Awesome news! NMH is among my favorite series, even 3 has its perks despite its many shortcomings. Excited to see what they cook up for this.

Well The Game Awards isn't far so...checks out. This would be a show closer if they give a proper trailer reveal.

I still have my PS3 copy, and I still need to play through the back-half of the story. It's not terrible in any particular way, the whole experience is just kind of...uninteresting? Playing it at a stable frame rate is a nice perk of this emulation for sure.

Got a hard copy on pre-order, I'm looking forward to it! This is definitely my style of game, as the demo made abundantly clear.

Larger than FFVII Rebirth?! I was going to do the Steam version anyways but that's crazy!

Movie was a blast, occasionally dumb humor and all. High energy and great to see with a friend 😎

@get2sammyb Yes! That's a spot-on description, especially with the player model, environmental design, and animations.

The visuals threw a dart and landed vaguely between PS1 and PS2 for sure...gameplay looks fine enough. I'll give that demo a look!

I agree wholeheartedly. Sadly the industry seems to largely be in a state where curiosity is punished because shareholders want to chase trends and "easy" money, so taking risks is er...riskier if you want a stable job.

@ShadowRJ And it's a tragedy that the PS4 version of Ape Escape 2 on PSN is the PAL version, so I lose out on Ash yelling "Pipochi!"😓

Don't play with my heart like this, Sony! Let Asobi COOK 🤩

So toggling accessibility settings like disable weapon durability and item weight keeps trophies enabled, but turn on one graphical mod and trophies are disabled? That's a little silly 😉

@Elodin Awesome, I haven't thought of Ninjai in a long time! It feels like such a niche flash series.

I downloaded for the novelty, but it feels like playing any other free emulator for Android 😆 Cool that it's official though.
@Elodin is your pfp Ninjai?!

The last good collectors edition I ever bought was Yakuza 6 Song of Life, which came with two glasses (with dragon designs), whisky stones, themed coasters, a little artbook...oh yeah, and THE GAME.

Gundam Breaker 5? Perhaps an actual localization for Breaker 1+2 (not that I'm excited to jump back into those grinds)...A Side Stories localization would also be awesome!

If you thought Halo Infinite battle passes got bad, here we go. I'm not a fan of every aspect of the 343i Halo games, but I don't see Activision doing anything remotely better for the series as a whole. Time will tell.

@Czar_Khastik Looks like you got another one! Well played as usual 🤣

I don't see a sequel as an impossible task without Gunn and Suda. The original game is like 6 levels long. License a bunch of tracks, design some themed stages ending in a boss fight, with campy B-movie humor and dialogue, and a healthy dose of rainbow sparkles and hearts. Obviously it's the writing aspect that will be the trickiest, but I'm still interested to see where this goes.

The original is a proper successor to Symphony that I had a blast with. Very excited for this one, and I'm glad they're giving it the time it needs in an otherwise crazy busy release time for games.

This is great to hear! Looking forward to seeing this one in theaters then.

Not a hard sell for me in the slightest, and I usually look the other way with roguelite elements (it's more roguelite than roguelike, there's permanent progression and quick boost elements). The demo has so much charm and the action is satisfying, I'm locked in for day one!

Hold on, stop the presses! Our YouTube live chat was spammed by caps lock and emojis? That's it, tomorrow we post a public apology video and take back everything we said about a discless PS6 and closing the Vita/PS3 store. All of those employees we laid off have jobs again (effective immediately), and we're announcing a global price reduction on PlayStation Plus AND the price of each Playstation 5 console. Thank you, live chat!

I'd still rather this than no release at all. It is just shelf dressing at this point anyways, the majority of my PS4/5 hard copies require an install/download to some extent before playing. Not a justification for this decision, but they could have just has easily pulled a GTA6 and thrown a code in a box, or have no box at all.

Day one. Between the combat and music, this looks incredible. I have to squeeze in a full playthrough before Revelation launches!

Without Gunn or Suda it'll be interesting 🤔 Regardless my wife will be overjoyed by this news! The first game is one of her favorites.

