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Hulk was a given for this kind of game (though I do really like his more Savage Land/Planet Hulk-esque look he's got going on here) but Black Panther Shuri is genuinely a big surprise in the best way, especially with how much stuff she's got going on in her moveset between claw swipes, spear tosses and Vibranium gadgets. Very solid duo of reveals and if the end card is any indication, it seems like we'll be getting Green Goblin and Carnage next which would be sick as hell XD

Been praying for this to be the case from the moment I first rolled credits: easily my 2026 GotY so far (and I would be very surprised if that changes before TGA in December XD) and one of my new all-time Capcom favourites alongside games like DMC3/5, MMX4 and TGAAC 💙

oh and not to give too much away but the endgame definitely leaves a lot of stuff on the table for a potential sequel 🙏

@get2sammyb Massive props to you for keeping up to date with this whole debacle as it develops, trying to keep with all of this while Sony maintains pure silence would do anyone's head in😵‍💫

This would certainly a more bearable outcome if this is actually what's going on with this whole debacle but again it raises concerns about future preservation efforts, particularly in regards to games which get delisted from the PS Store (if you buy a game less than two weeks before it gets delisted, is there even a confirmation file that's able to be obtained or does it become unplayable after that two-week period?).

If anything this being the potential most likely explanation for what's transpiring right now makes Sony's radio silence on the matter even more infuriating. If this is the actual reason behind the issue then why don't they just say as much rather than leaving so much justifiable doomposting to fester 😭

I find the dismissiveness towards this from a lot of the PlayStation faithful to be pretty disheartening personally as the issue isn't necessarily there being a timer on playing games (since realistically the average PS5 gamer will almost always be playing on Wi-Fi to where this won't crop up) but rather that Sony is literally removing the option for people to play offline for extended periods of time without a login (most likely in an attempt to artificially boost monthly active user stats for investors) and doing so in a way which massively threatens efforts to preserve and archive games released on PS4/5 for future generations to come.

and to think this is the same company which made an entire ad directly calling out Xbox for this exact kind of DRM back at the start of the Xbox One, how times have changed 🙃

@RBMango Judging by your PFP I can see that you are one with both the whee and the whoo XD

'fixed an issue where Danseuse outfit for Lune and Sciel made the character menu too obscur'

Happy 1st Anniversary to my 2025 Game of the Year ❤

There's undoubtedly an air of awkwardness surrounding this announcement given how they're probably only doing this because CotW has underperformed (at least in the eyes of SNK's owners 🙄) but this is still a great bit of news to see all the same, especially in conjunction with the massive free update out alongside it 👍

now if they really wanna redeem CotW's public image they'd finally bite the bullet and remove Ronaldo/Ganacci from the game but I know damn well that ain't happening 😭

@Swirly The FAQ outlines that access to the PS Store alongside purchasing games from it is still grand to do after these restrictions are rolled out.

Took a read-through of the provided FAQ and one section in particular caught my eye: it says that the act of 'joining parties or group sessions' would be disabled if you haven't verified your age with PlayStation yet. Does that mean you wouldn't be able to play with friends whatsoever until your age has been verified? 😭

oh brother here we go again 💀

I play almost exclusively single-player games on PS5 myself (with the lone exception of Marvel Rivals) so this won't affect me a ton but it still sucks to see such overbearing oversight be implemented yet again when they still can't (and most likely never will) guarantee your data won't get compromised despite all their insistence to the contrary.

Been a big fan of Vampire Survivors for quite some time (even to the point where I nabbed the Platinum for it in prep for this coming out) so naturally I am all over Vampire Crawlers as well, especially given how one of my other roguelike loves is Slay the Spire XD

I've got a bit of work to take care of beforehand but once that's out of the way, I'll absolutely be jumping into poncle's latest (magic) banger 😎

Seems like Yoshida didn't seem all too confident in the live-service initative Ryan and Hulst would go on to push and was foisted out of his main leadership role as a result (though letting him hang around as the primary chief for indies on Playstation was a smart move at the very least).

I have my own qualms with Yoshida for a number of reasons (particularly with how detached he can be from the average consumer when discussing topics like game pricing and such) but he certainly loved all of Playstation rather than only a specific chunk of it and I feel like that aspect is sorely missing in our current era 😅

@Nightcrawler71 I had an old €50 shopping voucher lying around from Christmas time so I was able to get a physical copy of Pragmata for free because of its lower RRP, I was over the moon XD

Been hammering away at Pragmata for the past couple days myself (managed to snag a physical copy and everything) and have been having the absolute time of my life with it roughly 8-10 hours deep. It feels like such a Capcom-ified take on the standard dad-core games we've become accustomed to since TLOU first burst onto the scene but with some truly outstanding core shooter-action gameplay that makes it more than just the sum of its parts. I can't wait to wrap it up within the next day or so and am thrilled its managed to do this well so early on because man: the world needs more games like Pragmata in it 💙

