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Contrary to some recent speculation, the Horizon 3 reveal is not imminent, a leaker of rising prominence has claimed. Aside from the next entry in the Horizon franchise, the insider also offered an update on the next Naughty Dog project.

Unfortunately for those subscribed to the Extra tier of PlayStation Plus, it appears as though Horizon Zero Dawn is leaving the service on Tuesday, May 21. Unlike the free games that make up the Essential tier of PlayStation Plus and can be kept as long as one stays subscribed, the PlayStation Plus Extra games are rotated in and out of availability, ala Netflix or Xbox Game Pass.

A new update patch has just been released for the PC version of Horizon Forbidden West that corrects some problems players have been having with the Nvidia Reflex On+Boost feature, among other things. The second Horizon game launched on PlayStation consoles back in 2022, earning mainly positive reviews for its stunning visuals and impressive vocal performances, even if some found the story to be lacking. Last month, Horizon Forbidden West became one of the latest Sony-published titles to make the jump to PC courtesy of Nixxes Software, the developer behind ports like Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart and the upcoming Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut.

Horizon Forbidden West update 1.2.48.0 is now available for download via Steam. This release further refines the Horizon Forbidden West PC port with some notable quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes.

The PC port of Horizon Forbidden West received another substantial update on April 4, its second such post-release patch. Identified by version number 1.1.47.0, the update resolves some annoying issues and improves Horizon Forbidden West's widescreen monitor support, among other novelties.

With The Last of Us Online cancelled, the rumored Twisted Metal game from Firesprite axed and SIE London Studio shuttered, Sony is seemingly re-evaluating its live service plans. However, despite layoffs for 900 employees, including studios like Guerrilla Games, Insomniac Games and Naughty Dog, it seems the Horizon online game is reportedly still alive.

Horizon: Forbidden West has confirmed all of the upgraded features coming with the game's «Complete Edition» release on PC, also revealing the PC version's release date. The highly-anticipated Horizon: Zero Dawn sequel from PlayStation Studios and Guerrilla Games launched to massive fanfare in early 2022 as a PS5 exclusive. The sequel saw both fan and critical acclaim for Forbidden West's expansive world and received multiple awards nominations, including a nomination for «Game of the Year» at the 2022 Game Awards. Now, the beloved sequel is gearing up for plenty of new features with its PC launch.

With the likes of The Last of Us, Uncharted, Twisted Metal, and Gran Turismo, Sony has adapted a number of PlayStation’s biggest properties of late, and there’s plenty more to come.A God of War series was greenlit for production at Amazon Prime Video in 2022, while a Horizon series has also been in the works at Netflix. At its CES 2024 press conference, Sony provided a brief update on both.

Horizon Forbidden West and Dragon's Dogma 2 are among 14 games on PC to receive Nvidia DLSS (deep learning super sampling) support this year.

An early Horizon Forbidden West PC comparison video was shared online, highlighting the differences with the PlayStation 5 version.

Nvidia, in partnership with developer Guerrilla Games, has announced that open-world action/adventure title Horizon Forbidden West will include support for DLSS 3 when it comes to PC later this year. The game got a new trailer showcasing the use of DLSS 3, Nvidia Reflex, and DLAA. Check it out below.

While much has been said about the Forza franchise’s peculiar approach to fear of missing out, Forza Horizon 5 is not about to let go of its entire seasonal content model. It’s good, then, that the new season is here to stave FOMO off, even if only by a bit.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition on PC will receive DLSS support.

During the CES 2024 'Special Address' livestream, NVIDIA announced several new DLSS 3/RTX games that are on the way.

We knew Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition was coming to PC sometime this year. And today, Nvidia announced that it will support DLSS 3 when the game is released.

Fans of Guerilla's ever-growing Horizon franchise might be pleased to learn that that long-rumoured MMORPG spinoff, «Project Skyline», seems to still be in active development. They might be less thrilled to discover there's nothing to suggest it's coming to PS5 outside of being a Horizon game, expected to launch on PC and mobile in 2025 at the earliest.

A fresh set of rumors about the Horizon MMO are making the rounds, and the implication that this could be a mobile and PC-only MMO that skips PS5 has some fans in disbelief.

