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Sunday20th Feb 2022
News In the UK, 70% of Boxed Horizon Forbidden West Buyers Paid More Than They Needed To
British problems
And this, dear readers, is why companies are so cunningly ambiguous! Early physical sales data for Horizon Forbidden West has arrived in the UK, and with it comes confirmation that “almost a third of sales” were on the PlayStation 4. That means roughly 70 per cent of people paid
News Horizon Forbidden West Is Getting Review Bombed on PS5, PS4 for No Reason
0/10, apparently
It wouldn’t be a major video game release without gamers exhibiting embarrassing behaviour. Horizon Forbidden West has been quietly racking up disproportionately negative reviews on Metacritic overnight, and while it’s still holding a steady overall user score, the string of 0/10s are obviously beginning to look disingenuous...
Saturday19th Feb 2022
News Horizon Forbidden West Reaction GIFs Are Just the Best
You know it
It’s becoming a bit of a PlayStation Studios tradition, isn’t it? Ever since the first few Sony first-party GIFs went viral, virtually every team has been trying to get in on the fun. Guerrilla is the latest to give it a go, with a set of memes featuring characters from Horizon Forbidden West. For example, here’s one of Aloy:...
Friday18th Feb 2022
News Horizon Forbidden West PS5, PS4 Shimmering Bug Solved
Restart your game
A visual issue in Horizon Forbidden West causing shimmering has been addressed and resolved. Guerrilla Games has released a hotfix for its acclaimed role-playing game, which you can download and install now. All you need to do is restart the title a couple of times to grab the update and apply it. The Dutch developer explained on...
News PlayStation Studios Celebrate Horizon Forbidden West Launch with Cool Crossover Art
PlayStation's finest
You may not have heard, but Horizon Forbidden West is out now on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. The highly anticipated sequel to 2017's Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla Games has been working on this ambitious open world title for years — and now the developer's ready to celebrate the game's release alongside its fellow...
News Horizon Forbidden West Delay Enabled Guerrilla to Avoid Crunch
"We are very aware of the disadvantages of crunching"
Horizon Forbidden West is out now, and we absolutely love it. The game – which we awarded a 9/10 in our Horizon Forbidden West PS5 review – was originally scheduled to release towards the tail-end of last year, but was pushed back ever so slightly into February. That, according to game...
Thursday17th Feb 2022
News Horizon Forbidden West Patch Prepares PS5, PS4 Exclusive for Launch
Performance improvements and more
Sony has pushed a Horizon Forbidden West patch, which prepares the Guerrilla Games opus for launch. Weighing in at around 500MB on the PlayStation 5 and PS4, update 1.40 includes a number of key improvements to overall performance and stability. The full patch notes, as scraped from Sony’s servers by PlayStation...
Wednesday16th Feb 2022
News Horizon Forbidden West Takes Over UK Cities in Advertising Push
There's a Tremortusk in Leeds
Horizon Forbidden West is out in two days time, and Sony wants the uninformed to know about it. The company's UK division has this morning begun posting shots of various advertising boards across the UK with Aloy plastered across them. She's joined by a Slitherfang in Glasgow, accompanies a Tremortusk in Leeds, and...
Tuesday15th Feb 2022
News Horizon Forbidden West's LEGO Tallneck is Out Now, Here's Where to Buy One
And get a closer look with the official trailer
Update: Sony's given us a proper look at the Horizon Forbidden West LEGO set with an official trailer embedded above. Looks wonderful, doesn't it? Stock can be hard to come by, but here are the links you need to secure one for yourself: <products id="18564,18565,18784"> Original Story...
News Sony Planting Trees for Unlocking Horizon Forbidden West Trophy
Play for our planet
In collaboration with the Arbor Day Foundation, Sony will plant a tree in three deforested areas across the US every time a specific Trophy in Horizon Forbidden West is unlocked. It's called the Play and Plant program, and will help the reforestation efforts at the Douglas County Forest in Wisconsin, the Sheep Fire Pr
Monday14th Feb 2022
News Maybe Don't Look at Horizon Forbidden West's PS5, PS4 Trophy List
It's riddled with spoilers
Horizon Forbidden West releases this week, and you can read our full review through here. Of course, it’s common for a game’s Trophy list to appear on Sony’s servers prior to release, but we’d recommend you take extreme care before browsing it. While story-related Trophies are “hidden” by default on the...
