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      Pushing Buttons: When even PlayStation is cutting jobs, something is seriously wrong with games

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 28 February - 12:30 · 1 minute

    In this week’s newsletter: Sony’s news that it is cutting jobs and cancelling projects for the mega-console underlines a depressing fact about game development – it’s go big, or go home

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    I wrote last week about the decades-long console wars between Xbox and PlayStation – and how the Microsoft’s looser attitude to releasing games everywhere people play them, even on rival consoles, might be the beginning of an end to them. Now we have news that Sony is laying off 900 people across its studios all over the world. Why is the maker of the hugely successful PlayStation 5, which has outsold its main rival by three to one, doing something so drastic? It seems that the end of the console wars might come not by choice, but by necessity: the way that the games industry worked in the past is simply not how it works now.

    The news that PlayStation would be laying off what amounts 8% of its workforce came via an all-company email from Jim Ryan, the company’s outgoing boss – who, less than a week ago, was pictured celebrating his Sony career at London Studios with many people who now no longer have jobs: the company is closing it entirely, along with cuts at Firesprite, and there will be “reductions in various functions” across the company in the UK. Guerilla Games (makers of the Horizon series), Naughty Dog (The Last of Us) and Insomniac (Marvel’s Spider-Man) are also seeing reductions. At the time of writing, Sony employees at US studios were still waiting to hear how they would be affected. “Please be kind to yourselves and to each other,” the email ends, with almost jaw-dropping irony.

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      PlayStation Plus Extra et Premium : les 16 nouveaux jeux du mois de septembre 2023

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 14 September, 2023 - 08:56

    Sony a levé le voile sur les jeux auxquels pourront jouer les abonnés au PlayStation Plus Extra et Premium. La sélection est surtout composée de RPG. [Lire la suite]

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      Le PlayStation Plus coûte plus cher et les jeux offerts en septembre ne valent même pas le coup

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 31 August, 2023 - 07:36

    Sony va augmenter les tarifs du PlayStation Plus, mais pas le nombre de jeux offerts tous les mois. On en reste à trois, et la sélection de septembre 2023 n'a rien d'excitant. [Lire la suite]

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      Bomb Rush Cyberfunk review – graffiti skateboard party like it’s 1999

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 24 August, 2023 - 13:42 · 1 minute

    Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC; Team Reptile
    This spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio has the same stylish look and feel, though with better gameplay for the outlaw street gang

    Bomb Rush Cyberfunk imagines a kinder, gentler world, where culture was frozen in stasis in approximately 1999. The game is a spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio, the effortlessly stylish Dreamcast classic about a lovable gang of extreme-sports wayfarers carving up their city with inline skates, leaving splotches of neon graffiti on every billboard and subway car. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk makes hardly any significant improvements on that formula, and frankly, its most compelling feature might be the sheer dogmatic respect that developer Team Reptile shows for its chief inspiration.

    You’re playing as “Red”, a crimson robotic head strapped on to the decapitated torso of a legendary graffiti artist named Faux. The narrative unfolds as Red’s own self-actualisation process blends with the borrowed memories of the body he’s possessing (this is a cyberpunk game, after all), but those story beats fade to the background while you’re trying to perfect an extremely complex rail grind. This is a sports game at heart, albeit in the gravity-free arcade tradition.

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      PlayStation Plus Extra : voici la liste des 18 jeux qui arrivent en juillet 2023

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 13 July, 2023 - 08:15

    Le catalogue de jeux à la demande de Sony s'enrichira en juillet 2023 d'une vingtaine de jeux, dont la référence du co-op It Takes Two. Seuls les abonnés PlayStation Plus Extra et PlayStation Premium y auront accès. [Lire la suite]

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      Le magnifique Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart rejoint le PlayStation Plus Extra en mai 2023

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 11 May, 2023 - 07:30

    Sony a annoncé la liste des jeux qui rejoindront les catalogues PlayStation Plus Extra et PlayStation Plus Premium en mai. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, grosse exclusivité PS5, en fait partie. [Lire la suite]

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      Les jeux offerts avec le PlayStation Plus en mai ont fuité (oui, comme d’habitude)

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 26 April, 2023 - 15:35

    Comme chaque mois, une fuite permet de découvrir les trois jeux qui seront offerts aux abonnés PlayStation Plus en mai. [Lire la suite]

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      Comment jouer à la PS4 ou PS5 à distance, depuis un smartphone, une tablette ou un ordi ?

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 5 April, 2023 - 15:45

    L'application PS Remote Play, disponible sur iPhone, Android, Mac et les PC Windows, permet de transformer n'importe quel appareil en console PlayStation. Seule condition requise : avoir une bonne connexion Internet. [Lire la suite]

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      La PS4 privée du DLC d’Horizon Forbidden West à cause des nuages

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 30 March, 2023 - 14:00

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    Le ciel de Los Angeles est visiblement trop réaliste pour que la vieille PlayStation 4 puisse en supporter les graphismes.

    La PS4 privée du DLC d’Horizon Forbidden West à cause des nuages