Rumors have swirled for a while that NCSoft and Sony were working on an MMO together set within Guerilla Games' Horizon: Zero Dawn universe. New job listings by an NCSoft employee may have accidentally confirmed it, with a code-named logo with Horizon's art style.

Guild Wars publisher NCSoft's long-rumoured Horizon: Zero Dawn spin-off is a full-blown MMORPG codenamed Project Skyline, will run on Unreal Engine 5, and is coming to PC and mobile with a PS5 release still TBC, according to a brace of job listings and CVs fished from the post-apocalyptic robo-wilds of yonder internet. Also according to the said listings, it won’t be out for a while.

More details about an MMO based on Guerrilla's Horizon franchise have popped up online via two new job listings.

Weapons are the key to Aloy's survival in and luckily for players, the game has an expansive arsenal of weapons fit for any machine hunter. Combat in is all about flexibility, and although Aloy will encounter increasingly dangerous machines on her quest, they can all be defeated in many different ways. If you're a new player, the challenge is figuring out which of the game's trusty bows, slings, and other unconventional gadgets best fit your own playstyle.

If you find yourself thinking, «you know what, I feel more like grazing a big Smörgåsbord of culinary delights rather than taking on a herd of Grazers with Aloy right now», then I have good news. There is an official Horizon cookery book in the works.

Sony has insisted multiple times over the years that Microsoft’s Game Pass-centric model is not one that would work for PlayStation. The company has made it abundantly clear that it has no plans in the foreseeable future to start putting all of its games on a subscription service day and date, believing that that would have an adverse impact on sales (something that Microsoft itself has also admitted). Now, leaked internal documents emerging from the recent Insomniac Games data breach have revealed data that seems to lend weight to that notion.

The recent Insomniac ransomware leak has been a massive one, with over 1.3 million stolen files (at roughly 1.67 terabytes) having been shared online by hackers. As part of that leak, unreleased updated sales numbers for a number of Sony titles have emerged.

NVIDIA just announced the latest round of additions to the GeForce NOW cloud library for the current week. The list of 13 PC games is led by Microsoft's Forza Horizon 4 & 5 and Minecraft Dungeons.

ININ Games will release The Legend of Steel Empire for PlayStation 4 and Switch both physically and digitally, and Over Horizon X Steel Empire digitally, the publisher announced. The Legend of Steel Empire and Over Horizon X Steel Empire will launch first for Switch in January 2024 and early 2024, respectively. The PlayStation 4 versions will follow at a later date.

Sons of the Forest developer Endnight Games has finally announced the survival horror game's release date, and luckily, it's right around the corner. 

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Sony and Guild Wars publisher NCsoft have today announced a strategic partnership, which aims to «expand beyond console and broaden PlayStation's reach to a wider audience».

Sony Interactive Entertainment and NCSoft have announced a new “strategic partnership” that will cover “various global business fields, including mobile”. 

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) and NCSoft have signed a strategic global business partnership.

Build a miniature version of Horizon: Forbidden West's coolest mechanical creature.

Horizon Zero Dawn does not support ray tracing natively, but it would look unreal if it did, as showcased in a new video shared online.

The Amirdrassil Race to World First has begun its second week! Throughout the race, Dratnos & Tettles will be providing Daily Recaps of the events of each day — today's video focuses on the weekly reset, Fyrakk on the horizon, and more.Looking for livestreams, guilds to watch, and analytics to dive into? Check out the Wowhead RWF Coverage Article for the latest lists of streamers, raid coverage, and boss guies. Today's RWF Recap video focuses on the weekly reset, which has hit Liquid already and will hit Echo once they wake up in a few hours! Liquid have made short work of their reclear and have gotten back to Tindral, with Echo and other RWF guilds expected to also face low resistance from the first 7 bosses on reclear due to their increased item level and the fact that the most difficult among those fights, Smolderon, is massively easier for guilds that have already killed it once they get more gear and can now kill again on a much less clean pull. Tindral, on the other hand, will not be trivialized by an extra reset of gear — though it will be easier than it was last reset! Primarily, this will be because of extra Stamina (which is maybe cancelled out by the removal of Vantus Runes), and extra damage on the roots allowing them to be broken faster and lowering the difficulty of some of the worst mechanical overlaps. This is certainly something but the primary pain points of the fight will remain brutally difficult, and we may well see Tindral crest the 500 pull count and join a very small set of end bosses in that tier. Fyrakk remains a huge question mark, with behind the scenes tuning landing to several abilities over the past week. We'll have to see what it looks like once the guilds actually reach it, but the numbers on some of the abilities are definitely daunting and may even mean we could see the race enter a 3rd reset if guilds can't get to Fyrakk early in this reset to get that progression started!

