Do you like classical music? Is your life set to a beautiful symphony invoving violins, pianos, and the occasional tuba? Do you yearn for the surreal event that will be tunes from the Elder Scrolls being played on a radio station that your grandparents might listen to?
]]>One of the best games of the year, Astro Bot, served as a great reminder of how much great IP PlayStation has and doesn't use, but that might be changing.
]]>Hideo Kojima is infamously known for his lengthy cutscenes these days, but once upon a time he was a lot more cautious of them.
]]>Shuhei Yoshida, former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios and champion of indies, has announced he's leaving the company after 31 years.
]]>The Magic the Gathering collab train is showing no signs of stopping, as Final Fantasy is the next stop, with some pretty good looking cards coming aboard.
]]>If you've been playing EA Sports FC 25 and the Silent Hill 2 Remake over the past couple of months, an indie game looks like it could be right up your alley. It's called FEAR FA 98 and it's a "horror arcade soccer simulator" that's just launched a Kickstarter.
]]>The Phantom Menace is the one Star Wars movie that probably received the most tie-in games back in the day, and it appears that Lucasfilm Games is making sure we remember all of them. After a straightforward re-release of Episode I: The Phantom Menace earlier this year, it's been announced that Aspyr is remastering Jedi Power Battles.
]]>It turns out that Sony was not particularly confident in the original PlayStation doing all that well.
]]>Astro Bot has more cameos than you probably realised there were PlayStation games, but there's one game that feels conspicuously absent: Final Fantasy 7.
]]>You there. Have you got a minute? Did you stay up for September 24's State of Play broadcast from Playstation - the one that took place last night UK time? Well, Xbox has now let everyone know which of the games we saw at it are currently pencielled in to also be dropping on its platform, and if you'll just stop trying to walk through me, I can give you a quick roundup of the other big news from the show too.
]]>It looks like the leaks earlier today were legit. The Soul Reaver 1 + 2 remaster is real, and it's coming out December 10.
]]>Sony hasn't revealed the pricing for its 30th Anniversary PS5 collection, but one reliable leaker might have.
]]>Surprise, people who remember the late 1990s, or are somehow really passionate about a time during which they were just a glint in their father's eye or an actual foetus. PlayStation's revealed the PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection. This is your chance to try and own a retro-liveried version of either the base PS5 or PS5 Pro everyone thinks is a bit pricey, plus some cool accessories/bits for it.
]]>Have you even been made to take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain? Ricky Martin claimed that he had back in 1999, via Livin La Vida Loca, a song that you may well not like, but have almost definitely heard. The folks at PlayStation definitely seem to have heard it, having included the tune in a playlist that's arrived alongside what looks like it could be the first official tease of the PS5 Pro's design.
]]>The Sephiroth boss fight in the first Kingdom Hearts is still one of the series' toughest, and it turns out his voice actor hasn't managed to beat it.
]]>Driver, the classic driving game series from Ubisoft, was supposed to be getting a live-action TV series, but it appears to have been scrapped.
]]>In addition to providing the promised details about the recently announced Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, last night's Capcom Next showcase also provided a bit more Resident Evil news than you might have expected. A fresh entry in the series has been oficially confirmed to be in development, with Resident Evil 7: Biohazard's director at the helm.
]]>It's been a while since we've heard anything about the Metal Gear Solid movie, but the film's producer has assured everyone that it's still on the way.
]]>The creator of Silent Hill, Keiichiro Toyama, and director of the upcoming Slitterhead says he won't be "unsatisfied" even if it's the last game he makes.
]]>If you've been itching to play the original 90s version of the game that kicked off the Resident Evil series by introducing us all to just how funny it can be to have a live-action intro that's so stuck in that decade it might as well be listening to Aqua's Barbie Girl while playing pick-up ball with prime Michael Jordan, you're in luck.
]]>Director of Tekken Katsuhiro Harada has spilled the beans on the creation of one of Tekken's most beloved costumes, including internal discussions around the concept and whether or not it would be understood by overseas players.
]]>As rumours about a Final Fantasy 9 remake continue to swirl, Final Fantasy 14's Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida says one thing's for sure: he's not making it.
