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Best TVs for PS5 2024: Pick The Right TV For Your PlayStation 5

The PlayStation 5 offers an immersive window into a cavalcade of eye-popping worlds. Whether you’re swinging through the streets of New York in Marvel’s Spiderman 2 or taking on the pantheon in God of War: Ragnarok, you’re going to want a screen that provides such experiences with the visual justice they deserve. The best TVs for PS5 capture high-intensity moments in exquisite definition, elevating superhero action sequences and, of course, the emotionally charged heart-to-hearts that follow.

TL;DR – These Are the Best TVs for PS5:

There are boatloads of exciting features to consider when buying a new TV to use with your PlayStation 5. Before making the ultimate choice, we recommend considering the lighting and orientation of your room and whether you intend to mount your TV. No matter how fantastic the specs of your desired screen are, awkward lighting and frustrating architecture can get in the way of your fun. Never fear, though, as we’ve kept these considerations in mind while rounding up the best TVs for PS5.

The Best TVs for PS5:

1. LG 65″ C3 OLED Evo

Best TV for PS5

Pros:

  • Four HDMI 2.1 inputs if you have multiple consoles
  • 120Hz Refresh rate allows PS5 games to look fluid

Cons:

  • Similar to LG’s previous iteration in design and quality

The LG 65” C3 OLED Evo is a fantastic TV in its own right and a great companion for your PlayStation 5. The 4K OLED display on the C3 is a boon for games and movies, boasting vibrancy and definition across each dramatic frame. It’s a top-of-the-range option that exacerbates the cinematic splendour of the PS5’s best games, from Alan Wake 2 to Returnal. You can also take advantage of the screen’s silky smooth 120hz refresh rate where supported, which is handy for high-intensity shooters. If you have a few next-gen consoles or streaming devices to juggle, the C3’s four HDMI 2.1 ports will come in handy, too. There’s no need to cable-manage when jumping between your PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X or pivoting to your Apple TV for a Netflix session.

The C3 has a thin profile and sits on a minimalist stainless steel stand that looks and feels both expensive and modern. While we love the 65”, the C3 comes in a great range of sizes, starting at 42” and going up to 83”, and you can find the right size to suit your setup.

2. Sony 65″ Bravia X90L

Best LED TV for PS5

Pros:

  • Auto HDR Tone Mapping creates great contrast and clarity
  • Fluid gameplay thanks to a high refresh rate

Cons:

  • The LED panel isn’t as vibrant as an OLED panel

The Sony 65″ X90L is a smart mid-range option for PS5 players who want high frame rates. Offering up to a 120Hz refresh rate, the X90L allows for a buttery smooth and responsive experience when indulging in compatible games. Plus, for improved contrast and clarity, the TV’s Auto HDR Tone Mapping automatically adjusts the High Dynamic Range as you jump between your favourite first-party titles.

One caveat to consider with this particular TV is that it has an LED panel instead of an OLED, which can appear slightly less vibrant when viewed from certain angles. Regardless, the X90L offers deep blacks and bright, life-like colours, which will make the planets pop as you chart the galaxy in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart.

3. Sony 65″ Class Bravia A95L OLED

Best OLED TV for PS5

Pros:

  • Bespoke settings menus for individual games
  • QD-OLED screen delivers stunning contrast

Cons:

  • Premium price point isn’t for everyone

If you’re keen to pair a Sony TV with the PlayStation 5, the powerful Bravia XR A95L should be at the top of your list. Two HDMI 2.1 ports support a 120Hz refresh rate, ensuring smooth visual sailing as you play. Moreover, with variable refresh rate and auto low latency mode at your disposal, the A95L will automatically pair the refresh rate and your chosen game to eliminate screen tearing.

Like the Sony XL90, the A95L has Auto HDR Tone Mapping to ensure the best picture from moment to moment. However, what makes this TV stand out amongst the other OLED offerings on our list is Sony’s QD-OLED screen, which provides vibrant hues and improved brightness. If you want to get into the nitty gritty, the A95L also has a bespoke gaming menu that allows you to stick a crosshair on the screen and tinker with other gaming-focused settings.

4. Samsung 65″ QN90C Smart QLED

Best cinematic TV for PS5

Pros

  • 65” QLED display elevates cinematic games
  • VRR and ALLM support helps to prevent screen tearing

Cons

  • Expensive

Boasting VRR, ALLM, and 120hz support, the Samsung QN90C QLED Smart TV provides a worry-free experience when tackling the best games the PlayStation 5 has to offer. So, there’s no need to worry about screen tearing when scaling heights and fighting foes in Horizon Forbidden West. These features are available when using one of four HDMI 2.1 ports on the TV, which is an added bonus for those who like to peruse both PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass.

