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Wednesday3rd Jul 2024
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard's In-Depth Difficulty Settings Even Have a No Death Option
Not today
Upcoming RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard will feature a full suite of customisable difficulty options. A new Game Informer article reveals that alongside your typical premade settings — Storyteller, Adventurer, and Nightmare — you'll be able to adjust individual values in order to create your own custom difficulty. You can tweak...
Tanks very much
If you're looking for a way to make Elden Ring easier, you may well be interested in thrusting shields — a new weapon type that's been introduced via Shadow of the Erdtree. Essentially, these shields let you attack and block at the same time, meaning that you don't have to worry about timing your strikes, because you're just...
News Almost 2,000 Awesome PS5, PS4 Games Discounted on PS Store
Here we go again
Another near-2,000 must-own PS5 and PS4 games have been discounted on the PS Store, with a bunch of acclaimed outings plunging to their lowest ever price points. Among their ranks, you’ll find Dragon Ball XenoVerse 2 for just £3.99 and the Deluxe Edition of Naruto x Boruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections for £43.49. We’ve...
News The First Descendant Enjoys Strong Launch Numbers, Teases Content Roadmap
Rubber hits the road
The First Descendant has finally touched down, with the free-to-play looker now live on PS5 and PS4. Being a live game, players can look forward to regular content updates, additions, and plenty of cosmetic skins to play dress up in. Nexon has revealed just some of the stylish suits engaged Descendants can look forward to...
News Ridiculous Brawler Bare Butt Boxing In Training for PS5, PS4 Bout
Eyes on the prize
Bare Butt Boxing is an incredibly fun-looking multiplayer brawler which is leaving Steam Early Access and coming to Switch and PC first, promised for PS5 and PS4 at a future date. The concept is a fairly simple one: mischievous and colourful aliens, entranced by the concept of bare-knuckle fisticuffs, land on Earth in order to host...
News Frank West Voice Actor Won't Be Returning for Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster
"I simply wasn't called for this mission"
Terence Rotolo, the voice actor who lent his talents to the main playable character, Frank West, in the original Dead Rising, will not return for the recently-revealed Deluxe Remaster. Capcom announced that the enhanced rerelease would boast modernised visuals and run at a crisp 60 frames-per-second, but...
News Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn Offers No Respite with Extended Gameplay Trailer
Death to gods
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is currently encircling fans of action RPGs and Soulslikes, preparing to storm the breach on 18th July on PS5. Developer A44 Games and publisher Kepler Interactive, with the assistance of IGN, have released a suitably stirring narrative trailer and an extensive look at gameplay. Set in a world in which...
News CDPR Says Boston-Based Dev Studio Will Make Cyberpunk 2077 Sequel More Authentically American
City of dreams
Polish video game developer and publisher CD Projekt Red says its new Boston-based development studio will make the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 (codenamed Orion) more authentically American. While the decaying vision of the Cyberpunk future depicted is a relatively far cry from our reality, some players felt their immersion wasn't helped...
Tuesday2nd Jul 2024
News A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead Fast-Forwards to Day 105 in Story Trailer
Keep your mouth shut
With A Quiet Place: Day One now out in cinemas worldwide, Remothered developer Stormind Games is capitalising on the IP's renewed interest with a fresh story trailer focusing on the video game spin-off A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead. Viewable above, footage depicts action from both the day of the alien invasion and then more...
News Tales of Kenzera: ZAU Developer Falls Victim to Layoffs
More than 12 employees lose their job
Surgent Studios, the team behind Tales of Kenzera: ZAU, has announced it's had to let go of "just over a dozen" workers in a round of layoffs. It was spotted by Game Developer that multiple former members of the developer were posting to LinkedIn about being let go, and now the news has been confirmed by the...
Feature Push Square Readers' 20 Most Anticipated PS5 Games for the Second Half of 2024
As voted by you
The second half of 2024 is fit to burst with new PS5 games. This is something that dawned on us after Summer Game Fest came to an end, and a slew of titles were granted release dates for later in the year. And so last week, we published a Talking Point in order to discuss our most anticipated PS5 games. In it, we asked the Push...
News XDefiant Season 1 Brings Rainbow Six Faction, Maps, Weapons, Modes
All new content live now on PS5
The first big XDefiant update since the online FPS' release in May has now landed on PS5, bringing with it a new faction themed around the Rainbow Six franchise, three more maps, another two modes, additional weapons, and Ranked Play. All the new content is live now in-game, with the headline addition being the new...
Mini Review NeoSprint (PS5) - Simple, Fun Racer Isn't Always a Smooth Ride
Bumper cars
Sprint is Atari's latest retro series to receive a modern coat of paint, and it's arrived in the form of NeoSprint. This fresh spin on the publisher's old school racing game comes out of the workshop with a pleasant look and feel and some neat new features, but there are still a few spots that needed a little more attention. This is an...
News Classic Action RPG Remaster Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana Slashes to PS5, PS4 in 2025
Oathkeeper
XSEED Games is bringing classic action RPG Ys: The Oath in Felghana back, complete with various enhancements on PS5 and PS4. The Oath in Felghana itself is a remake of 1989's Ys 3, and was released for the PSP all the way back in 2010. However, a remastered version of the remake — titled Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana — just...
Guide Final Fantasy 14 Beginner's Guide: Get Started in Eorzea
Everything you need to know before starting Final Fantasy 14
Welcome to our beginner's guide for Final Fantasy 14. With Final Fantasy 14's latest expansion Dawntrail finally in the hands of eager players around the globe, there's never been a better time to finally take the leap and give Square Enix's acclaimed multiplayer RPG a go for yourself. But...
