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News Sea Of Thieves Season 13 Has Arrived As Rare Continues To Build On PS5 Success
They're not slowing down!
Thought that Sea Of Thieves going multiplatform would slow down Rare, eh? Not a chance! The team has stuck to its regular update cadence with the arrival of Sea of Thieves Season 13, which is now live on Xbox, PS5 and PC. In this first post-launch season for PS5 players (Season 12 was packed into the PlayStation release),...
News Sea Of Thieves Justifies Multiplatform Release By Charting Again On PS5 In June
Fresh plunder
Another month brings even more Sea Of Thieves success for Microsoft! Rare's pirate adventure, which first launched on Xbox all the way back in 2018, has sold very well on PS5 again in June 2024. In both the US and Europe, Sea of Thieves was in the top five most downloaded PS5 games for the month of June. This follows May's standings,...
News Digital Foundry Explores Why Some Games 'Run Better' On PS5 Than Xbox Series X
"We finally have some answers"
Ever since Xbox Series X and PS5 launched, we've noticed cases where PS5 games run that little bit better - even if on paper Microsoft's machine is the more powerful console. We've typically put that down to sheer development resources — the PS5 has a bigger install base and is often the target console after all —...
News Xbox Exec Talks Multiplatform Strategy, Team 'Really Pleased' With Sea Of Thieves On PS5
"We have been really pleased"
In a new interview with Variety, Xbox exec Matt Booty has been discussing lots of Microsoft's recent gaming business, including the team's big summer showcase earlier this month. Naturally, the conversation also moved towards
News Sea Of Thieves Was The Best-Selling PS5 Game In Both The US & Europe Last Month
Sea of sales
Rare's Sea Of Thieves was probably the most high-profile Xbox game to make the switch to PlayStation 5 earlier in the year, and Microsoft's multiplatform move seems to have paid off for the Xbox owner already. In a new post over at the PlayStation Blog, Sony has detailed its software sales charts for May 2024, and Rare's pirate...
News Phil Spencer Explains Why DOOM: The Dark Ages Is Releasing On PS5
Marty Stratton played a part
One of the major highlights during the Xbox showcase this year was the official reveal of DOOM: The Dark Ages for Xbox Series X|S and PC. Although Bethesda and id Software are now operating under Microsoft's gaming division, it's also been confirmed for PlayStation 5. If you're wondering what's up with that, Phil...
News DOOM: The Dark Ages Confirmed As A Day One PS5 Release In 2025
Carefully curated for PlayStation
As you probably saw earlier this evening, Xbox and Bethesda just announced the much-rumoured DOOM: The Dark Ages - with id Software's prequel blasting onto Xbox Game Pass next year. We of course knew that the title would come to Microsoft's subscription servi
Report Xbox Is Working On A Halo Remaster, Also 'Considering' PS5 Release
Oh my goodness me
Just as we thought all eyes were now on the Xbox Games Showcase this weekend, a megaton report from The Verge drops on us, containing details about a Halo remaster with a potential multiplatform release plan. Yep, according to the outlet's reporter Tom Warren, Microsoft is spooling up plans to remaster Halo: Combat Evolved for the...
News Former PlayStation Exclusive 'Kena: Bridge Of Spirits' Crosses Over To Xbox This August
Building new bridges
Indie developer Ember Lab has today announced that Kena: Bridge of Spirits is officially coming to Xbox this August! Yep, after spending almost two years as a PlayStation and PC exclusive, the team's Pikmin-like action adventure title hits Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S in just a few months' time. The actual launch date for Kena...
News Xbox's Recent Multiplatform Releases Selling Well On PS5, Fallout Sales Also Get A Boost
NPD has all the deets
Whatever we may think of Microsoft's new direction in bringing certain first-party games to other platforms, the results are beginning to speak for themselves. Circana's Mat Piscatella (formerly NPD) has today posted a bunch of figures and statistics about US game sales for the month of April - and Xbox's new PlayStation...
