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New PS5 games 2025: most anticipated PS5 release dates
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. What's the next big PS5 game to release? There are many big PS5 games to look forward to over the next couple of months, including Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake. Beyond that, there's Ghost of Yotei, as well as Borderlands 4. Hopefully, we'll continue to get release dates in the coming weeks. Now that the PS5 Pro is here, you can check out our PS5 Pro review, to see how the best PS5 Pro games make use of the updated hardware, and get an idea as to how future games could run on the enhanced console. There's an excellent line-up of PS5 games set to launch in 2025. It's certainly shaping up to be a very good year to be a PlayStation fan, with big releases like Ghost of Yōtei sure to impress on Sony's newest consoles. New PS5 games will start coming out in the next few weeks, with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 kicking things off in style. In the rest of 2025, many exciting new PS5 exclusives are still set to be announced – with some even likely to land on our list of best PS5 games. It's a great time to be a PS5 owner for sure, especially when you consider that many of these games will be enhanced on PlayStation 5 Pro, giving players more of the best PS5 Pro games to play on Sony's most powerful console. Read on to learn the release dates for the biggest new PS5 games. As new release dates are revealed, or if certain games are delayed, this page will be updated. For now, here's what you'll be playing in the next 6 months or so, and beyond! New PS5 games 2025: this year's most anticipated releases Here's a short list of 2025's biggest and most anticipated new PS5 games. These all have release dates, which will be updated if there are delays or cancellations. As it's still early on in the year, expect even more games to be announced as we go. Gears of War Reloaded - August 26, 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Metal Solid Delta: Snake Eater - August 28 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Borderlands 4 - September 23 (XSX|S, PS5, PC) Ghost of Yōtei - October 2, 2025 (PS5) July Mecha Break - July 1, 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Patapon 1+2 Replay - July 11 (Switch 2, Switch, PS5, PC) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 - July 11 (PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch) Wuchang Fallen Feathers - July 24, 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Tales of the Shire - July 29, 2025 (Switch 2, Switch, PS5, XSX|S, PC) Ninja Gaiden Ragebound - July 31, 2025 (PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, PC) August Mafia: The Old Country - August 8 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Sword and the Sea - August 19, 2025 (PS5) Dying Light The Beast - August 22, 2025 Gears of War Reloaded - August 26, 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Metal Solid Delta: Snake Eater - August 28 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Lost Soul Aside - August 29 (PS5, PC) Shinobi: Art of Vengeance - August 29 (PS5, PS4, XSX|S, XBO, Switch, PC) September Hell Is Us - September 4, 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Indiana Jones and the Great Circle DLC - September 4, 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Everybody's Golf Hot Shots - September 5, 2025 (PS5, Switch 2, PC) Baby Steps - September 8, 2025 (PS5, PC) Borderlands 4 - September 23, 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Silent Hill f - September 25, 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Sonic Racing Crossworlds - September 25, 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles - September 30, 2025 (PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, PC) October Directive 8020 - October 2, 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Ghost of Yōtei - October 2, 2025 (PS5) Digimon Story Time Stranger - October 3, 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Ninja Gaiden 4 - October 21, 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Jurassic World Evolution 3 - October 21 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) The Outer Worlds 2 - October 29, 2025 (XSX|S, PC, PS5) 2025 and TBC Now for the games that, while we know are coming, have yet to receive full release dates. Hopefully we'll hear more about the following games sooner rather than later. Cairn - November 5, 2025 (PC, PS5) Lumines Arise - Fall 2025 (PS5, PSVR 2, PC) Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 - TBC 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Forever Skies - 2025 (PS5) Ballad of Antara - 2025 (PS5) Where Winds Meet - 2025 (PS5, PC) Arc Raiders - 2025 Dreams of Another - 2025 Darwin's Paradox - 2025 Onimusha: Way of the Sword - 2026 Tides of Tomorrow - February 24, 2026 (PS5) Resident Evil 9: Requiem - February 27, 2026 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Nioh 3 - Early 2026 Pragmatic - 2026 (PS5, XSX|S, PC) GTA 6 - May 29, 2026 Marathon - TBC (PS5, XSX|S, PC) Beyond Good and Evil 2 - TBC BioShock 4 - TBC DokeV - TBC (PC, PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO) Fallout 5 - TBC Hades 2 - TBC (PC) Haunted Chocolatier - TBC Hollow Knight: Silksong - TBC 2025 (PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, PC, Switch) Judas - TBC Marvel's Wolverine - TBC (PS5) Kingdom Hearts 4 - TBC Mass Effect 5 - TBC Fairgame$ - TBC (PS5, PC) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake - 2026 Phantom Blade 0 - TBC (PS5) Project 007 - TBC Revenant Hill - TBC (PS5, PS4) Splinter Cell remake - TBC Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake - TBC (PS5) Star Wars Eclipse - TBC The Elder Scrolls 6 - TBC The Witcher 4 - TBC You Might Also Like... 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The Guardian
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 review – a gnarly skating time capsule
