Finally, Fantasy. Everyone ready for a spot of What Are You Playing? Oh, go on then! Showcase season is officially upon us, folks. This week’s PlayStation State of Play brought some nice Switch 2 announcements, including a new Rayman game, a Tomb Raider remaster and more. We also got release dates for LEGO Batman: Legacy…
…we would definitely derail in this episode. But that’s okay! Because we list the winners of PlayStation.Blog’s 2014 Game of the Year Awards, along with some fantastic picks from you, the PlayStation community! Take a listen, and also hear about the movies, books, anime, and sauce we’ve been consuming over the holiday break. Enjoy the…
How’s about some positive whispers from the hardware grapevine amidst the relentless talk of increasing prices? Admittedly these whispers are not quite as positive or exciting as a new mid-range GPU might be, but the word on the street is that we’ll soon be seeing a new low-end card in the form of the AMD…
My particular nostalgia gaming fixation is rechargeable batteries, of the AA or AAA variety. I have memories of going to my grandparents’ house in Iowa every summer with just a Game Boy to keep me company. And my grandparents, now dearly departed, bless their hearts, likely influenced by their own Great Depression era childhood,…
Years ago, I read that Jake Solomon prototyped the Firaxis reboot of XCOM by making a simple board game version. Something rudimentary that could be played in the office on scrap paper to get ideas across and figure out where the fun would be, without having to commit. But it’s surprising to hear the same…
Doom has been around so long—32 years and counting—that you’d be forgiven for thinking that developers id Software must have produced hundreds of entries for the franchise on PC. The shocking truth is there have just been five, if one ignores all the third-party versions, expansion stuff and rejigged editions. And it’s been five years…
It’s all relative. It’s New Proper Platforming Mario Game Week, everyone! While the launch of a game with Mario in the title is a fairly regular occurrence, the release of the plumber’s first all-new 2D platformer in over a decade is cause for special celebration. Super Mario Bros. Wonder brings back Mario and his Mushroom…
Normal Poipole. Back in 2016, Pokémon Sun and Moon gave us our first look at the Ultra Beasts. They are a weird-looking group of creatures, to say the least, heralding from the ‘Ultra Space’ dimension, and thus appeared rather different when compared to the general squishiness of most other Pokémon designs. Well, according to former…
Top Deal: Even though Skylake is here, an argument could be made for building a system around Haswell. That’s especially true if you tend to overhaul your motherboard and CPU at the same time every few years. Even more compelling is today’s top deal — it’s for an Intel Core i7-4790K Processor for $325 with…
Stonethorn, The Elder Scrolls Online’s upcoming DLC dungeon pack, continues and builds upon the Dark Heart of Skyrim storyline with two challenging new dungeons: Stone Garden and Castle Thorn. “These dungeons explore different aspects of the Greymoor Chapter,” explains Mike Finnigan, ZeniMax Online Studio’s Encounter Lead. “Castle Thorn features a foreboding keep where a Vampire…