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June2021
News Last Stop Gets Weird on PS5, PS4 from 22nd July
Virginia dev returns
Virginia developer Variable State seems to love putting out the weird and wonderful, and its next title Last Stop certainly seems to continue in that lineage. In a very good way, that is. The narrative adventure was treated to a new trailer during the Days of the Devs 2021 livestream as well as a confirmed release date, which is...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Basim Armour Out Now for Free
Dress up as the assassin himself
Basim, one of the main characters in Assassin's Creed Valhalla, has some cool proto-Assassin armour — and players have been asking for it to be added as a wearable costume since the game's launch. Here we are over half a year later, and it's finally here — for free. To get Basim's costume, all you have to do is...
News Axiom Verge 2 Announced for PS5, PS4, Coming This Summer
Metroidvania sequel hitting PlayStation
When people talk about great indie games, Axiom Verge should be among them. A tough, Metroidvania style shooter, the game was a critical hit and is beloved by fans. News came a little while back that the developer, Thomas Happ, was busy working on a sequel, but unlike its predecessor, it wasn't announced for...
Gallery Elden Ring Screenshots Are a Sight to Behold
Bask in their glory
Elden Ring is back, and it's hitting PlayStation 5 and PS4 on 21st January 2022. It feels rather good to actually write that down, and with the reveal trailer out of the way, it's time to soak up the direct, in-game screenshots. This is what you can look forward to playing in just seven months time! Yes, it really is that close...
Round Up What Was Announced at Summer Game Fest: Kickoff Live?
All the PS5, PS4 reveals
It's time to put the PlayStation controller down for just a second and tune in to a series of livestreams across the next seven days or so to see what's next for the gaming industry. Geoff Keighley got the annual online celebration rolling with a Kickoff Live showcase dedicated to his own Summer Game Fest promotion,...
Talking Point Did Summer Game Fest: Kickoff Live Blow You Away?
Keighley delivers the goods
The summer season of game reveals is well and truly underway as Geoff Keighley starts proceedings with a kickoff show dedicated to the Summer Game Fest. The popular host is once again acting as a sort of adjudicator that brings together all of these gaming showcases under one roof, but his own livestream had lots of...
News The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes Spooks PS5, PS4 in October
Pazuzu pizzazz
Just in time for Halloween, the next chapter in The Dark Pictures Anthology, House of Ashes, will (make you) jump on PlayStation 5 and PS4 from 22nd October. As with past instalments, there’ll be a two-player online mode and couch-friendly local multiplayer option, in addition to the standard single player experience. “In the...
News Bruce Campbell Introduces Evil Dead: The Game on PS5, PS4
Hail to the king, baby
You can already play as Bruce Campbell’s Ash Williams in Dead by Daylight, but we suppose it was only a matter of time before Evil Dead got its own dedicated game. This is a co-op game coming to PlayStation 5 and PS4 later this year, with Saber Interactive leading on development duties. There’s an asymmetric element to the...
News Jurassic World Evolution 2 Roars to PS5, PS4 This Year
Life finds a way
Management strategy game Jurassic World Evolution is getting a PlayStation 5 and PS4 sequel later this year, with Frontier Developments once again returning to the popular film property. The new game will boast a “brand new, immersive narrative campaign voiced by cast members from across the Jurassic World film franchise, exciting...
News Elden Ring Dated for January 2022 on PS5, PS4 in New Trailer
It lives
After almost two years of complete silence, FromSoftware's Elden Ring finally marked its return at Summer Game Fest: Kickoff Live with a brand new trailer and a release date. It will release on both PlayStation 5 and PS4 on 21st January 2022. Yes, it made its comeback and got a confirmed date all in one go! The game will support a free...
News New Tales of Arise Story Trailer Shows More Cool Looking Party Members
Arise again
Tales of Arise has a new story trailer, which gives a brief overview of what to expect from the game's world and lore. It also showcases some fresh characters, and we're really liking the designs of your main party members. The action RPG continues to show promise, then, and it's coming to both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 fairly...
