Update, 12/31/21: PlayStation announced earlier this week that Deep Rock Galactic, as well as Persona 5 Strikers and Dirt 5, will be the January 2022 PlayStation Plus titles, and now, new details about one of the games have been released. As first reported by VG247, Deep Rock Galactic will contain some PlayStation 5-exclusive features thanks
As the end of the year rolls around, it’s a time to reflect — in this case, on some of the games we played throughout the year. Most of us at ExtremeTech are gamers of one sort or another, and we’ve rounded up both what folks have played and what they liked. Note that games
Audio player loading… The urge to upgrade is a constant one for gamers. The desire to jump from Nintendo Switch to Nintendo Switch OLED is strong, the need to pop a 2TB SSD into the PS5 near-overwhelming, and the lust to level up from a standard Xbox pad to an Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series
FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki has reassured players that they won’t be forced into situations where they must ride a horse or engage in mounted combat in the upcoming Elden Ring. Fighting on horseback or traveling on a horse are merely options that can prove to be effective, but there’s no compulsion. Miyazaki made his comments
Twitter user Miller, who has accurately leaked Marvel’s Avengers content in the past, has revealed that Jennifer Walters a.k.a She-Hulk is headed to the game and will be voiced by veteran voice actress Krizia Bajos. Interestingly, the tweet below was briefly quote tweeted by Bajos, who added a green heart to it. However, she later
2021 is about due to be visited by three thematic ghosts. While it’s being taught the error of its ways, we’ve got a few games we let slip under the radar this year. Check the Best Game You Missed tag to see a new game each day over the break. Ghost Time Games’ Tux And
Starting today, a large variety of Nintendo Switch games are discounted up to 75% on the Nintendo eShop in celebration of the new year. This particular promotion is exclusive to Europe, and will run from now until 12th January 2022. A chart of all the multiplayer games that are part of the current deal, such
Blow us down! Fantasy Dash might just be the first of the 79p games that is worth considering. It gets over that line by a whisker, but it’s an achievement regardless. Well, an achievement without any Gamerscore. Fantasy Dash has no real claim to the ‘fantasy’ prefix. There isn’t a sniff of a goblin or
The Halo Twitter account announced the release of a cosmetic pack featuring the Mister Chief meme for Halo Infinite, which includes a gun charm, a new AI skin, and other ways to kit out your character with the power of memes. Truly, we’re living in a charmed future where corporations are charging us real money
E3 may be the first game conference of the year, but its European equivalent is arguably bigger. Gamescom took place towards the end of August and while there was only one opening show that covered all developers and publisher (including Sony), there were plenty of new games to get excited about. The month wasn’t all
Cobra Kai returns to Netflix for a fourth season tomorrow. The runaway hit show is based on The Karate Kid films of yesteryear, and even rekindles the feud between Daniel LaRusso (played by Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka). We recently had the chance to play a mildly amusing Cobra Kai video game from developer
Image: Transfer Productions Over the holidays we’re republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking points from the previous 12 months from staff and contributors alike — articles that we feel represent our best of 2021. In them you’ll find our usual mix of thoughtfulness, frivolity, retro expertise, gaming nostalgia, and —
Mutan Insight, a Japan-based studio specializing in character and background models for other games, is hiring new employees to work on an unannounced “high-end RPG” remake for the PS5. The studio’s previous work includes the Episode Ardyn DLC for Final Fantasy XV, as well as Blue Reflection TIE and the Atelier series. While details are still scarce, the job
Hello everyone, how was your 2021? For me, 2021 has given me opportunities to play more games than in previous years, as having access to PlayStation 5 has not only removed most of the wait time to get into the games I want to play, but also their loading times thanks to the console’s blazingly
Audio player loading… 2021 has been a mixed bag for PlayStation. Following the hype around the PS5’s launch in 2020, this year has been considerably quieter, the calm after a raging storm – and that’s not necessarily been a good thing. While PS5 exclusives like Returnal and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart showcased how powerful
Every year our clone forms degrade, and Katharine spends the winter break copying each consciousness into a new body. Don’t worry: we can’t feel a thing! Since our new forms are still coming online from their time spent in the primordial flesh soup vat of the RPS Treehouse, we can’t post over Christmas, so we’ve
Japanese news outlet 4Gamer recently got the chance to sit down with a multitude of developers from a variety of different video game development studios, including those from Koei Tecmo, to ask about their aspirations for 2022. The president of KT’s Team Ninja division, Yosuke Hayashi; producer for the Dead or Alive series, and Nintendo
For a game that effectively gives you two choices – choose left or choose right – we are astonishingly bad at Ring of Pain. It’s part of its cruelty: even when there are only a few things in your control, you can still mess things up royally and die within the opening moments. Ring of