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@ShogunRok Not listed in the article (currently) is Control: Resonant… also on the 24th along with Silent Hill: Townfall. I’m wondering which elder god I’ve angered for this scheduling disaster to befall 😫😭

of COURSE the two games I’m most interested in acquiring this year are being released ON THE SAME DAY… 😫😫😫

Can I just ask, what’s the correct pronunciation of “Laufey”? Is it like “loo-fay”, “law-fee”, “l-ow-fie”..?? 🤪

Kinda wish Sony would take a leaf out of the Apple App Store “Top Free” vs “Top Paid” chart formats, and have either those 2 categories and/or a “Top 1–2 Player” vs “Top Multiplayer” pair of charts instead. That way, the kids can have 1 ranking table, and those of us with taste(?!) can have the other… 😸

I’m only being slightly facetious here, I promise! I’d never really expect e.g. a Saros, Silent Hill F, Black Myth: Wukong, Alan Wake 2, COE33 etc to make a serious, consistent dent in the rankings given the list we’ve now seen above (except on the rare “release week” occasion for a chosen few; throwing a quick side glance at Capcom, for example), but would love to see how the “single player experience” type of games compare/trend over time, and this might be a simple way to get a better glimpse of that player behaviour. As others have commented, it’s almost 2 distinct audiences/playerbases anyway, so why not get insight into both of them separately?

(and for my part — I’ll happily pour 100+ hours into an engaging story-driven game, and yet have literally played zero of these “top 8” in my life, ever…) 😼

For those in Australia, the “Europe” code worked for me here — QLD2-2HD4-4NA2 😼

Please don’t judge me for my brain confusing “Wuchang: Fallen Feathers” with “Black Myth: Wukong” at a rushed glance…! 😸

Definitely happy with Nine Sols this month.

@saffeqwe I think that “nothing of interest for PS5 players” phrasing had more to do with the fact that “All three games are currently only targeting PC”, versus not directly being interesting in and of themselves (which was also addressed as a separate concern)?

I don’t have a PC, and only game on a PS5, so maybe I fit that mindset and thus interpreted it that way though… 😼

Thanks @Quintumply for a great review — detailed enough without being spoilery! Returnal was an absolute favourite of mine for both story, gameplay, quality, and challenge (and how satisfying it was to progress and ultimately complete!)… and it’s great to read that Housemarque have only stepped up its game (so to speak) on all aspects now with Saros.

As an aside, I gotta say too… reading some of the comments here, I feel as though must be some kind of weird anomaly: in my 50s, love a challenge, love an engaging story, love a good jumpscare, still have mostly decent reaction time, don’t mind a “frustratingly” tough level/boss/puzzle I have to reattempt (often many times and/or over many sessions!) to overcome… and thus cannot WAIT for this game. 😸

This is going to be brilliant. With a huge personal backlog and the many great pickups I nab from PS Plus I only end up actually purchasing maybe 1 or 2 games a year… Saros will absolutely be my first for 2026.

@Futureshark The only takeaway I could possibly comprehend from this article was that one of the game’s characters is a “certified banger” which maybe doesn’t mean what I think it means… 😅

On the one hand, I absolutely cannot wait for this. On the other hand, it had better be a lot more than just Returnal FOR MEN™, otherwise Selene will have died for nothing and died for nothing and died for nothing and died for nothing and died for nothing and

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Cannot. Wait.

Returnal still has to be one of my favourite, and arguably one of the best technology/feature-rich and well-written, PS5 games ever, and I have no doubt Saros will only raise that bar higher.

This was published 2 hours, and 2 timeline articles, directly after the effusive announcement of Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes for PSVR2. I’m confused… which is it, dead or alive? 🤪

I’m intrigued by Pragmata absolutely, but after the incredible experience I found Returnal to be, Saros will 100% be my April game buy.

Every word, Sammy. Every word. 😿😾

1995: Time Crisis
1999: Dino Crisis
2026: Memory Crisis

Microsoft CEO: “please don’t call genAI results slop” 🥺

Razer CEO: “we’re all sick of genAI slop hey chat” 😏

My goty also, punched me in all the feels — and the Strands of Harmony concert in Sydney was simply top-notch quality too.

nice, “the new animated background is linked to the current season and time of year” … sooooo will it currently (and correctly) be “spring” themed here in Australia? 😼

or, like PS Plus Premium, will we just not get it at all… 🥲

Just saw the opening concert for “Death Stranding: Stands of Harmony” in Sydney last night, so I’ll absolutely be continuing my journey in DS2 📦🧡😺

Not a game that interested me in the slightest, but damn that Ben Starr is a good egg for agreeing to do this 😹🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

So still not available in Australia (and I guess other similar areas) where we have the hamstrung “Deluxe” tier instead of “Premium”…?? Sony WHYYYYYYY 😾

Was listening to the Silent Hill 2 Remake soundtrack just as I read this. 😿

@Slideaway1983 I scrolled down to add a comment saying exactly that — thanks for 🅱️eating me to it! 😹

More importantly - is that VA in this clip Jane Perry (aka Returnal’s Selene Vassos)???