It's almost insulting how easily this skating-game remake pushes my millennial nostalgia buttons. The second that Ace of Spades comes on over a montage of skaters on the title screen, I am forcefully yanked back to the early 00s, when I spent untold hours playing one Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game or another in the gross bedrooms of my teen-boy friends. More than 20 years later, I can almost smell the acrid lingering odour of Lynx body spray. In 2020, the first couple of Tony Hawk's games were polished up and re-released as the first wave of Y2K nostalgia hit. The two games were packaged up as one, with consistent controls and a new look that preserved the grungy feel of the originals, and the same is true for 3+4: levels, skaters and parks from both 2001's THPS3 and 2002's THPS4 rock up here alongside newer stars of the sport (including Riley Hawk, son of the eponymous skating celebrity – I found this oddly touching). I remember these places so well – the factory, the college campus, the snow-dusted Canadian skate park, the time capsule of central London. Weirdly, the zoo level is now empty of animals (why?), but otherwise these compact arrangements of grindable, trickable urban obstacle courses are very much as they were. (The skater-punk soundtrack, unfortunately, is not as it was – there are a great many omissions, a disappointment only partly softened by a slew of new tracks.) Between grabs, spins, flips and manuals you can string together insane and risky combos across their entire geography, skidding across power lines, along walls and finding hidden half-pipes. I do not remember all of this being so hard, however. My first few hours with these games were a humiliation, as I grappled with the controller and baled over and over again trying to meet even the minimum required scores in each two-minute run. Was I always this bad at these games? Whatever muscle memory I once had is gone, but I am slowly building up a respectable set of virtual-skating skills again. There are more complex moves and traversal tricks to keep in mind here than there were in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, which is a more arcadey experience, and a better place to start if you weren't there for these games the first time round. Like the real sport, it's about perseverance and repetition: when the combos started to flow again for me after a few hours, it felt so freeing. I still don't think there's a better skating game out there than old-school Tony Hawk's, even after all this time – and there's certainly no better time capsule of this pivotal moment in the history of the sport. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 is out July 11; £39.99
The Verge
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
The new Tony Hawk remaster is a good sign for Switch 2 ports
One of the pleasant surprises of the Switch 2 launch was how well the hardware managed big games not made by Nintendo. It's something the company's underpowered consoles have often struggled with, but the Switch 2 is a good place to play technical showpieces like Cyberpunk 2077 — though that originally debuted in 2020. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4, which is launching simultaneously on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and both versions of the Switch, makes for an interesting test case of what's possible on the Switch 2 with a new game. I've been playing it on both the PS5 and Switch 2, and from what I've seen, the remake bodes well for the future of Nintendo's newest console. For the uninitiated, the latest Tony Hawk's Pro Skater is a sequel of sorts. In 2020, Activision released a remaster of the original two games in the iconic series, maintaining the tone and structure but also modernizing the experience with updated graphics and controls, online features, and an expanded cast featuring the current generation of skateboarding stars. It did a remarkable job of keeping the best parts of the games while also making them feel current. THPS3+4 does the same thing, but for the third and fourth entries in the series. There aren't too many surprises if you've played the original, though THPS4 has a more rigid structure compared to the open-ended nature of the original version. Performance is an important aspect of any skateboarding game. These titles are all about linking tricks together in creative ways, which can be hard to do when the game chugs or the frame rate stutters. So the thing that struck me the most with the Switch 2 version is just how smooth it is. It may sound boring, but the best part about it is that it just works. I haven't experienced any technical issues in handheld mode, and that's true whether playing in a simple indoor stage or something more elaborate, like the light-up show that is the Tokyo course from THPS3. It seems that the developers at Iron Galaxy — who have taken over the series after the original studio, Vicarious Visions, unceremoniously became a Blizzard studio — prioritized substance over style, and it was the right choice. THPS3+4 looks fine on the Switch 2, but the main difference you'll notice on a platform like the PS5 is how much more detailed everything is. The backdrops feel more lively, though you might not notice it so much as you're speeding through levels. The biggest difference is the characters. On the PS5, skaters like Tony Hawk and Aori Nishimura look like themselves; on the Switch 2, they're slightly blurry approximations of their real-world counterparts. The differences between platforms are largely cosmetic, though, which makes them much easier to tolerate, even in a genre where style is an incredibly important part of the experience. I'll note that the various decks and clothes you can unlock still look pretty good on the Switch 2, so it's not like you're totally sacrificing the cool skater vibes. More importantly, THPS has always been an excellent series to play on the go — the Game Boy Advance iterations of the franchise have no right being as good as they are — and that remains true here, where the short runs are perfectly suited for portable play. That being said, while THPS3+4 is a good showcase for the Switch 2, it's not exactly a 'next-gen' game. It's a rare experience that was built to span multiple generations of hardware from all the major platform holders. So it's not exactly a sign that Grand Theft Auto VI or other tentpole blockbusters will make their way to the Switch 2. But the latest Tony Hawk game at least shows that the console won't always be left behind when it comes to the newest releases.
