May 2020

It’s been 25 years since the launch of the original PlayStation, and while games have evolved by leaps and bounds in the two and a half decades since, it’s impossible to deny the lasting impact Sony’s flat grey box had on the industry and pop culture at large.

From bandicoots to battle-hardened super-soldiers, the PlayStation is single-handedly responsible for some of the most iconic characters and franchises of all time, and while there are so so many to love, we wanted to look back at the very best the console had to offer. These are the greatest PS1 games of all time.

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Check out the video above for the top 10, and click through the gallery below or scroll down for the full list!

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25. PaRappa the Rappa

Before Rock Band, before Guitar Hero, even before Dance Dance Revolution, there was Parappa the Rapper. An unlikely rapping game starring a cartoonishly flat dog and his animal pals, Parappa won us all over with catchy songs and a quirky charm that stood out among other games seeking to posture themselves as “extreme” or “hardcore” on the new generation. Nothing else on the console looked like Parappa (until Um Jammer Lammy arrived, of course). This rhyme-spitting canine is so beloved, in  fact, that we named him one of the top 10 dogs in video games. I gotta believe!

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On this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, we discuss The Last of Us Part II's recent State of Play where we finally see some uninterrupted gameplay, and we cover the recent reviews of Minecraft Dungeons and Monster Train. Of course, we end this week's show with a fun community segment full of emails and games. So please join me, Alex Stadnik, Jeff Cork, and Dan "The Jacket" Tack for another great show.

We continue to do this show from our homes as we hunker down in quarantine, so please forgive us for any audio or video hiccups as we deliver content outside the studio.

Thanks for listening! Please make sure to leave feedback below, share the episode if you enjoyed it, and follow me @therealandymc to let me know what you think. 

Fire Emblem Heroes ' latest Mythical Hero has been revealed, and it's Mila from Fire Emblem Echoes.

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Both of June's PlayStation Plus games will have players heading out onto a battlefield with a gun to fight other players.

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The Arknights Code of Brawl event focuses on characters from Penguin Logistics.

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A Monolith Soft founder said in a Famitsu interview that one of the goals when creating the studio was to carry on the Xenogears 2 dream.

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Activision has air-dropped a fresh trailer for the next season of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and its sister title Call of Duty: Warzone. Focusing on the ongoing CoD narrative, which runs across both titles, the trailer officially announces the return of one of the franchise's most popular characters: Captain John Price.

Debuting in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Captain Price becomes an anchor of sorts, guiding the player characters through numerous intense firefights and Black Ops. Seemingly killed at the game's end, Price would go on to become a figurehead for the Modern Warfare sub-series, known for his gruff British manner, fearlessness in combat, and ruthless desire to "get the job done," no matter the cost.

[Update: Blizzard has postponed the June 9 World of Warcraft: Shadowlands stream until a later date. "More important voices than ours need to be heard, and now is the time to listen," the company said.]

Although the inevitable news came recently that BlizzCon 2020 was canceled, Blizzard, like many other publishers, is planning on going with the online event route. That "tour" starts as early as next month.

Announced by way of their official blog, Blizzard will be holding a special World of Warcraft: Shadowlands presentation on June 9 at 9AM PT on both Twitch and YouTube. As is customary, Executive Producer John Hight and Game Director Ion Hazzikostas will be running the stream, guiding players through whatever new features or changes will be revealed.

As a reminder, there's still a lot of unanswered information on Shadowlands. The game is set for a "quarter four" release, with no precise date etched in stone. The stream could provide us with some semblance of a tighter window, or possibly announce a delay related to circumstances relating to the global pandemic.

Outriders, the upcoming third-person shooter from People Can Fly and Square Enix, has been flying a bit under the radar as of recent with more pressing titles hogging what little spotlight there is today. But for anyone with even the slightest interest in the game, today was a good day as the developers launched the first of what will be several broadcasts showing off the gameplay, graphics, customization options, and more. This includes a deep dive look at the Trickster class, though I'm far more curious about the Pyromancer that'll be covered in the next video presentation.

