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Month: September 2024
Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hermen Hulst has said that PlayStation’s portfolio of “great games” has become more diverse over the years, and the platform boasts a “bigger” community than ever before. Hulst made these comments during the latest episode of the official PlayStation podcast, where he and Team Asobi’s Nicolas Doucet talked about Astro Bot‘s
Image: Nintendo Life Are you sitting comfortably? Ready to judge some classic covers? It’s time to dive into another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we matched up three different designs for Super R-Type. Despite a good variety between each, it was the North American variant that walked away with the win, taking 49%
Players have been discovering potential references to unannounced Astro Bot DLC over the game’s launch weekend. Hawk-eyed users noticed that Astro Bot’s credits contain copyright notices for all the games that made an appreance during the campaign, but some of the games and studios Sony gave a shoutout to are currently absent. Potential Astro Bot
TheXboxHub Official Podcast 208 September is here and the gaming scene is starting to ramp up – especially in terms of new releases. It’s that which is the main focus of Episode 208 of TheXboxHub Official Podcast. There’s some Star Wars chatter too. Is Star Wars the best? Join Gareth, James and Richard as they
Industrial Annihilation is a mashup Planetary Annihilation (big robot armies do battle on a planet) with factory management such as Factorio (conveyor belts conveyor belts conveyor belts). When we last checked in with it back in January, it was funding via StartEngine with an ambitious eye towards a spring Early Access release. Now it’s September
SNK recently unveiled ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol 1. and Vol. 2 for Switch with a December 12 release in Japan. Coming in at 5,940 yen a piece, both volumes will be packed with 10 games each. Here are the games included: ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol. 1 Baseball Stars Professional Fatal Fury 2 Ghost Pilots Metal
Godus developer Peter Molyneux thinks that generative AI is going to be a “real game changer” in video games, and that everyone will be able to “create a game from one single prompt such as ‘Make a battle royale set on a pirate ship.'” These were among Molyneux’s predictions for where video games would be
PlayStation Pulse Elite: Two-minute review The PlayStation Pulse Elite is the next official headset from Sony for the PS5, offering a more premium wireless audio companion for the current-gen console. The new features and tech inside the Elite, its superb audio quality, depth, and detail, and its ease and speed of connectivity across the PS5
ProPLAY Elevates the Series to New Heights OK, this is a little bit of a cheat, since ProPLAY isn’t a feature but rather a technology that enables most of the features listed below. Essentially, ProPLAY replaces traditional motion-captured animations by taking authentic movements from actual NBA footage and translating them into immersive real-time gameplay. A
A veteran analyst has expressed doubts that Sony will be able to save PS5’s biggest flop by going free-to-play. Yes, we’re talking about Concord for the billionth time, but this speculation is noteworthy because it raises important questions about the game’s future. Sony suggested that it hasn’t given up on Concord entirely, but how can
Ubisoft has pledged to release a Star Wars: Outlaws update sometime in September to improve its controversial stealth missions. Speaking to GamesRadar, creative director Julian Gerighty acknowledged that the game’s early insta-fail stealth missions aren’t exactly enjoyable, and the development team understands players’ frustration with them. Star Wars: Outlaws September 2024 update will balance stealth
A large number of players have reported losing their Astro Bot save files because the game utilizes a strange method of saving progress. We’re not sure if this is a design choice or a bug that needs to be patched, but the autosave feature doesn’t actually create a save file until players quit out to
Image: Square Enix It’s the weekend once again, so it’s time to wash off the stresses of the work week and relax with a bit of gaming. But before we settle in, let’s recap some of the bigger stories from this week. First up, it was a big week for ‘Switch 2’ rumours, with not
Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 – now on Xbox and PlayStation It’s time, time to head back to a land of destruction, chaos and rusting junk in Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 on Xbox and PlayStation. We can’t for one minute pretend that we’ve been holding out for this day, but now that it is here, the
Itching for a closer look at Super Mario Party Jamboree’s new boards? Nintendo UK has you covered. The official X page for Nintendo UK highlighted the five new boards- Goomba Lagoon, Rainbow Galleria, Roll ‘Em Raceway, Mega Wiggler’s Tree Party, and King Bowser’s Keep- in a video post that can be seen below. In addition
Today is a sad day for all the Freegunners out there. Concord servers are officially offline, making it inaccessible to those who want to play. The developers had a message thanking the fans that played the game during its brief period of life. Concord developer thanks its audience as servers close On the official Concord
After watching the announcement trailer for Whispers of the Eyeless, I have one request: please, do not have that voiceover in the full game. It is hammier than a hamster eating a ham sandwich in Hamburg during a performance of Hamlet. It starts with “The Whispers [of the Eyeless] call to me!!!” and does not
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