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News - 2017, Week 36
Monday11th Sep 2017
News Uncharted 4 Was Almost An Entirely Different Game
Book reveals title's turbulent tale
Do you remember the very early days of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End? There was a mass exodus at developer Naughty Dog, with franchise director Amy Hennig being the most notable departure. Rumour had it that the sequel was in dire straits, and The Last of Us creators Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley were ushered in...
News Are Bayonetta and Vanquish Coming to the PS4?
Retailer reckons so
Well, this is an exciting, out-of-the-blue rumour: two top PlayStation 3 titles Bayonetta and Vanquish could be coming to the PlayStation 4 this November. The pair of SEGA published Platinum Games products have been listed on website Alza as part of a purported double-pack. Seeing as both games were recently ported to the...
News Shenmue 1 & 2 Could Keep Friends Close on PS4 This Year
Those you love
It’s the rumour that won’t stop running: the two Shenmue titles could be coming to the PlayStation 4 this year. Just like the Bayonetta and Vanquish double-pack we reported on earlier, a bunch of Eastern European retailers all seem to think that Yu Suzuki’s legendary Dreamcast adventures are coming to Sony’s current console...
Sunday10th Sep 2017
News Destiny 2 Is Looking Like the Sales Smash Hit We All Expected
Sequel posting huge numbers already
There were a whopping 1.2 million players on the Destiny 2 servers across all platforms earlier, suggesting that Bungie’s new first-person shooter has been a gargantuan success. The developer just so happens to have announced the tidbit as steamroll success PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds clocks one million...
News Hellblade, Madden NFL 18 Are PlayStation Store's Big Winners in August
Heaven and Hell
Psychological thriller Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice secured an impressive debut on the PlayStation Store, charting top of August’s digital best-sellers list in Europe and second in North America. The mental health masterpiece was beaten only by Madden NFL 18, which understandably touched down in the top spot ahead of the start of...
Saturday9th Sep 2017
News It Looks Like Okami HD Really Is Coming to PS4
Remaster gets rated
There was a rumour swirling around last month that Capcom is preparing to bring Okami HD to the PlayStation 4. The possibility didn't sound too far-fetched then and it seems even more probable now, as Gematsu notes that the Korean rating board has rated the remaster. When games usually get rated like this, an official...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 185
This must be Destiny
You're already sick of hearing about it and we're already sick of writing about it, but we can't bloody well tell our team of scribes to not play Destiny 2 this weekend. It's time for a bumper edition of What Are You Playing! Robert Ramsey, Associate Editor I've got a busy weekend planned, but when I'm not socialising,...
Friday8th Sep 2017
News The Witcher 3 PS4 Pro Patch Is Coming Soon
Word from CD Projekt Red
If you've been holding off on starting a new run of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, then we have potentially good news for you: the game's PS4 Pro patch should arrive in the near future. The update, which was promised by CD Projekt Red back when it was revealed that the title would receive Xbox One X enhancements, is set to...
Guide Destiny 2 for Beginners and Frequently Asked Questions About Loot
Loot, levelling up, and legendary gear
Destiny 2 is a big improvement over its predecessor in many ways. Systems have been streamlined, activities have been expanded, and generally speaking, the overall experience is way more rewarding, and much more respectful of your time. However, if you're only just getting started or if you need a few...
Poll Are You Enjoying Destiny 2?
Super sequel or disappointment?
You knew this poll was coming. Destiny 2 has been out for a couple of days now, and although that's not really enough time to form a complete opinion of the game, we'd like to know what you think of it so far. Is it everything that you hoped it would be, or has it been a disappointing experience? As far as we're...
News Call of Duty Charity Fund Taking Aim at UK to Help Veterans Find Work
Tango yankee
Here's a feel good Friday story for you: The Call of Duty Endowment -- a charitable fund based in the US -- is expanding its reach to the UK. The foundation works to help veterans find employment, which is obviously a good cause. Apparently, the foundation has smashed its targets in recent times, helping tens of thousands of...
