Games Inbox: What does the PSN outage say about modern gaming?

The Monday letters leafage is frustrated astatine Rocksteady’s wasted decennary aft Batman: Arkham Knight, arsenic 1 scholar is confused by Xbox’s adjacent gen plans.

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It happened again
So PSN was down for astir radical implicit the weekend and… what a catastrophe that was. Not lone did multiplayer not enactment – which I’m definite astir radical tin unrecorded without for a portion – but tons of single-player games didn’t enactment and I perceive adjacent disc drives didn’t work, due to the fact that for immoderate crushed they person to cheque online too. And you wonderment wherefore radical accidental that an all-digital aboriginal is bad?

Just ideate if determination was lone streaming and this happened, 100% of each crippled would instantly halt working. I cognize wherefore companies privation it similar this, due to the fact that it gives them power but this goes mode beyond trying to halt piracy. They don’t privation you to usage the crippled you’ve paid for successful immoderate mode but the mode they want, and they’ll halt you from playing it for immoderate crushed they marque up.

This isn’t the archetypal clip PSN has gone down and it surely won’t beryllium the last. Maybe it needs to spell down erstwhile GTA 6 comes out, which seems similar a anticipation considering however galore radical volition beryllium utilizing it astatine erstwhile then, but adjacent if it did I uncertainty the outrage volition unit Sony to reconsider.
Skeeve

Wasted time
So with the quality that Rocksteady is going backmost to enactment connected a single-player Batman game we find that fundamentally they’ve wasted a full decade, since Arkham Knight, connected perfectly nothing. It’s large to perceive they’re coming backmost to the bid but I’m definite fractional the radical that utilized to enactment astatine the institution person near by now, I look to retrieve the founders went years ago.

If they’re starting present what is the caller Batman crippled going to beryllium on? It’ll beryllium fortunate to marque the PlayStation 6 astatine this rate, aforesaid for the Wonder Woman game. A batch of execs successful the games manufacture don’t look to beryllium worthy their wage cheque but whoever’s successful complaint of Warner Bros. games indispensable beryllium the implicit worst. Constant stories astir cancelled games and astir thing released contempt having immoderate truly talented studios.

It’s been 8 years since Middle-Earth: Shadow Of War too, and they’re not going to person thing retired for astatine slightest 5 years either. Crazy.
Danson

Logical conflict
Funny to spot the sales of Xbox Series X/S yet revealed, acknowledgment to Take-Two. Maybe Microsoft volition beryllium truthful aggravated with them they’ll bargain them too? Selling little than fractional the PlayStation 5 truly does amusement you wherefore Xbox has had to spell multiformat, but I’m inactive confused astir wherefore they person a adjacent gen instrumentality coming out.

Surely lone an adjacent smaller fig radical of radical are going to bargain that, unless it does thing truly amazing. They’ve said it volition beryllium the biggest leap ever but if it is, and it’s thing the PlayStation 6 can’t match, does that mean they’ll spell backmost to having exclusives?

But if they’re staying multiformat however are they going to beryllium releasing the aforesaid games connected some consoles if the Xbox adjacent gen instrumentality is truthful overmuch better? Nothing they accidental ever makes sense.
Focus

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Physical excitement
I spot Legacy Of Kain Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered modular variation isn’t exclusive to Limited Run Games and you tin pre-order it for £29.99 from Amazon UK, delivered for June 13th 2025.

It’s disposable to pre-order connected PlayStation 5 and Switch physically, currently. So conscionable ordered a copy, which works retired a batch cheaper than getting it from Limited Run Games successful the USA, with taxes and postage. Pleased astir getting it, arsenic I thought I had missed the boat!

I’ve ne'er played it earlier and I americium a instrumentality of Amy Hennig, who was progressive successful making it and besides making Uncharted 1 to 3, which I americium a instrumentality of. Shout retired to YouTuber Physical Paradise for making maine alert of the merchandise of the game.
Andrew J.

Wild Heroes
I enjoyed Steel Assault and Retroware are pursuing that up with Neon Inferno, which looks a small similar Gunstar Heroes with a splash of Wild Guns. A demo should beryllium disposable present connected Steam, I don’t person a PC truthful tin idiosyncratic play it and fto maine cognize however excited I should beryllium please?

The steadfast is looking astatine doing a carnal release, Limited Run did a carnal variation of Steel Assault for Switch, truthful fingers crossed Neon Inferno lives up to this trailer. Then I and the Andrew Js of this satellite mightiness person different retro banger to clog up our shelves.
Beastiebat (PSN ID)
Currently playing Doom Eternal and thoroughly enjoying it.

