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Disgaea creator Sohei Niikawa says PlayStation may as well eliminate its hardware if Sony removes physical games from the console ecosystem.
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, the cult PS2 action game, will be re-released on PS5 and PS4 via PS Plus Premium on July 21, complete with a full trophy set and a Platinum.
Hamster's Arcade Archives has revived Syvalion, Taito's 1988 dragon shooter from Bubble Bobble creator Fukio Mitsuji, its first re-release in about 20 years.
Cathedral: Crow's Curse, a standalone prequel to Decemberborn's NES-inspired Metroidvania, showed a new trailer at the Convergence Showcase, with a demo on Steam now.
Star Ocean: The Second Story R, the acclaimed 2.5D remake of tri-Ace's 1998 PS1 RPG, gets a surprise native Switch 2 version, out now for $49.99.
Geppy-X, a 1999 Japan-only PS1 shmup built like a 70s super-robot anime, gets a fully localized global remaster today, its cutscenes restored from the original Betacam masters.
QUByte's Plungeez is a 16-bit Metroidvania with no combat, just a plunger and a sewer full of puzzles. It launches on Switch, PC, PlayStation, and Xbox on August 13.
Sony clarifies that pre-2028 PS5 and PS4 games can be reordered on disc after the 2028 cut-off, while new titles shift to digital codes in boxes.
Boutique physical-edition makers IAm8Bit, Lost in Cult, and Red Art Games react sharply to Sony’s plan to end PlayStation disc production in 2028, calling it a threat to preservation and ownership.
Sony will stop producing game discs for all new PlayStation releases from January 2028. Existing discs are unaffected, but new games go digital-only at retail and on PS Store.