Rumour Xbox Planning To Bring More Games To PS5, Despite Some 'Unease' At Microsoft
Microsoft CEO apparently sees "no red line" for Xbox games on PS5
Earlier this year, we saw four fantastic Xbox exclusives making their way over to PS5 (along with PS4 / Nintendo Switch in some circumstances) in the form of Grounded, Pentiment, Sea Of Thieves and Hi-Fi RUSH. Ever since the announcement, we've been wondering if more Xbox first-party...
News Analyst Claims PS5 Outsold Xbox Series X|S Almost 5:1 Last Quarter
Slowdown
Sony's PS5 console outselling Xbox Series X|S isn't really a surprise at this stage - in fact, the market has largely favoured PlayStation since the beginning of the Xbox One era. However, a recent sales estimate has surprised us somewhat - mainly for the sheer gap between the two sales figures. According to Niko Partners analyst Daniel...
News Xbox's Sea Of Thieves Plunders PS5 Charts, Becoming Europe's Best-Selling Game In April
Shiver me timbers
Rare made its PlayStation debut last month with the arrival of Sea Of Thieves on PS5, and it sounds like its pirate adventure is doing quite well on the platform so far. As revealed by Sony in the company's latest PlayStation Blog sales post, Sea of Thieves was the best-selling game in Europe during the month of Apr
News Xbox Is Reportedly 'Considering' Hellblade 2 For PlayStation 5
A PS5 port hasn't been announced, yet
In recent months, Microsoft has started to experiment with launching some of its exclusive games on other consoles, with Grounded, Hi-Fi RUSH, Pentiment and Sea Of Thieves all now playable on other platforms. We're yet to really see how Microsoft's experiment will play out in the long run, but it sounds like...
News Here's What The First PS5 Reviews Are Saying About Sea Of Thieves
Rare's first-ever PlayStation game is out now
Well, the final entry in Xbox's new four-game-foray into PlayStation gaming is officially out now, with Sea Of Thieves releasing on PS5 today. It's been a long while since the game first came out on Xbox though, so what are the reviews saying about Rare's pirate adventure in 2024? We've already heard...
News Sea Of Thieves Adds Multiple New Weapons In Season 12 Update For Xbox, PS5 & PC
To coincide with the PlayStation launch
The 12th season of Sea Of Thieves is upon us! To coincide with the launch of the game on PS5 tomorrow (April 30th), Season 12 is bringing a bunch of new features to Xbox, PS5 and PC, including multiple new weapons and even the addition of ziplines and Harpoon lines! The "Double Barrel Pistol" and "Throwing...
News Microsoft CEO Comments On Xbox's New PlayStation Store Success
"More than any other publisher"
Microsoft's latest quarterly results are in; with the team seeing huge gains across its Xbox division thanks to the acquisition of Activision Blizzard last year. However, it's not just ActiBlizz bringing the good news at the moment - some of Xbox's older studio acquisitions are bringing continued success too. As part...
News Xbox Games Are Enjoying A 'Positive Upward Trend' On PS5, Suggests New Analysis
Grounded appears to be leading the pack
One of the biggest bits of Xbox news we've seen this year has been the decision to bring multiple first-party games to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, and looking at the latest PS stats, it appears there's been a "positive upward trend". This is according to data from GameInsights (via TrueTrophies), which...
News Grounded PS5 Analysis Reveals 'Unusual' Results Compared To Xbox Series X
"I know which one I'd rather play right now"
The folks over at Digital Foundry are back again with yet another Xbox-game-on-PS5 analysis today, and this time it's for Obsidian's fantastic survival action-adventure game Grounded - which just arrived on PS5 back on April 16th. And boy, is this one interesting! The outlet has discovered that there...