@TechaNinja I'd wager that's a leftover from when the release window was still listed as 'Autumn 2026' for months on end, they should update soon enough 👍

I may be more inclined towards SotN-style Castlevania compared to the more classic entries but I still do love me a good Classicvania when its done well like Rondo of Blood or Bloodlines so I'd definitely like to give this a go once my schedule is a bit quieter (plus its hard to say no when the barrier to entry is only a tenner XD).

well there goes the entirety of my free time from mid-September onwards XD

I haven't been able to stop thinking about Trails from the moment I first played through Trails 1st earlier this year and have been eagerly awaiting a release date for the sequel as a result. Granted September is actually a fairly busy month for me so its not ideal timing or anything but regardless I cannot wait to pour another 60+ hours into what I've heard is one of the best JRPGs of all time 🧡

I have no clue what Sony's fixation on this game is. Like genuinely what on earth do they see in a project which was so roundly mocked on reveal, criticised endlessly in private playtests and has had absolutely zero buzz from anyone other than the people anticipating another Concord-level failure? They could've positioned this as a proper multiplayer heist game to finally give Payday some actual competition but nah, just chuck it into an already overstuffed shooter subgenre and call it a day 💀

@Areus If Capcom weren't cowards we could also have Haunting Ground here too but alas 🥀

Wild Arms is a series I've been meaning to get around to for ages myself as a general JRPG connoisseur and seeing that Sony is finally willing to add the PS2 entries to PS Plus gives me a lot of incentive to finally dig into the franchise (at least for the first two PS1 games anyways, still hoping WA3 gets put on the more modern PS2 emulator soon XD).

also while I'm here, I must ask: is there precedent for bugs in classic games getting patched for PS Plus rereleases? A lot of the issues listed for WA4 sound pretty detrimental for the overall experience (especially on the European end 😅)

This doesn't change a damn thing in the slightest since they're still implied to be blood-related (which still makes it incest) and they even made it worse in a way since that short-story Nakayama shared basically retcons the familial relationship they had back in SF3 (yknow, the game Alex was the protagonist of???).

Genuinely don't have a clue why the SF6 dev team is so insistent on making Alex and Patricia into a romantic couple (to the point of marriage at that) when the reaction from pretty much everyone in the community has been that of horror and anger 💀

@somnambulance

@Areus Same here otherwise we'll be getting war flashbacks to the rerelease of Legend of Dragoon a couple years back 💀

@Areus The issue with the PS4 version of WA3 though is that its running on Sony's old PS2 emulator which is infamous for not running particularly well on PS5 (Ape Escape 2 being a prime example of this) 😭

I was personally hoping they'd rerelease it under the new PS2 emulator like they've done for Jak & Daxter and Siren but I think I'll have to wait another day for that unfortunately XD

Wild Arms 4 is an awesome retro game drop but its hampered a fair chunk by WA3 not being on PS5 and also by being the only retro game on offer for a PS Plus drop yet again 🙄

Aside from that then the main game lineup isn't anything too special which feels fairly in-line with the past couple PS Plus announcements unfortunately (even if HZD Remastered is fairly surprising given its relative recency).

@GamerDad76 @themightyant @DennisReynolds At this rate I feel pretty confident that Sony will bring an updated version of Bloodborne back to the masses.....as a PS6 launch exclusive 💀

This might actually be the single most insane headline I've ever woken up to XD

'R-Rated animated Bloodborne adaptation produced by Jacksepticeye' feels like an idea I'd come up with after a night out in the town but to be fair here, Sean certainly has a long history in the realm of film-producing if memory serves me (granted nothing to the scale of THIS but still XD) so I'll reserve judgment until I actually see a trailer for myself because the concept of Bloodborne getting an animated adaptation sounds almost too good to be true right now XD

I understand Pokemon's had a rocky reputation built up this past half-decade but surely there's better ways to 'stick it to the man' than blatant ripoffs 💀

anyways take this as my recommendation to go play Cassette Beasts, that's a Pokemon-like which actually does its own thing separate from its primary inspiration 👍

Purposefully skimming through the review to avoid spoiling myself but hearing that Pragmata was worth the six-year wait has me absolutely elated after having my own anticipation for it reach a boiling point after the past couple trailers its had XD

Hoping to snag this on or as close to release as possible and am over the moon that Capcom has been able to continue its 2026 hot-streak 🙌

I'm a massive fan of Yokai Watch pretty much since the series hayday in the mid-2010s but man I'm finding it really hard to get even remotely excited about Holy Horror Mansion being positioned as a spiritual successor to it when not only does the in-game footage looks very rough but the entire concepting/prototyping phases have been done using Gen-AI 😵‍💫

Time will tell how it all pans out I guess but man everything I see of this just makes me more and more depressed about the current state of Level-5 as a developer (and how royally screwed they're gonna be when the AI bubble inevitably pops).