News Two Point Campus Officially Announced, Coming Next Year on PS5, PS4
Plugging the leak
Two Point Campus, the follow-up to the excellent Two Point Hospital, has been formally announced by SEGA. Unfortunately, the surprise was scuppered by a big leak on the Microsoft Store site, but the goofy management sim has now been made official. If you missed the news from last month, Two Point Campus puts you in charge of...
Feature Koch Media Announces New Publishing Label, Prime Matter, with 12 Upcoming Games
Here's everything you need to know
Koch Media isn't a well-known name like EA, Activision, or Ubisoft, but it's a major player in the gaming space. Part of Embracer Group, a conglomerate that also includes THQ Nordic, the company is a leading European distributor and publisher, with its own suite of IPs you'll probably have played before. Under the...
News Salt and Sacrifice Confirmed for PS5 and PS4, Out Next Year
From Ska Studios
Salt and Sanctuary developer Ska Studios is making a sequel to its hit 2D Souls-like, titled Salt and Sacrifice. Confirmed through a trailer at Summer Game Fest: Kickoff Live, it'll hit PlayStation 5 and PS4 at some point next year. Check out the reveal trailer above. Salt and Sacrifice is the upcoming follow-up to the hardcore...
News Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Is a Fantasy Borderlands Spin-Off Coming Next Year
But don't call it a Borderlands game
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands has been officially announced, a new game from Gearbox Software. It's a spin-off from the popular Borderlands series, but it's set to be a fairly different proposition. Set in a fantasy world rather than sci-fi, Wonderlands looks to be a land filled with dragons and magic. Going by the...
Live Watch Summer Game Fest: Kickoff Live Right Here
Blow the whistle
E3 2021 is underway, except it’s not. But it kinda is. Aw, this year is a confusing one! So, Summer Game Fest: Kick Off Live is a new event from Geoff Keighley, which you can kinda consider to be a curtain raiser on E3 2021 – even though it’s not actually part of E3 2021! Think of this like summer version of The Game Awards,...
News Hot Wheels Unleashed Takes the Action to the Skatepark in Latest Trailer
Ramping things up
We're still very curious to try out Hot Wheels Unleashed, the toy car racer from Milestone. The studio has been putting out motorcycle racing games for all eternity, but this arcadey game about little matchbox vehicles looks surprisingly decent for what it is. The latest trailer reveals a new environment to jump and drift through:...
News Turn Based JRPG Monark Announced for PS5, PS4, Developed by Ex-Shin Megami Tensei Staff
Again with the demons
First teased just a couple of weeks back, Monark is a turn based Japanese RPG that's coming to both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 in early 2022. Here in the West, it's being published by NIS America. One of the big talking points surrounding Monark is that developers who previously worked on the Shin Megami Tensei series are...
News Scarlet Nexus PS5, PS4 Trophy List Tells of a Tricky Looking Platinum
Seeing red
The PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 Trophy lists for Scarlet Nexus have appeared on Sony's servers, giving us some insight into the scope of Bandai Namco's upcoming action RPG. As always, we'd advise against looking at the actual list if you're wary of spoilers, but we'll try to give you the general gist of things in this article. As our...
News Another Big Assassin's Creed Valhalla Patch Probably Hits Next Week
Are you up for the challenge?
The next big update for Assassin's Creed Valhalla will drop in the near future, it seems. Patch 1.022 was spotted by PlayStation Game Size when it was added to PlayStation servers earlier this week. In the past, this has almost always meant that the update will be available to download around seven days later. What's...
Review Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection (PS4) - Cut-Throat Action, Old-School Design
Ninja star
Ryu Hayabusa has been enjoying an early retirement ever since the Ninja Gaiden series was put on ice years ago. Team Ninja has been busying itself with the Nioh games in the meantime, a more deliberate style of action title that takes things in a different, yet more modern, direction. Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection brings Ryu back with...
