Driveclub was beautiful, sublime to experience and it deserved better before Sony parked it away in a random barn with nary a find word said, leaving it to be forgotten about in the years to come.

Whip your chain back and forth in Darksiders 3 or smash criminal faces with justice fists in Batman: Arkham Knight? Why not both? Because September's PS Plus offerings are certainly giving you the chance to do so.

Mid-generation hardware updates have separated even console gamers into the haves and the have-nots. The PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X are faster, more powerful variants of now six-year-old consoles that are capable of pushing out more pixels per second than the base machines. While that does mean that some games are rendered at a glorious 4K (sigh..yes, really), …

Twenty years later, and Crash Team Racing is back on the trac, ready to kick some marsupial butt and leave the competition in its dust. Alessandro recently had a chance to take the game for a few laps, and believe it or not…He’s actually good at this game.

Days Gone has moments where it reveals its brilliance, but they’re buried under a litany of uninteresting and repetitive missions and numerous technical issues

Sony Bend plans to keep the Days Gone train rolling with a brand new set of challenges in June. “‘Survival’ difficulty mode tests players by daring them to beat the story with increased difficulty settings, no fast travel or Survival Vision, and an immersive HUD that removes maps and indicators from the gameplay screen,” Bend Studio game director Jeff Ross wrote on the Sony Blog.

With Borderlands favouring ce-shading and comic book colour palettes instead of attempting to bridge the uncanny valley divide, the series has managed to give itself not only a longer visual shelf life, but a platform that has been improved upon…handsomely.

With around 40 hordes inside of Days Gone and each one of these viral mosh pits numbering between 50 to 500 ankle-biters each, they’re dangerous enough on their own. But seeing them actually roam about? Now that’s an interesting wrinkle.