PS5 Slim’s Optional Disc Drive Needs to Connect to the Internet to Pair It to a Console

With just under two weeks until Black Friday, I've spotted quite a few early Black Friday gaming monitor deals so far. Yet, while doing a bit of window shopping, I spotted an absurd Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 Amazon coupon that had me stumped for a solid five minutes. The check box discounts smashes previous offers I’ve come across to pieces, and I honestly didn’t expect to see our favorite OLED ultrawide screen this cheap during 2023.

The PlayStation 5 Slim detachable disc drive may require an internet connection to be activated, but it seems its usage won't be as limited as many thought.

How tall is Link? It’s a question that’s puzzled scientists for eons.

On Tuesday, former Keywords Studios QA testers based in Edmonton, who worked on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, picketed in front of developer BioWare Edmonton, despite EA's attempts to block the demonstration.

The best quest in is "," and nothing else even comes close. This fully optional, almost totally insular side quest focuses on a group of cloned historical figures, who have been revived as part of an experimental program. Featuring most prominently are 32nd US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mongol Empire founder Genghis Khan, first-century queen of Kush Amanirenas, and world-famous aviator Amelia Earhart. Once they land on the planet, the player character is forced to pick a side in the clones' conflict.

With God of War, Horizon, Spider-Man, and other blockbusters happily taking root on PC, I can only assume that the continued absence of Bloodborne from our platform of choice is due to either a mummy's curse or Sony executive spite, but who needs it anyway? Bloodborne's true form—Bloodborne Kart—now has a proper release date, meaning we can turn Yharnam into our own personal Rainbow Road incredibly soon.

The Gears of War franchise was among the biggest and most popular properties in gaming in the Xbox 360 era, back when Epic Games delivered an excellent trilogy of revolution third person shooters that spawned an army of games trying to emulate its success with cover-based shooting mechanics, and though the series is obviously still a successful one, it’s fair to say that it’s lost some of the luster it once had.

Cliff Bleszinski, the creator behind the Gears of War series, has suggested the games get a God of War-style reboot. Oh, and that Xbox just needs to give him a call.

Alan Wake 2 is bleak stuff. Sure, your flashlight makes the darkness a little less scary, and the full-motion video commercials are a lighthearted wink to players who seek them out. But for some, the game could benefit from a constant positive presence to raise the mood while you traverse the Overlap and beyond.

Video game adaptations of movies are notoriously difficult to make, in part because it’s hard to capture a movie’s most defining features in gameplay. Fortunately, Ubisoft’s upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandoraknows exactly what would make a video game adaptation of James Cameron’s movies fun: taking players to the moon of Pandora and giving them the feeling of running through its flora and fauna and soaring through its floating mountains.

Dead Space fans were given a few video game titles to go through when the series was initially released into the marketplace. However, some fans quickly dropped the franchise when Dead Space 3 hit. This installment was not something original fans found interesting, and it didn’t bring enough new fans to replace them to warrant the game franchise with another mainline installment. As a result, the black sheep of the franchise was credited as being the reason we saw such a long hiatus for this IP.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) had a few things to say Thursday morning about what the federal government should be doing to tame AI, but first he had to wait through an uncanny opening act: AI versions of himself.