Hands On Assassin's Creed Unity's PS5 Update Has Made Us Rethink That 5/10 Review
Revolutionary
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Ranger danger
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- Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
Holding hands is good for your health
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Mini Review WWE 2K26 (PS5) - Grappling Sim's Championship Reign Holds Strong
It's clobbering time
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News Fortnite, the Biggest Game in the World, Wants You to Help Pay Its Bills
"We're raising prices to help pay the bills"
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TodayTue, 10th Mar 2026
News As PS6 Delay Rumours Swirl, Fans Debate Ray Tracing's Worth
Ray to go
A slew of viral posts on social media overnight have sparked a debate about the merits of ray tracing. As far as we can tell, the discussion was started by PlayStation power user Pyo, who some of you will be familiar with if you use X (or Twitter). He said: “Hot take but ray tracing is one of the most unnecessary things implemented to...
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- PS5
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News Fortnite, the Biggest Game in the World, Wants You to Help Pay Its Bills
"We're raising prices to help pay the bills"
According to Epic Games, the cost of running Fortnite has "gone up a lot", and so it wants its playerbase to help pay the increased bills. To do this, it's raising the price of V-Bucks, the game's premium currency. "The cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot and we’re raising prices to help pay the...
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News Clair Obscur Dev Withdraws All Legal Action Against Unrelated Comic Book
Très bien
A comic book about a peasant who enrols at a magical school may be forced to change its name, following legal action from Sandfall Interactive. Olivier Gay’s L’Academie Clair-Obscur released earlier this year, after being conceived in 2019 and picked up by a publisher in 2024. But legal representatives for Clair Obscur: Expedition...
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News Ghost of Yotei's Massive Legends Update Out Now for Free on PS5
Legends, reborn
It's a big day for Ghost of Yotei fans, because its Legends update has just arrived on PS5. It weighs in at a whopping 27GB. As promised, this sizeable patch adds the anticipated co-op mode, which, based on what we've been told, is seriously robust. And yes, it's totally free for all Yotei owners. Much like Ghost of Tsushima's...
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Hands On Assassin's Creed Unity's PS5 Update Has Made Us Rethink That 5/10 Review
Revolutionary
Assassin's Creed Unity was a weird one, wasn't it? Arguably the most ambitious instalment in the series up until that point, Unity was panned at launch — primarily because it was an absolute shambles in terms of technical performance. Our own review of the game, which was first published all the way back in November 2014 — has it...
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News Invincible VS Invites Everyone to Get Beaten to a Bloody Pulp in Its PS5 Open Beta
Code red
Invincible VS is getting an open beta ahead of its full release on the 30th April. The incredibly bloody fighter has looked really promising up until now, so this'll be a big deal in terms of setting expectations for the finished game. To be clear, the title's had closed alpha tests in the past — but this is going to be based on a much...
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- Invincible
News 7 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for March 2026 Leaked Early
It's not FF16 or Dragon's Dogma 2
Sony will be revealing the full lineup of PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium games for March 2026 on Wednesday, 11th March, but the reliable leaker BillBil-Kun has once again beaten the company to the punch. The insider has revealed a total of seven games that'll be included in this month's selection,
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News Crimson Desert's PS5, PS5 Pro Modes Revealed, PS5 Pro Offers Substantial Upgrades
Performance, Balanced, and Quality modes detailed
Pearl Abyss has revealed Crimson Desert launches with three different graphical and performance modes on consoles, with base PS5 and PS5 Pro offering different resolutions and target frame rates. At launch, on 19th March 2026, here is what you'll have to choose from, depending on which PS5 console...
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News Hypothetically, Could Sony Stop Its PS5 Ports from Running on Xbox Helix?
The new era
We now know Xbox Helix, the next-gen system from Microsoft, will run PC games. This represents a dramatic change from the tried-and-trusted console business model, and it remains to be seen how the Redmond firm will square the circle. Platform holders like PlayStation and Nintendo have, historically, sold their hardware at a loss or...
