I had the joy of playing Crimson Desert, the first proper singleplayer effort by Black Desert Online developer Pearl Abyss, again this week—and while I had some sense of how the game works, given I played it during Gamescom last year, getting my hands on it in an air-conditioned London building rather than a stuffy,…
“my vision has been less aligned with the team”. Omar Cornut, one of the co-founders of developer Lizardcube, has announced his departure from the company after his own aspirations and vision became less aligned with the wider team. Lizarcube is known for its work on Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap and Streets of Rage 4,…
Bedrock is coming to PlayStation 4 tomorrow! “Kelsey,” you gasp in horror, “you’ve given away the whole article in the first sentence.” Don’t worry, beloved reader of PlayStation Blog, there is always more! “So how is this different from the version of Minecraft I can already play on my PS4?” The difference is that the…
Yooka-So-Smoothy. After its release in October 2025, Yooka-Replaylee is finally playable at 60fps on Switch 2 thanks to a new update from Playtonic Games. Many were understandably disappointed when the Switch 2 version launched with its performance capped at 30fps (heck, it was one of just two ‘cons’ in our 8/10 review), so this will…
The premise of Pragmata may seem utterly unfathomable right now so I’ll try and break it down for you: an evil AI takes over a lunar research station, and being evil, it tries to eradicate our human protagonist Hugh and his android companion Diana. Ok, that’s actually pretty fathomable right now. Funnily enough, the hardest…
I’ve tried my hand at an extraction shooter here and there. They tend to be ludicrously hardcore and punishing, and I say this as a sucker with thousands of hours across every MOBA I can get my grubby little hands on. It seems like Arc Raiders has successfully bridged the gap between the sickos and…
It’s not a huge surprise because we saw this happen in 2024, but Prime Video’s Fallout series has once again led to a huge uptick in people playing the Fallout games on Steam. Fallout 4, Fallout: New Vegas, and even Fallout 3 and the original Fallouts have essentially doubled their daily concurrent players on Steam…
Hey, you! Don’t just stand there half-naked with your stomach growling. Grab a stick, pick up a rock, craft a rope from whatever the heck “plant fiber” is, and combine them to make your first crude axe. Then chop down some trees, build a mech suit (I may have skipped a few steps), climb in,…
If it looks like a duck but barks like a dog, what is it? We were really impressed with Hewlett-Packard’s Omen laptop when we reviewed it last year. With a design that paid homage to its Voodoo PC namesake, the model we received proved a capable gaming machine wrapped in a sexy chassis with a…
This time last year, The Finals made its big debut at The Game Awards with a surprise launch that catapulted it among the most-played games on Steam for a time. Now, developer Embark is celebrating The Finals’ first anniversary in style: A new map, more toys to play with, a clan system, and visual refreshes…