more…

Judgment will join PlayStation Now until October 4th, and Red Dead Redemption 2 will be added until November 1st.

These limited-time blockbuster games were first rolled out in October 2019 as a bid to become more competitive with Sony’s rival streaming services. Sony has stuck with this limited-time concept since then.

God of War was among the first of these limited-time games, alongside Grand Theft Auto V, Infamous Second Son and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End.

Starting today, July 6th, God of War, Nioh 2, and Moving Out will also join PlayStation Now, with these titles remaining as longer-term additions to the service. Finally, Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and Nascar Heat 5 will also join Now.

PlayStation Now’s software library includes over 700 PS2, PS3 and PS4 games streamable to PS5, PS4 or PC, and over 300 PS4 titles which can be downloaded and played on consoles. PlayStation Now has been hugely popular on PC, allowing PC players to finally get their hands on exclusives such as Bloodborne.

They have also been constantly improving the service, bringing in 1080p support earlier this year.

PlayStation Now subscribers have grown substantially over the last year, growing from 1.8 million to 3.2 million subscribers as of March 2021.

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Sony PlayStation Store

After their unfortunate Christmas attack last year, Sony offer a 10% PS Store discount

For a very limited time only, the PSN Store 10% discount will run from this Friday 23rd January to next Monday 26th January, for existing PS4 & PS Vita customers. This is Sony’s peace offering due to the recent attack on the PSN last Christmas. Exclusions also apply, with PS Plus subscriptions, Music Unlimited and video rentals not eligible for discount.

Sony have said that the code, which was unavailable at the time of going to press, can be found on the PlayStation Store and PlayStation Twitter account. As well as this, Sony has also begun to extend users’ PS Plus subscriptions by five days at no extra cost. “You will receive an email in the coming days with a confirmation of details about the extension,” the company have said.

Over the Christmas period, Sony’s online network became inaccessible due to a DDoS attack, which is why this discount code has been offered in response. An online group called Lizard Squad, who are the culprits of the attack, are now being pursued by the authorities and at least one arrest has been made already. 

Make sure to take advantage of the 10% offer this weekend while it’s around. You don’t want to miss out!

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