Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Nicholas Evanson) This month I’ve been benchmarking: Endless benchmarking. Hours upon hours, run after run. All in the name of seeing exactly one game performs on a range of different PCs. And I’d do it all again in a flash, as I adore benchmarking. Yes, I am a little…
Despite the rest of 2020, the past 12 months have been rich with immersive video game worlds, inspiring characters, compelling gameplay mechanics, and fantastic soundtracks. You’ve already told us what your highlights are. Now leading developers in the industry share their personal PlayStation picks from the class of 2020*. Call of Duty: Warzone Play Video…
Holy crab! We really wanted to love the delightful-looking Soulslike Another Crab’s Treasure when it landed on Switch earlier this year, but pesky performance issues made the whole experience far from ship shape. Fortunately, developer Aggro Crab Games has now released a performance-enhancing update for the Nintendo hybrid, hopefully snipping away some of those problems….
Last week, we asked you to tread into the magical world of the newly released Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince. From wintery slopes to flowing midnight skies, you shared your fantastical moments using #PS4share and #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Mondingus shared a snow-filled cliffside. Light shines into a cobbled courtyard in this share…
“They basically forced the publisher to restart the game again”. When Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay released on PC and Xbox in 2004, the review scores for the game ended up being far higher than what many people had expected, with most simply assuming the title would be yet another mediocre film tie-in…
Survival games are obsessed with the grind. Need a better axe? You’ve got to spend an hour collecting stone. Want to build a bigger base? Time to manually ferry hundreds of logs from one storage chest to another. Somewhere along the line, the genre started confusing friction with depth. But there are only so many…
There’s a type of myth that survives not because there’s any evidence for it, but because it flatters the preconceptions of a particular group of people. Take the notion that Todd Howard, head honcho over at Bethesda Game Studios, clearly seethes with resentment about how much Obsidian knocked Fallout: New Vegas out of the park….
This month’s update includes a selection of new cars including the iconic Honda Civic Type R (EK) loved for its lightweight and compact chassis paired with a lively high revving VTEC engine. In addition, Porsche fans will be able to enjoy driving the first Porsche production car which featured a turbo charged engine in the…
Nintendo’s shares closed at 50,110 per yen today (Thursday, 18th June) which marks the highest point they’ve been since August 2008, according to Refinitiv. Amir Anvarzadeh, a Japan stock market strategist at Asymmetric Advisors, has predicted that the spike occurred due to the recent round of exciting Pokemon news that we got yesterday. Another reason…
And it’s seemingly got nothing to do with cost. Star Wars Outlaws, released on 4th September 2025, is the latest in a long line of Switch 2 titles utilising the Game-Key Card physical release. It’s safe to say that most folks are under the assumption that cost is likely the driving factor behind the use…