Using the State of Play showcase to announce a remaster of Days Gone makes it feel like Sony has graduated to deliberately trolling Bloodborne sickos for kicks

Using the State of Play showcase to announce a remaster of Days Gone makes it feel like Sony has graduated to deliberately trolling Bloodborne sickos for kicks

Call me naive, but I was hopeful for Bloodborne news at Sony’s State of Play on Wednesday. There were a bunch of signs pointing to it, or at least, it felt that way among the sizable population of Bloodborne fans whose proficiency at conspiratorial dot-connecting has reached disturbing levels. In December Sony released a new…

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Capcom is so devoted to samurai authenticity with the new Onimusha, it went and licensed the face of Japan’s most legendary actor

Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune—best known for starring in films like Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, and Yojimbo for director Akira Kurosawa—has been dead for nearly 30 years. But apparently that can’t stop him from starring in a new videogame in the year 2026. Since December Capcom has been teasing the revival of its early 2000s…

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State of Play February 2025: all announcements, trailers 

Today’s State of Play included new game reveals, fresh looks at upcoming titles, confirmation of several release dates and more! We want to get you straight into the headlines of the show, so without further preamble…  You’ll find the show in full ready to rewatch below. Underneath that, we recap the individual announcements, featuring full…

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Stellar Blade launches on Steam in June

PlayStation 5 action hit Stellar Blade has been destined for PC since last year, but it’s been a bit since we heard anything new about developer Shift Up’s plans. That has now come to an end, as a new trailer during Sony’s State of Play revealed two things: a crossover with the studio’s previous game,…

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Turns out the reason Total War: Warhammer 3’s campaign AI sometimes played too defensively was a bug that made it overreact to the presence of even a single hero

Creative Assembly has announced that improvements to Total War: Warhammer 3’s campaign AI are about to go into testing, with a beta due to kick off on February 13. The changes are all about making the campaign AI more active, and the blog post explaining this highlights a fascinating bug the team discovered: “a fundamental…

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