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@Oram77 Haha, I use the term new game teased lightly. It was in their 9 years of NieR Automata stream, they basically said “to be continued” at the end…

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/02/as-nier-automata-reaches-10-million-sales-square-enix-teases-more-to-come

At this point I’ll take the littlest thing as a new game confirmation 😄

Still can’t quite get my head around this one (and indeed will probably take a few watches to get head around whatever the mad man in the mask comes up with for the series), but it’s impossible not to be insanely excited…

…so long as it doesn’t hinder that new NieR game which was teased last week, and we’re 100%, definitely, without a shadow of a doubt getting (please!).

They can’t keep playing with my feelings like this…

@Ricketyrascal87 it’s actually the one after! 😄 I finally did the H boss, and was feeling real good about myself, 15 mins later, bam, another brick wall 😆

Very well deserved. Absolutely loving my time with it, even if I am stuck on a certain boss 😄

It’s concerning how much I’m actually looking forward to this… dare I say it, it actually looks like they might have got it right?

Being a long suffering Hellraiser fan, especially considering the latest movie offerings we’ve had, it’d be so awesome to actually get a recent, good Hellraiser entry.

Oh, and PLEASE give us a PSVR2 mode. It looks like it’s almost made for it 🙏

I know Square Enix has been a little, well, unstable of late… but Yoko Taro and co have been teasing something for almost a year now. Come on, it’s about time they pulled back the curtain! Or it could just be Yoko Taro trolling us, which is also is very possible 😄

@Skyzzle I’ve been thinking for a while how perfect Tenchu would be to bring back. Absolutely loved the first game! Sekiro is probably the closest we’ll ever get (which isn’t exactly a bad trade)… but there’s always hope.

What a great surprise! I didn’t have DLC for Relink on my 2026 bingo card, but here we are! Really loved this game, so an excuse to jump back in is most welcome!

Genuinely can’t wait to get my hands on this in a few days, absolutely loving the demo (still yet to finish it!)

@LiamCroft with the smaller map missions you mention that you can’t go back to, are these not replayable from the shrines? And if not, are there collectables (Kodama’s etc,) you can miss in those missions?

I’ve been meaning to play the first Tokyo Xanadu for so long now… hopefully they tie the new announcement in with a sale on the PS Store and I’ll take the plunge.

In a bit of a lull waiting for NioH 3, so continuing my Xenoblade Chronicles adventure on switch while tackling some of the many escalations etc I never completed on Hitman.

Have a good’un all!

@Mintie I’ll probably hold off another few days and jump in later in the week. I assume it doesn’t let you continue to level up past a certain point? Otherwise people might be going into the full game insanely OP’d. Haha

Does anyone know roughly how long the demo takes to complete? I do want to play it, but might hold off until next week so I can just jump right into the main game after. I quite like the feeling of booting up a new game for the first time, don’t really want to have to wait days after finishing it to carry on 😄

If people put half the effort they do into craziness like this / taking to the internet to harass game developers because they think they’re entitled to, into doing something good… just imagine what we could achieve in this world.

I really enjoyed the first Code Vein and really looking forward to eventually jumping into this, but releasing so close to Nioh 3 is going to hurt it I think. Unless there’s some surprising damning reviews for Nioh, I’ll more than likely wait a few weeks and pick that up instead.

I honestly don’t know what to make of this anymore. The overwhelming hype out there for this, which was always going to be the case, will lead to either crushing disappointment or one of the greatest games ever made.

Honestly, I was excited a few years back, but right now I’m struggling to muster any enthusiasm for it. Part because I’m a bit burnt out with open world games, part because my gaming taste has hugely changed over the past 5 or so years (thanks to jumping to PS from Xbox and discovering a wealth of Japanese titles I’ve totally fallen in love with), and part because these days I just find Rockstar a little… icky.

It’ll still make an obscene amount of money, and whenever it does finally release it will be the biggest money maker throughout the whole of the media industry that year. I really hope it wins me back on board when it does.

