If you can’t play with a light gun, what’s the point?

Ghost of Tsushima felt the same to me. Great characters and a beautiful world, but the gameplay felt bland. I was happy to finally get to the end because I didn’t have to play anymore.

I’m also a programmer, and have long suspected I have ADHD. I have thought about getting an official diagnosis and trying the meds, mostly because I want to play games again, and I wonder if that would help me focus. I don’t have any trouble focusing at work most of the time.

I’m in my thirties, child-free, work from home at a job I love, have plenty of disposable income and free time, have a passion for games and their development, and I still struggle to sit down and play something most of the time. I don’t even (usually) play games that expect regular participation. The struggle is real.

Yep! That’s why everyone was wondering WTF before it came out.

This update will also include a beta version of a new feature that many fans have been asking for – support for cloud streaming on PS Portal. When the update is live, PlayStation Plus Premium members will be able to participate in a beta for cloud streaming on PS Portal, allowing select PS5 games in the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog* to be streamed directly from our servers, even without a PS5 console.

It’s interesting that it specifically mentions the Series X. My understanding is that anything released on Series X must also run on the Series S.

Honestly, I prefer the last one. I’m not entirely sure why this is getting such significant hype around it. It is by no means a bad game, and it is very well made, but it just didn’t feel as fun as the last one to me. IMO, the best thing about this one is the physics. They regularly add a ton of small things that you can knock around, and I had more fun playing with that than anything else in the game.

That was a pretty badass trailer!

I didn’t realize that there was a physical release for this game. I just bought myself a copy to keep sealed in my collection.

Works for me on Sync.

For anyone that was a fan of the original Prey and getting excited, this isn’t that Prey.

I’m so happy they’re completing the series!

2006 all the way. I’ll never understand why they opted to cancel the sequel (which was looking amazing, btw) and use the same name for a completely new IP.

Mac isn’t iOS.

What a terrible graphic. “Don’t dead open inside” vibes.

I’m at level 25, and I also have yet to find out how to actually use microtransactions. I assume if I go looking for them through the PSN interface I could find them, but I haven’t seen anything in-game so far.

One neat thing about wakestones is that you can use them to revive NPCs that have been killed. This is cool, but also means that I have honestly used Wake stones just as much to revive NPCs as I have on myself. The main city in the first area actually has a massive morgue that presumably fills up with the bodies of dead NPCs so you can find them easier.

I’ve been thinking a whole lot about the ORIGINAL Prey sequel that we never got!

Seconding Wolf Among Us

I really enjoyed it. It did get a little tedious towards the end, but I had a fun time.

Very smart of Microsoft to put a woman of color in that seat. Here’s hoping that she can turn things around in the culture there.

It honestly looks great! I do worry about the smaller POV with so much friendly fire potential, though.

That legitimately is a pretty good list.

I’m surprised how many games on the full list didn’t actually release in 2023.

I didn’t have any problems 🤷‍♂️

I already own the originals and the remasters. Let me know when it’s a remake.

I thought it wasn’t an MMO? Why does it require servers?

I heard such great things about this game, but I honestly hated it.

I’m surprised the King Kong/Skull Island game wasn’t on the list.

“Originally it was a Fortnite clone,” the developer is quoted as saying.

The filing centred around the 30% cut that the platform holder takes, with the developer arguing that Valve used “dominance to take an extraordinarily high cut from nearly every sale that passes through its store” and that it has used its position to “exploit publishers and consumers.”

Isn’t 30% standard in every store? Also, Valve certainly has dominance, but it’s hardly a monopoly. There are more options than any other OS.

This is great news! I assumed it was fully dead. I hope this does well so we can get a Warrior Within reboot. That’s all I really want.

I know I am definitely in the minority when it comes to how I feel about most popular games, but this year has honestly felt pretty meh to me. That said, I am happy to hear people are having such a good time with so many titles. I would love to feel like I’m in the same boat.

100%. For anyone who has not played FarCry 2 that is thinking about giving it a shot, that is exactly the experience you will have. FarCry 2 was awesome!

In order from best to worst, I would say it’s 5, 4, 2, 1, 3. You should definitely check on the rest!

Good riddance!

Every so often I watch that gameplay trailer for Prey 2 and make myself sad.

I haven’t really played a single Call of Duty game since the original COD4 Modern Warfare. Am I missing something? Didn’t Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 come out back on Xbox 360?

Seriously! Every time I see something about Prey and it’s not the 2006 version, I’m annoyed.