Hi, PlayStation Nation! My name is Alex Monney and I’m the communications manager for Perfect World Entertainment. Our team here at PWE and friends over at Tuque Games are thrilled to unveil Livelock, launching on PS4 this year. Livelock is a fast-paced, cooperative, top-down shooter based in a post-human world where machines are waging an…
SAG-AFTRA is making a move to support student game developers amidst its ongoing strike with a new exception that will allow striking video game actors to work on student projects and game jams. On Friday, SAG-AFTRA announced the Student Interactive Waiver Agreement and the Game Jam Waiver Agreement, which open the door for actors who…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview releasing to the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring today. It’s important we note that some updates made to these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We will continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable…
The RX 9070 XT is one of our favourite graphics cards of this generation, as it delivers a hefty whack of gaming performance that can sometimes edge it ahead of the RTX 5070 Ti. As for the Steam Machine… well, I reviewed it and I’d like it a lot more if it was cheaper, put…
Microsoft isn’t waving the white flag With a paltry 3 percent of the smartphone market, Microsoft might be forgiven if it conceded defeat to Android and iOS. And for a minute, it seemed like it might — there were rumors that Microsoft would switch up its mobile strategy by abandoning Windows Phone handsets and partnering…
Burnout Paradise Remastered is now available to buy for Nintendo Switch and as everyone is busy soaking up the high-octane racing action, YouTuber ‘Tilmen’ has produced a video that shows the graphical comparisons between the Switch and PS3 versions of the game. The game looked (and played) great back in 2008 when it was originally…
The Valve Index is a popular headset by most measures, currently used by roughly 15% of players on Steam to play VR. So why is it Valve has killed the Index branding entirely with its latest arrival, a new VR headset called the Steam Frame? Turns out, it’s exactly because Valve doesn’t want that sense…
It’s hard to make a new MMO nowadays—sure, if you’ve got over two decades of expansions to back you up, you can keep your players entertained by using every bit of the buffalo. But if you don’t have that? Good luck. MMO design veteran Jack Emmert, who recently returned to Cryptic Studios and has worked…
At Sony’s State of Play event on Wednesday, Sega debuted a trailer for Sonic X Shadow Generations, an updated version of 2011 platformer Sonic Generations. The original game starred Sonic, and also Sonic—the spikier 2000s hedgehog explored 3D levels, while the cuter and squatter ’90s mascot version of the character ran through 2.5D stages that…
With the growing need for computational power and performance, processors are getting bigger—much bigger. Even some of today’s gaming graphics cards push the boundaries of a small package, but they’re relatively small-fry next to AI accelerators and supercomputer chips. From here on out, it’s all about cramming more and more stuff—chiplets, memory, interconnects—onto a single…