Tag: Focus Home Interactive
Mini Review Curse of the Dead Gods (PS4) - Dungeon Crawler Lights the Way with Unique Mechanics
A curse and a blessing
Republished on Wednesday 27th April 2022: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of May's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. In Curse of the Dead Gods, you explore randomly generated maps in a cursed dungeon. Light is your best friend, as you take more damage in the dark...
Review Hood: Outlaws & Legends (PS5) - Competitive Stealth Title Is Real Refreshing
But it Sherwood help if it had more players
Republished on Wednesday 30th March 2022: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of April 2022's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. What if a classic Assassin’s Creed quest was the basis for a competitive multiplayer game? Hood: Outlaws &...
News SnowRunner Rolls Out Crossplay, New Content in Haul & Hustle Update
Truck you
Snowy haulage sim SnowRunner’s ongoing support rivals the very best service games on the market, and developer Saber Interactive has rolled out a chunky update this week with Haul & Hustle, which includes a new map inspired by Maine. In this paid content – part of the Year 2 Pass – you’ll be commandeering the Aramatsu Forwarder...
News Surprise Vampyr Patch Bites Back with Boosted PS5 Performance
Now running at 60 frames-per-second
DONTNOD’s likeable gothic escapade Vampyr has received a surprise PlayStation 5 patch which improves the game’s performance on Sony’s new-gen system. Available to download now, the update bumps the release’s framerate to 60 frames-per-second and boosts its resolution to 1440p, improving both performance...
News SnowRunner Burns Rubber with Massive Year 2 Pass on PS4
Keep truckin'
If you’ve not had enough of SnowRunner yet, Saber Interactive is wheeling out its Year 2 Pass, which gets underway with Season 5: Build and Dispatch from 9th September. In this new summer-themed add-on, you’ll be working in Russia to restore and rebuild a Tatra factory – unlocking two new Czech trucks, of course: the Tatra Force...
Review Aliens: Fireteam Elite (PS5) - Competent Co-Op That Entertains But Is At Odds with Itself
Prep for dust off, we need immediate evac
To say that video game adaptations of the Alien franchise are hit and miss is a bit of an understatement. On the one hand, we have genre-defining classics like Alien vs Predator (1999) and Alien: Isolation. Then there's Aliens: Colonial Marines, a release besmirched by industry lies. Isolation succeeded by...
News Focus Home Interactive Acquires Streets of Rage 4 Publisher Dotemu
Retro specialist has a new (Focus) home
Dotemu, especially recently, has been knocking it out of the park with its retro releases. The company is a publisher and development studio, and has helped bring about old-school titles such as Streets of Rage 4, Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap, and Windjammers, among many others. The awesome-looking Teenage...
Review A Plague Tale: Innocence - The Rats of Us
Drat
Republished on Wednesday 30th June 2021: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of July's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. A Plague Tale: Innocence is a Sony game without a Sony budget. Focus Home Interactive may not be a forum favourite, but with ambitious original properties like...
News GreedFall PS5 Version Available to Download Now
Free upgrade only for PS4 buyers
The PlayStation 5 version of GreedFall is now available on the PS Store, meaning those who previously bought the game can grab the free PS4 to PS5 upgrade right now. Unfortunately, the PS Plus version cannot be upgraded to the PS5 version. If you don't qualify for the free upgrade, you can either opt to purchase the...
News PS Plus Version of Greedfall Won't Upgrade to PS5 Version for Free
But Xbox Game Pass version does
The PlayStation 5 version of Greedfall launches tomorrow, but if you redeemed the free PS Plus version offered at the start of this year, it won't upgrade to the PS5 edition free of charge. Therefore, the RPG follows in the footsteps of Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, which asked PS5 users to pay full price for...
News Greedfall PS5 Version Out Next Week Along with Big Expansion
The De Vespe Conspiracy
Focus Home Interactive has announced the PlayStation 5 version of Greedfall will be launching next week on 30th June 2021, with a free PS4 to PS5 upgrade available for pre-existing purchasers. The enhanced edition of the RPG supports a native 4K resolution and quicker load times, as well as 60 frames-per-second when...
News Hood: Outlaws & Legends Grants Access to New Map in Latest Update
Steal from the Mountain
Living up to the promise made by developer Sumo Digital in the lead up to launch, the first post-launch content addition for Hood: Outlaws & Legends adds a new map to the online experience for free. Simply titled Mountain, it's available now. This is just the first in a seemingly long line of free updates planned for the...
News A Plague Tale: Innocence PS5 Version Confirmed, Rumoured for PS Plus
Coming 6th July
A native PlayStation 5 version of A Plague Tale: Innocence has been announced, arriving on 6th July 2021. The game will utilise a 4K resolution at 60 frames-per-second and include further visual enhancements. There will also be support for 3D Audio. A free PS4 to PS5 upgrade is promised for those who already own the game, but there...
