November 2020

Lone Survivor Is Getting An Expanded Remake On Switch And PC

3 years 4 months ago

Lone Survivor, the hit 2012 2D horror game, is getting an expanded, improved remake in 2021. Super Lone Survivor has been announced for PC and Switch, and developer Super Flat Games has said that it's being totally rebuilt in a new engine.

The game, which has been revealed with a new trailer, will feature a new scenario called "Ascending," which we don't not much about yet. The PC version will now support gamepads and ultrawide, as well as 4K effects. The Switch version will run at 60fps.

The developer says they are "considering difficulty modes," and the Ascending content is being designed because they have no interest in making a sequel, but still want to revisit the game.

You can check out the trailer, made in-engine, below.

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James O'Connor

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Halo MCC Dev Speaks About The Upcoming Series X/S Improvements

3 years 4 months ago

While Halo Infinite has been delayed to 2021, Halo fans are getting a treat this year when Halo: The Master Chief Collection gets an update to take advantage of the power of the Series X/S consoles.

Producer Matt Hohl has now shared some new insight on the updates, and they sound exciting. In an interview on Halo Waypoint, Hohl first reminded players that the update will land on November 17, so it won't be there at launch, but fans won't have to wait long.

In terms of the upgrades, there is a "raw performance improvement across the board," Hohl said. If you have a supported display, you can play Halo: MCC at up to 120fps/4K on Series X and 1080p on Series S. "

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Eddie Makuch

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Vampire: The Masquerade Is Getting A Battle Royale Game

3 years 4 months ago

A new Vampire: The Masquerade title has been announced, and it's something a bit different from the others titles. The game, a battle royale set within the universe of the RPG series, has been unveiled by developer Sharkmob on the company's project page.

The currently unnamed game has a teaser trailer and a brief description on Sharkmob's website. It promises a gameplay scenario "where vampire sects are at war across the streets and rooftops of Prague," and that players will be able to either go solo or team up with others. There will also be a hostile "Entity", which is going after all vampires on the map.

You'll have access to supernatural powers and weapons, and can tap into blood reserves to make yourself stronger as you hunt down your foes from other factions.

You can watch the teaser trailer below. It does not contain gameplay footage, however.

As some comments on the video point out, open street warfare goes somewhat against the concept of the "Masquerade" of the game's title, which is meant to keep vampire affairs secret--but perhaps the game will deal with this in some way.

The game is currently tracking for a late 2021 release. Platforms have not been confirmed.

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James O'Connor

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Top New Video Games Releasing On PS5, Series X/S, Switch, And PC This Month -- November 2020

3 years 4 months ago

New Releases usually highlights five big games in every episode, but that would be a real disservice this time, considering the imminent launches of the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. You can also read our Xbox Series X review now, as well as our PS5 review. The next generation of consoles kicks off with heavy hitters like Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Dirt 5, Bugsnax, Demon's Souls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Godfall. Just after the launches comes Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. And since we can't leave Nintendo out, this episode also takes a look at Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. Here are the top video game releases on all the major platforms this month.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla -- November 10 (PS4, Xbox One, Series X/S, PC, Stadia) / November 12 (PS5)

Available on: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Series X/S, PC, Stadia

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Tony Wilson

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Monster Hunter Rise Shows Off The Great Sword In New Gameplay Footage

3 years 4 months ago

Monster Hunter Rise is coming to Switch on March 26, and fans of the series are wondering how it will differ from past entries--including the huge Monster Hunter World. Now, in a new video, developer Capcom has shown off an example of combat using the game's Great Sword--and how some of this entry's new mechanics will work.

This video details your palamute companions, rideable dogs who will fight alongside you. While riding your palamute, you can sharpen weapons, boost stamina, or use potions, meaning that you can move towards your target while also preparing for battle. The video also shows off more of your Wirebug, which is used to gain height and traverse through the environment--but which can also be used in combat.

The video below shows the first two stages of a battle between a hunter and Aknosom, a bird/wyvern hybrid. The fight shows how the Palamute dogs will jump into the battle and fight alongside you, and how the Wirebug can be used in combat to attack from above and escape danger.

