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Game Pass Vs. The New PS Plus, The Comparison We Had To Make
6.8.2022
Two months ago, Sony reimagined PS Plus, its longtime membership program for PlayStation owners. Now, it looks a whole lot like Microsoft’s Game Pass: For roughly the same amount of money, both offer access to a Netflix-style games-on-demand library. Obviously, we had to stack the two services...
The Best Steam Deck Games Of 2022
4.8.2022
The Steam Deck, Valve’s mega-powerful mini-PC, only arrived this year, and while there are many reasons to check out one of the most exciting pieces of gaming hardware available today, the amount of great, hassle-free games available on the device is proof enough of its success.Read more
The Best PS2 Games On PS Plus
23.7.2022
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The X-Wing Team Were Working On A Cancelled Xbox Game
15.7.2022
Throughout the 1990s Totally Games had one of the most accomplished track records in all of video games. The studio, releasing games for Lucasfilm and then Lucasarts, specialised in all things flight, and won acclaim for releases set both in the sky and way beyond.Read more
A Tiny Glimpse Of Hope For PS3 Emulation On PS5
4.7.2022
A new job ad, reported by PlayStation Lifestyle after being spotted on ResetEra, strongly suggests that Sony might be trying to hire an engineer to get its PS3 emulation sorted. There’s also rumor of getting old PS3 peripherals working on the new machine. Which would all be such a relief.Read more
Let’s Remember How Amazing 2002 Was For Video Games
1.7.2022
When people talk about the “best” year in gaming, they typically trot out the usual suspects: 2007 (Assassin’s Creed! Mass Effect! Halo 3!), 2013 (The Last of Us! GTA V!), 2017 (Horizon Zero Dawn! That other open-world game!). Allow us to posit that one of the best years in gaming happened exactly...
PlayStation Studio Refreshingly Honest About What It Isn't Working On
1.7.2022
Video game companies are notoriously cagey about sharing their plans. In a market saturated with sequels and spin-offs, developers nevertheless treat every new project with extreme secrecy. They’ll rarely even be up-front about what they aren’t working on, but today the PlayStation studio behind...
Nier: Automata’s Native Nintendo Switch Port Has Kingdom Hearts Fans Fuming
29.6.2022
Following Nintendo’s announcement that PlatinumGames’ cult-favorite action-RPG Nier: Automata is coming to the Switch later this year, some gamers are demanding that Square Enix make native ports for the Kingdom Hearts games as well.Read more
Neon White Wouldn’t Be ‘Freaky’ Without Machine Girl's Music
28.6.2022
Neon White, a laser-quick first-person shooter thing, unfolds in a Heaven where angels threaten to detonate your face and experimental music outfit Machine Girl pierces your wrong moves with saturated breakbeats.Read more
Fan Wants To Build An Open World Simpsons: Hit & Run
28.6.2022
Hey, remember this time last year when Reubs whipped up a more modern version of the classic Simpsons: Hit & Run in just a week? Well he’s back in 2022 and has far more ambitious goals for the project.Read more
Canceled Scarface 2 Game Footage Leaks On YouTube
24.6.2022
Remember in 2006 when we got a Scarface game set after the ending of the classic ‘80s gangster flick? It was a weird setup, but the end result was a slightly clunky, yet kind of fun GTA-like open-world game. Apparently it did well enough that a sequel began development, but it was never finished....
Yakuza Fan Is Fixing The PS2 Original's Mistakes
23.6.2022
It’s easy to forget in 2022, now that it feels like we get a new or remastered Yakuza game every six months, that for a very long time the series was MIA from Western shores, in large part down to the disastrous decisions made by Sega for the original game’s release back in 2006.Read more
Jak And Daxter Is Being 'Ported' To The PC, Looks Great
20.6.2022
Over the past few years we’ve started seeing something beautiful happen: fans of classic console games are taking old code and creating native PC versions of games that never saw an official release. We’ve seen it with some Nintendo games, but now we’re seeing it with a PlayStation platformer...
The PS Plus Revamp Gives You A Ton Of Games, But Is A Bit Of A Mess
14.6.2022
Sony’s big revamp of PS Plus is here. It’s pretty cool. It could also use some work on some of its most-hyped perks, such as game demos and classic hits.Read more
Final Fantasy X’s Blitzball Now Exists In Star Wars, Sort Of
31.5.2022
Hey! Remember Blitzball? It was that weird-looking, but also kind of cool underwater sport from Final Fantasy X? Well, now Blitzball is (sort of) a part of the Star Wars universe thanks to a person who used to write about the NHL and his new book starring Anakin and Obi-Wan. Read more
This New Portable Gaming Console Is Hands-Down The Best Way To Play Emulated Games
27.5.2022
The Steam Deck has unquestionably revitalized people’s interests in handheld gaming on anything other than a Switch. But had it never happened, 2022 would still have been a year packed with Switch-sized gaming devices, primarily thanks to evolutions in the world of emulation. Right at the front...
GTA Vice City, Goodfellas Star Ray Liotta Dead At 67
26.5.2022
Actor and producer Ray Liotta, famous for his starring role as Tommy Vercetti in the PS2 open-world classic Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, has died. He was 67 years old. He leaves behind a daughter and fiancée. Read more
GameFly Is Still Renting PS2 Games In 2022
18.5.2022
A few days ago, I saw some folks posting online about the latest GameFly used games sale and decided to check it out while eating lunch. Now, I haven’t thought much about GameFly in a long time, so my curiosity about what GameFly is like in this day and age got the better of me and I decided...
From VR To Vibrators, Video Game Sex Tech Now Has Infinite Possibilities
17.5.2022
In 2002, games journalist and researcher Jane Pinckard used the Trance Vibrator—a USB accessory that would vibe in time with the music of the trippy PS2 shooter Rez—to masturbate. In her now-classic blog, Pinckard lauded the game’s dripping colors and transportive sounds, but found the physical...
The Revamped PS Plus Lineup Is Stacked, Once You Make Sense Of It
16.5.2022
With the big PS Plus relaunch on the horizon (get your Zero Dawn jokes out of here), we finally have an idea of what exactly to expect. Today, in a blog post, Sony outlined everything—games, streaming offerings, a partnership with Ubisoft—coming to the service. It’s a lot. Let’s break it down.Read...