{"id":719616,"date":"2026-07-30T19:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719616\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:27:17","slug":"in-the-busiest-gaming-month-of-the-year-ps5s-control-resonant-will-take-up-a-lot-of-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719616\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Busiest Gaming Month of the Year, PS5&#8217;s Control Resonant Will Take Up a Lot of Your Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"In the Busiest Gaming Month of the Year, PS5&#039;s Control Resonant Will Take Up a Lot of Your Time 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/04b3bd1e08c60\/in-the-busiest-gaming-month-of-the-year-ps5s-control-resonant-will-take-up-a-lot-of-your-time-1.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/in-the-busiest-gaming-month-of-the-year-ps5s-control-resonant-will-take-up-a-lot-of-your-time-1.900x.jpeg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"In the Busiest Gaming Month of the Year, PS5's Control Resonant Will Take Up a Lot of Your Time 1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>September is the apocalypse for new console releases, with games like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/marvels_wolverine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marvel\u2019s Wolverine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/blood_of_dawnwalker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Blood of Dawnwalker<\/a> all vying for your attention.<\/p>\n<p>If you were hoping Control Resonant would be a breezy campaign you could beat in around 10 hours like its predecessor, then \u2013 well, think again.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/gaming\/i-asked-control-resonants-gameplay-designer-all-my-burning-questions-how-the-combats-melee-focus-differs-from-the-original-and-why-you-havent-played-anything-exactly-like-what-youll-see-in-its-30-hour-length\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tech Radar<\/a>, lead gameplay designer Sergey Mohov confirmed the core experience of the upcoming campaign will take around 30 hours to beat. Completionists can expect to be kept occupied for closer to the 50 hour mark.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously this is a huge increase on the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/control\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Control<\/a>, which was quite a breezy campaign. But based on what we\u2019ve played so far, it\u2019s not a bad thing: in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/previews\/like-a-greatest-hits-game-remedy-peaks-in-control-resonant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our hands-on preview earlier in the year<\/a> we came away thoroughly impressed with what Remedy\u2019s been building.<\/p>\n<p>But it does mean you may have to rethink some of your September gaming: remember, Control: Resonant is due out on the same day as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/silent_hill_townfall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Silent Hill: Townfall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With so many PS5 games planned for this holiday, you\u2019re really going to have to pick which titles you\u2019re going to pick up carefully.<\/p>\n<p>Will Control: Resonant be one of them?<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/gaming\/i-asked-control-resonants-gameplay-designer-all-my-burning-questions-how-the-combats-melee-focus-differs-from-the-original-and-why-you-havent-played-anything-exactly-like-what-youll-see-in-its-30-hour-length\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/gaming\/i-asked-control-resonants-gameplay-designer-all-my-burning-questions-how-the-combats-melee-focus-differs-from-the-original-and-why-you-havent-played-anything-exactly-like-what-youll-see-in-its-30-hour-length\" target=\"_blank\">techradar.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\tRelated Games<\/p>\n<p>\tSee Also<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759573209_524_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sammy Barker\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September is the apocalypse for new console releases, with games like Marvel\u2019s Wolverine and The Blood of Dawnwalker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11408,59,112,124621,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-719616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-control","tag-gb","tag-ps5","tag-remedy","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}