There’s a certain end of the video game industry that mistakes emotional manipulation for quality narrative. The goal is to find the right voice actors, get the players invested enough in the world that they spend a lot of time in it, and then make sure those key scenes are dripping with sentimentality. There doesn’t need to be any depth…
We’ve reached the tail end of the year, and the games keep on coming! As you’ll see from our October release list, there’s a lot to look forward to – a lot – so make sure you clear those weekends away. Then, for the rest of the podcast, we tackle…
Late last week, Sony PlayStation head, Jim Ryan, announced his resignation. Good.…
“New US$69.99 price may negatively impact PS5 game unit sales, data suggests.…
You all know the “we should improve society” meme, right? The cartoon about a guy that is suffering from backbreaking work, starvation, and other ailments suggesting that we should do something to improve society, and the other guy leaping out of a well to say “yet you participate in society!”…
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Sony is on to such a good thing with MLB The Show that it would rather have its San Diego development studio work on a cross-platform release than risk losing the baseball license (I would bet significant dollars that the MLB told Sony that the previously PlayStation-exclusive series was going…
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Overnight Sony unveiled the much-expected competitor to Microsoft’s Game Pass – an upgrade to PlayStation Plus that would see it now split across three “tiers” of service, and the most expensive tier (a little over $100/year, depending on local pricing) will have over 700 games, including titles from the original…
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State of Play is what PlayStation’s mini press conferences has evolved into (it’s Sony’s version of the Nintendo Direct); this one focuses on Japanese publishers, so we’re cautiously optimistic about what we’re about to see! Hopefully it’s not a bunch of western-focused games from Japanese publishers (for example, Square Enix)…
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