Tag: Private Division
News Kerbal Space Program 2 Prepares for Launch in 2023
T-minus about a year or so
Hands up — we genuinely forgot Kerbal Space Program 2 was happening. Publisher Private Division announced the sequel to the massively popular space simulation game back in 2019, with a tentative release window of 2020 on PS4 and other platforms. Just over a year later, the game was delayed a second time to Fall 202
News OlliOlli World's Sci-Fi Expansion Void Riders Adds New Gameplay, Characters, and More
Skateboarding in spaaaaace
OlliOlli World arrived back in February, and it elevates everything about the side-scrolling skateboarding series to a new level. While the base game has plenty to see and do, developer Roll7 has been working hard to release a pair of expansions, and we've got a taste of what to expect from the first of these courtesy of...
Review OlliOlli World (PS5) - Fantastic Skateboarding Game Is a World Apart from Predecessors
Perfect landing
For a certain type of player, OlliOlli World is just pure fun. Let's not beat about the bush here: this side-scrolling skateboarding game is simply wonderful, and leagues ahead of the previous titles in the series. Developer Roll7 has seriously stepped things up, improving practically every aspect of the franchise and delivering it...
News New OlliOlli World Trailer Will Have You Pining for an Animated Series
Time for an adventure
The art style in OlliOlli World feels clearly inspired by modern cartoons, so for its latest trailer, publisher Private Division has turned it into one. Embedded above is the new cinematic trailer for the side-scrolling skateboarding game, and it's fantastic. The video really sets the tone for the game, showing off the wide...
Hands On OlliOlli World Is a Bold and Brilliant New Spin on the Skateboarding Series
JollyOlli good
Before getting our hands on the PlayStation 5 version of OlliOlli World for this preview, we refreshed ourselves on the basics in OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood. We quickly remembered the challenging but intuitive controls, the ridiculously addictive allure of besting your scores on each level, and the clean, understated...
News OlliOlli World Wall Rides onto PS5, PS4 in February 2022
Another one
Flippin' heck, February is filling up. We'll all be praying for our wallets as January rolls out of view, and one more game has been thrown into the mix. The super stylish skateboarding game OlliOlli World has now been confirmed for release on 8th February 2022. Coming from developer Roll7 and publisher Private Division, this is the...
News OlliOlli World's Customisation Options Mean You Can Play as a Skateboarding Bumblebee
Or whatever
OlliOlli World is the third game in Roll7's wonderful skateboarding series, and it's shaping up very nicely indeed. We went hands on with the side-scrolling skate-'em-up earlier in the year and came away rather impressed, and it just keeps on looking great each time we see it. Case in point: this new trailer, which focuses on...
News Take-Two Has a Trio of Unannounced Ports or Remasters in the Pipeline
More re-releases on the way
Take-Two, the organisation in charge of labels like Rockstar and 2K Games, has already announced a couple of next-gen conversions: Grand Theft Auto 5 and Kerbal Space Program being the duo. However, as part of an investor relations report, it’s quietly confirmed that it has three more “new iterations of previously...
News OlliOlli World Grinds Up PS5, PS4 This Winter
Kickflippin' fantastic
OlliOlli World, the sequel to Roll7’s sidescrolling skate-‘em-up, will ollie to PlayStation 5 and PS4 later this year – with a bold new look. The vibrant action platformer will transport you to “Radland, a vivid world full of colourful characters, as they search for the mystical skate gods on their quest for...
Actual murder on the dancefloor
The Outer Worlds: Murder on Eridanos is the game's second and final expansion. Just like Peril on Gorgon, it's another solid adventure that takes you to a whole new location. This time around, the crew of the Unreliable find themselves on the Grand Colonial — essentially a massive hotel complex that orbits the...
News The Outer Worlds Update 1.7 Adds 60FPS Support on PS5
Available to download now
Phwoar, this is what we absolutely love to see. Ahead of its final piece of DLC content, The Outer Worlds has received a patch that allows the game to run at 60 frames-per-second on PlayStation 5. Available to download right now, the patch weighs in at roughly 26GB. One user has already shared what the 2019 RPG looks like...
News The Outer Worlds Expansion Solves a Murder on PS4 Next Week
Game's final expansion pegged for 17th March
Obsidian may be sheltered under Microsoft’s umbrella these days, but The Outer Worlds continues to be supported on the PlayStation 4, with the title’s second major expansion Murder on Eridanos officially confirmed for a 17th March release. The plot will revolve around the murder of renowned actress...
