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Share of the Week: Shadows

Last week we asked for you to step into the Shadows of your favorite games to send us shares with the darkest and moodiest lighting using #PS4share and #PSBlog. From dramatic portraits to dark silhouettes, here are this week’s highlights: Shadows frame this intimate Aloy portrait from Horizon Zero Dawn, shared by @horizonzerodawnworld. @DobbyPS4 shared…

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God of War: Inside the Paris Games Week Trailer

“That’s a Soul Eater. If that kills us, that’s it… no Valhalla…” – Atreus When we unveiled a bold, daunting, new direction for God of War at E3 2016, Cory wrote here “Change is an essential part of life. In creative development change is often the explosive spark that transforms good enough into truly memorable.”…

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Exodus, the sci-fi RPG from former Mass Effect devs, couldn’t look more like Mass Effect in the teasers we’ve been getting this month

In the month since Archetype Entertainment gave us our first look at its sci-fi RPG Exodus, there’s been a drip-feed of teasers showcasing gunfights, the exploration of alien worlds, stealth and a man looking out of his balcony. The main takeaway from these teasers is that, yep, this sure looks like Mass Effect. Which isn’t…

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I bet Return of the Obra Dinn looks perfect on this open-source 75 Hz e-paper display kit—and it’s compatible with a whole bunch of existing panels, too

I’ve been getting back into detective games recently, and musing about potentially reinstalling Return of the Obra Dinn, a game with a dithered art style that would look fantastic on an e-paper panel. Trouble is, those e-reader-style displays are notoriously slow to refresh, right? Wrong, according to the makers of the Modos Paper Monitor and…

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Embark’s CEO says they couldn’t compete ‘with the likes of EA and Activision’ head on so they had to ‘change the way games were being developed’

Embark Studios currently has a pretty good track record with the games it’s released so far. Launching The Finals in 2023 and then Arc Raiders last year, the devs have done impeccable work and delivered some truly memorable games. It seems like a lot, especially for a smaller and relatively new studio, but in truth…

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If you have one of these old Asus routers, update its firmware as it may have a critical vulnerability that ‘may allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access’

If you’ve got an old Asus router, you might want to check whether it’s needing a firmware update. Asus has just reported that three of its older DSL modem routers have a critical vulnerability, an “authentication bypass vulnerability” that “may allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access into the affected system.” Asus hasn’t just dropped…

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