The Guardian
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘It fully altered my taste in music': bands reflect on the awesome power of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater soundtracks
When millions of parents bought their kids a Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game in the late 90s and early 00s, they couldn't have understood the profound effect it would have on their children's music taste. With bands from Bad Religion to Papa Roach and Millencolin accompanying every failed spin and grind, these trick-tastic games slyly doubled up as the ultimate compilation CD. While the Fifa games have an equally storied history with licensed music, those soundtracks feel impersonal – a who's who of whichever artists EA's associated record labels wanted to push at the time. Pro Skater's soundtrack, by contrast, felt like being handed a grubby and slightly dog-eared handmade mixtape, still battered from its last tumble at the local skate park. 'Most of the bands were chosen because I heard them growing up at the skate park. I would say most of the original punk stuff – even the early hip-hop – that was my soundtrack to skating in the 80s and 90s,' Tony Hawk says. 'I never imagined that I would be a tastemaker but, that was really just a byproduct of staying true to the culture.' 'Tony was very involved in punk rock,' says Chris DeMakes, frontman of Less Than Jake, before his set at this year's Slam Dunk festival. 'Ultimately, he had to approve the bands on his soundtrack … So that always kind of made me feel good about it.' The band's Roger Lima adds: 'The culture of skating and music is so meshed, it made sense for them to have a real soundtrack to it.' For the bands that made it on to these games in those years, the impact was immeasurable. 'I remember playing earlier versions of THPS and hearing some of our contemporaries … I hoped we'd get an opportunity like that,' says Hunter Burgan, bassist of AFI. 'But I don't think I really understood how big the impact was until after we actually were on the soundtrack. I can't tell you how many people have come up to me over the last two decades and told me that THPS3 was their first introduction to AFI.' 'Tony Hawk's Pro Skater made All My Best Friends Are Metalheads a hit – as big a hit as if we would have been on 60 major rock stations in America … Probably bigger,' says DeMakes. 'I talked to John Feldman [of Goldfinger] about this recently, and with Superman it's the same thing for them. That wasn't a worldwide hit, but it became a hit for them because of that game.' When the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater came out in 1999, those grey PlayStation discs served as a punk rock Trojan horse, sneaking a killer introduction to the world of alt and punk music to millions of unsuspecting kids. A quarter-century later, new artists are featuring on modern remakes of the Pro Skater games, alongside the bands that shaped their taste. 'Those games fully altered my taste in music!' says Sammy Ciaramitaro, vocalist of hardcore band Drain. 'They brought punk rock (and a lot of other incredible music) to my childhood bedroom.' Drain are now one of a handful of new artists that were chosen to be added to the soundtrack for the remakes. 'I think our inclusion represents the growth of hardcore,' says Ciaramitaro. 'I'm honored that we now get to be a part of this with Turnstile and End It, too. I hope that maybe some young kids will hear our songs while playing and it will motivate them to do a deep dive into punk rock music, like we all did when we were younger.' Other bands who weren't quite big enough to get on Tony's radar at the time, such as the Ataris, spent their careers dreaming of making it on to the next Pro Skater game. 'We were coming of age the same time that Pro Skater was,' says bassist Mike Davenport. 'In 1999/2000 was when we really started to take off as a band and we didn't even feel as if we belonged with the bands that were featured [on the games].' The Ataris' track All Souls' Day eventually made the soundtrack for 2020's Pro Skater 1+2 remake. Davenport says that the band used to play Pro Skater constantly on tour in the back of an RV – even, once, in the middle of a car accident. 'My merch guy and I were playing in the kitchen nook one night when we heard the driver yell 'look out!' and then the TV flew at us, and we both literally batted it down with our hands so as not to have it smash us in the face,' he remembers. 'Sadly the TV and PlayStation were killed, but luckily not us.' Even though Less Than Jake reaped the rewards of being on the game back in 2002, returning with a different song on the Pro Skater remake decades later still felt like a badge of honour: 'We're a band that's been around for 33 years, so we love anything that can propel us and get us in front of a new audience,' says DeMakes, 'Everybody has social media. Anybody can upload their song to YouTube or Spotify or Apple Music now, it's a different playing field. So how do you get noticed? Getting asked to be in a video game is perfect.' 'As long as there are people playing video games there will be an avenue to connect them with music,' says Burgan, 'Skateboarding, punk rock and video games were a huge part of our lives growing up and were inextricably connected, so it seems like a natural continuation of that. For bands, I think the cultural impact is far more important and lasting than any financial benefit.' Such is the lasting impact of the Pro Skater soundtracks that there are cover bands dedicated to playing it live – among them the 900. 