Nice! I figured the default-outfit Phoenix recolor was going to be it for this look, but happy she's getting a full outfit for it. The extra armor looks really nice.
I wonder if they'll be adding Marvel Rival alts as well, now that Rivals is doing it for Tokon.

Hooray, more Nep-Nep!!

Nice to see it create more breathing room for Until Dawn 2, I know it's a smaller 1st-party exclusive, but I've never seen much sense in doing 2 SP releases so close together when there's already so few per year. I'm happy with just having the game in a less crowded month too.

The usual "ask for forgiveness rather than for permission" attitude. It's so gross and will keep happening until companies face some real repercussions, having to put out a statement and switching out the footage weeks after release isn't even a slap on the wrist to them.

Looks more red than orange to me. I love it. It's loud!
I already own 2 red controllers (cosmic & volcanic) and red plates (volcanic). So I can't justify this, but if I ever need a replacement I'll go with that gorgeous orange.

@SMJ because it has about 350GB's of usable storage.

Poor Xbox series S

Makes sense that Sony would be willing to confirm as sizable order as the Vita, even as a failure, managed to sell about 15 million consoles. Taking that as their sales floor, ordering about 10 million chips (Wccftech gives this as the required order number) and then take it from there makes sense for Sony.

I love my PSP and PS Vita, so I have big hopes for this PSP3.

Good mix of music, you got main themes, some overworld music, battle music and some emotional pieces. I think it could use a small selection of iconic franchise wide pieces, like the Prelude that's been used since FF1, the Chocobo theme and the Victory Fanfare to really tie it together as a franchise celebration.

No shot they can convince any buyer to keep the game exclusive, on top of having to give Disney a cut of the earnings. That Disney contract is likely a real source of friction in finding a buyer. Even if Disney is willing to negotiate more agreeable terms for a smaller publisher, that's a lot of work on top of buying the studio.

Those are some crazy price increases, I fear for the cheap model refresh getting priced out of its target audience. $400 already felt like hitting the price ceiling for what you got.

Close to completion seemingly means little to MS, Hellblade 3 & State of Decay 3 were due for release next year & they still got rid of both studios.
I have some hope that Disney could intervene to help Arkane push the game past the finish line. If not financing it themselves, maybe helping to find another publisher that can take on the burden for the final year or so.

One of the best games ever made, Ueda's magnum opus. IMO it's one of those games everyone should play once. This is also the best way to play SOTC, everything just controls better, specially Aggro, without losing the intentional awkwardness to movement.

It does lose some of the charm and the matching look with Ico and TLG, making this a worse experience. It's a bit intangible, but the og aesthetic is so magical when you're actually playing it.

It's a great game and, questionable aesthetic choices aside, it's the best way to play DeS specially for a first timer.

Umbasa!

Actually impressive that through major company restructurings, down to the bone cost cutting, cancelling innumerable projects, firing hundreds of people and closing a handful of studios, BG&E2 is still trucking along in some form or another.

I already have the Platinum so mod-support blocking trophies doesn't affect me, but I really wish they could build a system that segregates cosmetic and QOL mods to allow trophies, then have the gameplay altering stuff that blocks them on install.

I'll be able to splurge on it, I'm lucky enough to have good earnings, but I can also see that most people will be priced out and that's not good, nor healthy for the console.
I've said it before, but once the release period FOMO and scalpers doing their thing on eBay passes, they will quickly hit the ceiling at that price. You're not getting a 100 Million people to buy a PS6 at that price, they won't even match the 87 Million PS3s.

It's pretty tasteful max weight, that's a healthy chubby. Even on the slim end it doesn't go too far.

Recency bias and hype should push it over the edge to win GOTY, but the cutoff date being a day after release means basically no one except early-access reviewers will have finished the game and formed a complete opinion on it. Though I imagine that accounts for a real good chunk of the voting panel.

