The lack of backwards compatibility on PSVR2 isn’t exactly surprising news, but being honest about the complications would go down a lot better than PR spin. I thought we’d gotten past this. After a period of odd resistance to the idea of backwards compatibility—highlighted most excruciatingly by that comment from …
The revamped PlayStation Plus subscription service is here, bringing with it a library of a few hundred games (for the Extra and Deluxe tiers, at any rate). The value is clear—it takes playing just a few games from the list for the subscription to work out cheaper than buying the …
It looks like the dark days when Sony’s approach to classic games was “Why would anyone want to play this?” might finally be over. With the new PlayStation Plus and the Classics Catalogue that’s included in the highest tier, a handful of games from older consoles are finally playable on …
The revamped, tiered PlayStation Plus is now available in New Zealand, meaning subscribers have access to hundreds of downloadable games. While PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 games make up the bulk of that number, of particular note for anyone who likes to look back a little further is the Classics …
Alright, alright, I know I’m usually the first person to start complaining about the AAA game industry’s obsession with technical accomplishment and photorealism, but if there’s one place where these things are absolutely worthwhile, it’s in sims—racing sims, flight sims, farming sims, whatever. And in terms of technical accomplishment and …
Playing Monster Rancher in 2021 is a surreal experience, to say the least. On one hand, it’s a ’90s game through and through, when CDs were still the standard music format and the relative novelty of a disc-based game console made a fun gimmick out of putting your music into …
Even though the PlayStation 5 release date was only just announced a couple of months ago, it feels like the wait for launch day has taken forever. Such of the way with 2020, I guess. But the next generation of PlayStation is finally here, bringing with it some exciting possibilities. …
A new trailer unveiling the full list of games built into Sony’s upcoming PlayStation Classic mini-console. The full list of games for the Western release, including those that were announced previously, is as follows: Battle Arena Toshinden Cool Boarders 2 Destruction Derby Final Fantasy VII Grand Theft Auto Intelligent Qube …
Given Nintendo’s success with NES Classic and SNES Classic, it was only a matter of time before Sony jumped on the classic mini-console bandwagon. Now they have: PlayStation Classic will be released on December 3, with 20 games pre-loaded, including Final Fantasy VII, Wild ARMs, Tekken 3, Ridge Racer Type 4, and Jumping …
For me, the premiere of Batman: A Telltale Series last month was a shaky start. It showed potential, especially in its nifty detective sequences and its exploration of Batman’s violence, but the plotline, obsessed with taking every turn to remind players that Bruce Wayne’s parents are dead and he is …
