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The Extended Play promotion, discounting select deluxe and ultimate editions of games as well as season passes and add-ons, comes to PlayStation Store on May 11.
For a limited time*, you can enjoy savings on a multitude of titles, including Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Deluxe Edition (PS4 & PS5, 60% off), Deathloop Deluxe Edition (PS5, 50% off), NBA 2K22 Cross-Gen Digital Bundle (PS4 & PS5, 71% off).
Check out the full list of titles that will be discounted below, then head over to PlayStation Store when the promotion begins to find out your savings.
Check out the full list of titles that will be discounted below, then head over to PlayStation Store when the promotion begins to find out your savings.
- 100,000 Red Orbs
- 5-Coin Set & Madhouse Mode Unlock
- 8-Bit Armies – Deluxe Edition
- 8-Bit Hordes – Deluxe Edition
- 8-Bit Invaders! – Deluxe Edition
- 8-Bit RTS Series – Complete Collection
- A Fisherman’s Tale – Deluxe Edition
- A Fisherman’s Tale – Deluxe Upgrade
- Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown – Season Pass
- Aces of the Luftwaffe: Squadron – Extended Edition
- Aces of the Luftwaffe: Squadron – Nebelgeschwader
- Adam’s Venture: Origins – Deluxe Edition
- AereA – Deluxe Edition
- After the Fall Deluxe Edition
- Age of Wonders: Planetfall – Premium Edition
- Age of Wonders: Planetfall – Season Pass
- Agents of Mayhem – Legal Action Pending DLC: Day One Edition
- Agents of Mayhem – Legal Action Pending: Retail Edition
- Agents of Mayhem – Bombshells Skins Pack
- Agents of Mayhem – Carnage a Trois Skins Pack
- Agents of Mayhem – Firing Squad Skins Pack
- Agents of Mayhem – Johnny Gat Agent Pack
- Agents of Mayhem – Lazarus Agent Pack
- Agents of Mayhem – Legal Action Pending DLC: Digital Edition
- Agents of Mayhem – Safeword Agent Pack
- Alcatraz
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite Deluxe Edition (Cold Iron)
- All in One Family Games
- Alt Hero Colors
- Alt Heroine Colors
- Anime Pack
- ANNO: Mutationem Collector’s Edition
- Aragami – Nightfall
- Arizona Sunshine® – Deluxe Edition
- Arizona Sunshine® – Deluxe Upgrade
- Assassin’s Creed Antiquity Pack
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – Gold Edition
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – Season Pass
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – The Fate of Atlantis
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Legacy of the First Blade
- Assassin’s Creed Origins – The Curse of the Pharaohs
- Assassin’s Creed Origins – The Hidden Ones
- Assassin’s Creed Syndicate – Gold Edition
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Deluxe PS4 & PS5
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla PS4 & PS5
- Assassin’s Creed® Valhalla – Season Pass
- Assetto Corsa – Ultimate Edition
- Asterius & Asterius Picaro Set
- Attack Coin &#
Stand toe-to-toe with Godzilla and Kong in Call of Duty: Warzone during the limited-time Operation Monarch mode and event. Operation Monarch is a true celebration of the Monsterverse and Godzilla vs. Kong within Call of Duty. Evade Godzilla’s Heat Ray Breath and Kong’s smashing fits while striving to be the last team standing.
Operation Monarch is live on PlayStation from May 11 through May 25. Will you survive the onslaught, or succumb to their Titan fury?
Meet the Titans: Godzilla and Kong
While classified as Protector Titans, Godzilla and Kong are capable of unparalleled wrath when provoked. When either one becomes enraged, it’s best to know what you’re up against. Here’s what we know:
Godzilla
- Monarch Designation: Godzilla
- Scientific Classification: Titanus Gojira
- Height: 393 Feet
- Known Attacks: Heat Ray Breath, Tail Swipe, Dorsal Slice
- Tail Length: 582 Feet
- Top Tail Swipe Speed: 89 MPH
- Underwater Cruising Speed: 40-50 Knots
- Volume of Roar: Up to 174 dB
- Blood Volume: 530,000 Gallons
- Tensile Strength of Bone: 3,000 MPa (Megapascal)
- Heat Ray Energy Yield: 315 Trillion Joules
The King of the Monsters has risen from the darkest depths of the ocean to unleash his devastating breath and thunderous roar on unsuspecting shores. His Heat Ray Breath appears as several red circles on your minimap after it lights up Godzilla’s scales with an icy-blue glow. It’s best to avoid his line of fire; those who end up in its destructive path have mere seconds to evade the attack.
Kong
- Monarch Designation: Kong
- Scientific Classification: Titanus Kong
- Height: 337 Feet
- Known Attacks: Q
The competitive MLB The Show 22 esports season begins with the Summer Circuit.
