The new year is in full swing, and January is done. What did you enjoy most about last month’s title lineup? 

How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation Blog will open a poll where you can vote for the best new game released that month. After the polls close we will tally your votes, and announce the winner on our social channels and PlayStation.Blog. 

What is the voting criteria? That’s up to you! If you were only able to recommend one new release to a friend that month, which would it be? Note: re-released games don’t qualify, but remakes do. We define remakes as ambitious, larger-scale rebuilds such as Resident Evil 4 (2023) and Final Fantasy VII Remake.

How are nominees decided? The PlayStation Blog editorial team will gather a list of that month’s most noteworthy releases and use it to seed the poll. 

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Howdy, folks! This week the crew sits down to talk about this week’s news. This week, Tim and Kristen discuss their playthroughs of Dynasty Warriors: Origins, Alien: Rogue Incursion, and Metaphor: ReFantazio.

Stuff We Talked About

• Next week’s release highlights:
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance II | PS5
  • Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator | PS5
• MLB The Show 25 cover athlete reveal
• Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered camera flythrough mode
• Destiny 2 – Act 3 Heresy details
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PC features
• PlayStation Plus February Monthly Games
  • Payday 3
  • High on Life
  • Pac-Man World Re-Pac
• Dynasty Warriors: Origins
• Alien: Rogue Incursion
• Metaphor: ReFantazio

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Last week, we asked you go chasing in-game waterfalls and share your best moments using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:

mariprosilva shares a massive waterfall in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

M_Joe_Hort shares a waterfall with a moose standing before it in Red Dead Redemption 2.

xenobitz strikes a pose in front of a waterfall in Infinity Nikki.

MrioMoreno5 shares walking across a rope in front of waterfalls in Sea of Stars.

call_me_xavii shares Aloy taking a break in front of a rocky waterfall in Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered.

snejku23 shares the light hitting a lost city a top a waterfall in Uncharted: Lost Legacy. 

Search #PSshare #PSBlog on Twitter or Instagram to see more entries to this week’s theme. Want to be featured in the next Share of the Week?

THEME: Climb
SUBMIT BY: 11:59 PM PT on February 5, 2025 

Next week, we’re climbing up. Share characters climbing or ascending to great heights from the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog for a chance to be featured.

Heya PlayStation fans. It’s time to grab your Glider and hop off the Battle Bus as Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 is now here. This Season brings back some of your favorite OG POIs like Shifty Shafts, Junk Junction, and of course, Tilted Towers.

Unleash your inner Fort Knight as Fortnite’s new OG Season will bring back OG loot like the Boogie Bomb, Minigun, and more. Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 starts today and wraps up March 25, 2025. Let’s dive in a little more on what to expect from this blast from the past:

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Revisit your old haunting grounds at these Chapter 1 Season 2 POIs:

Go Full Tilt at Tilted Towers

Ah, Tilted Towers, the concrete jungle…, it’s a beautiful sight with its towering high-rises. This fan-favorite POI is home to Chests, high vantage points, and danger. Not to mention, it’s loot-a-palooza with the slew of apartment complexes and offices. Let’s be honest, we all know you’re gonna drop here first.. And potentially 99 of your opponents.

Find your function at the Junk Junction

A plethora of loot awaits you in this scrapyard paradise, but stay alert— at  Junk Junction, every car stack and rubbish pile could be obscuring a sneaky opponent. Be sure to stop by (or harvest) the iconic Metal Llama on your way out.

Hide or shriek at the Haunted Hills

The dilapidated Haunted Hills lurk just below Junk Junction on the Island. It is full of abandoned tombs, crumbling architecture, and probably creeping opponents, too.

Cause chaos at Snobby Shores

Snobby Shores is the perfect place to be as unneighborly as possible.. Rumor has it there’s an underground bun

Gran Turismo players! This month’s Gran Turismo 7 update delivers a wide range of cars, from the original Gran Turismo F3500-A formula car to the Hyundai IONIQ 5 N ’24. Be sure to experience the next-generation racing AI agent, Gran Turismo Sophy is now available on Autodromo de Interlagos and Mount Panorama Circuit. 

