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I'm tempted by it, but I'm waiting until the launch to see how the performance is and I will likely still be playing Rebirth when it releases. I need my dose of Galactic Conquest, great stuff.

That's what they have committed to but it's obvious they've got more they are working on and if these sell well then we will definitely see more.

It being a AAA single-player shooter wasn't the problem, it looked dull and had poor marketing. They shouldn't be spending that much money on any game that is the first for a studio, it's ludicrous.

I replayed Search for Reptar a couple of years ago, the camera was so awful but if they are doing ports... give me a PS5 emulation collection along with Studio Tour and In Paris. I need more dancing Reptar in my life.

Reminds me of the leaked Gears of War 3 PS3 build from a few years ago, crazy times.

I don't really care about Starfield, it's just something I wouldn't play unless it was free on PS Plus but if this is true then I have no idea what Xbox are doing. I hate it when companies purchase other companies and the rate that Microsoft has been doing it is insane but now it's rumoured multiple of their exclusives are going multiplatform. What was the point in the last few years of consolidating? It hasn't even been a decade since they started all these purchases, did they think they'll make their money back in a few short years? Why would they even think that?

If I was an Xbox owner I would be annoyed, promised all these exclusives and it turns out they aren't. Personally, going multiplatform is good for me but now the only benefit to having an actual Xbox console is to get games day one on Game Pass and I've always found that an idiotic decision which made Microsoft lose a lot of potential income. I wonder if this will be the last gen for Xbox consoles. I could see Microsoft shifting to the multiplatform and streaming hardware side of things. The day I can play Halo 3 and Fable 2 on a PlayStation is going to blow my mind...

Great showcase, I can't remember the last time they showed so many games I'm interested in. Nice variety along with games releasing soon and a year away. Hopefully, they keep this kind of standard for future ones (the exception being the one-game showcases like FF7 Rebirth). Very happy.

It feels weird when it comes to LAD: Gaiden, I've been a fan of the series since the original PS2 games and my reaction to Gaiden is different compared to others. I agree the final chapter is good but the overall story is meh, it's ranked in the lower half of the series for me. If anything the final chapter shows how the rest of the game could have been amazing if they had more development time. Out of the list of games my favourite story is probably Spider-Man 2 since I haven't gotten around to playing the others yet, but I spent most of my time playing Spider-Man with a huge grin on my face. I had a great time with the story.

What I always liked about the LAD games was how the map size for Kamurocho was perfect for everything you need in the game. I found Isezaki Ijincho pushing it when it came to size so I'm not particularly happy to hear the new one is even bigger. That doesn't mean it won't work, I haven't played the new game yet but when I'm told something is bigger it doesn't mean it's better.

After Inquisiton, Andromeda and Anthem my hopes are low for Dreadwolf, especially with the amount of people that have left during the development over the years. However, I'm still excited for the new Mass Effect. The team behind it is solid and if they can give me a great story/characters and keep the open-world aspect of Andormeda away, I'll be happy... so I'll see everyone in 4+ years' time where I'll be massively disappointed.

Great, and I just finished it...

I always thought it was that in my head. I recently saw a YouTube vid and the person pronounced it in an insane way like Ket Shi.

Reminds me of Yakuza 5 where some of the restaurants were just an image with the 3D model of Kiryu in front of it.

@ShogunRok PC has been getting some pretty bad ports this year, I'd say there are more lousy PC ports of console games than vice-versa.

Borderlands is owned by 2K, right? So even if Gearbox becomes a first-party studio that wouldn't make Borderlands an exclusive series but I could be wrong.

This is a damn shame, Volition might not have been that great in the last decade but they made some of my favourite games. Saints Row 1 and 2 I love, and the Punisher game and Red Faction games I also enjoyed greatly. When they said the studio was going to help Gearbox I knew the end was nigh, and it's finally happened. I wish the people that worked there well.

I'm confident that if this is true the only reason they are remaking ACIV and not the other games is because they know Skull & Bones is going to fail financially and they want to reuse the tech developed for that into something they know will sell; it's smart and I'd play it.

I haven't enjoyed the WWE games for years. This looks like it's got issues but it's also more in line with what I want from wrestling games. This is also coming from me, who enjoyed Wrestling Empire more than any other wrestling game in the last 10 years.

Hope it's good, I need more games like JSR in my life.

They expanded way too fast to manage the studios well, it felt like every month there were articles about Embracer buying more IPs and studios.

I don't know why but I thought The Chinese Room closed years ago... huh.

Also, the original Alan Wake never got enough traction to get an immediate sequel, and the remaster didn't sell Gangbusters. Do they think keeping it digital only will help them? They are mad.

I was thinking about preordering it, but now it's digital-only I'm going to wait for a steep discount. I understand going digital only but it being tied to an account that I could quickly lose access to because of something out of my control is something I'm not going to support fully. I don't mind on PC because games can be dirt cheap and if something does happen I could sail the seas, but I'm not paying for a game over £20 for digital access.

It was disappointing. Not one thing surprised me and a lot of the games just showed a trailer and told you nothing about what it is. There were games shown that I was already excited about and was going to get anyway, and the new games either looked generic or weren't exciting from the trailers. Spiderman 2 looks good but like I said, I was going to get that anyway. Give me a shock reveal for crying out loud!

@Wheatly I completely forgot about the Monster branding in DS since I last played that on the Director's Cut where it's removed. The ad thing with the shower I also can't remember, even from the original version. But looking it up that definitely is horrid. Now I'm just thinking about the awful ad placements in games, like Energizer in Alan Wake.