Ah crap, I've been out and about and didn't unplug my PS5 before I left. Hopefully this protest wasn't 1 unplugged PS5 away from Sony brought to their hands and knees, answering to all of reddit/YouTube/X's reasonable demands.

Hopefully Darksiders 3 gets a performance patch before 2028 as well? 😅 Looking forward to 4!

Interesting shadow drop! I still have the special edition PS3 copy. It's an okay game, certainly far from perfect, but at the time I had fun playing couch co-op with my (now) wife 👍

...did people really expect a console with a disc drive after everything lately? 🤔 It would have been very ironic for sure.

It hurts my soul but it's the sad reality of Halo. Even going cross-platform doesn't change the future of the IP from looking bleak. Halo was unlikely to stay relevant for future generations without completely changing its identity, so probably for the best it ends sooner rather than later 😔 I can only hope MCC goes cross platform down the line, it truly is a great collection of single and multiplayer offerings!

It really sucks that this is basically to be expected anymore. I had a blast playing through this with a friend on Legendary, and I'll be revisiting for the skulls and remix shenanigans. Hopefully there will be staff left to work on 2, 3, and whatever else they're planning 😔

It's certainly a unique aesthetic, so points for originality.

Despite being able to play this on PC and Series S, I must grab a PS5 copy for the sheer novelty (ie oddity)! I wonder if MS was involved with making sure the dualsense wasn't utilized to the fullest (can't have the competitor's port too appealing now, can we 😉)?

If anyone doesn't play and enjoy this, it's a result of an intricate web of sabotage to undermine the true quality of Minds Eye Grenade Football.

Oof, congrats Book of Memories, you're no longer the worst SH game 😆

@get2sammyb Fair enough, since they're the ones to break the story, I'll concede 😅 And for all I know, maybe their management or writers have improved since I stopped scanning their page years ago.

This is no doubt a heavy blow to the ESO team, though it seems like a game long enough in the tooth that it can potentially continue existing with a skeleton crew (doesn't justify the job losses, just speculating their future)? Also why use Kotaku as a source for anything? I get that all gaming news sites delve into "click bait" territory to continue existing, but they're the worst offenders in my book.

Well, it was a good run. The PS3 store has been in shambles for a good while now, with filters that limit the scope of what's actually available, and some digital exclusives getting quietly delisted. At least it outlived the Wii and 360 stores 🥲

It's also worth noting about half of the new jackets are Travis's jackets from the No More Heroes series. I would need to check again, but one of the new jackets may be Garcia Hotspur's as well (from Shadows of the Damned)?

Instead of drawing in a crowd of first-time Halo players, you severely undercut your own sales and public perception. You just can't make this stuff up...

I'm buying the disc for this just for the strange novelty of its existence. The deep dives on the amount of features they crammed in this (along with cross-play) make me very excited to play!

@PuppetMaster Did you snag a hard copy of Dead Cells on PS4 with the flip-art inspired by Symphony of the Night? I owned this game on Steam previously, but had to double-dip for the case.

This isn't that hard to understand. Their previous direction under Phil was speeding to end Xbox as a console brand and go on as a publisher and/or just Game Pass as a service. Phil and Sara step down, new blood comes in, and like Peter Parker in Spider-man 2 (the movie), has to stop the Xbox train from shooting off the tracks by making some drastic changes. Of course this was going to turn heads, it's the only way they can have a chance to compete at this stage.

A very dark reveal indeed, there was practically nothing on screen!

Thank goodness Sony stopped their PC ports! Xbox is stupid for making console exclusives! These narratives are confusing 🤣

@Gaia093 -checks inventory and all materia is gone- "Here we go..."

Can't recommend this one enough, its vehicle physics are second to none and it's a great sandbox altogether! I'm most interested to see how this port handles the UI and the many settings.

I'm starting to think this CoD news is overshadowing the announcement trailer for BeamNG coming to PS5! 😱

The game died to me when it went free to play, removed the red war campaign, and shelved the Forsaken DLC. Not the most fond memories, unlike the first game, which I had much more fun with.