Review Crimson Desert (PS5) - A Generational Open World Buried in Early Access Cruft
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Round Up Here's Every PS5 Game Announced in March 2026's Xbox Partner Preview
Stranger Than Heaven! Hades 2! The Expanse: Osiris Reborn!
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News Test Your Patience with Super Meat Boy 3D When It Comes to PS5 Very Soon
Meat sweats
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- PS5
- Super Meat Boy 3D
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News Hades 2 Finally Announced for PS5, and It Arrives in a Matter of Weeks
Thank the gods
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- PS5
- Hades 2
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News Yakuza Dev Partners with Xbox for Stranger Than Heaven, Confirms Deep Dive for May
Stranger and stranger
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- Xbox
- PS5
- Stranger Than Heaven
News Mass Effect Fans, You Cannot Ignore The Expanse: Osiris Reborn on PS5 Next Year
Expansive
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TodayThu, 26th Mar 2026
Round Up Here's Every PS5 Game Announced in March 2026's Xbox Partner Preview
Stranger Than Heaven! Hades 2! The Expanse: Osiris Reborn!
With the inclusion of third-party games, Xbox livestreams have always held significant interest for PS5 players. But now Microsoft itself is a multiformat publisher, so they hold increased importance. Today, the manufacturer held one of its regularly scheduled Partner Previews, which...
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News Test Your Patience with Super Meat Boy 3D When It Comes to PS5 Very Soon
Meat sweats
Super Meat Boy is an infamously challenging platformer, but at least you only had two dimensions to worry about. Well, Super Meat Boy 3D is throwing down the gauntlet, and it's releasing on PS5 very soon, on 31st March 2026. Here's the release date trailer: And if you want a better look at some proper gameplay footage, another video...
- Headup Games
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- Super Meat Boy 3D
- Release Dates
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News Hades 2 Finally Announced for PS5, and It Arrives in a Matter of Weeks
Thank the gods
We've been patiently waiting for this one! At long last, Hades 2 has been announced for PS5, and what's more, it's right around the corner. The highly acclaimed sequel to Supergiant's superb roguelike dungeon crawler Hades finally comes to Sony's console on 14th April 2026. Check out the slick trailer below: Hades 2 follows a new...
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- Hades 2
- Announcements
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News Yakuza Dev Partners with Xbox for Stranger Than Heaven, Confirms Deep Dive for May
Stranger and stranger
In an interesting twist, it seems as though RGG Studio — the Japanese developer behind the Yakuza / Like a Dragon series — has signed on with Xbox to promote its next game. The intriguingly titled Stranger Than Heaven put in a fresh appearance during the Team in Green's latest third-party showcase, debuting a trailer made...
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News Mass Effect Fans, You Cannot Ignore The Expanse: Osiris Reborn on PS5 Next Year
Expansive
We've said it multiple times before and we'll say it again: The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is the closest thing we're getting to the return of Mass Effect. Well, until the new Mass Effect comes out, but we're still waiting on even a glimpse of that project. Anyway, developed by the genre experts at OwlCat Games, this is a sci-fi RPG with...
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- The Expanse
- Trailers
Rumour Dramatic PS5 Price Increases Teased by French Source
But is it true?
A French source believes a PS5 price hike is imminent. In a post on X (or Twitter), the account GyoJvFR warns prospective PlayStation purchasers to brace themselves for a “drastic” increase. According to his message, prices will increase as follows: PS5 Slim: From €549.99 (~$634) to €649.99 (~$749) PS5 Pro: From €799.99...
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- PS5
- Rumours
"This is Terminal War"
We can’t speak for the entire PlayStation community, but we suspect all anyone wanted from the new The Last of Us Factions was fresh maps and gameplay from The Last of Us 2. Naughty Dog instead pursued one of the most ambitious projects in its history, and eventually scrapped its work once it realised it would probably have...
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- Terminal War
Live Watch The March 2026 Xbox Partner Preview Showcase Here
Pure Xbox 30 minutes of third-party Xbox reveals
Welcome to the Xbox Partner Preview event for March 2026! This is the first version of this specific showcase we've seen in 2026, and as the name suggests, it's focused around third-party games. It's set to last around 30 minutes in all, and here's a bit of what you can expect to see in the show: "During...
