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The best PlayStation Store Holiday Sale deals you won’t want to miss

We’ve rounded up some of the best PlayStation Store holiday deals, from Alan Wake and Baldur’s Gate to indie gems and more

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The PlayStation Store holiday sale deals have begun, with big discounts on some of the best PS5 games of 2023, old classics, and hidden gems you might’ve missed in a year crammed with releases. There’s a discount for everyone, whether you’ve been waiting for Jedi Survivor or Cyberpunk 2077 to go on sale or want to try out award winners such as Sea of Stars and Alan Wake 2. Red Dead 2 is on sale, as always, and Larian even threw in a little Baldur’s Gate 3 price cut as a treat – emphasis on “little.”

We’ve rounded up some of the best PlayStation Store holiday deals below. The sales are live now through Jan. 17, 2024.

Baldur’s Gate 3 classes ranked from futile to fabulous

Our Baldur’s Gate 3 class rank list lays out which classes give you the most tools to use in the popular RPG and which ones fall short.

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Making a Baldur’s Gate 3 classes rank list is a pretty sizeable ask, not because Larian’s hit PC game has too many to choose from – although things get a bit out of control if you take Baldur’s Gate 3’s subclasses into account – but because you can feasibly make any class work well. Your skill choice and the environment play a substantial part in how well a class functions. Even a powerful wizard falls short if you stack them with garbage magic, but the right combos and party compositions mean even a not-exactly-optimized Warlock can excel.

Some roles give you more to play with than others, though, and lend themselves to better combinations with your team members. Druids are great at running over people as a bear, for example, but Sorcerers can rain fire, ice, and lightning down on entire armies. There’s a clear winner here.

Baldur’s Gate 3 romances ranked from steamy to Stupid Sexy Gale

Our Baldur’s Gate 3 romances ranked list examines how every romance option stacks up, even the one-night stands

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A Baldur’s Gate 3 romances ranked list is one of the tougher things to write about Larian’s hit RPG. It’s so easy to miss a key part of someone’s quest, make the wrong choice, or drive everyone away after you accidentally-on-purpose put a refugee caravan to the sword and destroy a sacred grove. What I experience may not be what you end up seeing, especially if you’re unfortunate enough to run into bugs that cut out important scenes. Most of the relationships in Baldur’s Gate 3 are among the best-written in the genre and worth experiencing at least once – even if you have to reload an older save to avoid making other party members angry.

There are quite a few encounter spoilers in this list, so you may want to scroll down to the Halsin section and avoid them.

If you’re looking for more Baldur’s Gate 3, check out our rankings for the best BG3 spells and BG3 classes while you’re here.

All upcoming video games in 2024 – Final Fantasy, The Last of Us, and more

The list of video games in 2024 is already looking pretty packed, even in just the first few months for PS5, Switch, and Xbox

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The list of video games in 2024 is already looking pretty packed, even in just the first few months. You’ve got remakes, ports, long-awaited new games, and more. The year is frontloaded with Persona 3 remake, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and Dragon’s Dogma 2, with plenty of smaller releases peppered in between, including Unicorn Overlord (it’s a thing) and Eiyuden Chronicle. While most of the games are for PS5 and Switch, some are multiplatform, and there’s plenty of Xbox exclusives slated for launch sometime later in the year.

The best PlayStation Store Black Friday deals

We’ve rounded up the best PlayStation Store Black Friday deals, including Final Fantasy, God of War, Yakuza, and more

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The PlayStation Store Black Friday deals are live, with discounts on some of the best PS5 games old and new. There’s something for pretty much everyone, whether you want to catch up on some modern classics like Final Fantasy 7 Remake or Spider-Man before diving into new sequels or you’re looking for deals on recent hits. Most of the deals we’ve rounded up are for PS5 only, though we’ve noted where games have lower prices on PS4 or work for both systems.

The PlayStation Store Black Friday sales end on Nov. 27, 2023.

The best Black Friday PlayStation deals on Amazon so far

We’ve rounded up the best Black Friday PlayStation deals on Amazon so far, including Final Fantasy, The Last of Us, God of War, and more

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Shopping season is here again, and Amazon is kicking things off early with some hot Black Friday PlayStation deals, including a console bundle complete with Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2. You can grab Square Enix’s dark epic Final Fantasy 16 at a discount, dive into Cal Kestis’ latest Star Wars adventure, take a trip to medieval Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed, or get behind the wheel and go stupidly fast in Hawaii in Ubisoft’s most recent The Crew racing game.

There’s plenty to sink your teeth into, and we’ll be updating this roundup as more deals go live.

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The best Black Friday video game deals at GameStop

GameStop Black Friday deals have begun, with discounts on some of the best Switch games, must-have PS5 games, and a handful of Xbox grabs

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GameStop Black Friday deals have begun, with discounts site-wide on some of the hottest games of 2023, older classics, and even consoles. You’ll find some of the best Switch games, must-have PS5 games, and a handful of good Xbox deals, including several that have the competition at Amazon beat. We’ve rounded up some of the best deals on all platforms below. These are available for shipping or in-store pickup, though bear in mind they’re physical games. These won’t work if you have a digital-only system.