I'm happy more people can finally experience Layton but god the series being on non-Nintendo consoles is the strangest feeling ever XD

Had a lot of my own personal concerns put to rest with this latest trailer (particularly with how the SotN-style RPG elements like level ups and item drops are back in full force) and I was already eagerly anticipating Belmont's Curse to begin with so now I'm doubly excited for its release later in the year! 😁

Oh and in regards to many of the comments above, I personally have no qualms with the visuals myself. Yeah its certainly different compared to previous games but Castlevania has never hung around in any particular art style for that long as is (Ayame Kojima only worked on five mainline games and two remakes for instance) and the sheer execution of BC's art style is utterly breathtaking in a way that gives me major Order of Ecclesia vibes with its bold primary colours for the environments, very big fan ^_^

Had a mate playing through this on PC lately and they've compared it to Cyberpunk 2077 in the sense that there's a delightful game buried under horrid optimisation/technical issues and based on what I've seen of it myself? I'm kind of inclined to agree with them XD

Still though, it doesn't sting quite as bad as Cyberpunk did back in the day since this is only $25 as opposed to a full $60/70 but I'm hoping they get these issues sorted out ASAP because its a rough look to put it mildly.

@KoopaTheGamer 'Perpetual' instantly set off every red flag for me because that single word essentially means that Sony can use your face for whatever they want in years/decades to come and you can't do s*** about it 😭

Isn't lending your likeness towards model creation something you typically get paid for in modern game development? Like face modelling is a job in its own right so this feels a bit like Sony's trying to exploit their fanbase into doing otherwise paid work for free 😵‍💫

I wanna love Level-5 so badly but god they have made it very difficult to do so lately XD

@PuppetMaster I mean you ain't wrong technically as those who consistently play Street Fighter on the competitive end only really care about function at the end of the day. However, the characterisation and lore of fighting game characters is what draws people into these games to begin with and can generally be what keeps the more general/casual audience invested in an otherwise very skill-dependent genre.

Its essentially like that one Futurama clip: do a fighting game story right and nobody bats an eye but do a fighting game story wrong and everyone and their mother will hound you ad infinitum until its changed XD

This is absolutely bonkers in the best possible way (really does feel like a perfect interpretation of Ingrid's bizarre existence in a modern style) but man I can't help but feel like they fast-tracked this trailer to divert people away from the lore-shaped elephant in the room (spoiler: it won't work 💀). Still though, I hope Ingrid is done justice in SF6 because Capcom has their work cut out in terms of rebuilding faith in their SF dev team (or more specifically their writing staff) XD

I personally believe Pragmata is to Mega Man what Devil May Cry is to Resident Evil in the sense that it started out as a new game in an existing IP before morphing into something so drastically different that it became its own thing instead but I do love how much they're linking the two series together due to the coincidences they share with each other XD

anyways I concur with the masses on this, please let this outfit be a proper unlockable in-game, it'd be so perfect 😆

Modern games always have smaller file sizes than the previous gen for the first year or so as all eyes dart towards the shiny new console but once the initial novelty wears off, file compression/optimisation typically takes a nose-dive for the remainder of a console's lifespan (the only one who wasn't really like this was Nintendo with Switch 1 but even they've started ballooning file sizes into 20-30GB territory nowadays) so to me this story basically reads 'Sony is damaging the PS6 in the long-term in exchange for short-term gain' 😵‍💫

I concur with @Fighting_Game_Loser here: its not exactly a deal if the 'deal' in question is just getting stuff for what they used to cost 3-4 years back, is it? XD

Welp that's all but confirmed that the PS6 will be over €1000 when it inevitably releases now, thanks Sony 🙃

I remember thinking I was overspending when I got a PS5 for €450 on Black Friday 2024 but in retrospect I managed to get it for the cheapest it will ever be 💀

not the first time Maradona's dealt with divine intervention tbf

@get2sammyb Wasn't there a rumour going around prior to Marathon's delay that it needed to chart in the overall Top 10 for 2026 releases in order to meet Sony's expectations? This is a bit dire if that reporting was accurate 😭

Jason Blundell is a stronger man than me because if I had both of my studios shuttered by the same parent company within the span of two years, I'd just quit the games industry altogether 😭

My heart goes out to all those affected by this but yet again the leadership who is ultimately at fault for these closures will escape unscathed while those below them burn away, how many more times must this happen before people like Hulst actually get comeuppance for their decision-making 💀

Glad I got my Marvel Rivals matches for the day done this morning in that case, I remember the last outage went on for a whole day so hopefully it doesn't get to that point again 😅

@Boybeales Hmm that's an interesting coincidence, is there something in the latest system update which caused online connectivity to get tangled up I wonder?

@HRdepartment Warhammer is getting a Survivors spinoff with the direct blessing of Poncle (same engine and everything) so I'd say that's the closest you'll get as of now (though the existing Castlevania DLC for OG VS is so gargantuan it may as well be called VS2 anyways XD).