Matt Charlesworth on Lara’s Nintendo debut. This month sees the launch of the Making of Tomb Raider 1997-2000 book, an unofficial deep-dive into the creation of some of Lara Croft’s most beloved adventures, written by me, Daryl Baxter. In case you’re keen for a taster of what the book might contain, I’ve included an excerpt…
There are three different Phantom Blade Zero endings; one bad, one slightly less bad, and one True Ending which lets you face the final boss, granting the “Final Battle” ending and “With Heart and Blood” achievement. But to get this perfect ending, besides following the main quest, you have to complete a variety of side…
We previewed A New Beginning, a Daedalic point-and-click adventure about saving the world from environmental catastrophe, all the way back in 2011, and it seemed promising: “Neither preachy nor educational,” despite its ecological angle, but “pure sci-fi, involving a clash between one magic power-source that nukes the Earth, and a race to get it replaced…
Fallout 4’s overworld was always missing something that the other 3D wastelands in the series offered me: a sense of bleakness and danger. There are areas of the map, like the Glowing Sea, that managed to dial up the oppression. But the unforgiving horror mod Whispering Hills makes the whole region eerie and mysterious. And…
Shred and Green. The Pokémon 30th anniversary celebration merch keeps coming thick and fast, but iconic guitar manufacturer Fender might have just come out with the most “oh god, we need this” collection of the lot. That’s right, Fender is teaming up with The Pokémon Company on two electric guitars to celebrate the Red and…
I like to manifest Halloween year-round, what with my favourite pastimes being horror games, movies, and books—oh, and Dressmaker currently. So when Halloween actually falls upon me I like to make it something special—crack out the real horrifying stuff that’ll hit even harder. One series that’s always on my list is Outlast thanks to its…
In the world of wireless gaming headsets, there’s one spec that draws me in like a moth to a flame: battery life. Particularly 100-hour+ battery life. Wireless cans have come a long way in the last decade, but plugging them in all the time is an annoyance. If I can get away with multiple days…
Hi there! I’m Scott Christian, the studio director of Hilltop Studios here in Toronto, and the game director of Curse of Resthaven. We make games with a particular emphasis on strong characters, intricate storytelling, unique mechanics, and the occasional musical interlude. Before making games, I spent fifteen years working as a composer and conductor here…
Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here Hey, y’all! Sid, O’Dell, and Kristen are back this week to talk about the big games of October, some you might have missed, a blast from the past, and what remains this year. Stuff We Talked About Next week’s release highlights: Godzilla: Destroy…
More and more, AI appears to be the reason we can’t have nice things on the internet. Beyond generative models gobbling up my own and my fellow creatives’ work in a bid to produce abysmally average output, AI data centres are also devouring all of the available memory. This drives up prices and makes DRAM…