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Of course they will. Not like they can replace it with anything else at this point either.

@Splat They cancelled Factions, Twisted Metal and the London Studio game.

@Max_the_German GT7 and MLB The Show count I think.

Not going to hold my breath, but it's not impossible that Beenox could be working on THPS 3+4 remakes alongside the CoD support. They have around 300 employees. Maybe they rejected Vicarious Visions' pitch because they already decided that studio was merging with Blizzard, not because they didn't want to produce the project. So it fell to another team that worked on the 1+2 remake.

Unlikely, but not impossible.

It would be nice if we got remasters of those other older Lego games from the PS3 era. Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Star Wars TCS/Clone Wars, Batman Trilogy, Indy, etc.

Based on player counts, that's better than I thought.

@Korgon Yeah I'm sure DMC will continue. I very much doubt Reuben Langdon will return as Dante now though. The guy has some controversial views and I can see Capcom not wanting to keep him around, but him and Itsuno were friends which would likely have secured him the gig for DMC6.

@Arisen DMC5's combat designer left Capcom and ended up working on FF. The joke here is obvious.

@nessisonett In the 2000s especially... dodgy would be putting it lightly I fear.

They made the right call. An open world Tokyo game would be cool, like Sleeping Dogs did for Hong Kong, but not as GTA. Like they said, the satirical aspect wouldn't translate.

@WhiteRabbit Baldur's Gate 3 is another one.

The Shadow portion of this package is looking stacked. From what's been shown so far, we have:

1. Radical Highway (SA2)
2. Space Colony Ark (SA2)
3. Bullet Station (Heroes)
4. Final Fortress (Heroes)
5. Kingdom Valley (06)
6. Sunset Heights (Forces)
7. Chaos Island (Frontiers)

And there'll probably be a zone or two from the 2005 Shadow game, putting the level count on par with the original Generations - then there's this DLC level coming later on. Add on to that an open world hub, multiple boss fights, etc. They're really just making a whole other game and throwing in Sonic Generations as a bonus, and even that has some new content. Not bad for $50/£45, especially if they deliver with the new stuff.

So Concord has it's own dedicated episode separate from the other PS Studios properties? Those are 15 bullet points for the 15 episodes. Sony are really trying to push this game, bless them for trying, I suppose.

Before bothering with a remake, we at least need the original versions in remastered form on PS4/5 and Switch.

@__jamiie I was going to say that, it's hard to imagine Bungie have generated $3.6 billion in profit in a matter of two years. That's a monumental task, and they wouldn't need to lay people off if they were that successful.

@NoHope It's true though. PS5 is the best performer currently in Europe.

"All three platforms saw a slight decline, with PS5 still comfortably the market leader (selling more than the other two platforms combined). Nintendo Switch slips to No.3 this month, narrowly overtaken by Xbox Series S and X, with both platforms broadly neck-and-neck year-to-date."
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/elden-ring-sales-jump-467-on-shadow-of-the-erdtree-release-i-uk-monthly-charts

"All three platforms are down, although PS5 is proving the most resilient with a year-on-year sales drop of 10% in June.
For the first six months of the year, the games console hardware market is down 24% with 2.2 million units sold. PS5 is down 16%, Switch down 32% and Xbox Series S and X down 37%. The console market is struggling when put against strong 2023 numbers, a weaker software line-up and the ageing Nintendo Switch platform."
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/european-game-sales-down-just-16-during-the-first-half-of-2024-european-monthly-charts

Genuinely disappointing news. The contrast between the serious and silly stuff is a huge part of RGG games.

This current trend of TV shows only having 6-8 episodes per season is very lame in my opinion, no time for any filler, downtime to explore the characters in non plot important events, everything feels like an extended film and not television.

Letting Bungie operate independently at the start was a huge mistake. Their crap leadership laid off some of the longest serving employees. Not even the composer was safe. This is a good move on Sony's part, shame it wasn't sooner.

Is It-Z shy or not?

The culture war has ruined some of your brains. I won't say any more than this.

Size Matters is definitely a clanker... or a clunker....

James Cage White's favourite video game

Very cool very swag I like it!

@ear_wig I'd love for IX to continue being first person. We've had a probably unintended trend of the RE numbered games coming in sets of three. 1-3 the classic fixed camera angle games, 4-6 the over the shoulder games, 7-9 could be the first-person trilogy.

You should probably have included the second half of his quote where Okamura acknowledges people have moved on and such.

Besides that, I should do a quick rundown on the Kojima/Konami situation, 9 years on. Konami's executives who pushed Kojima out are not in the company anymore, pachinko hasn't been a focus for several years, with the video game division earning the most revenue, and much of the key MGS staff who worked with Kojima on those games do still remain there and are working on Delta.

