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Thursday27th Jul 2023
Preview Sony's Next Great First-Party Game Is Media Molecule's Tren, Made in Dreams
All aboard the hype Tren
Media Molecule might be taking a step back from Dreams in the near future, but it's going out on a high note. One of the team's last major contributions to its community-driven platform is Tren, a game about a wooden train set that packs the same warmth, whimsy, and charm as any of its previous works. Spearheaded by...
News Truck Driver Experiences the American Dream on PS5 This Year
Big rigs
The original Truck Driver from SOEDESCO was a bit of a disaster: you may recall the publisher actually recruited a different developer to patch the title post-release, and while it was planned to be ported to PS5 on multiple occasions, it never actually happened. It’s a shame as well: Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator...
News Elden Ring PS5, PS4 Patch 1.10 Offers PvP Balance Changes, Bug Fixes
Update split between PvP and PvE
Update 1.10 has been deployed today for PS5, PS4 versions of Elden Ring, making various balance changes exclusive to both the PvP and PvE sides of the game. When fighting another real-life player, you can look forward to better poise damage across all weapons and some spells as well as extended critical hit angles...
News Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 Announced, New Characters Revealed in Debut Trailer
Futurrrre
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl launched back in 2021 and was surprisingly decent — save for a lack of voiceovers. That would come along in a later update, but it seems GameMill Entertainment is taking another run at this platform fighter all the same. It's just revealed Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 with the above gameplay trailer. This...
News PS5 Console Sales Surpass 40 Million, Sony Confirms
Over 2,500 games already available
PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has announced more than 40 million PS5 consoles have now been sold since its release in November 2020. With any PS5 Stock issues now completely rectified, Ryan said: "With the support of PlayStation fans, we have reached a milestone of 40 million PS5 consoles sold through to gamers since...
News Lords of the Fallen PS5 Shows Tons of Promise in 18-Minute Gameplay Deep Dive
Dual-realm footage revealed
With titles like Assassin's Creed Mirage, Alan Wake 2, and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 releasing around the same time, PS5 game Lords of the Fallen may not be something you pick up on day one. However, a new 18-minute gameplay deep dive from developer Hexworks is proof of why it should remain on your wishlist, as the...
News PS5 Action RPG The God Slayer Could Be Incredible, But Is Not Due Until 2027
A long wait ahead
Sony announced a new, potentially jaw-dropping addition to its China Hero Project overnight – but don’t expect to play it until at least 2027 at the earliest. The God Slayer, in development at My Time at Sandrock maker Pathea Games, is being billed as an action RPG – and judging by the first images, it looks like a stark...
News Monster Hunter Gets Its Mobile Spin-Off on 14th September
Pre-register now for more rewards
Niantic and Capcom have today jointly revealed Monster Hunter Now, a mobile spin-off similar in style to Pokémon GO, will launch on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store on 14th September 2023. Pre-registration across both platforms is available now, and the more players who do so, the better the rewar
News Dhaba: Land of Watermarks Revealed as Another China Hero Game on PS5
From Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption dev
As part of an overnight livestream, Sony revealed another PS5 title coming from its China Hero Project initiative: Dhaba: Land of Watermarks. It shall form part of the program's third wave of games out of the country, which also includes The Winds Rising from F.I.S.T. developer TiGames. Dhaba: Land of...
News F.I.S.T. Dev Confirms The Winds Rising for PS5
Part of China Hero Project's third phase
F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch studio TiGames has announced during Sony's latest ChinaHero Project showcase that its next title is a story-driven action RPG named The Winds Rising, releasing on PS5. The reveal trailer embedded above gives very little away, but it's said to sport a "grand adventure" all...
News Heavenly Bodies' Cleanup DLC Pack Is Nearly the Same Size as the Base Game
Available now on PS5 and PS4
Heavenly Bodies is an entertaining co-op indie game that's filled with potential for chaos, and if you're into that sort of thing, good news: there's now more of it. A DLC pack called Cleanup is available to purchase on PS Store for PS5 and PS4, and it sounds like a substantial addition to the zero-gravity physics...
More than token replaya-Billy-ty
Speaking to Push Square during Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons' July 2023 release, developer Secret Base's Raymond Teo described adding highly replayable roguelite elements to create a brawler with an ingenious way of counteracting the beat-'em-up genre's innate repetitiveness. It takes just under two...
News Unconsecrated Sequel Blasphemous 2 Gets Gory PS5 Gameplay Trailer
Praise be
Blasphemous 2 continues the series' trademark blend of tough-as-nails 2D gameplay and unsettling Catholicism-inspired enemy design. Preorders are now live, with the game launching on PS5 next month, on 24th August, and we got a suitably gory gameplay snippet to tide us over in the meantime. The second scripture in the ongoing Blasphemous...
News Told You So! Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Really Wouldn't Have Worked on PS4
Rock-solid PC port, though
Much hay has been made of Insomniac's pre-release claim that Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart "would not have been possible without the Solid State Drive of the PlayStation 5," with ourselves contributing a bale or two. Now, the PC iteration is out in the wild, and the wizards over at Digital Foundry have been able to put...
News Quantum Error PS4 Version Gets the Axe, PS5 Release Date Remains Unkown
Last-gen version murdered
Plans for a PS4 iteration of long-in-development cosmic horror FPS Quantum Error have been cancelled, with developer TeamKill citing qualitative issues in a statement that approaches humblebrag. In 2020, we wondered if this spooky shooter might be a PS5 launch title, and in the years since, it's been moulded into a...