@graymamba That’s good to know. I kind of want to play 3 alongside everyone else. There’s something about those types of games discovering everything at the same time as others, as corny as that sounds, and then I know I’ve got 2 to look forward to after! 🙂

Happy New Year folks! Rolled credits on the first Nioh yesterday, what a ride that was, absolutely loved it! I’ll probably wait and jump into 3 next before tackling 2, apparently the stories don’t really follow on? (If anyone can confirm that’d be appreciated 😄)

Picked up Ninja Gaiden Black in the January sale to tide me over until then, why did no one tell me this game was so hard? 😂. Changing the move speed of the camera to fast has helped a lot, but damn that second main boss kicked me around for a long time. I got him eventually… a long ways off master ninja for now, but let’s see what 2026 brings.

Have a fun first 2026 weekend!

Hope everyone’s having a festive old time!

Been making my way through my first ever trip playthrough of Nioh recently and having an absolute blast with it. Awesome to know theres two more to play once I’m done!

I do want to treat myself to something new over the break though, I’m think either Ninja Gaidan 4, Black Myth Wukon or Metal Gear Delta, so hopefully jump into one of those as well. Have fun folks!

@Burnish1619 Don’t worry I never thought you were baiting… I guess when it’s something close to home you have to stick up for yourself. Haha.

Value is guess is subjective, when it comes to games in particular, there are so many elements at play, design, gameplay, music, voice acting, world building etc, and obviously certain people are always going to take more notice of a certain aspect of a game, because that’s where their interests lie. Personally that design / art element I hold near the top of that list, and I want that to stay in the hands of people who really care and put their blood, sweat and tears into something over a computer which is just mimicking what those aforementioned people worked so hard to achieve.

When it comes to it being a knee-jerk reaction, I’m not entirely sure that’s true, but I can totally see why some might think that. For some of us watching AI creep in the past few years has been like watching a car crash in slow motion, internally we’ve been talking about it for a long time, but obviously right now it’s the hot topic, so I get that fatigue even discussing it can sink in.

I’m just glad the discussion is out there. At the end of the day we all just want to play cool games 🙂

@Burnish1619 Okay, I’ll bite. While this maybe true for a very small handful of people, taking it in relation to this article and talking specifically about media/games (which is all I can really talk about because it’s the only sector I’ve ever worked in), the jobs are far from “cushy”. Most folks do these jobs because it’s something they care about and love. More than most of the time the money is not overly paid, the hours are exhausting and the stress which comes with crunches / deadlines etc are sometimes off the charts.

I’m not at all saying people in other jobs don’t have those same pressures / worries, but I think broadly calling all of those jobs “cushy” is a tad unfair.

While AI outrage online may seem boring to some, unfortunately the concern is very real, and in my opinion for what it’s worth (probably not much 😄), what Larian are doing here is a slippery slope, and if I had it my way I’d be cutting the head off the snake now.

I’ve worked in media my whole life (film and tv rather than games) and in the past few years it’s very clear that AI is coming to replace human hands (we even had to do a “course” to help us get to grips with AI so we could see how useful it would be in our day-to-day working life… looking back on it now I’m pretty sure it was the other way around, and it was us training the AI to do our jobs). The worry is real for job security, and we feel it every day.
More directly to this article, I have a friend who works in concept art, and this exact issue has been a problem for a good while now. They’ve said how depressing it can be that rather than being able to explore ideas themselves, their briefs are now sometimes, here’s an AI generated image of what we want, basically just re-do this so we can claim copyright on it, which is pretty ghastly if you ask me.

I know AI isn’t going anywhere and we all have to adapt, and yeah, I’m openly biased on this one. But I also have my own place in this fight, minor as it is, so I hope Sarah and John Connor get their ass in gear and destroy it soon 😄

Very happy with Wo Long. I’m actually just on my first playthrough of Nioh (I know, late to the party) and loving it, so this has come at a very good time!

Well this just shot to the top of my anticipated games list! This looks awesome, more of this please!

About time to see what Yoko Taro’s been cooking up? 🤞🤞🤞

Although I’ll try and vary it up a bit, who am I kidding? It’ll be Arc Raiders! I also have Katamari Reroll downloaded to satisfy my Japanese gaming itch… never played any of the katamari games so quite looking forward to that.

