Introducing No Man’s Sky: Cosmos update, live on PS5 today

Introducing No Man’s Sky: Cosmos update, live on PS5 today https://ift.tt/n2FE4lw

Hello, it has been ten years now since the release of No Man’s Sky, and we wanted to do something special to mark the moment.

The Cosmos update brings a massive overhaul to space itself and is free to download for existing PlayStation players today, and it’s a massive one.

Space is such a huge part of No Man’s Sky, but space itself has remained largely unchanged in all our ten years of updates! 

With Cosmos we wanted to make space feel truly alive. We ‘ve added asteroid belts, space hulks, outposts, missions, strange anomalies, and tons of mystery to explore. There’s so much to do in space that we’ve added a beautiful map to plot and keep track of every system.

Then we started to think, could we make space feel more like home? What if you could own a Space Station? If you could build star bases, and create alliances with other players.

Warping to a system now, your first action will often be a quick scan of the new solar system map to reveal a whole new array of space points of interest, each of which unlock whole new strands of missions and exploration.

There are huge “space hulks”, which can be stripped and salvaged. The physics gravity gun can be used to pull chunks of metal from these wrecks, and can be thrown to a new tractor beam fitted to your ship. Become too greedy, and tear too much from a hulk, and it may begin to meltdown and explode. Scanning first for the highest value rewards is the smart move.

Perhaps you take your new rewards to one of the new space outposts, to trade with alien lifeforms. Here you can buy maps, get information about the area and take on new missions from its inhabitants.

Beware though, some of these facilities have been overwhelmed by biological hazards, and may need to be cleared out and reclaimed carefully.

Gorgeous asteroid belts of rock and ice formations boast a large array of valuable crystal resources. Some rare asteroids are large enough to land on and even build a star base on.

Why limit yourself to a base on an asteroid? Free-floating modular bases can be built anywhere in space. Build your own truck stop for star ships, orbital restaurant, or military outpost. There’s something incredibly special about floating in space, planets looming large below you, watching the universe go by.

If that isn’t enough, at last players can buy the system’s space station for themselves! They can build and decorate it both inside and externally, and some wild creativity is possible. You can create your own themed Station, as your own clubhouse and have friends come and visit.

Perhaps that Station then becomes the place where you found your own Alliance to which you can invite all players to join your new society. As an alliance, you can work together to build a networked empire of different stations and rise the new leaderboards to compete for the largest, richest or most prominent alliance.

The center of the solar system is the sun, and finally players can try to undertake a perilous journey to reach the center of their own star system!

Expeditions have become a very popular feature of No Man’s Sky. For our 10th year, we have done something a bit special. Each milestone of the anniversary expedition will correspond to a specific No Man’s Sky update from the 40+ we have released over the last decade. Each milestone’s gameplay reflects some of the features that were introduced with that update, peppered with some interesting logs about how that update came into being. It’s like a journey through time, and honestly we’ve found it a little emotional to put together.

Cosmos is a massive update, but it’s also just another step in our journey together. Right from the beginning, our game, our updates and our patch notes are a love letter from us to the community. Thank you so much for joining us.

Our journey continues.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone Season 06 launches The Haunting September 17

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone Season 06 launches The Haunting September 17 https://ift.tt/n2FE4lw

The Haunting is spreading its evil throughout Season 06 with a supernatural update launching new maps, modes, weapons, events, and more across Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty: Warzone, arriving Thursday, September 17.

Black Ops 7 Endgame Overview

Avalon Night, the forbidden summoning event

The sun sets on Avalon, plunging Operators into an eerie landscape occupied by a new guest courtesy of The Haunting. Unlock the seals to free the creature in the Forbidden Summoning Event.

Multiplayer overview

New Maps

Quantum (New)

Seize upon a Guild quantum computing facility buried within the Arctic ice. Fight under the frozen turbine and around the damaged tower at the center of the facility.

Bloodstead (Retheme)

Descend on a forsaken Homestead where the water has turned to blood and unexplainable horrors are encountered at every turn. Tread carefully.

New Limited Time Modes (LTMs)

T.E.D.D. Trials (New, LTM)

Compete in 6v6 across a variety of T.E.D.D. Trials in this special playlist bringing three iconic Zombies maps into Multiplayer for the first time. Fight off the enemy team and wield Ray Guns against the horde as a random set of five T.E.D.D. Trials cycles through rotation. The maps include Roadkill from Ashes of the Damned, Inferno from Kowakujō, and Lost from Totenreich.

Hordepoint (Returning, LTM)

In this undead twist on Hardpoint, zombies roam the map, lunging at nearby Operators. When the Hardpoint is neutral, they will attack both teams. When one team controls the objective, the zombies will join them and only attack the opposing team, so get on that objective and hold it.