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- PC
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Can't we all be pals?
All is fair in love and plagiarism. Palworld, already in an intense battle with Nintendo’s legal team, will now take a taste of its own medicine, with PickMon due out on PS5 at some point in the future. The game shares PocketPair’s love for Pokémon designs, but throws in sur
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News Sony Rated the Best Big Game Company to Work for in Japan, Beating Nintendo, Capcom, More
So says employee data
Sony — or more specifically, Sony Interactive Entertainment — is pretty much the best major gaming company to work for in Japan. Apparently. That statement's based on employee satisfaction data, as collected by analytics firm OpenMoney (via Automaton's translation). Said data highlights three important factors: average...
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News Metal Gear Solid Delta Already One of the Best-Selling Versions of MGS3
Sales hit two million milestone
Konami today confirmed last year's Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has surpassed two million sales worldwide. It's doubled its total sales since release in August 2025, when the PS5 remake instantly opened to one million purchases on launch day. The update actually means the latest edition is already one of the...
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News Resident Evil Requiem Story DLC Confirmed, Bonus Mode in May
Is that you, Mercenaries?
Capcom has confirmed it will be heavily supporting Resident Evil Requiem during this post-launch period, most notably in the form of a story expansion and an additional mode. In a video posted to social media, director Koshi Nakanishi reveals story-focused DLC is now in development, which will "delve deeper into the world...
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News Fallout 3 PS5 Is Fast Becoming One of the Worst Kept Secrets in Gaming
War games
Fallout fans have discovered another hint — from an unusual source — that a remaster of Fallout 3 may indeed be in the works. As shared on the series' Reddit, a group of new product listings from McFarlane Toys have emerged online, and a toy related to "Fallout 3 Remastered" is among them. You can view all the listings through the...
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News The Until Dawn PS5 Remake Studio Is Officially Gone for Good
Ballistic Moon is no more
Ballistic Moon, the UK developer that worked with Sony to remake Until Dawn for PS5, has been officially dissolved and now no longer exists. A final gazette notice was issued at the start of February 2026, meaning the company will be dissolved within the three months that follow 3rd February 2026. Just over a year ago, it...
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News Fan Fave Resident Evil 2 Is Getting a Third Remake, Exclusively in Arcades
Bandai Namco entrusted with all-time classic
Capcom’s awesome 2019 remake of 1998’s Resident Evil 2 is one of the best PS5 and PS4 games in recent memory. But now it’s getting a third adaptation, courtesy of Bandai Namco. This new version of the all-time classic will be available in arcades, and is being redesigned as a rails shooter-style...
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News 'Exclusives Are Absolutely Not Happening': Xbox Helix Will Share Library with PS6
"The plan's the plan until it's not the plan"
Inconsistent messaging from manufacturer Microsoft has prompted fresh speculation about whether it’ll continue to release its games on PlayStation. With new information on Xbox Helix expected at GDC this week, comments from CEO Asha Sharma have prompted a fresh wave of speculation about wh
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Holding hands is good for your health
Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Remake is absolutely terrifying. Team Ninja delivers unequivocal, spine-chilling survival horror, if — and it’s a really big if — you’re willing to stomach a few familiar frustrations. In recent years, Koei Tecmo has attempted to resurrect the Fatal Frame/Project Zero...
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YesterdayMon, 9th Mar 2026
Feature Last Chance to Get These 40+ PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Dealmania Sale
Cheap PS5 and PS4 games we recommend
Ring the bell, it's sale time on the PS Store — but not for much longer. Sony's latest bargain bonanza, named Dealmania, is upon us, and it runs until 11th March 2026, meaning there's only a couple of days left. There are thousands of PS5 and PS4 games with discounted prices, which can be a lot to browse...