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James O'Connor

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Activision Blizzard Made $1.2 Billion From Microtransactions In Just Three Months

3 years 4 months ago

Activision Blizzard has reported new financial numbers for the July-September period, and it was a gigantic quarter for the gaming publisher. One section of the company's business that did particularly well was microtransactions. For the three-month period, Activision Blizzard made $1.2 billion from microtransactions, which are called "in-game net bookings."

This is a dramatic 69 percent improvement over the same period last year, when Activision Blizzard made $709 million from in-game net bookings.

Microtransactions are very big business for Activision Blizzard. For the latest reporting period, Activision Blizzard made $1.95 billion in revenue from all of its business combined, so the $1.2 billion figure from microtransactions represents more than half of the company's total revenue.

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Eddie Makuch

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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope's End Credits Reveal House of Ashes

3 years 4 months ago
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope has a post-credits teaser for House of Ashes, the third game in this horror series, and it appears to feature Sumerian mythology and star Ashley Tisdale. Bandai Namco has yet to fully reveal House of Ashes, but RabidRetrospectGames has captured the trailer for you to take a look at what we can expect from the next Dark Pictures Anthology game that is scheduled for 2021. The new game appears to feature some form of military personnel and looks to take players underground to the titular House of Ashes. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/29/the-dark-pictures-anthology-little-hope-review"] This tease was given in the same way that Little Hope was at the end of the first game in The Dark Pictures Anthology series - Man of Medan. These games are meant to be standalone experiences, rather than sequels, and developer Supermassive Games has said that it plans to release eight games under this banner. In our review of The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope, we said "tells a mostly one-note story with underdeveloped characters, and even a fun co-op mode can’t inject enough life to fix that. There weren’t enough meaningful consequences to the choices I made to inspire further digging into its box of tricks, which made additional playthroughs tough going, and the more generous amount of time you have to react to quick-time events deprived me of any gory deaths.
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Adam Bankhurst

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Mary Skelter Finale for PS4 & Nintendo Switch Gets New Trailer Showing Story & Gameplay

3 years 4 months ago

Today Compile Heart released another trailer of the upcoming dungeon-crawling JRPG Mary Skelter Finale.

The video is titled “Story Trailer” but it actually shows more gameplay than cutscenes.

You can check it out below.

Mary Skelter Finale has been delayed to November 5., 2020, It’ll come for PS4 and Nintendo Switch.

The game includes the adventure mode of both Mary Skelter: Nightmares and Mary Skelter 2, on top of the visual novel Love Prison Tower Mary Skelter, which was a pre-order bonus of the second game. This way, those who haven’t played the other games can still get the full experience.

At the moment, no western release has been announced, so we’ll have to wait and see whether Idea Factory international will announce it down the line. 

If it does come west, it’ll also be interesting to see whether it’ll end up losing the PS4 version in the west, as it happened with its predecessor.

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Giuseppe Nelva

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Star Citizen Players Have Elected Their New Imperator

3 years 4 months ago

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has announced the results of the Imperator election deciding who will lead the United Empire of Earth going forward.

The election allowed players to pick among several candidates and elect the new Imperator, directly influencing the upcoming lore of the game as its timeline continues.

The winner is the independent candidate Laylani Addison, known for her support of education and AI research.

Below you can read her inaugural speech.

“Thank you, Commissioner Salonen. Let me start by thanking my campaign staff all across the Empire. There are too many people to name, right now, but none of this would be possible without your hard work and dedication. Truly, I cannot thank you enough for helping turn our improbable dream into a reality. My love and thanks to my dedicated partner and campaign manager, Jesse. I am here now because of your belief in me. To our daughter Finley, thank you for your patience and the joy you bring me every day. I also want to thank the people of the UEE. Words fail to express the deep sense of pride and gratitude I’m feeling right now. Serving as your Imperator will be the honor of a lifetime, and I promise to dedicate myself to building a better Empire for all.

Make no mistake, I’m under no illusions that this will be easy. For years I was told that the deeply rooted political parties and corporate interests were too powerful, too entrenched, for an independent voice to be heard. Well, we sure proved them wrong and showed everyone where the true power lies in this empire — with the people!

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Giuseppe Nelva

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Have you played… Fortnite: Battle Royale?

3 years 4 months ago

Fortnite: Battle Royale characters stand over a treasure chest.