Black Ops 7 Ranked Play

Compete and earn rewards in a new season of Ranked Play.

Zombies overview

New Survival Map: Tenshu (Launch)

The Masaki family’s ancestral castle is being overrun. Rally your squad in the central keep and fight back the undead horde to reach round milestones and earn rewards.

Rex Infernus Directed Mode, Starting Room (Launch)

Get extra guidance on the Main Quest in Directed Mode for Rex Infernus. For a close-quarters challenge, try your hand in Starting Room, confining players to the house and only the house.

Rogue Run: New Maps, Pedestal Rewards (Launch)

Power up with three new pedestal rewards, including Pack-a-Punch IV, an Ultra-Rarity weapon upgrade, and Golden Armor. Play the roguelite twist on Round-Based Zombies now with Paradox Junction and Kowakujō.

Super Easter Egg, Pumpkin Zombies

There’s a surprise in store for players who complete every Main Quest across all of the Black Ops 7 Round-Based Zombies maps. Unique rewards await! Plus, as part of The Haunting, fend off pumpkin-headed zombies and discover treat-filled pedestal rewards across all Rogue Run playlists.

Call of Duty: Warzone overview

Haunted Hollow (Launch)

Deploy to a terrifying nighttime variant of Haven’s Hollow, where monstrous eldritch horrors have taken root alongside occult and supernatural activity throughout the region. Many surprises await your arrival. Here’s some of what you’ll encounter in Haunted Hollow…

Ghost Train: There’s a Ghost Train traveling through Haunted Haven. Find a way to phase the train back into reality to get at the goods on board.

Trick or Treat Pumpkins: Look for festive pumpkins around the shops gifting treats and tricks to curious Operators. Interact with them for the chance to earn valuable loot… or face a nasty trick instead.

Ruins: The pond has been drained, revealing ruins underneath. And what’s that light coming out of the mansion?

Giant Infected (LTM)

It’s Survivors vs. Infected as 64 players descend on Haunted Hollow. Eight random players will be assigned as Infected from the start with the goal of infecting every player in the match. To defeat the horde, the remaining Survivors must construct a DNA Bomb capable of stopping the outbreak in its tracks. 

New Winstreak Challenges, Resurgence Ranked Play

Unlock Universal Weapon Camos by completing a new set of Victory Streaks and rank up and earn rewards in the next season of Resurgence Ranked Play.

Battle Pass & BlackCell overview

Progress through the Season 06 Battle Pass to earn new Weapon Blueprints, Operator Skins, and more. Purchase BlackCell for additional rewards including the new Revenant Operator and a Mastercraft Weapon Blueprint, both featuring extra unlockable variants via in-game challenges.

Doom: Doom brings its hellish forces to Call of Duty. Unlock themed rewards in the Doom Event Pass and the Tracer Pack: Doom Demonic Essence Bundle coming to the Store along with other Haunting-themed Bundles.

New Weapons: In the Battle Pass, unlock the VMP SMG and the TR51 Para Assault Rifle. Through in-game Events and Weekly Challenges, get the Arcblade Melee Weapon, Roc 20mm Special, and three new Attachments.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty: Warzone are available on PS5 & PS4.

PlayStation Store: August 2026’s top downloads

PlayStation Store: August 2026’s top downloads https://ift.tt/jsZ9r0E

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In August, EA Sports Madden NFL 27 and MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls led the PS5 charts in the US. In the EU, Call of Duty: Black Ops II continues to hold the top spot.

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

PS5 Games

US/Canada	EU
EA Sports Madden NFL 27	Call of Duty: Black Ops II
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls	Minecraft
Call of Duty: Black Ops II	Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced
No More Room in Hell 2	The Lord of the Rings: War in the North – Legacy Edition
Hell Let Loose: Vietnam	Mafia: Definitive Edition for PS5
EA Sports College Football 27	Grand Theft Auto V
Minecraft	Hell Let Loose: Vietnam
Halo: Campaign Evolved	Call of Duty: Black Ops
Palworld	Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops	Palworld
Star Wars Zero Company	Star Wars Zero Company
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2	Mortal Shell II
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North – Legacy Edition	No More Room in Hell 2
Grand Theft Auto V	Forza Horizon 5
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced	007 First Light
Mortal Shell II	Halo: Campaign Evolved
Mistfall Hunter	Waterpark Simulator
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.2	Escape the Backrooms
007 First Light	UFC 6
Mafia: Definitive Edition for PS5	Beast of Reincarnation

