(For Southeast Asia) PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for April: Hogwarts Legacy, Blue Prince, the second episode of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and more

(For Southeast Asia) PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for April: Hogwarts Legacy, Blue Prince, the second episode of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and more

(For Southeast Asia) PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for April: Hogwarts Legacy, Blue Prince, the second episode of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and more https://ift.tt/RJjx3ML

Have you been eagerly awaiting your acceptance letter to Hogwarts? This month, you can finally step into the magical world of the wizarding school and its spellbinding surroundings with Hogwarts Legacy.

Or, you could investigate a mysterious shifting manor filled with puzzles in Blue Prince, continue the nostalgic narrative adventure of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage with Tape 2, or golf your heart away in EA Sports PGA Tour.

There’s plenty to choose from in April’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup*. Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2 and Blue Prince are both releasing day one into Game Catalog, with Blue Prince available to play April 10, and Bloom & Rage Tape 2 available April 15. EA Sports PGA Tour will also be playable April 11, while all other titles will be playable from April 15.

Meanwhile, PlayStation Plus Deluxe welcomes survival horror Alone in the Dark 2 from the original PlayStation and PS2’s kaiju-filled fighting brawler War of the Monsters.

PlayStation Plus Extra and Deluxe | Game Catalog

Hogwarts Legacy | PS4, PS5

Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. Embark on a journey through familiar and new locations as you explore and discover magical beasts, customize your character and craft potions, master spell casting, upgrade talents and become the wizard you want to be. Experience Hogwarts in the 1800s. Your character is a student who holds the key to an ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart. Discover the feeling of living at Hogwarts as you make allies, battle Dark Wizards and ultimately decide the fate of the wizarding world. Your legacy is what you make of it. 

Blue Prince | PS5

Welcome to Mt. Holly, the mysterious manor with shifting rooms. In Blue Prince, you embark on a genre-defying experience, filled with a unique mix of mystery, strategy, and puzzles that weave together to create an unpredictable journey. As the heir of Mt. Holly, you have been tasked to explore its shifting halls in search of Room 46. Yet as your journey takes you further into the mansion’s depths, you start to discover that there is more lurking under the surface than a missing room. Investigate a past woven with the threads of blackmail, political intrigue, and the mysterious disappearance of a local children’s book author. The deeper you venture, the more you realize that the past is closer than it appears.

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage – Tape 2 | PS5

Dontnod’s latest narrative adventure takes you to a picturesque corner of Michigan in 1995, where lies the seemingly sleepy little town of Velvet Cove. Between dense woodlands and serene lakes, it’s a place where beauty meets the bizarre. The first episode, titled Bloom, was included in the Game Catalog in February. This new episode, titled Rage, continues and concludes the sisterhood’s adventure. As the story unfolds, the bonds forged through their growing friendship, their punk band, and the unexplained event that forever changed their lives are put to the ultimate test. Navigate between dual timelines – 1995 and 2022 – to uncover the life-changing secrets they discovered back then and understand why they’re reuniting now, after all these years. Together, they must confront the fateful memories that have eluded them for the past 27 years.

EA Sports PGA Tour | PS5

The exclusive home of the Majors, EA Sports PGA Tour features Pure Strike for superior golf gameplay and unrivaled access to the world’s most exclusive golf courses. As your golf game improves, so does your path to becoming a Major champion. Create and customize a golfer, develop your skill set with new Shot Types, gain deeper course knowledge as you play, and learn to attack every hole like a pro. The tee is yours at 30 courses, including some of the world’s most exclusive, designed in stunning quality with Frostbite so you can enjoy more of golf’s finer details than ever before.

Battlefield 1 | PS4

Experience the dawn of all-out war in Battlefield 1. Fight your way through epic battles ranging from tight urban combat in a besieged French city to the heavily defended mountain forts in the Italian Alps or frantic combats in the deserts of Arabia. Discover a world at war through an adventure-filled campaign, or join in epic multiplayer battles with up to 64 players, and adapt your tactics to the earth-shattering destruction and dynamic weather. Fight as infantry, lead horse charges or take control of amazing vehicles on land, air and sea, from tanks and biplanes to the gigantic Behemoths – some of the largest vehicles in Battlefield history.

