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  Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 525

  And chill

  The release calendar for major PS5, PS4 titles is still a little dry at the moment, so if you're anything like our editorial team and range of freelancers, you'll be diving into indie hits, catching up on your backlog, or enjoying the Fallout TV show. Here's what's occupying our time this weekend. Aaron Bayne: Although I'm currently...

  • 5h ago
  • Talking Point
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • What Are You Playing
  • Features

YesterdayFri, 19th Apr 2024

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  Guide Final Fantasy 16 Guide: Your Ultimate Wiki and Walkthrough Resource

  A full guide for the action RPG

  Welcome to our Final Fantasy 16 guide, your ultimate resource to Square Enix's PS5 action RPG. We gave the game an 'excellent' 9/10 in our Final Fantasy 16 PS5 review, calling it "the best single-player Final Fantasy in over a decade". We've spent over 200 hours with the game in order to bring you this comprehensive...

  • 1d ago
  • Guides
  • PS5
  • Final Fantasy 16
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  Review Final Fantasy XVI: The Rising Tide (PS5) - A Fantastic Sendoff for Square's Action RPG

  Gonna need a bigger boat

  The Rising Tide is the second and final expansion for Final Fantasy 16, adding another worthwhile chapter to the tale of Clive Rosfield. Only accessible near the very end of the base game, this DLC is designed to be something of a sendoff for the action RPG, providing a new storyline that brings additional weight to the...

  • 21h ago
  • Reviews
  • Square Enix
  • PS5
  • Final Fantasy 16: The Rising Tide
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  News Sony Reportedly in Talks to Team Up for Paramount Bid

  Sony Pictures Entertainment on the prowl

  News has been quiet on the acquisition front in recent days, at least when it comes to video game IP. However, according to a new report, Sony is currently in talks with a monied ally to acquire storied picture-house Paramount and all the cross-media potential such an addition would bring. That's according...

  • 1d ago
  • Sony
  • Industry
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  55

  News It Looks Like Kena: Bridge of Spirits Is Heading to New Platforms

  ESRB rating for Xbox Series X|S version spotted

  Ember Lab will seemingly be spreading its wings for pastures new in the future as a new ESRB rating all but confirms an Xbox Series X|S version of Kena: Bridge of Spirits is in the works. First released for the PS5, PS4, and PC in September 2021, the Xbox port could bring up to three years of console...

  • 1d ago
  • Ember Lab
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Kena: Bridge of Spirits
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  News Future Dragon's Dogma 2 Update Will Nerf Its Coolest Mechanic

  Dragonsplague infection reduced

  Capcom has shared a list of patch notes for a Dragon's Dogma 2 PS5 update that'll drop at some point later this month, and chief among them is news the game's dragonsplague mechanic will be reduced in frequency and made much more easily noticeable. The patch notes confirm the infection will be spread at a slower rate...

  • 1d ago
  • Capcom
  • PS5
  • Dragon's Dogma
  • Updates
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  News Vampiric RPG V Rising Gets Gothic PS5 Gameplay Trailer

  Fangtastic

  V Rising is an enormously popular vampire RPG currently in Early Access on Steam, where even in its currently unfinished state, it enjoys Very Positive reviews overall. Announced for PS5, we got a better look at the kind of gameplay particularly bloodthirsty players can look forward to sinking their teeth into. The premise of V Rising is...

  • 1d ago
  • Stunlock Studios
  • PS5
  • V Rising
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  32

  News Fallout Season 2 Is Official as Show Becomes One of Amazon’s Most-Watched

  Everyone liked that

  Amazon has now officially announced a second season of its overwhelmingly successful Fallout TV adaptation shall be shot and released on its Amazon Prime streaming service. A second batch of episodes appeared likely after the series was handed $25 million of Californian tax credits, but now it's official. Within the first four...

  • 2d ago
  • Amazon
  • TV
  • Fallout
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  News Eiyuden Chronicle Sequel Will Move Forward, Despite Death of Creator

  Rabbit & Bear Studios to carry on Murayama's legacy

  Sadly, February marked the passing of Yoshitaka Murayama, the legendary creator of Suikoden and its spiritual successor, Eiyuden Chronicle, with Hundred Heroes releasing on PS5 and PS4 next week. Developer Rabbit & Bear Studios has announced its intenti

  • 1d ago
  • Rabbit & Bear
  • PS5
  • Eiyuden Chronicle
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  News Sony Collaborating on SEGA's Golden Axe Animated Series

  Bringing peace to the land is my duty!

