RGG Studio, the team behind the Like a Dragon series, is preparing Stranger Than Heaven, a game that follows protagonist Makoto Daito across a 50-year journey. At a recent press preview, we played select portions of four chapters: the Prologue, Kokura in Fukuoka, Kure in Hiroshima, and Minami in Osaka. The game mixes close-quarters combat with the glitz of show business, and the two halves are equally distinct. A stowaway's search for a place to belong The Prologue takes place in San Francisco in 1915. Framed for murder and pursued by police, Daito shakes off the cops and boards a...

Once Human's largest free expansion yet, Isles of Abyss, launches on PlayStation 5. The expansion takes the game's strange-worlds survival into uncharted waters, with five brand-new oceanic regions, new threats, and naval combat. A living ocean The developers wanted the sea to be more than a blue backdrop or a way to get from A to B. In Isles of Abyss, the entire ocean is a massive, conscious entity known as “The Sunken Lord.” The water surface you navigate is its physical body. The eerie lighthouses “The Tower” and the spectral ghost ships “Voyagers”...

Team Peak is a collaboration between two studios: Aggro Crab, based in Seattle, Washington and known for Another Crab's Treasure and Going Under, and Landfall, based in Stockholm, Sweden and known for Content Warning, Haste, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Stick Fight: The Game, and more. The two studios met at a game developer conference in 2022 and became friends. After the success of Another Crab's Treasure and Content Warning, they decided a small project together could be fun. From a game jam to a full game The project began as a one-month game jam in Seoul, South Korea, in February...

Why Phoenix Cyclops? Cyclops was an early candidate for the roster as a member of the Unbreakable X-Men team. However, the character has appeared in numerous Marvel fighting games over the years, with his visual identity and battle style firmly established through that history. The team challenged itself to explore whether there was a way to present Cyclops in a style that felt different from what players had seen before. During development discussions, the narrative team proposed using the Phoenix version of Cyclops. This interpretation would allow for fresher visuals and a more exciting...

Shape of Dreams launches on PlayStation 5, alongside The Starless Path — our 1st Anniversary Update and the largest update we've ever made. Combat and Travelers Shape of Dreams is fast-paced, spectacular, and aggressive. You choose one of nine Travelers and descend into the Rapids — a dream world that reshapes itself every time you enter. Memories and Essences Combat is fast and flashy, but how you control the battlefield is entirely yours to decide. Memories are core abilities you equip, and Essences slot into those Memories to fundamentally rewrite how they work. Take a single-target...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEOzBU6Rq1gA year after the original game launched, PS5 players can now dive into the Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition. Available now on PS5, this brings together the story campaign, the Ghost of Yōtei Legends multiplayer mode, and two new major additions: the roguelike mode Most Wanted, and the narrative expansion Echoes of Sekigahara. The story is split between the present day and flashbacks to Atsu's time on the mainland. To mark the Complete Edition's launch and celebrate the game's first anniversary, we spoke with voice actor Erika Ishii, who brings Atsu...

Since the launch of PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) on PS5 Pro, players and developers have asked whether similar image-quality improvements could be brought to the PS5 console. PSSR analyzes game images pixel by pixel and uses AI to upscale them with more detail and stability than conventional approaches; until now, its computational demands made bringing that experience to PS5 impossible. Today, PlayStation announced Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR): a new performance tier of AI upscaling built on two key innovations—a streamlined neural network architecture and a...