PlateUp! | PS4, PS5

PlateUp! combines chaotic kitchen and restaurant management with strategic planning and development to create a delightful roguelite dish unlike any other. Up to four players build and run a restaurant from scratch, choosing dishes, buying and placing appliances – some of which can be daisy-chained together to create ambitious automatic kitchens – cooking food and serving customers. Players have free rein to design their restaurant which will expand and develop between shifts – with additional content and challenges unlocked through progression. Equip your restaurant to handle the most fickle of customers and deliver them what they need, right when they need it.

PlayStation Plus Deluxe

Alone in the Dark 2 | PS4, PS5

The sequel to the critically acclaimed Alone in the Dark has Edward Carnby dive into another mystery.

War of the Monsters | PS4, PS5

Giant monsters have stormed the planet, and they’re fighting each other for supremacy. In War of the Monsters, choose your own mutant brute (or armored robot, or giant lava beast) then battle it out across 13 destructible battlegrounds. This PlayStation 2 classic from 2003 looks stunning in HD and features full trophy support – including an all-important platinum. 

Because this title does not support PlayStation 2 peripherals, there may be times where the game plays differently to the original, or where some features may not be available.

*PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and PlayStation Plus Deluxe lineups may differ by region. Please check PlayStation Store on release day.


Like many businesses around the world, we continue to be impacted by global market conditions and will be adjusting our local prices for PlayStation Plus. This price adjustment will enable us to continue bringing high-quality games and value-added benefits to your PlayStation Plus subscription service.

Starting on April 16, 2025, PlayStation Plus subscription prices will change to the following in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia

PlayStation Plus Essential

  • 1 Month Subscription: SGD 10.90 | RM 35 | THB 270 | Rp 126,000
  • 3-Month Subscription: SGD 28.90 | RM 95 | THB 720 | Rp 331,000
  • 12-Month Subscription: SGD 88.90 | RM 285 | THB 2,200 | Rp 1,010,000

PlayStation Plus Extra

  • 1 Month Subscription: SGD 15.90 | RM 55 | THB 410 | Rp 189,000
  • 3-Month Subscription: SGD 44.90 | RM 155 | THB 1,170 | Rp 536,000
  • 12-Month Subscription: SGD 142.90 | RM 490 | THB 3,720 | Rp 1,710,000

PlayStation Plus Deluxe

  • 1 Month Subscription: SGD 18.90 | RM 65 | THB 480 | Rp 221,000
  • 3-Month Subscription: SGD 53.90 | RM 185 | THB 1,380 | Rp 632,000
  • 12-Month Subscription: SGD 169.90 | RM 575 | THB 4,350 | Rp 1,990,000

For current subscribers, the price change will not take effect until your next billing date that occurs on or after June 24. However, any membership changes you make on or after April 16, such as upgrades, downgrades or adding additional time, will reflect the new prices.  You can change or cancel your subscription at any time. For more information: https://www.playstation.com/support/subscriptions/cancel-playstation-plus/.

Days Gone Remastered: a closer look at the Horde Assault mode’s survival-arcade action

Days Gone Remastered: a closer look at the Horde Assault mode’s survival-arcade action

Days Gone Remastered: a closer look at the Horde Assault mode’s survival-arcade action https://ift.tt/PjE1fQG

Days Gone Remastered comes to PlayStation 5 on April 25. Experience the definitive version of Days Gone with new modes, features, and technical enhancements to leverage the PS5 and PS5 Pro consoles. The new game modes including Horde Assault, Permadeath, and Speedrun also arrive on PC via the Broken Road DLC. Whether you’re visiting Days Gone for the first time or jumping back on the Drifter bike, there’s plenty of content to explore and new things to discover. If you haven’t already, be sure to read our Days Gone Remastered announcement blog for more details on all the new content and features. 

Introducing one of our most expansive new additions to Days Gone Remastered, Horde Assault – a survival arcade mode. Before we dive in, watch the gameplay trailer for the new mode below. 

Days Gone Remastered: a closer look at the Horde Assault mode’s survival-arcade action

What is Horde Assault mode? 

Horde Assault offers fresh and unexpected gameplay designed to challenge your skills as you try to achieve a high score, while surviving as long as possible against increased horde sizes and various other enemies, like Breakers, Reachers, and Rager bears, oh my! Fight your way through a brutal, ever-changing landscape where enemies escalate in difficulty the longer you survive. Horde Assault was built from the promise of “This World Comes For You,” showcasing the core gameplay of the Days Gone open world in a unique way. Horde Assault is your playground for a truly endless game mode, go show them Freakers who’s boss. 

