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Black Myth: Wukong Tops August’s PS Store Downloads

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Game Science’s Black Myth: Wukong has, as expected, topped the PlayStation Store downloads in August. Considering the game has sold over 18 million copies across the PS5 and PC, this isn’t that shocking.

Coming to us straight from PlayStation Blog Japan, it shows that here in the US and in Canada, Black Myth: Wukong takes the top spot. Second and third place go to the latest NFL game and College Football 25.

Over in Japan, though, the downloads are a bit different. In fact, only three of the 10 games appear on both — Black Myth, Hogwarts Legacy, and Star Wars Outlaws. Game Science’s Chinese mythological romp still heads the pack, meanwhile, Gundam Breaker 4 and Visions of Mana take up the second and third spots.

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Sony Exec Claims PlayStation Doesn’t Have Enough IPs

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In a weird turn of events, Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki is asserting that PlayStation simply doesn’t have enough IPs. While recent new IPs have slowed down, it still has a good number of strong properties that it just hasn’t touched in years.

Speaking to the Financial Times (via PSLS), Totoki explains that that while it’s lacking in IPs all of their own, they have a strong sense to bring an IP to a new audience, likely talking about things like Spider-Man and its subsequent sequel. It is kind of painful hearing the exec claim that it has no solid IPs considering the wealth of untapped potential that they did have, which of course, they need now more than ever with the fast death that Concord is facing.

Beyond The Last of Us, Ratchet & Clank, Until Dawn, and other games that have since seen a release in the past few years, they have games like Jax and Daxter, Sly Cooper, Killzone, Lemmings, Infamous, the beloved Bloodborne, which people are desperate to see return, and many more.

Despite having a good track record of solid single player experiences, it seems like Sony is playing too safe and not wanting to return to the older games that made the platform what it is today. Even though many people cry out wanting more games from this IP, it still ends up falling of deaf ears.

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New Indiana Jones Game Sees Trailer On PlayStation Channel

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The upcoming MachineGames Indiana Jones title, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, is coming to PlayStation with a trailer to boot.

The game saw its Gamescom trailer drop on PlayStation’s YouTube channel, cementing its fate as a timed exclusive to Xbox with a release later this year and its PlayStation port coming sometime in spring 2025.

Its release on PlayStation 5 shouldn’t be that shocking. It seems Microsoft is now keenly aware that Xbox is not able to sustain itself with platform exclusives alone. A trio of previously Xbox exclusive games released to the PS5 earlier this year to a good deal of success.

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Concord Isn’t Doing So Hot

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Firewalk Studios’ live service romp, Concord, appears to be lagging behind the expected number we’re Sony had in mind. Despite promising previews, people just aren’t convinced.

Launching earlier this week after its showcase at the May State of Play, Concord debuted to less 700 people, based on SteamDB, since PlayStation doesn’t share that sort of data. We can’t say we’re that surprised as the game didn’t cement a positive path for itself as a premium product competing with freemium products and what many felt was no soul. Then again, at least it doesn’t have a Battle Pass.

This proper debut, which should’ve been at least a couple thousand people was actually less than its beta, which only fostered a little over 2,000 players. This severe lack of interest definitely doesn’t bode well for Sony’s latest attempt to enter the live service market.

As it stands, the game won’t be getting proper content updates until October, so there’s a period for it to just sit stagnant. Hopefully, the game can turn this around and become a tentpole for PlayStation, but unless its numbers on PS5 are absolutely phenomenal, we can’t see them coming back from this.

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New Disney Dreamlight Valley Update Introduces PlayStation Crossplay

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Since its release on consoles, Disney Dreamlight Valley has dabbled in crossplay among Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC players, however, PlayStation was left out of the fun, leaving players in their own ecosystem. Today’s update, Dapper Delights, though, changes that.

Buried under UI improvements, new furniture, and Photo Mode additions in its patch notes, Disney’s Animal Crossing-like former free-to-play romp notes that crossplay among all consoles is available. Beyond that, players can get Princess and the Frog’s Tiana as a character and her restaurant and stall to boot.

Frankly, it comes as no surprise that PlayStation is the console that got left out of the crossplay party, it seems Sony is pretty selective about what games get to let players mingle with those on other platforms.

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Black Myth: Wukong Takes Up Over 100GB On PS5

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Black Myth: Wukong, the much-anticipated Journey to the West adaptation from Chinese game developer Game Science is gonna be a pretty beefy file size for PS owners. That said, it’s unfortunately not rare for games to enter the triple digits.

As pointed out by Push Square, the monkey-based romp gobbles up 104GB. It’s worth pointing out that all footage of the game does give us a clue as to why it’s earmarked with such a large file size. The short end is it’s a graphically intense game built on Unreal Engine 5.

While newer models of the PS5 come bundled with a terabyte of storage, those (like the author here) running the base model from launch are going to have to allocate space for this large game here when it launches on August 20.

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