Ever since it launched on PC in 2016, Stardew Valley has been one of the most popular indie games around. Often mentioned alongside titles like Celeste, Terraria, Cuphead, and Shovel Knight as one of the best in the world of indie gaming, Stardew Valley has found a lot of success across a wide variety of platforms. Today we're learning just how successful the game is, as official numbers put the game at 10 million copies sold.
YouTube's streaming service YouTube TV has finally arrived on the PlayStation 4. The arrival is a welcomed one that makes a lot of sense in light of Sony's big 2019 announcement about its own OTT service: PlayStation Vue is going to be shuttered. With YouTube TV, PS4 owners can sign into their accounts and stream live television directly through the gaming console.
With next-generation consoles due to launch as early as May 2020, we are finally nearing the end of the road for the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One. These consoles have been docked by our TVs since 2013, with exciting releases that have shaped gaming as we know it.
Late last week, Sony kicked off its 'Games Under $20' sale offering a large number of PlayStation 4 games for less than twenty bucks. The sale will be live for two weeks, meaning you have until early February to get your favorite title before its price goes back to normal. Though there are some unknown games in the sale, Sony has also included many popular titles, including Batman: Arkham Knight, Battlefield V, several Call of Duty games, and more.
A man decided to play a video game on a monitor at an airport in Portland yesterday, January 16, 2020. This was not a particularly forward-thinking idea, given the forever-volatile nature of airports in general here in the USA for the past couple of decades. But he did it anyway. He decided that his best course of action for staving off boredom at the airport at 4:40 AM was to "hijack" an official airport TV screen.
Another day, another delay: Iron Man VR, an upcoming title exclusive to the PlayStation VR (and by extension, the PlayStation 4), has been hit with a delay. Developer Camouflaj Games announced the delay today on Twitter, saying that the decision was made in order to "deliver on our vision and meet the high expectations of our amazing community." Thankfully, the delay isn't too severe, but those who were looking forward to Iron Man VR will nevertheless have to wait a few more months to play it.
If there's been a theme to this console generation for Sony, it's definitely been "exclusives." The PlayStation 4 has been the best-selling console of the generation for a number of reasons, but a major contributor has certainly been Sony's laser focus on exclusives for the machine. It may not be long, however, until we see Sony put at least one of its exclusives on PC.
This morning the folks at CD PROJEKT RED announced a slight delay in the release of their next major game Cyberpunk 2077. This game is massive, or so they've suggested, so they're going to need just a LITTLE more time to make sure it's up to the fidelity with which it should be delivered. No comment has yet been sent on the situation by one Keanu Reeves.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is about to kick off its sixth season, and when it does, players will have a new map to do battle on. Today PUBG Corp revealed Karakin, a new 2km x 2km map that promises some intense action. Karakin will also bring a new map mechanic called the black zone along with it, which will change the map as matches play out.
There were a lot of really solid games that released in 2019, but one that got a lot of attention from indie fans was Wargroove. Developed and published by Chucklefish, on the surface, Wargroove seems like a spiritual success to Nintendo's Advance Wars franchise, which has sat dormant for some years now. We learned today that a year after the game first debuted, it's about to get a DLC expansion.
For a number of years now, Origin PC has been putting consoles and gaming PC hardware in the same case and showing us the finished product under the brand name "The Big O." One problem, though, is that these impressive PCs have only ever been for show. That all changes today, as Origin is now offering The Big O to consumers, complete with their choice of console.
Now that we're into 2020, we're only a couple of months away from the launch of Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII Remake. It seems that the company was planning to launch a demo for the game, because that demo has leaked online. Those with hacked PlayStation 4 consoles were able to download the demo and play through it, and on top of all of that, it appears that the demo included a number of files pertaining to the full game.