Begin Horde Assault by dropping into Cascade with only a sidearm weapon at your disposal. Fight your way through the initial assault of Freakers to reach your Drifter bike, a valuable tool to traverse the open region. Seek out Supply Boxes scattered around the map to obtain powerful weapons to greatly increase your chance at survival. With more than 20 available weapons to use, including a new flamethrower not offered in Story mode, finding a Supply Box could be life or death when encountering the next horde. What weapons drop from each Supply Box is random and will reset upon each new start.  

While you’re out there fighting for your life (literally) refill your resources and earn additional XP by completing Side Jobs. These mini objectives are critical for keeping you in the fight. Running out of ammo with up to 800 Freakers chasing you, is not ideal. We did say there are increased hordes… Of course, we couldn’t make it that easy for you. Should you make it to 30 minutes of survival time in any map, you will be treated to the Ultimate Horde. A never-ending horde fight in a relentless approach to hunt you down. We’ll stop explaining it any further and let you experience it firsthand.  

Survive 

Move up in level to earn in-mode rewards with never-before-playable characters, new patch cosmetics, and unique Injectors on offer to greatly impact your gameplay experience.  

Speaking of Injectors, players of Days Gone will already be familiar with the benefits of Injectors from the main story. This idea carries over to Horde Assault, but now with a big uplift to drastically change gameplay in the form of modifiers. During your journey to Legendary Survivor, you can earn a total of 24 unique Injectors – 12 Positive and 12 Negative. Positive Injectors provide a positive boost to your score but increase the challenge. Negative Injectors provide a penalty to your score but increases your chance of survival with gameplay benefits. 

We don’t want to spoil the full list, but let’s spotlight a couple Injectors to give you a sneak peek what they have to offer. 

  • Exploding Freakers – Upon death Freakers will explode. You need any advantage you can get when facing increased horde sizes and this Injector is a unique way to trim its numbers.
  • Wanted – Start at maximum heat level. In Horde Assault, the longer you survive the more difficult your survival chances become. With this Injector, that escalation difficulty system begins immediately proving to be a real challenge that only the strongest will survive.   

During your time with Horde Assault, you will progress through a Reward path. The Reward path consists of 35 levels to achieve with each level earning you a reward including Injectors, character skins, and patch cosmetics. With the inclusion of Rewards, an additional six never-before-playable characters from Days Gone joins the roster including O’Brian, Lisa, fan-favorite Skizzo, and more. 

Patches make a return from players who are familiar with the Challenges we released in 2019. This time, the patches serve as purely cosmetic on Deacon’s cut to show off to your friends. That Enhanced Photo Mode will come in handy here. Once you earn the patches, they will carry over to the story as well. In addition to the Reward path, there are bonus rewards in the Reputation Phase, beating the target score in all four regions. We don’t want to reveal this right away, but one of the rewards is a highly requested item our players have been asking for. Hint: It has to do with your bike.  

Horde Assault is treated as end game content, though it is playable as soon as you boot up Days Gone Remastered. We encourage newcomers to get a handle on the combat and mechanics first by visiting the story, but nothing is stopping you from jumping right into the action to encounter the uniqueness of Days Gone, the hordes. Horde Assault will offer an additional 10 hours of gameplay packed on top of a content filled package that we hope will bring you plenty of enjoyment in the world of Days Gone. 

When and where can you play Horde Assault 

Horde Assault is available April 25, 2025 on PS5 with Days Gone Remastered as well as on PC with the Broken Road DLC. 

Days Gone Remastered is available to pre-order today on PlayStation Store. For players that have purchased Days Gone on PlayStation 4, you can upgrade to Days Gone Remastered including all new content and features for $10 USD. * 

Add Days Gone Broken Road DLC to your wishlist today on Steam and Epic Games Store.

We can’t wait for you to experience all the new content and features or relive the epic story of Deacon St. John once again.

*Price shown in U.S. currency and may vary by country. Check PS Store at launch for local pricing. Owners of the PS4 disc copies must insert them into their PS5 every time they want to download or play the PS5 digital version. PS4 game disc owners who buy the PS5 Digital Edition disc-free console will not be able to get the PS5 version for the discounted price. PS4 game redemptions via PlayStation Plus are not eligible for upgrade.