  The immortal SEGA brawler Golden Axe is being resurrected as a comedic animated series, of all things. Ordered by Comedy Central and produced by CBS Studios in collaboration with Sony Pictures, the series will undoubtedly feature buxom men and women battling dragons and various beasts, and presumably, hilarity...

  • 1d ago
  • SEGA
  • Sony Pictures
  • TV
  • Golden Axe
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  News Super Earth Demands Helldivers 2 Players Slaughter 2 Billion Terminids

  To replenish precious supplies of E-710

  Helldivers 2 players have been issued a new directive as the Galactic War effort again devolves into a grinding stalemate. The Automatons have deployed increasing numbers of Factory Striders to break the impasse, but for now, the line holds. To amass the necessary fuel to fire a Super Earth counterattack,...

  • 1d ago
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • Helldivers

Thursday18th Apr 2024

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  News You Can Now Unbrick Any Sony PSP

  Time Extension "Turn your worthless brick into your precious handheld device"

  The Sony PlayStation Portable was a fantastic handheld during its active lifespan, but it's arguably an even more exciting one today thanks to the fact that it's so easy to hack it with custom firmware, opening up homebrew and emulation possibilities. Indeed, many people still swear by...

  • 2d ago
  • PSP
  • Mods
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  News Fallout 4 Sales Up 7,500% in Europe as Bethesda Series Dominates

  Four Fallout games in the top 10

  Bethesda has managed to successfully spread Fallout fever off the back of Amazon Prime's well-received TV show, with sales of Fallout 4 increasing by a whopping 7,500 per cent in Europe. It was the continent's best-selling game last week, accounting for both physical and digital purchases. Other titles in the RPG...

  • 2d ago
  • Bethesda
  • Fallout
  • Sales
  • Europe
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  58

  Poll Are You Playing Final Fantasy 16: The Rising Tide?

  Making waves

  The second and final expansion for Final Fantasy 16, titled The Rising Tide, is out now on PS5 — and if you can believe it, we're fast approaching the base game's first anniversary. But such a realisation has made us wonder... Are you returning to Final Fantasy 16 in order to play through this new DLC? Or could it be that the...

  • 2d ago
  • Square Enix
  • PS5
  • Final Fantasy
  • Polls
  • Features
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  50

  News Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Heads Back to Medieval Europe on PS5

  The "bigger, better" sequel is out this year

  Warhorse Studios has today announced Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, a PS5 sequel to the 2018 original. Set to release later this year, you can check out the reveal trailer above. The studio says it is a "bigger, better, and more ambitious" title that the team has grown to more than 250 employees to create...

  • 2d ago
  • Deep Silver
  • PS5
  • Kingdom Come
  • Announcements
  • Trailers
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  Rumour 2K Gearing Up for Mafia Announcement

  But don't go snitching

  A rumour is currently doing the rounds, suggesting that we could learn more about 2K's plans for the Mafia series' future (or perhaps past) in the days ahead. A new game was confirmed to be in development back in 2022, potentially a prequel, and we've heard virtually nothing since. But the source says the reveal could just as...

  • 2d ago
  • 2K
  • Mafia
  • Rumours
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  News Take Back King City in Super-Powered Tactics Game Capes on PS5, PS4

  Save the day from 29th May

  Capes is a turn-based superhero tactics game set in a world where the villains have already won. We've had our eye on this one for a little while now, as it looks like it could be quite special. Here's hoping it won't be received as tragically as Firaxis' excellent

  • 2d ago
  • Daedelic Entertainment
  • PS5
  • Capes
  • Trailers
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  News Fallout Series Timeline Adds Up, Says Todd Howard

  "Everything that happened in the previous games, including New Vegas, happened"

  The release of Amazon's adaptation of Fallout has sparked a resurgence in the series and increased focus on the alt-history that binds it all together. Some fans recently raised concerns that events in the TV show seemingly retconned the events of the black sheep of the...

