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Also down to £179 in the UK. It’s finally time to buy one!!! Image credit:Sony Remember when the PlayStation Portal was impossible to find unless you were refreshing checkout pages like you were trying to snag Glastonbury tickets? Good news, it’s not only in stock now, but also seeing its first proper discount for Prime Day . PlayStation Portal - White (Used - Like New) $124 (~30% off at checkout) See deal If you somehow missed the memo, the Portal is a PS5 streaming handheld – it doesn’t play games natively, it just lets you Remote Play from your PS5, or stream from the cloud if you’re feeling fancy....

I wish I lived in the Xbox Series S Barbie Dreamhouse Plus, some themed faceplates and a Forza Horizon 5 crossover. Xbox has revealed a Barbie themed Xbox to help promote the film, and I don’t think there’s ever been a better crossover. Over in the world of film, next month will see Barbie face her greatest challenge yet, as the upcoming Barbie film is releasing on the same day as Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer....

Is Helldivers 2 pay-to-win? The creative director has some strong thoughts about that Helldivers 2 is a solid co-op shooter that sadly flirts with paying for power, but that’s not how the studio CEO and creative director sees it. Image credit:Arrowhead Game Studios, PlayStation Though the reception to Helldivers 2 has been generally very favourable, people started paying attention to all the different ways the game is monetised after most of the server issues were resolved and you could spend a few hours of uninterrupted fun....

Is PlayStation’s State of Play going to show more than just PS4 to PS5 remasters? Watch it here to find out Sony has officially announced the long-rumoured State of Play presentation. Here’s when it’s happening and how to watch it. Image credit:Sony Interactive Entertainment The next PlayStation State of Play is upon us. Sony has officially confirmed the date and time of its next showcase. We’ve been expecting the September event for some time now, and you’ll be able to watch it right here ....

It turns out Emio is… the first new Famicom Detective Club game in over 30 years, and the director of Super Metroid is back to make it Seems like the best possible result, honestly. Image credit:Nintendo Last week Nintendo teased something to do with Emio, and it looks like it isn’t the survival horror we all thought it might be. In probably the weirdest bit of marketing Nintendo has done in a hot minute, a teaser was released last week of a man standing in a smiling paper bag mask, and nothing else....

IT: Welcome to Derry’s first-look stills and new details confirm previously skipped events from Stephen King’s novel will be included in the show No plot thread left behind. Image credit:Warner Bros. Pictures With only two episodes of The Penguin now left to go and Dune: Prophecy around the corner, expect Max to ramp up marketing on next year’s biggest HBO shows. The Last of Us’ second season is perhaps the most heavily anticipated, but don’t forget about the upcoming IT prequel, Welcome to Derry, which has just had its first-look stills and details released....

It’s time to say goodbye to the Nintendo 3DS, as the last player to still be online finally loses connection more than 200 days after servers went down Gone but not forgotten. Image credit:Nintendo It’s finally happened, folks: the last surviving online Nintendo 3DS player has lost connection, meaning it’s done for good. The last couple of years haven’t been very good for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U fans. Last year, both consoles’ eShops shut down , and earlier this year online services for the platforms were shuttered too ....

It’s true, the PS5 won’t be getting any major exclusives for a while That said, it doesn’t look like you need to panic too much about it. Image credit:VG247/PlayStation Sony has confirmed that it doesn’t have any plans to release any new entries in its existing major franchises - the likes of your God of Wars and your Marvel’s Spider-Mans - between April 2024 and March 2025. Don’t worry though, there is some context to that admission that might help you understand the likely reasons why it set be the case, rather than being anything that should be a real cause for concern....

Keanu Reeves did his Shadow the Hedgehog research for Sonic 3, and it may or may not have included taking in some foot fetish fan art I’m starting to think he alone might be worth the price of admission. Image credit:Paramount Pictures Keanu Reeves might have come across some cursed online knowledge while prepping for his role as Shadow the Hedgehog for Sonic 3 , something even darker than his part as Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077 ....

Keen to see Dragon Age get a Fallout-style TV series? Well, its former lead writer would rather watch an Animal Crossing political thriller He also fancies “David Lynch-style” Disco Elysium. You can certainly sign me up for that. Image credit:VG247/Bioware/Nintendo Yep, as it turns out, not everyone who’s worked on a video game necessarily thinks that game would translate well, or come off in the same way it does in game form, on the big screen....