Mini Review Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl (PS4) - Mallrats Brawler with Nine NES Chapters Nootch
NESnootchie bickety bam beat-'em-up
Can a retro modern game be too retro for its own good? This is a question we asked ourselves while playing Interabang Entertainment's Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl as a PS4 beat-'em-up restricted by the limitations of additionally being released on a cartridge for the original NES hardware. We also questioned...
News Battlefield 2042's First Year Will Be Marked by Four Battle Passes
Battle it out
Say what you will about developer DICE, but its post-release support is usually strong. Star Wars Battlefront 2 – a title rightly ridiculed at launch – blossomed into something spectacular once the Swedish studio was done with it, and Battlefield V also received some pretty impressive post-release additions as well. Battlefield...
News Battlefield 2042 Doesn't Have a Single Player Campaign on PS5, PS4
Last-gen version has half the players
If you were holding out hope for a single player campaign in Battlefield 2042, then don’t. EA has announced – alongside the reveal of the online shooter earlier today – that this release is all about its multiplayer. Justifying the decision in an interview with Eurogamer.net, design director Daniel Berlin...
News EA Play Members on PS5, PS4 Get Early Battlefield 2042 Beta Access, 10 Hour Free Trial
Perks
If you subscribe to EA Play on either PlayStation 5 or PS4, you’ll be able to try out Battlefield 2042 with “early access” to the game’s open beta. You’ll also be able to put the first-person shooter through its paces with a 10-hour trial, scheduled to start on 15th October. Beyond that, you can expect monthly rewards and 10 per cent...
News Ratchet, Clank, and Rivet Travel Through a Rift to Sackboy: A Big Adventure
DLC outfits arrive on Rift Apart launch day
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is due out on 11th June, which is now just a couple of days away. The PlayStation 5 exclusive is a real winner with its charming story and characters, over-the-top weapons, and amazing technical achievements. A key part of the game's premise is the titular rifts in the...
Rumour Call of Duty: Vanguard Reveal Planned for Warzone, Not E3
Coming to PS5 and PS4
It was sort of obvious this was going to happen, but Video Games Chronicle is reporting Activision will not be formally announcing the next entry in the Call of Duty franchise at E3 2021, instead opting to reveal the game inside Call of Duty: Warzone. What is now being called Call o
News Battlefield 2042 Goes Near Future on PS5 and PS4, Out in October
Check out the reveal trailer
Update: Following the leak earlier today, DICE has officially unveiled Battlefield 2042 with an announcement trailer. The gameplay reveal will take place on 13th June 2021. Check it out above, with extra information and screenshots available below. The game will not have a singleplayer campaign, and neither will there...
News PS Store Double Discounts Sale Has Over 400 PS5, PS4 Deals
Metro! Gran Turismo! Trains!
The big PlayStation Store Days of Play sale has come to an end, which means it's time to immediately replace it with a new slate of game discounts! The PS Store double discounts promotion is all about PS Plus, increasing the amount of money you save if you're subscribed to Sony's service. These price drops will stick...
News Naughty Dog Seeking to Bring Studio's Trademark Ambition and Quality to Multiplayer Project
The hype is real
In a number of multiplayer focused job listings, Naughty Dog has expressed its goal to “bring the same level of ambition and quality of our signature, story-driven games” to its new online experience. It’s almost certain the team is referring to its spin-off, standalone The Last of Us multiplayer game, which was announced over...
News Minecraft PS4 Adds New Set of Trophies as Caves and Cliffs Releases
Cliffs notes
Mojang has crafted up an entire second set of Trophies for Minecraft: PS4 Edition, which has rolled out alongside the anticipated Caves & Cliffs Part 1 update today. The new set will allow the developer to significantly expand on the number of Trophies already included with the game, with 130 virtual trinkets now available. Three...
News Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions Puts You in the Ring with Rocky on PS4
Your nose is broken
Creed: Rise to Glory, the popular PSVR boxing game from Survios, is getting a pancake screen sequel. Due out later this year on the PlayStation 4, Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions promises an “arcade boxing experience set in the most renowned boxing film franchise of all time”. The press release explains: “Rise through...
