The end is never really the end in Housemarque's new rogue-lite. Here's what you should know before its launch on April 30th.
The PSSR 3 and FSR 5 equipped PS6 handheld will reportedly outperform the DLSS 2 image upscaling in the Nintendo Switch 2.
In some text accompanying the classic concept art, Neil Druckmann mentioned "the few stops that remain on the road ahead," for the series.
Video game industry researcher Joost van Dreunen believes that we're quickly moving towards a world where consoles cost $1,000.
"I appreciate having that beat to go back to The Passage, talk to people, get a bit more story context," says lead designer Abebe Tinari.
The current bill of materials allegedly includes a 1 TB Gen 5 solid-state drive and no disk drive, according to leaker KeplerL2.
"The console and the AAA PC gaming markets rely on hardware investment to bring in new active players and drive market momentum."
"There's still a very challenging game there, but there is also the ability to kind of modify the challenge,” says Housemarque.
With an estimated 425,000 sales on Steam, the critically acclaimed action-adventure may have generated $147 million in revenue thus far.
"With this kind of stuff, we try to make sure it has both a gameplay purpose and narrative purpose," says lead game designer Abebe Tinari.
The base PS5 will cost $100 more, while the PlayStation Portal costs $50. However, the PS5 Pro is increasing by a whopping $150.
Creative director Gregory Louden likens the rogue-lite shooter's projectiles to a "playground" instead of an "obstacle course."
Housemarque's Returnal successor is shaping up to be an excellent rogue-lite third-person shooter ahead of next month's launch.
Unfortunately, however, the project would never see the light of day outside of a recreated cutscenes that was part of the pitch.
Industry analyst Rhys Elliot believes that Marathon has "settled into a respectable rhythm" with its 345,000 daily active users.
One notable example had priced Stellar Blade at a 43 percent discount for one user, while another user got a deeper 70 percent discount.
In a livestream, Jason Blundell and level designer JCbackfire discussed working with Sony before the studio's reported closure.
Lead level designer Hiraoki Yoshiike has revealed that the studio had toned down the worldbuilding elements for the sequel.
Jason Blundell, former co-founder of Deviation Games, has reportedly seen another studio shuttered, per Bloomberg's Jason Schreier.
PS5 Pro lead architect Mark Cerny has noted that developers will have to manually update games to support future versions of PSSR.