News Sea Of Thieves On PS5 Has Slight Edge Over Xbox Series X, Notes Digital Foundry
In two key areas
Over the weekend, the folks at Digital Foundry posted some interesting findings about Sea Of Thieves on PlayStation 5, following its recent beta test on the Sony console. We'll put the video version of their analysis up above, but the gist of it is that PS5 has a few advantages despite being very similar to the Series X version...
News PlayStation Exclusive 'Kena: Bridge Of Spirits' Rated For Xbox Series X|S
An Xbox launch is coming
There's been plenty of news about Xbox games moving over to PlayStation recently, but how about one coming the other way? Well, 2021's Kena: Bridge of Spirits has just been ESRB rated for an upcoming Xbox Series X|S release. There's no release da
News Sea Of Thieves PS5 FAQ Reveals How It Compares To The Xbox Version
A few differences of note
We've officially entered the month of Sea of Thieves' PS5 release (which takes place on April 30th), and ahead of that launch, Rare has revealed some more of the similarities and differences between that version and the Xbox version. It's mostly all the same at first glance, with PS5 owners being forced to use a Microsoft...
News Xbox's Hi-Fi RUSH Actually Has 'Slightly' Improved Visuals On PS5
It's all about the shadows
Tango Gameworks' outstanding Hi-Fi RUSH officially made its way onto PlayStation 5 just a couple of weeks ago, and as expected, it's been getting a great reception so far - in fact, it might even be an early GOTY candidate! Something we didn't expect, however, is that the PS5 version actually has "slightly improved"...
News Phil Spencer On Porting Exclusives: 'Every Decision We Make Is To Make Xbox Stronger'
"It doesn’t mean everyone’s going to agree"
The 2024 edition of GDC has just taken place, and Xbox boss Phil Spencer has been present at the conference to talk all-things gaming as usual. His presence has led to an in-depth chat with outlet Polygon - where the boss spoke about the future of Xbox and its exclusive strategy. As we all now know,...
News 'Enotria: The Last Song' Dev Cancels Xbox Series X|S Release, For Now
The team will "reassess the possibility of an Xbox release post-launch"
During yesterday's Future Games Show livestream, Soulslike RPG Enotria: The Last Song made another public appearance to unveil its official release date, however the Xbox version has now been quietly cancelled as other platforms take priority. Coming by way of Japanese outlet
News Hi-Fi RUSH Is One Of PS5's Best-Rated Games Of 2024 So Far
Hi on the list
Back when Tango Gameworks' Hi-Fi RUSH first arrived on Xbox it became something of a critical darling, and this week's PS5 re-release is much the same story as early reviews start to trickle out for the PlayStation version of the title. At the moment, Hi-Fi RUSH on PS5 has a Metacritic score of 9
News With A 'PS5 Pro' Now Rumoured For 2024, Where Does That Leave Xbox?
Will we get a surprise "Pro" Series X?
Late last week, a couple of sources began to share more details on the rumoured "PlayStation 5 Pro" that's been talked about for a while, revealing some new technical information along with a targeted release window of Holiday 2024. Some of the specs apparently include a 28% increase in system memory, a...
News Sea Of Thieves Gets Two New Xbox Editions Ahead Of PS5 Release
Plus an updated Game Pass version
The PS5 release of Sea of Thieves is right around the corner, and Rare has been busy cooking up a variety of special editions for players to pre-order. With that in mind, we're also getting more options on Xbox and PC! As of today, you can buy the Deluxe and Premium Editions of Sea of Thieves, both of which include...
News Pentiment's Frame Rate On Xbox Series X Now Matches PS5
120FPS has now been "enabled"
The release of Pentiment on PlayStation last month caused some concern when it was discovered that the PS5 version of the game actually ran at a higher frame rate. Obsidian mentioned at the time how a patch was on the way for Xbox, and now in a new update for the game, it's officially arrived. As highlighted on social...