News Here's Your First Look at Agent Smith Gameplay in MultiVersus on PS5, PS4
Arrives later this month
MultiVersus is about to gain another new character for its playable roster. Agent Smith has been confirmed for the game for a while, but this new trailer gives us our first look at how the character will play in WB Games' free fighter. As with all the other characters in the game, Agent Smith looks to have a lot of...
News Transformers: Galactic Trials Combines Racing and Rogue-Lite Action on PS5, PS4 This October
Roll out
Publisher Outright Games has announced Transformers: Galactic Trials, a new game starring everyone's favourite giant alien robots. It's a curious blend of genres, with the game's two halves dividing your time between arcade-style racing and third-person combat sequences with rogue-lite elements. "After the evil NEMESIS PRIME steals the...
News Capcom Classic Okami Collaborates with Kunitsu-Gami in Demo Rewards
Earn free outfits and weapons for launch
Capcom is offering an extra incentive to play its newly launched Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess demo as finishing certain tasks will reward all players with items themed around the PS2 classic Okami at launch. The PS5, PS4 demo is available to download and play now, and you have got until the full game...
Guide Best Trails Games Ranked: Which Trails Games to Play and Where to Start
A guide to Falcom's huge RPG series
Over the last few years, the Trails series has started to find some footing in the West, largely thanks to the localisation of the Trails of Cold Steel saga on PS4. And now that publisher NIS America is committed to bringing the franchise overseas, we finally have enough Trails games to warrant a guide like this...
News MultiVersus Update Prepares for Agent Smith, Adds Modes, Rebalances Characters
Major patch inbound
WB Games' free-to-play platform fighter, MultiVersus, is imminently set to receive a huge game update, adding support for the latest playable character and making lots of adjustments and improvements. Agent Smith will be joining the fun this month, but there's plenty more to look forward to with this patch. Agent Smith will go...
News PS Plus Essential Offers 3 More PS5, PS4 Games to Download Now
Like, follow, and obey
PS Plus Essential members can look forward to another three PS5, PS4 titles to download and play when they next boot their system up, with the service's monthly game refresh now available. You have got until Tuesday, 6th August 2024 to claim the following: Borderlands 3 (PS5, PS4) | Review NHL 24 (PS5
News Konami Producer Would 'Like Nothing Better Than to Work with Hideo Kojima Again'
"That would be the dream"
It seems time heals all wounds, even the grievous ones that linger after a high-profile public breakup. Noriaki Okamura, producer of the upcoming Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater from Konami, has signalled that not only would he be up for working with auteur creator Hideo Kojima again, it's his heart's most fervent...
News Rekindle Your Romance with The Sims 4's Upcoming Lovestruck DLC
WooHoo!
Love is in the air, at least for the amorous inhabitants of The Sims 4, with EA revealing that its upcoming Lovestruck expansion is all about romance and infatuation. A surprisingly raunchy trailer for the DLC offering shows off the kinds of moves inhabitants of the free-to-play social sim will be able to pull when it launches on 25th July,...
News The Emperor Protects? Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Dev Cancels Public Stress Test
Flying in the face of Guilliman's sacred Codex
Developer Saber Interactive and publisher Focus Entertainment have confirmed that Space Marine 2's public stress test, scheduled to take place before the games' 9th September release, will no longer be going ahead. Claiming to be entirely focused on optimisation, polish, and bug fixes, the powers that...
News Golden Order Restored as Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree Recovers from Review Bombing
Mostly Positive, soon to be Overwhelmingly so
Frustrated Elden Ring players who jumped into the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, ignored tutorial messages, and expected a cake-walk, vented their spleens by review bombing the DLC on Steam. This caused the critically acclaimed offering to drop to Mixed, although, in fairness, the PC version was also...
Random Unfortunate Eyeless Arachnid Named After Least-Appealing Monster Hunter Beasty
Don't look now
A new species of eyeless spider has been discovered in China. While we don't think the discovery of another arachnid should ever be a cause for celebration, notably, the person responsible for bringing this nightmare to light has decided to name it after the worst of all Monster Hunter monstrosities. Spotted by VG247, the little...
News PS Stars 'Returning Soon' in Regional Rollout
Being brought back in phases
After nearly a full month of downtime, Sony has announced its PS Stars rewards program is "returning soon in phased regional rollouts". The mobile PS App is now displaying a new message when the PS Stars icon is selected on the home screen that reads: "PlayStation Stars will be returning soon in phased regional rollouts...
News Shocking: There's a New Resident Evil Game in Development
Directed by Koshi Nakanishi
The Resident Evil series is so consistent in its release schedule and overall quality that it hardly needs pointing out, but Capcom has revealed it has a new entry in the horror IP in active development. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard lead Koshi Nakanishi is returning as director for the production of the new game, which will...
News Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Out for PS5 on 19th September
Priced at £44.99 / $49.99
Just days after its surprise announcement, Capcom has confirmed the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will launch for PS5 on 19th September 2024 via the PS Store. A physical version will follow in November. Priced at £44.99 / $49.99, the original game has been modernised, firstly with a 4K resolution running at 60...
News Capcom's Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Demo Out Now on PS5, PS4
Path to enlightenment
If you're not quite sold on Capcom's upcoming action game, Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, then you may be pleased to learn that a playable demo's out now on PS5 and PS4. The publisher's already shown plenty of gameplay footage for this one, but it does feel like one of those titles where actually playing it could make all...