Thursday7th Sep 2017
Guide Destiny 2 Sparrow - How to Get One and Get Riding
Gotta go fast
"How do you unlock sparrows in Destiny 2?" seems to be a common question among those playing Bungie's shooter sequel. Unlike the first game, sparrows -- which are basically space motorbikes that you can ride around the game's open environments -- aren't gifted to you as you play through the campaign, so don't worry if you think you...
News South Park: The Fractured But Whole's Difficulty Settings Change Your Character's Skin Colour
No joke
Eurogamer reports that selecting the difficulty setting at the start of South Park: The Fractured But Whole changes the colour of your custom character's skin. Yes, you read that right, and you can see it for yourself in the video that we've embedded above. The game's difficulty slider ranges from 'easy' to 'very difficult', and...
News PSN Down For Some as Destiny 2 Servers Struggle on PS4
Status errors, connection issues, and more
And it was all going so well! Destiny 2 launched yesterday with only a few not-so-widespread connection issues, but today, it seems as though Bungie's sequel is struggling to stay online for some players. What's more, the PlayStation Network appears to be having problems of its own, with reports of users...
Hands On Destiny 2 Is Destiny's Superb Gunplay Encased in a Much Better Game
It's even got a proper story
After smashing through Destiny 2's bombastic opening mission and the rest of its surprisingly lengthy -- and well done -- prologue, we were thrown into the sequel's first free roam map: the European Dead Zone. It was here that for a fair few minutes, things started to feel all too familiar. We were shooting the same...
News L.A. Noire Will Be Doing Some Detective Work on PS4 Later This Year
Rockstar announces port
Following rumours that surfaced earlier this year, somewhat-sandbox detective title L.A. Noire is making the jump to PlayStation 4, Rockstar Games has confirmed. The original released on the PlayStation 3 all the way back in 2011, and it was reasonably well received by critics and gamers alike. The current-gen edition...
News Destiny 2 Butchers Shaders for the Sake of Microtransactions
Colour us disappointed
Remember shaders in the original Destiny? They were cosmetic items that you could apply to you character's armour, changing its colours whenever you liked. You could use shaders as many times as you needed, equipping them and replacing them to suit your style. That's no longer the case in Destiny 2. We're...
News No, Bethesda Doesn't Have an Unannounced Game Coming Out This Year
So says Pete Hines
There's a story doing the rounds today that Bethesda has an unannounced game ready to be released before the year is out. Said story is based on an interview with VP of marketing Pete Hines in which he states that the company has a secret project due to launch in 2018. Naturally, this kind of comment got people talking. What the...
News Nioh Bloodies Its Blade for the Last Time in Final DLC Later This Month
End of an era
Nioh's third and final expansion hits PlayStation 4 later this month, publisher Koei Tecmo has revealed. Taking place after the events of the previous slice of downloadable content, Defiant Honor, this upcoming adventure, aptly titled Bloodshed's End, will mark the end of protagonist William's Japanese journey. As with the last...
Wednesday6th Sep 2017
Review Resident Evil: Revelations (PS4)
Pier pressure
With Capcom seemingly hell-bent on releasing every modern Resident Evil game on the current generation of consoles, it was only a matter of time until Resident Evil: Revelations made its appearance. Originally released on the Nintendo 3DS in 2012, the title has gone through a number of remasters and received a variety of changes and...
Review One Piece: Unlimited World Red - Deluxe Edition (PS4)
A pirate's life for me
One Piece, for those who are unfamiliar, is an insanely popular manga and anime series that has been around for over 20 years now, and has received a slew of video games. The series focuses on Monkey D. Luffy and his Straw Hat pirate crew as he strives to claim the title of Pirate King. One Piece: Unlimited World Red first...
News Swipe Some Small PS4 Games for Less Than €5 in Yet Another EU PlayStation Store Sale
Plus: A new deal of the week and a big Ubisoft sale
This is starting to get silly. Sony’s latest sale, which runs until the 20th September, has hit the European PlayStation Store just after the last, albeit less publicised, weekend offer. There’s a ton of titles going for less than €5, and there are some great games in the mix. Super Meat...
