Assassin’s Creed Origins: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future

I love Hideo Kojima’s games, but last night’s fawning over his genius from Geoff Keighley and the Death Stranding 2 cast got me the opposite of hyped

Excited about Death Stranding 2: On the Beach? So am I, and so I offer one piece of advice to you: don’t bother watching last night’s premiere event, which was held in LA’s Orpheum Theatre, hosted by Kojima’s best bud Geoff Keighley, and featured various Death Stranding 2 actors and creatives coming on-stage to talk…

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PlayStation Blogcast 281: To Bee, or Not to Bee

Hello everyone! On today’s show we discuss Sid’s recent interview with storytelling mastermind Alex Garland. Plus: the incredible work of Ed Boon, further thoughts on Moss for PS VR, The Evil Within 2, and more. Enjoy the program, and we’ll see you next time! Email us at blogcast@sony.com! Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Google or RSS,…

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Where to find rusted gears in Arc Raiders

Rusted gears are already hard enough to find in Arc Raiders without everybody and their nan looking for them to upgrade their Gunsmith bench. They’re an oddly rare item in the post-apocalypse, even more so considering how many abandoned factories, machines, and vehicles there are topside. Well, I’ve got good news and bad news. The…

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North Korea’s crypto thieving went into overdrive in 2025, with one firm estimating it’s responsible for roughly 60% of the $3.4 billion stolen in total

North Korea has long been accused of being a major state sponsor of cybercrime, and new research from the crypto firm Chainalysis puts an eye-watering figure on the scale of these thefts in 2025: it estimates that the regime’s cybersquads plundered just over $2 billion of crypto and tokens. Chainalysis puts this down as a…

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Rhythm games use a lot of classical music, huh?

Classical music has formed the bedrock of videogame soundtracks since developers could shove something vaguely Chopinesque onto a three-channel sound chip. Phillippe Vachey worked in compositions of Johann Strauss and Saint Saens among his terrifying plucked string soundtrack. Catherine had half-naked sheep men pulling blocks and climbing to the tune of Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude. Hell,…

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