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My happiness comes at a small price: give me a paraglider that I can whip out at any second and a strangely beautiful open world, and there you go, I’m a happy bunny. It’s the Zelda formula. Or the Tchia formula. Or the Just Cause formula. Either way, it’s good fun. That’s why Towers Of Aghasba caught my eye when it debuted a stunning trailer at last night’s PlayStation Showcase, offering a glimpse at an alien open world and some settlement-building.
If you loved Journey‘s shimmering deserts and fluid sand-surfing, then let me draw your attention to the newly announced Sword Of The Sea. Revealed during Sony’s PlayStation Showcase, Sword Of The Sea comes from Giant Squid Studio, the folks behind 2016’s Abzû and 2020’s The Pathless, and sees you play as The Wraith, a lone explorer on a quest to restore submerged cities that have been buried beneath a sea of golden dunes. You’re able to slickly travel across the sandy terrain thanks to a rad-as-heck hoversword, a traversal tool that’s described on the PlayStation blog as a “snowboard, skateboard, and hoverboard all in one.” You can witness some major sand-shredding and see what else Sword Of The Sea has in store by watching the lavish announcement trailer below.
I see a game that looks anything remotely Soulslikey and I perk up, it’s like a fight or flight response only I’m not fighting or flying, I’m just staring at a video game trailer in some sweatpants with my fingers curled into a Cadbury’s Milk Tray. Hence why Phantom Blade Zero has perked me up to no end, as it’s an action RPG announced at last night’s PlayStation Showcase which marries Chinese martial arts with a steampunk aesthetic. I’m on board, if cautious! The action seems rad, but it’s so fast, it’s hard to tell how it actually plays.
Ubisoft’s Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time remake seems to be rewinding the clock on production since the game is still in the “conception” stage of development. The remake was originally supposed to come out four months after its reveal in 2021, tripped into 2022, and was then delayed indefinitely after switching developers. Essentially, this sounds like a Benjamin Button situation.
I didn’t get as deep into The Lord of the Rings: Gollum as our reviewist Rachel, but I do share her view that it is not A Good Game. In fact, I’ve had about as much fun with it as I would on a spa day in the Barad-dûr sulfur pits. Between the soulless platforming, undercooked stealth, tedious storytelling, and framerate stuttering so bad it’s got me killed twice, Gollum is perilously short on likeable qualities. Especially if you’re not into LOTR lore, or fine hattery.
In my unclad head, then, Gollum’s highlight so far has been DLSS 3. It’s one of just a few dozen games to support the newest, most artificially intelligent version of Nvidia’s deep learning-powered upscaler, and frankly makes a very compelling argument for switching it on. Graphics card allowing, obviously.
I don’t like being mean about games, but I do like being honest about games, and, yeesh, is The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum putting me between a rock and a hard place. The bottom line here, folks, is that Gollum is not good. Just as the ring corrupted Sméagol, playing Gollum has made me a husk of a human being, a twisted and bitter shadow of what I used to be. Playing it for more than 30-minutes at a time would make me feel unsettled, prompting some kind of feral need to scoop my brain out of my skull.
Alan Wake 2 would arrive in October, said a voice actor earlier this week. They were not wrong. Developers Remedy confirmed the news via a lengthy new trailer shown during tonight’s PlayStation Showcase, and embedded below.
Ghostrunner’s mix of wall-running and ninja-slashing made enough of a splash to warrant a sequel. Ghostrunner 2 was first teased two years ago, but tonight’s PlayStation Showcase gave us our first proper look at the follow-up. It has all the slicing, dodging, and parkour that you would expect from a sequel about a cyberpunk ninja, but this time some speedy vehicles join the party too.
Tonight is Sony’s PlayStation Showcase stream, an event that promises to have plenty of cool news and announcements as only a big, early NotE3 presentation can. While I’m sure the majority of tonight’s announcements won’t have an immediate and direct impact on us over in PC town, it’s well known that Sony have been stepping up their PC game recently, and so a lot of what you see here will probably make the jump eventually, even if it’s several years down the line. So come and join us for an early glimpse of PC’s possible future. I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s proceedings, which kick off at 9pm BST / 1pm PDT. See you there!
Small form factor (SFF) PCs are definitely in right now. I’ve built my fair share over the past few years, but new models continue to come into the market offering impressive looks, thermals, buildability for their size. One recent release is the Asus AP201, a Micro ATX case that offers excellent cooling potential, a stylish, unshowy appearance and a very reasonable price – especially today, as the black and white versions of this SFF case have dropped to $70 on Newegg following a $15 discount.
