Last month, fans of the popular bank-robbing first-person shooter, Payday 2, were left outraged by developer Overkill Software's decision to introduce microtransactions into the gameplay, despite previously reassuring players that it was something they would never resort to. But alas, the studio succumbed to the idea of selling premium items for real currency to help them boost their profits, turning Payday 2 into more of a 'pay-to-win' experience.
Three years may have passed since the Mayans have stopped being hip, with the Mayan Calendar's 2012 apocalypse prediction turning out to be a bit of a letdown, leaving the most eccentric, over-credulous of people extremely relieved and with a surplus of canned food filling up their survival shelters. This hasn't stopped developers Sileni Studios from bringing out Mayan Death Robots, a new strategic fighter based on the ancient civilisation and their mythology.
Both of game designer David Cage's cinematic, interactive dramas are coming to PlayStation 4. His telepathic tale Beyond: Two Souls, originally released in 2013, will make its way to the PlayStation Store next week. It will be followed by a port of Heavy Rain, where players will once again be faced with the horrors of the Origami Killer on March 1st, 2016.
If you're looking for a challenging platformer to pad out your PS Vita library this Christmas, then Polish developers iFun4all may have the game for you. The team's steampunk-inspired Red Game Without A Great Name flies its way onto Sony's handheld console sometime next month.
The Western is a genre that has fallen into obscurity in modern pop culture. We are a long way from Clint Eastwood gracing the screen as the Man with No Name in the sixties back when the Old West was at the height of its popularity. Sure, you will get the occasional revival of gun-toting cowboys in cinema and video games (Red Dead Redemption, for instance), but they are no way near as well-visited as the worlds of fantasy and sci-fi.
Developers Naughty Dog will wrap up Nathan Drake's story next year with Uncharted 4: A Theif's End. But if the studio's community strategist Arne Meyer is to be believed, then the award-winning company is not through with this generation of consoles just yet.
If the release of EA DICE's Star Wars Battlefront this week is simply not enough to satiate your appetite for battling the Empire in a galaxy far, far away, then don't worry: Sony is bringing back a blast from the past to the PlayStation Network.
The North American release date for the latest in the much-loved Mario & Luigi series has finally been revealed. Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam will arrive on January 22nd, 2016 for the 3DS, which is quite a bit earlier than its initial Spring 2016 release date.
The Legend Of Heroes: Trails In The Sky SC is a game that has been a long time coming for English-speaking gamers. The Trails In The Sky trilogy was originally released in Japan from 2004 to 2008 for both PSP and Microsoft Windows. Due to the series’ large size, the localisation process for other territories has been a painfully slow process. The game’s first chapter finally hit North America in 2011, and now, after another four years, the JRPG adventures gets to continue.