Cinematic games like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth look striking on the Samsung QN90C, courtesy of its 65” QLED display and Quantum Dot technology, which amplifies details and contrasts deep blacks against rich hues. The QN90C also has some helpful built-in anti-glare technology, so your co-op besties won’t miss out on the drama wherever they choose to sit.

5. Hisense 65″ U7 Series ULED

Best budget TV for PS5

Pros:

  • Lots of bang for your buck
  • Slim, chic design

Cons:

  • ULED Display isn’t great at certain viewing angles

If you want gaming features but don’t want to break the bank, it’s worth considering the Hisense U7 Series as a companion for your PlayStation 5. The U7 might not offer an OLED panel, but its ULED technology is still impressive, utilising Full-Array Local Dimming and mini-LEDs to maintain a high level of contrast across the screen. As such, a dramatic spell or gloomy dungeon bonfire won’t disrupt the atmosphere of the whole scene. The Hisense U7K also supports Dolby Vision, managing HDR and wide colour gamut for increased clarity and colour payoff. Slim in design, the U7K’s minimal bezels give the budget TV a sleek look that won’t distract from what’s on screen. This makes it a fantastic option for streaming content and playing games.

Upcoming TVs For PS5

At the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show, LG revealed its upcoming range of OLED products, including the M4, C4 and G4. While we haven’t been hands-on with the new range, LG confirmed the devices will have the brand’s Alpha 11 processor, which LG stated was “a 70 percent improvement in graphic performance and a 30 percent faster processing speed compared to its predecessor.”

The brand went on to detail its five-year commitment to updating its TVs’ WebOS, including models from the 2022 lineup. While they didn’t go into specifics, they did say they wanted consumers to get an “up-to-date user experience” and wanted to keep menu navigation modern, too.

How To Pick the Best TV For PS5

When picking a TV to pair with your PS5, pay close attention to important details that have a greater bearing on gaming, like refresh rate, display type, and inputs.

TV size and screen placement can also affect your experience outside of specs alone, with issues like glare able to thwart your best-laid PS5 plans. We’d suggest testing the room’s natural lighting over a full day to avoid running into any problems. With this in mind, our list includes TVs with multiple sizing options so you can adequately measure up and find a match to fit your living space. When switching between sizes while shopping, be sure to recheck the specs to ensure you are happy with the details of the model.

FAQ

Do I need a specific kind of TV for my PS5?

If your TV has a basic HDMI port, it will work with your PS5 for all intents and purposes. However, a TV’s specs can dictate the visual quality and allow you to access certain features such as VRR and Dolby Vision. For example, if high refresh rate gaming is important to you, your TV will need to have an HDMI 2.1 port and support 120Hz.

Do I need a 120Hz refresh rate TV for my PS5?

While you don’t need a TV with 120Hz capabilities to enjoy games on your PS5, the higher refresh rate will allow you to experience a select number of games, such as God of War: Ragnarok, Fortnite, and Destiny 2, with greater fluidity. However, gaming at 120hz is by no means standard on PS5, with many top-flight titles opting for a lower frame rate that delivers a more reliable visual experience.

Hide among NPCs and knife your pal in this free same-screen multiplayer murderfest

Hey, do you like going shoulder-to-shoulder with a pal to battle in same-screen local multiplayer games? Follow-up question: do you enjoy deceiving your pal while trying to uncover their own deceit? Last question: do you want to throw knives at your pal’s face? If so, check out Neon Knives, a fun free same-screen game for two players where you must both try to blend into a crowd of NPCs while identifying and assassinating your mate.

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Guide: Best Final Fantasy Games, Ranked – Switch And Nintendo Systems

Every single Final Fantasy game, mainline or spin-off, ranked by you.

Update: 2nd April 2024 is the 30th anniversary of Final Fantasy VI — originally known as Final Fantasy III — on the SNES. And to celebrate, we’ve completely revamped our Best Final Fantasy Games list to include not just the mainline games, but also the spin-offs.

Don’t worry, though, this is still a user-ranked list — we’ve just expanded this massively. Now you can vote for every version and every spin-off in the Final Fantasy franchise. Enjoy!

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Helldivers 2 Patch Stealth Drops New and Terrifying Automaton Enemies

Just as the Helldivers 2 community was trying to make sense of mysterious cloaked ships and get to grips with a balance-changing update that adds new planetary hazards, players found more additions to the game developer Arrowhead failed to announce up front in the patch notes.

Spoilers for Helldivers 2 follow.

The Automatons, Helldivers 2’s alien robot faction, now have new aerial gunships at their disposal. These were signaled in flavor text from a recently completed Major Order, and are causing havoc on the battlefield by firing deadly red lasers from above. Thankfully, the aerial gunships can be destroyed, although you’ll need sufficiently powerful weaponry to do so. Heavy duty Stratagems such as the Expendable Anti-Tank and the recently released Quasar Cannon appear to be well-suited to dealing with the aerial gunships. The Spear looks handy, too.