News Horizon Forbidden West PS5, PS4 Graphics Modes Analysed by Digital Foundry
30fps mode recommended on PS5
You've seen the overwhelming amount of praise Horizon Forbidden West has been treated to in this morning's reviews, so now the attention turns to how the PlayStation 5, PS4 game runs on the two consoles. Digital Foundry is, as always, the master in this field. It has today posted its findings covering both systems in a...
Friday11th Feb 2022
News Horizon Forbidden West's Cinematic Trailer Builds Serious Hype for Next Week's Release
Rise above ruin
Regular readers will know that we're not huge fans of CG trailers — but as far as we're concerned, they're A-okay when the title in question has already given us so many gameplay demonstrations to gawk at. And that's the case with this cinematic trailer for Horizon Forbidden West. Clocking in at a cool minute, it's a pretty short...
News Aloy Gets Her Very Own Twitter Emoji Ahead of Horizon Forbidden West
Red head redemption
You may have noticed, but Sony has a lot riding on Horizon Forbidden West. The company has clearly invested exorbitant sums of money into the PlayStation 5 and PS4 exclusive, and so the marketing machine is absolutely chugging right. Case in point: Aloy just got her very own Twitter emoji, which we suppose is becoming fairly...
News Horizon Forbidden West PS5, PS4 Pre-Load Available Now
First steps to the Forbidden West
If you have pre-ordered Horizon Forbidden West through the PlayStation Store, the option of pre-loading the title ahead of release should now be available to you. The download in Europe sits at 90.55GB and is currently patched to version 1.03. Meanwhile, the game's size in the US is a few gigabytes less. That's most...
Thursday10th Feb 2022
News Horizon Forbidden West Has Gyro Aiming, Many Accessibility Options
Optional load screens on PS5
Fans of motion-based controller inputs will be incredibly happy to learn that Horizon Forbidden West ships with support for gyro aiming as part of a long list of accessibility options included in the PlayStation 5, PS4 title. The feature is only mentioned alongside use of the PS5 DualSense controller, where the built-in...
Friday4th Feb 2022
News Remember to Buy Horizon Forbidden West on PS4, And Not PS5
You can save money
With Horizon Forbidden West two weeks away from launch, you may be beginning to think about pre-ordering the title. If that’s the case, then here’s a swift reminder to buy the game on the PlayStation 4 and not on the PS5. That’s because, after some backtracking, Sony announced that it will honour the release’s free PS4 to...
Thursday3rd Feb 2022
News New Horizon Forbidden West Trailer Details Challenges, Upgrades
Out in the wilds
Remember those optional challenges Horizon Zero Dawn had spread throughout its map? Horizon Forbidden West has them too. The latest trailer out of Guerrilla Games takes a deep dive into the sort of activities you can expect, as well as sharing a sneak peek at the upgrades you'll be rewarded with for completing them. Melee pits,...
Saturday29th Jan 2022
News Horizon Forbidden West's 656-Page PS5, PS4 Strategy Guide Confirms Over 40 Machines
Cog in the machine
Horizon Forbidden West is shaping up to be a monstrous open world RPG, and its 656-page strategy guide is further evidence of that. Future Press confirmed its hardback book will release towards the end of March, and it’ll include a full breakdown of everything you should expect from Guerrilla Games’ upcoming epic. Among its...
Thursday27th Jan 2022
News Horizon Forbidden West Goes Gold on PS5, PS4 Ahead of February Release Date
Look to the horizon
And there it is, folks — the news that so many have been waiting for. PlayStation exclusive Horizon Forbidden West has officially gone gold, meaning that the game is ready to be shipped ahead of its release date on the 18th February. This is always a huge moment for development teams. With years of hard work behind them,...
News Horizon Forbidden West Makes Plenty of Quality of Life Improvements Over the Original
Removing Zero Dawn's headaches
It's looking like Horizon Forbidden West will be a sequel that builds upon what the first game achieved and improves the experience with lots of small (and large) tweaks. Horizon Zero Dawn was a fantastic first attempt at an open world action RPG from Guerrilla Games, but the second game seems to be making some much...
Wednesday26th Jan 2022
News Horizon Forbidden West Is Reportedly 'About as Long' as Horizon Zero Dawn
So, fairly long, then
How many hours does it take to beat Horizon Forbidden West? While we don't have a definitive answer to that question, we now have a pretty big clue as to how long we can expect the sequel to be. German site GamePro managed to glean some information about Aloy's upcoming adventure from game director Mathijs de Jonge, including a...
Tuesday25th Jan 2022
Modified to augment ranged combat
Well, we all expected it really, didn’t we? The best armour in Horizon Zero Dawn was the Shield Weaver, which practically made Aloy unstoppable in combat. While you had to work through a number of side-quests to collect it, the souped-up threads effectively engulfed the protagonist in an impenetrable energy...
News Watch Some Brand New Horizon Forbidden West Footage In IGN's Hands-On Preview
Less than a month to go
Horizon Forbidden West is quietly on the approach, launching for both PlayStation 5 and PS4 on 18th February. With things being the way they are, though, we've had relatively little information about the game pre-launch, let alone any chance to play the game early. That being said, IGN has just shared a hands-on preview...
Sunday23rd Jan 2022
But just one conclusion
While you will have to field some “very strong” moral choices during your time with Horizon Forbidden West, the decisions you make will all culminate in a single “impactful” ending. That means, unlike most modern RPGs, there are not multiple endings to uncover – just the one, canon conclusion. We suspect said...
Saturday22nd Jan 2022
News Horizon Forbidden West Is a Whopping 86GB on PS5
More if you're in Europe
Horizon Forbidden West will take a Tremortusk-sized bite out of your PlayStation 5’s SSD, with the anticipated sequel weighing in at almost 86GB, according to data scraped from Sony’s servers. PlayStation Game Size reports that the release may be even larger in Europe, with file sizes of over 96GB touted – and this is...
Thursday20th Jan 2022
News Meet Horizon Forbidden West's Voice Cast, Including Carrie-Anne Moss
Plus new gameplay clips
Right off the back of yesterday's story trailer for Horizon Forbidden West, developer Guerrilla Games has shared a deep dive into the voice talent providing the dialogue for the upcoming PlayStation 5, PS4 title. It includes interviews with Ashly Burch (Aloy), Lance Reddick (Sylens) and The Matrix star Carrie-Anne Moss...
Wednesday19th Jan 2022
News The Matrix, Black Panther Stars Join Horizon Forbidden West Voice Cast
Carrie-Anne Moss as Tilda
Guerrilla Games has today shared a brief look behind the curtain of Horizon Forbidden West with a new story trailer, but it has also confirmed some Hollywood stars have joined the game's cast to lend a voice to a few of the new characters. In an interview with Game Informer, it's confirmed brand new character T
News Horizon Forbidden West Story Trailer Details Aloy's Next Big Adventure
Meet some new friends
With Horizon Forbidden West now less than a month away from its PlayStation 5 and PS4 launch, it's time for the grand marketing machine to properly kick into gear. First up is a brand new story trailer containing loads of brand new scenes, characters, and locations. It all looks stunning, featuring footage taken straight from a...
Tuesday11th Jan 2022
News Horizon Forbidden West Leak Is Real, Full Game Could Be Spoiled, Says Report
Aloy, Aloy
Update: According to VGC, the recent Horizon Forbidden West leak is probably real. Sources have told the publication that the full PS4 game — minus some missing art assets — is out there in the wild. This would suggest that the leaked version of Forbidden West is an unfinished build — perhaps a developer build that's somehow been...