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News 'This Should Be Illegal': PS5's Dynamic Pricing Roundly Criticised by Disgusted Sony Fans
"That is f***in' dirty"
There’s no two ways about it: Sony is testing dynamic pricing on the PS Store, and we’ve seen evidence of it ourselves. For those who aren’t aware, this works by adjusting the price of PS5 titles on a per user basis. So, a power user in one country may see a different discount to a casual player in another. The best...
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Guide These 10+ PS5, PS4 Games Are Coming Out This Week (9th-15th March)
Monster Hunter Stories! Fatal Frame! Toxic Commando! More!
March is a crazy month for new releases, but this particular week is a little quieter than you'd expect. We suppose the big new releases would be Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Remake and Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, but keep an eye on John Carpenter's Toxic Commando and...
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News Sony Confirms Exactly Who You'll Be Controlling In Castlevania: Belmont's Curse
Time Extension Update: ...or has it?
When Konami revealed Belmont's Curse, a new entry in the long-running Castlevania series, it triggered plenty of excitement – and a little bit of confusion, as it wasn't implicitly stated who the lead character would be. Sure, Trevor Belmont is shown in the footage, as is Sypha Belnades – both characters from Castlevania...
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Rumour PS Plus Extra Tipped to Add Two Giant PS5 Games This Month
But is it true?
A rumour doing the rounds in Saudi Arabia claims two colossal titles will be added to the PS Plus Extra catalogue this month. The report, which is circulating on social media, claims both Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 16 and Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma 2 will headline the lineup, making for one of the most impressive offerings in...
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- PS Plus
News The UK Has Gone Mad for Resident Evil After the Huge Success of Requiem on PS5
Resi revival
Capcom recently released Resident Evil Requiem, and it's been so successful that it's seemingly dragging along every other Resi game with it. That's certainly true in the UK; the latest physical retail charts have come in, and the top 10 includes five Resident Evil games across all platforms. Requiem is still number one, of course,...
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- Charts
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News PS5 Pro Sales Explode on the Back of PSSR 2 Hype, System Sells Out in Some Stores
Welcome to the party
PS5 Pro is enjoying a second wind over a year after it originally released, and Resident Evil Requiem’s outstanding use of PSSR 2 is probably to thank. Sony announced recently that it’ll be rolling out an updated version of its proprietary upscaler at some point in March. This will be available as a toggle for all existing...
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- PS5
News Limited Run Hits Reset on Its Disastrous Sonic X Shadow Generations Collector's Edition
"We owe you a clear apology"
Limited Run Games doesn't have the greatest reputation among enthusiasts, and its Sonic X Shadow Generations Collector's Edition is a prime example of why. In short, this particular product includes a large statue of the titular characters stood atop a Dreamcast, and in addition to taking a very long time to manufacture...
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News Myst, Riven Remakes Are Both Bound for PS5 Very Soon
Getting Myst-y eyed
It looks as though the remake of Riven is due to release imminently on PS5. The game is a classic first-person puzzle adventure that first released in 1997, but in 2024, developer Cyan Worlds released a full blown remake on PC. Now, it appears it'll be making its debut on consoles in due course. As reported by Gematsu, this...
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Ranger danger
Our big take from playing Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection is that this spin-off series has come an incredibly long way. It's gone from being a handheld RPG of relatively limited scope to being a big budget, borderline open world adventure packed with high quality cinematic storytelling. This could be Stories' true...
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- Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
They were originally designed by women
Alanah Pearce, a former Santa Monica Studio developer who worked on the God of War series, believes the God of War Trilogy Remake for PS5 should keep the controversial sex minigames from the original titles. Since the project's grand reveal during a State of Play livestream last month, it has been a topic of...
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- God of War
News PS6 Rival Xbox Helix Could Cost as Much as $1,200
Could push for $1,000 price
Microsoft has said Project Helix, its next-gen Xbox system, will "lead in performance", and it seems any potential buyers looking to gain access to that power will have to pay a hefty price. In a breakdown of the potential specs for the next Xbox console, which runs both Xbox and PC games, YouTuber insider Moore's Law Is...
