Tag: Plaion
Review Nobody Wants to Die (PS5) - Film Noir Meets Cyberpunk in This Stylish Detective Thriller
Who wants to live forever?
What would happen if humans created a way to make death optional by transferring consciousness from one body to another? Nobody Wants to Die answers that question in the most realistic way possible: the rich live forever, and the poor barely live at all. Set in New York in 2329, Nobody Wants To Die tells the story of...
News Take the Edge Off with 10 Minutes of Nobody Wants to Die Gameplay
New day, same city
The slick, sci-fi detective game Nobody Wants to Die continues to impress, this time in 10 minutes of gritty gameplay, courtesy of IGN. Shockingly, it's out next week, launching on 17th July on PS5, and it looks like the kind of hard-boiled noir thriller we could see ourselves getting lost in. Developed by Critical Hit and...
News TimeSplitters PS5, PS4 Rated for Release, PS2 Classic Likely Slated for PS Plus Premium
Blast from the past
Free Radical Design's seminal shooter TimeSplitters looks like it's coming to PS5 and PS4, likely as part of the next phase of PS Plus Premium's classics push. Overnight, ratings for modern platforms appeared on the Taiwanese ratings board, which is good news for fans of the now-defunct developer.
News Rewind Time and Solve Crimes in Nobody Wants to Die on PS5 Next Month
A modern Sherlock Holmes
Uber-promising noir detective game Nobody Wants to Die has a release date – and it’s due out in a little over a month. The Plaion published and Critical Hit developed futuristic detective title has netted a 17th July release date, and you can check out the outing’s ridiculously promising deploy date trailer embedded...
News Akimbot Looks Like a Ratchet & Clank Knock-Off for PS5
Is that you?
Akimbot isn’t related to Ratchet & Clank in any way, but we don’t think it could look more like Insomniac’s series if it tried. Due out later this year on PS5, the Plaion-published platformer sees you assume control of a robot named Exe and his sidekick Shipset – is any of this sounding familiar yet? The gameplay, which...
News Nobody Wants to Die Looks Too Good to Be True on PS5
Single player, story-driven experience
How about this for a reveal trailer, then? Plaion has announced Nobody Wants to Die by Critical Hit Games, an upcoming futuristic detective escapade set in a dystopian New York. The action takes place in 2329, where you’ll assume the role of agent James Karra, who’s hunting a serial killer targeting the...
Review PAYDAY 3 (PS5) - An Outdated Co-Op Heisting Experience
Clowning around
Payday 3 is the third entry in the always online, one-to-four-player, cooperative heist FPS series from Starbreeze Studios. Returning from retirement, the Payday crew have not only moved to terrorise a new city, from Washington DC to New York, but also moved game engine from Payday 2’s Diesel into the more robust Unreal Engine 4...
News Publisher PLAION Plans to Voltron Deep Silver, Prime Matter, Ravenscourt into Single Entity
Plans proceed apace
PLAION, the publisher formerly known as Koch Media, is restructuring, or as they put it, "simplifying our publishing operations". This will result in subsidiary publisher Deep Silver and developers Prime Matter and Ravenscourt merging, with the aim being to produce fewer titles at a higher quality. The move will result in...
News Wait?! Dead Island 2 Looks Like a Bloody Good Time on PS5, PS4
They actually did it
It’s taken a bloody long time, but what’s this? Dead Island 2 looks good! A sprawling 14-minute video preview shows playable character Dani working her way through Los Angeles, messing up any and all kinds of reanimated flesh that gets in her way. The gameplay encounters look unbelievably entertaining, thanks to a rich and...
News Knock Out Boxing Sim Undisputed Picked Up by PLAION for PS5, PS4
Formerly known as eSports Boxing Club
The outrageously promising eSports Boxing Club has been picked up by publisher PLAION, with the game renamed to Undisputed. This knock out sim, developed by UK studio Steel City Interactive, has been generating hype ever since it was first announced, thanks to its stunning visuals and ground-breaking gameplay...