News A Plague Tale: Requiem Plagues PS5 in 2022
Rat-filled sequel announced
Update: A Plague Tale: Requiem has been confirmed for PlayStation 5 by publisher Focus Home Interactive, but it will not release on PS4. "Embark on an emotional and breathtaking journey in the sequel to the award-winning A Plague Tale: Innocence," the blurb reads. "Follow Amicia and her brother Hugo, as they do whatever...
Review Necromunda: Hired Gun (PS5) - DOOM Rip-Off Broken Beyond Belief
Go to hell
You can hardly blame Streum On Studio for trying to make the next DOOM Eternal. With shooters very few and far between this early on in the PlayStation 5 generation, the developer had the opportunity to leave its mark with a fast-paced FPS that picks up right where id Software left off last year. It even had the Warhammer 40,000 license...
News New Necromunda: Hired Gun Trailer Details a Man's Best Friend
Friends forever
Necromunda: Hired Gun is running and gunning its way to a digital release date of 1st June 2021 on PlayStation 5 and PS4, which means it's time to take stock and see what your canine partner brings to the table. We'll let the trailer do the talking, but it looks like you'll be able to direct the aggressive pup to attack enemies and...
News Hood: Outlaws & Legends to Fix Long Lobby Waits on PS5, PS4
Says there's a "high player count"
Our biggest criticism of Hood: Outlaws & Legends in our review was how long it can take to get into a match. In our appraisal, we suggested that the prolonged matchmaking periods – which can run up to 10 minutes in our experience – could be down to a lack of players, but game director Andrew Willans has...
News SnowRunner Keeps on Truckin' with Russian Space Rocket Expansion
There'll be no Russian this mission
SnowRunner will keep on trucking this month with the release of Season 4: New Frontiers, a comprehensive expansion that adds an entirely new Russian region spanning four maps. Your primary objective in these locations: to construct a space rocket. Glorious! You’ll be able to download the new districts and...
News Promising FPS Necromunda: Hired Gun Has Our Attention in New PS5, PS4 Gameplay Trailer
Live by the gun
Necromunda: Hired Gun continues to look rather promising in this new gameplay trailer. It's not too long, clocking in at just over three minutes, but it does give us a fairly decent idea of what the game's about. There's definitely potential here as you make your own bounty hunter, take on different contracts, and try out all kinds...
News Hood: Outlaws & Legends Brings Competitive Online Stealth to PS5, PS4
Learn about all the classes and their combat options
The jury is still somewhat out on Hood: Outlaws & Legends, but the premise is unquestionably fascinating. This commentated trailer, which shows off the title’s classes, also introduces more about the overall gameplay loop – and it’s effectively an online competitive stealth game. Imagine...
News Hood: Outlaws & Legends Shares What's Coming After Launch
Free content, Year 1 Pass detailed
Hood: Outlaws & Legends is sneaking up on its PlayStation 5 and PS4 release date of 10th May 2021, which means it's time for developer Sumo Digital to detail what sort of content you can expect to play beyond the base package. A large slate of free content is planned for the medieval PvPvE experience, which in...
News Hood: Outlaws & Legends Looking Good in New Gameplay Overview
Medievil multiplayer title out next month
Huh, Hood: Outlaws & Legends may well be one to keep your eye on as we near its release next month on PlayStation hardware. That is if the latest gameplay trailer is anything to go by, which gives a fantastic overview of what to expect from the medieval multiplayer experience. Out on 10th May 2021 for...
News Curse of the Dead Gods Will Add Dead Cells Crossover Content in New Update
Curse of the Dead Cells
We've not thought about Dead Cells for a while, but it's a corker of a game, isn't it? A really satisfying rogue-lite with cool weapons and items, and meaningful progression. Another rogue-lite that's worth your time is Curse of the Dead Gods, a brutal but engaging dungeon crawler which released recently on PlayStation 4. Why...
News Bombastic and Bloody FPS Necromunda: Hired Gun Blasts PS5, PS4 in June
A man and his dog
Don't you just love it when a decent looking first-person shooter is announced out of nowhere? Coming to both PS5 and PS4 on the 1st June 2021, Necromunda: Hired Gun looks like a junk-coated DOOM copycat — and we're not complaining. Described as an "action-packed indie FPS", its reveal trailer leaves a solid impression. It's...
News Hood: Outlaws & Legends Gameplay Trailer Focuses on The Ranger Class
Splitting arrows
You know what, Hood: Outlaws & Legends is looking alright. It's a PvPvE multiplayer game in which two teams of four compete to steal heavily guarded treasure, with a loose Robin Hood theme. In this latest gameplay trailer, one of the developers talks us through the Ranger class, and the game is looking pretty solid. As you'd...