'We were really annoying when we first started the band, just tagging Tony Hawk in every story and Instagram post,' frontman Harry Shaw tells me. 'When he followed us [on social media] we thought: 'That's it, we've made it.' We never imagined that he'd actually come on stage with us.' In a video that's since gone viral on Instagram, Tony Hawk hopped on stage unannounced with the 900 in east London, covering Bloodstains by Agent Orange and Superman by Goldfinger, to a rapturous crowd. '[We're] eternally grateful for him doing that show, and also just not being a dick about bands covering songs from his game, either,' says Shaw, 'He doesn't have to do this stuff, his name is so big within pop culture – like Ronaldo or Messi – he's almost like a living meme.' 'There are five bands that only play covers from our video game series, and I've sang with three of them. But that one [the 900] was really fun,' says Hawk. 'My appearance was a surprise, and they were kind enough to choose songs that I was more into. Yes, I'm proud of the soundtrack, but I can't sing every song nor could I remember the lyrics!' In the decades that have passed since the original Pro Skater games, their soundtracks have been the gift that keeps giving for the bands who make it on. 'I actually just met Tony a few weeks ago at a music festival,' says AFI's Burgan. 'He is a true music lover and that makes being included in THPS even more special.' While Pro Skater has gone down in legend, Less Than Jake believes that it could have very easily gone the other way. 'How many stars do we know that have made products or endorsed things that weren't good?' laughs DeMakes. 'But in Tony's case, he had a really cool game that kids embraced and loved.' 'Pro Skater could have been a flop, it could have just not really worked out in the long run,' agrees Lima. 'But every element of it was just super effortlessly cool and it was huge for us … I can't count the amount of times someone has said: 'I found out about you guys through Pro Skater.' Just look at the YouTube comments … thousands and thousands of fans that probably never would have heard of us otherwise.' Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 is out now
Digital Trends
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 preload guide: release date, file size, and more
It almost didn't happen, but Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 managed to materialize as the next big video game remake. Just like the last bundle, this refreshed look at the seminal skateboarding titles will bring back all those mid-2000s feelings of doing impossible grinds and catching insane air while rocking out to a killer soundtrack. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 aims to be a faithful reimagining of the originals, but reworks the latter game to fit the format of the former, plus adds some cool new features like online multiplayer with full cross-platform support. No doubt you've got your shoes laced up and skateboard all tuned up, but have you preloaded the game? Here's what you need to know about Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4's release date, file size, preload options, and more. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 release date Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 will kickflip onto PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC officially on July 11. However, you can get the game early on July 8 if you preorder the Digital Deluxe or Collector's Edition. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 file size On Xbox, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 comes in at a decently sized 43.89 GB. That's not a huge amount, but big enough that you will want to take a look at your console or PC's hard drive space just to be sure it can hold all those sick tricks and skaters. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 preload options Anyone who has preordered Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 on either the Xbox Series X/S console or is a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber can preload the game right now. Recommended Videos For whatever reason, PlayStation and PC players are still not able to preload the game as of the time of this writing. However, I assume that will change in the coming days as we approach the early access launch. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 preorder details If you haven't secured your copy of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 and want to make sure you get preload access, early access, or any of the additional goodies that come with the other editions, here are all the options available to you via the game's official store page. Standard Edition – $50 The base game The Foundry Demo in June Wireframe Tony Shader Digital Deluxe – $70 Everything in the previous version Three days early access Doom Slayer and Revenant skater Unmaykr Hoverboard Bonus music Doom skate decks Doom create-a-skater apparel Collector's Edition – $130 Everything in the Digital Deluxe Edition Full-size birdhouse skateboard deck with printed Tony Hawk autograph