I remember playing Saints Row 2 years ago and driving past a billboard in game that was for Lynx (Axe). Ads being on menus is terrible, it being in the actual game world is immersion-breaking.

Woah, I seriously thought they were going to accept. I still think they will in the long run but the Cloud stuff is really interesting. It mustn't be just Sony trying to block the deal if it's the Cloud side of things that made them reject it.

I don't mind more studios using the Decima Engine but I hope it won't be a mandate like EA did with Frostbite. If a studio wants to use it great, if not let them choose what's best for their games.

I love theme park sims but what I want is another game that's similar to Thrillville. You can build coasters and place rides but also walk around the park interacting with guests and playing with the attractions. A more chill take on the genre.

Kena is the only game that I know I'll play. I don't play many FPS games and I've tried Doom multiple times and never clicked with it. It's an awful Premium month for me because of that and I already own Dishonored. I wish Sony will get around to emulating some PS2 games soon.

Only in the US can a company (Sony) that is complaining about one of the biggest publishers in the industry (Activision) being owned by a rival company (Microsoft) can be twisted to them being anti-competitive. Timed exclusives = bad, full-time exclusives = good! That's basically what they're saying. It's as if they don't know what they are talking about and are more interested in getting on the good side of a massive corporation that might be able to fund their campaigns...

@frabbit Same. It would be more impressive if it were a more modern game with higher poly assets and textures. The lighting does look great with the reflections but everything else visually doesn't excite me.

I like Legendary, and I even like the 1990s film in a so-bad-it's-good sort of way, so why not. A bad Street Fighter film isn't going to hurt the games. I guess that also means Sony will be distributing it worldwide.

@Ooccoo_Jr I've paid for DLC when games were on PS Now. What usually happens is you still own the DLC, but without the base game you can't access it.

The last Harry Potter game I enjoyed was the Half-Blood Prince because of the exploration side of Hogwarts, it's about time we're getting a great new game that's basically that times 100.

Spider-Man is a character that fits the open-world style of gameplay so well, Wolverine; not so much, so I'm happy if this is true. I trust Insomniac to create a great story with a great character so they can make it a dating sim for all I care, I'll buy it.

Haha, this was the first game I played with Premium. Loved it on the PS One and I enjoyed still when revisiting it. The camera was a bit funky but I got used to it.

I still don't get how these types of deals can be discussed. If you don't own the company, how can you offer contracts like this? I'm not saying Microsoft is doing anything illegal, it's obviously something that's allowed but I find it bizarre that it can. It seems like an easy way to get the deal through and using Nintendo, a company that doesn't really get many Activision games in the first place to sign the 10-year offer as an example to regulators that "this company approves so pass the deal".

The Callisto Protocol getting 6th is pretty decent for a game that most people are saying it's okay at best, though it will probably have a heavy drop week by week. NFS is a series where you don't know what to expect quality-wise. I haven't picked up an NFS for a while but I played Heat when it was on PS Plus and really enjoyed it, then I completely forgot a new one is releasing. Midnight Suns' most significant problem has been the marketing I think. When they announced it, people thought it was Marvel's XCOM, and then it showed the weird card mechanics, announcing DLC way before launch, then to top it off I thought only the PC version of the game was launching this year, not the current-gen versions too. If they just said it's Marvel blended with Fire Emblem, I'll probably pick it up sooner and not wait for a sale.

I always felt like a testicle on the inside, so being able to show it on the outside is a huge win for me.

It sounds like it's going to become a support studio. If so, what a floundering end for Volition. Saints Row was a blessing and a curse for them in the long run.

Stray is a good indie game, it didn't do anything so amazingly well that it should be nominated for GOTY, same with Horizon for me. The other games I agree with but it's probably between Ragnarok and Elden Ring.

Love the Ninja Storm games and I haven't really followed Naruto since the manga ended so I don't really know much about Boruto. That being said, I'll definitely play this and it might make me get into Boruto so bring it on.

Whenever I read comics with Batman in them, I always imagine Kevin's voice, along with Mark's for the Joker. He was my Batman, no one else came close. I will rewatch some Batman TAS and replay the Arkham games so I can experience his excellent performance again. What a legend.

@stvevan I agree that there are a lot of remakes currently announced and many are unjustified but a remake of the first Witcher game makes a lot of sense. It is very dated and most people got into the series with the third game, so going back to the original as a new fan is a real pain, especially if you don't like playing on PC.

Yes! The first Witcher game is great but very dated. I remember when they announced the PS3 port; The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf - before it was cancelled. I wonder if they want to make it open-world for fans of the third game or keep the open maps like the original and 2. If this is a success, which it probably will be, I need a remake of 2. I love that game.

@Eldritch You know what, you are right. My post came off more aggressive than I would have liked. My complaint about the original article was that it was written in a way that felt like there was evidence pointing towards the assumption that Sony scrapped the dates on purpose, which from the information at the time I would say wasn't sufficient enough to make such a statement. My dislike of that article shouldn't justify my passive aggression and apologies to Liam for that.

@LiamCroft Hang on, there is a difference between writing about what happened and writing an article that specifically says in the title that Sony scrapped it. Reporting that the expiration date is gone is one thing but most of that article was you assuming Sony did it on purpose and only a small line at the end that suggests it could have been a glitch.

If only specific sites that report news contacted Sony for a statement about the missing expiry dates before writing an article assuming stuff, but that's too much work.