News Curse of the Dead Gods Brings Isometric Rogue-Lite Action to PS4 Next Month
There will be dungeons, and crawling
Here's another early access PC game making its way to PlayStation soon. Curse of the Dead Gods has been in public development since the beginning of last year, but the top-down rogue-lite action title now finally has a release date. Published by Focus Home Interactive, it will launch on PS4 on 23rd February 2021...
Review GreedFall - Spiders on the Cusp of RPG Greatness
Smooth sailing
Republished on Wednesday 30th December, 2020: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of January 2021's PS Plus lineup. The original text follows. Spiders has been busy this generation. The French developer has released two role-playing titles up to this point: Bound by Flame in 2014, and The...
News Extreme Off-Road Sim SnowRunner Brings Mods to PS4
ModRunner
We rather like SnowRunner here at Push Square Towers, so this news comes as a pleasant surprise. Developer Saber Interactive has now added mod support to the harsh off-roading simulator on PlayStation 4, meaning a crazy new world of possibilities has opened up. As you can see in the above trailer, you'll be able to access all kinds of...
News Hood: Outlaws & Legends Dated for May 2021 on PS5, PS4
Pre-order for three days of early access
Hood: Outlaws & Legends really does look like a cross between Assassin's Creed Valhalla and For Honor in this release date reveal trailer, confirming the title will launch on both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on 10th May 2021. The game tasks two teams of four with sneaking into all manner of medie
News Shady Part of Me Out Now on PS4, Launches to Positive Reviews
Get a 10% discount now
One announcement you may not have caught from The Game Awards 2020 last night was Shady Part of Me, which was revealed and then launched on the PlayStation Store all in one go. This debut title from French team Douze Dixièmes is both a 2D and 3D puzzler all about a girl and her shadow learning to overcome all manner of...
News Evil West Is a Supernatural Western From the Makers of Shadow Warrior
Van Helsing vibes
One Game Awards announcement we didn't see coming was the next game from the people behind Shadow Warrior. Flying Wild Hog has debuted the first trailer for Evil West, which looks to merge a western setting with all manner of monsters. Coming to PlayStation 5 and PS4, you play as a vampire hunter aiming to push back the forces of...
News Intriguing RPG Greedfall Is Coming to PS5, Also Getting an Expansion
Greedy
Greedfall, the pretty-decent-but-also-a-bit-boring RPG that launched on PS4 last year, is getting a PS5 version. There are no further details or release date to go on yet, but we imagine that it'll be a pretty straightforward re-release with improved performance. What's more, Greedfall's getting an expansion. Again, we don't have any...
Review Vampyr - An Intriguing, Bloodthirsty RPG
Sucky combat
Republished on Wednesday 30th September 2020: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of October's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. DONTNOD has so far released two games: 2013's often forgotten Remember Me and the breakout success Life Is Strange. Vampyr is the ambitious company's...
News Tactical FPS Insurgency: Sandstorm Delayed Yet Again on PS4
Now coming early 2021
Insurgency: Sandstorm doesn't seem to be having too much luck as far as getting a PlayStation 4 port out the door goes. This tactical first-person shooter initially launched on PC way back in 2018 and developer New World Interactive had been planning on bringing it to consoles in just a couple of weeks, but that is no longer...
News State of Play Game Aeon Must Die Caught in Controversy
Claims of theft, harassment, and abuse
Slick sci-fi beat-‘em-up Aeon Must Die was one of the standouts during yesterday’s State of Play livestream, but the release has been mired in controversy ever since. An enormous catalogue of conversations, emails, and letters have been uploaded to Dropbox, after former employees of developer Limestone...
News Hood: Outlaws & Legends Brings Gritty 4v4 Heists to PS5, PS4 in 2021
Hoodwinked
Hood: Outlaws & Legends was one of the grittier games shown during Sony's latest State of Play broadcast. The game's a four-on-four multiplayer action title, in which the two teams compete to pull off a dangerous heist. You have to work together in order to infiltrate a location guarded by computer-controlled enemies, all while your...
News Spiders RPG GreedFall Sells More Than One Million Copies Worldwide
On to bigger and better things
The games that developer Spiders Studio have put together only got better over the course of the PlayStation 4 generation. Starting things off rather shakily with Bound By Flame, it improved with The Technomancer before putting out its best work yet last year with GreedFall. Because of that, the team will surely be...