I am entirely both unsurprised and completely amused by this article 😹

poll is missing the “Premium isn’t even available in my region” option 😾

hey you know where you won’t find this bundle no matter how good/bad of a deal you feel it is? THAT’S RIGHT — AUSTRALIA, WHERE THE PREMIUM TIER DOESN’T EVEN EXIST (come ON guys it’s 2025 already) 😾

For anyone in the US who freaks out at the recent “omg $80+ for a game” convo… down under we’ve been enduring that for some time now.

Assuming the quoted $70 and $80 prices are USD, the Aussie exchange rate on that right now is roughly $108 and $124 respectively… however these editions are listed as $125 and $140 on the AU PS Store (that’s 16% and 12% increases there, or basically the magic USD80 and 90 numbers).

GoY is only one recent example of this; I could easily trawl the PS Store for stacks of (especially AAA title) examples where this pricing discrepancy is in place. Meanwhile, AUD125+ is not (and hasn’t for some time been) uncommon for a “deluxe edition” here, and often for the “standard edition” too.

Why these considerable markups for literally the same digital product just downloaded to a different locale?? 👀😕

LITTLE KITTY BIG CITY 😺🐾🏙️

Count me in. (Maybe with only one eye open though.) 👀🙀

“PlayStation players in Australia are especially unlucky right now”

Yeah, us down here in the colonies, we’re getting kinda familiar with being screwed over by Sony (PS Plus Deluxe anyone?)…

Me, I’m just thrilled I can finally get an even more bargain price on such sleeper hits as “Feed My Raptor”, “The Perplexing Orb: Bounce Challenge”, “Waifu Impact 2”, “Bug-o-Buster”, “Santa’s Spot it”, “Slicy Flips”, “Poopy Time”, “Monkey Kong in New-York”, or (and I am not making this up either) “YEAH! YOU WANT ‘THOSE GAMES,’ RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET’S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM! 1+2” 🤪

(dear god.)

I’m one of those who invested heavily in Death Stranding and was in no way disappointed, found a depth to it that once I clicked with it just impacted me so deeply. The sold vs played argument doesn’t concern me, except to say I hope that most of the millions who did try it out also managed to discover and appreciate the emotional punches it held, all the beauty to be found in the mundane and arcane and insane. Really looking forward to the sequel.

Sweet Jeebus. fans self

From memory, our censors also banned the original version of Silent Hill: Homecoming due at least to 2 specific cutscenes (iirc one involving a power drill and the other a certain “Great Knife”). Great to see nothing here has really changed much in the (checks notes) almost 17 years since… 🙄

You had me at “Jeff Minter”. 😸

I’ve never understood all the online vitriol against Part II… personally I found it compelling, emotional, true to the characters’ motivations, a top-notch work of pacing and action, and a very “just” ending (albeit painful to experience as the player) for the lead characters, who were all flawed in their own ways.

And besides the game itself, being “anti strong women” — physically, emotionally, however you read that really — is surely a patently ridiculous notion when you look at either history or storytelling right through societies (not just the “Western” ones either) as a whole. This isn’t an “agenda” thing, it’s just how the character was defined. Would the “offended” people have been happier had Abby been male? Why would that have made their drive and determination for blind revenge more believable or palatable?? To my mind, it’s quite the opposite — there’s more impact in Abby “becoming” the Abby, in Ellie “becoming” the Ellie, that we see by the final act of Part II because of how hardened they have become through their experiences (see also, arguably, Lara Croft across the Tomb Raider “reboot” trilogy from 2013–2018).

tl;dr loved Part I, loved Part II, and with the right story I’d love a Part III should it ever materialise.

Now if only they’d give us Premium here in Australia instead of the hampered non-streaming “Deluxe” tier… 😫

Got an “Upgrade to Deluxe and save 35%” offer here today (Australia). Trying to stack a new year on top of my Extra subscription is still full price though.

If we actually had Premium here, not just the hamstrung Deluxe tier, I’d probably consider it. Come on, Sony… 😕

And I wonder what percentage of the 1,500 are shovelware?…

*filters to Full Game, sorts by Price Low to High

… oh wow. yep. 😝

*cries in Australian 🥲

“You can still Kill the Justice League”

Lol no thanks 😝

(I did redeem Stanley, which I’ll get around to one day I’m sure!)

I’m probably in the weird minority here but I really enjoyed BTS (the game not the band). Agree the pacing was off at times, but found it highly creative (in the “David Cage way”), and the story and gameplay really kept my interest.

Looks incredible — and sounds incredible too, at least in this early demo. I feel like I need to watch this a few times to take it all in! 😸

“We know from data that there are a lot of people that only play Call of Duty”

… I cannot even imagine a more unfulfilling gaming life experience than missing out on literally any other genre for the sake of solely existing in some generic ‘Murrica propaganda shooter series. 😅

(apologies to any “COD-only” players out there, but… jeez, try anything else sometime, wow) ✨

7 episodes constitutes a season now?? Remember when a TV series used to be 20+ eps? Lord, “24” sure couldn’t be made anymore now (and even its final seasons were “cut down” to 12 episodes)… 🤪

Stanley ftw, the other two I won’t even be pressing the “Add to Library” button 😅

I’m perfectly fine that January gives us The Stanley Parable as the only PS Plus Extra game 😼

@Gaia093 “Dead Service 47 and Car Thing 12” made me snort my breakfast out my nose 😹😹😹😹😹