*Naming of products may differ between regions
*Upgrades not included

PS4 Games

US/Canada	EU
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands	Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Red Dead Redemption 2	Red Dead Redemption 2
Gang Beasts	Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands
Batman: Arkham Knight	Batman: Arkham Knight
Dying Light	Gang Beasts
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey	The Forest
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint	Dying Light
The Forest	Minecraft
Minecraft	Call of Duty: WWII
Call of Duty: WWII	A Way Out
Mortal Kombat X	Mortal Kombat X
Call of Duty: Black Ops III	Call of Duty: Black Ops II
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes	Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint
Call of Duty: Black Ops II	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4	LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
theHunter: Call of the Wild	Need for Speed Heat
Need for Speed Heat	Assassin’s Creed Origins
Call of Duty: Ghosts	Unravel Two
Star Wars Battlefront II	Watch Dogs 2
Bully	Overcooked 2

*Naming of products may differ between regions

PS VR2 Games*

US/Canada	EU
Synapse	I Am Cat
I Am Cat	Beat Saber
Bootstrap Island	Bootstrap Island
Beat Saber	Job Simulator
Job Simulator	Pavlov
Among Us 3D: VR	Among Us 3D: VR
Pavlov	Synapse
Arizona Sunshine VR 2	Arizona Sunshine VR 2
Moss VR	Grand Rush VR Highway Car Traffic Racing Simulator
Moss VR	Swordsman VR

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

Free to Play (PS5 + PS4)

US/Canada	EU
Fortnite	Fortnite
Roblox	Roblox
Once Human (F2P)	Once Human (F2P)
Marvel Rivals	Rocket League
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege – Free Access	eFootball
Rocket League	Marvel Rivals
Call of Duty: Warzone	Fall Guys
Apex Legends	Call of Duty: Warzone
Fall Guys	Asphalt Legends
eFootball	Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege – Free Access

(For Southeast Asia) Jin Sakai returns in Ghost of Yōtei: Most Wanted

(For Southeast Asia) Jin Sakai returns in Ghost of Yōtei: Most Wanted https://ift.tt/iD73Q6v

Just revealed in State of Play, Jin Sakai will be one of our playable characters in Ghost of Yōtei: Most Wanted! We are so excited to have the hero of Ghost of Tsushima back for this new mode, complete with all four of his signature stances.

In case you missed our announcement last month, Ghost of Yōtei: Most Wanted is a brand new single-player combat survival mode that’s included in Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition. 

Most Wanted is our spin on a roguelike. You’ll choose from four playable characters and accept bounties with escalating difficulty. As you complete runs, you’ll earn perks and upgrades to build out your character, becoming more powerful as you go.

It was important to us to make Most Wanted feel like an extension of Ghost of Yōtei’s core combat systems. We want playing through runs to take the familiar weapons and systems you’re used to and turn them into a fresh experience that lets you experiment with characters and builds to find the loadout that works best for you. 

So how does it work? To start a run, you’ll select a bounty from the bounty board. Each one features a different member of the Yōtei Six, but to get to them you’ll have to take on waves of enemies and minibosses. As you finish each wave, you’ll unlock perks that help you create a powerful build to eventually take on the final boss of the bounty you’ve selected. Bounties can be replayed at increasing difficulty levels, all culminating in the hardest bounty against Lord Saito himself. 

You’ll also earn Mon as you play, which you can spend outside of runs to unlock new techniques, weapon upgrades, charms, and character unlocks. Plus, any cosmetics you earn through playing Most Wanted will also be unlocked in the main game, so you can wear them during Atsu’s original quest for vengeance, or as you take on the new story expansion in Ghost of Yōtei: Echoes of Sekigahara. 

Once you’ve unlocked all four characters, you can select between them. Each character will start with a katana, as well as their own additional unique weapons, abilities, Ultimates, and Kill Streaks. We encourage you to try them all as each one brings their own different approach to taking down the enemies standing in your way.

Your default starting character will be Atsu, who uses dual katana as well as two Ghost Tools: Metsubushi (Blinding Powder) and a Blind Bomb. Atsu’s Ultimate is “Call of the Pack,” which allows her to summon two wolves to take down nearby enemies, and her Kill Streak is Onryō’s Howl, which will terrify all nearby enemies and force one to flee. 

You’ll also be able to play as Oyuki, who fights with the kusarigama, kunai, and the tanegashima (rifle). Oyuki’s Ultimate is “Shadow Killer,” which unleashes smoke to allow her to quickly assassinate two nearby enemies. Her Kill Streak is Shadow Shinobi, which summons a Nine Tails ally to fight alongside her (and execute their own assassinations) for a limited time. 

The next playable character is Nagato, who uses the yari (spear), tanzutsu (pistol), yumi (long bow), and hankyu (short bow). His Ultimate is “Gambler’s Mark,” which targets two enemies and fires a guaranteed headshot, and his Kill Streak is Blast Arrow, which refills his Concentration and grants an explosive arrow.