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Review Crimson Desert (PS5) - A Generational Open World Buried in Early Access Cruft
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Crimson Desert is a fascinating video game. It's an open world adventure of frankly absurd scope, taking blatant cues from notable examples of the genre, like Red Dead Redemption 2, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and The Witcher 3. But where those three titles have a clear identity right out of the
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News Further Evidence of PSN's Rebrand Uncovered on the PS5 Console
PSN references removed
Sony is scrapping the PSN brand and it doesn’t look like it’ll be getting a new name. Earlier this week, we pointed out how the PSN Status Page on PlayStation.com was edited late last year to remove any mention of the PlayStation Network. And now we’ve noticed a similar thing in the PS5 settings. I
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News Pragmata's Uncanny New York Stage Was Meticulously Crafted By Humans to Look AI-Generated
Robot master
In Pragmata, Capcom's upcoming third-person shooter, you explore a lunar research station taken over by hostile AI, but it won't be all grey corridors and harsh fluorescent lights. One quite different environment that's been shown off is a cityscape that's very reminiscent of New York, but there's something a bit off about it. That is...
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Oh Alex, that's not right
Street Fighter 3: New Generation protagonist Alex is available now in Street Fighter 6, but it’s not necessarily his gameplay that’s got tongues wagging. Some bizarre lore changes have sent ripples through the Capcom community, as it turns out our favourite facepainted wrassler may be engaging in a spot of the ol’...
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- PS4
- Street Fighter
News Hit Strategy Roguelike Mewgenics in Active Development for PS5 as Devs Tease Port
Cat's outta the bag
Mewgenics is the latest game from the minds behind The End Is Nigh and The Binding of Isaac, and the question of whether it'll make it onto consoles has been floating around since its PC launch. Well, if there was any doubt, it can be cast aside as console ports for the turn-based tactical roguelike game have been more-or-less...
- Edmund McMillen
- PS5
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News 'This Is Unsustainable Madness': Modern Video Game Budgets Are Out of Control
Many US games now cost $300m or more
The cost of making AAA video games on America’s west coast, where some of Sony’s most prestigious first-party devs like Naughty Dog and Santa Monica Studio are based, is out of control. Musing on social media site BlueSky, reliable Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier said that while it’s “tough to...
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News PS5 Horror Silent Hill F Gets New Canon Ending in Surprise Manga Adaptation
Reader beware, you're in for a scare
Konami’s superbly haunting Silent Hill F will see its story continued with a new manga adaptation. Excitingly for fans of the original PS5 game, this comic will feature an all-new ending penned by original writer Ryukishi07. Those of you who’ve played the game will know it encourages you to complete it...
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- Manga
- Books
News Mecha Franchise PATLABOR Returns to PS5 in First Game for Over 20 Years
An arresting development
The last proper PlayStation game in the mecha multimedia franchise PATLABOR launched on the PSP in 2005, so the announcement of PATLABOR The Case Files is somewhat significant. While characters from the series did appear in Disaster Report’s spiritual successor City Shrouded in Shadow in 2017, it’s been slim pickings...
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News 'It Wasn't a Live Service Game': Shuttered Sony Studio Teases Scrapped PS5 Project
"We were making one helluva game"
Sony shuttered first-party studio Dark Outlaw Games this week, a new team fronted by Treyarch veteran Jason Blundell. And contrary to common opinion its game was not a live service title, as confirmed during a Twitch stream with Junior Game Designer JCBackfire. Speaking on the project, Blundell said we’re...
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YesterdayWed, 25th Mar 2026
Feature 70+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in PS Store's Huge Spring Sale
Recommended PS5 and PS4 games going cheap
The PS Store has just launched its latest offer, simply named the Spring Sale, and it runs from now through to 8th April 2026. As always, the sale is massive, with thousands of PS5 and PS4 games reduced in price. It can be difficult to browse through all that, which is where this guide comes in. We've put...
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News PS Plus Essential Game for April 2026 Leaked
Oh lords
Ahead of the official announcement, a game from April 2026's PS Plus Essential lineup has been leaked. As per usual, the leak comes from the incredibly reliable Dealabs, who claim that Lords of the Fallen — the second Lords of the Fallen, not the first one with the bearded guy on the cover — will headline April's selection.
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Random The Internet Dunks On Ex-WWE CEO For Claiming PSP Was "The Beginning Of Life On The Go"
Time Extension "What the f**k are you talking about, Linda"
The handheld gaming industry has been a thing since the 1970s, when companies like Mattel and Waco experimented with crude electronic devices to create on-the-go entertainment. Later, Nintendo would evolve the concept with its Game & Watch series before revolutionising things with the incredibly popular...
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News PS5's Dynamic Pricing Debacle Appears to Extend to the US Now
These are dark times
Sony’s controversial new dynamic pricing appears to have rolled out in the US. While the practice originally seemed limited to a slew of regions in Europe, evidence is beginning to emerge of its implementation in the US, specifically with the new Spring Sale. Deals account Cheap Ass Gamer not
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News Despite PS5 Hits, Sony Sinks to 21st in Metacritic's Publisher Rankings
A mixed Metascore bag
Sony had a couple of outstanding games in 2025, namely Death Stranding 2: On the Beach and Ghost of Yotei. But a mixed slate meant it struggled to really make any kind of impact on Metacritic’s latest publisher rankings. Despite awkward naming conventions, the aggregator is looking at the Metascores of all titles released...
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News Here's What a Jak & Daxter PS5 Remake Could've Looked Like
A fan pitch that didn't go anywhere
There's so much secrecy surrounding the video game realm, and that's just about the games that we know about, and that get announced. Today, a rare bit of insight has been shared about a project that sadly never came to pass. Animator and writer Travis Howe has revealed that he was part of a team that wanted to...
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- Jak & Daxter
News Tekken 8 Dev Responds to Disastrous Season 3 Backlash, Confirms New Update Schedule
Tekken it back
Following on from what can only be described as a disastrous launch, Bandai Namco has opened up on Season 3 of Tekken 8, acknowledging that the update has fallen short. "We recognize that the battle experience we intended to deliver has not fully met your expectations," the developer writes in a new blog post. "Moving forward, we...
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Ready for the World Cup
Football’s governing body FIFA promised it would make a new game after EA Sports announced its intention to rebrand, and here it is: the rather predictable FIFA Heroes. The game will initially launch on mobile, but a press release mentions plans to bring it to “PlayStation” at a later date. It’ll feature full...
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- FIFA Heroes
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Honoring the legacy of the Stars
Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection continues Capcom’s streak of remasters, this time bringing attention to a somewhat overlooked era of Mega Man. The collection bundles together a trilogy of Nintendo DS RPGs: Mega Man Star Force, Mega Man Star Force 2, and (for the first time in some territories) Mega Man Star...
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News Sony and Honda Have Abandoned Their PS5-Integrated Electric Car Afeela
Playtime's over
The Afeela, an electric car being developed in a joint venture by Sony and Honda, is no longer coming to market. Both the Afeela 1 and the second model have been dropped, the companies have announced. This comes from a report via Asian outlet Nikkei, which says Sony and Honda have decided to "discontinue the development and launch...
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News Looks Like SEGA Is Reheating PS5, PS4 Fan Favourite Sonic Frontiers in Definitive Edition
An old frontier
Those pesky age rating organisations are at it again, inadvertently leaking unannounced games. Over on the site for the Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea, a listing has been discovered for a new version of Sonic Frontiers (thanks, Gematsu). It's called Sonic Frontiers Definitive Edition, and unfortunately that's all...
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- PS4
- Sonic Frontiers
News Have Another 30 Seconds of Pure Saros PS5 Gameplay Before Previews Drop
It looks so good
We must say, we've been enjoying the way Housemarque has been drip-feeding these tiny new clips of Saros. Every time we see the game in action, it looks excellent. Today sees the arrival of another short video, this time showing a different biome with a purple sky: It isn't really showing us anything particularly new, but it...
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News Directive 8020 Promises 'Sharper Visuals' with PS5 Pro's Updated PSSR 2 Upscaler
Best on Sony's supercharged console
Directive 8020, the Alien-inspired sci-fi horror from Until Dawn creator Supermassive Games, looks to be a real return to form for the UK-based narrative game dev. And it’ll look and play best on the PS5 Pro, thanks to a series of improvements detailed on the PS Blog. Most importantly, the game will take...
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News Everything Is Not as It Seems in This Painterly PS5 Cozy Game
Unsettle down
Cozy games are dime a dozen on the PS5, but NIS America’s upcoming Village in the Shade looks to be taking the genre in a slightly more unsettling direction. All is fairly familiar in the opening exchanges of this announcement trailer: a painterly isometric world makes way for agricultural activities and everything in between. But...
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News God of War: Sons of Sparta's Latest Update Promises Fixes for Its Nasty Save Issues
Here are the patch notes
Sony's shadow-dropped spin-off God of War: Sons of Sparta has been selling surprisingly well, and that presumably leads to more feedback for developer Mega Cat Studios. The team has been dropping fairly regular updates for the game since its launch, aiming to stamp out remaining bugs and make the experience smoother for...
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Tuesday24th Mar 2026
Sure, go on then
Love them or loathe them, live service games lend themselves well to digital downloads because, well, they constantly change. Take a game like Zenless Zone Zero: at launch it was a kind of roguelike-style menu-based visual novel with action segments. These days it’s more like a traditional adventure game. But that’s not...
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News PlayStation's Disastrous First-Party Leadership Culminates in Yet Another Studio Closure
Dark Outlaw Games dead
In an increasingly dark day for video games, Sony’s disastrous leadership of first-party studios has taken yet another casualty. Dark Outlaw Games, led by Treyarch veteran Jason Blundell and officially acknowled
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News The Company Behind Evercade Just Teased A New Console
Time Extension Enter the Nexus
Evercade maker Blaze has just teased a new piece of hardware called the 'Evercade Nexus'. Adopting a similar approach to the one used when the company announced its Evercade Alpha series of bartop arcades, Blazed has teased nothing but a name and predictably triggering plenty of speculation. "Evercade Nexus is coming soon," says...
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Guide All PS5 Games with Power Saver Support
Scale back your electricity consumption
Power Saver is a new performance profile added to the PS5 as part of its memorably named 25.06-12.00.00 update on 17th September, 2025. While it can be selected in the console's settings, it also needs to be individually supported by games in order to work. On this page, we're going to explain a little more...
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News PS5 Players Seemingly Skip Marathon as Sales Estimates Look Very Weak
Better hope it's a marathon
Earlier today, analytics firm Alinea released its sales estimates for first-person shooter Marathon. They looked low to us, but double-sourcing from Forbes suggests they may be close to the truth. According to the report, the Bungie extraction shooter has sold 1.2 million copies since launching on 5th March, with the...
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- Marathon
News 'I Have Done So Much for This Company': Axed Fortnite Dev Can't Believe He's Been Laid Off
Unreal
With over 1,000 jobs cut at Epic today, we’re beginning to hear from some of those affected. One startled employee has taken to X (or Twitter) to share their story, stating they’re “confused and bewildered” by the layoffs. Ex-Fortnite Principal Engineer Evan Kinney wrote: ??
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News Sublime PS4 Racer Will Be Delisted Due to Epic Layoffs Debacle
Game will remain in your library
Horizon Chase Turbo, the sublime PS4 arcade racer, will be delisted as part of the ongoing Epic layoffs. While it’s not entirely clear why the excellent outing will be removed from sale, a statement on the game’s official social media page says it’ll “no longer be available to download” starting 1st June...
