Horizon Forbidden West’s Aloy Is More Dynamic And Life-Like Than Ever Before

I remember watching that extensive Horizon Forbidden West trailer that premiered during May’s Sony State of Play. There were a ton of new mechanics and equipment that made an appearance during Aloy’s intense neo-San Francisco trek. The sequel to Zero Dawn looks to be a next-gen visual milestone, and Guerrilla Games’ various designers – from […]

Horizon Forbidden West has no upgrade option from PS4 to PS5

Horizon Forbidden West isn’t exactly an upgradeable game from PlayStation 4 to PS5. In a post outlining all of the pre-purchase options for Guerrilla Games’ action-adventure, Sony Interactive Entertainment revealed that buyers get versions for both consoles with one of three special editions starting at $79.99. The $69.99 standard version for PlayStation 4 can’t be […]

Check Out Horizon Zero Dawn’s Aloy In Genshin Impact

Aloy comes to Genshin Impact for PlayStation players on September 1. If you’re not on PlayStation, don’t worry too much – she’ll be available to everyone in the game with the patch after 2.1 with 2.2. Until then, Aloy is going to be exclusive for Sony players. At today’s Gamescom 2021 presentation, players were treated […]

Forza Horizon 5 gives us a high-speed tour of Mexico at Gamescom

Playground Games revealed Forza Horizon 5’s opening sequence of cinematics and gameplay Tuesday afternoon at Xbox’s Gamescom 2021 showcase, highlighting the varied terrain, weather, and biomes players will encounter on the racing game’s wide-open map of Mexico when it launches in November. “I think our campaign learns a lot from Horizon 4’s campaign,” Mike Brown, […]

Facebook Launches Horizon Workrooms To Power Remote Work

Facebook is moving to power remote work with a collaborative platform called Horizon Workrooms. The new service launches as an open beta testing release today free to use on the Web over video call or embodied in Oculus Quest 2, with the latter being the only entry point requiring a Facebook account at launch. The […]

Horizon Forbidden West’s Combat Is Going To Be Phenomenal

You’re wandering across wastelands devoid of all but the most ancient and hardy life. It’s quiet, almost to the point of eeriness, when all of a sudden a machinated worm several times the size of Pokemon’s Onix erupts out of the ground with a bone-shattering screech – easy to live in the utterly uninhabitable when […]

Horizon Forbidden West Has A Better Water Rendering Technique On PS5

Horizon Forbidden West has done the impossible and made fans across the globe excited for underwater levels, but there’s a lot more depth than you might have expected. It’s not just swimming. “Exploration is really the theme,” narrative director Benjamin McCaw said, “And it’s not enough for us to just show underwater. We wanted to […]

How Horizon Forbidden West's New Valor Surges Work

Last week, we finally saw a good chunk of gameplay for Horizon Forbidden West, which showcased plenty of new powers for Aloy. She can blind foes with smoke bombs, slow and stall machines with adhesive grenades, and shoot off and acquire enemy weapons to turn their own firepower on them. We also saw the addition of […]