Monthly Archives: June 2020
Bugsnax Announced for PS5
Bugsnax has been announced for PS5, a new game from the creators of Octodad.
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The Young Horses-developed game sees you explore world filled with a bunch of critters made of food. It has a release date set for Holiday 2020. It's a first person adventure that casts you as a journalist investigating the latest discovery on Snacktooth Island: the Bugnax themselves.
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Light and funny in tone, Bugsnax is designed to use the dynamic feedback of the DualSense controller to bring the world to life, such as changing the vibration to reflect the texture of terrain underfoot, tensing the triggers when setting a trap, or hearing a bugsnax chirp through the controller's speaker.
For more from the PS5 reveal event, check out our PS5 reveal round-up of all the games shown off.
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Bugsnax Announced for PS5
Bugsnax has been announced for PS5, a new game from the creators of Octodad.
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The Young Horses-developed game sees you explore world filled with a bunch of critters made of food. It has a release date set for Holiday 2020. It's a first person adventure that casts you as a journalist investigating the latest discovery on Snacktooth Island: the Bugnax themselves.
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Light and funny in tone, Bugsnax is designed to use the dynamic feedback of the DualSense controller to bring the world to life, such as changing the vibration to reflect the texture of terrain underfoot, tensing the triggers when setting a trap, or hearing a bugsnax chirp through the controller's speaker.
For more from the PS5 reveal event, check out our PS5 reveal round-up of all the games shown off.
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NBA 2K21 Coming to PS5 in Fall
NBA 2K21 will be released in Fall 2020, and has been shown first on PS5.
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The game was revealed with pre-alpha in-engine footage.
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NBA 2K21 Coming to PS5 in Fall
NBA 2K21 will be released in Fall 2020, and has been shown first on PS5.
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The game was revealed with pre-alpha in-engine footage.
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Astro’s Playroom Announced For PS5
Astro's Playroom has been announced at the Sony PS5 reveal event. The game will come pre-loaded on every PS5.
"Explore four worlds," reads a PlayStation Blog post, "each based on PS5’s console components. Each area showcases innovative gameplay that taps into the new features of the PS5’s DualSense wireless controller."
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The game is a new platformer featuring Astrobot, and the brief snippet of gameplay showed off a beach segment with plenty of classic style jumping and coin jumping.
Before the gameplay trailer, we also saw the briefest snippet of what seems to be the PS5 UI, with a golden glitter-like sheen.
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Hitman 3 Revealed for PS5
Hitman 3 will come to PS5 in January 2021.
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Revealed at the PS5 reveal event today, a cinematic trailer showed the trademark variety of global locations. This will act as a conclusion for the World of Assassination trilogy, and will release on both PS4 and PS5. It will also launch on Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and PC at the same time.
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A gameplay trailer showed Agent 47 amid a party in Dubai, supported by his Agency handler, Diana Burnwood. This time, Agent 47 will also join forces with his long-lost friend, Lucas Grey. Once again, missions will provide choice and repeatability, but developer IO says to expect a much darker tone and a sense of closure.
Hitman 3 will feature six locations filled with creative opportunities, once again powered by the Glacier technology behind the previous games. That technology also means that Hitman 3 will act as a platform for the entire trilogy; players can import locations from Hitman 1 and Hitman 2 and play the entire three-part campaign in one game.
For more from PS5, check out our all-games round-up of the full PS5 reveal event.
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Ghostwire: Tokyo Reveals Gameplay Trailer for PS5
Tango Gameworks, Shinji Mikami's game studio, revealed the first gameplay trailer for Ghostwire: Tokyo at today's PS5 reveal event. It's a first-person spell-casting game where the player uses magic to fight demonic spirits.
Ghostwire: Tokyo was first revealed by Bethesda during its annual E3 showcase last year. However, aside from a cinematic trailer gameplay details were not shared at that time. We now have a little extra information, as well as confirmation that the game will release for console exclusively on PS5, with a PC release, too, in 2021.
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The PS Blog reveals that Tokyo is under siege from paranormal threats known as The Visitors. 99% of the city's population has disappeared, and it's up to players to be the city's salvation by using a toolset of upgradeable supernatural powers.
The Visitors manifest in several guises, including Amewarashi, a child in a yellow raincoat, and Shiromuku, a bride who was unable to marry. These manifestations are rooted in strong emotions such as loss and separation, and each have unique attack styles and weaknesses. And beyond The Visitors, there are also a shadowy group wearing "Hannya” masks that must be investigated.
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Ghostwire: Tokyo will also make use of the PS5's 3D audio systems, which will be used to inject sounds you would not normally hear in a city realistically into the environment. Controller haptic feedback will also be used to help players feel the special abilities their character uses.
For more from the PS5 reveal, check out our round-up of all the games shown at today's PS5 stream event.
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Jett The Far Shore Announced for PS5
The PS5 reveal event has shown off Jett The Far Shore, the next game from Superbrothers and co-developed with Pine Scented.
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The trailer promises a story where we'll carve out a future for a humanity haunted by oblivion and propelled by dreams. Space travel is seen, as well as exploration of strange new lands.
Jett The Far Shore is set for a Holiday 2020 release date.
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For more PS5, check out every game at the PS5 reveal.
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Oddworld: Soulstorm Announced for PS5
Oddworld: Soulstorm has been revealed for PS5. No release window was given.
Announced during the PS5 reveal event, and introduced by Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning, Soulstorm is an action-adventure platforming game, drawing on the crowd mechanics familiar from the earlier parts of the series.
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Following on directly from Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee - New 'n' Tasty, Soulstorm will see Abe begin to become the revolutionary hero he needs to to save his race.
Per the PlayStation Blog, the game will see you "loot from trash cans, pickpocket, and search through lockers for items to craft into weapons and tools to use to help save your fellow Mudokons while you try to unlock the dark secrets behind Brew." You'll either be able to sneak past problems, or use that loot to equip yourself and other Mudokons with weaponry.
The game will also include "light RPG elements, leader boards, trophies for completionists, and a progression system."
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It will arrive for both PS4 and PS5, with the new console allowing the team to, "use PS5’s stunning graphic fidelity, mind-blowing 3D audio, and the DualSense Controller, to enhance our storytelling and artistic abilities to bring you closer to the game and create to create an even deeper emotional Oddworld experience for you to enjoy."
Lanning ends by saying that Soulstorm is the second game in a quintology - there's lots more Abe to come. Soulstorm was first announced in 2016.
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Kena: Bridge of Spirits Announced for PS5
Ember Lab, a new developer with a background in film and animation, has announced a fantasy action-adventure game called Kena: Bridge of Spirits for PS5.
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Kena is a story-driven action-adventure game that tasks players with finding a growing a team of tiny spirit companions called the Rot. Kena must also enhance their abilities find new ways to allow them to manipulate the environment.
The team at Ember Lab created the fan film Majora's Mask - Terrible Fate back in 2016, and consider Kena: Bridge of the Spirits to be the "natural next step for us.
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Kena: Bridge of Spirits was one of the many games revealed at the PlayStation 5 reveal event alongside Horizon Forbidden West, Resident Evil Village, Demon's Souls, Gran Turismo 7, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and many more.
Furthermore, Sony also revealed the PlayStation 5 console, confirming that is shares the same two-toned design as its controller, the DualSense.
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Matt Kim is a reporter for IGN.