The PlayStation Studios ranks are growing with the addition of TeamLFG, a development studio born out of Destiny 2 and Marathon developer Bungie, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hermen Hulst announced Wednesday. teamLFG was built as an incubation project at Bungie, Hulst said, and is “now fully formed and ready to be introduced to the world.” In a statement on Sony’s PlayStation Blog, teamLFG said it is “driven by a mission...
The previously reported Xbox-branded PC handheld seems to have appeared in leaked images linked to a Federal Communications Commission filing. Spoilers: It’s a black Asus ROG Ally 2, with a little Xbox button on it. The photos were surfaced by Videocardz and Indonesian site 91mobiles from an Indonesian certification filing, itself linked to a listing by the U.S. FCC. They show two new ROG Ally consoles: a vanilla model in...
Genshin Impact will require all its players in the U.S. to verify their age by July, in order to comply with a settlement between developer HoYoverse and the Federal Trade Commission over the game’s gacha mechanics. As part of the $20 million settlement, HoYoverse is forbidden from selling loot boxes to children under 16 without express parental consent. In a brief post, HoYoverse said the age-verification process would roll out...
Today, I am thrilled to officially unveil a new studio in the PlayStation Studios family. teamLFG originated at Bungie, but has also rallied developers from across the industry to bring to life an ambitious incubation project that I’m very excited about. The studio is now fully formed and ready to be introduced to the world. I’ll let teamLFG introduce themselves properly and give a tiny glimpse of what they’ve been...
There’s one cut in the new Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer that you’ve probably seen in a thousand movie trailers before. Two beautiful people are presented in extreme close-up. The lights are low. The music is pulsing. Their faces are close. They angle their heads and lean in closer. Their lips part and… cut! It’s a marketing technique that’s almost as old as romantic movies themselves. Build up the heat...
Prologue: Go Wayback! is an upcoming survival game made by PlayerUnknown Productions, the devs behind PUBG. It's pretty hard going, with an unforgiving environment and survival mechanics like hunger, thirst, and temperature all constantly on your back, making it harder to cross the rocky and confusing terrain.But its difficulty isn't actually the main appeal of Prologue; it's probably the fact that its map, which is randomly generated, is going to...
Elden Ring Nightreign, a spin-off action adventure set within the Elden Ring universe, launches on May 30. We spoke with the game’s director, Junya Ishizaki, about what we can expect from FromSoftware’s upcoming co-op multiplayer. Game design focused on compelling combat PlayStation Blog: You have experience working on level and combat design for FromSoftware’s past titles. Was there anything you gave particular attention to when creating Nightreign? What were some...
If you want to acquire New Land Beyond in Destiny 2, it's important to preface one thing: you're going to have to open your wallet. For now at least, as with past pre-order exotics, there's no way to get this weapon for free in the game—though there likely will be in future. Shelling out cash now just gives you immediate access to the new exotic sniper rifle.Beyond revealing this new...
At the end of last year, I listed a possible Nvidia laptop chip (ie, not just the GPU but the CPU, too) as something I'd really like to see from 2025, and since then we've had plenty of intimations that we might actually see such a thing. Now, we're hearing this might be announced at Computex later this month.According to ComputerBase (machine translated), "the official unveiling [of an Nvidia PC...
Grand Theft Auto 6 recently dropped its second trailer. It was almost three entire minutes filled with plenty of action—both on the streets and in the sheets—but if that wasn't enough for you, Rockstar also went ahead and dumped 84 brand-new screenshots and bits of artwork to feast your eyes upon.They're damn good pics, too, giving us a closer look at Grand Theft Auto 6's characters and locations within Leonida.There...