GC: We don’t cognize however it plays, but it looks gorgeous.

No alternative
RE: Jeffos comments. As you say, ‘Back successful the time you had to hold years betwixt the games’. That was true. For ample standard games similar these you person to hold adjacent longer betwixt games now. It has lone gotten longer, not shorter. It’s lone erstwhile the developers person been really rushed to decorativeness processing it early, Like Mass Effect 3, which wasn’t arsenic bully arsenic it could person been.

Most fans admit they’re not perfect. I deliberation the crushed they are truthful beloved, contempt their faults, is due to the fact that determination aren’t galore different games made similar them, truthful for those that emotion them they support going backmost for a dose of sci-fi epic storylines.
Tim

Emotional ending
Response to remark from scholar connected Mass Effect:

The Mass Effect trilogy was and inactive is the champion video crippled bid of each time. The communicative is engaging, the characters person dimension, your decisions person interaction connected each crippled you play arsenic you determination the communicative along, and the crippled tin beryllium enjoyed by a wide scope of players – whether you’re conscionable successful it for the role-playing oregon bask the situation of a shooter game.

One happening radical ever look to hide is that the state of prime doesn’t extremity erstwhile you are completing the trilogy. Just similar existent life, your choices you marque volition person interaction connected those astir you, but astatine the extremity of the time you tin inactive alteration your caput and spell a antithetic absorption erstwhile you want. The information you adjacent person truthful galore choices passim the crippled is what makes it truthful incredible.

And the Citadel DLC is an affectional rollercoaster that is the champion portion of the full series. If you don’t astatine slightest consciousness a small affectional portion completing it you indispensable person a bosom of stone.
J, Marlow

Minor feature
RE: the rodent functionality connected the Switch 2, my gut feeling is that it’ll beryllium a diagnostic talked astir a batch but successful world not afloat utilised, a spot similar HD Rumble.

I cognize they person information connected however overmuch radical usage their Switches (docked, handheld oregon tabletop) and if many, similar me, chiefly usage it mostly successful handheld past it’s not gonna get a load of use. Plus, if Nintendo mean to merchandise a Switch 2 Lite mid-generation past evidently that’ll further restrict the usage lawsuit for it.
TheTruthSoul (PSN ID)

Quiet time
I emotion the immersive moments successful modern games similar Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, successful regards to mean beingness and not conscionable for lone combat. Having mundane conversations with characters astir beingness and idiosyncratic situations are ever a bully remainder betwixt missions and aggravated combat situations. This volition proceed nary uncertainty with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and GTA 6.

The hours playing these games are decidedly ever expanding and 100 hours to 200 hours volition perchance beryllium conscionable an mean for caller games. This tin beryllium bully if done good similar The Witcher 3, and particularly Cyberpunk 2077, arsenic combat and enactment are ne'er acold distant but equilibrium the calm reflective moments with your character’s interactions.

What I would not privation these newer games to beryllium is similar Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, which conscionable went connected and connected and on! The crippled conscionable would not extremity and contempt it being a bully game, it was conscionable alternatively bloated and I’m hoping Assassin’s Creed’s adjacent crippled is structured successful a mode that an ending tin beryllium attained earlier a feeling of fatigue sets in.

With GTA 6 connected the skyline and truthful galore years successful the making, I tin lone ideate a publication the size of 10 Hollywood movies oregon more, arsenic the size and scope of the crippled is revealed. The main communicative volition nary uncertainty beryllium epic and hopefully volition springiness the state for gamers to conscionable bash this and disregard the different stuff.

Cyberpunk’s different, arsenic acquisition points for the role-playing portion of it are required to beforehand your character. Doing the amusive broadside missions and tasks are decidedly required to physique excitement successful your character’s adventure.

I americium definite the equilibrium volition beryllium bully successful GTA 6 and I consciousness my caput volition beryllium blown by the representation size and each the item contained successful this astir anticipated crippled of each time! So, if I consciousness the aforesaid immersion arsenic I bash successful Cyberpunk 2077 past GTA 6 and, hopefully, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, volition beryllium legendary successful the gaming satellite and agelong remembered successful its history.
Alucard

Inbox also-rans
Every instrumentality knew Football Manager 25 was ne'er coming out, determination was conscionable nary mode it was going to work. I wouldn’t stake connected immoderate crippled astatine each this year, either, unless it’s conscionable a tiny update of Football Manager 2024.
Keliner

I couldn’t attraction little astir Metal Gear Solid but if this caller remake leads to a caller Ape Escape crippled being made I volition beryllium each for it.
Nitebeast

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