Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut gets update 2.10 on both PS5 and PS4 consoles as a minor hotfix. Despite working in silence since Infamous Second Son, Sony’s Sucker Punch did a pretty good job with Ghost of Tsushima, delivering a new action-adventure experience to the collection of PlayStation-exclusive titles with a unique Japanese historical theme
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Ghost of Tsushima was one of the biggest PlayStation hits of 2020, releasing to rave reviews. With many critics and fans praising the visually stunning aesthetics and fluid combat. If you’re not a PlayStation owner, you might not have had the opportunity to experience Ghost of Tsushima on release, as it is of course a
It seems like every week there are new leaks in the video game world. Just two days ago, someone leaked the specs and possible release window for the heavily rumored Nintendo Switch Pro. Now, it appears that we might know the first-party titles that Sony is planning on porting over to the PC. All four
It seems like every time a AAA game announces its release date, everyone rolls their eyes nowadays. Announced earlier today, the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake has been delayed for a second time. Initially set to be released in January of this year, the game was originally delayed to March 18. Today, a tweet
The nominations for the 24th annual DICE Awards have been published. The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, and Hades lead with the most nominations. The game of the year nominees are listed below. If you’re interested, you can read all the other awards categories here. Game of the Year: Animal Crossing: New
Sony and PlayStation had a phenomenal year last year. The PS4 cemented its place as the second best-selling home console of all time, the PS5 had a very successful launch, despite a few stock issues and Sony Worldwide Studios released a lot of incredible games. As part of the PlayStation Blog, Sony has looked back
As 2020 settles in its place in the rearview mirror (thank goodness), gaming outlets are posting their Game of the Year lists left and right. Topping many of those lists are PlayStation exclusives including Final Fantasy VII Remake, Ghost of Tsushima, and The Last of Us Part II. According to GOTYPicks, a blog devoted to tallying up the
As 2020 (thankfully) comes to a close, the DualShockers staff is coming together to share their personal favorite games throughout the year. Unlike our official Game of the Year Awards, each of these lists is meant to reflect which games stood out personally to each of our staff members. Additionally, any game — not just
Katsura Hashino, producer and director of Persona since Persona 3, and Catherine, wants to show some Project Re Fantasy gameplay as soon as possible. Famitsu last week, and now 4Gamer on December 28, published their traditional end of the year messages from members of the Japanese game industry. In total, over a hundred of producers,
Fans of the PlayStation exclusive, Ghost of Tsushima may be aware that its world is set on the real Tsushima Island. This historic island has had the help from the fans of Sucker Punch Productions’ action-adventure as funds have been raised to help repair an iconic, and historic landmark after it had been damaged by a typhoon.
Multiple Japanese game developers shared their favorite games of 2020 through Famitsu, with Ghost of Tsushima ending up in pole position. Yep. It’s that time of the year again. The Famitsu magazine releasing Thursday, December 24, officially titled Weekly Famitsu Magazine January 7-14, 2021 Issue, will include a traditional end of the year feature. With
Ghost of Tsushima was a big success for Sony earlier this year. One of the last big PS4 exclusives, it received solid critical reviews and had sold over 5 million copies as of November. And the team at Sucker Punch has consistently provided post-launch content. Most notably, of course, is the multiplayer mode Legends that
The Game Awards are now a little under a week away, taking place on December 10. Geoff Keighley’s brainchild has been one of the top awards ceremonies in the games industry over the last few years, and while this year’s ceremony will take place under some extremely different circumstances, the production is still likely to
As we slip into the next generation of video games with the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, there’s no doubt that the PS4 has had a magnificent run and will still continue to do so for some time. It’s given players incredible exclusives and hours upon hours of quality entertainment that has kept gamers firmly
Well, the nominees for this year’s edition of The Game Awards have now been unveiled and the games receiving the most nominations are rather unsurprising. Host Geoff Keighley announced the full slate of nominees for all categories in a live stream this morning with titles like The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Final Fantasy VII