I have to imagine Mina the Hollower, Resident Evil 9, Control 2, Dawnwalker will all be putting up a solid fight as games that have given everyone plenty of time to sit with. I could see one of James Bond, Marathon, and Cairn also making a finalist run.

I'll never understand how expensive Collector's Editions without the game, not even as a code, ever caught on.

Darn it, I was hoping for Beta Ray Bill in the Thor spot. Though if we got both Carnage and Venom, maybe there's still space for a beefy Thor variant.
I know they've been using that venom logo style everywhere lately, but I really hope it's the Gargan version. Using the scorpion tail could add unique moves to better differentiate from Carnage and what MvC did with Venom.
Jubilee feels out of place in a list of "human characters with cosmic powers" pack. I dig the rollerblades, fast and explosive, should be a fun addition.

They need to figure out a way to lock out early access from Game Pass. Surely they can get a good chunk of those hardline fans to pay full price to play on the real launch day if they're willing to spend $30 for it.

I just hope you can turn it off if you don't subscribe to Crunchyroll, I'd rather not have a glorified ad on the media tab at all times.

Have a go at it! I remember back in the PSP and Vita days spin-offs where done outside the originator and most times from a 2nd-party studio. Most of them were good fun games, a handful were even great.
We got a couple outsourced projects not that long ago with Medievil and Sackboy on PS4 too (both games I had a ton of fun with). Sony just needs to commit to that strategy so the output becomes consistent.

This is nice, like our own little version of FSR4.
I wonder if they can make a way to bring something like the PSSR2 toggle but to force PSSR1 games into QSSR? Don't know how that could work, since PSSR doesn't even show up in the options unless a game is running on the Pro, but it would be a nice way to get some it working on more games specially those that are stuck on FSR1 or 2 on base.

I've been meaning to replay them, guess I'll wait it out and play these versions.

Clearly he's scouting locations for Jak 6. Going back to a Jak & Daxter tropical feel for the newest game.

Is that just the loud sound when you stand next to the crate or the humming it does? I wish you could turn off the glowing circle and be able to find it by it's hum alone, it's cool how it gets louder as you get closer, but the visual aid pointing you makes that utility moot. Most, if not all, are in non-combat areas so it wouldn't be drowned out by other noises.
Thank goodness, finding nightmare doors by going off the path will be more rewarding if it happens without getting directly pointed. Like in the Trask HQ level where you can see it behind a glass without the trail and then it's up to you to find how to reach the room, that felt rewarding. Its weird when Ratchet & Clank, a kids game, trusts the player more to find collectibles by reading the environment, looking at the map, and figuring out the route.

I'd like to see a camera fix, it's struggling to frame the action well specially against the invisible enemies and the bosses. Like in the Sentinel fight it stopped framing the raised arm halfway through, making it harder to dodge. I cranked the volume to hear the audio cue better. I can live with the hand holding, but the camera is really getting on my nerves so far.

I imagine at least part of the higher Sony cost was tied to giving access to Sony Picture studios for whatever that part of the collaboration entailed (live action elements like Alan Wake 2?). Xbox doesn't have an equivalent subsidiary so that part of the project is likely gone.

Having options is always perfectly fine and very good, just as long as you can customize the experience yourself to suit your needs.
"Everything on" as the default, intended experience, feels weird. This is part 3 in a long trilogy, you have to trust your player base more than that.

Using side-content to help gain XP was already a neat way to circumvent mindlessly grinding for hours in dungeons or the over-world. I don't really understand that mentality of just beelining the story beats in an RPG, but just grind man.
I imagine this, along with the unlimited-everything mods they add to these games, will be a fine way to replay the game later if you want to just enjoy the stories of the world without the challenge or just spending time in the gameworld. Just can't fathom anyone actually wanting to beat the game for the 1st time like this.

Good, it looks more like a scent trail now that it's more diffuse. Before it looked way too much like a path line, which it is of course, but it didn't look right for what they want it to represent.
It would fit better if it changed depending on what you're tracking, like following the scent trail to Sabertooth's room in the start and it's just a big, pungent cloud. Though that one was weird when Logan clearly already knows where all the rooms are and they all have labels anyway.

