After revealing the next generation of PS5 audio products back in September, Sony Interactive Entertainment is now ready to reveal the price, pre-order details, and release date for the new devices.

PlayStation Pulse Price and Release Date

The PlayStation Pulse wireless headset in White and Midnight Black will be available in select regions starting on November 19, 2026 at the recommended retail price of $99.99.

Starting at 7:00am PT on October 29, players in the U.S. will be able to pre-order the PlayStation Pulse wireless headset in White and Midnight Black direct from PlayStation through direct.playstation.com.

Starting at 10:00am local time on October 29, players in the U.K., France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg will be able to pre-order the PlayStation Pulse wireless headset in White and Midnight Black direct from PlayStation through playstation.com/store/hardware.

Unfortunately, details about the Pulse Edge were not included in this update.

“Additionally, we’ll have more updates on Pulse Edge when it launches next year.”

Shoppers who are more interested in waiting for the Pulse Edge will need to continue to sit tight until pre-order details arrive for that device.

For those unfamiliar with the updated line of audio devices, here is how they were pitched by Sony in the original announcement:

“Superior sound quality remains at the heart of the new headset lineup, with custom studio-inspired planar magnetic drivers that deliver exceptional sound separation and spatial accuracy. This makes it easy for players to pinpoint directional cues, such as footsteps or reloads in competitive first-person shooters. Larger planar drivers have been added to PlayStation Pulse and Pulse Edge headsets, creating fuller, deeper bass, while keeping the clean sounds players have enjoyed from Pulse Elite.”

It should be interesting to see if the updated PlayStation Pulse becomes a popular seller this holiday season or if more players are holding out for the Pulse Elite experience in 2027.

Be sure to check back soon for lots more PS5 and gaming news.

The PlayStation Pulse wireless headset in will be available in select regions starting on November 19, 2026. The Pulse Edge Wireless headset launch starting in early 2027.

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Marvel’s Wolverine was the best-selling video game in the US for September 2026, despite facing multiple controversies around launch. According to sales tracking company Circana, Insomniac Games’ PS5 exclusive beat out new releases from EA, Capcom, and Nintendo to take the top spot.

Marvel’s Wolverine Was September’s Best-Selling Game in the US

While Marvel’s Wolverine has sparked plenty of debate online, that hasn’t stopped Logan from having a strong debut. Circana’s September rankings put the PlayStation exclusive ahead of NBA 2K27 and EA Sports FC 27, which finished second and third, respectively.

Nintendo’s Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave landed in fourth place, while The Blood of Dawnwalker rounded out the top five. For your convenience, here are the top 10 best-selling games in the US for September 2026:

Rank	Game
1	Marvel’s Wolverine
2	NBA 2K27
3	EA Sports FC 27
4	Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave
5	The Blood of Dawnwalker
6	WARDOGS
7	Onimusha: Way of the Sword
8	Halloween: The Game
9	Ace Combat 8
10	Madden NFL 27

Note: The rankings measure physical and full-game digital dollar sales, rather than the number of copies sold. Mobile games and digital add-on content are excluded.

Interestingly, Marvel’s Wolverine also delivered the biggest launch-month dollar sales for a Sony-published game since Helldivers 2 in February 2024. The superhero title entered the US year-to-date chart at number 11, giving it a strong starting position after its first month.

Marvel’s Wolverine Sells Strongly Despite Online Backlash

Of course, the road to that number-one debut wasn’t exactly quiet. If you followed the conversation around Marvel’s Wolverine at launch, you probably saw more than a few heated discussions.

Players mocked its Scent Trails as “fart gas,” prompting Insomniac to reduce their opacity in an update. Separately, Insomniac clarified that Logan and Sabretooth’s relationship wasn’t romantic after comments about their bond were misinterpreted online.

However, online backlash doesn’t necessarily tell us how everyone feels about a game. Its early PlayStation Store player ratings were overwhelmingly positive: 4.83/5 at launch, with over 92% awarding five stars.

Those launch ratings don’t represent every buyer, and strong sales alone can’t tell us whether someone enjoyed their purchase. Still, taken together, the early player response and September sales chart suggest the negative conversation wasn’t the whole story.

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Housemarque just dropped a huge free update for Saros that brings boss rush mode, New Game+, and a handful of additional game modifiers to all Saros owners.

Saros: Zenith Update Arrives October 19

Saros released earlier this year in April 2026 and delivered the highly-anticipated spiritual successor to Returnal. The game featured some similar mechanics, but a whole suite of new accessibility features and a unique system to make each run feel like it was worth the effort.

Saros players are pulled through the game by a unique mystery and narrative, but Housemarque is hoping to add some incentives to play through again even after the main story has been finished.

The Saros: Zenith update aims to add replayability for existing players who had already explored all of Carcosa, and make the game more accessible so even more people can discover the addictive, explosive, exhilarating bullet ballet gameplay that made Saros one of the highest rated action games of 2026.

One of the most unique additions is the Slow Game Speed mode. With this setting enabled, you can slow the game down to give yourself more time to react to hostile attack telegraphs, see the bullets as they fly towards you, and decide your response. The attacks remain the same, but you have a little more time to deal with them.

You have control over how much the game slows down, and can even choose if you want the setting to kick in automatically during combat, or if you want to manually toggle it on when things get hairy.

The new “Auto-fire” accessibility setting makes your weapon fire automatically when you are aiming at a hostile. We know that some players may find it difficult to hold a button down for extended periods of time, so we hope this will help. More broadly, it gives you one less button to worry about during combat, freeing up your brain cycles to hit that dash button at just the right time to avoid taking a hit. Importantly, however, this setting does not make reloading automatic. A perfect reload still requires a well-timed button press. Like our other features, this is designed to make the game more accessible, not remove opportunities for player skill expression.

Combined with the new Motion Sensor Aiming functionality and our existing button remapping settings, players now have many ways to customize how Saros controls.

Beyond these new accessibility features, the team has also greatly expanded the “Carcosan Modifier” system from Saros.

Using this system, players can apply various “Modifiers” to the world of Carcosa to tune the difficulty to their liking. Protection Modifiers alter the game in a way that makes it easier and more forgiving. Zenith brings 10 new Protection Modifiers, to give players having a difficult time even more ways of customizing their experience.

The New Game+ mode known as “Eclipse Layers” has also been introduced. After clearing Saros, mysterious new nodes will be added to the Armor Matrix back at Passage. These are the key to unlocking the gate to the next Eclipse Layer, a more intense version of the game with altered rules.

Be sure to check back soon for lots more Saros and Housemarque news and updates.

Saros is available now exclusively on PS5.

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Remember when the PS5 Pro launched and we all lost our collective minds about it costing $700, which is, to be fair, still an egregious price for a console? Good times.

If only we knew, right? The enormity of the AI component crunch hadn't quite hit us yet, and a future where people could still afford to play video games still seemed possible. — Read the rest

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