Finally, Jin Sakai is our fourth playable character. For Jin, our animation and character art teams worked hard to take his Ghost of Tsushima model and keep it faithful while also applying upgrades for Ghost of Yōtei. Jin can use his katana with all four of the original stances from Ghost of Tsushima, helping to exploit enemy weaknesses. He also starts with a Sticky Bomb and hankyu. Jin’s Ultimate is the “Dance of Wrath” skill from Ghost of Tsushima, which targets multiple enemies and disarms them, and his Kill Streak is, of course, Ghost Stance, which allows him to terrify the enemies around him and kill a limited amount of them in a single hit. 

Beyond selecting the character you want to play as, the real way to create your unique build in Ghost of Yōtei: Most Wanted is by selecting perks. As you progress through a run, you’ll frequently select between new perks including weapon mastery, gear loadouts, summons, parries, survivability, and more. These are the cornerstone of crafting the perfect build and lead to some of the most exciting surprises as you find the challenge or unexpected value that comes from mixing and matching perks.

In addition to our Ghost of Yōtei: Most Wanted trailer and Jin Sakai reveal, we also released a new look at Ghost of Yōtei: Echoes of Sekigahara in State of Play Japan today. 

Echoes of Sekigahara is split between two periods of Atsu’s life: her time on the mainland in the massive Battle of Sekigahara, and the present day. In Sekigahara, you’ll learn about Atsu’s history with Nagato, a key figure from her past who fought alongside her. 

In the present, Nagato has arrived in Ezo and is wanted by the Vipers, outlaws loyal to the Snake left leaderless after his death. The Vipers are a group of vicious poachers who have taken over Ashoro Foothills, a previously unseen area of Ezo that was once teeming with wildlife and has now been left devastated.  

Atsu must reluctantly team up with Nagato to find a close ally who’s been taken from her by the Vipers. In Ashoro Foothills, she’ll find new enemy types, new heavy weapons to wield, new mythic tales and abilities, new armor sets and cosmetics, and much more. 

If you already own Ghost of Yōtei, you can pre-order the Complete Edition Upgrade for SGD 20.27 / MYR 60.11 / IDR 220,890 / THB 524, which will grant you access to Ghost of Yōtei: Most Wanted and Ghost of Yōtei: Echoes of Sekigahara on October 1 (in Bangkok and Jakarta) / October 2 (in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur), and instant access to all of the in-game content previously included in the Ghost of Yōtei Digital Deluxe Edition, as well as the Charm of Hokkyokusei.¹ If you pre-order by September 30, you’ll also receive an early unlock of the Sakai Armor for Atsu to wear on October 1/October 2 without having to unlock it by playing Most Wanted first.¹ 

If you haven’t played Ghost of Yōtei yet, you can purchase Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition digitally now for SGD 97.90 / MYR 299 / IDR 1,142,000 / THB 2,290 for instant access to the original Ghost of Yōtei game, plus our online co-op mode Ghost of Yōtei Legends, all of the content in the Ghost of Yōtei Digital Deluxe Edition and the Charm of Hokkyokusei, and access to Ghost of Yōtei: Most Wanted and Ghost of Yōtei: Echoes of Sekigahara when they launch on October 1/October 2. 

Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition also includes new photo mode stamps, additional cosmetics for New Game Plus, and new Trophies for both Echoes of Sekigahara and Most Wanted. If you purchase digitally by September 30, you’ll also get an early unlock of the Sakai Armor on October 1. The physical edition of Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition will launch October 1/October 2. 

In case you missed our announcement last month, we’ll also have some updates coming in a free patch for Ghost of Yōtei on October 1, even if you don’t purchase the Complete Edition upgrade.¹ All Ghost of Yōtei owners will unlock the free Beauty of Yōtei mode, which allows you to browse the beautiful environments of Ezo and explore them in Photo Mode. All Ghost of Yōtei owners will also receive new tracks for Watanabe Mode that can be experienced anywhere in the game where the mode is enabled, as well as a new option to keep an armor set’s appearance while using a different set’s stats, and a new high contrast accessibility option.

With less than a month to go now, we are so excited to celebrate Ghost of Yōtei’s one-year anniversary with the launch of Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition, and can’t wait for you all to play through Ghost of Yōtei: Most Wanted and Ghost of Yōtei: Echoes of Sekigahara. Make sure to tag us in all of your Photo Mode creations and your best Most Wanted builds! 

¹Available via patch v.2.0 on October 1, 2026 globally and October 2, 2026 in some territories including Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Internet connection and account for PlayStation required.