News The Outer Worlds' Second Expansion Will Land Before the End of March
Murder on Eridanos
Wow, it's admittedly been quite some time since we spared a thought for The Outer Worlds. The sci-fi RPG is back in the news cycle thanks to the fact that Take-Two has outed the release window for 'Murder on Eridanos' — the game's second (and as far as we know, final) expansion. According to the company's latest financial...
News Disintegration's Multiplayer Is Being Shut Down Just Three Months After Launch
Campaign will still be playable
Do you remember Disintegration? The real-time strategy shooter launched on PS4 back in June. It was met with lukewarm reviews and not much else. Now, just three months down the line, publisher Private Division and developer V1 Interactive have announced that Disintegration's multiplayer is being removed, starting...
Mini Review The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon - A Solid But Very Safe Expansion
Welcome back, Captain
Bloody corporations, eh? They've only gone and done it again! Peril on Gorgon is The Outer Worlds' first expansion, and all told, it's a solid excursion. Your intrepid Captain and their crew find themselves travelling to the hellish Gorgon asteroid — a (mostly) abandoned testing site for dodgy space drugs. You're contracted...
News Ori Dev Is Now Making an Action RPG with The Outer Worlds Publisher
High hopes
Private Division, the publisher behind The Outer Worlds and, more recently, Disintegration, has announced that it's partnering with the talented folks behind the Ori games over at Moon Studios. "In partnership with Private Division, Moon Studios is creating a compelling new action RPG," reads the publisher's press release. There isn't...
News You Can Play Disintegration for Free This Weekend on PS4
Get 40% off the full game
The weekend may be a few too many days away right now, but if you're looking for a reason to get yourself excited about that potential time off, why not take Disintegration for a spin? The PlayStation 4 game, released just a month ago, will be free to download and play this coming weekend. You'll have access to its complete...
News The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon Expansion Launches September on PS4
Get the crew back together
The first of two expansions for The Outer Worlds will launch on PlayStation 4 this September, developer Obsidian has announced. Titled 'Peril on Gorgon', the DLC will whisk you and your party away to an abandoned Spacer's Choice facility on an old asteroid. We're sure plenty of wacky adventures will ensue. You'll be able...
Interview Maintaining Our Humanity with Disintegration Composer Jon Everist
Man vs. machine
We recently had the chance to chat with Jon Everist, composer of V1 Interactive’s curious hybrid of RTS and third-person shooter: Disintegration. We got to discuss the balancing act between these two genres, the rather heart-breaking passing of music legend Ennio Morricone, and the struggle to maintain humanity amidst a synthetic...
Review Disintegration - Squad-Based Tactical FPS from Halo Co-Creator Unfortunately Misses the Mark
Robot Wars
Marcus Lehto was the creative art director at Bungie for 15 years. During that time he helped create and grow Halo, a series that’s arguably as influential in the FPS arena as DOOM, Half-Life, or Call of Duty. Breaking away from Bungie in 2012 to form independent studio V1 Interactive, he began work on Disintegration, intending to...
News Kerbal Space Program 2 Will Land on PS4 Later Than Planned
Houston, we have a delay
Kerbal Space Program was a real hit, especially on PC, so it's no wonder the space simulator is getting a sequel. Initially announced at last year's Gamescom, the follow-up is coming to PlayStation 4 -- but an update from the developer explains it'll be later than expected. Originally scheduled to launch in Spring 2020,...
News Strategic Sci-Fi Shooter Disintegration Comes to PS4 in June
Reboot humanity
If you're looking for a futuristic shooter to tide you over until Titanfall 3, Disintegration could be just the ticket. It has some notable talent on board, including the co-creator of Halo, and it has some interesting gameplay going on. Playing as an android named Romer Shoal, you must lead your group of outlaws with a mix of giving...
News The Outer Worlds Was Held Back by Console Memory Budgets
Less NPCs and content
The Outer Worlds might not have had the biggest environments to explore on PlayStation 4, with the likes of Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt dwarfing it, but at least those locations were fairly detailed. However, it could have been so much better. In a new interview with Danny O'Dwyer as part of No Clip, developer...
News The Outer Worlds Is a Big RPG Success with Two Million Copies Shipped
Not including Game Pass
Obsidian's The Outer Worlds took the RPG genre by storm last year when it became an instant hit on PlayStation 4, and it looks like that has translated into a big success at retail with more than two million copies shipped worldwide. This makes it the studio's most successful title since South Park: The Stick of Truth.
Giveaway Grab Free Access to the Disintegration Closed Technical Beta on PS4
Reboot humanity
A first-person shooter from a new studio founded by the co-creators of Halo and SOCOM: US Navy SEALs was always guaranteed to attract attention, and now you can try the upcoming Disintegration for yourselves. Courtesy of publisher Private Division and developer V1 Interactive, we’ve got 150 European PlayStation 4 beta codes for the...