  • 2d ago
  • Amazon
  • Bethesda
  • TV
  • Fallout
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  News Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Making Two New Games, Its 'Best Work Ever'

  Also details BG3 Patch 7

  Baldur's Gate 3 team Larian Studios has confirmed it has two new games in the works as it looks to moves on from the Baldur's Gate IP. Having put together one of the greatest RPGs in a generation last year, the Belgian developer won't be making any new narrative content for the third iteration or creating a Baldu

  • 2d ago
  • Larian Studios
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  News Helldivers 2 Players Encountering Factory Striders in Unprecedented Numbers

  Automatons back AT-AT again

  Helldivers 2 players have recently managed to blunt the advance of the oncoming Automaton invasion fleet, with the conflict again devolving into a grinding stalemate. However, it seems the machines never rest on their laurels, as reports of the lumbering Factory Striders being deployed in unprecedented numbers begin to...

  • 2d ago
  • Sony
  • PS5
  • Helldivers
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  28

  News Imagine Earth Promises Sustainable Sci-Fi City Building on PS5, PS4 in May

  Earthly desires

  Imagine Earth, a city building strategy title that launched a few years back on PC and Xbox, is making the jump to PS5 and PS4 on the 9th May. The game takes place in 2084, and tasks you with creating sustainable civilisation on various alien planets, following on from the greed-driven ruin of humanity's original home. We think...

  • 2d ago
  • Serious Bros
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Imagine Earth
  • Release Dates
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  Preview Tails of Iron 2 Adds Monster Hunting, Undead Bats in Scaled Up Sequel

  Fight fur survival

  The original Tails of Iron was quietly a big success for developer Odd Bug Studio. The action RPG about a kingdom of rats has drawn in a lot of fans thanks to its sketch-like art style, deliberate combat, and explorable world. We suppose the fact it's narrated by Doug Cockle — voice of Geralt in The Witcher series — may have...

  • 2d ago
  • United Label
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Tails of Iron
  • Previews
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  News Braid: Aniversary Edition Briefly Delayed, But Will Boast 40 New Levels

  Fair trade

  Braid: Anniversary Edition has been hit with a brief delay, but the blow was softened by the news that the anticipated package will come packing some 40 additional levels. Developer Jonathon Blow revealed that the anticipated enhanced re-release will now arrive two weeks later than anticipated, on 15th May for PS5 and PS4. Officially...

  • 2d ago
  • Thekla
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Braid
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  News Darkest Dungeon 2 Revealed for PS5, PS4 with a 15th July Release Date

  PS Plus members get a discount

  Red Hook Studios has today confirmed Darkest Dungeon 2 will be releasing for PS5 and PS4 on 15th July 2024. Its DLC, The Binding Blade, is also being ported across to Sony systems, though you'll need to buy it on top of the base game. A discount is being offered to PS Plus members, and there'll also be an Oblivion...

  • 2d ago
  • Red Hook Studios
  • PS5
  • PS4
  • Darkest Dungeon
  • Announcements
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  News PSVR2 Rhythm Game Synth Riders Adds Choice 80s Hits with Upcoming DLC Pack

  Available 23rd April

  Synth Riders' impeccable slate of DLC just doesn't seem to have an end in sight, does it? Well, here we are once again, as the team at Kluge Interactive has cooked up something really special for this latest DLC: 80s Mixtape - Side A. Hot off the heels of the marvellous Electro Swing Essentials 2 pack, Synth Riders is tapping...

  • 2d ago
  • Kluge Interactive
  • PS5
  • PSVR2
  • Synth Riders
  • DLC
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  News Acclaimed RPG Shop Sim Potionomics Brews Up PS5 Masterwork Edition in 2024

  Tincture perfect

  Publisher Marvelous and developer Voracious Games have unveiled a console port of their well-received shopkeeping sim, Potionomics. Coming to PS5 this autumn as Potionomics: Masterwork Edition, this is a souped-up version of the game that adds various new features to the experience. Playing as Sylvia, a young witch who's...

  • 2d ago
  • Marvelous
  • PS5
  • Potionomics
  • Announcements
  • Trailers