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- Xbox
News Ghost of Yotei's Free Legends PS5 Update Looks Generous in the Live Service Age
Sucker Punch to the rescue
In case you forgot, Ghost of Yotei Legends is out tomorrow, 10th March 2026, and it sounds like developer Sucker Punch has put its all into this multiplayer expansion. Much like the Legends DLC for Ghost of Tsushima, this will be available to all owners of the game for free — which is pretty crazy when you consider...
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- Ghost of Yotei Legends
- DLC
News Sony's Injecting More Story Than Ever Before into Your PS5 Roguelikes
Saros will tell you a tale in April
The roguelike genre is one that's traditionally almost entirely about gameplay, but in Returnal, developer Housemarque proved you can still craft an interesting story around the loop of starting over again and again. In next month's Saros, it appears to be leaning even more heavily into that aspect. The studio...
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News Record Breaking Battlefield 6 Sales Not Enough to Prevent Layoffs
Job losses across all four studios
After over seven million copies sold worldwide and becoming the USA's best-selling game of 2025, EA has responded to the success of Battlefield 6 by laying off staff. An unspecified number of staff across Battlefield Studios (EA DICE, Criterion, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studio) have lost their jobs as part of a...
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Mini Review WWE 2K26 (PS5) - Grappling Sim's Championship Reign Holds Strong
It's clobbering time
13 years since he last graced the cover of a WWE video game, the controversial "Best In The World" is back on top, with World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk lending both his face to the box, and story to WWE 2K26's Showcase mode. Accompanied by video from the man himself, players are once again immersed in a playable documentary,...
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News Hope for Digital Devil Saga Remasters Reignited as News of Strange PC, Switch Port Spreads
Devil may cry
Atlus could be gearing up towards a Digital Devil Saga revival, if we're to put an awful lot of faith into a newly announced port. Here's the gist: an old Digital Devil Saga spin-off game, titled Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner: A’s Test Server (jeez!) is being re-released on PC and Nintendo Switch in Japan. This was originally a...
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News 'It'd Be One Helluva Game': Resident Evil Star Wants Code Veronica PS5 Remake
Fans would go "ballistic" for it
One of this author’s fondest Resident Evil memories is watching an FMV cut-scene from Code Veronica on an old Dreamcast demo disc. You probably remember it: the one with Claire Redfield running from a helicopter as gunfire forces showers of shattered glass. While the game was later ported to the PS2 in an...
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- Resident Evil
News Trails, Ys Dev Falcom Celebrates 45th Anniversary, Announces New Dragon Slayer Project
Back to the beginning
Falcom — or Nihon Falcom, to give the studio its full name — is officially 45 years old. Forty-five! Not many developers get to reach such an impressive milestone, but Falcom's managed to hold steady for decades off the back of (mostly) annual releases, and the establishment of key franchises like Trails and Ys. Some...
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Sunday8th Mar 2026
Endurance run
Marathon is doing fine, it’s certainly no Concord like many predicted pre-release – but there’s a big question emerging around whether it’s doing well enough. While we don’t have data for consoles like PS5, we can see the extraction shooter peaked at 88k concurrent players on Steam at launch, and has steadily been declining...
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- PS5
- Marathon
News Study Claims Sony's PS5 Games Are Leaving Big PC Sales on the Table
Late to the party
Flagging sales of Sony’s PC ports have been blamed on the platform holder’s reluctance to port games day-and-date, according to research from Newzoo. Up until recently, the manufacturer followed a strategy whereby its tentpole titles would debut first on the PS5, before deploying on storefronts like Steam at a later date...
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News PS5 Modder Successfully Installs Linux, Boots GTA 5 at 60fps with Ray Tracing
Open source sauce
A modder has ported the open source operating system Linux to his PS5 and immediately set it to work, running GTA 5 at 60fps with full ray tracing enabled. The hack runs using an older version of the console’s firmware, so only the most dedicated will be able to try this at home. But according to the modder, all of the...