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for April: Hogwarts Legacy, Blue Prince, the second episode of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and more

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for April: Hogwarts Legacy, Blue Prince, the second episode of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and more

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for April: Hogwarts Legacy, Blue Prince, the second episode of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and more https://ift.tt/RJjx3ML

Have you been eagerly awaiting your acceptance letter to Hogwarts? This month, you can finally step into the magical world of the wizarding school and its spellbinding surroundings with Hogwarts Legacy.

Or, you could investigate a mysterious shifting manor filled with puzzles in Blue Prince, continue the nostalgic narrative adventure of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage with Tape 2, or golf your heart away in EA Sports PGA Tour.

There’s plenty to choose from in April’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup*. Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2 and Blue Prince are both releasing day one into Game Catalog, with Blue Prince available to play April 10, and Bloom & Rage Tape 2 available April 15. EA Sports PGA Tour will also be playable April 10, while all other titles will be playable from April 15.

Meanwhile, PlayStation Plus Premium welcomes survival horror Alone in the Dark 2 from the original PlayStation and PS2’s kaiju-filled fighting brawler War of the Monsters.

PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium | Game Catalog

Hogwarts Legacy | PS4, PS5

Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. Embark on a journey through familiar and new locations as you explore and discover magical beasts, customize your character and craft potions, master spell casting, upgrade talents and become the wizard you want to be. Experience Hogwarts in the 1800s. Your character is a student who holds the key to an ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart. Discover the feeling of living at Hogwarts as you make allies, battle Dark Wizards and ultimately decide the fate of the wizarding world. Your legacy is what you make of it. 

Blue Prince | PS5

Welcome to Mt. Holly, the mysterious manor with shifting rooms. In Blue Prince, you embark on a genre-defying experience, filled with a unique mix of mystery, strategy, and puzzles that weave together to create an unpredictable journey. As the heir of Mt. Holly, you have been tasked to explore its shifting halls in search of Room 46. Yet as your journey takes you further into the mansion’s depths, you start to discover that there is more lurking under the surface than a missing room. Investigate a past woven with the threads of blackmail, political intrigue, and the mysterious disappearance of a local children’s book author. The deeper you venture, the more you realize that the past is closer than it appears.

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage – Tape 2 | PS5

Dontnod’s latest narrative adventure takes you to a picturesque corner of Michigan in 1995, where lies the seemingly sleepy little town of Velvet Cove. Between dense woodlands and serene lakes, it’s a place where beauty meets the bizarre. The first episode, titled Bloom, was included in the Game Catalog in February. This new episode, titled Rage, continues and concludes the sisterhood’s adventure. As the story unfolds, the bonds forged through their growing friendship, their punk band, and the unexplained event that forever changed their lives are put to the ultimate test. Navigate between dual timelines – 1995 and 2022 – to uncover the life-changing secrets they discovered back then and understand why they’re reuniting now, after all these years. Together, they must confront the fateful memories that have eluded them for the past 27 years.

EA Sports PGA Tour | PS5

The exclusive home of the Majors, EA Sports PGA Tour features Pure Strike for superior golf gameplay and unrivaled access to the world’s most exclusive golf courses. As your golf game improves, so does your path to becoming a Major champion. Create and customize a golfer, develop your skill set with new Shot Types, gain deeper course knowledge as you play, and learn to attack every hole like a pro. The tee is yours at 30 courses, including some of the world’s most exclusive, designed in stunning quality with Frostbite so you can enjoy more of golf’s finer details than ever before.

Battlefield 1 | PS4

Experience the dawn of all-out war in Battlefield 1. Fight your way through epic battles ranging from tight urban combat in a besieged French city to the heavily defended mountain forts in the Italian Alps or frantic combats in the deserts of Arabia. Discover a world at war through an adventure-filled campaign, or join in epic multiplayer battles with up to 64 players, and adapt your tactics to the earth-shattering destruction and dynamic weather. Fight as infantry, lead horse charges or take control of amazing vehicles on land, air and sea, from tanks and biplanes to the gigantic Behemoths – some of the largest vehicles in Battlefield history.