News Golf Club Wasteland Is Apocalyptic Golf for the Elite on PS4
Wood you believe it
Take a trip to your local golf club and you’ll encounter all kinds of yuppies in Ralph Lauren polo shirts. Now imagine if Earth no longer existed and was used purely as a golf club for the intergalactic elite. That’s the tale that Golf Club Wasteland aims to tell on PlayStation 4 this August, with each course telling a...
Mini Review Tour de France 2021 (PS4) - Nacon Peddles Another Tactical Sports Sim
Battle of Brittany
Outside of fitness software like Zwift and VirZOOM, it’s hard to imagine how you can make a game about cycling entertaining. French studio Cyanide has been trying for several years now, and Tour de France 2021 is the culmination of its efforts so far, delivering a realistic simulation of the world’s third most-watched sporting...
PS Store Sales Charts Resident Evil Village Is Queen of the Castle
Hat's a fact
Perhaps unsurprisingly, May's most downloaded PlayStation 5 and PS4 game is Resident Evil Village, the acclaimed sequel in the long-running horror series. The game's a winner with critics, but it seems to be a big hit with gamers as well — the PS5 version is sitting pretty at number one in both regions, while the PS4 edition claims...
News Capcom Confirms E3 2021 Showcase for 14th June
Includes Resident Evil, Ace Attorney
Capcom has confirmed its slot for E3 2021 will take place on 14th June 2021 at 10:30pm BST / 2:30pm PDT / 5:30pm EDT, featuring the likes of Resident Evil Village and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. Other titles included in the line-up are Monster Hunter Rise and
News Last Days of Play Challenge Finished, Unlocking Free PS4 Dynamic Theme
Done for another year
Sony's annual Days of Play promotion for 2021 comes to an end across the next 24 hours, with the PlayStation Store sale wrapping things up and community challenges now at an end. It's a good job then that participants managed to complete the final set of tasks just in time, unlocking a free PS4 dynamic theme. Sorry PS5 owners,...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Update Planned for Ubisoft's E3 Show
Odin's watching
Ubisoft is planning to go big at E3 this year, with its Ubisoft Forward event set to give us a good look at upcoming titles Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six: Extraction. But it's not just about new games for the French publisher — it's also promising updates on various "live" titles, including Assassin's Creed Valhalla. The open world...
News Mass Effect Legendary Edition Patch 1.03 Fixes Trophy Bugs, Weird Eye Animations, and More
Shepard Commander
A new update for Mass Effect Legendary Edition is available to download now on PlayStation 4 (and PlayStation 5 via backwards compatibility). Patch 1.03 makes some mostly minor adjustments, but it all adds up. Most notably, the update should fix an issue that was stopping players from popping specific, long-term Trophies — like...
News Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Extraction Is the New Name for Quarantine
Freshly titled game to be shown at Ubisoft Forward
Rainbow Six: Quarantine is now titled Rainbow Six: Extraction. Today, Ubisoft Montréal has unveiled the new name for its upcoming co-op shooter. We've not seen the game since its announcement at E3 2019, and given all that's happened in the last 18 months or so, a name change seemed inevitable...
News Prince of Persia Remake Skips Ubisoft Forward, Out Next Year
Fast forward time
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake will not be making an appearance during the Ubisoft Forward livestream later this week, the development team has confirmed. The news was shared as part of an update on Twitter, which also stated the PlayStation 4 title is now slated to release at some point next year. The game
News New Battlefield Game Teases Flood Social Media
System rebooting
It's the video game industry, so of course you've got to tease your impending announcement as much as possible in the days leading up to it. The next Battlefield game, which is being referred to as Battlefield 2042 if recent claims are to be believed, is being teased across social media sites with short clips that do not really...
News Tetris Effect Celebrates the Puzzler's Anniversary and Origin with Awesome Secret Stage
Party like it's 1984
Yesterday, Tetris celebrated its 37th anniversary. The game has been through many, many iterations over the years, one of the best being the fairly recent Tetris Effect from Enhance Games. This version reinvented the classic line-clearing puzzle game into a spiritual, meditative experience, which is of course Tetsuya Mizuguchi's...