Aerial gunships aren’t the only stealth drop added to the game. Players have also come up against imposing AT-AT-style quadruped tanks. Based on early reports, these beasts take a hell of a lot of punishment, so be prepared to drop the odd Orbital Laser or two when you take one on.

These fun additions are all part of the ongoing Helldivers 2 live service, and tie into its wonderful meta narrative driven by Game Master Joel. Yesterday, April 1, Arrowhead delivered a new Major Order to Helldivers 2 players, giving them a 24-hour window to finally take back Malevelon Creek, the Automaton map dubbed ‘Space Vietnam’ by fans. The planet was liberated in only about five hours. Today, April 2, Arrowhead launched a new Major Order to fend off the Automaton counterattack. Now we know the bots are not messing about.

Meanwhile, it appears Arrowhead made another fun change to Helldivers 2 with today’s patch that it failed to disclose: post-game gore. As players have reported, and IGN has witnessed in-game, Helldivers are now bringing blood and guts back with them when they return from a mission, proudly displayed on armor.

If you’re looking for more on Helldivers 2, check out IGN’s feature on the Let Me Solo Her of Helldivers 2, a player who has answered over 100 SOS Beacons as part of a mission to help others.

Helldivers 2 has become one of the surprise hits of 2024 since launching in February, topping the charts on Steam and reportedly selling around three million copies. According to at least one analyst, it’s still growing. Check out IGN’s Helldivers 2 review to find out why it’s going down so well.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

In Left 4 Dead and Diablo-influenced space shooter Jump Ship, you can wreck yourself by making pizza

In Keepsake’s co-op four-player space game Jump Ship, née Hyperspace, you can scuttle your own vessel by overcooking a pizza. There’s a cooking minigame in your ship’s canteen which grants a health boost if you nail the timing, and sparks off a fire if you don’t.

It’s a pretty minor fire, mind you. A combusting deep dish doesn’t place very highly on the list of possible ship emergencies next to, say, your reactor coughing up nuclear rods, or your engines running out of juice because some oaf hooked up too many turrets to the aforesaid reactor. But if you leave the fire unchecked, perhaps because you’re busy disposing of radioactive waste or vengefully unplugging half the point defences, it’ll eventually singe your ship’s health to nothing – insert appropriate Steam achievement pun and/or Klingon proverb. It’s an agreeable little note of idiocy in a game that takes cues from Valve’s timeless anecdote generator Left 4 Dead, Sea Of Thieves, FTL and, perhaps most surprisingly, Diablo.

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GTA+ Gets Bully and LA Noire Later This Year, Rockstar Teases ‘Big’ GTA Online Update This Summer

Rockstar has announced plans to add Bully and LA Noire to GTA+ later in 2024.

The ‘Games Included With GTA+’ library recently saw the addition of Red Dead Redemption. Bully and LA Noire, both published by Rockstar Games, are next up, although Rockstar’s wording here suggests more games are coming.

“We recently added Red Dead Redemption — with access to Undead Nightmare — to the stellar Games Included With GTA+ library, and Members can look forward to more Rockstar classics becoming available later this year, including L.A. Noire and Bully,” Rockstar said.

Bully is Rockstar Vancouver’s much-loved open-world juvenile delinquent sim that first launched in 2006 on PlayStation 2. A sequel was once in development at Rockstar’s New England studio in the late 2000s, but obviously never came out. In November, the alleged leak of a database file for Grand Theft Auto 5 was found to include reference to the unreleased Bully 2, with some of its ideas making it into other Rockstar games like Red Dead Redemption 2.

LA Noire, meanwhile, is Team Bondi’s 2011 open-world game set in 1947 Los Angeles. As with Bully, fans have called for a sequel, although Team Bondi itself is no more.

In its announcement, Rockstar teased a new supercar for this summer’s “big” GTA Online update: “Plus, look out for the opportunity to secure a new bonus super car as part of your GTA+ Membership with this summer’s big GTA Online update,” the company said.

All this comes with GTA 6 looming over the horizon. Rockstar has said it will come out at some point in 2025. It has yet to say what will happen to the existing GTA Online when it does.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Screenshot Saturday Tuesday: What’s a three-day lag when there are all these games to admire?

Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. Well, on Tuesday this week, thanks to the four-day Easter weekend. But the games look just as attractive and interesting as they did on Saturday, so what’s the hurry? Check these out!