]]>The PlayStation first shipped in 1994 and very quickly made its way into the homes of gamers worldwide. It’s a console that - alongside the PlayStation 2 - many hold near and dear, for good reason. The console was home to a multitude of RPG’s, action games, and highly successful series that were finding their footing at the time, garnering Sony plenty of power that it’s since held on to and grown…for the most part.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>Ever since Final Fantasy 7 Remake came out, and it became clear that the project was less of a beat-for-beat remake and more of a reimagining/ pseudo-sequel, there's been one question on everyone's mind, about a particularly important moment from the original: will they dress up Red XIII in a Shinra uniform still? Sorry, what's that - the big thing everyone was wondering about was whether Aerith would die or not? Yeah, sure, I guess I was wondering that too.
]]>Hello there, a whole bunch of games are set to leave Playstation Plus next month. There are 25 of them, to be exact, and some pretty big names are on that list. A smorgasbord of Final Fantasy titles, for example. Though, that's not what you should be most concerned about. Monster Jam Steel Titans 2 is leaving too, and to be honest, I don't think the service will ever recover from that.
]]>You're not alone in wanting a new Final Fantasy Tactics game, as it turns out Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida wants one too.
]]>Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail finally has a release date, but some Final Fantasy 9-themed items are raising some eyebrows.
]]>Update: Following the publication of this story, the CEO of Implicit Conversions has issued a short statement to Time Extension stating that they can't "deny nor confirm anything about PS2."
]]>Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is full of easter eggs and references, but there's one in particular that its devs included despite not knowing its origin.
]]>Sweet Home, a cult classic horror film you might not have heard of that inspired Resident Evil, is finally available to watch online.
]]>Toys for Bob, known for its work on the likes of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro, has announced that it’s splitting from Activision and going indie, which is good news, though it has left Crash fans a bit in the dark as to the future of their beloved platforming not quite hedgehog thing.
]]>Following the announcement that Hideo Kojima is returning to the world of action espionage with Physint, the game developer has shared why he decided to do so.
]]>Final Fantasy 8 is now 25 years old, and in a recent interview, the game's director spoke about quite a big change he would make if the game received a remake.
]]>Do you ever hear a pitch for a game that immediately perks your ears? A combination of words or ideas that makes you think "well I have to experience this as soon as possible"? That happened to me with Crow Country, the latest title from SFB Games, a developer you'll probably best know as the team behind the puzzle game Snipperclips. Where Snipperclips is quite cute looking, Crow Country still is, somewhat, but is instead a survival horror game set in an abandoned crow-themed theme park that's inspired by Final Fantasy 7 and Resident Evil. Yeah, now that's what I call a good pitch. And the best part is, you can even try it out for yourself thanks to a Steam Next Fest demo. But first, let me sell you on it even more.
]]>Kurt Russell was apparently once offered to voice Metal Gear Solid 3's Snake, and in a new interview he explained why he wouldn't be interested in such a role.
]]>Tekken 8 fans would love for Final Fantasy 7's Tifa to make a guest appearance, and the game's director is well aware of how much they want her in.
]]>To help get people excited for the launch of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Square Enix is releasing Advent Children Complete in US theatres for the first time next month.
]]>The original Nintendo PlayStation prototype was found a few years ago, but it sold for a ridiculous price, so a YouTuber took it upon themselves to make their own.
]]>Hideo Kojima’s latest foray into doing vaguely strange things with video games, OD, might include some social horror-esque mechanics, if some recent trademarks filed by Kojima Productions end up meaning the same kind of thing fans are interpreting them as.
]]>Desperate to learn more about Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima? An upcoming documentary all about him is due out on Disney+ next year.
]]>Konami might still be working on Silent Hill projects itself, it seems, as it's currently recruiting staff to work on "large-scale projects" related to the series.
]]>If you’ve been after a high-end retro gaming solution and been slightly put off by stock issues, one major supplier may finally be resolving them… maybe.
]]>The first thing I do when I gain access to the medical menu in MGS3 as part of the new Metal Gear Solid Master Collection (Vol 1) is shake the right stick to whip Naked Snake around like a ragdoll.
]]>Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said that players shouldn’t expect to see a flood of Activision Blizzard games arrive on Game Pass before this year is out.
