It's that special time of year when the air is crisp, the holiday cheer is overwhelming and the only thing that sounds appealing is curling up on the couch with a big blanket and a brand new video game console. Luckily, the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 launched just over a month ago, and both of them are welcome living-room upgrades, offering more power, larger game worlds, and more seamless gameplay than the previous generation. In particular, the PS5 features a lineup of launch games worth your time. Here, we've collected five of the best titles available to play right now on PS5, just in time for your couch-based holiday plans. If you only play one game on PS5, make sure it's Miles Morales.

"Devil May Cry 5" offers an entirely new playable character, and not just anyone, but Vergil, the handsome, soft-spoken brother of hero Dante and the series antagonist. This is Vergil's first return to players' hands since the 2006 special edition of "Devil May Cry 3." Along with ray-traced graphics, it's practically an entirely new game with a beloved fan-favorite and long-missed character. Vergil runs through the same story chapters while receiving very few updates. Besides, "Devil May Cry 5" was already a stellar-looking title on the older consoles, already hitting the 60-frames-per-second mark that other series are only now catching up to. The ray tracing is nice, but merely a bonus that will go unnoticed; this series doesn't emphasize graphical fidelity so much as it does performance.

Steam's annual summer sale kicked off on Tuesday, so it's prime time to score deals on a wide variety of PC games that you may have overlooked over the past year. The Grand Prix Summer Sale will run through July 9, so you have exactly two weeks to enjoy discounts on games like the demonic action series "Devil May Cry 5", the latest Spartan hero adventure "Assassin's Creed Odyssey" and the first-person shooter video game "Rage 2." "Devil May Cry 5" is 34% off, "Assassin's Creed Odyssey" is half off, and "Rage 2," is now $40.19, down from $59.99. Some of the steepest roll-playing discounts are on the Japanese games "Nioh" (60% off) and "Valkyria Chronicles 4" (66% off). Steam Summer Sale 2019 has started. In case you didn't know, Steam is a multi-player platform that lets gamers buy, play, create and discuss PC games.

In 2002, veteran Capcom game director Hideaki Itsuno – then working on a pitch for an original action-RPG that later turned into Dragon's Dogma – was called upon to get an ailing Devil May Cry 2 out of the door. It sold decently, in the end, but was widely regarded as a critical flop. "When it finished up, they all realised they could have done better," explains Devil May Cry producer Matt Walker (and Itsuno's translator for this interview). "So he and others at Capcom said, we're going to take all of our collective knowledge on how to make a good fighting game, a good action game, and put everything we can into making Devil May Cry 3. "And if this isn't received well, if this doesn't sell well, that's it. We'll just have to quit Capcom, and do something else." For the person helming one of the most outrageously hyperactive action game series out there, Itsuno is rather reserved in person. But his passion for action games is intense. Devil May Cry 3 was a massive success, and this year's Devil May Cry 5 has been celebrated as a return to form for the whole genre. "We didn't look at other action games for DMC5," Itsuno explains, "though one thing we did do was look at Monster Hunter World, which was a massive effort for Capcom – it made a lot of improvements to make it easier for people to get into." Instead, he says, they focused on what was great about Devil May Cry in the first place. "What makes action games fun hasn't changed in 30 years," explains Itsuno. "You come up against a challenge, and maybe you don't beat it the first time, but you know what you did wrong.

The problem is when Devil May Cry is at its best, it defies explanation. Sure you can try, and I'm going to for professional reasons. But half the game is "You have to see it to believe it" and the other half is "You have to play it to understand" and the two meet at the middle (albeit joined by some clunky loading screens) to create a relentlessly entertaining video game--one that's self-confident, satisfying, and stylish as hell. Imagine my surprise, that in the span of a year Capcom could make me a fan of first Monster Hunter, then Resident Evil, and now Devil May Cry. It's an incredible run, by a company that a few years ago I would've said seemed listless. In any case, this is the first Devil May Cry in over a decade--for fans, that is.

Ten years after the debut of Devil May Cry 4, Nero is back in the driver's seat and he's never looked better. It's not just the haircut, either -- Devil May Cry 5 runs on the RE Engine built for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, and Capcom's goal is to build a photorealistic game filled with gooey demons, witty one-liners and flashy combos. The title's first hands-on demo at Gamescom 2018 highlights these exact elements and wraps all of it up in an ichor-crusted, gorgeous package. Devil May Cry 4 was the first game in the franchise to star Nero, a reluctant ally to series protagonist Dante. Nero is a human with a smattering of supernatural abilities, including a demon-powered arm named Devil Bringer.

Devil May Cry 5 is due to land on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC on March 8th, 2019, Capcom announced today during the special Gamescom edition of the Inside Xbox livestream. Devil May Cry 5 is the sequel to Devil May Cry 4, which came out in 2008, and it marks the return of series shepherd Hideaki Itsuno as director. Ninja Theory briefly took over the franchise with DmC: Devil May Cry in 2013, and while Devil May Cry 5 takes some styling tips from that game, it doesn't follow its storyline directly. Devil May Cry 5 picks up where Devil May Cry 4 left off, and it stars three playable characters: Dante, Nero and an unknown protagonist in a long black trench vest. Nero historically has a demon-powered arm called Devil Bringer, and it's ripped from his body at the beginning of Devil May Cry 5. It's replaced by a series of robotic arms (called Devil Breakers) created by Nero's partner in demon-fighting crime, Nico.

State of Decay was the best-selling game of May, 2018. Xbox One had the best-selling video game of May, 2018 while Sony won out in hardware sales. Overall, May was a strong month for video game hardware, with Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo achieving all-time record sales for the month. Spending across all categories increased 13% over last year to $685 million. Hardware and accessory growth offset a downturn in software sales.

God of War was the best-selling video game of April. God Of War topped video game sales charts in April of 2018, surprising no one. Meanwhile, the PlayStation 4 was the best-selling video game console. Once again, Sony had a very good month. Overall video game spending on hardware, software, accessories and game cards grew by 18% in April over a year ago, reaching $823 million.

Reinvention doesn't always have to be dramatic. Whether it's a long-running movie series, the seventh season of a TV show or the fifth entry in a popular video game franchise, subtle changes can be made to feel radical. In Far Cry 5, Ubisoft managed to reinvent its massively popular open world first-person shooter without losing much, if any, of what made the franchise such a hit in the first place simply by tearing down the artifice and placing an emphasis on player freedom. Ubisoft trusts players to find the fun this time around, and it pays off in a big way. On its most basic level, Far Cry 5 is about the takeover of the fictional Hope County, Montana by a doomsday cult that calls itself The Project at Eden's Gate.