The 26-minute broadcast can be seen in its entirety below, but my favorite part is at the end where the developers offer very simple answers to very simple questions. People Can Fly's community manager Robbie Palmer confirmed Outriders is not a "games as a service" title and will be "a complete experience right outside of the box." He also confirmed it will feature neither Denuvo nor microtransactions. Let's hope that remains true even after the game releases, which sadly isn't always the case these days.

Even though the marquee Switch games this week are mostly ports, it's still a huge moment for the eShop.

Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition is out, bringing the JRPG classic to its third platform in roughly a decade (following the Wii and New 3DS). 2K is also releasing a trio of SKUs this week, including the BioShock Collection (all three games plus DLC), the Borderlands Legendary Collection (1+2+Pre-Sequel) and XCOM 2 (with DLC). You can read more about the 2K games here. 

If you aren't yet satisfied, there's Shantae and the Seven Sirens, as well as Liberated: not to mention all of the releases below. It's a packed week! For now, I can heartily recommend Xenoblade.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the first season of Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions. It also contains the word kawaii on 5 different occasions. I counted.

Earlier this year, the Twinfinite editors revealed the results of our top 15 best games of the decade.

It was truly an epic undertaking, and I highly recommend you take a look if you haven’t already. You may notice however, that I did not contribute with my thoughts and opinions (and childish humor).

The reason may appear to be as simple as my position among the staff here — I’m kind of like Twinfinite’s version of Rob Ford — but at long last, I can reveal that the true meaning behind my absence was because I was crafting a ranking of my own. One so momentous and meticulous, it comes almost halfway into 2020.

I’ve been diligently researching who is the best anime girl of the past decade, and indeed, throughout all of history. I didn’t tell anyone else that I was working on such an ambitious project, and I suppose that means that this couldn’t be considered ‘official’… but you know what? Facts are facts, I’m going to print with this immediately (plus I have to make sure Giuseppe doesn’t find out, he knows too much).

So here it is, guys: Rikka Takanashi of Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions is the best anime girl of them all. You probably worked that out after you read the headline and saw the picture of Rikka above. But maybe you didn’t.

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I’m one of those people who can’t do VR. Maybe I haven’t found the right console to play on, or the little balance-regulating nub in my brain is too sensitive, but VR makes me puke. So when Steel Wool Games announced a Switch port of VR game Five Nights At Freddy’s: Help Wanted, I was excited to check out the game in…

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The next year of The Elder Scrolls Online aims to take players back to “the dark heart of Skyrim” via several expansions set in the icy region. The latest stop on the itinerary, Greymoor, released yesterday for folks on PC and Mac, introducing a new questline, updates to the Vampire skill line, and most importantly,…

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New aerial shots of Super Nintendo Land, Universal Studios Japan's new video game-themed expansion, show off Bowser's castle and other familiar Mushroom Kingdom locations.

An Instagram user shared several different angles of the new expansion which include a far-off look at different rides. You can see Peach's castle, various warp pipes and blocks, and even a Yoshi ride similar to Fantasy Land where park-goers take the green dinosaur for a spin. You can check out various shots of the park below.

Outside the Yoshi and Mario Kart rides that have been previously confirmed, no other rides have been announced. You can check out more shots here.

Known for first-person shooters and action-adventure games like Prey and the Dishonored series, Arkane Studios is celebrating 20 years in the business by offering up some free digital goodies for fans, including a free PC copy of Arkane's first game, Arx Fatalis. To get the free game, all you have to do is sign up for the studio's "Arkane Outsiders" email list, which notifies subscribers about beta access and sneak peeks at upcoming games. You'll also get a free digital copy of "The Art of Arkane." Without signing up for anything, you can also nab some pretty cool digital wallpapers for free on the Arkane 20-year anniversary hub page.

There's not much time to take advantage of the offer, however. You have from now until May 31 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET to sign up and get Arx Fatalis for free. Please note this is a Bethesda.net PC copy of Arx Fatalis, so you'll need the free Bethesda launcher to install and play the game.

Apex Legends has been steadily getting better and better with each new season, and with the latest content in Season 5, EA says it's experiencing the best uptake from a season launch yet.