News Gears Of War Creator Thinks 'The More, The Merrier' In Regards To Getting Gears On PS5
"You know, I think ‘the more, the merrier'"
Xbox has ported a small selection of its games to other platforms recently — as was much publicised last month — however, despite just four titles having been mentioned by Microsoft, fans are still wondering what might be next to move over. And, in a recent interview with Game Rant,
News Xbox's Sea Of Thieves Becomes 'Best-Selling' Pre-Order On PlayStation 5
Beating the likes of Star Wars and Dragon's Dogma 2
For the first time ever, Sea Of Thieves will be setting sail on PlayStation this April, and even though we've still got almost two months to go until its release date, the game is currently a "best selling" pre-order on PS5 as things stand. If you look at the "PS5 Pre-orders" chart and then sort...
News Starfield To PS5 Rumours Played Down Following Recent Xbox First-Party Ports
"Nobody is working on Starfield for PlayStation right now."
When Xbox first announced its four titles moving over to other platforms last month, the team was keen to point out that Bethesda's Starfield wasn't going to be one of those ports. Despite this, rumours have swirled since about the potential for a PS5 version of the title - rumours that...
News Helldivers 2 Dev Urges More 'Compassion' In Response To Negative Xbox Tweet
Racking up a massive amount of "likes" in the process
Sony's Helldivers 2 continues be brought up in relation to Xbox at the moment, even though it's not part of the platform and seemingly won't be coming to it - at least not anytime soon!. This latest example comes courtesy of Twitter (or "X" if you really want to call it that), where the CEO of...
News Two Major Xbox Games Are Adding Crossplay Support With PS5 & PC
Including the brilliant Remnant 2 on Xbox Game Pass!
It's always good news when Xbox games add crossplay support with other platforms, and that's exactly what's happening today! Both Mortal Kombat 1 and Remnant 2 will now support crossplay with Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and PC. Obviously both of these are a big deal, but Remnant 2 is perhaps even more...
News Xbox First-Party Title 'Pentiment' Seems To Run Much Better On PlayStation 5
Update: Director confirms it's "just a bug"
Update: Well, we've got an official answer about this! Pentiment Director Josh Sawyer has confirmed the omission of 120FPS on Xbox is "just a bug", and the feature will added to the Xbox version in the next patch. Original story: Obsidian Entertainment's Pentiment is the first of
News Obsidian Blasted By Xbox Fans For 'Prioritising' PS5 & Switch Versions Of Pentiment
"YOU'RE A FIRST PARTY STUDIO"
Earlier this week, it was announced that Obsidian's superb Pentiment was crossing over from being an Xbox exclusive to joining the PS5 and Nintendo Switch consoles, and so far that decision seems to have gone down pretty well. However, what's not going down well is how Obsidian is marketing the new physical versions in...
Poll Will You Be Playing Any Of Xbox's New Multiplatform Games On Other Consoles?
The big green wave is coming
So, it has begun. This week, Microsoft has made announcements for games heading to both Nintendo Switch and PlayStation platforms - with Pentiment and Grounded heading to both ecosystems while Hi-Fi RUSH and Sea Of Thieves have been confirmed for PS5 so far. As Xbox fans, and users of Microsoft's consoles, this isn't...
News Sea Of Thieves Sets Sail On PS5 This April With Xbox & PC Crossplay
"You can stop asking now."
Today, we've had announcements of Grounded and Pentiment going to Nintendo Switch and PS5, as well as Hi-Fi RUSH heading to PlayStation 5, and now we also know that Sea Of Thieves will be hitting Sony's console on April 30th, 2024.
News Hi-Fi RUSH Is Making Its Way To PlayStation 5 Next Month
"Charge your DualSense controller and crank up the volume"
Update: This has now been confirmed by Microsoft, and you can watch the official trailer for Hi-Fi RUSH on PS5 up above. It's also been announced today that Sea of Thieves, Grounded and Pentiment will be
News Xbox Petition For Helldivers 2 Goes Viral Overnight, Aims To 'Redefine The Console Wars'
"PlayStation can take a bold step..."
