Tonight is Sony's PlayStation Showcase stream, an event that promises to have plenty of cool news and announcements as only a big, early NotE3 presentation can. While I'm sure the majority of tonight's announcements won't have an immediate and direct impact on us over in PC town, it's well known that Sony have been stepping up their PC game recently, and so a lot of what you see here will probably make the jump eventually, even if it's several years down the line. So come and join us for an early glimpse of PC's possible future. I'll be liveblogging tonight's proceedings, which kick off at 9pm BST / 1pm PDT. See you there!
Welcome everyone! It's T-minus 10 minutes until the fun starts. Important first question: anyone got any good snack arrangements for tonight's entertainment? I've procured a large bowl of ice-cream as part of my dinner - a combo of Carte Dor Vanilla and Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie. I love it.
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What are your PC hopes for tonight's announcements as well? We definitely won't get a Final Fantasy 16 PC release date (unless???), but I sure do hope they drop the demo on PS5 today, as the recent round of previews looked very tasty indeed.
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zinzan says: Snacks, eldest child's home made chocolate cookies & youngest child's lemon cheesecake...... Yummy
Sounds good, Zinzan. They'll definitely last longer than this ice-cream, lemme tell you.
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sabby787 says: Since it's the generation of mild remasters I wouldn't mind a smoothed out Bloodborne and the PC release that goes with it
We live in hope. It must be time, surely.
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That's it, ice cream's gone ;___; What do I do now?
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sabby787 says: Since Sony owns Bungie, maybe their next thing? I admit the MMO-ness of Destiny turned me off the whole thing early on and it's probably too much to ask for the next thing not to be similar
Des3iny, I'm calling it now.
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Here we go!
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Yep, those sure are some flashy PlayStation shapes.
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First up is a new game from Haven, Jade Raymond's new studio.
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Looks very Watch Dogs-esque, but a multiplayer heisty shooter type affair.
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Fair Games, it's called.
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Just a cinematic trailer for that one, but here's PlayStation boss to hopefully tell us more about it (but probably some hot business chat).
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Next up involves a game with lots of alien invasions.
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Oh! New Helldivers! But also with Destiny capes?
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Given Sony's recent string of cinematic single player games, this Showcase sure is going hard on multiplayer Destiny likes...
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Helldivers II will also be coming to PC later this year.
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Next up is Ascendant's new magic shooty bang, Immortals Of Aveum.
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I'm very intrigued by this one. The magic wielding looks ultra flashy, but also quite Doom / Doom Eternal-like in its speed and variety.
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Gotta make sure you've got a cool face tattoo to be in the Aveum crew, though.
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A release date as well! July 20th, what a joy.
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That means July has three whole game releases now, thank god.
An October release was also leaked for this earlier today. Will that hold true? Wouldn't mind AssCreed and Alan Wake 2 in the same week, yes please.
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That sure looks like some old school Assassin's Creed, all right.
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Some good bench-sitting.
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sabby787 says: New Assassin's Creed looks strikingly like original Assassin's Creed
Yes, they're deliberately harking back to old Creed with this one.
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October 12th it is!
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New Night In The Woods! Who'd have thunk it.
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Maybe. Whatever it is, it's called Revenant Hill. But features a very Mae-looking cat.
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New one from CyGames next, which can only mean big anime funtimes with Granblue.
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Image credit: Cygames
Forgive me for not remembering the full subtitle of this. I'm perpetually getting it confused with the Granblue fighting games.
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Quietly pumped for this. I know our Edders has been looking forward to it for ages.
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Granblue Fantasy Relink, that's the one, with a Winter release window.
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Another look at Street Fighter 6 now, with beefcake Chris Redfield Ryu.
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This looks to be its story mode, which Hayden previewed for us not that long ago. The character battles looked cool, but the open world filler left him cold.
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Cor, this next one looks neat. Extremely colourful sidescrolling plateformer with lots of ornate machinery.
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Some Metroidvania-bits in there as well, although cor, look at those nippy little fights against big beasts. Maybe this a more colourful Hollow Knight.
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It's called Ultros, and it's coming next year (2024). One to keep an eye on for sure!
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Some more anime now, from Perfect World Games. And big mechs. Very big mechs.
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Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail, eat your heart out.
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Oh yes, Tower Of Fantasy, a game that is already on PC.
