I know that The Chinese Room are managed by Sumo and they are recruiting. Excited for anything from those guys - mainly because it means a new Jessica Curry score!
@Nakatomi_Uk Agreed, I still play my PS3 and Vita and would love to see even minimal effort. I checked out the PS3 sale and it had AssassiNs Creed games for £15. The remasters are cheaper on PS4!
@keihtg Really? Maybe this is a Europe issue as can’t see anything going cheap here unless I am missing them.
@Stocksy Me too. I had a 64gb memory card that died so have been collecting as many Physical second hand as I can but they have started to go up in price from what I can see.
@Ralizah Exactly this. Physical prices are still very very high (largely second hand) in the UK compared to digital and there are so many games I would like to get on Vita.
This is pretty nifty. I do wish that Sony would do some maintenance on the Vita Store. Firstly, they have not updated it at all and secondly they have stopped virtually all price promotions. Now the format is 'dead' I sort of wish that they would do large scale promotions to squeeze some more cash out. The last Vita sale was Boxing Day sales in 2018.
I've heard that this game has been canned some time ago, or that Sony had stopped supporting it but I know no official announcement has been made. Could be dusted off for PS5 I suppose.
Eclectic mix for me as I dance around the house to find space to chill. Mainly Tomb Raider anniversary in XB1, some Ratchet and Clank Trilogy on Vita and loving Replaying Gun on the 360.
To be honest, we will see a lot of these early remasters. The reason being is that there is always a content drought and people who early adopt are desperate for any game that takes advantage of the new console. If you can get any game out there early, you'll sell more.
Remember how many units some of those early Switch ports shifted?
Ok I finished the survey but why on earth did you want my inside leg measurement? Oh and why did I need to donate £10 for an investment to a paypal account owned by @get2sammyb
Normally I rush home from work to get these stability updates installed or I even call my wife and talk her through how to update. Knowing I am just at home and can do it any time takes the thrill out of.
Still in todays scary world, we all need a little bit of stability right?
Yeah the issue is all about logistics and infrastructure now and cost savings. A lot of business is weighing up furloughs and temp shutdowns since they can't ship their products in the correct volumes globally. One of the key reasons for TLOU was that they couldn't guarantee launching across all regions and that would be bad on sales and reception.
It is weird there is no official announcement at all - I can see the argument but the effort of adding it to stores/servers and supporting launch must be more than one launch announcement?
Awesome, I have an N64 and this but I don't have a CRT and it plays horribly on a HD TV (as do many N64 games). So this will be a day one purchase for me.
Wow this quarantine thing is bringing out the trolls. I have seen a lot on social media of platform fanatics of all sides trolling which I don't get. Truth is, I don't like epic and their philosophy but if they are giving good devs funding and independence, you can't blame them. besides, Epic games are typically PC exclusives. Until epic release their own console (you heard it here first).
That's it - I can handle my snotty daughter, working from home and general apocalyptic sentiments but I needed to know what happens in season 2. This is just madness.
This isolation would be great if I didn’t have kids. Anyway planning on some online Far Cry 5 coop on Xbox with my friend. Might also start something like Dead Cells.
Extended crunch is poor management and free reign artistic handling in my opinion. Crunch on projects is sometimes inevitable, but bearing in mind the release date for TLOU2 has been moved several times, they must have been crunching an awful long time.
Gutted - I had planned to take a day trip down to London for this and there was some great indies I was eyeing up to play. Also seen that Insomnia has been cancelled which I was also going to go to.
All for the right reasons but... poop. Back to my self isolation it is.
This Uncharted movie just can't catch a break. As this affects Sony pictures, we can be sure it will delay the film until Tom Holland is old enough to play Sully.
@carlos82 I agree that mortality rate isn't everything and we can only base it on the figures we have which may not paint the whole picture. Of course, mortality rate is also affected by quality of healthcare whereby currently in most countries, the small amount of cases mean care is better than the struggling Chinese hospitals can give. Or we can put our tin foil hats on and say the death rate is possibly higher in China and we are all doomed. Or semi doomed!
