Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 540: Surviving Saros

Email us at [email protected]! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here Hey, everybody! Sid and I are back this week to celebrate the launch of Saros with a special interview featuring Actor Rahul Kohli and Creative Director Gregory Loudeni from Housemarque. Stuff We Talked About The Cast Thanks to Dormilón for our rad theme […]


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The Outer Worlds To Be Partially Delisted, Free 'Spacer's Choice Edition' For Those

The remaster is being given away for free to base game owners.There's some interesting stuff happening with The Outer Worlds in the near future, as it's just been announced that the game is getting partially delisted, with the Spacer's Choice Edition now becoming the main version of it.It's a little bit confusing, so bear with us — the "base edition" of The Outer Worlds will be delisted on May 27th across "most store pages", but we think the Xbox Store version might survive, as it's mentioned that the only platforms not affected by this are Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch".Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Asha Sharma Comments On AI Use As Upscaling Tech Rolls Out To ROG Xbox Ally

"We are refocusing our AI efforts...".Earlier this week, Microsoft announced some new ROG Xbox Ally features including the introduction of 'Auto Super Resolution'; an AI upscaler in a similar vein to Nvidia's DLSS. This is the sort of AI tech players seem on board with, but that isn't the case for all uses of AI - something that Xbox boss Asha Sharma has again touched on via social media.Following Xbox's official post about these new features, Sharma said that the team was "refocusing our AI efforts" moving forward - looking at things like "enhancing real-time graphics, improving discovery and deepening personalization". Sharma then pointed towards this Auto SR feature as an example of one of these core aims:Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Deals: 25 Xbox Back Compat Games That Are Ridiculously Good Value This Week

Bargains from the original Xbox and Xbox 360 eras.Xbox isn't slowing down with the new sales this week! Following the Golden Week Sale that we highlighted a few days ago, we've also got a new Super Saver Sale, a Star Wars Sale and an Xbox Game Studios Sale to add to the mix.One of the main things we're taking away from these sales is that they include a lot of backwards compatible games from the original Xbox and Xbox 360 eras! There are so many, in fact, that we wanted to try and break them down a little bit — so we've picked out just 25 games from the list that we think are ridiculously good value!Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Xbox Adds Backgrounds, Profile Themes & Gamer Pics Based On New Logo Designs

Rolling out to all users now!Hot on the heels of promising some customisation options based on the new Xbox logo (and indeed off the back of us covering some other dynamic backgrounds, thanks Microsoft!), the team has unleashed a raft of new backgrounds, profile themes and gamer pics centred around Xbox's fresh logo design.Yep, all of this stuff is rolling out to Xbox users now - and includes a dynamic background based on each console generation's version of the new logo, alongside Xbox profile themes and gamer pics using the same core designs. We'll link to some examples that folks have shared on these down below:Read the full article on purexbox.com


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'The Results Ain't Pretty' - Oblivion Remastered Analysis Claims It's 'Still Broken'

Have you had any issues with it?It's been just over a year now since Xbox and Bethesda shadow dropped The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered on us in April of 2025, and even though it's proved popular and the reviews on the Xbox Store are pretty impressive overall, the folks over at Digital Foundry have been highlighting multiple ways in which it's "still broken".If we go back to May of 2025, we covered Digital Foundry's assessment on all ports of the game being "affected by hitching, crashes, bugs, major sub-60fps drops, and an uneven 30fps line on quality mode", and the outlet explains that because there's been no major update for Oblivion Remastered since July of 2025, these issues persist.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Share of the Week: Cozy

Last week, we asked you to share moments from your favorite cozy games using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: elizado_ shares a plant and book-filled room in When The Past Was Around. PattyGnand shares Swann laying in bed with her cat in Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. call_me_xavii shares the comfy quarters of […]


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The Outer Worlds To Be Partially Delisted, Free 'Spacer's Choice Edition' For Those

The remaster is being given away for free to base game owners.There's some interesting stuff happening with The Outer Worlds in the near future, as it's just been announced that the game is getting partially delisted, with the Spacer's Choice Edition now becoming the main version of it.It's a little bit confusing, so bare with us — the "base edition" of The Outer Worlds will be delisted on May 27th across "most store pages", but we think the Xbox Store version might survive, as it's mentioned that the only platforms not affected by this are Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch".Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Three First-Party Titles Get New Dynamic Backgrounds On Xbox Series X|S

With a bonus third-party addition!Recently, we covered that Team Xbox was working on a dynamic background for its fancy new logo - and whilst that one is still in works for now, we have had a batch of new game-themed backgrounds added to Xbox Series X|S recently, including three first-party additions.The first of those is for Diablo 4 — to coincide with its recent Lord of Hatred expansion — which you can take a quick look at in the image up above. We also have two other new backgrounds from Microsoft's studios, including an Overwatch effort from Blizzard and a Kiln one from Double Fine.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Xbox To Share More Info On Project Helix In 'Game Dev Update' Show Next Week

But keep in mind the target audience here.We're very eager to hear more about Xbox's next-gen Project Helix console, and the good news is that a special "Game Dev Update" show will be providing more details next week, although we'd also urge you to keep expectations in check.This is a new YouTube show that's aimed at game developers, and the first episode will dive into the "introduction of Project Helix", recapping what was shown off at GDC 2026 earlier this year.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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