]]>What do you think about when you think “Chaka Khan”? Do you think of 'Ain't Nobody'– her greatest-ever song that’s become practically synonymous with her? Do you think of her five decade-spanning career? Or possibly how she still looks so damn good for a woman of 70 years old? Whatever you think about, you probably don’t think about Tekken 2, do you?
]]>Upcoming mobile game Final Fantasy 7 Ever Crisis will, in a roundabout way, be bringing back the now-unplayable Final Fantasy 7 The First Soldier.
]]>Welcome to the Best Games Ever show Episode 64: The best game you love despite itself.
]]>The Metal Gear series might be 36 years old, but it's still doing alright for itself, as it recently hit 60 million copies sold.
]]>As a medium, video games are often a vast fabric of inspiration-taking, borrowed ideas, and of course shameless rip offs. Some of the biggest and best games in decades have been the result of a lot of hard work coupled with the healthy practice of nabbing what's popular during development. A tad dishonest? Maybe - but it's how some of the biggest game developers in the business got to where they are today. This week we're asking: What's the best game that's a shameless rip-off of another game?
]]>Video game music has been garnering more recognition in recent years, but despite that surge of interest there are still few series’ that garner as much attention or praise in the musical space as Final Fantasy - and now, fans have another example to demonstrate exactly why in the form of a new recording of orchestral arrangements from various titles in the series.
]]>The best story-based games are ageless. While gameplay can become clunky with the passing of time, an enthralling narrative is just as gripping whether it came out in 2004 or 2024.
]]>It seems like it might be impossible for Hideo Kojima to be anything but himself, as he recently expressed wanting to make a game you can play in space.
]]>Welcome to the Best Games Ever show Episode 54: the best game that's a sequel to a bad game.
]]>It's a big day for Metal Gear Solid fans. As well as the announcement of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater – coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam later this year – we've also heard through the codec that a compilation of three classic MGS titles will also come to PS5 in 'autumn/fall'.
]]>What is the best Resident Evil game of all time? A question often posed, that more often ends in arguments between keen Resident Evil veterans.
]]>Is Square Enix on the cusp of a new golden age, or is it still swimming upstream? Right now, it’s honestly hard to tell.
]]>Welcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 44: The best game where you'd swap places with the main character.
]]>A community-created update to PC emulation services has made several classic PlayStation games like Tekken, Bloody Roar, and Rival Schools excellent to play online.
]]>Kept you waiting, huh? Almost 15 years after his first appearance in 1998’s Metal Gear Solid, the original Solid Snake, David Hayter joined fellow Metal Gear Solid cast members Jennifer Hale and Robin Atkin Downes for a reunion panel at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle.
]]>The video version of this article will play up here if you can sit through the short advert first. Please watch it. I'm wearing a nice hat and everything.
]]>It’s probably no surprise that the most romantic Final Fantasy game was inspired by Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, is it? Final Fantasy 8, set with the unenviable task of following on from one of the most successful RPGs ever released, needed to rewrite the series’ DNA. It couldn’t simply retread the ground of Midgar and conjure up some facsimile of Cloud and Sephiroth’s story. No, it had to pull the series up by the roots, and start growing something wholly new.
]]>Welcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 38 - The best game you'd never believe was from that developer.
]]>Today marks a huge 26 years since Final Fantasy 7 first hit PlayStation in Japan, a vital release that would prove particularly earth-shattering once localised for the West a handful of months later.
]]>Welcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 36 - The best game that really needs a remake.
]]>Something extraordinary happened over Christmas: I took my kids to see a big screen adaptation of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, starring Hugh Laurie and Emilia Clarke, who are Big Name Actors from Popular Things. This is significant, because it’s a Discworld novel. And Discworld has never quite become the juggernaut that it always felt like it ought. To my absolute shock and delight, it remained a story of Discworld in its translation to a CGI cartoon for children. It’s remarkably faithful to the book, which is just one in a series that’s dozens long. Rincewind and Twoflower even have brief cameos. I might have welled up at the sight of Terry Pratchett’s name in the opening credits, because I realised this was my kids’ first exposure to his wonderful mind, and vowed to encourage them to explore it further if they showed interest.