Either way, from Sony's perpsective, an outbreak at this stage in their offices etc. would mean a huge loss of output at a critical time for the company. In my work, I have had to put in work from home procedures and sets of steps in case we get hit my mass absences if this does the rounds here. All costs money!
The whole point is to reduce international travel and having mass meetings of people from over the globe is the perfect spreading place. Two of the confirmed UK outbreaks were caught at intl conventions. I think we will see a lot more of this from companies this half of the year.
As for the whole mortality rate, yes it is only a little bit worse than flu but the numbers are still staggering if you look at a global scale. If you imagine that 50% of the world population caught the infection (estimates range on this, with some as high as 60%) you are looking at millions of deaths. This is on top of the huge social, healthcare and economic impacts.
For me personally, I think a price of over £450 is harder for me to justify for a new console. Over £500 and I really will struggle to get it at launch. However, we'll wait and see I guess!
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Re: Velocity 2X Developer FuturLab Is Making a Peaky Blinders Video Game
Great show, great acting... hopefully not a tower defense game
Re: Sumo Digital Has a Whopping 21 Games in Production Right Now
I know that The Chinese Room are managed by Sumo and they are recruiting. Excited for anything from those guys - mainly because it means a new Jessica Curry score!
Re: PS Vita Support Shows No Signs of Slowing in 2020
@Nakatomi_Uk Agreed, I still play my PS3 and Vita and would love to see even minimal effort. I checked out the PS3 sale and it had AssassiNs Creed games for £15. The remasters are cheaper on PS4!
@keihtg Really? Maybe this is a Europe issue as can’t see anything going cheap here unless I am missing them.
@Stocksy Me too. I had a 64gb memory card that died so have been collecting as many Physical second hand as I can but they have started to go up in price from what I can see.
Re: PS Vita Support Shows No Signs of Slowing in 2020
@Ralizah Exactly this. Physical prices are still very very high (largely second hand) in the UK compared to digital and there are so many games I would like to get on Vita.
Re: Spider-Man 2 PS5 Leak Exposed As Fake As Media Is Fooled
@naruball or maybe I am working for them?
Re: Spider-Man 2 PS5 Leak Exposed As Fake As Media Is Fooled
@naruball and all the plans of the Illuminati
Re: PS Vita Support Shows No Signs of Slowing in 2020
This is pretty nifty. I do wish that Sony would do some maintenance on the Vita Store. Firstly, they have not updated it at all and secondly they have stopped virtually all price promotions. Now the format is 'dead' I sort of wish that they would do large scale promotions to squeeze some more cash out. The last Vita sale was Boxing Day sales in 2018.
Re: Spider-Man 2 PS5 Leak Exposed As Fake As Media Is Fooled
I've heard that the PS5 gives you airborne diseases.
Re: Long Lost PS4 Exclusive WiLD Resurfaces with New Concept Art
I've heard that this game has been canned some time ago, or that Sony had stopped supporting it but I know no official announcement has been made. Could be dusted off for PS5 I suppose.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 320
Eclectic mix for me as I dance around the house to find space to chill. Mainly Tomb Raider anniversary in XB1, some Ratchet and Clank Trilogy on Vita and loving Replaying Gun on the 360.
Re: Observer: System Redux PS5 Trailer Gives Us a Glimpse at Next-Gen Graphics
To be honest, we will see a lot of these early remasters. The reason being is that there is always a content drought and people who early adopt are desperate for any game that takes advantage of the new console. If you can get any game out there early, you'll sell more.
Remember how many units some of those early Switch ports shifted?
Re: Site News: Would You Kindly Complete Our Reader Survey?
Ok I finished the survey but why on earth did you want my inside leg measurement? Oh and why did I need to donate £10 for an investment to a paypal account owned by @get2sammyb
Re: PS4 Firmware Update 7.50 Is Available to Download Now
Normally I rush home from work to get these stability updates installed or I even call my wife and talk her through how to update. Knowing I am just at home and can do it any time takes the thrill out of.
Still in todays scary world, we all need a little bit of stability right?
