If you watched our full-length documentary, Raising Kratos, you got a glimpse into our journey reinventing this franchise. It should be no surprise, we have plenty of intriguing, untold stories left to tell that dig deeper into the development of God of War. Thus, we’re proud to continue in partnership with the PlayStation Blogcast, a
Month: February 2020
This month, PS4 Tournaments is introducing additional fan favorite titles, launching new seasons of current, on-going tournaments, and adding new prizing. New Games: NBA 2K20 and Soul Calibur VI begin this week. These games are part of the Challenger Series, which is seasonal — giving you the chance to come back to compete repeatedly. In
While planning the development of Supercross 3, we listened to the feedback of our community and we added several features that fans of the series have been asking for. First things first, let’s talk about the gameplay. In a sport like Supercross, the bikes spend a lot of time in the air. Thus, after considering
First-person shooter fans on Nintendo Switch will be happy to know they can now get their hands on HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed. Developed by Digital Cybercherries, the new game tells the story of Sgt. Max Ammo and his mission to defend the HYPER-CORE. The player’s task is to fulfill his mission and prevent the HYPER-CORE from being
After achieving success on iOS and Android mobile devices, amassing over four million downloads to date, indie studio 11Sheep have branched out to other platforms with their quirky point and click adventure, The Office Quest. Now that it has launched on Xbox One, it’s time to discover whether The Office Quest possesses the necessary attributes
Ah, the classic superhero. Humble. Brave. Selfless. A beacon of hope to us mere underpowered mortals. And, as it turns out, massively competitive as well. Because in a city full of other metahumans, there’s only so much justice and glory to go around. So that means any super-powered persona in the vicinity is going to
Reviewed by Luke Reilly on Xbox One X.
By Emily Gera, Sunday, 2 February 2020 19:36 GMT Steam has just broken its own record for number of concurrent users this Sunday. The PC gaming platform experienced a peak of 18,801,944 players at around 6:20am PST, according to SteamDB, breaking its previously record of 18,537,490 set on January 14, 2018. .@Steam has broken its
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that it’ll be introducing major changes to Overwatch with a patch in early February that’ll keep its meta fresh and address balancing issues. Overwatch players have often complained about infrequent balance updates, especially when new characters are released. There are also concerns about the game’s meta, which sometimes discourages diversity and
Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad writer Gennifer Hutchinson has said that while she loves the Dishonored video games, she’s not actively pursuing a television show based on the series. “Let me write a Dishonored TV series, you cowards,” Hutchinson jokingly tweeted a couple of days ago. IGN picked up on the tweet, following which
If you use a power wheelchair in your day-to-day life, you likely use something that looks an awful lot like a gaming joystick to get around. It seems AbleGamers COO, Rocket League fan and wheelchair user Steven Spohn thought so too, and set about trying to bridge that gap. A little bit of hardware tinkering
It’s no secret that I love playing brawlers in TERA. And with the release of the Fists of Justice content update, I get to add another race/class combo to my stable of fighters—the popori brawler—and I’ll be punching like mad to get him up to max level to take on one of my favorite dungeons:
Nintendo is continuing to release monthly calendar wallpapers featuring popular characters from the Fire Emblem universe. The latest piece is for February 2020, which depicts Tsubasa: Madcap Idol alongside Itsuki: Finding a Path. You can check it out in the images below. In Fire Emblem Heroes news, Heroes with Valor skills are being featured as
In the wake of the recent bushfires that have devastated communities across Australia, Sony Foundation Australia is hosting a Twitch fundraiser with the goal of raising funds to support young Australians affected by the bushfires. A few folks from PlayStation are joining to help support the cause… hope you can join us! The streaming campaign
Film director Christophe Gans, who worked on the 2006 movie adaptation of Silent Hill, has announced that he’s working on new Fatal Frame and Silent Hill movies. Gans revealed this news to French website Allocine during an interview. He said (translation via RelyonHorror): I have two horror film projects with Victor Hadida. I am working on the
It’s been many years since I last went into my gaming sessions with a LucidSound headset attached to my head. In fact, up until a few short months ago it had been more than 3 years since time was spent with the LucidSound LS30 Universal Gaming headset. Now though the LucidSound team are back, and
Mosaic, from Krillbite Studio, isn’t an exciting game. It’s not going to keep you on the edge of your seat, and it won’t get your blood pumping. In fact, Mosaic isn’t even a game at all in a lot of ways; it’s more of a grayscale pastiche of physical life in the digital age –
By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 1 February 2020 15:57 GMT Mike Laidlaw, former creative director of the Dragon Age series, has left Ubisoft Quebec. Laidlaw announced his departure from Ubisoft Quebec on Twitter overnight, after spending a little over the year at the studio. He joined Ubisoft back in December 2018 as the creative director on
Right, listen. There hasn’t been a single good goose-based goof, joke, edit, photoshop, tweet or otherwise made in the five months since House House let Untitled Goose Game loose upon the world. Slapping the feathered devil into any old context just doesn’t cut it, and the phrase “and you are a horrible goose” is a
Electronic Arts’ executives have expressed their excitement about the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, noting that increased power of next-gen consoles will allow developers to do “a lot more” with their video games. In a recent earnings call following the publication of its financial report, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen
Just when you thought you had escaped, they pull you back in for another round of zombie killing in Dead Island: Riptide. Dead Island Riptide on GameTrailers: http://www.gametrailers.com/games/7l1sz9/dead-island-riptide Dead Island: Riptide Publisher: Deep Silver Developer: Techland Release Date: April 23, 2013 Genre: Action, Role-Playing, Survival Horror Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 ESRB Content Rating:
The Sims 1 arrived in North America 20 years ago today. Join IGN’s Miranda and Khalilah as they celebrate the birthday of Maxis’ groundbreaking franchise by playing the original Sims 1 on PS2. Woohoo! #ign #gaming #sims
Jonathon Dornbush reviews Kingdom Hearts 3’s Re Mind DLC, now available on PS4 and set to be released on Xbox One on February 25. #ign
We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you
Monster Energy Supercross — The Official Videogame 3 definitely isn’t an elegant name; it’s a blunderbuss burst of buzzwords and branding that sounds like it was put together by a disinterested legal department via email. It is, however, a decent game, albeit one that isn’t exactly dazzlingly different to the equally decent pair of Supercross
A brand new episode of Nintendo Minute was released earlier today. On this week’s episode, Kit and Krysta talk about Fire Emblem, but there’s a twist. They said in the video description that “we’re tackling some super hard Fire Emblem would you rather questions. It seemed fitting for a game all about the hard choice”.
Today marks Ubisoft Québec developer Mike Laidlaw’s final day with the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey studio. Presently, the reason behind his departure isn’t publicly known. Details on where his talents may take him next also remain under wraps, though it seems Laidlaw is still weighing his options. The former BioWare developer shared the news whit his