Last week, Xbox's Phil Spencer shared his bemusement about Sony's Helldivers 2 not being available on Microsoft's platform, and now a bunch of Xbox fans have managed to make a petition about this go viral overnight! The petition is called "
News Phil Spencer 'Gets' Why Helldivers 2 Isn't On Xbox, But Still Thinks It's Silly
"I’m not exactly sure who it helps in the industry"
Helldivers 2 has obviously been a massive success for Sony over the past week-or-so, and it's very unlikely we're going to see it on Xbox anytime soon, which Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer clearly thinks is a shame. Speaking to Game File today, Spencer mentioned Helldivers 2 while talking...
News Xbox Team 'Excited' And Wants To 'Learn' From Bringing Games To Other Platforms
Will we see more in the future?
It was announced in today's Official Xbox Podcast episode that Xbox is bringing four games to other consoles in the not too distant future, but apart from that, there's not a change to the brand's "fundamental exclusive strategy". That said, in an interview with
News Xbox Announces Four Games Going To Other Consoles, 'Not Starfield Or Indiana Jones'
"When they come out, it'll make sense"
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has announced today as part of the Official Xbox Podcast that four games from the Xbox first-party lineup will be coming to other consoles in the near future - although they haven't been named yet. That said, we do have a few clues. Firstly, we know they're definitely not...
News Rare Pokes Fun At Xbox Situation With Multiplatform Tease For Sea Of Thieves
"Wait, where were we going with this?"
If you can believe it, it's been more than a month since we first heard rumours of Sea of Thieves going multiplatform, and a new social media tease from developer Rare has perhaps delivered our most concrete evidence of the move yet. Taking to Twitter, the Sea Of Thieves account posted a short riddle...
News PS5 Survey Lists Top 10 'Most Wanted' Xbox Franchises On PlayStation
Based on around 12,000 votes
You may have seen earlier this week that our sister site Push Square began running a survey to discover the top 10 most-wanted Xbox franchises on PS5, with the results being listed in real-time over the past few days. That poll has now come to an end, with around 12,000 votes being cast in all, and it makes for some...
News Xbox Fans Urged To Remain Calm As Emotions Run Wild On Social Media
"Don't make me tap the sign"
It hasn't exactly been a gentle start to the week in Xbox land, has it? The rumours and speculation about various first-party Xbox exclusives jumping to other platforms has caused all sorts of drama over the past couple of days. In fact, the level of upset has been so severe that it's even led to some Xbox owners...
Reaction We're Conflicted About Xbox Exclusives Potentially Going To PS5
It's... complicated
Update: In case you haven't seen, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has now addressed some of the rumours and speculation floating around online, promising to reveal more about the "future of Xbox" at an event next week. <related ids="161730"> Original story: The closing stages of this past weekend have been awash with
News Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Gives His 'Optimistic' Thoughts On Xbox-To-PS5 Rumours
"Your favourite ecosystem isn’t going anywhere"
The big news that's been doing the rounds over the past few hours is that Microsoft might be planning to bring a bunch of first-party Xbox games to PS5 and maybe even Nintendo Switch, including the likes of Starfield and Indiana Jones. Everyone has their own opinion on whether this is a good thing...
News Starfield, Indiana Jones And Many Other 'Xbox Exclusives' Could Be Heading To PS5
Is this the start of a new multi-platform approach?
Update: Xbox boss Phil Spencer has since responded to the rumours and speculation doing the rounds online, promising to "share more details" about his team's "vision for the future of Xbox" next week. <related ids="161730"> Original story: Over the past few hours, you may have come across...
Reaction PS5 60FPS Mods Have Us Wishing For More 'FPS Boost' Titles On Xbox
Red Dead 2 would be amazing!
So, the folks over at Digital Foundry have posted another interesting analysis today exploring some modded titles on PS5 - mods that manage to unlock frame rates in certain PS4 games. To be clear, these mods aren't official and can't be applied on normal PS5 consoles, however the results are interesting nonetheless - and...