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Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (March 8th 2026)
Time Extension The Tairyou Jigoku! SEGAGAGA! Cookie's Bustle!
Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Why SEGAGAGA's AI Translation Is Upsetting So Many People: Sega fans got a welcome surprise with the release of the English-language...
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Opinion God of War: Sons of Sparta Is the Smaller PS5 Game Fans Want, and I Hope We See More
Are you backing it?
To put it lightly, PS Studios has a bit of a problem at the moment. The majority of Sony's first-party studios are busy making games that are pushing the limits — that is, the limits of PlayStation's pockets. Rapidly ballooning budgets mean some of the company's biggest titles cost multiple hundreds of millions of dollars...
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Saturday7th Mar 2026
News 'Sony Finally Understands': Over 70% of PS5 Fans Agree with Decision to Scrap PC Ports
All in agreement
The PS5 fandom can be a divisive place at the best of times, but it seems almost everyone’s in agreement on one thing: Sony’s right to scrap its PC ports. In a Bloomberg report earlier this week, it was claimed that PlayStation will cease releasing its tentpole first-party exclusives on storefronts like Steam, although it will...
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- PC
News Yakuza Creator's Promising New PS5 Game May Soon Be Sleeping with the Fishes as Funding Is Cut
NetEase walks away
Industry legend Toshihiro Nagoshi’s promising Yakuza spiritual successor Gang of Dragon may not see the light of day, as publisher NetEase plans to pull funding on the project. The Chinese juggernaut had headhunted the SEGA veteran to start his own studio in 2021, but a slew of strategic changes mean it’s ceased bankrolling a...
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- Gang of Dragon
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Opinion I Wonder if Xbox Helix Will Force Sony to Break Its PS6 Silence
Noisy neighbours
In a poll I published about PS6 late last month, almost 60% of you said you didn’t want it until at least 2029. In fact, an incredible 12% of you said Sony should wait until 2031 or later – five years from now! I’d be interested to run a similar poll in the aftermath of Project Helix’s announcement, which was confirmed by...
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Poll What Review Score Would You Give Resident Evil Requiem?
Evil has a number
Resident Evil Requiem has been out on PS5 for a full week now, and we hope that's been long enough for you to see its horrors through to the end. That's because we need you to give it a review score. The game went down extremely well with critics. It's one of the highest-rated titles of the year so far, and we imagine that it'll...
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News Artist Embroiled in Marathon Art Theft Scandal Credited as Visual Design Consultant
And that's the end of that
The artist who was at the centre of a Marathon art theft scandal has been credited in the game as a Visual Design Consultant. Less than a year ago, dev Bungie was forced to conduct a “thorough review” after it emerged assets originally created by Scottish artist Antireal, or Fern Hook, had been included in the game...
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- Marathon
Feature Going Platinum: Aladdin and The Lion King Represented a Weird Full Circle Moment
The circle of life, perhaps
Platinum Trophy #15: Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King Date Earned: 17th October 2019 Dopamine Index: stars:4 I was thrilled when Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King was announced. This pair of games compiled and re-released felt specifically targeted towards me in a way no other retro...
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- Disney Classic Games Aladdin and The Lion King
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Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 623
We go again
In terms of gaming industry news, this week was a lot less chaotic than previous ones. That means the emphasis is back on the games, so here's what we're playing. Jamie O'Neill: I'm still playing Arkane Lyon's Deathloop from 2021. I find Colt Vahn's quips amusing, so it's a fun game to return to five years later. Liam Croft: I don't...
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News Screamer's PS5 Trophy List Unlocks New Fear: A Racing Game with Parrying
Precision driving
Milestone is on the verge of releasing its next big racing game, Screamer, and its newly emerged Trophy list looks like it'll force you to get good. The arcade racing game, launching on 26th March 2026, has various interesting gameplay hooks in addition to an anime-inspired storyline, meaning it's quite the departure from your...
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