Tag: 2016
News Sony Reveals The Most Downloaded PS4 Games of 2016
Rocket to the top
As is tradition, Sony has revealed the PlayStation Network's most downloaded games of the last year. Topping the 2016 charts in both North America and Europe was the seemingly eternal Rocket League, which originally launched back in 2015. That's an impressive run of form from the simple but stupidly effective title. Battlefield 1...
Game of the Year 2016 These Are Your Top 5 PlayStation Games
As voted by the Push Square community
Well, here we are: our final Game of the Year 2016 article. Our staff have listed their personal picks, we've announced the site's top ten titles, and now, it's time to reveal the winners that you lot voted for in our community poll. By the time voting had closed on the 3rd January, we had received 438 votes...
Poll What Was Your Favourite PlayStation Game of 2016?
The choice is yours
We've already picked Uncharted 4: A Thief's End as our Game of the Year. Our awesome forum members also picked Naughty Dog's opus as Game of the Year. But now, as we attempt to pad out our content schedule one more time before work begins in earnest again,
Round Up Push Square's Top Ten PlayStation Games of 2016
Cream of the crop
And there we have it: Game of the Year 2016 is done and dusted. As is the case every year, we pulled our entire team together to determine our top PlayStation title of the past 12 months, and while everyone had their own personal favourites, we settled upon a Top Ten that reflects the sentiment of every single one of our staffers...
Game of the Year 2016 #1 - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Drake-ness awaits
It's surely no exaggeration to say that Uncharted 4: A Thief's End embarrasses some parts of the industry. Naughty Dog has gotten so good at writing memorable characters that it's practically in a league of its own these days, and it's rough to think that the rest of the medium can't catch up. Nathan Drake's final adventure may...
Game of the Year 2016 Simon's Personal PlayStation Picks
Overwatch this
It's time once again for the indomitable staff here at Push Square to share their own personal Game of the Year picks. Every year, we herd our writers together and force them to spill their opinions on their five favourite games of the last 12 months. Usually, this involves poking them with a stick until they come clean. Below, you'll...
Game of the Year 2016 #2 - Inside
Inside out
Much has been said about the last twenty minutes of Inside. And rightly so – it's one of the most intense and intriguing sections of any game in recent memory. But to focus solely on those moments would be to do a disservice to what is a consistently excellent experience. Indeed, from its very first second, Playdead's sophomore effort...
Game of the Year 2016 Sam's Personal PlayStation Picks
Bromance
It's time once again for the indomitable staff here at Push Square to share their own personal Game of the Year picks. Every year, we herd our writers together and force them to spill their opinions on their five favourite games of the last 12 months. Usually, this involves poking them with a stick until they come clean. Below, you'll find...
Game of the Year 2016 #3 - Overwatch
Together, we are strong
Shooters are not prone to positivity. Whether it's a grim illustration of objectivism as a societal foundation in BioShock or a striking commentary on senseless violence in Spec Ops: The Line, the genre typically doesn't have settings, characters, or themes that are uplifting. A fallen world makes way for endless scenarios...
Game of the Year 2016 Liam's Personal PlayStation Picks
Fit for a thief
It's time once again for the indomitable staff here at Push Square to share their own personal Game of the Year picks. Every year, we herd our writers together and force them to spill their opinions on their five favourite games of the last 12 months. Usually, this involves poking them with a stick until they come clean. Below,...
Game of the Year 2016 #4 - Final Fantasy XV
Noctout
Jeez, where do you start with this one? What could have quite easily been a catastrophe, Final Fantasy XV has made into our top five games of 2016. For many of us, there's a distinct feeling of relief when we stop to think about Noctis' road trip. We're weirdly thankful that everything turned out well, and more importantly, we're over the...
Game of the Year 2016 Jacob's Personal PlayStation Picks
Lasting appeal
It's time once again for the indomitable staff here at Push Square to share their own personal Game of the Year picks. Every year, we herd our writers together and force them to spill their opinions on their five favourite games of the last 12 months. Usually, this involves poking them with a stick until they come clean. Below, you'll...
Game of the Year 2016 #5 - Dishonored 2
From out of the shadows
Arkane Studios' first entry in the Dishonored series was one of the best games of the previous generation. The game introduced us to the "whale-punk" city of Dunwall and its highly-stylised, gorgeous environments. And then it served up a selection of brilliantly entertaining supernatural powers, removed the leash, and allowed...