Re: Star Wars Episode I: Racer Speeds Onto PS4 Next Month
I seriously can't wait. I have the original for N64 but as I don't have a CRT or modded N64 it looks terrible on my HD tv. Love this game.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 319
Well I am being odd by going all last gen and playing Mirrors Edge on PS3 and Tomb Raider Anniversary on XB1 backwards compatibility!
Re: PS5 Controller Revealed, Named DualSense with Create Button and Built-in Microphone
I really like it... all depends on how it feels
Re: The Last of Us 2 Director on Delay: We Have a Great Game, But We Have to Be Fair to Fans
Don’t get all the negative comments. No one wants to lose money and they need to release it globally in the way they do for every major release.
Re: Delays Potentially Incoming for Many Upcoming Games
Yeah the issue is all about logistics and infrastructure now and cost savings. A lot of business is weighing up furloughs and temp shutdowns since they can't ship their products in the correct volumes globally. One of the key reasons for TLOU was that they couldn't guarantee launching across all regions and that would be bad on sales and reception.
Re: Deal: Buy Resident Evil 2 and 3 Together in Raccoon City Edition on PlayStation Store
Hmm have been seeing Resi 2 going for £14.99 on some stores so not the greatest of savings but could be worth it I suppose.
Re: Exclusive: PS5 to Receive Terafloppy Disks, Proprietary Hardware That Will Boost Teraflops Count
As someone who has consistently suffered from terraflopage issues in my personal life, the ability to increase size and rigidity is appreciated.
Re: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered Isn't Official Yet, But Fans Have Already Completed It
It is weird there is no official announcement at all - I can see the argument but the effort of adding it to stores/servers and supporting launch must be more than one launch announcement?
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 317
Well more Far Cry 5 on Xbox, playing Killzone on PS2 and some more Shovel Knight on 3DS
Re: PS3 Says Goodbye to Messages from Other PlayStation Consoles This June
I got a PS3 last year and don't play it much but do like having it. Hope trophies don't go yet!
Re: Nintendo 64's Star Wars Episode I: Racer Being Revamped for PS4
Awesome, I have an N64 and this but I don't have a CRT and it plays horribly on a HD TV (as do many N64 games). So this will be a day one purchase for me.
Re: PlayStation Fans Fidgety as Control, The Last Guardian Devs Pick Epic Over Sony
Wow this quarantine thing is bringing out the trolls. I have seen a lot on social media of platform fanatics of all sides trolling which I don't get. Truth is, I don't like epic and their philosophy but if they are giving good devs funding and independence, you can't blame them. besides, Epic games are typically PC exclusives. Until epic release their own console (you heard it here first).
Re: PSN Download Speeds Restricted as Sony Works with Internet Providers in Europe
This seems pretty fair - annoying but there we go. I blame Disney Plus
Re: PS5 Deep Dive Announced for Tomorrow, System Architecture and Games
I have a meeting ending at 4pm. I am all over this bad boy.
Re: Only Coronavirus Can Slow Geralt, as The Witcher Production Is Halted by Netflix
That's it - I can handle my snotty daughter, working from home and general apocalyptic sentiments but I needed to know what happens in season 2. This is just madness.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 315
This isolation would be great if I didn’t have kids. Anyway planning on some online Far Cry 5 coop on Xbox with my friend. Might also start something like Dead Cells.
Re: Naughty Dog Underfire for Intense Crunch Culture Once More
Extended crunch is poor management and free reign artistic handling in my opinion. Crunch on projects is sometimes inevitable, but bearing in mind the release date for TLOU2 has been moved several times, they must have been crunching an awful long time.
Re: EGX Rezzed Postponed to Summer Due to Coronavirus
Gutted - I had planned to take a day trip down to London for this and there was some great indies I was eyeing up to play. Also seen that Insomnia has been cancelled which I was also going to go to.
All for the right reasons but... poop. Back to my self isolation it is.
Re: E3 2020 Has Been Cancelled
Gutted, I wanted to see what Ninja thought about the Xbox Series X.