With an updated format, a new platform to play on, and additional chances to win, there are more reasons than ever to test your skills and show off your Diamond Dynasty squad. The Summer Circuit gives eligible players* a shot to win millions of StubsTM, a share of the $25,000 prize pool, autographed Shohei Ohtani items, and more.
Sign up today and play ball!
Summer Circuit
The competitive cross-platform MLB The Show 22 Summer Circuit is available to those 13+ in the U.S. and Canada, across all PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch platforms. This year, the Summer Circuit has four open qualifiers. The top 16 players who qualify from each qualifier will later compete in the Grand Finals for $25,000 in total cash prizing and more.
Those who don’t place in the top 16 on their first entry can try again in any of the remaining Qualifiers.
Schedule:
- Qualifier 1: May 21-22
- Qualifier 2: May 28-29
- Qualifier 3: June 4-5
- Qualifier 4: June 11-12
- Finals: June 18-19
Sign up now for the Summer Circuit
On Day One of each Summer Circuit Qualifier, all players will compete in an open ladder format. Competitors can queue up at any time within an eight-hour window, but must complete six three-inning games for their score to count. Each win earns a player a point and each loss loses a player a point. The top 64 players (plus ties) will move on to Day Two.
On Day Two, the top 64 players (plus ties) will compete in a single-elimination bracket playing nine-inning games. Every player who reaches Day 2 will receive at least 11,000 MLB The Show Stubs.
Open Qualifier Prizes:
- 1st Place: 1,050,000 MLB The Show 22 Stubs
- 2nd Place: 600,000 MLB The Show 22 Stubs
- 3rd – 4th Place: 300,000 MLB The Show 22 Stubs
- 5th – 8th Place: 150,000 MLB The Show 22 Stubs
- 9th – 16th Place: 67,500 MLB The Show 22 Stubs
- 17th – 32nd Place: 24,000 MLB The Show 22 Stubs
- 33rd – 64th Place: 11,000 MLB The Show 22 Stubs
- Every player who finishes the minimum number of games (6) will receive 11,000 Stubs, win or lose.
The Grand Finals will take place from June 18-19. Day One will feature a single-elimination bracket format with the top 64 players from the four Open Qualifiers.
On Day Two, watch the final four competitors play on the San Diego Studio Twitch chan
Just over a month ago, we ran our first public network test of Salt and Sacrifice. Shane and I had been working on the game for over two years by that point, and our multiplayer tests had usually run small: a handful of folks, mostly the two of us throwing together different builds and making sure the networking didn’t explode.
But as any Soulslike fan will tell you, there’s more to multiplayer than the base functionality. The real fun comes from that special something you get at scale–when communities form, languages develop, and players dueling each other goes from mechanical to straight-up magical.
Shane and I are obviously both long-time Soulslike fans, and knew that particular brand of magic–the hasty alliances with strangers, the odd gestures, the dedication to fashion over function, the new weapon combos and strategies resulting from hours of investment towards different build paths–wasn’t something we’d likely find in the midst of development. Even with hundreds of hours of internal testing, we were still only playing with the same handful of people each time. So this network test, while also a fantastic source of information on balance, flow, matchmaking, and technical issues, was also the very first time we could legitimately engage in online antics with random folks. In other words: finally experience that Soulslike magic we’d been building up to since we started work on the game.
And experience it we did.
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This week the team reminisces about Arkham Asylum and looks back at the stacked releases of 2009.
Stuff We Talked About
- Evil Dead: The Game
- Trek to Yomi
- Soundfall
- Listener letters share some favorite easter eggs
- The Arkham series
- More 2009 games!
The Cast
Sid Shuman – Senior Director of Content Communications, SIE
Tim Turi – Manager, Content Communications, SIE
Last week we asked to see your best moments bathed in the color yellow using #PSshare #PSBlog. From sun-drenched portraits to flying sparks, here are this week’s highlights:
pavesoint lines up some yellow luxury cars in Gran Turismo 7.
coalabr14 shares the sun-soaked silhouette of Jin in Ghost of Tsushima.
mett981 shares Rivet with a gleaming Gold Bolt in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
imroyank shares Aloy taking a break to lay in the sun in Horizon Forbidden West.
crisg_art shares sparks and flares flying around Selene in Returnal.
YusufSwikeer takes a shot at an cyclops in Immortals Fenyx Rising.
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: In Bloom
SUBMIT BY: 11:59 PM PT on May 11, 2022
Next week, stop and smell the in-game flowers. Share landscapes and fields in bloom from the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog for a chance to be featured.