Spider-Man 2 on PS5 is one of PlayStation’s best-selling games

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PS5 became the fastest-selling PlayStation game three days after the Marvel game launched

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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PS5 became the fastest-selling PlayStation game three days after the Marvel game launched. Sony and Insomniac announced that Spider-Man 2 sold over 5 million copies in three days, over 1 million more copies than Super Mario Bros. Wonder in a similar time frame.

“Woo! We’re incredibly honored to announce Marvel’s #SpiderMan2PS5 has sold over 5 MILLION COPIES!” Insomniac said in the announcement. “Thank you to our incredible community for supporting us and helping us reach this milestone! #BeGreaterTogether.”

It probably helps that the buzz around Spider-Man in general remained high since Insomniac re-released Marvel’s Spider-Man on PS5. Between that, Miles Morales, and more than one Spider-Man movie – including the hit Into the Spider-Verse that released earlier in 2023 – the friendly neighborhood Spider-Men have been swinging around in the public consciousness for a while.

Sony also announced that PlayStation has sold over 46 million units since the console first released in 2020, so that’s a pretty big install base. 

2023’s seen its fair share of unexpected, record-breaking sales. Baldur’s Gate 3 sold far more than Larian expected and even crashed Steam for a few hours, and Tears of the Kingdom was on track to outsell Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in the weeks following its release.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

Sony is ending PlayStation Twitter connectivity soon

Sony will no longer let you share game captures between PS5 and Twitter, though you still have the app at your disposal

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Sony will no longer let you share game captures between PS5 and Twitter, though you still have the app at your disposal. The change goes into effect on Nov. 13, 2023 on PS5 and PS4.

“Integration with X (formerly known as Twitter) will no longer function on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles,” Sony said on its support website. “This includes the ability to view any content published on X on PS5/PS4, and the ability to post and view content, trophies, and other gameplay-related activities on X directly from PS5/PS4 (or link an X account to do so).”

Sony didn’t explain why it’s ending connectivity between the platforms, though The Verge speculates it may be tied to increases in Twitter’s API prices. The social media platform includes sharing options and embeds in their package plans for enterprises, which could reportedly cost upwards of $42,000 a month for larger businesses. That seems unlikely, considering you can still share them from the PlayStation Network.

Speculation aside, what that means for you if you liked sharing your PS5 shots on Twitter is that you’ll probably want to start using Sony’s PS App on your phone. You can link the app to your console, and your captures will automatically upload to the PlayStation Cloud, where you can share them with friends on the PSN, transfer to a device, or post on social media.

There’s also the old-fashioned way of just sticking a USB in your console and adding your captures to it.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

Silent Hill 2 may not have a Pyramid Head origin story, thankfully

Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 may not come with a Pyramid Head origin story, and the horror game – and us – are better for it

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Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 remake may not come with a Pyramid Head origin story after all, and the universe is a better place for it. Best Buy’s listing for the horror game includes a bullet point feature that had fans of the horror game feeling concerned. 

“Fan-favourite character Pyramid Head makes a return along with a special origin story for fans to play through,” the Best Buy description reads.

PCGamesN‘s Will Nelson pointed out that the feature point is actually a weird rephrasing of something Masahiro Ito, director of the original Silent Hill 2, said after the remake’s announcement.

“Pyramid Head is coming back,” Ito said at the time. “A new journey for those who know the original, and his origin story for those who know that character. And… the most memorable journey of the man most closely associated with that monster.”

If you’ve played Silent Hill 2, then you probably have a good idea why including a Pyramid Head origin designed to please fans raised some eyebrows. Without spoiling anything, that particular Silent Hill monster‘s existence is tied so closely to protagonist James Sunderland that it makes little sense to even entertain the idea of an origin story. Pyramid Head comes into being at a very spoilery moment before Silent Hill 2 starts, which you figure out at the moment James realizes the truth about the mystery surrounding himself. Maybe Bloober can do something interesting with it, but that story’s already being told in the main game.

Ito even said more than once how displeased he was with the idea of Konami and the makers of later Silent Hill games dragging Pyramid Head back out just to make fans happy. Silent Hill Origins and Homecoming director Tomm Hulett even admitted there wasn’t a “compelling reason” for Pyramid Head to turn up in other stories, but he felt pressured to include the character anyway.

“We had a tough situation because, now, [Pyramid Head] showed up but there wasn’t really a compelling reason for him to show up,” Hulett said in an interview. “Whereas originally, it was like ‘Shut up, Tomm. It’s cool.’ Now it was just kind of like ‘Shut up, Tomm. He shows up.’

I fervently hope the Best Buy listing is just phrased poorly. If Bloober wanted to add some kind of origin tale, there’s a lot more they could do with the lore around Pyramid Head than just drag him back out for an encore. Ito created a whole Silent Hill mythology, with a divine being named Valtiel acting as judge and executioner and various lesser entities, including Pyramid Head, manifesting to carry out its will. Ito had plans for more versions of Valtiel, including new stories that actually, presumably, made sense without Pyramid Head in the picture.

Silent Hill 2 remake will launch for the PS5 sometime in 2024.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF