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Site News Introducing Our Brand New Review Scoring System
Roll up
The topic of reviews and our scoring system comes up an awful lot among the Push Square editorial team. Is an out-of-10 scale still the right way to go? Should we move to a 5-star rating? How can we make scoring games easier for our fleet of reviewers? Do we need scores at the end of our reviews at all? It's something that's needed looking...
Round Up Push Square's Favourite PS4 Games of 2017
The pick of the bunch
That’s it, then – almost two weeks of Christmas content done and dusted. As we settle back into a normal rhythm, we thought that it was worth recycling all of our work one last time with a Round Up of our full PlayStation 4 Game of the Year 2017 top ten. Push Square's Favourite PS4 Games of 2017: Persona...
Site News Our Game of the Year Countdown Begins Now
Winner, winner
We’ve been busy. Like, really busy. Behind the scenes we’ve prepped no less than 30 articles, all of which are set to run over the holiday break. Among them is our Game of the Year countdown: our 10 favourite PlayStation 4 titles from 2017, in descending order. This year was really difficult to determine because there were just...
Site News Push Square Forum Votes Horizon: Zero Dawn as Game of the Year
Aloy to the world
While the world anticipates Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards 2017 this evening, the Push Square forum members have already spoken, declaring Horizon: Zero Dawn to be their Game of the Year. After 250 posts as part of a typically epic thread coordinated by themcnoisy with assistance from KratosMD,
Site News Push Square Forum Members Seek Game of the Year
Help make the decision now
The annual Game of the Year bonanza is now underway in the Push Square forums, with our resident points tallying pro themcnoisy working to determine our community’s favourite PlayStation release of 2017. There are no shortage of contenders this year, with Persona 5, Horizon: Zero Dawn,
Site News Gran Turismo Sport PS4 Review - Where's Our Verdict?
Race against time
Gran Turismo Sport is out now in North America and later this week in Europe and Japan, which marks the first instalment of the simulation racer on the PlayStation 4. Millions of you downloaded the demo to get your first taste of the title, and we’ve been faffing around with final code for a few days. However, despite a global...
Site News Destiny 2 Review - Our Plans and What You Can Expect
Keeping you in the loop
We don't usually do articles like this, but given the popularity of a release like Destiny 2 and in the interest of transparency, we're going to take the time to outline our review plans for the game. We've attempted to answer a number of frequently asked questions below, with the hope being that our answers provide some...
Site News Join the Official Push Square Destiny 2 Clan on PS4
Greetings, Guardian
If you're anything like us, then you're pretty excited to get stuck into Destiny 2 once it launches on the 6th September. But before you dive straight into Bungie's sci-fi sequel, there's one question we need to ask: would you like to join our official Push Square clan? Clans will supposedly play a bigger role in...
Site News We Need You to Complete Our Readership Survey
There's a Jammie Dodger in it for you
Anyone else derive a perverse kind of pleasure from filling in surveys? Good news, then – it's that time of the year yet again where we thrust a questionnaire in front of your bemused faces and beg you to fill it in. Pretty please? With a cherry on top? Seriously, though, this survey comes from our...
Site News You Can Now View Push Square's Content as a Timeline
Options
Earlier this year we launched our new Push Square layout and we couldn't be happier with it. One of our goals was to better spotlight the breadth of content that we create every single day, without it obstructing general news consumption – and we reckon that we've done an excellent job. However, some regular readers commented that you'd...
Site News Follow Our Horizon: Zero Dawn Hub Page
Everything in one place
Hooked on Horizon: Zero Dawn? Want to get all of our updates on the game in one place? Well, we've just created a hub page for Guerrilla Games' role-playing franchise that will keep you abreast of all of the developments in the fledgling series. You can find the page through here; simply click 'Follow' and it will be added to...
Site News Welcome to the New Push Square
Fresh start
Do you like what we've done to the place? Phwoar, it's pretty bloody spiffing, isn't it? For the past year we've quietly embarked on a Nathan Drake-esque adventure in search of the perfect Push Square facelift. We loved the previous layout just as much as you do, but the simple fact is that we outgrew it; we create such a variety of...
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...
Site News Push Square Forum Members Vote Uncharted 4 Game of the Year
Good dog
It's almost the end of the calendar year [How? – Ed] which means that it's time for editorial outfits around the world to start putting together Game of the Year lists. We've been working on our coverage for a couple of weeks now, and you can watch it all unfold on the site over the Christmas break, so make sure you're checking back for...