The default Fortnite dance is terrible. You move out of time with the music, the music itself is boring, and it wasn’t even stolen from a pop-cultural icon (although to be fair it has become one in itself). No one thinks you’re cool doing the default Fortnite dance.

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James Law

The top 10 games coming to PC in November

3 years 4 months ago

Eivor from Assassin's Creed Valhalla looking pretty determined and like she's about to kill some nasty Englishmen

Sure, you could drop a few hundo on one of those spang new consoles to play all the games coming out in November, but why would you? Every exclusive’s been delayed and all the best November releases are coming to PC anyway.

What’s that? You don’t know what video games are coming out during the penultimate month of this hell year? Well, let me tell you!

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Colm Ahern

Cyber Monday 2020 CPU deals: the best Intel and AMD deals

3 years 3 months ago

A collection of Intel and AMD CPUs on a table.

There weren’t many good [cms-block] CPU deals this year, but today’s Cyber Monday sale has luckily brought us a few more, including a sizeable discount on Intel’s entry-level 10th Gen Core i3 processor. To help you get the best price on your new Intel or AMD CPU, we’ve rounded up all the best Cyber Monday CPU deals happening in the UK and the US. Most of this year’s Cyber Monday CPU deals are limited to the premium end of the price spectrum, unfortunately, but if you’re looking to pick up one of Intel’s new 10th Gen Comet Lake CPUs this is still a good time to do so.

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Katharine Castle

Animal Crossing New Horizons is going cheap at John Lewis right now

3 years 4 months ago

Perhaps in anticipation of all the Black Friday sales on their way, John Lewis have lowered the price of Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Switch down to a very reasonable £36.99. Considering that New Horizons was one of 2020's biggest games, isn't exactly old, and that Nintendo hates lowering its prices, this might be the best price we see on it for the foreseeable future.

New Horizons took the world by storm back in March with its dependable gameplay and lovable characters, in which players build and maintain their own little island community in real time. If you ever needed a nice escape to get through long holidays or winter nights, this would be it.

John Lewis haven't made it clear how long this deal will last for, but it's worth grabbing because it seems unlikely you'll get a copy for a significantly lower price at any time in the immediate future.

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Vampire: The Masquerade is spawning a battle royale?

3 years 4 months ago

A stabby vampire gives another two their final death in art for the yet-unnamed Vampire: The Masquerade battle royale game.

While Bloodlines 2 is the big Vampire: The Masquerade game folks are waiting for, it’s far from the only game in the tabletop RPG setting, with the newest and weirdest being… a battle royale? Huh. Sharkmob, a Swedish studio founded by former The Division devs, this weekened announced a yet-unnamed battle royale that’ll see vampires scrapping through the streets and over the rooftops of prague. Huh. A surprising use of the license. It’s due next year, and all they have to show for now is a cinematic trailer.

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Alice O'Connor

Vampire: The Masquerade Battle Royale Revealed For 2021

3 years 4 months ago
A battle royale game set in the Vampire: The Masquerade universe has been revealed, and is set to launch in "the later half of 2021." The debut for UK and Sweden-based developer Sharkmob, the currently unnamed title was revealed with a teaser trailer showing warring sects of vampires battling through the "streets and rooftops of Prague." The video description offers a few more details on how the game will function, noting that players will be able to choose their playstyle and queue solo or together as they spend their time "battling rivals and the hostile Entity who's hellbent on exterminating all vampires." It's not clear whether the Entity will be a player-controlled character or a PvE NPC who interferes with the battle royale gameplay. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/11/02/vampire-the-masquerade-battle-royale-official-teaser-trailer"] Supernatural powers, weapons and blood are listed as the main tools in your arsenal as you "hunt, fight and survive the night." It's not clear just yet what platforms Sharkmob are planning to release the game on, but their website notes that they "develop for PC and next-gen consoles." Sharkmob has two studios in London and Malmö who will be working on the project, though their website also states that they have two additional projects in the works. "These are highly ambitious, AAA quality projects powered by the Unreal Engine. One is developed with Malmö as lead studio and the other by London.
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Jordan Oloman

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PS5 DualSense Doesn't Work Natively With PS4... But It Does With PS3

