Sony confirmed on Monday that PlayStation Store access for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and PlayStation Portable will end this summer. The PS3 and PS Vita stores close Aug. 27, 2021; the PSP’s remaining purchase functions will end on July 2, 2021. PS3, Vita, and PSP owners will still be able to re-download and play […]
Astria Ascending is a new RPG made by an indie team with help from Final Fantasy veterans
Astria Ascending, a gorgeous fantasy Japanese role-playing game from Artisan Studios, was announced Friday during the ID@Xbox showcase. The beautifully drawn game with turn-based combat is scheduled to be released in 2021, Artisan said in a news release. While Astria Ascending is being developed by Artisan, which is based in Quebec, Canada, and Montpellier, France, […]
Rust coming to PS4, Xbox One in May
The hardcore multiplayer survival game Rust is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on May 21, developer Double Eleven announced Friday. This version of the Windows PC game originally developed by Facepunch Studios is known as Rust Console Edition — it’s based on the PC version, but was designed by Double Eleven as a […]
Tekken 7’s new fighter is the prime minister of Poland
Tekken 7’s newest character is an original one: the ass-kicking prime minister of Poland. No, not Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland’s current real-world prime minister, but Lidia Sobieska, a fictional karate master/politician. She’s coming to the Tekken franchise this week as downloadable content for Tekken 7. Lidia has found herself entangled in the King of Iron Fist […]
Cyberpunk 2077 1.2 patch will make fixes to police response, driving, and more
Developer CD Projekt Red announced new details on the second major update to Cyberpunk 2077 on Friday, couched as an in-fiction news broadcast. According to the developer, the 1.2 update for Cyberpunk 2077 will address issues related to police response to player actions, and add more nuance and control to driving and moving on foot. […]
Warhammer 40K shooter Necromunda: Hired Gun launches June 1, watch the first trailer
News of Necromunda: Hired Gun, a first-person shooter set inside one of Warhammer 40,000’s most beloved subfranchises, leaked on the Microsoft storefront on Wednesday. Now we have our first proper trailer, which we’ve embedded above. Fans can expect Necromunda: Hired Gun to arrive June 1 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and […]
Fallout 76 fans are making their own procedural drama on Twitch
Fallout 76 fans are no stranger to solving in-game mysteries, but the ones created by players can be much weirder. One of the largest role-playing groups in Bethesda Game Studios’ post-apocalyptic world, the New Responders, is currently weaving a tale involving missing persons, dodgy suspects, and potential cannibalism. The entire production is live for the […]
Sony reveals next-gen PlayStation VR controller for PS5
Sony gave PlayStation fans a peek at the next generation of its PlayStation VR controllers on Thursday, promising “stronger immersion with adaptive triggers, haptic feedback, [and] finger-touch detection” for the PlayStation 5 virtual reality system. Hideaki Nishino, senior VP of platform planning and management at Sony Interactive Entertainment, described the next-gen PSVR controller as orb-shaped […]
Sony is giving away Horizon Zero Dawn and 9 other PS4 games
Horizon Zero Dawn, plus another nine indie games, will be free to everyone with a PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5, beginning next month, as Sony expands its efforts to support folks keeping safe and socially distant in the final stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition will be available free between April […]
GTA Online player fixes the game’s terrible load times, gets $10K
Today’s GTA Online update is short, sweet, and contains a “thank you” to a player named t0st. Rockstar is also awarding t0st with $10,000. The reason for this reward? After logging in to try the newest heists, t0st became so frustrated by the load times that he proceeded to hunt down a solution to one […]