Ghost of Tsushima has proven to be one of PlayStation’s biggest releases of the year, but due to it being a new IP, those over at Sony seemed to have some reserved expectations for how the game would do at market. Fortunately for Sony, the Sucker Punch-developed title seems to have already surpassed its initial
Leading up to the PS5’s launch, PlayStation has released a new trailer for Sackboy: A Big Adventure, alongside two special editions releasing at launch. The trailer features developer Sumo Digital’s Ned Waterhouse breaking down what the game is. First off, the game will run at 60 FPS. They also had to redesign Sackboy’s moveset since
Sony published its Corporate Report 2020, where it mentioned multiple interesting things about first party titles. In the Strategy Key Points section on page 43, Sony mentioned it plans to “explore expanding” 1st party titles ports to PC, “in order to promote further growth” and “profitability”. Seeing I’m specialized in covering games from Japan, the
Popular to contrary belief, not every video game character is played by the likes of Troy Baker, Nolan North, or Laura Bailey. Despite familiar faces and voices popping up so often in many AAA titles, for many actors, being in a mass-market video game is a rare occurrence. Earl T. Kim is one of these
Dark Horse Comics’ official Twitter account revealed the absolutely lovely Ghost of Tsushima artbook, with almost 200 pages of character and environment artwork. The artbook design itself has a sleek design clearly inspired by Japanese woodblock paintings and is available for preorder now: The Art of Ghost of Tsushima features elegant illustrations of characters, landscapes, and
As it does around this time every month, The NPD Group today released the latest sales information for the video game market in the United States today for the month of July 2020, with the period’s biggest winner being an expected one. Divulged by NPD’s Mat Piscatella in his always comprehensive thread on Twitter, Sucker
Since the game’s release last week on PS4 and PC, Fall Guys fan art has taken the internet by storm. Alongside the already confirmed crossovers including Hotline Miami and Half-Life, fans and corporations have taken it into their own hands to create possible future skins for its wacky Beans. After scouring Twitter and other parts
Benji-Sales has reported that Sucker Punch Productions’ latest title, Ghost of Tsushima is now Sony PlayStation’s 2nd best-selling game for a PlayStation first-party studio in Japan on the PS4. Ghost of Tsushima launched on July 17 and in that short time it has ramped up the sales in Japan. Benji-Sales confirms that Marvel’s Spider-Man still sits at number
The time has finally come — after sustained criticism from developers, publishers, and dedicated fans, Metacritic has changed their user review system to prevent review bombing. Following blowback following the release of Naughty Dog’s flagship PS4 title, The Last of Us Part 2, Metacritic implemented a new system prohibiting fans from reviewing titles within 36 hours
The latest PS4 first-party game is out in the wild, so I imagine most of you are diving headfirst into Ghost of Tsushima. But hey — while we are talking about ‘diving’ and Ghost of Tsushima, did you know there was a chance that the samurai epic was instead going to be a pirate game? Neither
Over the PS4 generation Sony have become more and more known for their fantastic range of exclusive titles. From 2018 smash hit God of War to the more recent, but absolutely fantastic The Last of Us Part II, Sony have rarely missed. The games have achieved a multitude of perfect scores and hundreds of Game
It has been a long time coming in some respects, but Sucker Punch’s latest release in Ghost of Tsushima is finally set to hit store shelves later this week. As such, the developer and publisher Sony today let loose one final trailer to get fans excited. The launch trailer for Ghost of Tsushima finally released this afternoon
Joanna Wang, the lead environmental artist for Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima, recently wrote up a detailed PlayStation Blog post on the process behind creating the beautiful environments that can be found in the game As it turns out Tsushima is a real place, a Japanese island located between the Japanese mainland and the Korean
Jason Connell and Nate Fox, the creative directors behind the upcoming Ghost of Tsushima delve into how they found themselves working with the estate of Akira Kurosawa for approval on the black-and-white cinematic mode, called Kurosawa Mode. “We have this great game that transports people back to feudal Japan and Akira Kurosawa was one of
After several years of anticipation, the upcoming Ghost of Tsushima is now just a week away from release. The open-world title from Sucker Punch Productions is not only a brand new IP from the acclaimed creators of the inFamous series, but also marks one of the final PS4 exclusives on the horizon before the release of the