Hello! I’m one of the developers who made Unpacking, a game about taking someone’s items out of boxes and learning about that person’s life in the process. People often describe the game as feeling very personal, and we think it is, but personal can mean different things.
The items are personal to our main character, and let you learn about her and watch her develop over the course of the game. The items often have a personal connection to you, the player, as you encounter things that remind you of your own life or those people you know. And the items are personal to us, the developers, because part of making this game involved drawing on our own experiences and finding ways to add small details where we could.
Alarm Clock
The fun thing about this alarm clock is it’s blank until you find a valid place for it, then it’ll flash “12:00”. If you interact with the clock, you can set the time, which is the time in the stage—you’ll see it change along with the lighting outside the window as you unpack the remaining boxes.
If you move the clock again, the display goes blank, then goes back to blinking “12:00” when you set it down. Alarm clocks like this often use a battery backup so they don’t lose the time during short power outages, but I had one when I was younger and forgot to put a battery in it, so it behaved just like the one in game. Realism!
Dragon Plush Toy
When I was seventeen, I thought it would be a good idea to start a webcomic about a bunch of young dragons living in a forest. It ran for over five years and two thousand comic strips. While it never got particularly popular and it’s not online anymore, the characters remain near and dear to my heart, so it meant a lot that one of the main characters makes a cameo in Unpacking in plush toy form!
Colour Pencils
This set of colour pencils in a tin tray arrives alongside other art supplies, books and evidence of the protagonist’s blossoming pursuit of the visual arts, but for me they’re a reminder of a set of similar colour pencils I received when I was a kid.
I don’t remember exactly what age I was when I got them, I just remember they were my treasure and were labeled with something like “professional artist pencils” or something s
Greetings, brave astronauts! We are super excited to share some early details of our new title, the cinematic adventure game Deliver Us Mars, which will be coming soon to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.
As a studio we’ve truly been on an incredible journey these past few years and we’re pleased that so many of you took our debut game, 2019’s Deliver Us The Moon, into your hearts. We always knew that our next game had to be bigger and bolder than what had come before. The scale of our ambition as a team is constantly growing, spurred on and inspired by some of the most memorable games to come to PlayStation over the last decade – not least Naughty Dog’s masterpiece, The Last of Us Part II.
For the past several years, our team at Keoken has quietly been hand-crafting Deliver Us Mars to combine the grandeur of a save-the-world sci-fi epic with a personal story and heartfelt motivations. We wanted to pick a setting for our game that reflects our lofty goals for the project. In our own reality, humanity faces huge challenges in the face of climate change. As the space agencies (and some wealthy individuals) have well and truly turned their eyes to Mars, so too have we.
In Deliver Us Mars, which is set ten years after the Fortuna mission in Deliver Us The Moon, humanity is closer than ever to extinction. As part of the crew of the Zephyr, your protagonist’s goal is to retrieve three stolen colony ships from the Red Planet, in order to ensure the continued survival of the human race on Earth. Players will explore Mars as they uncover the origins of a mysterious distress signal that led the crew there.
This next level of storytelling demanded that we take the series to new frontiers. For the first time, we have a fully motion-captured cast to enhance the emotional impact of the story, and we’re giving players new and improved gameplay mechanics including a whole traversal system, inspired by PlayStation classics like Tomb Raider and Uncharted. On top of all of that, we’ll be offering truly next-gen visual fidelity with the support of real-time ray traced shadows and reflections on the PS5.
Mars is the next frontier, an unexplo
In Soundfall, you play as one of five musical heroes transported to a far-off world to defend music itself from the forces of Discord.
Soundfall is a rhythm-based twin-stick shooter that is procedurally generated to music. Players are thrust into a familiar control setup and visual, that of a top-down hack-and-slash, with one huge twist: actions performed on the beat are way more powerful. Lose the beat, and you lose power.
The result is equal parts frantic and meditative, as players find a balance between keeping track of their enemies and acting in time with the music in a world that grooves and bounces to that same music.
Sound on for this gameplay clip
Soundfall’s heroes–Melody, Jaxon, Lydia, Brite and Ky–are musical geniuses from Earth, transported to Symphonia, the World of Music, via the mysterious Soundfall. Each character has their own special attack and ultimate ability tied to their personal Instrument of Harmony–ancient musical weapons capable of beating back the forces of Discord.
That won’t be an easy task, even for the five of them. The forces of Discord are led by Banshee, Discord’s most cunning lieutenant, and she brings with her a terrifying assortment of Discordians, evil creatures bent on wrecking music wherever they find it. Players will have to defeat the Discordians in each world before music can be saved.
While all of Soundfall can be played solo, with five characters, co-op options are extensive. Soundfall offers remote and couch co-op, and the entire game can be played cooperatively, from the campaign to the free-play mode.
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