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MechWarrior 5: Clans Preview – Bringing Narrative-Driven Campaign Back to MechWarrior

While I can’t honestly call myself a diehard MechWarrior fan – I’ve never played the pen-and-paper roleplaying game, for instance – I have enjoyed many of the video games over the years, from MechWarrior 3 to both MechAssault games on Xbox. I skipped the original version of MechWarrior 5 because, while it was by most accounts a good game, its content was all procedurally generated. It wasn’t narrative-driven. And I love a good story-first MechWarrior campaign.

MechWarrior 5: Clans, then, appears to be exactly what I’ve been asking for: a narrative-led MechWarrior campaign that also happens to offer five-player co-op. It picks up immediately where 2019’s MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries – itself the first single-player MechWarrior game of any kind since 2002 – left off. I got a first-look demo of Clans and really liked what I saw.

Clans casts you as Smoke Jaguar clan in, as usual, the 31st century amid ongoing clan-based Mech warfare. You’ve got five teammates to work with: Jayden, Liam, Mia, Nasir, and Ezra. You’ll hear the most from Jayden, the star’s leader (a star is a group of five Mechs in the BattleTech universe, if you weren’t familiar). When playing in single-player you can either take direct control of any of them at any given time, or you can issue orders from either a quickly accessed radial menu or a battlefield map that you can pull up anytime – all of it in real-time without any pausing of the combat. For what it’s worth, they seem reasonably good at executing those orders if you leave the friendly AI to do the work.

When playing in single-player you can either take direct control of any of them at any given time, or you can issue orders from either a quickly accessed radial menu or a battlefield map that you can pull up anytime – all of it in real-time without any pausing of the combat.

Naturally, all of the usual MechWarrior features are here: jump jets, tons of Mech variety (my demo driver was piloting a Shadow Cat, though I’ve always favored the slower but harder-hitting Assault class Atlas myself), and plenty of weapon loadouts, from guns to missiles to lasers to gauss cannons. As ever, you can try to scattershot enemy Mechs with as much damage as possible with no regard to where those shots land, or you can pinpoint specific areas of each Mech, such as trying to blow off its arms or causing it to topple over by blasting off one of its legs.

Speaking of controls, mouse and keyboard input and output looked smooth, from what I could see, and developer Piranha Games promises slick gamepad controls as well, which should please folks who plan to play Clans on Xbox or PS5. On that note, Piranha aims to ship both the PC and console versions of Clans simultaneously. Furthermore, you can opt for a first-person camera or see your Mech from a third-person perspective.

While the underlying action seems solid – as you’d expect after Piranha’s already taken a bite at the MechWarrior 5 apple – it’s the 31st-century sci-fi struggle I am most eager to see from the story. I enjoyed seeing orders come in from Sarah Weaver through a picture-in-picture window as you stomped around the battlefield, and I’m eager to see where this MechWarrior’s story takes us. Gameplay, meanwhile, seems faster than what I remember from the joystick-preferred older MechWarrior offerings on PC, but certainly not as speedy as the Xbox’s classic MechAssault games.

It’s great to see single-player take center stage once again in a MechWarrior game, though the fact that you can bring along up to four friends in five-player co-op is a nice bonus for Clans. It’s due out later this year. I, for one, can’t wait to get back to the future.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s executive editor of previews and host of both IGN’s weekly Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, as well as our monthly(-ish) interview show, IGN Unfiltered. He’s a North Jersey guy, so it’s “Taylor ham,” not “pork roll.” Debate it with him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan.

Sons Of Valhalla Review: A mostly brilliant tac-and-slash tug of war

Like an aggressively competitive thane at a reindeer-piss guzzling contest, 2D tac-and-slash roguelite Sons Of Valhalla never lets up the pace for even a moment. Whether you’re charging across its pixel-art battlefields slashing and burning increasingly tough-to-crack strongholds, or making quick decisions to get the upper hand in its tug-of-war tactics, the only times Thorald is not doing cool violence, commanding others to do cool violence, or upgrading his camps so that he may act in cooler and more violent ways, is when he’s restoring stamina with a cool slug of mead or violently gnawing at health-boosting meat.

Viking Thorald Olavson is a man possessed. A rival Jarl burnt his village and nicked his wife Raya. In his quest to find her, he’s prepared to do anything – even visit England. As Thorald, you’ll butcher your way up a chain of command in your search for Raya across six stages, each of which sits somewhere between the side-scrolling tactics of Kingdom Two Crowns, the lane strategy of a Warpips, and the slashy/blocky/shooty/dodgy of any 2D ARPG you care to name.

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Nightdive Is Remastering One Of The Most Insane FPS Games From The ’90s

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One of the best ways that studios have capitalised on April Fool’s Day in recent years is by announcing a seemingly absurd project that couldn’t possibly have been greenlit for real, only for it to wind up being a wonderful reality.

This time, retro specialist Nightdive Studios is tackling one of the most ridiculous, polarising FPS games from the ’90s: PO’ed.

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