Wading into Helldivers 2's new Terminid hives to blow up their hearts, all as hordes of bugs swarm you is, unsurprisingly, exactly as cool as it sounds

Wading into Helldivers 2’s new Terminid hives to blow up their hearts, all as hordes of bugs swarm you is, unsurprisingly, exactly as cool as it sounds

Starship Troopers is a satirical movie (and less satirical book) that examines how fascist dictatorships drive young people into the meat grinder—waging pointless war across the galaxy, sending poor souls deep into the heart of an insectoid hive to meet a horrific death for basically zero reason. Helldivers 2 slightly undercuts this satire by making…

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Deadlock new midlane objective turned games into such a mid-only fiasco that it only lasted one weekend, though Valve’s still experimenting

Deadlock still technically isn’t out yet—which means that Valve’s gonna experiment. As was the case with last Friday’s patch, that made a sweeping list of changes to the urn, one of the objectives on the game’s map that helps encourage players to actually batch up for teamfights. Previously, the urn spawned on one side of…

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Media Player Coming to PS4

Hello PlayStation Nation! Every time we announce new features for PS4 here on PlayStation.Blog, I love going into the comments to answer your questions and see feedback on which features people really like and which ones people still want to see. One of those questions I have been able to count on has been, “Where…

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Estimates on the financial impact of yesterday’s AWS outage range from ‘hundreds of billions’ to over $75 million per hour, but one thing we can all agree on is it was pretty bad, chief

Large parts of the internet are still in a state of recovery today, after yesterday’s AWS outage took out large portions of our beloved world wide web thanks to what appears to be a relatively simple DNS error. Even Fortnite, Roblox and Reddit dealt with significant disruption, a fate worse than death for many of…

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