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Hot damn, is this Dragon's Dogma 2?
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It is!
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Been waiting for ages to see more of this.
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Good explosions? Check. Big cities? Check. Enormous honking dragons? Check check and check.
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Yes lads.
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Prepare for some shonky humour with this next one.
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Ah, it's Five Nights At Freddys: Help Wanted 2. Of course it is.
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Yes, quite enough of that please.
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Oh wait, here comes the PSVR2 section. Time for a drink break.
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Oh, but not before having a gander at Resident Evil. Yes please.
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Don't think I've got the stomach for Resi 4 in VR.
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James Archer says: Anyone else just hear Liam squeal?
Yes
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Quirky zombie jokes in this next one. What number Arizona Sunshine are they on now?
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Must admit, that's some good jaw physics. I'm into that.
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Turns out there's only one Arizone Sunshine. As this is Arizona Sunshine II, coming later this year to PSVR2 (and probs to PC VR as well).
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Did someone order a hardcore military shooter?
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Crossfire: Sierra Squad this one. Looks... tough.
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Hold up, hold up. This definitely isn't Perfect Dark, but it sure sounds like Perfect Dark... right???
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Oh wait, nope, we're dealing in alternate dimension portals now and special psychic powers.
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It's called Synapse, and it's being developed by VR specialists NDreams.
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Aww, yeah, more Beat Saber. Having a good time indeed.
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I wish I was this proficient at Beat Saber.
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Is that... the PSVR 2 segment over?
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New one from Bungie next!
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Looks a lot more colourful than Destiny, that's for sure.
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Crash test dummies meets Westworld?
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MARATHON.
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And breathe... to go straight into some Destiny chat. Bungie are such busy bees!
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Cayde's back too! What a journey the last five minutes have been.
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I don't know what the heck Concord even is, but I'm here for it, I'm here for its weird space burger, and it's coming to PC, heck yeah.
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Okay, right proper drink break now as we sit back to a Gran Turismo film trailer.
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It's out in August, if anyone's interested.
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Jim's back!
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WHAT THE
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PLAYSTATION JUST DROPPED THEIR STEAM DECK.
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Admittedly, I thnk it's more about streaming PlayStation games to the device rather than anything else, but cor, what a surprise!
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Those controller arms do look ridiculous though.
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And to close us out... the heck is this?
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Two gruff men fight in jungle, rarrr
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Horizon!?
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Oh no.
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It's a DC game.
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Or Marvel. I lose track these days.
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sabby787 says: Spidey Men 2?
Oh, you're right, it's the Spidey-Man!
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With a nasty case of the Venoms, it looks like.
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Miles is back too!
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Cor, that motion capure looks incredible. Surely Spider-Man's cheating with a wingsuit, though...
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I still need to play the first Spidey-Men.
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There's something not quite right about a Spider-Man tracking Lizard through a FISH factory with a bird drone. All the essential food groups.
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Miles and Venom-Spidey seem to be playing pals here.
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Crikey, this boat chase looks incredible. Lots of cinematic swoops and swiiiings!
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Gruff man returns, boooo
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I very much look forward to playing this exact boat sequence in five years time on PC.
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The escalation of this scene is intense. Lizard, men on boats, men on planes?!
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Absolutely nuts.
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PlayStationers can enjoy Spider-Man 2 this autumn, apparently.
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How many years do we reckon this will take to come to PC? Two? Three? Ten? In any case, I will enjoy it very much then.
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And that looks like your lot, folks. What were your favourite new announcements?
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Also, please say a prayer for Graham tonight, who is covering the news on his lonesome. A surprising amount of PC stuff here, more than I was expecting.
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roastsampson says: Metal Gear Solid collection
I need to go back and watch this as my internet broke down the moment Snake's face appeared from the undergrowth!
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Special shoutout again to Arizona Sunshine 2's excellent jaw physics. Got a lot of time for that.
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sabby787 says: Time to return to Tears of the Kingdom
Haha, truth.
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Question: how does Snake's bandana maintain such a clear imprint of his scowl?
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sabby787 says: I believe the bandana is stapled to the bridge of his nose
I wouldn't put it past Otacon, let's just say that.
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Well, that about wraps up this liveblog. Thanks for joining me on this news-packed evening. Here's hoping we don't have to wait too long for all these goodies to wing their way to PC. Peace out, folks!
