A demo for the PlayStation-published action game Stellar Blade briefly appeared on the PlayStation Store on Friday.
19.02.2024 - 09:35 / gamingbolt.com / Playstation Blog / Pacific Drive / Kepler Interactive
The lack of any big, swanky first-party exclusives for PS5 for the foreseeable future might be a concern for some, but the console is still set to receive plenty of notable exclusives over the coming months, several of which are coming from third-party developers. Pacific Drive is one such game. Ironwood Studios’ first-person driving survival game has looked increasingly promising with each new showing, but what exactly can PS5 players expect from the game in terms of how it will leverage the console’s hardware?
Speaking in an interview with the official PlayStation Blog, game director Alexander Dracott answered that question, and focused specifically about how Pacific Drive will make use of the DualSense controller’s adaptive triggers and haptic feedback.
“The big one is the DualSense controller, for sure,” Dracott said. “We had something special once we started tuning the haptics, especially for the [adaptive] triggers, and how they interacted with the suspension, and what the car is doing. We figured out a very clever way to translate the change of the change of the suspension differences that the car is handling as it drives along and map that out into our rumble. You might drive over a bump and feel like the controller reacts appropriately. If something pops the wheel off your car, it will drop, and you’ll feel it drop. We also added noise into the simulation to help make it feel correct when driving on off-road surfaces. We’re really pleased with how the game feels on this controller.”
Pacific Drive is set to launch on February 22 for PS5 and PC. A physical Deluxe Edition of the game will launch for PS5 on April 9, including a 24-page traveler’s journal, an in-game cosmetic pack for your station wagon, and more.
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth producer Yoshinori Kitase says there would be crucial differences in the newly released sequel had it not been developed exclusively for PS5.
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Just a few weeks away from release at the time of writing, Rise of the Ronin has graced us with eight new PS5 gameplay videos, each of them showcasing a different weapon-based fighting style. Nioh fans will definitely recognise some of them, but there's an impressive degree of variety on offer here.
Rise of the Ronin may not be first-party project, but its download size certainly fits the bill. Following on from the enormity of fellow PS5 exclusive Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (which sits at a whopping 145GB!), Team Ninja's action RPG with eat up a considerable chunk of your console storage. As reported by the ever-reliable PlayStation Game Size, Ronin weighs in at not-too-crazy-but-still-crazy 96.3GB.
When your car becomes damaged in , you need to get chemicals to craft important repair putty needed to fix it. Additional items can be made using chemicals as a material, so it's something you want to stock up on whenever you can. You'll have to investigate the right places to collect stored chemicals as you continue to drive through different zones.
Your car can run out of fuel quicker than you expect in , so you'll want to siphon gas from wherever you can to refill your tank. Making sure your vehicle isn't empty is crucial, especially if you want to reach new locations. It's not hard to find gas from different sources, but it isn't clear how you can transfer another car's fuel into your own.
After a wait that felt like eons, has finally been released on PlayStation 5, now leaving PC players wondering how long they will have to avoid spoilers before the game is available for them as well. Currently, Square Enix has not officially announced that will come to the PC, although there are many indicators that it will. took a while but did finally launch on the PC, which would make it very unusual for this second portion of the trilogy to not land there as well.
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Today I'm all about discount deals and democracy manifest. Though discounts on it are scarce (beyond this 17% off one with the code OMEN17), Helldivers 2 still holds my attention like the vice-like pincers of a terminid warrior bug. Why? Because even in a squad of randos, you can experience heroic, heart-in-your-mouth moments like these.
When you get into your vehicle for the first time in Pacific Drive, it doesn’t feel any different than your average junker. Sure, it seems like it could fall apart any minute, but it somehow manages to stay mostly together… as long as you don’t run it into trees or through mysterious anomalies. It’s just an average car — until your friends on the radio start questioning how it exists at all. They say it should be impossible for a car to work in the Olympic Exclusion Zone, where the game takes place. The car also has some interesting characteristics: It’s able to take some technologically advanced upgrades like a champ, and despite being a 1950s station wagon, it can handle a paranormal storm with only minimal damage.
Having already played a preview build of Pacific Drive, I felt confident going into my playthrough for this review. I’d learned a lot about this ornery but captivating driving/survival/roguelite game in those few hours — knowledge I thought I could apply from the get-go. I thought I could just start optimizing my resource collection and applying my understanding of some of its arcane systems. I envisioned a smooth run through the early missions as I explored the crumbling, glitching reality of the Olympic Exclusion Zone in the Pacific Northwest, and gradually reinforced my shabby station wagon against the wild hazards of this irradiated wilderness.