Perhaps more interestingly, Sony has today released the first footage of Horizon Forbidden West running on the PlayStation 4 Pro. The footage was initially only available as a compressed Twitter video and three GIFs (perhaps Sony wants to avoid any expert analysis from the sharp-eyed team at Digital Foundry?) Thankfully, has now also been made available on YouTube: What do you make of the gameplay - does it hold up compared with the PlayStation 5?...

The headline addition is Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the definitive edition version previously remastered for PS4 and PS5. But Dragon Quest fans will be happy with five games from the series added to PS Plus: Dragon Quest 11 S: Echoes of an Elusive Age, Dragon Quest Builders and its sequel, Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below, and Dragon Quest Heroes 2: Explorer’s Edition. Watch on YouTube Eurogamer Newscast: Are CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk and Witcher plans too ambitious?...

We’ve covered The Cycle: Frontier in the past as it went through a period of beta testing - when more than 900,000 people gave it a go, we’ve now learned. In short, it’s a free-to-play first-person PvPvE extraction shooter set on an alien planet were a radioactive storm has wiped out most of the population. Your job is to drop down to the planet’s surface from the relative safety of an orbiting station, and snaffle up resources while trying to stay alive....

Like many Wii U titles, Splatoon hit Switch via a sequel: familiar in many ways, but fleshed out with a more comprehensive single-player offering and the excellent Octo expansion. Five years on, the third instalment is here - and there are plenty of changes and improvements to consider. I liked Splatoon 2, but this new release feels like a proper sequel, improving on the series’ strengths and moving in new directions....

Earlier today, Bloomberg Japan reported that the Final Fantasy maker was being courted by companies interested in an acquisition, citing bank officials with knowledge of the situation. Now, Square Enix has said it won’t be bought, and had received no offers along these lines. “Bloomberg has reported today that there is interest from several buyers to acquire Square Enix,” a statement from the publisher reads. “However, this report is not based on any announcement by Square Enix Holdings Co....

“Since the news of Stadia shutting down,” the company wrote in a statement shared on Twitter, “Bethesda Softworks and ZeniMax Online Studios have been discussing the next steps for our Elder Scrolls Online Stadia players and we appreciate your patience”. “We are happy to share that our Stadia players will be able to transfer their ESO accounts to PC,” it continued, “bringing with them all of their progress, including but not limited to existing characters, purchased items, achievements, and inventory....

Dramatic Labs, if you’re unfamiliar, was founded by controversial former Telltale Games boss Kevin Bruner (who was accused of “cultivating a culture of fear” while at the now-defunct studio in a Verge report dated 2018), and includes around 20 former Telltale employees. And Telltale’s DNA is immediately evident in the newly released seven minutes of Star Trek: Resurgence gameplay footage (as shared by IGN), which sees Spock briefing a crew as the threat of war looms between two neighbouring planets....

Starbreeze, best known for its development of the Payday series, fell from grace following the disastrous launch of Overkill’s The Walking Dead on Steam back in 2018. The game’s failure led to severe financial issues and the exit of the company’s boss Bo Andersson. Wesley Yin-Poole produced a full-length feature on the company’s collapse in 2019 which I recommend you give a thorough read if you want the full context....

Details are thin on the ground, including exactly where and when the game will see release. More news, Capcom has promised, will be revealed this summer. Until then, you have little more than 30 seconds of teaser footage to pore over, with Luke squaring up against Ryu. If you like watching overly large muscles pop and toes flex, this is for you. And that’s it until the summer, then - when we’ll hopefully get answers to some of our burning questions....

The general opening of the area has been repeatedly delayed due to the effects of the pandemic, and comes almost a year behind schedule. Nintendo announced the 18th March date this morning via its official Twitter , accompanied by an image showing guests leaping over its landmarks while wearing a selection of face masks. The last we had heard of the park’s opening was that it had been delayed indefinitely back in January - although media tours have still taken place....