Have a blast everyone… and if you see me Raiding Arcs, please “don’t shoot!”

@Northern_munkey I might muster up the courage. People have been pretty chill on the whole which has been nice! The PVP element was the thing that originally put me off, but I’ve had a pretty good experience so far. Maybe I’ve got lucky.

Loving my time with this game, even if I am absolutely terrible at it 😄

I don’t dare go near a harvester / Queen yet, I haven’t even been able to take down a rocketeer or the giant spider arcs… one day…

There’s been some incredible games released for PSVR2 this year, it’s a shame a lot of the major news site (pushsquare included) really seem to have it in for the headset, you rarely read anything positive (even this article headline reads as a negative, despite the fact it’s 5 games being announced), and yet fail to cover games that are highly praised when released, such as Arken Age, Legendary Tales, Into the Radius etc…

As I’ve said before, I get that VR is a niche and will never be for everyone, just a shame the places that could be pushing it don’t even want to seem to give it a fighting chance.

Still… I’m still loving my time with the headset, and always good to see a bit of love in comments on the rare occasion it gets it chance to be in the spotlight 😄

Midway through my NG+ playthrough of Fate/Samurai to get all the digressions and endings. This game has been such a surprise, absolutely loved my time with it.

And it’s spooky month so started Silent Hill 2 (much tougher than I remember from when I was a teenager playing it on PS2… maybe my reflexes were better back then 😄), but with this and Fate/Samurai, PS plus has actually been worth it last few months.

Also, in small doses braving Madison VR, but holy hell that is intense. It takes a lot to spook me, but there have been cases I’ve actually closed my eyes, and one point I almost ripped the headset off my head… that is some scary stuff, but… ‘tis the season!

Have fun everyone!

I really enjoyed the first one, it is a soulslike, but pretty forgiving. I played it over the Christmas period a few years back, so always associated Code Vein with Christmas for some reason… I don’t think they intended that 😄. This looks like a big step up, and love those over the top boss deigns!

In all honesty I’d be happy if they toned down the soulslike features even more and went more hack and slash with it (which the first trailer semi hinted at?) either way I’ll be there!

@SeaDaVie I loved Scarlet Nexus as well! Hoping we do get a sequel. I am a bit of a sucker for these kind of games. Fate/Samurai on PS Plus Extra is scratching the itch for now if you haven’t tried that one, it’s a good’un 🙂

I’m playing a certain samurai sword play game, of course, I’m talking about… Fate / Samurai (I will get around to Ghost of Yotei, funds just aren’t allowing it this month 😄)

In all seriousness though, Fate / Samurai dropped quite quietly on PS Extra a month or so back and it’s a genuine hidden gem, I’m having a really good time with it. If you have seen the anime it definitely does a great job of capturing that tone, but I’m fairly confident it’d work just as well going in blind (it explains everything and is set many years before the anime takes place, so is totally standalone). It can be a bit talky in places, but the combat is a hell of a lot of fun, especially when you’re able to start switching characters. Highly recommend for anyone on the look out to fill the gap in between buying / playing something 🙂

Have a good weekend folks!

I’ve never been into the Gacha game, but if anything I’ll more than likely at least give this one a go. On paper it should be a lot of fun, but time will tell.

In terms of the animations, especially Insomniac related, is there a chance with Sony’s backing Insomniac shared (or maybe sold) the animations etc? I have no idea as to the ins and outs of the gaming industry, but if it gives insomniac a cash boost and allows these guys to speed up development, maybe not out of the question? (And takes away any chance of any potential lawsuits 😄)

@Lowdefal It’s a hard thing to pin point, but it’s kind of the same issue I have with most modern British movies / TV, everything just sounds really forced and far too pronounced (also the fact FF16 had the voice of Chris Finch from The Office, that was far too jarring 😄)

I don’t know, maybe it’s too close to home. I hear enough English accents everyday, when I play a game I want to be transported somewhere else. As I said, this is very much a “me” problem, I’m not saying it’s bad… just not to my personal taste.