News Tactical Sci-Fi Shooter Disintegration Gets Multiplayer Beta Next Week on PS4
Take to the skies
Disintegration doesn't appear to be much in the public consciousness, but it's looking fairly promising. It's a sci-fi shooter with Halo alumni on staff, mixing first person action with strategic commands and aerial vehicular combat. It's a real mish-mash, so it seems it will need some hands on time to prove itself. Luckily, that's...
News New Disintegration Gameplay Shows a Shred of Potential
Five minutes of footage
Remember Disintegration? Probably not -- it was announced at last year's inaugural Gamescom Opening Night Live event which was completely overshadowed by Sony's purchase of Insomniac Games. It wasn't a great showing, and while V1 Interactive'
News The Outer Worlds Story DLC Confirmed, More Details in 2020
Welcome back, Captain
Fans of The Outer Worlds rejoice! The highly rated role-playing title is getting story DLC in 2020, developer Obsidian Entertainment has revealed in an end-of-year blog post. DLC for the game has long been rumoured, but we haven't had concrete confirmation until now. The aforementioned blog post reads: "To all of those who...
Review Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey - Too Much Monkeying Around in This Ambitious Survival Sim
Money see, monkey don’t
Set 10 million years before the dawn of humanity, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is the story of ape to proto-human evolution, with particular emphasis on the dangers that forced our fuzzy forebears into learning the skills that ensured the human success story. Taking place in prehistoric Africa, Ancestors throws the...
News The Outer Worlds Text Size Patch Isn't Enough to Stop Players Squinting
Keep your glasses on
The Outer Worlds' patch 1.1 rolled out earlier today, which among other various fixes and updates, promised to increase the size of the game's text. Developer Obsidian has now successfully deployed that update, but the effect it has had on the font's size is completely negligible. As reported by VICE's Patrick Klepek, you can...
News Kerbal Space Program Expansion Breaking Ground Touches Down on PS4 Next Month
One giant leap
Physics-based space exploration title Kerbal Space Program has been available on PlayStation 4 for a while now, and it seems developer Squad hasn't given up on the console version just yet. In fact, it's preparing to launch a DLC expansion named Breaking Ground, which was made available on PC a few months back. The new content pack...
News The Outer Worlds DLC Could Be in the Works Following Sales Success
Still a team working on the game
Obsidian's The Outer Worlds has done rather well for itself ever since its October launch with sales that have exceeded expectations the developer held prior to launch. It's a major success for the now Microsoft-owned company, and it looks like more content could be on its way. In an
News The Outer Worlds Patch 1.1 Set to Increase Text Size, Fix a Few Pesky Bugs
No more squinting
You may have already heard, but The Outer Worlds is not a very buggy game, despite developer Obsidian's (at times undeserved) reputation. Still, there are a few rare issues that the studio wants to iron out with the game's first post-launch patch, which is due to release at some point next week. It's also set to increase the size...
News The Outer Worlds Sales Have 'Exceeded Expectations', Seems to Be a Hit
Out there
The Outer Worlds appears to have done very well for itself, if publisher Take-Two's most recent statements are to be taken at face value. During the company's latest financial call, the role-playing game was described as a "critical and commercial success". Take-Two president Karl Slatoff said that Obsidian's sci-fi title is "exceeding...
News Xbox Game Pass Boosts PS4's Share of The Outer Worlds' Sales in the UK
The Fallout
An eye-watering 78 per cent of The Outer Worlds’ physical copies were sold on the PlayStation 4 in the UK, perhaps demonstrating Xbox Games Pass’ impact on retail releases. Despite being published by Take Two subsidiary Private Division, developer Obsidian is now owned by Microsoft, so its day-and-date inclusion as part of the...
Review The Outer Worlds - Fallout: New Vegas Meets Mass Effect in This Role-Playing Masterclass
Spacer's choice
The Outer Worlds borrows a lot from Fallout. More specifically, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, the latter being developer Obsidian's own creation. You travel between disgruntled communities, picking up quests and shooting people you don't like. You click your way through branching dialogue options, and the camera zooms in on a...
News The Outer Worlds Asks If You Want to Watch the Galaxy Burn in Classy Launch Trailer
Good and evil
The Outer Worlds' launch trailer is here, and it focuses on player choice. Will you be a hero to the people of the Halcyon colony, or will you cause total and utter chaos wherever you go? Developer Obsidian is well known for its excellent implementation of role-playing options in games like Fallout: New Vegas and Alpha Protocol, so...