PlateUp! | PS4, PS5

PlateUp! combines chaotic kitchen and restaurant management with strategic planning and development to create a delightful roguelite dish unlike any other. Up to four players build and run a restaurant from scratch, choosing dishes, buying and placing appliances – some of which can be daisy-chained together to create ambitious automatic kitchens – cooking food and serving customers. Players have free rein to design their restaurant which will expand and develop between shifts – with additional content and challenges unlocked through progression. Equip your restaurant to handle the most fickle of customers and deliver them what they need, right when they need it.

PlayStation Plus Premium

Alone in the Dark 2 | PS4, PS5

The sequel to the critically acclaimed Alone in the Dark has Edward Carnby dive into another mystery. This classic survival horror-game, initially released in 1993 on the original PlayStation, is playable on PS5 for the first time.

War of the Monsters | PS4, PS5

Giant monsters have stormed the planet, and they’re fighting each other for supremacy. In War of the Monsters, choose your own mutant brute (or armored robot, or giant lava beast) then battle it out across 13 destructible battlegrounds. This PlayStation 2 classic from 2003 looks stunning in HD and features full trophy support – including an all-important platinum. 

Because this title does not support PlayStation 2 peripherals, there may be times where the game plays differently to the original, or where some features may not be available.

*PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and PlayStation Plus Premium/Deluxe lineups may differ by region. Please check PlayStation Store on release day.

PlayStation Portal remote player system update releases today with Cloud Game Streaming Beta UX enhancements 

PlayStation Portal remote player system update releases today with Cloud Game Streaming Beta UX enhancements 

PlayStation Portal remote player system update releases today with Cloud Game Streaming Beta UX enhancements  https://ift.tt/Z3u2kny

Today, we have an announcement for our fellow gamers on PlayStation Portal remote player.

As we continue to improve user experience based on community feedback, we are releasing a new system software update for PS Portal starting later today, which will add a few new features to improve your gaming experience while using Cloud Game Streaming Beta.

As a reminder – Cloud Streaming (Beta) is an option for PlayStation Plus Premium members to play games via cloud streaming on PS Portal, allowing select PS5 games in the PlayStation Plus Catalog* to be streamed directly from our servers, even without a PS5 console. Since Cloud Streaming (Beta) on PS Portal is still an experimental offering, the features available during the beta period may change over time and may not reflect the final experience. For more details, visit here.

Without further ado, here are the new features added in this update:

Sort

You can now sort games in the Cloud Streaming (Beta) catalog screen. There will be a new sort icon added to the top left corner, allowing you to sort games by: Recently added to PS Plus (default), Name, and Release date.

UI of PlayStation Portal remote player showing the Cloud Streaming (Beta) catalog

Capture gameplay

The Create button on your PS Portal will now be enabled during a Cloud Streaming (Beta) session. Here is what you can do:

  • Press once: Display the create menu
  • Press and hold: Take a screenshot
  • Press twice: Start/finish recording a video clip**

Images and videos captured during a streaming session will be automatically uploaded to the cloud server, which can be accessed from the PlayStation App by selecting [Library] > [Captures]. Your captures will be stored for 14 days after they were created. 

UI of PlayStation Portal remote player showing the create menu

Queue

You can now wait for your turn to play when the streaming server is full. The estimated wait time will be displayed on screen, and the game session will automatically start as soon as it’s your turn.

UI of PlayStation Portal remote player showing the Queue screen

Pause

During a Cloud Streaming (Beta) game session, gameplay will now pause in the following situations:

  • Gameplay will pause when you open the PS Portal quick menu. You can open the quick menu by pressing the PS button, swiping left from the top right corner of your screen, or tapping the quick menu icon from the status bar.
  • When you press the power button once, PS Portal will be put into rest mode and the game will be paused. You can un-pause and get back to your game play by pressing the power button again. If PS Portal remains in rest mode for more than 15 seconds, the cloud streaming session will be disconnected.
  • Gameplay will also pause when a system error message is displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Note that the pause feature will not be supported in some cases, such as during an online multiplay session.

Notification of inactivity

You will now receive a system notification when your streaming session is about to close due to inactivity of over 10 minutes.

UI of PlayStation Portal remote player showing the notification of inactivity

User feedback screen

We have added a user feedback screen at the end of the streaming sessions to rate the quality of your streaming experience. This will help us identify what went well or could be improved, as we continue to enhance the quality of our service.