News Latest Like a Dragon May Have Really Erased Its PS5, PS4 Retail Release
Just like that
First rumoured, and now apparently confirmed, it seems Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name will be released digitally in the West on PS5 and PS4, with SEGA all but erasing our hopes for a physical release. RGG Studio posted an update to Twitter, seemingly just to remind us that the Kiryu-centric caper was still slated...
Random Take 'Baldur's Day' Off, Stay Home and Play Baldur's Gate 3
A festivus for the rest of us
Imagine, if you will, Half-Life 3 is announced. Better, it will be developed by a best-in-class AAA studio. Not the original creators, mind, but the next best thing, and more appropriate, given the modern context and how much time has passed. That's kind of how momentous it feels to be an old-school RPG fan on the...
News Open World PS5, PS4 Gacha Tower of Fantasy Is a 12-Month Console Exclusive
Sony signs up online adventure
You can already play Tower of Fantasy on PC or a smartphone, but Sony has been heavily promoting the PS5 and PS4 port, and that’s because the open world gacha is a timed console exclusive. The small print at the end of the game’s latest launch trailer notes that the PlayStation version is deploying “at least 12...
Wednesday26th Jul 2023
News PS5 Action RPG Atlas Fallen Has a Pleasingly Small File Size
Your PS5 will appreciate it
Headlines are made whenever a new game comes saddled with a huge file size, so it's nice to report on a title that's keeping things comparatively slim. Atlas Fallen may not be an all-encompassing AAA release, but its file size is still pleasingly light on PS5. The action RPG will reportedly weigh in at a slender 21GB on...
News PS Plus Essential Games for August 2023 Announced
Living the dream
Sony has announced the next lineup of PS Plus Essential monthly games, and amazingly, it's done so without them leaking beforehand. August 2023's trio of treats have been revealed over on the PS Blog as usual, and here's what you're getting this time:
TV Show Review Twisted Metal - Car Crash Entertainment
Black humour
Of all the PlayStation properties ripe for adaptation, we’re going to hazard a guess that Twisted Metal wasn’t top of your list. And yet here we are, with Peacock’s ten episode series about to start streaming. We’ve watched the entire first season, and while the early trailers proved divisive, we’re happy to confirm that the...
News Venom Co-Creator Todd McFarlane Approves of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Interpretation
He's not a tongue guy, though
Comic Con has just swung by, and Insomniac Games was there to show off more of Marvel's Spider-Man 2, giving us our first proper look at Venom. The anti-hero is set to be a key part of the story in the sequel, and he's so beloved that it's important the studio gets it right. So, what does Todd McFarlane, one of the...
News Off-Road Driving Game Overpass 2 Jumpstarts Release Date to September on PS5
Was previously October
Publisher Nacon has released a new trailer for its upcoming tough terrain driving title, Overpass 2. The game was announced a while back, but with this new video, it appears the release date has been brought forward. Initially scheduled for a late October date, the sequel will now be arriving on PS5 on 28th September. The...
News Armored Core 6 Is Apparently Five Times the Length of Previous Games
60 hours of mech carnage
It doesn't come as a huge surprise, but Armored Core 6 is set to be a lot bigger than its predecessors. Not just in terms of environments — the upcoming mecha title boasts relatively open level design — but with regards to campaign length as well. According to a fresh video preview from Fextralife, Armored Core 6 is 50...
News 100 Layoffs at CD Projekt RED Amid Organisational Changes
Nearly 10% of its workforce
Polish studio CD Projekt RED has announced it'll be cutting "around 100" jobs in the very near future as part of a structural reshuffle. Adam Kiciński, CEO of the company, has put out a press release that goes over what's happening and why. "To meet our own high expectations and ambitions to create the best role-playing...
News Shrek, Po, and Boss Baby Burn Rubber in DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing
Hey now, you're an all-star
It seems everything is getting a kart racer lately, so why not DreamWorks? The animation studio has many memorable characters that star in its films, and you'll soon be able to send them drifting around bends in DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing. It comes from GameMill Entertainment, the team that's previously brought us...
News PSVR2 Hit C-Smash VRS to Receive New Modes, Music in Major August Update
And it's free
One of the most striking, and best-received, PSVR2 titles to date is C-Smash VRS, a virtual reality reboot of SEGA's cult classic Dreamcast game, Cosmic Smash. While we really rather like it, one of our only criticisms is that it felt a little light on content at launch. However, it appears a big update arriving next month will go some...
News Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Will Feature the Same Mary Jane Face Model, Insomniac Insists
PuddleGate 2.0
Uh oh, it must be nearly time for the release of another Insomniac game, as we have another overblown technical conundrum to unpack. However, it's not the puddles the overly-zealous PlayStation faithful are concerned about this time. Instead, fans, perhaps a little too eager for Marvel's Spider-Man 2's 20th October release date, have...
News Don't Worry, Ubisoft Promises Star Wars Outlaws Won't Be a '300 Hour Epic Unfinishable RPG'
A festivus for the rest of us
If you were worried that Star Wars Outlaws was going to end up being an infinite Ubisoft timesink ala Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, the developers at Massive Entertainment want to put you at ease, noting that the experience will be "very manageable". The concern comes from a recent interview, in which one of the game's...
News Skate 4 Playtests Will Kickflip onto Console Eventually, EA Promises
Gnarly bro
Skate (or Skate 4, as it's colloquially known) is currently in development, with EA inviting the community in over the past year to kick its tiny, skate-board-sized wheels on PC. This has all been going swimmingly, apparently, but EA has thrown us console warriors a lifeline; we'll get the chance to have our say on PlayStation platforms,...
