Third-party outfit cancels all sales of retro-styled PS5 Third-party manufacturer SUP3R5 has cancelled all orders on its custom black PS5 consoles following a catastrophic launch that allegedly saw the company’s staff receive threats from aggrieved customers. As reported by VGC, SUP3R5’ssale event went live on Friday, January 8, with the company selling black PS5 unit styled after the greatest-selling console of all-time, PlayStation 2. These units were marketed at $650 and $750 for the respective disc-less and disc-based editions....

Coders of the lost Ark A few months ago, a surprise landed in my mail called thePocketCHIP. It was a surprise because I had forgotten I had pre-ordered it, and it ended up getting lost in translation for the better part of four months. A handheld micro-computer using a board similar to that of the Raspberry Pi, it was more built for enthusiasts developing projects, but the real appeal behind it for me was integration with thePICO-8 Fantasy Console by Lexaloffle Games, an engine meant to hearken back to the days of the BASIC programming language on older computers, specifically made to program and modify games....

Devil May Cry 5? Hideaki Itsuno is a pretty interesting guy. He directed the “we generally don’t acknowledge this exists”Devil May Cry 2, but learned from his mistakes and ended heading upDevil May Cry 3, one of the best action games ever made. He then went on to helmDevil May Cry 4and the belovedDragon’s Dogma. My dude has low key worked on a ton of great games, and is constantly pitching ones I want to see, like new entries forCapcom vs....

Join the pity party If it were up to me, I would have gotten a PS5 on launch day. When it comes to the next console generation, it was never in question that I was going to get a PlayStation — my affinity for the brand goes back to when I was a kid growing up with a PS2, I love or look forward to so many of the Sony exclusive games, and I even worked at Naughty Dog for a while....

Similar to the limited edition ofSuper Smash Bros. for Wii U,Super Smash Bros. Ultimatewill be getting a “limited edition” bundle in Europe. There is no confirmation of other regions for this bundle yet. It will include the game, a GameCube controller and the GameCube controller adapter. While I would honestly hesitate to call that a limited edition, it is nice that the official adapter is making a come back to store shelves....

Fate/Samurai Remnant, the latest entry in theFatefranchise, will receive the first of three DLCs soon, and it will arrive in February 2024. TitledRecord’s Fragment: Keian Command Championship, details on what to expect are still sparse. The trailer depicts Gilgamesh the King of Heroes announcing that he has seized control of the fates of several characters from the base game. He then announces the start of the Keian Command Championship. Two more DLCs are on the way, but they’ve yet to be named or receive a release date, although they are to launch in 2024....

A bunch of Game Developers Conference 2015 talks are now free The Game Developers Conference is a tremendous resource for creators. I wish I could attend every year, and not just as an excuse to hang out with Steven. GDC is insightful, energizing and, this is key, not physically and mentally stressful like E3 or gamescom or even current-day PAX. There’s a rather substantial fee to read/watch/listen to GDC talks online, but the conference organizers tend to let some of them loose eventually....

Little bastard ready to go gold Frieza, arguably theDragon Ballseries’ most significant antagonist, gets a swift moment of glory in the latest character introduction trailer for ArcSys’ upcomingDragon Ball FighterZ. The latest in the line of these pretty redundant videos sees the maniacal tyrant scrap it out with arch-nemesis Goku, as well as popping his golden form and utilising his planet-nuking Super. Frankly, these trailers don’t really give you much to go on....

This felt inevitable Gale Force Esports proved itself the best in the world atRocket League. The squad composed of players Kaydop, ViolentPanda, and Turbopolsa has won the Season 4 RLCS World Championship. Over the course of the weekend, their crowning began to feel more and more inevitable. GFE cruised through the first two days, easily dispatching G2 and Ghost. The finals of the upper bracket as the only time they were truly tested, as Method took them to a deciding seventh game....

Xilonen will get her first rerun banner in the second phase ofGenshin Impact5.5. HoYoverse has also revealed her banner schedule and the featured 4-star characters and weapons. This article covers Xilonen’s release date and features multiple countdowns that show the time left until her banner releases on all three in-game servers. Xilonen release date and countdown Xilonen’s banner will be available in version 5.6 as soon as the second phase begins, meaning she will be available onApril 15, 2025, at 6pm....

UK awards show looks at 2018’s best Last week saw the 2018 Golden Joystick awards take place at London’s Bloomsbury Big Top, with various industry critics, developers and publishers on hand to see some of the year’s best and brightest walk away with the gong in numerous categories. By the time the curtain fell later that evening, Both Epic Games’Fortniteand Sony’sGod of Warhad reasons to be cheerful, having walked away with numerous awards; including Best Competitive Game and Ultimate Game of the Year for the former, and PlayStation Game of the Year, Best Storytelling and Best Audio for the latter....

Take Two, a company whose entire fortune was built on the backs of children strangling virtual whores, has just revealedan updated versionof its release schedule for the rest of 2007 (and on into fiscal year 2008). The list is pretty bland, ordinary stuff, such asManhunt 2hitting in the third quarter of 2007 orBioShockhitting in the fourth quarter, but the real fun begins when you scroll down to a tidbit markedGrand Theft Auto IV – Episodic Content....

Catching up on a month of sales This past month has been a busy one. Not only for video games in Japan, which included theNintendo Switch surpassing one million sales within the country, but also me trying to find a job. Thus I wasn’t able to report the sales the past few weeks. As an apology and catch-up, let’s check out the highlights. ARMSreleased to just over 100,000 sales in its first week after releasing on June 16, topping the charts almost by default with no other new releases around it....