UI of PlayStation Portal remote player showing the user feedback screen

Thanks to the support and feedback from our player as we continue to add new features to further enhance the PS Portal experience, including support for select public Wi-Fi networks, which we launched last year. We hope you enjoy the new beta features – your feedback is essential for us to evolve the streaming game experience even further, and we look forward to hearing what you think!

*Includes select PS5 games in the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Classics Catalog. Titles available in the PlayStation Plus Catalog vary over time, region/country and plan. See https://www.playstation.com/Plus for details and updates on PlayStation Plus offerings. PlayStation Plus is an ongoing subscription subject to a recurring subscription fee taken automatically (at the then-current PS Store price) at the frequency you choose at purchase until cancellation. Terms apply: play.st/psplus-usageterms

**Video clips up to 1920×1080 in resolution and up to 3 minutes in duration are supported.

A tour of Blue Prince’s shifting rooms, available April 10 with PlayStation Plus Game Catalog

A tour of Blue Prince’s shifting rooms, available April 10 with PlayStation Plus Game Catalog

A tour of Blue Prince’s shifting rooms, available April 10 with PlayStation Plus Game Catalog https://ift.tt/1iNe9MS

If you have ever found yourself in an unfamiliar room, staring at a closed door and wondering what lies beyond it, then you are already familiar with the mysterious driving force of Blue Prince. Will this door lead to a twisting passageway? A quiet bedroom? Or a grand ballroom?

My name is Tonda Ros, an indie developer with a love for atmospheric games, and for the last eight years, I have been working on a game about a large manor and its many mysterious doors. Blue Prince was formed from big ideas from very different worlds. It has elements of mystery, strategy and discovery, merging the world of a first-person puzzle adventure with the drafting mechanics of a tabletop card game. It also launches April 10 as a day one PlayStation Plus Game Catalog title.

But how exactly does the game work?

Floor plan drafting 

When my own journey began almost a decade ago, I had one simple idea: “Every door is a choice.” In a way, these five words sum up the entirety of Blue Prince. The estate of Mount Holly is not an ordinary house. This is a manor of shifting rooms and ever-changing expectations. And in this house, each door you open can lead to one of three different rooms. The choice is up to you. 

Do you want a storeroom to gain useful tools? A library to search for more clues? Or perhaps simply a long hallway, to grant yourself even more doors to continue your exploration? As you make your decision and open the door, you are instantly met with the room of your choosing.

Constructing a shifting house

Ironically, the process of creating this game is a lot like playing Blue Prince. Both the player and I are attempting to construct a shifting house of many rooms. A mansion that is full of challenges that we cannot foresee at the onset of our adventure. And to create this house, we build rooms, one at a time – door by door, blueprint by blueprint. The rooms we choose to draft are of course, entirely up to us. As we create, we are also able to explore, traveling from room to room in search of answers and clues.

Where the player’s adventure begins to differ, however, is at the end of each in-game day. When you awake tomorrow, you will find the house you have been exploring will have a completely different layout. You will find doors that lead to new rooms. You will find different items, different clues and different puzzles. You will make new discoveries, and each day you will learn more and more about the strange rules that govern this mysterious house.

Shifting puzzles

Designing puzzles for a game taking place in an ever-changing mansion was a bit of a challenge. One player might find a puzzle in the mansion, and the very next room they draft might contain a clue for it.. For another, it may be dozens of rooms before they discover the secret. The beauty, of course, is this is actually what makes the experience special. The rooms you draft, the items you find, and the order in which you make discoveries all contribute to an adventure that will be wildly different from every other playthrough.

Additionally, there is no puzzle in the game that must be solved. Like most things on the estate, there are always alternate avenues of progression to find and various solutions to the challenges you face. If you can’t figure something out in the game, don’t be afraid to move on. Exploring the manor will eventually lead you to the answers you are looking for, as most challenges in the game cannot be solved without finding more information and clues in other areas of the estate. 

After eight years of development, I am finally at the end of my journey, and I am eager to hand over the keys to you so you can start your own. If you will allow me one final word of advice: the less you know about this game going in, the better. In this article, I have only given you a broad sense of the basic mechanics of my game and how I approached designing them. I will leave the evolution of these mechanics and the story of Mount Holly for you to discover yourself. But don’t worry, you won’t have to wait long. The doors of Blue Prince open April 10.