News More Cyberpunk 2077 Outrage as Dev-Made Montage Videos of Bugs and Glitches Leak Online
It never ends
Yep, the internet's got yet another reason to shake its head in the direction of Cyberpunk 2077 and developer CD Projekt Red. A set of leaked videos have been doing the rounds online over the weekend, each of them showcasing a collection of major bugs and glitches. It's the kind of stuff that most of you reading this will have seen on...
News The Good Life from Swery Delayed to Late 2021, Picks Up New Publisher
At least there's a new trailer
For the second article in a row, we're here to report on a delay for The Good Life. The latest game from Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro will now hit PlayStation 4 at the end of this after originally being pushed back to the summer. There is another trailer to watch though, which we've embedded above. Except it's all in...
News UK Sales Charts: Miles Morales Is Hanging In There While FIFA 21 Scores Another Win
21 forever
The UK's physical games chart has its ups and downs, things that change, and sometimes, even a surprise or two. However, nothing is more consistent in this country's gaming spend than EA Sports' FIFA franchise. The football sims, understandably, are ever-present in the bestsellers, with each annual entry replacing the last. FIFA 21 has...
News Guilty Gear Strive Gets First DLC Character Details and a Badass Opening Movie
Ready to rock
Guilty Gear Strive finally hits PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 this coming week, and so developer Arc System Works has decided to lay down some additional details with regards to the game's DLC. As previously announced, the title's first season pass will include five playable characters, new stages, and some costumes. The first DLC...
Talking Point What Do You Expect from E3 2021 Next Week?
The big one
E3 – and various other associated gaming events – returns next week, after a pandemic enforced hiatus in 2020. While even we’re still struggling to understand what to expect from the event, the E3 2021 Timetable is mostly locked in, featuring live broadcasts from the likes of Ubisoft, Square Enix, and more. Sony’s not currently...
News PS4, PS Vita Games Can Be Purchased for As Little As £0.16/$0.19 on PS Store Right Now
How low can you go?
PS Store prices have been falling harder and faster than ever before, but the latest round of indie deals on Sony’s storefront has brought with it some of the lowest prices we’ve ever seen. Right now, you can pick up games for as little as £0.16/$0.19 apiece – we’re talking back of the sofa stuff. Obviously, many of...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 379
Ninja master
From freezing to utterly sweltering: the weather’s about as unpredictable as Sony these days. It’s been a bit of quiet week for PlayStation, aside from casual confirmation of God of War Ragnarok coming to the PS4. That went down about as well as you can imagine. Sammy Barker, Editor: I, perhaps foolishly, decided to start...
News Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered Chases Down EA Play Release
Subscribers can download later this month
Criterion’s revitalised racer Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered will be the next title added to the EA Play vault, starting 24th June for all members. As is always the case with the service, members will be able to download and play the cops-and-racers classic at no extra cost, as long as they retain...
EDF! EDF! EDF!
We’ve seen several Earth Defense Force games on PS4, but World Brothers isn’t your normal fare. Offering a family friendly spinoff with voxel graphics, this third-person shooter takes us to Square Earth, where we find this world shattered by Dark Tyrant’s forces as several motherships appear, and it’s down to us to restore it...
News Sony Celebrates the Evolution of Ratchet & Clank
Stunning trailer goes back in time
Sony’s released a stunning trailer celebrating the evolution of Ratchet & Clank across four generations. The clip, designed to promote the upcoming Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, shows various different titles from the series and their associated console. It also focuses on some of the televisions from the...
Mini Review Song of Horror (PS4) - Scare-Free Horror Is Frighteningly Dull
Sighlent Hill
Song of Horror begins with Daniel — a former drunkard attempting to escape the financial ruin that the bottle has left him in — taking on an errand for his boss. It's one of those go-to-a-creepy-house-and-investigate type jobs that any sane individual who has ever seen a horror movie or played Resident Evil before would know to...
