In a new documentary called The PlayStation Revolution, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s former director for strategic content, Shahid Ahmad, detailed how Sony’s PlayStation division transformed from a “hubristic” organisation into the “humble, passionate and excited” company that launched the PS4 console. A console that was almost Sony's final push into gaming.
Infinite loading screens, a camera system designed to make you suffer and the worst checkpoint system known to man, all came together to create an abomination of gaming at the time. There legitimately isn’t a word that can accurately sum up just how ass Sonic the Hedgehog ‘06 is. But at least somene is trying to fix it!
What if I told you, that for a brief moment in time Gears of War was running on a PlayStation? Not just via some digital trickery or a blasphemous fusion of warring console hardware, but as a legitimate port of a game that would have sent diehard supporters of the Church of VREEM into convulsions were they to witness this heresy.
Look at your desktop. Look at it! Amidst all the clutter of random icons for games you’ll never play, images that need to be added to a dedicated folder and a Recycle Bin screaming to be emptied, there is a wallpaper that is older than your dad jokes. Heck, I bet it’s not even optimised for a proper 1920 x 1080 display, is it? Fret not, because the Critical Hit Extreme Desktop Makeover team is here to save the day!
One brave soul on reddit took on the Herculean task to create Spotify playlists for every game in the Guitar Hero series. From the original Guitar Hero through to Warriors of Rock, here's a selection...OF ROCK!
The Red Dead Redemption: Damned Enhancement Project has been running for a good while now, with DamnedDev taking on the mammoth task of translating the wildest of wests to PC. A Herculean labour of love, that job has now hit the breaks as DamnedDev put the brakes on the project.
The original Catherine game featured a full English voice cast, but for this update, the team over at Atlus worked on reuniting their voiceover band back together to record new lines of dialogue that ended up adding a substantial new chunk of content to the experience. And risked ruining Troy Baker’s money-making vocal cords.
You’ll no longer be able to play the multiplayer of Uncharted 2, 3 and The Last of Us as Sony has officially turned off the games’ servers.
Traci Braxton husband was Kevin Surratt Sr., a longtime partner who stood by her …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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