(nobody is going to care about what I just put and the same old memes will continue).

It's very cheap on Steam, often on sale, and it's old enough that it should run on most PC hardware, even if you're not using a dedicated gaming rig. A port would be ideal, but it's very accessible.

@Perturbator The name fits. The Embracer sounds like a horror villain.

@Victor_Meldrew he admitted to it before your comment

Coming on to this article after reading through the comments section of the previous article on the matter is pretty funny. Some of you guys look really silly right now.

@BetaRabbit64 They're saying they can't play it on his PS3.

I did prefer the movie's approach to storytelling - telling an original story that takes elements from the games - as opposed to a straight adaptation of a specific preexisting plot. That might work for The Last of Us where you have the long form storytelling of television but squeezing an Uncharted game into 2 hours isn't worth the effort. Do something different with the characters.

"Let’s not beat around the bush: Shadow the Hedgehog was definitively uncool when he debuted on PS2 back in 2005."

Me when I'm a big fat liar.

@Frmknst Lego Star Wars 2005 vs The Skywalker Saga are pretty distinct I think.

Ghosthunter is a deep cut. Glad to see it.

If the new versions are actually 480p, then that's good actually. Whenever I emulate I try out higher resolutions they look pretty, but I always shift back to native res because there's always little rendering glitches when uprendering.

Maybe they could give an option for scaling? Usually they don't and you're forced with HD. Having both in an official emulator for once would be nice. Same for PS1 and PS2, let me play at the native resolution.

480p? Splendid!

Edit after playing Sly for 5 minutes: It actually does look like it's around 720p to my eyes. There has been a 2x upscale I think.

The CRT filters (Classic/Modern Arcade) look quite nice to me. Much better looking than the implementation for PS1 and PSP games (CRT filter for PSP doesn't even make sense, needs an LCD filter).

Switch version is insane but I'm all for it.

@Ludacritz Apparently this release is meant to lay the groundwork for a sequel. And the original version had some flaws so I guess they want to fix those up too.

Of course it's six episodes. TV shows now are all just 4-5 hour movies. That's just barely enough time to cover the main story, so doubt we'll get any of the side content featured. God forbid a series has some fun filler episodes.

Hopefully it's good though. Kamen Rider Drive Kiryu is cool.

This, Dynasty Warriors and MonHun were the highlights.

Putting this in a State of Play where almost everybody is watching for PS5 games was certainly a choice.

@Specky Not exactly. The HD versions have a few small issues.

@Enigk PS6 more likely. I don't see them restricting any software to a Pro console.

Why is every retro horror property getting it's own asymmetrical multiplayer game lately? Well, we know why... it's Dead by Daylight, but they would all be better off just doing a DbD collab. These games are all just flavour of the week distractions.

@The_ghostmen The only resemblance the woman in the trailer has to Lizzo is she's a woman and she's black. She's not even obese.

@Haruki_NLI Dragon Quest III is also a prequel to the first two, no?

Not a fan of some of the recent projects in this franchise having Lara being not so much of a Tomb Raider so if this is another one of those it'll be a shame.

ResetERA are late to the party on this.

@j2c I was about to say I'm pretty sure Colin talked about this a while ago. He's early on a lot of these things but people don't want to give him the credit.

@LifeGirl I think the 360's success was extremely lucky too. Remember the red ring of death. That console had a 70% failure rate for a few years, it would've been the death knell of any other product imo. That's how desirable the 360 was to people, how good those games were, and they fumbled that so hard.

@nomither6 It's interesting. Did the PS3 really launch a year late, or was the 360 a year too early? The hardware was clearly rushed, not ready for end of 2005. Early units did not even have an HDMI port, HD gaming was limited to component at 720p or 1080i, no 1080p. Speaking of which... the Xbox 360 was cheaper to buy, but was missing key features you had to buy separately - wifi, rechargeable controllers, sometimes even a hard drive. PS3 had that stuff by default, plus Blu-Ray support and also included full PS2 hardware compatibility (360 had very spotty emulation of OG Xbox games) which added a lot to the cost so it's understandable that was the first thing cut.

Was Phil Spencer not appointed the as the CEO of Microsoft Gaming? Seems weird for the source to suggest he's not responsible for any of the recent decisions.

You'd think they'd have figured this out before the approval of the acquisition. Everything about this buyout has become a disaster for Xbox.

@AhmadSumadi Happens every time this site reports anything relating to a famous person. Even mega stars like Taylor Swift will get people coming out to say "who? I've never heard their music!"

Yeah sure, you've never gone shopping? You've heard her lol.