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Diablo 4 review – a hell of a good time?

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 13:00

PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, PC; Blizzard Entertainment
Behind the screams and stunningly-costumed demons, this is escapist junk food for gamers – which may be exactly what you’re after

Diablo 4 wants you to know that it’s very serious indeed. From its gripping introduction, evoking Blizzard’s Warcraft 3-era heyday of best-in-class cinematics, to the richly macabre backdrops that host its continuous loop of demon-slaying ultraviolence, this is a game with a mission statement: please don’t make fun of us for being too cartoonish, like you did with Diablo 3 .

It’s done well, for the most part. The writing harkens back to Diablo’s original two outings; a gothic, low fantasy miasma of hopelessness and intrigue. Most impressively, this version of Diablo’s world feels, well, like a world again; a place with history and tension, rather than a collection of maps strung together to facilitate dungeon delving.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is coming to PC—and it will be a technical showstopper

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 5 days ago - 21:17

This game is all about tracing the rays, so to speak. It looks fantastic. [credit: Sony ]

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be the next PlayStation Studios game to make its way to PC, Sony announced in a blog post on Tuesday. The game, which debuted in 2021, will launch on the new platform on July 26.

Although Sony has been in the habit of releasing its big PlayStation exclusives on PC long after their console debuts for a bit now, there are a couple of things that make this announcement particularly interesting.

First, this is the first Ratchet & Clank game to be released on PC—that's after 16 home and handheld console releases since the first game was released on PlayStation 2 more than 20 years ago.

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En juin, l’abonnement PlayStation Plus vous offre NBA 2K23

news.movim.eu / Numerama · 5 days ago - 16:37

Sony va offrir trois jeux aux abonnés PlayStation Plus en juin, dont le très célèbre jeu de basket. [Lire la suite]

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Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart arrive enfin sur PC : catastrophe en approche ?

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 5 days ago - 10:00

Perçu comme l'un des titres les plus ambitieux de la PS5, le portage de Ratchet & Clank s'annonce comme un exercice difficile.

Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart arrive enfin sur PC : catastrophe en approche ?

Tout ce que Sony doit faire pour réussir sa PlayStation 5 portable (projet Q)

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Saturday, 27 May - 08:43

Annoncé par surprise le 24 mai, le « PlayStation Q » interroge. Présentée comme un moyen de jouer aux jeux de sa PS5 sans avoir à allumer sa télé, la console portable divise énormément la communauté de joueurs. Certains y croient, d'autres n'y voient aucun intérêt. Difficile de donner raison à qui que ce soit aujourd'hui. [Lire la suite]

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N’attendez pas trop le prochain jeu The Last of Us : il est repoussé

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Saturday, 27 May - 07:33

Alors que les fans s'attendaient à une annonce imminente de la version multijoueur de The Last of Us, Bloomberg rapporte que son développement rencontre d'importantes perturbations. Naughty Dog confirme repousser le jeu. [Lire la suite]

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Alan Wake 2 and the death of disc-based video games

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 25 May - 17:12 · 1 minute

Releasing <em>Alan Wake 2</em> on pre-shredded discs would probably just add insult to injury, right?

Enlarge / Releasing Alan Wake 2 on pre-shredded discs would probably just add insult to injury, right? (credit: Getty Images)

Anyone who pays attention to the game industry knows that the segment of players buying games on physical discs has been becoming less and less important as physical releases themselves become more and more niche . Still, even in recent years, you could usually count on big-budget console games from major studios to receive at least a perfunctory disc release to fill up the dwindling GameStop shelves .

So it was a bit of a surprise that yesterday's release date announcement for Alan Wake 2 came alongside news that developer Remedy Entertainment and publisher Epic Games currently have "no plans to release Alan Wake 2 on disc," as they put it in a new FAQ . When you look a little deeper, though, what might be more surprising is that there haven't been more major console publishers willing to give up on discs completely.

The rainbow of their reasons

The Alan Wake 2 FAQ does note, correctly, that "it is not uncommon to release modern games as digital-only." In fact, measured on a per-title basis, the vast majority of console games are now not available on disc at all. Still, such disc-free releases are still relatively rare when it comes to the kinds of major games that dominate the console charts.

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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 va être une pure dinguerie

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 25 May - 12:10

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PlayStation revient plus fort que jamais avec Marvel's Spider-Man 2, le jeu d'aventure qu'on attend désormais le plus cette année.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 va être une pure dinguerie

Alan Wake II coming in mid-October, promising another cryptic PC powerhouse

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 24 May - 22:37

Enlarge / There's really not much more context for what's going to happen in Alan Wake 2 than what you can see in this image. Well, maybe a typewriter.

Alan Wake 2 has a release date, an evocative trailer, and the requisite amount of meta-contextual horror to come.

The latest title from Control maker Remedy Entertainment, a sequel to the acclaimed Alan Wake will arrive on October 17, 2023, on PC (exclusive to the Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. Given the studio's track record, we expect to see some impressive ray tracing, storylines that make you question what a story really is, and novel gameplay conceits.

In typical Remedy style, you don't get much direct information, but instead, some teasing hints. After some flashes of cultish horror, we meet Saga Anderson, an FBI agent that Remedy states ( in a PlayStation blog post) will be a second playable character.

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