3 years 4 months ago
PS5's DualSense controller doesn't appear to work natively on PS4 but, curiously, it does connect to PS3. With PS5 peripherals on sale in the US, YouTuber Midnight Man (as spotted by VGC) managed to unbox a DualSense and test its features. In the video, we see the PS4 failing to recognise the DualSense using a USB connection, and recognising a wireless controller in its Bluetooth menu, but not allowing control once connected. However, when connected to a PS3 using a USB controller, the DualSense is recognised and can navigate the console menus. ResetEra user iceblade has previously said that only the PS button doesn't work when connected to the PS3 in this way, but that it can be connected wirelessly too. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/27/astros-playroom-ps5-preview-dualsense-is-a-fun-evolution"] There is seemingly a workaround for using DualSense on PS4 - if you connect it via USB on a PC or Mac and then use the PS4's Remote Play function, the controller will function as expected (although it's a pretty roundabout way of playing the console). It's perhaps not a surprise that Sony's locking off DualSense functionality - as we've heard previously, PS5 games will require a DualSense to play, with PS4 controllers able to connect to the new console, but only able to control last-gen games. Last week, we learned a little about DualSense's accessibility features, including that haptic feedback can be reduced or turned off.
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Joe Skrebels

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Someone imagined a way to adopt abandoned Among Us children

3 years 4 months ago

Given the enormous amount of murder that takes place in the average Among Us game, I can't say its spaceships are particularly child-friendly, but apparently that's not enough to stop some crewmates from bringing their kids to work. One of the cosmetic items in Among Us is a mini crewmate pet that follows you around until you die - and will then sit sadly on the floor while you fly around as a ghost. As a result, some games end up littered with orphaned children after their parents have been murdered: but one Among Us fan decided to get creative and imagine a better future.

Unity developer Ahmad Creations has made a video showcasing an "adopt" mechanic for Among Us, which was created by partially remaking the game using the Unity engine. Ahmad Creations then added custom art and coding to get the adopt function to work - and then, of course, edited the final video together. The end result is a trail of little Among Us children, looking significantly happier than when they were abandoned on the cold Skeld floor.

"I hate to admit how long this took me to make", Ahmad Creations said in a hugely popular Reddit post sharing the video. Naturally, I asked how long it took to make.

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Leaked video shows PS5 Spider-Man: Miles Morales loading in just seven seconds

3 years 4 months ago

A video has emerged showing Spider-Man: Miles Morales loading in just seven seconds on a PlayStation 5.

That's from pressing play on the PS5 home screen to the game's main menu popping up. From there, loading a save and getting back into the game itself takes just under two seconds.

The origin of the low quality video is unclear, although it was posted to reddit over the weekend and has already seen nearly 4m views on Imgur. EDIT: It looks like it's Norwegian.

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Shops look to click-and-collect to save next-gen console sales during lockdown

3 years 4 months ago

Shops are this morning scrambling to work out how to sell next-gen consoles during the impending second lockdown.

The new four-week lockdown comes into force in England from Thursday. The Xbox Series X and S goes on sale on 10th November, with the PlayStation 5 following on 19th.

According to the new rules, non-essential shops must close to the public, but they are allowed to stay open for deliveries and to offer a click-and-collect service.

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How a visually impaired streamer hunts shiny Pokémon

3 years 4 months ago

Shiny hunting is a task only the most dedicated Pokémon players dare undertake. Shiny Pokémon are an incredibly rare phenomenon, identical to their regular counterparts in all but colour. In pre-internet times, they were nothing more than a playground myth, but nowadays self-confessed "shiny hunters" spend hundreds of hours hatching eggs to the extent they even have representation in the anime.

As with all things, many dedicated players livestream their hunts to legions of avid fans. Tony Olabode, better known on Twitch and YouTube as Saiyan4414, is one such streamer. He mostly hunts legendary Pokémon, which involves resetting the game after encountering the Pokémon for hours on end, because each time there is a 1/4000 chance for it to be shiny. It's a test of patience for any player, but for Tony, it's also a test of skill. Tony is partially sighted, so while he can see some shapes, he struggles to read the game's text and make out colours - especially when a shiny Pokémon doesn't look that different from its regular counterpart.

So, he shiny hunts by sound. When a shiny Pokémon appears, it sparkles and glows. However, most players won't notice that these sparkles also let out a unique noise. That's what Tony is listening for, and that's how he knows if he's found a shiny Pokémon or not.