]]>It was Final Fantasy's 35th anniversary over the weekend, and a Japanese poll on what the best games are has basically officially given us the top 10.
]]>The VG247 Best Games Ever Podcast has been going for six months! Can you believe it? The show that was spawned out of a random Slack message has gone from mild strength to ever-so-slightly-less-mild strength. To celebrate this milestone I sat down with host Jim Trinca to berate him about the choices he's made so far.
]]>I've given up writing brilliant intros to these, now. If you want them to return, simply leave a bag containing £100k in unmarked bank notes on the hill at the top of the road near the church, behind the bin. Thanks. Alternatively, write a comment saying how much you miss the wonderful intros. You have exactly one week.
]]>Michael Sheen is good, isn't he?
]]>I played the Discworld video game, remarkably, before I'd read a single Terry Pratchett book. I don't know if that speaks more to the cultural cache of video games, or to my own literary ignorance growing up, but getting to the age of 11 in the United Kingdom of the late twentieth century without having read a Terry Pratchett book is quite an astonishing un-achievement. One that I quickly remedied, of course.
]]>Tekken is a massively popular series: the latest game in the series bypassing 9 million sales in its lifetime is proof enough of that. But as popular as the series is today, there’s something about the early games in the fighting game franchise – Tekken 2 and Tekken 3, specifically – that left their mark in the cultural consciousness in an altogether different way.
]]>If you have a spare cool mill laying around somewhere, and fancy upping your console collection, there's an eBay listing you might want to check out.
]]>Mike Dailly, one of the founding members of the studio that created Grand Theft Auto, seems to have had some prototype videos of the original game taken down by Rockstar.
]]>Silent Hill's creator, Masahiro Ito, has never been one to shy away from handling the misconceptions of fans on Twitter. He's done so for years, but the same misbeliefs still keep creeping onto his timeline and into his replies even in 2022.
]]>Jack Quaid from The Boys, or Hughie for those who aren’t aware of the actor’s name, is a fan of Sucker Punch Productions. Revealed by the star on his personal Twitter account, the actor apparently has been a longtime fan since Sly Cooper all the way back in 2002!
]]>First reported by Eurogamer, a group of Silent Hill fans have taken it upon themselves to remake the entire game in Unreal Engine 5. So far, it appears that the team is off to a very promising start.
]]>As recent leaks have shown us, it's looking fairly likely that Konami is looking to bring us back to the world of Silent Hill. As it currently stands, it sounds like we're getting a remake of Silent Hill 2 – generally regarded as the best one – and something new from Annapurna, maybe somewhere else. Remake, new game, it doesn't matter. Because I honestly believe the series should just be left for dead.
]]>It looks like PlayStation One classic Dino Crisis will be included in the PlayStation Plus Classics catalog if an image of the game's main protagonist is any indication.
]]>Sony has announced that PlayStation Plus Premium will not support DLC and add-on content when streaming a title.
]]>The first batch of games have been confirmed for the "all-new" PlayStation Plus, with some big headliners like Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut.
]]>I’ve got a soft spot for what, I’m told, are ‘s**t games’. From Croc: Legend of the Gobbos to Summoner, my taste in old PlayStation titles is, admittedly, probably quite patchy. People tell me that being an apologist for Gex should see my right to write about games revoked – that I can’t possibly know what I’m on about if I’ve got a soft spot for the literal lounge lizard’s dodgy platforming and questionable taste levels.
]]>It's May 4th! You know what that means – we all have to fall into the horrific trap set by the world's biggest media megacorp and embrace it as Star Wars Day, 'cos May the 4th be with you and all that. And people say Valentines Day is a corporate trick...!
]]>The Legacy of Kain series has been unlucky. Doomed. Multiple attempts to reanimate its wrecked corpse have been met with failure. The curse of Kain has, reportedly, taken studios and careers down with it. But then, maybe that makes sense; the dual protagonists of the series – Kain and Raziel – were never known for their luck, were they? Fated to dance through life and death as Nosgoth blooms and fades around them, their attachment to the world of the living was always tenuous, at best.