Review Othercide - Gothic Horror Tactical Thrills
Bring your daughter to the slaughter
The easiest way to describe Othercide to somebody who hasn't played it is that it's goth XCOM. While that description is broadly accurate, it should also be noted that the game does differentiate itself from other tactical turn-based games with some interesting ideas that mostly work. There are some issues here...
News A Plague Tale: Innocence Sells More Than One Million Copies Worldwide
Bring on the sequel
A Plague Tale: Innocence is one of the greatest titles publisher Focus Home Interactive has ever put out and that appears to have translated into a lot of sales more than a year after release. Asobo Studio today announced that the game has sold more than one million copies across the globe, surely making it a successful project...
News Tactical RPG Othercide Takes Its Turn in Late July on PS4
You will rise
AA powerhouse Focus Home Interactive is once again proving the level of diversity it brings to the table with Othercide, a tactical RPG that sort of looks like a blend of XCOM 2 and Divinity: Original Sin. The publisher has just announced a release date for PlayStation 4 of 28th July 2020, meaning this stylish action title is just over...
Review SnowRunner - Glacial Haulage Sim Is Snow Joke
Deck the hauls
With the PlayStation 4’s catalogue so radically diverse these days, a haulage simulation set in challenging terrain doesn’t sound all that abnormal. SnowRunner is the latest instalment in the strangely popular Spintires series, which you may recall making its PlayStation 4 debut with MudRunner a few years ago. As its name...
News This SnowRunner Trailer Is a Brilliant Riff on Death Stranding
United we drive
Okay, this is pretty damn good. Focus Home Interactive is days away from the release of SnowRunner, a driving sim about making deliveries through treacherous terrain. You could say there's a passing resemblance in its gameplay to Kojima Productions' Death Stranding, and it seems the publisher of this mucky trucking game agrees. The...
News World War Z Grabs Game of the Year Edition and New Missions
Head to Marseille
It's been a hot second since Push Square last covered World War Z, the co-operative shooter from developer Saber Interactive. In that time, the studio has released even more free content for its playerbase and it plans on celebrating that by bringing it all under one roof with a Game of the Year edition. Scheduled to launch on...
News SnowRunner Overview Trailer Explains the Mucky World of Off-Road Trucking on PS4
Someone's got to do it
SnowRunner, the ice-capped follow-up to MudRunner, has just received a new gameplay trailer. Publisher Focus Home Interactive has provided a fresh, in-depth look at the off-roading sim, going over many of the game's features. It's nothing that will surprise you if you've played this type of thing before, but it's looking...
Interview Charging Up Some Answers with The Surge 2 Composer Duo BowsToHymns
Feed the rush
In our long running series of composer interviews, we’ve chatted with composers from all across the industry. Next up in the series, we have Helge Borgarts and Thomas Stanger -- collectively known as BowsToHymns -- a composer duo who’ve worked not just in games, but have worked on the very series we’re here to talk about, The...
News Tactical Shooter Insurgency: Sandstorm Pulls the Trigger on PS4 Release Date
Oscar mike
Tactical first-person shooter Insurgency: Sandstorm is closing in on a PlayStation 4 launch, with publisher Focus Home Interactive attaching a 25th August release date to the title. “[The game] invites console players to prepare for a hardcore depiction of combat with deadly ballistics, destructive artillery, and unprecedented audio...
News Othercide Is a Turn-Based RPG From Publishing Heavyweight Focus Home Interactive
This summer on PS4
Focus Home Interactive has become a major publisher in the AA space over the past couple of years, helping the likes of Call of Cthulhu, The Surge, and the fantastic A Plague Tale: Innocence reach the PlayStation 4 market. And it is set to continue that initiative in 2020 with Othercide, a tactical turn-based RPG from developer
News SnowRunner Takes Off-Roading to Treacherous Tundras on PS4 This April
Let it snow
Hands up: who played Spintires: MudRunner? It's a surprisingly engaging off-roading simulator that revved its engines on PlayStation 4 in 2017. Publisher Focus Home Interactive has just announced its follow-up, simply named SnowRunner, is coming very soon indeed. As you might've guessed from the name, SnowRunner takes the extreme...
News The Surge 2 Kraken DLC Comes to PS4 Next Week, Early Access for Season Pass Owners
Something for the kids
The Surge 2 was a somewhat decent iteration on its Souls-like predecessor, but we still felt like it was lacking a little something when it launched last year. It's worth checking out if you're starved of From Software experiences, but the game's first major piece of DLC looks a whole lot more interesting. In the same vein as...
News World War Z Horde Mode Update Out Now on PS4
New zombie type
It has been said time and time again that developer Saber Interactive has done a wonderful job of supporting World War Z with tons of free DLC and content ever since its PlayStation 4 release at the start of 2019, and players can look forward to even more if they check out the game today. A new update has added the widely requested...
