Modern Warfare 4 is not arriving all at once. For players with Early Access, the launch is being staggered, with the campaign and the DMZ mode opening ahead of the full multiplayer package. The main multiplayer side follows on Friday. That arrangement gives Early Access holders a head start on two very different experiences. The campaign is the scripted, set-piece-driven portion of the package, while DMZ is an extraction mode, where the goal is to get in, secure what you can and get out alive rather than simply eliminate everyone in sight. For anyone weighing up a pre-order, the question is whether that early window is worth it. It depends on what you actually want to play. If you are there for the story, starting ahead of the crowd means avoiding spoilers and setting your own pace. If multiplayer is the main draw, the early access period is less valuable, because the modes you...
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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard has a new short film attached to it, and it comes with a familiar face. Chandler Riggs, who spent years playing Carl Grimes in The Walking Dead’s television adaptation, has unveiled a brief film inspired by Capcom’s game in partnership with Spook Fest Films. Riggs’ involvement goes beyond simply showing up on screen. The announcement makes clear that he is part of the project in more than one capacity, which fits the pattern of actors using short-form work to explore material they are personally drawn to. The pairing makes a certain amount of sense. Resident Evil 7 is the entry that took the series back to something intimate and uncomfortable: a first-person view, a decaying house and a family that is far more frightening than any monster. It is the closest the franchise has come to the texture of a low-budget horror film, which is exactly the register a short...
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The first review for Final Fantasy Resonance has landed, and it comes from one of Japan’s longest-running games magazines. Famitsu has published its verdict on Square Enix’s turn-based RPG ahead of next week’s release, giving anyone still on the fence an early data point. Famitsu’s review format is distinctive. Rather than a single critic, a panel of reviewers scores the game independently, each out of ten, with the totals combined into a final mark out of forty. That structure means the numbers can disagree with each other, and the spread is often as informative as the total. That is why the first score tends to travel faster than the review itself. A number is easy to share, while the reasoning behind it takes longer to read and often tells you more about whether a game will suit you. Turn-based RPGs are a particular kind of proposition. The genre asks for patience, planning and a...
Read MoreDigital Foundry has delivered its verdict on The Witcher 3 Remastered, and the conclusion is blunt: on console, the PS5 Pro is the best place to play it. The analysis compared the game across PS5, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2, with testing carried out after Patch 5.01 arrived. That patch matters to the result. Launch-window comparisons can date quickly, and Digital Foundry’s method is built around revisiting games after the initial round of fixes. Waiting for a specific patch before drawing conclusions is a sensible approach, even if it means the first impressions people formed at release are already out of date. The PS5 Pro’s advantage is not a surprise on paper. The console was designed to offer more headroom than the base model, and that headroom is most useful in exactly this kind of game: a large open world with dense detail, long draw distances and a lot of...
Read MoreA new study has put a number on the backlash that followed PlayStation’s August blackout initiative, and the figure is striking. Cyabra, which analyses online conversations, found that almost half of the responses to official PlayStation channels promoting the campaign were “inauthentic” – in other words, not from genuine accounts. The context is the company’s decision to stop producing physical games in 2028. That plan drew an immediate reaction from players who prefer discs, and the response on social media was loud enough to become a story in itself. The study suggests a significant portion of that noise was manufactured. That does not mean the anger was fake. This is the important distinction. A study of this kind measures the proportion of accounts and posts that look automated or coordinated, not the sincerity of every person who objected. Real customers can be genuinely unhappy while bots amplify the same message, and the two are...
Read MoreHideo Kojima has been photographed outside Sony City, and the timing is hard to ignore. The visit comes roughly a month after PlayStation cancelled Physint, the espionage action game he had been working on, in one of the more shocking turns of recent years. The story did not end there. Xbox stepped in to back the project, rescuing what had been positioned as a spiritual successor to Metal Gear Solid. That reversal left plenty of PlayStation fans frustrated, and it turned a straightforward cancellation into a much bigger conversation about platform loyalty and where creative talent ends up. Which is what makes a casual photo noteworthy. Sony City is Sony’s Tokyo headquarters, and a visit there is not confirmation of anything on its own. People meet for all sorts of reasons, and a picture proves only that someone was standing outside a building. But in a medium where fans read meaning into every post...
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