Word on the project initially began circulating over the weekend on Reddit and Resetera, and well-connected journalist and former Kinda Funny co-host Imran Khan has now lent further credence to the rumours, citing sources able to corroborate the news in a story on Fanbyte. Final Fantasy Origin is said to take place “somewhere in or adjacent to the world of the first Final Fantasy game on the NES” and will slot into the action sub-genre occupied by the likes of Team Ninja’s own Nioh games and From Software’s Souls series - albeit with a more accessible focus to appeal to a wider audience, according to Khan’s sources....

As well as rounding out the mutant cast of dozens of X-Men games, Wolverine’s wild popularity as a solo comic character meant he also headlined his own titles. While hardly all-time classics, some had their enjoyable quirks (it’s worth seeking out the raucous SNES soundtrack to 1994’s Wolverine: Adamantium Rage, which sounds like the dawn of drill.) It is unlikely that Insomniac - a studio that could reasonably claim to be the best there is at what they do, which is making triple-A games about Marvel superheroes - will be poring over Logan’s back catalogue of Game Boy Colour titles in search of inspiration....

But remember, this is a show I want to consistently improve, so if you have any suggestions, I would genuinely love to hear them. Your support of the website is why I’m able to spend time on this so your opinion really matters. I hope you’re enjoying the series so far. In today’s episode - episode seven - I speak to the lady who created our Game of the Year 2021....

Blaidd, for the unaware, is an NPC in FromSoftware’s epic who’s half man and half wolf. He’s involved in one of the game’s main quests, helps players with one of the major bosses, and has had the furry community in a frenzy. Welsh voice actor Arthur admits it too. “I know that he’s caused quite a stir in the furry world, which I didn’t know anything about until I looked on the internet,” he says at the start....

Exactly where toads got started, it’s hard to say - a 1950 Pathé newsreel notes its Elizabethan roots, though the table played in that film (then located in Surrey) includes an ornamental toad sculpture on top seen in some European versions. It seems to be played a bit in Spain - where it is named “juego de la rana”, game of the frog - and also in South America - where it is “juego del sapo”, game of the toad....

If you pop over to Argos, you can find The Last of Us Part 2 for just £14.99. If that goes out of stock, it’s also available at AO for £14 or for just a few quid more at Game. Oli called Naughty Dog’s follow-up a gut-wrenching sequel - and it certainly doesn’t pull any punches. It’s been suggested - but not confirmed by Sony or Naughty Dog - that a PS5 update will be released for The Last of Us Part 2 somewhere down the line....

This mobile game is the work of NetEase Games, the Chinese company working with Blizzard on mobile game Diablo Immortal, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It’s an officially-licensed mobile strategy game based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s books and Peter Jackson’s movies. In the game you build armies and expand territories as you search for the One Ring. It’s set in the Third Age of Middle-earth (the one in which the Lord of the Rings trilogy is set), and includes famous franchise characters such as Aragorn and Elrond....

The well-reviewed retro console can now be picked up for £43 - that’s slightly under £20 less than its usual price of £60. Sega Mega Drive Mini for £42.99 at Very This latest offer is even better than the price cut we saw on the Mega Drive Mini over Prime Day. Just last week it was £50 - and that seemed like a great price at the time! As for what games you get on the Mega Drive Mini?...

The Skyscraper District The level I return to most often in Jet Set Radio Future - by now I’ve been returning for almost twenty years - is also the level that has never really made sense to me. As the name suggests, The Skyscraper District and Pharaoh Park is a level that covers two areas - a downtown hub of honey-coloured stone filled with pedestrians, and then…? Well, I’ll get to that....

Following on from last year’s similarly styled event, Capcom is poised to hold another Ace Attorney orchestra concert on 7th May at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo, this time in honour of the series’ 20th anniversary. If your interest is piqued, the official website has now revealed the full, series-spanning set list for the 20th anniversary concert (which you’ll find below) and you can get a solid idea of what’s in store by watching this 7-minute snippet from the 2021 show....