Update 1.55* for Gran Turismo 7 is available as of Wednesday, January 29 at 10:00pm PT / January 30 at 6:00am GMT / 3:00pm JST. 

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*Internet connection and Gran Turismo 7 game required for update. 

4 new cars added this month

Gran Turismo F3500-A 
(Can be purchased from Brand Central)

An original formula car created in the image of classic F1 cars. 

The F3500-A is a Gran Turismo original formula machine born from a deep admiration for early 1990s F1 cars. 

Looking at its construction, the chassis is made from negative molded carbon fiber which was the style at the time. The suspension arrangement also uses a classic layout, featuring horizontally mounted shock absorbers actuated by pushrods and bell cranks. 

The power unit is a light and compact 3.5L naturally aspirated V12. Using pneumatic valves, it can reach 15,000 rpm, and variable length funnels on the intake system ensure ample torque across the rev range. 

The screaming sound of the exhaust at high RPMs is a unique quality of naturally aspirated systems that cannot be recreated with turbochargers. The transmission is a 6-speed semi-automatic box with paddle shifters, which has been mounted laterally to avoid any interference with the shape of the rear diffuser. 

Looking towards the aerodynamics, the monocoque uses a high nose design. Unlike modern front wings which tend to hang down from struts, this one uses an anhedral design where the wing spreads out diagonally from under the nose. There are several different wings, both front and rear, as well as engine cowl shapes available, allowing you to customize the car to your personal tastes.

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Hey everyone, we’re just one day away from bringing the latest epic chapter in the Marvel’s Spider-Man franchise to PC, where you’ll battle as Spider-Men, Peter Parker and Miles Morales, against a rogue’s gallery of iconic Marvel Super Villains, including the monstrous Venom and the ruthless Kraven the Hunter.

With the game launching soon, I’m excited to share more about the awesome new PC-enhanced features the team at Nixxes has been working on.

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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, created by Insomniac in collaboration with Marvel, is a technological and graphical showcase utilizing tools like ray-tracing to bring the city of Marvel’s New York to life. On PC, you’ll encounter a variety of new ray-tracing options with individual quality settings to finetune performance and fidelity across a broad range of hardware configurations. 

Ray-traced reflections quickly catch your eye in the skyscraper-filled city of Marvel’s New York as you swing along its many glass surfaces. Meanwhile, we’re offering ray-traced interiors, shadows, and ambient occlusion options that add an additional layer of believability with realistic shadows and increased depth to the game. 

If you have a high-performance PC with Super Hero-tier hardware, you can take advantage of our increased raytracing geometry detail setting. This enables the use of higher quality meshes for raytracing, resulting in more detailed and realistic reflections. You can also use the raytracing object range slider to increase the range at which objects are considered for raytracing. Furthermore, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC includes NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction¹, which improves raytracing quality on supported hardware. Let me introduce you to Menno Bil, Graphics Programmer at Nixxes, to tell you more about this feature:

“NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction aims to achieve more detailed raytracing features by combining two separate temporal processes in a frame: denoising of the raytracing features and upscaling of the entire frame. By combining these steps, ray reconstruction keeps more useful information over multiple frames to add small details in raytracing effects that can otherwise be lost.

In Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC with ray reconstruction enabled, we see more detailed ray-trac

Today, MLB The Show is excited to announce our new partnership with Homage, a renowned brand in the apparel industry. This MLB The Show x Homage collaboration creates the first officially licensed line of attire for MLB The Show fans to purchase while celebrating the legacy of MLB The Show through Homage’s expertise in quality, culture, and design.*

“Marking the 20th anniversary of MLB The Show is a celebration of baseball’s enduring legacy brought to life through gaming,” says Homage Founder Ryan Vesler. “Collaborating with MLB and Sony to create apparel that honors this milestone is a privilege. Our designs pay tribute to the game’s legacy, blending its innovative spirit with vintage elements that echo the golden era of baseball, uniting generations of fans both on the field and off.”

This special-edition apparel collection honors two decades of MLB The Show’s gameplay experience, and features designs inspired by the game’s past and present. From the excitement of creating your own ballplayer in Road to The Show to reliving some of the sport’s most iconic moments on the field, we look forward to sharing even more design reveals and offerings in the coming months.