News Japanese Sales Charts: Everybody's Golf Swings Straight to the Top on PS4
Hole in one
There's only one real story to this week's Japanese charts, and that's the success of Everybody's Golf in its native country. The PlayStation 4 exclusive stormed to the top of the software charts, shifting over 100,000 copies. Not a colossal amount, to be fair, but it's still more than most games manage on their debut. As for Sony's...
News BioMutant's Overly Talkative Narrator Can Be Toned Down
Good to hear
BioMutant, the unique looking action role-playing game that was revealed at Gamescom last month, looked quite promising in its first gameplay footage. However, one aspect that we weren't all that keen on was the narration. We don't mind a bit of commentary here and there, but this was the kind of thing that'd probably drive you mad...
News Destiny 2 Clans Won't Be Up and Running for 'Several Days'
Band together
Destiny 2's launch seems to be going reasonably smoothly thus far -- barring some queuing issues -- but the sequel's all-new clan system isn't quite up and running yet. Bungie has said that clan features will be "unavailable for several days after launch", so if you were looking forward to organising a session with fellow clan members...
News Japan's Destiny 2 Trailer Dances All Others Off the Face of the Galaxy
Dance the light away
Japan's only gone and done it again. As was the case with the original Destiny, the Land of the Rising Sun has its own live action Destiny 2 trailer, and quite frankly, it blows the Western one out of the water -- and we thought that one was pretty good to begin with. We won't spoil it by describing it here, but let's just...
Tuesday5th Sep 2017
Knack strikes back
It’s fair to say that Knack divided opinion upon its release alongside the PlayStation 4 in November 2013. Some concluded it to be an abomination that failed to live up to the promise of being a Crash Bandicoot successor, while others deemed it to be not so bad. Either way you look at it, it's now clear to see that the divisive...
News September's PlayStation Plus Games Are Out Now
inFAMOUS update
Head on over to the European PlayStation Store and you'll find that this month's selection of PlayStation Plus games are now available to download. if you're in North America, they should be live later today. As noted in our increasingly annoyed-sounding article from last week, the lineups are different between Europe and North...
Gronk star
Yes, the football season may have just started in the UK, but across the pond, something different is going on: the football season is about to start. Not the one with feet or balls, mind you, but one even more complicated and technical, a sport in which “PA Max Protect” actually means something. To a new player, the prospect of...
Guide Knack 2 Hints and Tips for Surviving the Knackening
Attacks & gadgets
Knack 2 is a much more approachable title than its predecessor with an accessible default difficulty for all, but that doesn't mean it's a total cakewalk. Here are five hopefully helpful tips for making your experience an even more enjoyable one. Take advantage of the heavy punch Every one of the core abilities that you...
News Bungie Addresses the PlayStation Nation in Destiny 2 Launch Video
That's our line
We've been using the term "PlayStation Nation" for years purely because it sounds so terrible, but we guess the phrase may not be quite as uncool as we thought. Bungie's put out a special message to those picking up Destiny 2 on PlayStation 4, and the developer's quick to mention the PlayStation Nation. Is PlayStation Nation an...
Rumour Resident Evil 7's Not a Hero DLC, Post-Game Expansion Launch in December
Gold edition also incoming
According to a thread over on NeoGAF, the latest issue of Famitsu contains new information on the upcoming downloadable content for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. The Not A Hero DLC, which will star Chris Redfield and is free to all owners of the base game, is set to release on the 14th December according to the leak. Along...
News Gearbox Basically Admits Borderlands 3 Is in Full Production
Lock and load
Wow, who saw this one coming? At a recent PAX West panel, Gearbox CEO and industry gobsh*te Randy Pitchford told the audience that 90 per cent of the studio is currently "working on the thing I think most of you guys want us to be working on". Obviously, that's a Borderlands 3 tease -- unless the developer is so misguided that it...
News The Destiny 2 Servers Are Live for Physical Copies of the Game
Early bird
Just a quick heads up for those wondering: the Destiny 2 servers are now live, meaning that if you have a physical copy of the game, you can jump in and get started. Those who are going the digital route will obviously have to wait until the title unlocks at midnight tonight. Destiny 2's official launch date is tomorrow, the...
