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Wednesday13th Nov 2024
News GTA Trilogy Massively Upgraded on PS5, Patch Out on PS4 Now Too
Grove Games' name removed from project
Update #2: Players on PS4 are now reporting they too have received the new patch for the GTA Trilogy that implements the original art direction. It's a 4.054GB update on PS4. Update #1: While the GTA Trilogy has been massively upgraded on the PS5, restoring its original art direction, the patch is not...
News Monster Hunter to Take Over Phones as Well as PS5 with Outlanders Spin-Off
Coming to iOS and Android devices soon
Capcom has revealed you'll be able to hunt monsters on both your PS5 and mobile phones soon as it announces official spin-off game Monster Hunter Outlanders for smartphones in a debut trailer. Building on Monster Hunter Now, this is a fully open-world adaptation with an optimised battle system that shall launch...
News Songs of Silence Finds Harmony Between Real-Time, Turn-Based Strategy on PS5
Welcome back, Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Songs of Silence is a compelling blend of turn-based strategy with real-time combat, boasting a painterly, art-nouveau aesthetic. Fresh from Steam's Early Access, this daring blend of mechanics is available now on PS5. Reminding us, encouragingly, of our beloved Heroes of Might & Magic series (but with...
News ARC Raiders Unveils Promising Extraction Loop in Gameplay Reveal
Go big or go home
We haven't heard much from the Arc Raiders front recently, so we were pleasantly surprised to see a hefty chunk of gameplay emerge in the last few hours. The co-op shooter turned survival extraction game from Embark, the studio behind The Finals, looks to be coming along nicely. In the six-minute gameplay reveal, we get some...
News Play Has No Limits in Sony's Latest Live-Action PS5 Ad
Push play to the max
Hearkening back to the PS5's original slogan, "Play Has No Limits," Sony has released a light-hearted, live-action ad to remind you of this. We don't know if it quite lives up to the drama and tension of Playtopia, and it certainly can't hold a candle to the PS3's legendary Long Live Play, but overall, it's pretty good. The...
News Stellar Blade Will Spread Its Wings to PC in 2025
Giving Nexus Mods time to increase server capacity
PS5 exclusive Stellar Blade was one of the standout releases of the year, with developer Shift Up commanding the attention of gamers with lightning-fast combat and scantily-clad heroine Eve. The game was considered a success, selling more than a million copies, and Shift Up expects to sell
News Secret Level Creator Comments on Concord's Awkward Anthology Inclusion
“I honestly don’t understand why it didn’t work"
The brief but explosive saga of Sony's failed service punt, Concord, isn't over yet. Your favourite Freegunners will ride again in Secret Level from 10th December, the focus of one of the anthology series' 15 episodes. Secret Level's Tim Miller has noted the elephant in the room for the first...
Tuesday12th Nov 2024
News Sea of Stars Now Has Combat System Its Developer Always Wanted
Free update also adds co-op
Sea of Stars has today received its free Dawn of Equinox update across PS5 and PS4 consoles, which seeks to provide a "definitive edition" of the RPG's combat system, implement co-op features, and enhance other aspects. It's available to download now, and you can see it in action in the trailer above. Combat and co-op...
News Stellar Blade's Eve Bags a New Body Double for PS5 Favourite's Upcoming Update
Yoon love to see it
Fans of Stellar Blade protagonist Eve will know developer Shift Up based the character’s body on real-life South Korean model Shin Jae-eun, but for the game’s upcoming update, it’s scanned a new star: cosplayer Yoon Seol-hwa. The model confirmed the news on
News Survive in Style with Forever Skies Demo's PS5 Exclusive Airship Skin
Available to play now
Forever Skies, a PS5 console exclusive survival game, now has a free playable demo on the PS Store. Weighing in at about 10.5 GB, you can now download and play a sample of the sci-fi adventure, which is due to arrive in early 2025. It has you exploring a ruined Earth and staying alive inside your airship base, hovering above...
News PS5 Slim Price Drop Confirmed, $380 Until 24th December
Knocks $70 off until Christmas Eve
Sony has announced by way of a new PS5 advert that the base PS5 Slim console will be available on sale at $380 until 24th December 2024. It hasn't confirmed on what date the temporary price cut will take place, though previous rumours have suggested 22nd November, or around Black Friday, is when the sale will be...
News Fortnite OG Sticks Around As Permanent Mode from 6th December
Back to the beginning
You won’t need to wait for an annual dose of Fortnite nostalgia, as Epic Games is bringing back Fortnite OG as a permanent mode from 6th December. Rumoured earlier in the month but officially confirmed today, the mode will take the popular Battle Royale back to its very origins, with a Season 1 that reverts the release back...
News Sonic X Shadow Generations Producer Wants to Remake the Worst Game in the Series for PS5
06, here we go again
Sonic has enjoyed plenty of highs, but he’s also experienced some extreme lows. Chief among those was the PS3 game Sonic the Hedgehog, known colloquially by fans as Sonic 06. It was a disaster, earning a Metacritic rating of 43. But Sonic X Shadow Generations producer Shun Nakamura, speaking at a fan event in Indonesia,...
Reminder PS Plus Extra, Premium to Lose 18 Games in a Week
Kingdom Hearts, RDR2 on their way out
Sony will announce the full lineup of PS5, PS4, and Classic titles coming to PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium for its November 2024 refresh tomorrow, but what's just as noteworthy about this month's rotation is the number of games on their way out. As confirmed almost a month ago, it's been a while since the...
Hands On Spider-Man 2 All in on Ray Tracing for PS5 Pro
Fidelity Pro vs Performance Pro
Given that Insomniac Games only just released Marvel's Spider-Man 2 one year ago with fantastic graphics and options for frame rate enthusiasts, the chances the studio would be able to tap into an entirely new level of visual quality on PS5 Pro were slim. Therefore, it has taken a different route as it looks to...