Site News Let's Talk About Review Code and Push Square's Review Policy
This is how we do it
You may have heard or read about Bethesda's recent statement regarding its review policy. Essentially, the publisher will no longer be sending out review code to the media – that's websites and publications like Push Square – until the day before launch. This means that we won't have time to write reviews for games like The...
Site News Where's Your No Man's Sky PS4 Review?
Patience, explorers
Hey everyone, it's Sammy from Push Squa—and this isn't a video script, you nitwit. I just wanted to update you with regards to the status of our No Man's Sky review. As many of you know, the game is out tomorrow in North America and a day later in Europe, but we won't have a verdict ready for you until later in the week. This...
Site News Uncharted 2 Is PlayStation's Greatest Ever Game According to Push Square Readers
Calm down
Ever industrious Push Square reader themcnoisy couldn't have timed the results for our greatest PlayStation game poll any better, could he? For those who haven't been keeping tabs, readers have been voting on the best games ever released on a Sony system for months now – you may remember that we posted about the top 64 titles ea
Site News Push Square Readers Select the 64 Greatest PlayStation Games of All Time
And it's a strong list
Several months of perfectly planned polls coordinated by Push Square reader themcnoisy have brought us to this point: the 64 greatest PlayStation games ever made – according to you, the readers. For those of you that haven't been keeping tabs on the enormous thread in our forum, members have been voting for their favourite...
Site News Our Forum Wants to Find Your Favourite Ever PlayStation Game
Time to vote
Organisational idol themcnoisy is back with another awesome forum contest, with the objective this time to determine the greatest PlayStation game of all time. There'll be a slew of rounds, contests, and battles before the ultimate winner is crowned, with the prologue stage well underway as we write. You've got until 29th February to...
Site News Would You Kindly Take Our Survey?
Be a bae
Look, we're know that you're busy trying to finish The Witness, but can you forget about line puzzles for five minutes, please? Our not-so intimidating overlords at Gamer Network have concocted a right stonker of a survey, and kindly asked us to gently nudge it in your general direction. We really, really need your help with this, because...
Site News Our Game of the Year Coverage Starts Today
The final countdown
Spoilers: we picked our Game of the Year winner a couple of weeks ago. Since then, the Push Square team has been frantically writing articles in order to keep you occupied over the holidays. This year's, er, end of year coverage is going to be our best ever, with a number of our authors sharing their personal Top Five titles of...
Site News Push Square Users Vote The Witcher 3 as Game of the Year
Fallout 4! Bloodborne! Rocket League!
While we're still preparing our full Game of the Year coverage here at Push Square Towers – check back during Christmas to read all that we have in store – forum user themcnoisy has been organising a Best of 2015 poll in our forums. Users were asked to pick their three favourite PlayStation games of the...
Site News Vote for Your Push Square Forums Game of the Year
Top picks
We'll have lots of Game of the Year coverage from the team next month, but if you can't wait that long, the community on the Push Square forums have set up their own independent poll. Orchestrated by member TheMcNoisy, the voting will run in this thread from now through until 12:00AM GMT on 5th December. You'll
Site News Our PlayStation E3 2015 Coverage Starts Now
Are you red E?
Buckle up everyone, because E3 2015 is just around the corner. The biggest event in gaming comes around but once a year, and over the course of about a week, we're bombarded with news, release dates, announcements, and trailers from just about every publisher under the sun. For us here at Push Square, it's a time that we both relish...
Site News Hideo Kojima Joins the Push Square Team
Metal Gear developer to move into video game journalism
Loughborough, England – Push Square, the internationally recognised PlayStation publication operated by Nlife Ltd, has today announced that video game visionary Hideo Kojima will be joining its editorial team as a reviewer. Mr. Kojima is perhaps best known for his work on the critically...
News Happy New Year from VitaGamr!
2012, here we come
2012 is the year PlayStation makes its next major move in the console business, releasing PlayStation Vita in Europe and North America on 22nd February. Just as PlayStation is ready to leap forward, so are we at VitaGamr: committed to bringing you the most important news and reviews from the world of PlayStation Vita. We're...
News Happy New Year from Movemodo!
2012 – you're next
As we close the book on 2011 we open a fresh page for 2012, and a what year it's looking to be for PlayStation — and for us. Highlights of the coming year include Sorcery, DUST 514 Star Trek and plenty more. We have some extremely exciting developments up our sleeve for 2012 that we're sure you love. We'll tell you more in the...
