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Sony offers 5 free days of PlayStation Plus but no explanation for 24-hour ‘operational issue,’ Capcom to extend Monster Hunter Wilds beta to make up for downtime

Yesterday evening, the Ask PlayStation support account on Twitter declared an end to this weekend’s strange PlayStation Network outage, almost 24 hours on the dot after the issues first began. Sony is offering five free days of PS Plus (the paid component of PlayStation Network) as recompense, while Capcom has said that it may offer…

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There’s plenty FromSoftware could learn from this year’s crop of inventive Soulslikes—here are 7 ideas I’d love to see in one of their games

Playing Soulslikes is a pretty standard experience for FromSoftware fans at this point. You spend your first few hours puzzling out the new names for the Estus Flask, Bonfires, Boss Souls, Titanite, and all the well-known mechanics you’ve come to expect from a familiar genre. But perhaps due to the fact that their formula is…

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Bloodborne Hands On

Though Bloodborne shares some broad similarities with Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls, it translates From Software’s trademark high risk, high reward play style to PS4 in new and interesting ways. Starting with its zippier movement speed, Bloodborne seems bound and determined to strip away anything that might encumber the moment-to-moment flow. Shields are no longer…

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Dev who accidentally listed his game on Japanese Steam as ‘Sh***y Dungeon’ sees skyrocketing wishlists and sales: ‘Everyone was laughing and, honestly, I was laughing like crazy too!’

Back in August, PCG’s Lincoln Carpenter reported on one of modern life’s little issues, in this case double-checking that machine translation tools are accurate. Turin-based developer Paolo Nicoletti released a demo for his game The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles on Japanese Steam after using machine tools to translate the text: and ended up listing the game…

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