The medieval Europe setting of Final Fantasy 16 imposed limitations on the variety of characters who could be “realistically” featured in the RPG, according to the game’s producer Naoki Yoshida. In an interview with IGN, Yoshida discussed the “tough topic” of character diversity and admitted that his words might be “disappointing” to some readers. Yoshida was asked if players may ...

Five additional Ratchet & Clank titles will be made available to PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers later this month, according to Insomniac Games. The information was released in a blog post on the PlayStation website in time for the game’s 20th anniversary today.   Ratchet & Clank, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Ratchet & Clank: ...

Syphon Filter 3, a legendary PS1 shooter that was recently given a new age rating in Korea, may soon be available on PS Plus Premium. It’s another older game that looks ready to be included into the service, joining others like Ridge Racer 2, Resistance Retribution, Dino Crisis, and SoulCalibur: Broken Destiny. Now that Syphon Filter 3 has been certified ...

An interactive “NFT collectible art experience” has been unveiled by Square Enix. Symbiogenesis is the firm’s “first digital collectible art project developed from the ground up for Web3 aficionados,” as the company puts it. Symbiogenesis takes place in its own universe, where “a large cast of characters symbiosis, all of which can be collected as digital art,” as described by ...

Kill Every Last Person! The multiplayer spinoff Clone Carnage is now available for free on Xbox One and PC, as well as pretty much everywhere else except for the PlayStation 4, where it is oddly priced at $0.02 / £0.20 / €0.25. That’s a significant discount from the original release date of May 31 price of $12.99/€12.99/£9.99, but it’s also ...

Perhaps 30 frames per second isn’t insurmountable. After A Plague Tale: Requiem’s debut last week, the publisher Focus Entertainment said that the rat-filled adventure had amassed more than one million players in the days afterwards, and they published a trailer full with acclaim to drum up excitement. The residents of Push Square probably aren’t too surprised by this, because they ...

A bang-average title isn’t really going to cut it anymore with The Callisto Protocol and Dead Space looming on the horizon with the horror genre seeing an unexpected but welcome rebirth. The Chant is regrettably just that. It’s a passable game, but it will vanish just as quickly as it appeared. In this third-person game, the protagonist Jess has chosen ...

Sony has revealed that Horizon Call of the Mountain will debut on February 22, 2023, along with the PSVR2 headset. For an additional £50/$50, it will be offered as a single game or packed with the device. The price discrepancy between the two bundles would indicate that Horizon Call of the Mountain is priced separately at £50 or $50. Horizon ...

The PSVR2 will launch with a selection of games in February. The MMO was previously brought to PSVR by developer Ramen VR, who is currently working on an improved version for Sony’s brand-new gear. The development team claims that for this version, “hundreds of hours of new material have been added, major graphical enhancements have been done, and the PS ...

According to Sony Interactive Entertainment, it anticipates God of War Ragnarok’s sales success to be comparable to that of 2018’s God of War, which has so far sold a total of 23 million copies. Ragnarok has some fairly big shoes to fill because, according to Chief Financial Officer Hiroki Totoki, the previous game was one of its biggest-ever PlayStation exclusives. ...