EA states in a press release that Season 5 of Apex Legends has encouraged lots of new players to join in, with many more choosing to stick around than in the past. Season 5 introduced a new character, Loba, and made changes to the map, including the destruction of Skull Town on King's Canyon. The ongoing expansion of the game's lore is also allowing developer Respawn to experiment with new ways to tease upcoming content, with the "Stories from the Outlands" series of shorts helping to introduce new combatants to the game.

Season 5 also introduced Quests--a feature which Respawn didn't think possible back when they launched Apex Legends' first season. We spoke to game director Chad Greiner about this evolution, where he explained that Respawn continually keeps learning from previous seasons while trying to shake things up with each new one.

Blizzard Entertainment is gearing up to show off more of World of Warcraft's next expansion, Shadowlands. The developer has confirmed it is hosting a livestream reveal event on June 9 where executive producer John Hight and game director Ion Hazzikostas will provide a new look at the expansion. Here's when the Shadowlands reveal event starts and where you can watch it. It will be one of the first major reveals on the game's content and what will be different compared to Battle for Azeroth and past World of Warcraft expansions.

World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands Reveal Event Start Time

The World of Warcraft: Shadowlands reveal event stream begins on June 9 at 9 AM PT/12 PM ET, and you can watch it on the World of Warcraft Twitch and YouTube channels. GameSpot will also carry the stream as part of our Play For All campaign. Hight and Hazzikostas will give the presentation from their homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest showcase is now teasing some sort of "console announcements" that will take place sometime in the near future.

In partnering with Twitch, the Summer Game Fest posted a lengthy blog about some of the news viewers can expect throughout the summer. SGF simply said that some console announcements are coming but is keeping whatever this information is close to its chest for the time being.

The Summer Game Fest is slated to run from May to August, with several livestreams happening over the course of the next four months. A look at the schedule shows that none of the announced streams have anything to do with the next-generation systems, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

Welcome, freebie fans, to another instalment of Oh Look, More Free Games to Get on the Epic Store!, which, granted, isn't the snappiest of titles, but it gets the job done. And, this week, the aforementioned games temporarily discounted to zero pence in a grasp for your ongoing consumer loyalty are Borderlands: The Handsome Collection and Sludge Life.

Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, as its name vaguely implies, bundles up a quivering duo of titles from Gearbox's comedic first-person loot-and-shooter series. And, as a result, you'll be able to add Borderlands 2 and all its DLC, plus Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, to your Epic library once you muster the mouse energy required to click the relevant button.

It's certainly not an offer to scoff at, with Borderlands 2 in particular nailing its mix of chaotically refined shooter action and winningly daffy presentation. The Pre-Sequel, however, while largely more of the same, didn't quite manage to make as much of an impact on release.

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Back in April, developer Red Hook Studios announced it was working on a free PvP mode for its deliciously punishing Lovecraftian strategy RPG, Darkest Dungeon. And now, two months on, Butcher's Circus, as the new DLC is known, is available to download on Steam.

Butcher's Circus is, of course, a rather dramatic departure for Darkest Dungeon; since the game's release in 2016, its punishing expeditions to the shadowy antediluvian corners of its ancient hamlet - requiring players to safely shepherd their party of broken heroes through sanity-shattering horrors - have remained staunchly solo endeavours. Now, however, there's a new multiplayer twist to that rock-solid core.

Red Hook's latest slab of DLC adds the new Butcher's Circus location to Darkest Dungeon's gloomy hamlet, and those brave enough to enter its "weathered and bloodstained pavilion tent", can embark on PvP arena battles against friends and strangers.

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The first trailer for Experience's next dungeon crawler is here! Get a better look at Yomi wo Saku Hana’s characters and combat.

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The Paper Mario-inspired Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling is a derivative work that perfectly captures the spirit of its inspiration.

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Half-Life: Alyx is full of a million tiny little touches that make it a splendidly neat VR game. You can wear a bucket on your head and it protects you from Barnacles. There's a fully-functioning piano in a hotel lobby. It's all a bunch of stuff that's easy to miss but makes this world feel authentic.

Valve just released a new Half-Life: Alyx update that comes with an especially important innovation: Booze convincingly sloshes around inside bottles. Visual effects developer Matthew Wilde took to Twitter to show off his pet project, saying that he spent a lot of the past two months at home working on "boozy liquid shader." Here it is in action: