News - 2020, Week 49

Sunday6th Dec 2020

  • Review Madden NFL 21 (PS5) - Three and Out for Tired Football Sim

    The NFC East of sports sims

    It’s hard to find any optimism in the Madden NFL 21 community, but a few football fans with a glass half-full of Gatorade had hoped that this year’s PlayStation 4 game was so disappointing because EA Sports was all-in on the next-gen upgrade. Now the PlayStation 5 version is readily available, we’re afraid to say...

  • News SNL Skit Jokes About PS5 Stock Shortages

    Please bring me a PS5

    Lots of children will have placed the PlayStation 5 console at the top of their Christmas wish list for this year. Unfortunately, many of them will not have their wish granted due to the current PS5 stock shortage. American TV show Saturday Night Live recognises this with a comedic skit that pitches Stu as the kid writing to...

  • Feature Best PS5, PS4 Music of November 2020

    Well, well, well, what’s all this then

    That’s right, you read that headline correctly! A new generation of console gaming is upon us. That means not only do we need to alter the headline of these monthly recaps to account for Sony’s newest massive piece of hardware, but we have ourselves a very, very busy month of music to discuss. So without...

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  • Guide NBA 2K21: Best Builds for MyPlayer and MyCareer

    How to build the best NBA 2K21 player on PS5 and PS4 in all positions

    What are the best NBA 2K21 builds for MyPlayer and MyCareer? A big part of the NBA 2K21 experience is building your own player for use in The Long Shadow campaign, MyCareer mode, and crucially the The City and the Neighborhood. While your personal player build will depend largely...

  • Guide Cyber Monday 2020 - Best PS5 and PS4 Deals on Games, PS Plus, 4K TVs, Accessories, and More

    All the best PS5 and PS4 deals in Cyber Monday

    What are the best Cyber Monday 2020 PS4 deals? What Cyber Monday discounts are there on PS4 consoles, games, and accessories? Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll have noticed it's time once again for Cyber Monday, which means all kinds of savings on a wide range of products. This naturally...

  • News Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1.004 Performance Practically Unchanged on PS5

    Let the bloodbath begin

    Update: There was a lot of talk on social this week that Ubisoft had effectively gimped the PlayStation 5 version of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, after Digital Foundry discovered the game performed best on Sony’s console. That’s not quite the case, however. Performance Mode, which targets 60 frames-per-second on PS5, is...

  • News Sony's Secret San Diego Studio Probably Hasn't Closed

    Uncharted territory

    Update: All the attention on John Baustita's Twitter account earlier today prompted him to come out and make a comment. In a follow-up message, he explained that he left Sony's unannounced San Diego studio due to "personal circumstances", and as far as he's aware the team still exists: Now we wait for the platform holder to...

  • News Pro Days Gone Player Is Beating Entire Hordes Without Firing a Bullet

    Impressive stuff, Deacon

    Days Gone is what you'd consider a fan favourite of the PlayStation 4 generation, and its hardcore community is still pulling off impressive feats in-game more than 18 months after launch. Just take Reddit user SpawnicusRex, for example, who has been detailing their efforts to kill off entire hordes of Freakers without...

  • News The Internet Can't Stop Talking About the Kids in Assassin's Creed Valhalla

    Freaks of nature

    Assassin's Creed Valhalla might have been patched over the past couple of days to make it run better than ever on PlayStation 5, but all the internet wants to do is talk about the children that inhabit Ubisoft's take on England in 873 AD. This is something we experienced to some degree during our review process, although this

  • News Xbox Series X|S Runs PS2 Games Better Than PS5

    A sad reality

    PlayStation 5 can, in fact, play a handful of PlayStation 2 titles – but only ones that were ported to the PlayStation 4, like Jak & Daxter and Grand Theft Auto 3. Bizarrely, the Xbox Series X|S can play retro PlayStation titles much better – at least, until the inevitable batch of cease and desist letters get posted out...

  • News eBay Users Are Trying to Flog Photographs of the PS5

    Picture this

    We’ve already covered in detail the seedy story of scalpers who’ve been working overtime to secure PS5 stock, but how about this new low? eBay has issued a warning to sellers trying to flog photographs of the next-gen format. People are actually bidding on these listings for serious sums of money, not realising they’re effectively...

  • News PS Store End of Year Deals Sale Discounts Lots of PS4 Games

    Wallets at the ready

    Black Friday might be over, but did you really think you'd be safe from Sony's bargain-fuelled wrath? PlayStation Store has been updated today with a new sale named End of Year Deals, and there are hundreds more discounted PS4 games to browse. It's slim pickings for PS5 games in this sale, unfortunately. Dead by Daylight's...

  • News Crash Bandicoot 4 Is Hiding a Mysterious New Logo

    New game coming?

    Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is a great return to form for the marsupial mascot, but his latest game was somewhat overshadowed by the arrival of next-gen (now current-gen, we suppose). Of course, the launch of PlayStation 5 hasn't dissuaded hardcore Crash fans from completing the new game 106 per cent. Doing so is an exercise...

  • News BBC Consumer Show Investigating Missing PS5 Deliveries

    Amazon UK feeling the heat

    The ongoing saga involving missing PlayStation 5 deliveries has attracted attention from BBC’s consumer show Watchdog, where it featured in a recent One Show segment. You’ll recall that many next-gen consoles ordered from Amazon UK went missing on launch day, with our very own

  • News PS5 Becomes UK's Biggest Ever Console Launch, Says New Report

    Beats original 250,000 record

    The PlayStation 5 has become the United Kingdom's biggest ever console launch, eclipsing the 250,000 units the PlayStation 4 sold inside 48 hours, according to publishing sources close to Video Games Chronicle. The most popular model at launch is said to be the one shipping with a disc drive, with the two versions...

  • Mini Review Tesla Force (PS5) - Twin-Stick Roguelite Needed More Time in the Lab

    The greatest minds in history cannot save this game

    In an already bizarre year, Tesla Force’s absurd concept of pulling famous people from history and making them fight monsters seems right at home. Tesla Force is a roguelike twin-stick shooter starring Nikola Tesla and Marie Curie, fighting waves of monsters with over the top guns and powers...

  • News ASMR YouTubers Have Discovered the DualSense

    It was only a matter of time

    Whether you watch it for relaxation purposes or find it a bit weird, there’s no doubt that ASMR is big business on YouTube right now. And it was only a matter of time before some content creators discovered the DualSense controller and its plethora of sounds. This video in particular, by ASMatt R, is interesting...

  • News UK Sales Charts: Black Friday Deals Boost FIFA 21 to Number One

    Bargain hunting

    Don't let a lockdown get in the way of the British hunger for a good bargain. Over 1 million physical games were sold last week as retailers cut down prices for Black Friday. The real winner is FIFA 21; thanks to a reduced price, it's secured another first place result in the weekly chart. It boots Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War to...

  • News Swery's The Good Life Grabs Summer 2021 Release Window

    Alongside new publisher

    Remember The Good Life? Swery65's photography RPG all about cats has been hanging around for quite some time now following a successful Kickstarter campaign all the way back in May 2018. Fast forward two and a half years and this latest update has handed the game a summer 2021 release window on PlayStation 4, with The...