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Confirmation that it will be a PS5 exclusive from Insomniac: No surprises there!

Well, it's November! Not too long now...

Best of luck @drahkon, I'm sure you'll kill it!

@stuwii (and anyone else who order for in-store pickup from GAME)

Hell yeah, Hero is back!

Honestly, feel like it might be worth contacting the store for updates on what they'll do (either directly or through Twitter or something) if non-essential retail does close again. I would be really surprised if they didn't offer the option to either change it to be delivered to your home, or dropped off at a collection point which would be considered essential (i.e. a Sainsbury's or somewhere like that), because at the end of the day, they're going to be losing customers and trust if they can't offer a decent alternative. Good luck, hopefully they can sort something out for you!

Finally got the chance to dig into Chapter 9 of The Mandalorian earlier this evening. I was up and ready to watch it at 07:00, but knew it would just distract me when I started working First, the stuff that doesn't spoil anything. Soundtrack is still solid. Costumes look great. Sound design and effects look great. But boy oh boy did some of those wider tracking CG shots look rough, much more noticeable and much more frequent than it was even in Chapter 1. A case of budget and time going elsewhere, I'd imagine, but I was really surprised by it, considering just how much they nailed it by the end of Season 1. Solid way to open up the season, look forward to seeing where it goes next week!

Yeah, holy smokes. What's that, 7 seconds from a cold boot (that's the impression I get seeing as it goes into the menu, at least), and a 2 second load of the save, which wasn't even long enough to feel like a fade to black? If that was a cold boot like we seem to think, then yeah. Ho-ley smoked mackerel, that's very exciting!

Oh dang, that would be huge considering that they already own Funimation! Might lead to a better chance of certain shows getting a dub that hadn't already (or being dubbed earlier than they otherwise would have been) down the line. Very interesting.

It's always a weird day when anime/manga turns up on the front page of the BBC website, but hey, at least this time it's with good reason: Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (that will never not be fun to type) has absolutely killed the Japanese box office. And all this with COVID (cases rising by about 200 per day at the moment in Tokyo). From Siliconera: Crazy! Good for them, I don't doubt in the slightest that it deserves it. Looking forward to the release over here next year!

A better look at the White Snow Edition:

I'm hoping to set it up on a lunch break and have everything downloaded so I can start playing once I finish work that day, though I imagine I'll still want to snoop around the settings because that's one of my favourite parts of getting new hardware to play with! Have been seriously considering playing Astro's Playroom first, seems like a game you could knock out and Platinum (if it has one?) in an afternoon, and I really want to get a good idea of what they've got going on with the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. At the same time: Spider-Man. So who knows? Yeah, as great as it is to hear all of these great impressions of Astro's, my biggest concern with this direction is if it does end up getting that support. SixAxis and the Touchpad went widely under utilised this gen, which is a shame, because I feel like there were good applications of both, but mainly in first party titles; namely, shaking the controller in The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II when your flashlight starts flickering out, and the many awesome uses of the Touchpad in Ghost of Tsushima. But at the end of the day, I guess it's on third parties wanting to support it, and it's not an easy sell to them when these are going to be changes made exclusively with one console in mind. At the very least, we'll have first party titles. Cannot wait to call back the Leviathan Axe in God of War: Ragnarok, that's for sure! Genuinely think Xbox should have jumped on this bandwagon too, because considering how much work Cerny puts into communicating with third parties, I have to imagine this is a choice made with their desires in mind more so than PlayStation's.

PS3 vs PS5 comparison by ElAnalistaDeBits: Awesome. Though I like the cinematic look of the new camera, the option to play with the original camera angle is probably going to be the way I end up playing. Not that it doesn't look great with the cinematic camera, just feels a little too close to the action, and being slightly off-set too makes me think I might have a better time with the original one. Maybe

Well. Former CDPR employee: That's...disgusting. I'll be honest, excited as I am/was for this game, I'm starting to sour on it. It's hard not to: the crunch, the transphobia staring you in the face that makes you question if that's what you're actually looking at (it's worth looking up), and above all else, the treatment of the workers. It's just dire. And it's such a difficult position to be in as an audience of something, obviously not as difficult as that of the team working on it, but it is difficult. What are we, the audience, meant to do? Boycott the game and not support the people who have worked so hard on it? Buy the game but feel guilty that we're supporting CDPR in continuing with this? I don't know where, or how, we draw the line on things like this. I really hope things have improved since, but it's hard to not doubt it.

07:00 GMT confirmed for tomorrow's episode. Can't wait!

Well, it's not been a good week for Microsoft. First Halo Infinite losing its Lead Director, and now Everwild has lost its Creative Director.

Yeah, my PlayStation App updated this morning before I got up (UK, Google Play Store), it's really nice. It says the update was October 23rd, so it should be available for update now!

More footage from Famitsu: Some additional info from Polygon. Confirmed no 6th archstone:

New gameplay trailer:

Oh man, it's awesome that we're starting to see these photos, but them being upside down doesn't exactly instill confidence

Yeah, same. I'm really curious about that aspect of the game, it would be pretty amazing if we could fly over a real-time Valisthea in an airship, and would love to sail the seas to some extent too! I'm also wondering about the game's world in general, is it going to be a "traditional" open world, a la XV, or are they going to go the linear and zoned open world route, like VII Remake did to some extent (though I suppose Dragon Quest XI might be a better example of what I'd want to see)? Though I love more traditional open world games, for Final Fantasy, I've got to say, I would much prefer a more focused approach. Either way, looks like we're going to be waiting until 2021 for the next update, at any rate. This should hopefully satiate our want for more...for now

Yeah, seriously. So many great games on the way, and this is easily my most anticipated for next year! Hope SE can deliver As for the world map, we get a slice of it being teased in its stylised form at the bottom of the page on the official site for 'THE WORLD', providing a background to the Realms of Valisthea. Looks really cool.

An update, at long last! Hell yeah. That artwork Official website for the game is live too! Well worth checking out, got much more information on the world and characters there than in the PlayStation Blog post!

Yep, got the notification while I was asleep but appreciate the heads-up nonetheless! Agreed with you and @Happenstance both, looks and runs so much more smoothly. The PlayStation Store doesn't take an age to load anymore either, which is great! Cannot wait to start managing my storage from this thing on the PS5 Only downside I'm seeing is that the game/add-on/etc. items in the store aren't named outside of their artwork, otherwise I think it's pretty much flawless. Three weeks to go!

Won't be checking out the demo myself as I'd rather wait for the full release, but still, a bit of a shame to hear about the performance not being so great. Not that it was completely out of the blur after what we saw of it last month, but still, was hoping they might ironed out it a bit Anyway, trailer was great. That robed figure is most likely the fortune teller we heard about in BotW, right? Not too surprising if he'd turn out to be twisting things in order to get events to play out in a certain way if that's the case. Thought I'd responded, but apparently not! I wasn't very clear before, but what I meant to say was that seeing voices for characters introduced in BotW who weren't voiced in that game was surprising (in a good way!), and when taking about the sequel I meant that having voices cast is probably too that game's benefit, as we might also end up seeing more voice acting in that game (if this is anything to go by).