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Ciel Nosurge DX & Ar Nosurge DX for PS4, Switch, & PC Reveal New Trailer & First Gameplay

3 years 4 months ago

Today, during a livestream from Japan, Koei Tecmo revealed new footage of the remasters of the Surge Concerto series, Ciel Nosurge DX and Ar Nosurge DX.

We get to see the first trailer related to both games, and then we move on to the first gameplay of Ciel Nosurge DX.

After that, we also see gameplay of Ar Nosurge DX, including exploration and battle.

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Giuseppe Nelva

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Atelier Ryza 2 Reveals New Gameplay, Theme Song, Digital Deluxe Editions, & Inevitable Season Pass

3 years 4 months ago

Today, during a livestream from Japan, Koei Tecmo revealed new footage and details of its upcoming JRPG Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy.

We get to see a look at dungeon gameplay on top of plenty of costumes and even battle.

You can check both videos out below on top of the reveal of the theme song “Somewhen, Somewhere…” that came at the same time from the western arms of Koei Tecmo.

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Giuseppe Nelva

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Dirt 5 Review – Stripped-back Racing

3 years 4 months ago

Dirt 5 on PlayStation 4

Codemasters‘ Dirt series has seen its fair share of changes over the years. From the Colin McRae beginnings through to a separation into two sub-series, it’s a franchise with a lot on offer. For Dirt 5, it’s more accessible than ever, leaving traditional rallying to its sister, but still ensuring you hit the asphalt for more than a second or two.

With the introduction of the Dirt Rally series, the core Dirt series is now more casual by design. The former is the home of long, intense events that test your focus, precision driving, and tight control. Rally is now the hardcore simulation series, leaving Dirt to offer the more traditional, pick-up-and-play racing experience.

As a result, Dirt 5’s gameplay has been tweaked from what Dirt fans might expect. It’s not nearly as punishing, with throttle control and precise braking things of the past. You can hurtle around every track at full pelt, flooring the accelerator between each corner.

Cars also stick to the track perfectly, allowing you to satisfyingly get the back out around corners – as it should do on dirt tracks – yet not forcing you to contend with too much under or oversteer. Every vehicle in Dirt 5 feels sturdy; you can throw them around and be confident that they won’t bite back.

It still feels like a Codemasters game though. Driving isn’t floaty like it is in the likes of Need for Speed; you still have to correct steering and fight around icy corners at times, but it’s not demanding. A great balance has been found between making the gameplay engaging but accessible.

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Tom Hopkins

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Get RGB RAM on the cheap with this 16GB Crucial Ballistix kit

3 years 4 months ago

A photo of Crucial's Ballistix RGB RAM.

The early [cms-block] deals continue this week, and one of today’s highlights is this 16GB Crucial Ballistix RAM kit clocked at a nippy 3000MHz for £65 over on Amazon UK. This is the cheapest this set has ever been, according to my Amazon price tracker, as it’s cost £78 or more for most of 2020. If you’ve ever wanted some rainbow RAM on the cheap, this is definitely worth considering.

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Katharine Castle

PSVR On PS5 Seemingly Currently Available Only Via Backwards Compatibility

3 years 4 months ago
It looks like PSVR support on PS5 is currently only available through PS4 backwards compatibility. In a statement issued to UploadVR, Sony reiterated that the PSVR was a backwards-compatible device, noting that the company has "not announced PS5 titles for PSVR." UploadVR uses the example of Hitman 3, which touted a PSVR mode back when it was announced earlier this year. According to a statement from Sony, players will need to buy the PS4 version of Hitman 3 to make use of the game's PSVR mode. They'll also need the official PS5 PSVR adaptor and the old PlayStation Camera so that the peripheral will be compatible with the new next-gen console. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/08/06/hitman-3-psvr-teaser-trailer-state-of-play-2020"] It looks to be a similar situation with Hello Games' No Mans Sky on PS5. The PlayStation Blog post for the game notes that the game is fully playable in PSVR on PlayStation 5 "by virtue of its backwards compatibility functionality." The good news is that both of these games will offer free next-gen upgrades, granted you own the PS4 version of No Man's Sky or Hitman 3. That said, it's not clear whether you'll need to have PS4 and PS5 versions installed in order to play both in VR and in higher quality non-VR modes. You'll still be able to get access to PSVR experiences on PS5, it just looks like for now, the PSVR support won't be native - it will leverage the PS5's backwards-compatibility features instead.
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Jordan Oloman