News Over 1,200 PS5, PS4 Deals Added to Indie Games Sale on PS Store
Disco Elysium! The Pathless! Dead Cells!
A frightening number of indie games have been discounted on the PS Store, with deals spanning over 1,200 titles and running until 18th June. Just to reiterate, that number’s not a typo: over 1,200 different games have seen their prices zapped for the next two weeks. The promotion includes some high profile...
News Time-Altering PSVR Adventure Wanderer Looks Fascinating in Latest Trailer
The future was now
We were first introduced to Wanderer back in March, and it's one of the more exciting titles heading to PlayStation VR in the near future. The PlayStation Blog just gave us a brand new trailer for the time-travelling adventure, and we're really looking forward to seeing what makes this game tick. You'll travel to various notable...
News PSVR Co-Op Shooter After the Fall Highlights the Snowbreed Hordes in New Gameplay Video
Cross-play shooter coming this summer
After the Fall's post-apocalypse doesn't look particularly inviting, does it? Not that any post-apocalypse is all that cosy, but this example looks especially harsh. The PlayStation VR co-op shooter is set 20 years after a disaster spawns the Snowbreed, a once-human race of zombie-esque creatures, and it's...
News PSVR Exclusive Shooter Fracked Looks Slick in New Gameplay Trailer
What the frack
A few months back, developer nDreams announced Fracked, a PlayStation VR exclusive first person shooter, and it looked pretty damn good. Well, the game continues to look promising in this latest trailer, showing off a few minutes of gameplay. In it, the player engages in firefights with interdimensional humanoids, and what's clear is...
News Oh Wow, Sounds Like a Marvel XCOM Game Is on the Way
Assemble
Think of all the best combinations in the world, and we’ll raise you this one: Marvel and Firaxis. According to a leak, the XCOM developer is working on a new superhero-themed strategy game, and it doesn’t take a genius to imagine what it would look like. The title was first reported in a Reddit leak earlier today, but
News Sniper Elite VR Aims for 8th July Release Date
Killcams get more grizzly
It feels like it’s taken an absolute age to release, but Sniper Elite VR will finally set sights on PSVR from 8th July. The game’s promising a “powerful World War II story” told “through the eyes of an Italian Partisan, rising with your brothers and sisters to protect your homeland from the fascist forces that...
News Winds & Leaves Is a PSVR Survival Game About Nurturing the Environment
Feel the breeze
Escapism is at its finest when enjoyed in virtual reality, and Winds & Leaves looks to be leveraging that aspect of PSVR to its fullest. Due out on 27th July, the game’s effectively a survival experience where you must rejuvenate the environment by planting forests. Stray too far from your trees and you’ll lose access to the...
News Puzzle Bobble 3D: Vacation Odyssey Brings the Classic Puzzler to PSVR
Bust a move
You may already be familiar with Puzzle Bobble 3D: Vacation Odyssey, as it released on Oculus Quest earlier in the year. If not, though, it’s an easy concept to introduce: it’s first-person Bust-a-Move, played with PSVR. Development has been led by Survios, best known for its work on boxing game Creed: Rise to Glory, so it’s got...
News Arashi: Castles of Sin Is Ghost of Tsushima for PSVR
Feudal reality
Sure, there’s no doubt Ghost of Tsushima is great, but what if you could exist inside Sucker Punch’s stunning historical world? Arashi: Castles of Sin aims to answer the question by bringing Tenchu-esque sandbox stealth action to the PSVR headset. Clearly it doesn’t have the budget of Sony’s blockbuster, but you get a pet wolf...
News Sure Sounds Like Horizon Forbidden West May Have Flying Mounts After All
Fly, Aloy, fly
For many fans, the existence of a PlayStation 4 version has categorically ruled out the existence of flying mounts in Horizon Forbidden West – after all, how could the ancient hardware cope with a feature so awesome? To be fair, we’ve had planes in last-gen games like Far Cry 5 and Just Cause 4, so it never seemed impossible to us...
