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Was that Moby Dick at the end of the video? Hmm 🤔

What’s going on guys I finally wrapped up the platinum for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. I thought it was a great Ratchet & Clank entry, but I have to be honest I hard a really hard time getting into it after coming directly from the exhilarating Returnal.

Now I’ve finally started the incredible Demon’s Souls remake on PS5 and I’m impressed how good of a job Bluepoint Games have done here. I haven’t played the PS3 version since 2012 but it’s just like how I remembered it in my head rather than how it actually looks on PS3 hardware if you know what I mean.

A very beautiful game and many small quality-of-life improvements done by Bluepoint make it less frustrating than before without turning down the difficulty. Even though Bloodborne has more fast-paced action in general, Demon’s Souls remake has vastly superior load times and plays at 60fps which honestly makes it feel just as fast as Bloodborne to me. Especially because I’m going for a light armor build with the Blueblood Sword!

Happy gaming everyone.

Real recognize real.

There’s no game on the level of Returnal so far this year.

Sorry Ratchet, still love ya.

More day 1 releases of Indie games please.

@Korgon Bluebox’s specific wording on Twitter I believe was something like “PC players will rejoice”.

But then I’ve seen them advertise Abandoned as only on PS5.

But either way, even if it’s coming to PC it’s at least console exclusive and one would think Sony must be interested in it if they have locked up some form of exclusivity for it.

And I just can’t believe for a second that they would agree to a deal without seeing the product, especially if it was from a supposed no-name developer who never put out anything good in the past.

@LiamCroft Sony are not funding it, but they did reach some sort of exclusivity deal right, either full exclusive or console. So they have to know more about this game than the public do at this point I’d imagine.

Check out the BlueBox website now. It says the issue has been resolved and the patch is going live in the next few hours.

http://blueboxgamestudios.com/

@Bleachedsmiles I really can’t think of other games on the PS Store that had their own app. I’ve seen games that release a demo, but a downloadable app made for viewing trailers is a strange one to me.

It could be a marketing con, I’m just struggling to see the end goal from Hasan if that were the case. If it’s some rinky-dink indie game of poor quality, would Hasan really think his empty promises and fake hype would still get purchases after showing a crappy finished product?

I would also expect Sony to vet this guy pretty thoroughly before giving him such a platform. Surely they would have to see how the game is coming along themselves before featuring it on Youtube and putting this downloadable app on the PS Store right? One would hope anyway.

@NeoTokyo404 It doesn’t make sense for a money launderer to be so attention-seeking on Twitter and among gaming media, and give interviews to guys like Keighley and Schreier.

I would think someone engaging in illegal activity would want to be far more under-the-radar.

@RobN Glad you could find it, and yep it just says “check back soon” for now. Hopefully there will be something new soon.

@RobN Are you on a PS5? I think it’s PS5 only. I searched in the PS Store on my PS5 and literally just typed the letter “A” in the search bar on the store and Abandoned was the first thing that popped up.

Kojima’s most recent tweet is very weird. He’s talking about some books but he says something about Thursday, not Tuesday.

Thursday happens to be the anniversary of P.T.

The waiting game continues.

@AdamNovice Ya it makes too much sense in my opinion. Additional anime and manga content like you said, and then they would have Fromsoft, which would obviously be huge on its own for gaming.

Sony already showed an interest in investing in them with the small 2% stake, and at the same time they announced some type of partnership I believe.

I can see them increasing their shares but you never know. With Sony sometimes the obvious isn’t always what they personally have in mind for their plans.

Sony basically IS anime now. Next step, increasing shares in Kadokawa Corp. from 2% to a majority stake.

Probably going for the Clank set in Fall Guys and maybe wrapping up Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.

Happy gaming everyone.

@__jamiie Nice try with the strawman there. Never did I claim they deserve to go bankrupt, that’s all you. I’m simply communicating with my wallet that if you want my purchase then launch day 1 on the platform that I use. There’s no animosity in me towards this company or any other, and I will never run out of other games to play.

There’s nothing wrong with voting with your wallet as a consumer.

Skipped Playstation and released on literally every other platform last year. I don’t really care if it sounds petty, you skip my preferred platform and you’re not getting a dime from me. I have still never bought Rise of the Tomb Raider either.

I am STILL slowly working my way through Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, just completed planet 8. Might also play some It Takes Two with the better half for some trophy cleanup.

Happy gaming everyone.

Well that sucks. It would be nice to get something official from Sony if true.

@Goat_FromBOTW Thank you, check out the album if you like, Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole.

From the original trailer I was expecting this to be similar to a point-n-click adventure game. Pleasantly surprised to see third-person movement and mechanics. Animations have a bit of jank to them but they have alot of time to polish this up.