We’re excited to share our first t-shirt as the initial drop from the MLB The Show x Homage collection featuring MLB The Show 25’s cover athletes: Paul Skenes, Elly De La Cruz, and Gunnar Henderson. These rising stars represent the bright future of the game and set the stage for even more unique designs to come.

As a sneak peek, we’ve also prepared a little behind-the-scenes imagery and footage of the art process that went into the creation of the MLB The Show x Homage collection. Can you guess which design will be on deck next? 

Be sure to mark your calendars to take a lead on the competition for upcoming drops and subscribe to our social channels on X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, sign up for The Scouting Report, and visit TheShow.com for more details on future offerings including:

• February 2025 – Gameplay “Deep Cuts” Collection
• March 2025 – Player-Inspired Collection**

The MLB The Show x HOMAGE collection’s first offering will be available today, January 29, 2025, at https://homa.ge/MLBTS.

*Currently only available in the U.S.

**Over the course of the season, select player styles will also be available at the official MLB Store NYC, MLB Team Shops, and MLBShop.com after March 18.

Plan the ultimate heist, team up with talkative weaponry then jump and chomp your way through an island adventure with the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup for February! Payday 3, High on Life and Pac-Man World Re-Pac will be available to PlayStation Plus members from February 4*. 

Let’s take a closer look at the games. 

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Payday 3 | PS5 

Revel in the thrill of a perfectly planned and executed heist in this high-octane, co-op FPS experience for up to four players online. Step ou

Starting with tomorrow’s release of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 for PC, we’re working to add more benefits to playing with an account for PlayStation Network. The Last of Us Part II Remastered (coming April 3, 2025), in addition to God of War Ragnarök and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, will all soon be adding in-game content unlocks for PlayStation Network account users.

An account for PlayStation Network will become optional for these titles on PC. Players who still opt to sign into a PlayStation Network account will also enjoy added benefits like trophies and friend management.

Details on new benefits for players who opt to sign in with an account for PlayStation Network:

Game creators at PlayStation Studios will continue to work on bringing more benefits to players who sign up for a PlayStation Network account, so be sure to follow studio channels for more information. You can find more details on account sign-in at our website. 

Thank you to our PlayStation PC fans around the world for your support.

Hello! Today we are releasing one of our biggest updates for No Man’s Sky. We can’t wait for you to see what we’ve been working on.

Last year, we released No Man’s Sky Worlds Part I (5.0) for PS4, PS5, and PS VR2 players, and it was one of our most successful to date. We’ve been planning the changes in Worlds Part II for a long time, and the wait is finally over. 

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One of the biggest reasons people play No Man’s Sky is for that sense of adventure and discovery, that feeling of flying to a planet, and landing to explore, knowing no one has ever been there before. With Worlds Part II, we added billions of new star systems and trillions of new planets to the universe. This allows us to push the boundaries of our engine and technology without changing the things people love about the game already. If you settled on your home planet with a beautiful base that you lovingly crafted, that is safe – but now there are new worlds to explore with a level of variety no one has seen before.

Going to these new systems travelers will notice new terrain, new biomes, new flora, and new fauna. There’s a new terrain system that I’ve been working on for a while now. There are huge mountains to climb, oceans that are kilometers deep to discover, and caverns and canyons at a scale that wasn’t possible before.

In these systems you may even find enormous Gas Giants. These huge worlds can be ten times bigger than any other planet you have explored previously. Gas Giants and deep oceans both require high-level technology to explore. Gas storms, deep sea pressure, and anomalies bring new hazards and challenges to No Man’s Sky.

Water gameplay has much added depth too, including improvements to our submarine, The Nautilus, as well as improvements to fishing and deep sea diving systems. New ocean tech allows water to react physically to the world around it. Dimples appear when it rains and wake appears as ships fly over the surface, and creatures and players can wade through creating waves. 

Our lighting system has been completely rewritten. Shadows show more details, sunlight and ambient occlusion are sharper, and sunlight sparkling th