News Black Ops 6 Drives Monthly PS5 Sales Growth in the UK, 75% of Players Purchase on PlayStation
Business as usual
Sales of the PS5 in the UK rose 27% month-on-month this October, propelled by the release of the Xbox-owned Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. An enormous 75% of the game’s full-price sales were made on PlayStation platforms, with the title’s Game Pass availability shrinking series owner Xbox’s share to just 11%. Sales of the Xbox...
News Six Seconds of Long-Lost Adventure In the Valley of Gods Is All You Get
And you can thank Gabe for that
Remember In the Valley of Gods? The promising follow-up was being developed at Firewatch studio Campo Santo before it was acquired by Steam's parent company, Valve, in 2018. In 2019, the developer was put to work on Half-Life: Alyx instead. Its promising narrative adventure game was indefinitely delayed, seemingly...
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard Sales Keep Pace with Dragon's Dogma 2, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth in UK
"It's not earth shattering, but it isn't terrible"
Dragon Age: The Veilguard appears to mark the critical return of developer BioWare, but its commercial impact remains harder to parse almost two weeks after launch. At least in the UK (the seventh-largest individual market for games globally), The Veilguard reportedly performed comparably to...
News Game Size Not as Important as It Used to Be, Says Yakuza Creator
Rather, it's about how you use the content
Yakuza/Like a Dragon creator Toshihiro Nagoshi says the era of games needing to be as big as possible is fast coming to an end. With the nonstop onslaught of game releases fighting for players' limited free time, Nagoshi says it's only natural that games will be judged less harshly on their size as the...
News Square Enix's New AAA Games Are Being Trounced by Final Fantasy 14
Profitable MMO segment still winning
The venerable MMO Final Fantasy XIV, once considered an abject failure, is now pointed to as an example of a video game redemption arc. Over the years, Square Enix has come to rely on the regular, predictable profits it draws from the title's vast player base, and the massively multiplayer game has become one of...
News Blizzard Hits Nostalgia Button, Overwatch: Classic Launches on PS5
"Heroes and balance from popular moments in the game’s history"
As the lifespan of certain games is increasingly measured in decades, an interesting play we keep seeing from developers is to revert to an earlier, presumably better state. World of Warcraft Classic found phenomenal success in this, as did Fortnite OG and Apex Legends' Season 23. It...
Monday11th Nov 2024
News Single Player Western RPG from Lies of P Pub Will Be One to Watch on PS5
Neowiz sheriff-a
Korean publisher Neowiz demonstrated its commitment to interesting ideas with the excellent Lies of P, and it’s just signed a deal with Polish start-up Zakazane to publish its new single player western RPG. The game’s said to take place in a remote mining town, where you’ll assume the role of a sheriff tasked with solving a...
News Someone's Definitely Gonna Rebuild PS5's LEGO Horizon Adventures in Real Life
If they have the right bricks
With LEGO Horizon Adventures, Studio Gobo and Guerrilla have made it pretty clear that the whole game has been constructed using true-to-life LEGO pieces. The result is a seriously impressive and consistent visual style, but a new video frames it another way. If you have the right bricks, you can rebuild anything you...
Hands On PS5 Pro Injects More Magic into Hogwarts Legacy
Ray tracing the star of PS5 Pro update
Due to the sheer amount of content open world titles generally have to render at any one time, it's a lot more difficult for them to be deemed visually spectacular. Many on PS5 are more than competent, but pit them against the linear, story-focused experiences of Sony's first-party teams and they will almost...
Sweep the new board
SEGA’s released a surprisingly generous update to the PS5 and PS4’s only real Mario Party alternative, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Sweep the Board. Available now, for free, everyone who owns the game will be able to enjoy an entire new board, inspired by the Hashira Training Arc from the manga and anime. This includes...
News Indiana Jones Looks Like an Adventure Worth Waiting for on PS5
Looking like a Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the next title from MachineGames, and rather than blasting Nazis away with OTT weaponry in Wolfenstein, you'll be beating them up with shovels and rolling pins. Launching on PS5 next Spring after a brief period of Xbox exclusivity, publisher Bethesda has just put out a new gameplay...
News NieR: Automata's Weird and Wonderful World Invades PS5 Hit Stellar Blade this Month
Tons of new outfits! Photo mode! Much more
Zany merchant Emil from NieR: Automata will set up shop in the world of Stellar Blade from 20th November, bringing 11 all-new cosmetic items to the title. This anticipated collaboration, announced earlier in the year, is being pitched as a crossover marked by the “mutual respect” between Shift Up’s...
News PS5 Pro Brute Forces Better Performance in Monster Hunter Wilds' Beta
But a native patch will be needed
Monster Hunter Wilds’ recent beta was, let’s be honest, wildly unfinished. Whether you enjoyed the demo or not, running on PS5 in Performance mode the game looked hideous, with some of the poorest image quality we’ve seen all generation. A new comparison test shows how the PS5 Pro may be able to improve the...
Guide PS Stars Guide: All Campaigns and Solutions (November 2024)
Your ultimate guide to Sony's loyalty scheme
PS Stars, or PlayStation Stars, is a free loyalty program for PS5 and PS4 which enables you to earn PS Store credit, free games, and Digital Collectibles. If you're a PS Plus subscriber, then you'll earn additional Points based on each PS Store purchase you make. In this PS Stars guide, we're going to...
Block party
Tetris was and is a global phenomenon that remains pick-up-and-play perfection to this day, and its history is lovingly chronicled in Digital Eclipse's latest: Tetris Forever. It charts the franchise's entire history, from the brainchild of Alexey Pajitnov to its popularity explosion as a Game Boy pack-in and beyond. A far cry from the...