There sure are a ton of language options for such a small indie team. I’ve watched the video of someone start up the pre-load and clearly a ton of localization work has been put in with all the language choices.

@nessisonett Hasan denied it on Twitter that it was that asset of a man with an eyepatch. He said it’s their original artwork and anyone with an eyepatch will look similar to it with such a blurry photo. So more questions than answers once again which is the norm at this point.

Well, I made it through July without thinking about Abandoned much. But better believe i’ll be there August 10 to see what this app is about.

@Juanalf Do you not own your original copy? Why would you need to pay $70 again?

Feels like the right time to get Judgment for $25!

Ratchet & Clank is another game that utilizes the Dualsense and activity cards well. Returnal and Astro Bot also.

This looks awesome. I gotta play the first Judgment.

Lost Judgment was perhaps the biggest surprise appearance at this State of Play and it looked great.

That’s a great deal considering the new content and PS5 enhancements. I’ll definitely be upgrading for a tenner.

Better than I expected coming into it with low expectations. Moss 2, Sifu, F.I.S.T, Jett, Lost Judgment, Death Stranding: DC all look like games I’ll pick up at some point. Deathloop even looked better than anticipated.

The 70’s vibe never appealed to me for Deathloop. The dialog I’ve heard has been cheesy to me personally. Those were my feelings from the beginning before any acquisition took place. The gunplay does look solid though.

I agree we have been shown more than enough of this game already and a further 9 minutes of it in the next SoP feels like too much already.

Also, while we can assume a sequel would be exclusive to Xbox/PC, I don’t think it’s a guarantee that Deathloop will even receive a sequel. It will likely depend on how Deathloop does commercially and also whether Arkane has envisioned a sequel for this game or not.

Not everything needs to be predicted first. And since when has Sony really been predictable about anything they haven’t announced beforehand? Predictable is boring and these “insiders” with their leaks are just like the people who try to spoil the ending of a movie for you before you’ve watched it.

Looks like this is not the big one with God of War. Guess we take what we can get for now. Hoping for Stray and Little Devil Inside release dates for the indie updates.

@AdamNovice @mrtennis1990

Ya they would have to be in talk with Nixxes for a while before the deal could get done. I was just thinking maybe they were talking to them both for some time now in hopes one of them would sell.

But yes, the change to “fully independent” in their Twitter bio was changed just yesterday.

Could it be possible that Bluepoint declined an offer so Sony decided to go with Nixxes instead? Just a thought based on Bluepoint’s recent emphasis on being fully independent.

The people who are saying this is just about porting Playstation games to PC can’t see the forest for the trees. A team at Guerrilla Games had to spend months porting Horizon: Zero Dawn to PC.

You give Nixxes the task now for porting older PS4 games to PC, now that team can be free to work on PS5 exclusives and release them faster. Nixxes will free up other Playstation Studios which will in turn improve output for console players. Everybody wins.

Guess it pays to wait sometimes. I’ve still yet to play Ghost of Tsushima, and this director’s cut PS5 version looks like the definitive version and the right time to jump in.

Nixxes were hiring last year for a game director as well apparently. Could be working on an original project of their own.

Great news. Not an acquisition that sets the gaming world on fire, but one that will improve the workflow overall.

Is there any studio as prolific as Insomniac lately?

“I have no idea how to succeed on this platform”

Here’s an idea, put out a compelling game and people will play it. It’s really that simple. I glanced at Neon Doctrine’s output and I’m not surprised their games don’t sell well on Playstation. Playstation sells more software than any of their rivals so your game needs to stand out. If the quality is there, people will buy it.

Really happy getting the next-gen port of Plague Tale. The other two I don’t care for especially WWE, bleh.

Has Konami not seen gameplay of The Medium?

Very happy news! Congrats to Housemarque, it is well deserved by them. They really never put out a bad game, and Returnal is their best yet. Game of the year!

@Loftimus Glad to see you gave it a shot and are enjoying Returnal my friend.

I would gladly take Lost Legacy.

Ratchet & Clank is comfort food, so I get the polling results. Me personally, I’ll just say Housemarque has shot up my favorite developer list and I can’t wait to see what they come up with next.

@Weebleman I had no idea about that unfollow-spree by Nuare but kept Kojima as their final 10 following. That’s too strange!

Unfortunately I have the feeling that this “app” on Friday leads to more additional questions than answers. But hopefully I’m wrong.

@Weebleman Is the background abnormally blurry also or is that how it usually is? I feel like with other videos in the past we can see objects on the shelves more clearly.

Even though it’s a crossgen title, the PS5 version of Horizon: Forbidden West looks significantly better than Forspoken in my opinion, and both are open-world.