Hi everybody, it’s a great pleasure to be back on the PS Blog for a new story on Astro Bot Rescue Mission. Today is a bit special because we’re going to be lifting the lid over mishaps and hiccups we encountered while creating the game and how we got around solving them. Or not. 🙂…
Games and umbrellas don’t usually collide, but I’ve thought more about umbrellas in the last few days than I have in my entire life. It all began when I found one inside a chest in Nightingale’s tutorial area, though I only discovered how useful it could be much later. This kind of sums up Nightingale,…
TA-TA for this TATE goodness. When Blaze updated its Evercade handheld back in 2022, one of the key features it added to the EXP version was a TATE button which allowed users to experience vertically-oriented arcade games the way they were supposed to be played. As we noted in our review, while this was a…
I enjoyed my share of Twisted Metal as a kid, but I never loved Twisted Metal—and I think it’s because the drivers were corny. I know a lot of people love Sweet Tooth, but I just wanted to experience cars shooting and exploding each other without any clown-related distractions. Fumes understands me. In the early…
Death Stranding 2 is the best game I’ve played on my dusty PS5, and soon it’ll be one of the best games I’ve played on PC. That’s assuming the PC port, which Sony announced today during a State of Play livestream, will be as good as its predecessor. The PC version trailer (embedded above) boasts…
In December 2025, Yacht Club Games founder Cris Velasco said that despite the studio’s success with the 2014 hit Shovel Knight, it would be in serious trouble if its then-upcoming game Mina the Hollower wasn’t a hit: “It’s make-or-break for sure,” Velasco said at the time. Six months later, Mina has arrived, and it looks…
Like a large jaw with a preternaturally strong grip on the teeth it contains, Rockstar has let slip another half-detail about its reasons for firing more than 30 people in October, telling IGN that they were let go for revealing details about games that haven’t even been announced yet. It’s been a very slow roll…
“Go ahead and bring that extra CRT”. Trains are great. We love a good train ride. It’s even better these days given the advancements in technology, space, and comfort (though granted, there’s still also a load of work to be done; especially in the UK), making particularly lengthy journeys a joy if you happen to…
Bad news for Nobunaga and his ambitions: Assassin’s Creed Shadows has parkoured past 1,000,000 players in under 24 hours. Naturally, Ubisoft immediately bragged about it on social media. It’s not even 4PM here in Canada and Assassin’s Creed Shadows has already passed 1 million players!Thank YOU from the bottom of our hearts for joining this…
On May 12, PlayStation fans will finally get to experience the original Star Wars Episode I: Racer when it launches for PlayStation 4. Episode I: Racer was an intergalactic kart racer that included a variety of racers spanning the Star Wars galaxy and a satisfying upgrade system that let you develop and customize the stats…