Hi! I’m Steve Bowler, lead designer on Gemini: Heroes Reborn. I’m here to share a few things about our game (which launches this week on PS4) and the way we designed it. The Interface Should Be So Natural You Don’t Notice It Gemini has what designers refer to as diegetic UI. Which means the game’s…
Hey everyone! I’ve been itching to tell you about this for the longest time, and now I finally can! We’re happy to reveal the single-player story details for Street Fighter V. There are two main components to the story experience: Character Stories and the Cinematic Story Expansion. Character Stories We knew there would be a…
Greetings, PlayStation.Blog! It’s Ben Tester here from Wales Interactive bringing you great news on the upcoming PS4 kart racer Coffin Dodgers! We’ve teamed up with UK-based developers Milky Tea Studios to bring you an old age pensioner’s race for survival in Spring 2016. After settling down for some peace and tranquillity, the residents of the…
More in more ways than one Last year, we looked at Samsung’s speedy new 950 Pro M.2 NVMe drive. At the time, we noted that while it was fast, we really wanted to test the 512GB model. Nearly three months later, we’re finally able to fix that omission. Much of what we said in our…
A beautiful island rife with puzzles. Remnants of life. Secrets buried deep between mountains and trees. The long-awaited puzzler The Witness is finally here, and it’s out this week on PS4. The Witness, developed by renowned creator Jonathan Blow (Braid), is set on a mysterious island filled with beautiful sights and provocative puzzles. Explore freely…
Hi everyone! It’s our first flash sale of the year, and we’re dedicating this one to the industry game changers, with steep discounts on a roster of bold and innovative titles. Starting now, save up to 80 percent on games like Rogue Legacy, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Surgeon Simulator: A&E Anniversary Edition and Fat…
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Top Deal: Everywhere you turn it’s Skylake this and Skylake that. Does it have you wanting to make the plunge? If you’re in need of an upgrade anyway, now’s a great time—next generation technologies like DDR4 RAM and M.2 SATA have arrived, giving you a modicum of future proofing. Both are features of today’s top…
Banishing bad ads Like it or not, ads are a large reason why much of the content you see on the web is free to access (versus sitting behind a paywall). Maybe that will change in the coming years, but for now, it’s simply how the web works. Be that as it may, it’s not…