Discord has finally received a much-needed overhaul on PS5

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The Discord mascot stood in front of a screenshot of the new PS5 Discord user interface.
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Discord and PlayStation are beginning to roll out a new update that finally introduces the ability to join a Discord call directly from your PlayStation 5. This feature will become available globally over the next few weeks and cuts out the need to constantly reach for your phone to open the mobile app, which was previously required to start a call.

Those who want to take advantage of this new feature need to ensure that their PlayStation Network and Discord accounts are linked. If you have already been making use of Discord on the PS5, then this is almost certainly the case and you won’t need to do it again. With that sorted, to join a call you just need to take your DualSense Wireless Controller, hit the PlayStation button to open the Control Center, and navigate to the Game Base. 

From there you can select a new 'Discord’ option, which will display a list of your current servers in addition to the option to browse your direct messages (DMs) and group DMs. Once you have selected a server voice channel to join (or picked a user or group DM to call) you are shown a preview of the call’s current participants and can press ‘join’ to connect and start chatting.

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It’s a huge improvement over the previous system, which needed you to start a call on your phone before transferring it over to the PS5. It was a seriously clunky way to implement Discord functionality and I’m personally looking forward to jumping into future calls much more easily.

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Dashiell Wood
Dashiell Wood
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Dash is an experienced tech journalist who specializes in video games, electronic entertainment products, and the wider industry that surrounds them. He currently serves as the Gaming Editor at TechRadar, leading our review, preview, feature, and news coverage of the latest and greatest releases.

Before joining the team, he was Contributing Writer at PLAY (formerly Official PlayStation Magazine UK) and has written articles for many of the UK's other biggest gaming magazines including the likes of Edge, PC Gamer, and SFX.

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