]]>My family wasn’t particularly well off when I was a kid. I picked up my PlayStation from an uncle that had gotten bored of Tomb Raider and its sequels, and most of my games were inherited from family friends that ‘grew out of’ Digimon, or ‘didn’t have the patience’ for Final Fantasy. Shame on them. In a small village somewhere on the outskirts of the UK’s grey, drizzly hinterlands (read: Derby), I relied on games to entertain myself. But there wasn’t a steady stream of them available.
]]>If you’re looking to scare yourself silly with some of the best horror games of all time, then you’re in the right place. Halloween has been and gone, but it's always an appropriate time to get cosy and play something spine-tingling. Whether you’re looking to lose sleep for fear of what lurks in the shadows, or you simply want some fear-fuelled laughs, there are an abundance of tremendously terrifying video games out there to try.
]]>Another week, and another impressive looking Unreal Engine 5 project has appeared for us to goggle and gawk at. This time, Arni village from adored JRPG Chrono Cross has gotten a top-to-bottom makeover in the new engine, courtesy of the youtuber Studio logic.
]]>The amount of video games with soundtracks that slap is immense, and the list continues to grow, with new classics like Baldur's Gate 3 joining an already stacked lineup. From atmospheric melodies to synthwave sounds and beyond, it can be quite whimsical how some of the best video game soundtracks will often have you feeling affectionately towards genres of music or specific songs that you may have never given a second thought to otherwise.
]]>The ending to the third Assassin's Creed game was originally intended to end quite differently, according to interviews with staffers that worked on the titles and conducted by a Ph.D. student.
]]>Quick bit of news for you: EA is offering up a nice deal on three months of EA Play.
]]>If you cast you mind back to November of last year, you may remember Jinx popping up in Fortnite as a character skin as part of the massive Arcane event. A few months later, her sister Vi is right on her tail, being added to Fortnite in similar fashion starting January 23 at 4PM PST / 7PM EST / and midnight GMT.
]]>If you are a steadfast fan of Destiny 2, you may have seen the range of updates included in the This Week at Bungie blog. This is the latest wave of information in a long string of teases and updates, and much like many of the info dumps of the past, it’s damn exciting. It really seems like the excitement around The Witch Queen grows with each post.
]]>If you’ve jumped into any Vanguard lobbies while getting on with your regular Warzone session, you’ll have without a doubt seen players make a mad dash for the fighter planes dotted around the map.
]]>Will Call of Duty stay on PlayStation consoles now that Microsoft has announced its plans to purchase Activision Blizzard? In a new tweet addressing players' concerns about the game going Xbox-exclusive, Phil Spencer has basically said 'don't worry, CoD isn't going anywhere'.
]]>If you’ve been eager to try out YuGiOh Master Duel since it’s release yesterday, but are struggling to earn cards and flesh personalise your deck, you may be in luck. PS Plus owners can get fifty free card packs with their subscription, on both the PS4 and PS5.
]]>Sony expects Microsoft to keep Activision Blizzard's roster of games available on PlayStation platforms. In a new statement issued to the Wall Street Journal, a spokesperson for the company noted: "We expect that Microsoft will abide by contractual agreements and continue to ensure Activision games are multiplatform."
]]>No, you’re not seeing things. Warzone cheaters are now gliding around Caldera and Rebirth Island in flying cars, according to footage currently doing numbers on the Warzone reddit. From these videos, we can see vehicles literally take off and majestically soar above the rooftops, we can only assume they are in search of young wizards unable to make it to school this year.
]]>I’m left scratching my head with Rainbow Six: Extraction. This sci-fi FPS from Ubisoft Montreal feels like it's pulling in multiple directions, trying to appeal to multiple crowds. It’s marked with flourishes that go a long way to express the passion that went into it, but disappoints a little where it matters. Extraction is fun, for sure, but it’s hard to ignore its clear-and-present problems.
]]>It seems Microsoft still plans to support Activision games on other platforms, according to comments made to Bloomberg.
]]>There’s been another development in the ongoing battle between Warzone cheaters and Activision Blizzard’s Ricochet anti-cheat. It looks as though those using aimbots, programs that allow you to lock onto enemies and take them down without worrying about missed shots, are having their damage decreased significantly mid-game.
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