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News If You're Playing Final Fantasy Games on PS5, There's a Good Chance You're Old
Old man yells at Cloud
Square Enix always attaches absurd expectations to its Final Fantasy franchise, and rarely ever seems to be happy with how the series sells. Recently it completely overhauled its business to prioritise multiformat publishing, even if its plan doesn’t appear to apply to series like Bravely Default. (Seriously,
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News Crimson Desert Storms the Physical UK Charts, and Almost All Copies Sold Were for PS5
King of the hill
Earlier today it was revealed that Crimson Desert has now surpassed total sales of three million, so it's no wonder that it's dominated the UK's physical games chart. Pearl Abyss' popular action game has immediately caused a stir among more established bestsellers, debuting straight at number one. A whopping 90 per cent of the...
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- Sales
- Charts
- PS5
- PS4
Not epic
Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite, has announced mass layoffs, affecting over 1,000 people. In a note sent to employees today, 24th March 2026, the firm says these cuts are being made in light of a "downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025", which has resulted in the company "spending significantly more than we're...
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- PS4
- Fortnite
- Industry
News PS4 Police Game Battlefield Hardline to Be Delisted from PS Store in May
Behind bars
Battlefield Hardline, the police-themed series spin-off, will be delisted from the PS Store on 22nd May, with its servers scheduled to be taken offline a month later. Writing on its official X (or Twitter) communications account, an EA spokesperson announced the news with the following statement: “On Friday, May 22nd, Battlefield...
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- Battlefield
- Delisted
Red hot
No matter how you feel about the game, it seems Crimson Desert has been a massive hit. The single-player, open world action adventure, from MMO studio Pearl Abyss, launched last week to a fairly mixed critical reception, but in less than a week, it's achieved more than three million copies sold. That figure comes from a recent update...
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- PS5
- Crimson Desert
- Sales
Mini Review Rushing Beat X: Return of Brawl Brothers (PS5) - Revival Turf
Final delight
Even in its compromised home console format, few would disagree that Final Fight was the king of Super Nintendo brawlers. But the 16-bit system was bursting with beat-’em-ups, and we’ll always harbour a fondness for Jaleco’s kooky 1992 effort, Rival Turf – or Rushing Beat, as it was known in Japan. The title spawned two...
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News Sony's Lost Breaking Bad PSVR Project Unearthed in New Report
Walter must have wilted
Sony’s been very strong in the television space for some time now, but Breaking Bad was undoubtedly one of the firm’s biggest successes. You may recall all the way back in 2017, it announced plans to produce a PSVR game, in collaboration with the show’s creator Vince Gilligan. Now new research from
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- PS4
- PSVR
- Breaking Bad
News Tekken 8 Season 3 Backlash Somehow Even Worse Than Season 2, Game Gets Review Bombed
'Tis the season
If you thought the player response to Tekken 8 Season 2 was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. Nah, to be fair, the overwhelmingly negative response to Season 3 — which launched just days ago — is pretty much a continuation of the chaos that Season 2 caused. You may recall that many players — particularly those in hardcore...
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- Tekken
News One of PS5's Most Graphically Intensive Games Patched to Support Low Power Mode
Forbidden power
Horizon Forbidden West may also be available on the PS4, but it’s still one of the PS5’s most graphically impressive games. There’s just no doubt about it. Now the Guerrilla console exclusive has been patched to support the system’s new low power mode, making it one of a few titles to actually support the feature. Sony
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- Horizon
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News Fortnite Is Ditching Several Modes Including Rocket Racing Amid Layoffs and Cost-Cutting
The race is over
Epic Games has just announced that it's laying off more than 1,000 employees, and it's all part of a big push to cut costs. Fortnite itself will feel some of the impact from these changes, too, as it's now been confirmed that several modes are being shut down. Fortnite Ballistic, Fortnite Festival Battle Stage, and Rocket Racing...
- Epic Games
- PS5
- PS4
- Fortnite
Hands On Secretlab Titan Evo Cyberpunk Edition - Johnny Silverhand Would Be Proud
The netrunner's throne?
Back in 2022, we had a look at Secretlab Titan Evo gaming chair, a reassuringly expensive premium-grade seat that "you're unlikely to regret sinking the money into." We stand by that verdict, save for one key point – if you're tempted but yet to pull the trigger, it might be worth opting for the Cyberpunk 2077-themed...
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