Feature The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine Is the Best DLC of 2016
It's better than most games, to be fair
It's probably going to be a long time before The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is dethroned as the king of modern role-playing games. The open world title is one of the very best releases of the past decade, and has essentially set the bar for similar games going forward. But it's not just the base release that should...
Game of the Year 2016 #6 - The Last Guardian
Cat-puppy love
Decade-long development cycles rarely end well, especially when a rabid fanbase has passed the time by elevating a project's expectations to astronomical levels. The Last Guardian, launching some seven years after its original announcement, was always going to have a huge battle on its hands, then – not least because it has the...
Game of the Year 2016 #7 - The Witness
Blown away
If there was an annual award for 'Game Most Often Judged by Cover', The Witness would take it this year, hands down. Written off by many as "that game that's just about drawing lines", Jonathan Blow's long-delayed successor to Braid is, and has always been, about more than what's on the surface. Sure, your only real interaction with the...
Game of the Year 2016 Ken's Personal PlayStation Picks
Life is just a fantasy
It's time once again for the indomitable staff here at Push Square to share their own personal Game of the Year picks. Every year, we herd our writers together and force them to spill their opinions on their five favourite games of the last 12 months. Usually, this involves poking them with a stick until they come clean...
Game of the Year 2016 #8 - DOOM
Room for DOOM
Things could have gone badly wrong for DOOM. After a long development time, a severe lack of single player footage, and a complete absence of reviews on launch day, the title relied on word of mouth throughout its first week of availability. Is it any good? What's the campaign like? Has the multiplayer been improved since its beta?...
Game of the Year 2016 John's Personal PlayStation Picks
Treasured
It's time once again for the indomitable staff here at Push Square to share their own personal Game of the Year picks. Every year, we herd our writers together and force them to spill their opinions on their five favourite games of the last 12 months. Usually, this involves poking them with a stick until they come clean. Below, you'll find...
Game of the Year 2016 #9 - Ratchet & Clank
Ratcheting things up
2016 saw Ratchet & Clank striving for Hollywood stardom with the release of their very own feature film. The news that a new game would also be launching just ahead of their movie probably caused the more cynical minds out there to shout '"cash grab" – especially when it disappointingly turned out to be a remake of their...
Game of the Year 2016 Sammy's Personal PlayStation Picks
Beauty and the beast
It's time once again for the indomitable staff here at Push Square to share their own personal Game of the Year picks. Every year, we herd our writers together and force them to spill their opinions on their five favourite games of the last 12 months. Usually, this involves poking them with a stick until they come clean. Below,...
Game of the Year 2016 #10 - Titanfall 2
BT 4 LYF
We've been blessed with well over two decades worth of first-person shooter games and in that time, especially the last six years or so, the industry has been saturated with the genre, with titles delivering varying degrees of quality. This over saturation, while a sobering cornerstone of the violence in video game argument, has also been a...
Game of the Year 2016 Stephen's Personal PlayStation Picks
Witness it
It's time once again for the indomitable staff here at Push Square to share their own personal Game of the Year picks. Every year, we herd our writers together and force them to spill their opinions on their five favourite games of the last 12 months. Usually, this involves poking them with a stick until they come clean. Below, you'll...
Site News Push Square's Game of the Year Coverage Is Underway
Here's what you can expect
Good ol' Game of the Year: the perfect excuse to pad out a slow period of news with pre-written articles while we stuff our faces with turkey sandwiches and all attempt to earn the Platinum Trophy in Final Fantasy XV. You may have noticed already, but our coverage is already underway, though things properly get started...
Feature The 10 Best PS4 Games of 2016 So Far
Off to a flyer
June has already arrived, which means that we're roughly halfway into 2016 already. But what a six months it's been for the PlayStation 4, with Sony's new-gen format really starting to find its feet and amass a compelling selection of games. With the excitement of E3 2016 around the corner, we thought that it would be fun to put...
Feature 33 PS4, PlayStation VR Predictions for 2016
Looking to the future
We're knee deep into 2016 already, which means that we should probably put up some PlayStation predictions before it's, like, way too late. Our very own Kell Andersen was scarily prophetic in our previous article, so this time we're all trying to get a glimpse inside the gaming crystal ball. We've compiled three predictions...