I unapologetically loved Code Vein! I played it on Xbox (yes… I’m a turncoat), but yeah… all over this! Shame it doesn’t looks like you can’t bring your character over

Very peculiar. I wasn’t overblown with Returnal, but it’s a game I really wish I liked, and I will go back to give another whirl.

This, (and admittedly as a Brit this is a personal preference), I hated the voice acting in the trailer (but I couldn’t play FF16 in English for the same reason, this very much is a me problem)… however the combat looked… okay…

Honestly wasn’t until the big boss reveal and the footage after I was into it, so very much a we’ll see for me for now.

With Drakengard just having an anniversary and the never ending NieR teases… just give us something already, let’s see what that madman with the mask has been cooking (that’s not a 2B costume pack for another game).

It’s wishful thinking I know… but someone has to say it 😄.

I played this again fairly recently, and personally for me even at 30fps it still looked and played great. IF they ever did anything, I’d much rather a sequel than a remake.

But for now FromSoftware, just gimme a new Amored Core game (or at least a big DLC pack for Fires of Rubicon) to tide me over until the next big reveal.

Continuing my Xenoblade Chronicles journey on Switch. Don’t really have anything on PS atm so hopped into No Man’s Sky for the first time which should tide me over until Silent Hill F.
That and the Demon Slayer movie in a few hours at the cinema 👹

Have a good one folks!

@Nyne11Tyme Still my favourite console I have ver owned 🥹

I wonder what the chances are of getting some of the old Dreamcast games in a package. I’d love to revisit games like Zombie Revenge, Power Stone, Blue Stinger , Dynamite Cop etc again!

Wrapping up (I think) the final missions on Slitterhead… last week I said I’d struggle to recommend the game, this week a different story. It’s an easy recommendation, especially if you’re a fan of retro horror games. I’ve on the quiet kind of fallen in love with this flawed but totally unique game 😀.

All with a bit of Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition on Switch. First time playing a Xenoblade game and absolutely loving it.

Have fun all!

Picked up Slitterhead in the sale last week, so continuing my very bizarre journey through that. Oddly having a really good time with this one. Not sure I could actually recommend it to anyone, it’s definitely not without its issues, but there’s a very odd, unique charm to the game I can’t quite put my finger on 😄

Have fun folks!

Crazy that as games have shot up in price they’re increasingly released in such a terrible state. Buying a game on a console shouldn’t be the case where you have to Google if it plays okay, especially not at £70 a pop. Playing a game day one should be exciting, not met with worry it’ll play terribly, sad it’s become so normalised.

It’s semi done me a favour, I can’t wait to get stuck into this further down the line when it’s as it should be, but for now I’ll dive into the backlog instead.

This sounds genuinely promising, I don’t want to jinx it by getting too excited, especially considering how terrible Pinhead and his pals have been treated the past decade or so!

Being greed, would love this to come to VR as well, sounds like it’s almost made for it, but I won’t pin my hopes on it.

I started this on my old laptop a couple years back to start Trails as a series (was never sure where I could comfortably jump in). I think I got really close to the end when my laptop finally died on me. I had a great time with it though, and it’s been long enough to start from scratch without it feeling too similar, so this should make it feel extra fresh! I wonder if they’re re-recording the music? I loved the main theme.

I’m actually in Japan right now! First ever visit and absolutely loving it. Only 2 days in, but my mind still can’t really comprehend it, and I’ve already spent way more money than I’d care to admit on Gacha, so a few more won’t hurt… will it? 😄

@DTfearTheBEARD This is actually a really good point and something I hadn’t even considered in regards to backwards compatibility. If there is no disc drive, I wonder how they would go about this. Maybe there’ll be a way to register the game to download? I dunno… seems like a reach.

I wonder if this will finally spell the end for the disc drive. I really hope not, I do still like to buy physical (even if it is becoming more pointless by the day), but also really like to have it as a backup bluray player.

Their heart seems to be in the right place, so really hope it works out well for them. Personally I think this is a pass for me… anytime I have to go into London these days I’m counting down the hours until I can get out again, so the idea of spending gaming time there as well fills my stomach with utter dread 😄