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 gets a brand-new trailer at Summer Game Fest 2024 Warhorse Studios showed up to deliver a new Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 trailer, and we’re here for it. The Summer Game Fest kickoff livestream continues to deliver, with the next item on the docket being a fresh look at Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 , the follow-up to the 2018 action RPG from Warhorse Studios. Deliverance 2 was unveiled back in April with a fairly extensive trailer , and today’s footage continues the hype train rolling....

Latest Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 1.2.0 patch notes fix gameplay progression What changes in Hyrule can you expect to see after the 1.1.2 update? Image credit:Nintendo A brand-new update for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been released by Nintendo. The Version 1.2.0 update (released July 4, 2023) fixes gameplay progression, in which some players couldn’t progress past certain quests, and provides some additional quality-of-life fixes....

Lego Fortnite Brightcore location and how to get it Not the brightest core in the batch Finding LEGO Fortnite brightcore is a bit of a challenge, one that Fortnite is happy to let you just stumble around and figure out on your own. Brightcore springs up in secluded caves, but only in one region, and you need a bit of prep work to make it in and out alive. Brightcore is worth the effort, though....

Leon, Goku, Blade! Tekken 8 players are going wild with the character customisation It’s only day one, and people are going wild with the character creator. Image credit:Schmick28 Tekken 8 has only been out a day, and already players are going absolutely wild with the character customisation tool. Not only have they been pulling off rad new looks for the various fighters, they’ve been recreating other beloved figures from across video games, anime, and film....

Looking forward to all those big Deadpool & Wolverine cameos? Don’t expect all of them to be real, as it looks like Marvel might have been lying about some of them You’ll have to keep your eyes peeled for the real ones. Image credit:Marvel Deadpool & Wolverine is set to feature plenty of cameos, but a few of them might be some red herrings from Marvel . Over several Deadpool & Wolverine trailers, it’s become clear that its multiversal story will have more than one cameo from X-Men films past, with a really big one having been revealed in the film’s final trailer (seriously, you might not want to watch that one if you’re particularly spoiler averse)....

Love and Deepspace Abyssal Chaos: How to get all of Rafayel’s endings in Final Farewell How to make the correct choices to get each of Rafayel’s endings in the Final Farewell commission of Abyssal Chaos. Image credit:Papergames / Infold Games As one of the endgame modes in Love and Deepspace , Abyssal Chaos lets you investigate a roguelike dungeon-esque mode with high-levelled versions of your favourite companion characters. Take on the Final Farewell commission with Rafayel as your partner and – assuming you don’t run out of attempts in combat, that is – you’ll find yourself on track to one of six unique endings that you can only see by taking this particular character on this commission....

Love those mid-range Square Enix titles? You might want to prepare to say goodbye to them as the Final Fantasy dev shifts from “quantity to quality” Plus, it’ll be moving towards a multiplatform strategy. Image credit:Square Enix The days of Square Enix making loads of medium-budget games might be over, as it outlines its new medium-term business plan. Square Enix might not be a developer that always hits it out of the park, but you can’t say that it doesn’t have a pretty broad portfolio....

Masters of the Universe finds a new He-Man in Nicholas Galitzine as pre-production heats up The project is undergoing major changes under the new direction. Image credit:MGM Pictures We were just wondering earlier this month about whether the new iteration of the long-in-development Masters of the Universe live-action movie would recast the role of He-Man, and now we have a positive answer. Nicholas Galitzine has landed the part. The previous iteration of the project - which was ultimately scrapped at Netflix - had the Nee brothers (The Lost City) at the helm and Kyle Allen (West Side Story) announced to star in it as Adam/He-Man....

Max confirms The Last of Us season 2 won’t arrive until 2025 That game of golf will have to wait. Image credit:HBO After becoming one of Max’s most-streamed shows of all time and earning 24 nominations at 2023’s Emmys , HBO and PlayStation Productions’ The Last of Us series won’t be back until 2025. That was the logical assumption because of all the lost development time caused by the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes this year, but it’s now been confirmed by Max via its 2024 preview trailer , which also includes a look further into the streaming service’s future....

Mexico 1921: A Deep Slumber might be worth a go for Pentiment fans craving a fresh stop in the historical gaming time machine Mácula Interactive’s intriguing creation feels like it might have a crack at delivering a unique history lesson, even if it’s not quite Pentiment Image credit:VG247 I’ll be honest, I didn’t know much about Mexican history prior to trying out the Steam demo for Mexico 1921: A Deep Slumber , I wasn’t quite sure what to expect....