According to a pair of reports from GLHF, Disco Elysium developer ZA/UM has canceled a standalone expansion to Disco Elysium codenamed X7 and is laying off 24 workers, including Argo Tuulik, the last remaining employee at ZA/UM credited as a writer on the original Disco Elysium. ZA/UM subsequently confirmed the layoffs and project cancellation in…
High-stakes drama in UFC 5, mythological adventures in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, exhilarating arcade soccer action in Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions and more, there’s plenty to choose from in March’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup* with all games available to play from March 18. Meanwhile, PlayStation Plus Premium welcomes PS VR2’s…
Hey PlayStation.Blog readers! Together with independent developer Tiger & Squid, we’re excited to announce that the beautiful Beyond Eyes is heading to PS4 tomorrow! Beyond Eyes is a game about Rae, a young blind girl who uses her remaining senses to visualize the world around her in stunning watercolor. Rae isn’t like most other girls….
Amongst all the news of brutal layoffs, studio divestments, and ironic task force appointments at Microsoft this week, over in the Call of Duty corner of the megacorp, something kinda cool happened. Activision released updated ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) and Black Ops 2 (2012). They come with caveats, of course: At…
Earlier today, Xbox Wire published a lengthy interview with Obsidian, in which the studio laid out its philosophy for storytelling, narrative design, and handling player choice in Avowed. Given that it’s a Microsoft-published story about a Microsoft-published game, it’s a bit fawning, but it’s worth a read to see Obsidian explaining how it works to…
Hi guys! Kim from Defiant Development, here. Today marks the launch of Hand of Fate on PS4, and I wanted to give ya’ll insight into what you should expect while you play this roguelike deckbuilder we hold dear to our hearts. Before I get to the juicy stuff, allow me to talk a bit about…
I already feel preemptively sorry for whatever studio ends up making Baldur’s Gate 4. Imagine watching Larian put out an RPG as massive, impressive, and flexible as Baldur’s Gate 3, and having the license holder Hasbro say “another one of those, please!”. Now, as if following in the footsteps of one of the greatest games…
Lance from Versus Evil here to share some great news about The Banner Saga! It’s officially launching for PS4 on January 12th, 2016. John Watson has been working on bringing the game to consoles for quite a while. The process involved not only getting Banner Saga playable on consoles, but redesigning the user experience to…
Hello everybody! My name is Michael Douse, Director of Publishing at Larian Studios. In 2017 we released a PC game called Divinity: Original Sin 2, a sandbox RPG with the singular goal of bringing interactivity and exploration to new (sometimes ridiculous) heights. Since that release, we’ve been inundated by letters and comments asking us to…
A budget beauty? Between everyone at Nintendo Life, we’ve already got quite the heady (thanks) collection of gaming headsets for Switch 2 since the new console launched. You can find our in our Best Nintendo Switch 2 Gaming Headsets guide. However, one thing that we don’t have a whole lot of choice on, and especially…