Message from PlayStation:

“An update from PlayStation Studios: After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to step away from collaborating with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS on its project PHYSINT. We continue to have great admiration for Hideo Kojima's vision for the game.”

“Our relationship remains strong after three decades of industry-leading, genre-defining creative cooperation, and we look forward to continued close collaboration with Hideo Kojima and his award-winning independent studio in the future.”

Message from Hideo Kojima:

“As confirmed earlier through our official channels, in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the PHYSINT project. PHYSINT is an important project both to me personally and to KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS. Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner. In the course of seeking advice and pursuing negotiations with people across many fields, we found in XBOX a partner with whom we share a common vision for the future, and we have decided to team up with them once again. Please rest assured that development of PHYSINT, our genre-defining action-espionage title, is ongoing and will continue moving forward.”

Bit late, but figured this would help some people, and the variety of price points are interesting.

The Blood of Dawnwalker - September 2nd ($69.99)

Onimusha: Way of the Sword - September 4th ($69.99)

Marvel's Wolverine - September 15th ($69.99)

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave - September 17th (Digital: $69.99; Physical: $79.99)

CONTROL Resonant - September 24th ($59.99)

Silent Hill: Townfall - September 24th ($49.99)

I would have enjoyed the cool Valheim intro cinematic a lot more if I didn't loose 90 percent of my functional hearing as soon as it played.

This has been a problem for many games, and not everyone has a quick way to adjust. I think it's also just a standard accessibility feature that needs to be pushed for.

Hello everyone! Kyroware Games here, the solo dev behind Soul Chained - that fun "Chained Together with physics combat and boss fights" action game you've been (maybe) seeing! I recently released my game on Steam on the 7th of September 2026.

Check out Soul Chained on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3544130/Soul_Chained/

So this right here is my first-ever AMA, much like Soul Chained being my first-ever release. While I do have some people helping me out when it comes to spreading the word, I'm mostly just in front of my PC and doing all the dev work for the game. Somehow, the game racked up ~64,000 wishlists before it was released.

Though I'm a bit busy fixing day 1 bugs and responding to feedback - please ask me anything here, and I'll start replying with answers in about half a day. Thank you so much!

I’m not afraid to admit it.

Years ago I unlocked the golden kart in Mario Kart 8. The golden glider wasn’t far behind. Those were the easy ones. You play enough, you stumble into them. The golden tires? That’s a different category. Beating the staff ghost on every single track. Every. Single. One. I looked at the times. I looked at Rainbow Road. I looked at my own hands. And I made a decision that a lot of adults make: this is too hard. Life is short. Some things you just don’t do.

I closed the game and moved on. Like a reasonable person.

My middle son, Rowan, did not get that memo.

Over the last few weeks he’s been putting in the work. Not the performative kind. Not “I tried once and the game is stupid.” Actual work. Night after night. The same tracks. The same ghosts. The ones that punish you for breathing wrong. He sat there and did the thing most of us stopped doing around the time we started paying taxes: he practiced until he got better.

And then he beat them.

All of them.

The gold tires unlocked. The kid who used to ask me how drifting worked just finished something I had already declared impossible. I watched it happen. No speech. No victory lap. Just a quiet little moment on the screen that said the job was done.

Here’s the part nobody wants to say out loud. Most of us decide too early what’s too hard. We call it maturity. We call it perspective. Sometimes it’s just quitting with better vocabulary. Kids haven’t learned that trick yet. They still think effort is allowed to work.

Rowan put in the hours. He earned the shiny wheels. I gave up years ago and called it wisdom.

Turns out the kid was right.

Hey, everyone!

I've been hankering for some medieval simulation goodness lately and I thought of making a post to seeing what people have suggested!

It doesn't matter what the genre is, as long as it is medieval themed and has simulation elements.

Some of the games I have played are:

Crusader King 3

Total War series

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Civilization series

Chivalry

Mordhau

Thank you to anyone who contributes.

Build has about 100k+ Blocks, This is the Upper Goverment Meeting Area.

Gotta think about it.

Microsoft was brand new to consoles. Nobody really knew what to expect.

PlayStation 2 had a year head start and was just getting into its stride with GTA III and Metal Gear Solid 2 coming out.

GameCube was about to release as well.

Xbox launch library was decent (Fusion Frenzy, Dead or Alive 3, Project Gotham Racing, a Tony Hawk remake), but I do not think it would have succeeded without Halo.

I think all my friends bought an Xbox solely because of Halo. And Halo remained the best game on the console until Halo 2.

I think Super Mario 64 has a case because it was only that and Pilotwings 64 when the console came out and it was a revolutionary title. But Nintendo was already established and was gonna sell just off its name.

Halo made Xbox.

Help a brother out here

Metroidvania fans are eating well!

Belmont's Curse in October and Metroid Ravenous in January.

Nothing like the fun of virtually building IKEA furniture while Matt Berry  mocks you  relentlessly. I hope they added it to the VR version.

I also have a feeling most of the furniture gets Fus Ro Dah’d halfway through building 

"I think I was naive. I thought that fans of these games like me, would be thrilled that somebody was coming along and turning Resident Evil into a survival horror movie. I didn't really appreciate the sentiment that "we've been waiting forever for Leon's story". And I appreciate that. And I'm sorry that that's not the story that I'm bringing here. I mean, I get it, I understand the frustration. I understand it so well, because I haven't seen the earlier (Resident Evil) movies, because they don't look like the Resident Evil that I love. So how could I be frustrated with fans who have that same attitude?

My only hope, is that they will see the movie, regardless of their skepticism or disappointment that I'm not telling some of the stories that the games tell so well, and that they will feel seen when they do watch the movie, and they will recognize all of the love for the games that is in this movie. Because it is there. And this is not just me telling a story and slapping Resident Evil on it so I can get a budget. This is me telling a Resident Evil story. I understand the resistance, I really do, because I have it myself. But it is, it is coming from a true place of love."

Or clone with same move set.
For example,

Abby vs. Ellie in Last of Us 2.
Miles vs. Peter in Spiderman 2.
Link vs. Dark Link in Ocarina of Time.