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Dirt 5 review - enjoyably old school arcade racing

3 years 4 months ago

Dirt has been many things in its lifetime, but here's a first: a mainline entry developed outside of Codemasters' Southam campus as its Cheshire studio takes point, giving us the series' trademark raucous off-roading through an all-new filter. The results are fascinating, if not always entirely convincing. With the Dirt Rally series picking up the more serious and sim-minded point-to-point action, Dirt 5 is a pure arcade racer, packed full of spectacle and a smattering of smart ideas, and while some parts ring a little hollow, others can still leave one hell of an impression.

It's a multidisciplinary racer, and a patchwork of different influences, but by far the biggest is Dirt 2 - that loudest, most raucous of Dirt games, with its music festival framework that the original Dirt 2 team would go on to develop further with the Forza Horizon series. In Dirt 5, that festival vibe pervades - you're given a customisable lanyard and access to a lattice of various events split over five chapters, all underscored by a light story headed up by Nolan North and Troy Baker.

Don't run away just yet, though. If it sounds a little off then it most definitely is, and if you were concerned that Dirt 5's initial announcement led with this bizarre little inclusion, I totally get it. So I'm pleased to say it's almost entirely inconsequential, confined to some light babbling in the background hosted by Donut Media's James Pumphrey and Nolan Sykes, with North and Baker making what amounts to cameos in a series of podcasts (there's a further cameo from W Series champion Jamie Chadwick, who does a sterling job of pretending to phone in from a festival in Nevada). It all builds to a showdown that can't help but feel a mite anti-climactic, though I'm more than okay with that.

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A Battle Royale Vampire: The Masquerade Game Announced

3 years 4 months ago

With the future of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 less clear than before, a new vampy experience is rearing its head for a chance to shine. In a move no one really could have predicted, a battle royale Vampire: The Masquerade game has been announced. 

The teaser trailer for the vampire-driven battle royale experiences comes by way of Sharkmob with a teaser trailer showing off what the new game will have to offer. “Experience the next thrilling evolution of Battle Royale multiplayer action games set in the cult classic Vampire: The Masquerade universe where vampire sects are at war across the streets and rooftops of Prague,” reads the description. “Choose your playstyle, go solo or together, battling rivals and the hostile Entity who’s hellbent on exterminating all vampires. Use your supernatural powers, weapons and blood to become stronger in order to hunt, fight and survive the night.”

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The battle royale Vampire: The Masquerade game will be Sharkmob's first major game following the studio's debut back in 2017. Sharkmob is made up of a pretty impressive dev team, including names from both IO Interactive and Massive Entertainment. 

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Liana Ruppert

Ubisoft walks back statement that several of their games won't work on PS5

3 years 4 months ago

While our eyes are collectively on Assassin's Creed Valhalla, which we knew would work on the PS5, Ubisoft delivered some bad news (in a now-defunct Ubisoft Connect news post) regarding a few legacy titles last week: noting that they would not be compatible with the PS5.

Now, like several publishers in regards to the mystery of PS5 backward compatibility, it wasn't exactly clear what that meant. Would it boot at all? Are there unsupported bugs? Who knows at this point, as Ubisoft has pulled the list entirely.

Following a bevy of inquiries over the weekend regarding this list, Ubisoft has informed The Verge that they have removed it with the following statement: "We have pulled the Ubisoft Connect article and forum post regarding backwards compatibility for the time being as there may be inaccuracies involving the Ubisoft titles that will be playable on PS5." Allegedly, Ubisoft will have a "correct list of games" this week. So...they don't know right now?

This whole situation is very odd and a lot less black and white than it is on the Xbox ecosystem. While Smart Delivery and "500K+ hours of testing" reign on Xbox, Sony had been far more vague in terms of what will work since backward compatibility was announced.

I think what's happening is that a lot of compatibility checks are coming down to the wire on PS5. Developers seem to be scrambling to try and make sense of it, so hopefully we don't have more of these strange blog posts now that we're roughly a week away from the next-gen launch.

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Chris Carter