News The Outer Worlds to Have a Hefty Day One Patch on PS4
Make sure you have the... space
Obsidian's Fallout-in-space RPG The Outer Worlds is fast approaching. Releasing on 25th October, the sci-fi adventure is just over a week away. In preparation for the game's launch, the studio has given fans a bit more information, including word of a day one patch. According to the developer, The Outer Worlds will...
News The Outer Worlds Review Embargo Lifts a Few Days Before Launch Next Week
Just FYI
Reviews for The Outer Worlds will starting hitting the web next week, on the 22nd October.The latest role-playing game from veteran studio Obsidian is supposed to be a lot like Fallout: New Vegas, only set in space. Sounds like a fantastic concept on paper, and the developer should have the chops to pull it off, but you'll obviously have to...
News The Outer Worlds Is Enhanced on PS4 Pro After All
Private Division weighs in
Update: Despite previous reports, The Outer Worlds is enhanced on PS4 Pro after all. According to a Twitter message from publisher Private Division, the title upscales to 4K from 1440p on Sony's supercharged system. Here's what the organisation had to say: Original Story: The Outer Worlds will still release on the...
News The Outer Worlds Invites You to the World of Halcyon in Latest Trailer
Combat and interaction
It appears that a surprising amount of you are pretty hyped for The Outer Worlds - taking the sliver prize in our poll that asked you which of the games releasing between now and 2020 you're most anticipating. So, in this latest trailer, Obsidian introduces us to the world you'll be exploring and carrying out quests in. The...
News Kerbal Space Program 2 Blasts Off in 2020
Flight control
The one announcement that slipped through our fingers during Geoff Keighley’s Gamescom 2019 showcase: Kerbal Space Program 2 is coming to the PlayStation 4 in Spring 2020. “[The sequel] has been fully redesigned from the ground up to meet the demands of modern and next-generation space exploration, all while maintaining the...
News Disintegration Looks A Lot Like Destiny in Announcement Trailer
Reboot humanity
Stop us if you've heard this one before: Disintegration is both a solo and PvP focused online experience that has you joining teams of four in order to carry out objectives and pretty much save the world. Let's not beat around the bush - this is the next attempt at a Destiny-like, isn't it? The announcement trailer above isn't...
News Obsidian RPG The Outer Worlds Could End Up Becoming an Xbox Exclusive Franchise
Not outta this world
Here at Push Square, we're eagerly awaiting the release of The Outer Worlds -- the upcoming in-depth first-person role-playing game from Obsidian Entertainment. Given the developer's experience with the genre, we've had our eyes on this project since the day that it was announced, and recent gameplay previews say that it's...
News The Outer Worlds Previews Say It's Basically Fallout: New Vegas in Space and It's Great
Obsidian strikes again
Previews for The Outer Worlds are currently flooding the web, and it's all looking pretty positive for Obsidian's upcoming role-playing release. After spending a few hours with the game, most sites and channels are praising its heavy emphasis on player choice, both in and out of dialogue. Quests and missions can apparently...
News Disintegration Is a New Sci-Fi FPS from the Co-Creator of Halo
Will be revealed at Gamescom
We're still over a month away from Gamescom, Germany's annual games showcase, but good old Geoff Keighley can't help himself. The Dorito Pope himself, along with publisher Private Division, has revealed a short teaser for a brand new IP called Disintegration. Watch it for yourself above. The game is due to be fully...
E3 2019 New The Outer Worlds Trailer Reveals October Release Date
Reach for the stars
Obsidian Entertainment's sci-fi RPG, The Outer Worlds, got a brand new story trailer during Microsoft's E3 2019 conference. We've embedded it for you above, in case you missed it. The new trailer gives us a fresh look at some of the characters, environments, and enemies you'll find throughout this intergalactic adventure. Not...
News Sci-Fi RPG The Outer Worlds to Be Shown at E3 2019
But when?
Obsidian has been keeping quiet recently about The Outer Worlds, hasn't it? The team has clearly been hard at work bringing its Fallout-esque sci-fi RPG to life, but it's high time we saw something new from the game. As it turns out, we should be getting a new look at it during the course of E3 2019 -- although it's not totally clear...
News Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Goes Ape on PS4 a Little Late
Monkeying around
Ex-Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Desilets’ upcoming prehistoric outing Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey will launch on the PlayStation 4 in December – a whopping four months after it debuts on PC, via the controversial Epic Games Store. The developer Panache did not explain why it’s going to release late on consoles, but...
News Assassin's Creed Creator Shows Off Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey in New Video
Survival of the fittest
Patrice Désilets, the creative mind who brought us Assassin's Creed, moved away from Ubisoft a few years back, and has been crafting a brand new game with his new studio, Panache Digital Games. We've sort of known about Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey for a while, but today we have the first real look at what to expect from...