Real shame that they're going under when there's so much talent and the games are all really good. Possessor(s) is sick and only $10.

Don't know if the demo is still playable on Steam, but I would def recommend everyone give it a try. I don't know what is it, but unlike Ghostrunner this gave me really bad motion sickness. Game is freaking sick otherwise, very pretty, the soulslike formula translated nicely to 1st-person and there's some short yet slick platforming in there.

@AdamNovice It's impossible to know if it's actually any cheaper, let alone a lot cheaper, as we don't know the budgets, nor current spending of either game. I can understand the other 2 points. You're right that it makes more sense to focus on the internal studios who are focused on making games just for PS and that they can control better, and tax breaks are always really nice to have.

How do they cancel this due to budget concerns while ***** like Fairgames is still on the docket burning money? Reminds me of Ubisoft and how BG&E2 has somehow survived all the massive cuts over the decades.

Love the Vita version, recently re-downloaded it to finish the DLC stories and hopefully pick up the last few trophies as well. Not sure I'll get this, but it's an easy recommendation for anyone that likes 2D action games.

Nice update.
Have they mentioned if difficulty options and/or a tutorial rework are on the road map? I enjoy what the game is doing, but awful tutorials and a hard base difficulty have made learning it more trouble than it's worth.

Picking some curios the staff just happens to vibe with is always a fun idea, it gets boring if it's always just the biggest or more recognizable games in the back catalogue.

@zidane4028 @TrollOfWar thank you!

Do other Sony divisions also use this factory for their needs? Like could a chunk of that capacity be spent on movie and show printings for Sony Pictures and Anime divisions? As far as I know their plans haven't moved to discard blu-ray printing, it's only the Playstation division that's going in this direction.

Letsgo! I'm so excited for this one. I'll try to push through and get the RYNO this time, I got beat by the grind on PS3.
I'm glad more people will get to play this, it's a rougher game, but it's special and wonderful in it's uneven existence. I never cared for the story and character changes the remake did, plus the cut content. Though I love how it's Quark messing up the retelling, it's not great for people experiencing it for the 1st time, I've always thought a port of the og game should have been included in it (like how MediEvil does it), so people get the canon experience.

Finally Rachet & Clank!! Hope it's not too long for the whole PS2 Cycle to get added.

Won't say no to a free $20, which is about what we end up getting once the cash is split up.

Damn, guess I'm not buying it then. /j
No, but seriously, I don't think anyone was actually expecting people to add it in after we got no change for P3R. The only hope for a remake having bisexual options would be a P2IS remake, because it's in the og game. If you read Naoto's character as a FTM trans person still finding his way (as many do), you could see that as a gay relationship.

I hope P6 includes the options. The romances in these games are never much deeper than getting a kiss at the end of the SL, and a cute Valentine's Day extra scene. IMO it's not asking for a lot to just provide that option for some of the males characters.

Disney has been good about making sure the games under their purview feature trophies. Glad to see it's working retroactively too, their commitment is appreciated.

They have to slot a new mainline entry in there at some point, a good ol' Silent Hill 5 to anchor the strategy. Can't all be spin-offs or remakes every year.

May as well tune in since I already have Netflix, but man was it seriously dumb of Netflix to throw a bag of cash at Rockstar for a tiny bit of exclusivity.

It sucks about getting all those leaks specially for the devs that have been working on this for nearly a decade, but I am happy they acknowledge that if they had been more forthcoming about showing the game the leaks wouldn't have the power they're having. It's not on R* of course, it's Take-2 that handles marketing and who decided the current drip feed strategy. Strategy that can't respond to the leaks with an emergency teaser because Netflix already paid ungodly amounts of money to host a gameplay reveal trailer for 6 hours.

That's fine, I don't think every game needs to have multiple fps options, but the 40fps mode should be called "performance" if that's the best they got fps wise.