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SONY has detailed the top video games coming to the PS5 in the first three months of 2026 and bosses are confi- dent the machine will surge ahead of rivals this year.

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First up is Arknights: Endfield, a space opera role-playing game out on January 22. It's an action and exploration-driven blockbuster set in a "lavish, yet hostile high-tech world".

Then there's The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin on January 28. It's also an RPG but more colourful in design and anime in look where you and up to five players via drop-in/ out coop can explore a massive open-world of monsters, dungeons, and a multiversal quest.

The month ends on the release of Code Vein 2, a fantasy epic where you play a Revenant Hunter 100 years in the past rewriting the landscape of the present.

Think big beasties and huge boss battles aplenty as you're joined by uniquely equipped partners to slay the demons.

IT BEGAN with the forging of the great Lord of the Rings video games.

Three were given to the PlayStation 2 generation, the most timeless and iconic of movie-to-game adaptations.

Four were given to the PC supremacists, the wisest and fairest of all gamers.

And two. Two games were gifted to the ‘next-gen’ console idealists. Xbox One and PS4 fans who, above all else, desired quality graphics.

But the hearts of gamers are easily corrupted.

Oversaturation festered, fatigue kicked in, and long ago, in the year 2017, the age of good Lord of the Rings games came to a close.