Re: A New Cruise Ship Makes a Stop in Shenmue III DLC
@SaikoWaifu2003 Sorry!
Re: A New Cruise Ship Makes a Stop in Shenmue III DLC
@R1spam Platinum trophy is surviving 20 days in a single room with nothing but the same 4 films to watch over and over.
Re: A New Cruise Ship Makes a Stop in Shenmue III DLC
They need to quarantine this cruise ship ASAP.
Re: E3 2020 Showfloor Creative Team Drops Out, Spelling More Doom for the Show
But where are execs going to apologise now? Blizzcon?
Re: Yumi Yang Promoted to Head of Santa Monica Studio Following Shannon Studstill Departure
Shame for Shannon as the Raising Kratos documentary showed just how much she fought for the team. Good luck I guess to her. But well done to Yumi.
Re: Sony Closes European Offices Due to Coronavirus Concerns
This Uncharted movie just can't catch a break. As this affects Sony pictures, we can be sure it will delay the film until Tom Holland is old enough to play Sully.
Re: Bloodroots - Edge-of-Your-Seat Action Puzzler Brings Wild Thrills
Defo buy for me. Been watching this one for some time.
Re: The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope Adds a Chill to the Summer Months on PS4
Looks like Will Poulter is involved as an actor so I am in!
Re: Events: EGX Rezzed 2020 Descends on London Next Month
Can’t wait - will be using these vouchers. Hopefully going Friday and Saturday!
Re: PlatinumGames' Third Reveal Is a New Studio Focused on Games as a Service
Good to see a once struggling studio get the (admittedly worrying) investment from Tencent and get on their feet and work on new IP's and new genres.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 312
May try and finish Bloodstained to get the ‘true’ ending but kind of want to move on and to try A Plague Tale on XB1.
Re: No Man's Sky Gets Living Ships in Latest Major Update on PS4
@Paranoimia Great reference...
Also I thought that game was great but could not get on with the grind. It slowed me down and then I stopped.
Re: PlayStation Cancels Huge PAX East Showing Due to Coronavirus Concerns
@carlos82 I agree that mortality rate isn't everything and we can only base it on the figures we have which may not paint the whole picture. Of course, mortality rate is also affected by quality of healthcare whereby currently in most countries, the small amount of cases mean care is better than the struggling Chinese hospitals can give. Or we can put our tin foil hats on and say the death rate is possibly higher in China and we are all doomed. Or semi doomed!
Either way, from Sony's perpsective, an outbreak at this stage in their offices etc. would mean a huge loss of output at a critical time for the company. In my work, I have had to put in work from home procedures and sets of steps in case we get hit my mass absences if this does the rounds here. All costs money!
Re: PlayStation Cancels Huge PAX East Showing Due to Coronavirus Concerns
The whole point is to reduce international travel and having mass meetings of people from over the globe is the perfect spreading place. Two of the confirmed UK outbreaks were caught at intl conventions. I think we will see a lot more of this from companies this half of the year.
As for the whole mortality rate, yes it is only a little bit worse than flu but the numbers are still staggering if you look at a global scale. If you imagine that 50% of the world population caught the infection (estimates range on this, with some as high as 60%) you are looking at millions of deaths. This is on top of the huge social, healthcare and economic impacts.
Re: The Witcher 3 Cross-Save Feature Skips PS4
I would have liked this on PS4 since I have it on PS4 and a huuuge save file on Switch. However, won't lose sleep on it.
Re: Live: Watch Our Quintumply Build Dreams with Media Molecule
@Quintumply Gosh darn I had to work. Hope it went well!!!
Re: Bayonetta - The Umbra Witch Gets the PS4 Release She Deserves
Tried on the 360, couldn’t get into it. Tried on Switch last year and loved it. Have since bought for the Wii U as well. The game is just fun!
Re: Rumour: Expensive PS5 Parts Could Force Sony to Set Price Point Above $450
For me personally, I think a price of over £450 is harder for me to justify for a new console. Over £500 and I really will struggle to get it at launch. However, we'll wait and see I guess!