News Action RPG Babylon's Fall Getting 'Exciting Update' at Square Enix E3 2021 Show
After beta was spotted on Steam
Babylon's Fall will finally be making a return during Square Enix's E3 2021 press conference, the publisher has announced. Developed by Platinum Games, the proposed action RPG caught our attention when it was first revealed all the way back at E3 2018. Since then, updates have been very few and far between — and...
World premiere from Eidos Montreal
The ESA just confirmed that Japanese publisher Square Enix will indeed be hosting some sort of presentation during E3 2021, but now we know exactly what to expect. It'll take the shape of another Square Enix Presents digital showcase on 13th June 2021 at 8:15pm BST / 12:15pm PT, with the headline announcement being...
News God of War Ragnarok, Gran Turismo 7 PS4 Versions Confirmed
Sony makes it official
Update: We've had word back from PlayStation PR, and it's official: God of War Ragnarok and Gran Turismo 7 are cross-gen games, meaning that they'll release on both PS5 and PS4. This update was pretty much expected, but it's always good to receive confirmation from the source. Original Story: In a new interview with the...
News Guerrilla: Cross-Gen Has Not Limited Horizon Forbidden West in Any Way
"We just wanted to design a really nice, unique experience for the player"
The hot-button topic at the moment is cross-gen, and Sony’s decision to release games like God of War Ragnarok and Gran Turismo 7 on the PlayStation 4 as well as the PS5. Many feel that, in addition to being misled by the platform holder, these games can’t possibly reach...
Rumour Decision to Bring Gran Turismo 7 to PS4 Made 'Fairly Recently'
God of War and Horizon were always cross-gen
The decision to make a PlayStation 4 version of Gran Turismo 7 to go alongside its current-gen counterpart was only made "fairly recently", according to a new write up from Video Games Chronicle editor Andy Robinson. As part of an opinion piece criticising Sony for yesterday's announcement that God of War...
Hands On NEO: The World Ends With You Brings a Stylish Afterlife to PS4
Put a pin in it
A little-known but well-loved entry in Square Enix's JRPG pantheon, The World Ends With You is a unique experience with gorgeous art from Kingdom Hearts director Tetsuyo Nomura. The game looked at concepts like social media influence and memetic learning way before those things were as pervasive as they are today. Nomura's designs,...
News Much of Horizon Forbidden West Development, Playtesting Done on PS4
New features detailed
As part of a new interview with Game Informer, Guerrilla Games has revealed that "a lot of" Horizon Forbidden West development and playtesting is actually taking place on the PlayStation 4 instead of Sony's latest console. The chat then goes on to explain how the PS5 version includes a different water rendering technique...
News Final Fantasy VII Remake Patch 1.02 Released, Lets You Transfer Save Data to Intergrade on PS5
Carry over all of your progress
If you're looking to carry over your save data from Final Fantasy VII Remake into Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, then you'll want to grab the game's new update. Patch 1.02 adds a simple 'Upload Save Data' option to the main menu. Then, once you have Intergrade, you'll be able to download that data and start...
News Check a Look: Devolver Digital Returns to E3 Season in 2021
Devolver Direct coming back
You can always count on Devolver Digital to bring some surrealist nonsense to the usual E3 proceedings, and for that, we love it. The indie label has been showing up in and around the summer's gaming news blowout for the last few years, poking fun at press conferences and spilling an unusually high amount of blood. It's...
Mini Review Gadgeteer (PS4) - A Fulfilling VR Physics Puzzler
Go, go gadget Rube Goldberg machine
Virtual reality is a fantastic arena with which to explore puzzles – especially when the idea is such a fun and refreshing one. Gadgeteer sees you designing amazing Rube Goldberg contraptions by placing all the missing pieces to complete the machines, while progressing through an abode’s various rooms. What...
Talking Point Did Sony Lie About PS5?
Generational divides
“We believe in generations.” It’s another quote from PlayStation boss Jim Ryan that will likely haunt him for the rest of his career, similar to the comments he made about some classic Gran Turismo games a half-decade ago. The executive’s generational declaration must be considered in context: it was publicised at a time...