It’s been a year of big new releases, long-awaited sequels, must play indies, and some surprises along the way. Today, we start the celebration of PlayStation gaming by asking you, the players, to cast your vote for your favorites of the year: the PS Blog Game of the Year Awards 2025 polls are now open!…
Without a Shadow of a doubt. Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft’s flagship series, has delivered two decades of time-hopping adventure. Over the years, it has spawned a glut of expansions and spin-offs, building a franchise with a legion of faithful fans. Moving away from the Hitman-like structure of working through a target list, the series reinvented itself…
“People around me gradually began to see me as ‘the guy who sings’”. Takenobu Mitsuyoshi is famous for his vocal contributions to classic Sega titles like Daytona USA and Sega Rally Championship, and has revealed to Time Extension contributor Ollie Barder that his legendary career as “the guy who sings” happened almost by accident. In…
It’s not even a debate: the best CPU for gaming by far is the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and that’s been the case ever since it launched. And before that, it was the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. And before that… you get the picture. But, it seems that AMD is now quietly looking to dethrone its own…
It’s Tomba time (again). Limited Run Games announced Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return Special Edition way back in June 2024, and while a good chunk of time has passed us by since then (including a rather buggy release of its platforming predecessor), the release date is almost upon us! Tomba 2 will arrive on…
Coming this Winter. We have some good news for English fans of Bandai Namco’s Idolmaster series. A new fan translation patch is currently in the works for The Idolmaster SP, the 2009 entry in the idol raising simulation/rhythm series for the PlayStation Portable. Read the full article on timeextension.com Coming this Winter. We have some…
Like the rest of the tech world and its LLM-powered pooch, Microsoft has been on a big AI push of late. Its latest achievement in that regard is the rollout of agentic AI capabilities for Windows 11 courtesy of the 26220.7262 update (via Windows Latest). Oh, and with that comes the warning that the new…
The Building a Library quest in Arc Raiders is fairly simple, especially as it’s confined to one specific building in the Buried City. Speranza’s resident explosives peddler, Apollo, asks you to find three books in the city library, namely a detective, romance, and adventure book. The genres don’t matter much; you just have to find…
There’s been a deep, unfortunate friction between voice actors and videogame studios, recently—the looming spectre of AI hangs large over everything, with some bigwigs salivating at the idea of getting infinite performances out of people without actually paying them. That is, despite the fact that—aside from efforts so far mostly being bland as all hell,…
It feels like only yesterday semiwork announced that the team would be taking a break before working on the next update. Which isn’t actually entirely inaccurate as it’s been less than a month and we’re already got the first video about the next release. So, it looks like we won’t have to wait too long…