News Action RPG Code Vein Is Worth Keeping a Bloodied Eye On in New PS4 Gameplay
Red or dead
IGN's gone live with around 17 minutes of Code Vein gameplay, and the game's showing promise. Described early on as "anime Dark Souls" you can certainly see where that trail of thought comes into the equation, but there's still a unique sense of style on display here. That said, we're not huge fans of the dull environment that's...
News Take a Quick Look Inside Destiny 2's Hidden Dungeons
Into the depths
Bungie's squeezed out another short Destiny 2 video, this time detailing Lost Sectors, which are essentially hidden dungeons that you can find in patrol zones. Unsurprisingly, they're home to enemies who would like nothing more than to pop your head like a watermelon, but they also promise some sweet loot, so they're probably...
News Super Sorceress Ultimecia Joins Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Roster
Squall's foe returns
Ultimecia is joining the playable roster of Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, a new character trailer reveals. The deadly sorceress first appeared in Final Fantasy VIII, so it's only fitting that her video shows her tearing Squall to bits with many a magical attack. Dissidia is due out on PlayStation 4 in January next year, so...
Monday4th Sep 2017
Site News Destiny 2 Review - Our Plans and What You Can Expect
Keeping you in the loop
We don't usually do articles like this, but given the popularity of a release like Destiny 2 and in the interest of transparency, we're going to take the time to outline our review plans for the game. We've attempted to answer a number of frequently asked questions below, with the hope being that our answers provide some...
News There's a Small PS4 Game Sale Happening in Europe Right Now
It's well hidden
Weirdly, we haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but we were just checking the PlayStation Store and it turns out that there's a PS4 game sale going on right now in Europe. Head down to the deal section of the storefront and there should be a panel that says "weekend offer". Click through and you'll find a relatively small...
Rumour Destiny 2 Has Fewer Main Story Missions than the First Game
And so it begins
Uh oh, there's going to be some kickback on this one. Supposedly. an official Destiny 2 strategy guide has made it into the wild, and as you'd expect, it reveals loads of information about Bungie's sci-fi sequel. For those wondering, we're having trouble tracking down legitimate sources for this particular story, so we've...
Hands On Suiting Up in the Gundam Versus PS4 Beta
Will of steel
The long-running Gundam Versus series is finally heading overseas with the aptly named Gundam Versus, which is due out at the end of the month. In preparation for its launch, Bandai Namco released an open beta version of the game that was playable over the weekend. Naturally, we got stuck right in, and it's safe to say that we're...
News UK Sales Charts: Mario Can't Quite Topple Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
PS4 exclusive enjoys second week at the top
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy has topped the UK sales charts for the second week running. Its victory comes as no real surprise given the quality of the product and its lower price point, but its success marks yet another week where a PlayStation 4 exclusive has come out on top. Reports suggest that new...
News Destiny 2 Trailer Gives Us a Brief Look at Lore and Story-Based Adventures
The quest for loot
Destiny 2's 'adventures' are supposedly a new way for Bungie to feed the game's lore to players looking for a bit of backstory. You pick them up during your patrols, complete a few objectives here and there that are tied together with smaller narratives, and then you turn them in for some hopefully lovely loot. Story, gameplay,...
News Here's 10 Minutes of Gameplay from the Secret of Mana Remake
Mana-gnificent?
The PlayStation 4 and Vita remake of Secret of Mana had a playable demo at PAX West, so it's time to see what the game looks like in action. You can gawk at the footage captured from a Twitch livestream of the title above. When the remake was revealed last month, it divided opinion. Some are simply happy that such a classic is...
News SteamWorld Dig 2 Mines Its Way to PS4, Vita Later This Month
Deeper down
SteamWorld Dig 2 has a PlayStation 4 and Vita release date, developer Image & Form has announced. We really enjoyed the first SteamWorld Dig, along with sort-of-spin-off SteamWorld Heist. As such, we're looking forward to getting our pick axe dirty all over again. The sequel will support cross-buy, so if you nab it on one platform,...