PlayStation Store: March 2025’s top downloads

PlayStation Store: March 2025’s top downloads

PlayStation Store: March 2025’s top downloads https://ift.tt/96R30kU

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped the download charts last month.

March was a good month for sports and action-adventure games on PS5. Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Split Fiction both found success on the US and EU charts, while MLB The Show 25 took top billing on the US charts. 

Check out the full listings below. What titles are you playing this month?

PS5 Games

US/Canada EU
MLB The Show 25 Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Split Fiction
Split Fiction EA SPORTS FC 25
Monster Hunter Wilds Monster Hunter Wilds
WWE 2K25 Minecraft
EA SPORTS Madden NFL 25 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
NBA 2K25 WWE 2K25
EA SPORTS FC 25 Grand Theft Auto V
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
EA SPORTS College Football 25 Gran Turismo 7
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege The First Berserker: Khazan
Minecraft Phasmophobia
Grand Theft Auto V Deadside
PGA TOUR 2K25 Hogwarts Legacy
Phasmophobia Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
BLEACH Rebirth of Souls Mortal Kombat 11
The First Berserker: Khazan NBA 2K25
Mortal Kombat 1 Mortal Kombat 1
Deadside The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Gran Turismo 7 The Crew Motorfest

*Naming of products may differ between regions

*Upgrades not included

PS4 Games

US/Canada EU
Red Dead Redemption 2 Red Dead Redemption 2
A Way Out A Way Out
The Forest EA SPORTS FC 25
Minecraft The Forest
Battlefield 4 Battlefield 4
Stardew Valley Unravel Two
Need for Speed Heat Need for Speed Heat
EA SPORTS Madden NFL 25 Minecraft
Call of Duty: Black Ops III Grand Theft Auto V
Middle-earth: Shadow of War Battlefield 1
Overcooked! 2 Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Grand Theft Auto V God of War
Mortal Kombat X Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Assassin’s Creed Origins
Unravel Two Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Injustice 2 Overcooked! 2
God of War Stardew Valley
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Batman: Arkham Knight
EA SPORTS FC 25 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Batman: Return to Arkham Mortal Kombat X

*Naming of products may differ between regions

PS VR2 Games*

US/Canada EU
Beat Saber Flight Simulator Delivery 2025 VR
Among Us VR Beat Saber
Alien: Rogue Incursion Alien: Rogue Incursion
Flight Simulator Delivery 2025 VR Metro Awakening
Pavlov Among Us VR
Swordsman VR Horizon Call of the Mountain
Creed: Rise to Glory – Championship Edition Swordsman VR
Into the Radius Pavlov
Metro Awakening EXOcars
Drunkn Bar Fight Creed: Rise to Glory – Championship Edition

 *PlayStation Store purchases only. Game upgrades or games bundled with hardware not included

Free to Play (PS5 + PS4)

US/Canada EU
Fortnite Fortnite
Marvel Rivals Roblox
Roblox Rocket League
Rocket League Marvel Rivals
Call of Duty: Warzone Call of Duty: Warzone
War Robots: Frontiers eFootball
Asphalt Legends Unite War Robots: Frontiers
Apex Legends Asphalt Legends Unite
Fall Guys Stumble Guys
The Sims 4 The Sims 4
Share of the Week: Assassin’s Creed Shadows – Landscapes

Share of the Week: Assassin’s Creed Shadows – Landscapes

Share of the Week: Assassin’s Creed Shadows – Landscapes https://ift.tt/v34NEyZ

Last week, we asked you share the epic landscapes of feudal Japan in Assassin’s Creed Shadows using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:

irmarie_diaz shares Naoe riding a horse through agricultural fields in the fall.

visualcam9 shares Naoe wandering through cherry blossoms

RivalsUniverse shares sunlight streaming through a bamboo forest

DexM_ds shares Naoe perched atop an icy winter landscape

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TakaSanGames shares a castle surrounded by cherry blossoms

tim14009498 shares Naoe atop a roof overlooking a settlement in fall

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THEME: Heights
SUBMIT BY: 11:59 PM PT on April 9, 2025 

Next week, look down below. Share breathtaking moments taken from great heights in the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog for a chance to be featured.