Five minutes. It took me about five minutes to feel perfectly at home with the traversal mechanics in Marvel’s Spider-Man. Holding R2 (the “go” button, as I came to think of it) keeps Spidey moving quickly, whether he’s sprinting on the ground, running along walls, or swinging through the air. Transitioning between swinging and wallrunning…
The PlayStation network has been completely borked for 16 hours and counting at the time of writing, first going offline at 1 AM CET / 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT on February 8. Sony has yet to provide an explanation for the outage, which affects PSN logins and services across all platforms, including…
I spent most of Steam Next Fest playing Balatro-likes—here’s a list of seven demos I think you should try—but it wasn’t until this weekend when I stumbled upon a nifty dice-roller called Dice A Million. I’ve been playing the demo every day since, and you should too, but there’s a bonus: if you like it,…
It’s that time again! June 2018 has come to a close, so we now look to you, the readers of PlayStation.Blog, to help us decide what the best new game of the month was. Cast your vote below before the polls close on July 6 at 11:59pm Pacific, and we’ll reveal the winner in mid-July…
The upcoming Marvel Rivals Spring Festival is set to start on January 23, in just a couple of days, and will introduce a Gallery Card customisation event, a few good-looking skins, and a new game mode called Clash of Dancing Lions that seems awfully familiar. This new game mode will see teams of three go…
World of Warcraft‘s latest patch has come with… well, let’s just say it’s not exactly landed well with the playerbase. That’s owing to a swarm of nasty bugs that have made it through the net—ranging from genuinely game-breaking to tiny frustrations, but gathering speed into one big mess. One of the funnier outcomes of Blizzard’s…
Fallout 76 was not the first attempt to splice the retro post-apocalypse with an MMO. Years before, Fallout’s original owner, Interplay, had taken a crack at it. This was actually after Bethesda had purchased the rights to the series, but the two companies came to an arrangement: one that would ultimately devolve into a lawsuit,…
Directly to you. Just when we thought our wishlists couldn’t get any longer, Nintendo had to go and drop another Direct. Let’s see who’s working through their backlog to make way for the oncoming deluge of releases in another edition of What Are You Playing. The Direct was the big news for this week, bringing…
During the early days of home consoles, Atari absolutely dominated the market, with its popular Atari 2600 VCS and a slew of games. Five years after the 2600’s release, Atari tried to mirror that success with its next-generation console, the 5200. Unfortunately, a number of factors, not the least of which was a lack of…
The joys and cons. Coming into this console generation with the spectre of Switch 1’s Joy-Con drift debacle in our minds, reviewers approached the Switch 2’s Joy-Con with extreme caution. The controllers seemed much improved, but problems take time to manifest, and even when things do go wrong, knowing whether you’ve got a one-off dud…