There’s no game – and no PlayStation – without play. Despite us all now being pretty used to ‘play’ meaning ‘hammer on buttons until exciting stuff happens’, the truth is, play is quite an abstract thing. Remember being a kid and getting a cool new action figure? It wasn’t always …
Read More »No Mans Sky is down to a ludicrously cheap £14 if you have PS Plus
If news of an No Man’s Sky update (opens in new tab) coming this week caused your ears to perk up but you don’t yet own the game, now’s your chance to fix that. Hello Games’ spacefaring adventure is currently £24.49 on the UK PlayStation Store, and if you’ve got …
Read More »No Mans Sky will have lots of free updates but no paid DLC
The future for No Man’s Sky (opens in new tab) is bright. Players have already made some amazing discoveries (opens in new tab), and the day-one patch (opens in new tab) shows that Hello Games isn’t resting on their laurels when it comes to adding in content. And according to …
Read More »My No Mans Sky adventures as a bumbling space pirate
As if No Man’s Sky (opens in new tab)’s unfathomably large galaxy of procedurally generated planets wasn’t big enough, that near infinite number of worlds is really only half the game. The other half takes place in between all those uncharted biomes, in the vast space that separates each solar …
Read More »No Mans Sky sheds light on the dark side of what you can do in its vast universe
Embarrassingly, we’ve only just landed on a new world and already we’ve misplaced our ship. “It’s a ballache; I like that,” says Hello Games managing director Sean Murray when we crack and ask if there’s a faster way to return to our craft in No Man’s Sky (opens in new …
Read More »How Sony is redefining the rules on console exclusives
Two games launched on March 11 earlier this year: Titanfall on the Xbox One and TowerFall: Ascension for the PlayStation 4. Beyond sharing a release date and oddly similar names, these dissimilar titles are worth viewing as a pair because they demonstrate the gulf between Microsoft and Sony’s current exclusive …
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