Plenty of other PlayStation exclusives are also on sale.

For just short of a year, Guerrilla has been working with the team over at Steamforged Games to bring you a fully cooperative, narrative-driven tabletop experience set in the world of Horizon.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is looking like it’s going to expand on Final Fantasy 7 Remake in several ways, and one particular area of growth that has stood out in all that we’ve heard of the game so far is its open world setting. Previously described as a seamless map and a one-to-one recreation of the original game, what exactly can we expect from how it will be structured and the sort of content it will have on offer?

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's open world is apparently inspired by Final Fantasy 15, Horizon, and The Witcher 3.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will continue the FFVII remake trilogy with a more open world-like design. To that end, Naoki Hamaguchi, one of the game's directors, admitted he took inspiration from Western games like CD Projekt RED's The Witcher and Guerrilla Games' Horizon.

Horizon Call of the Mountain has taken home the gong for Best VR Game at this year's Golden Joystick Awards 2023 powered by Intel. 

Want to get your Need For Speed or Forza Horizon fix on Android? Well, you could do a lot worse than checking out Turbo Tornado, an open world racer that just launched on Google Play.

The Lucid Air Sapphire luxury electric car will debut inside Forza Horizon 5 during Week 3 of the Winter Season on the American Automotive Festival Playlist.

Patch 1.2.1 is out as of October 31st, and with it came some pleasant updates and a not so pleasant bug. As of now, Necromancers are unable to generate corpses with the dummies in order to test out their builds.

While Forza Motorsport is available and is the newest racing sim for Turn 10 Studios since 2017’s Forza Motorsport 7, Turn 10 Studios’ Forza Horizon 5 continues to smash records. The in-game player count has crossed 34 million players and continues to rise, as noted by Snap Blast PLAY on Twitter.

Steamforged Games is heading back to the world of Sony’s Horizon series for Horizon Forbidden West: Seeds of Rebellion, and the Kickstarter campaign will go live on November 21.

A new trend that literally only exists to break all of our hearts is currently doing the rounds on Twitter, and I don't know how many more posts I can handle.

Yesterday, Circana (formerly NPD) shared September sales data showing that Starfield was a massive success in the United States. The game topped last month's best-selling chart, becoming the first Bethesda Game Studios title to do so (both The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4 debuted in second place) despite its availability on the Game Pass subscription service.

Microsoft Flight Simulator is a known quantity by now. An immaculate and widely acclaimed aircraft simulator with the sort of pedigree that almost no other modern gaming franchise could compare with, and one that’s due for a comprehensive 2024 update to make it even better. But that’s not even close to the full story, as Parallel 42’s wacky Juice Goose third-party DLC can attest to. Indeed, it would appear that some enterprising devs have been working in the background to redefine what Microsoft Flight Sim can and cannot do.

Sonic Frontiers: Final Horizon is a free update that no one expected. At least, not before the announcement quite shortly after Frontiers’ release. Within the wake of Frontiers’ success came a rise of new hope, a resurgence of the Sonic formula that would take fans for a victory lap around well-trodden grounds in the Starfall Islands.

These Animal Crossing collectible toys look too cute, feel great, and have been discounted in the wake of Prime Day Round 2.

Horizon Forbidden West and its expansion, Burning Shores, have received a new accolades trailer. Lest you’re wondering what month (or year) it is, the trailer focuses on the Complete Edition, which is out today for PS5 and early 2024 for PC. Check out what critics had to say about the Open World title and its expansion.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage was released just yesterday, but fans are already hoping for more stealth-centric adventures in the series, specifically in regards to Assassin’s Creed Red.

Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition is set to release for PS5 on October 6, and when it does, players may be surprised to find that they'll be getting not one but two discs. 

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition hits PS5 tomorrow, and while combined releases of games and their DLC are pretty common, this one stands out because it's actually complete on disc - or, rather, discs.

Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition is reportedly the first two-disc PS5 game. As per an image posted by the ‘Does it play?' Twitter account, the base game, its Burning Shores expansion, and some digital goodies all total out to 121GB, and will be available on the two discs included in the physical edition. The game is slated to launch Friday, October 6, and with that, it has beaten the upcoming Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth to the punch, which was also planned for release on two discs. This move is a big win for console owners who value physical media — or rather, the ability to access games anywhere and anytime without restrictions such as a constant internet connection.

When Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition is released, it will be the first two disc PlayStation 5 game.

Guerrilla Games and Sony recently unveiled Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition, and while the most notable thing about the re-release is that it will be bringing the open world action RPG to PC next year, before that, not long from now, it will also be releasing for PS5. And it seems it will be quite a hefty package.

Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition is reportedly the first PlayStation 5 game to ship on two discs.

We need to have a disc-ussion about how big video games have become.

While it’s true that many titles over recent years have focused on open-world exploration and having “plenty of things for players to do,” the great titles of those genres have incredible hooks to keep you interested as you go forward. Some titles focused on incredible gameplay that would have you hooked from the beginning and want you to keep pushing yourself until you “git gud” and beat that boss you’re struggling with. Then, for titles like Horizon Forbidden West, they focused plenty on the story and characters so you could feel a connection to the world and want to see things through for them.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition is picking up a unique distinction when it releases on physical for PlayStation 5.

The PlayStation 5 has its first two-disc video game three years after the console launched: Horizon: Forbidden West Complete Edition.

The world of Horizon Forbidden West brims with life across its spectacular landscapes, fierce roaming machines, and thriving cultures that populate a renewed land once ravaged by the biomass-consuming machines of the Faro Plague.

The final update for Sonic Frontiers, dubbed Final Horizon, is out now. The update, available for free, brings a host of new content to the game, and is out now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

Sonic Frontiers' latest update comes with an unexpected difficulty spike. 

Sonic fans can't believe how difficult Frontiers' Final Horizon update is, with players particularly struggling with the trial towers and their lack of checkpoints.

Sega has released the story DLC for Sonic Frontiers, titled The Final Horizon.

Sega has released a new trailer for the final major planned update for Sonic Frontiers, dubbed the Final Horizon. The trailer sees the main characters discussing their plan of action, with Sonic himself deciding to take on the four towers of the masters, while is friends look for the Chaos Emeralds. Check out the trailer below.

It feels like the year of Amy the Hedgehog, and we’re all benefitting. Not only is the spritely pink hedgehog playable in the upcoming Sonic Superstars, but she co-stars in the biggest Sonic Frontiers update, out today on all platforms. She struts her stuff in the Sonic Frontiers: The Final Horizon update trailer, along with Tails, Knuckles, and Sonic.

Sega has canceled upcoming multiplayer shooter Hyenas and some other unannounced titles in a bid to improve profitability.

Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition is coming to PlayStation 5 console on October 6!

Update: Well, we suppose that was inevitable. Sony has officially confirmed that Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition is coming to PS5 on the 6th October. It's also heading to PC (Steam and Epic Games Store) a little later, in early 2024. You can take a look at the announcement trailer above.

Sony has been working hard over the last several years to take their console-exclusive titles and bring them to PC so that they can reach a new audience and potentially expand the success of their IPs. Sure enough, many titles they’ve put on PC have done well, including the games with Kratos, Joel and Ellie, Spider-Man, and more. One of the others that has also done well on PC is Aloy, whose first adventure was brought to PC a while back, and then many wondered when the sequel would come. Well, Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition has officially been announced for PC.

Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition is coming to PlayStation 5 on October 6.

After multiple rumors emerged for the same, Guerrilla Games has officially confirmed Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition. It launches on October 6th for PS5 and early 2024 for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. Check out the announcement trailer below.

There’s never any shortage of interest in what Sony has planned for the PC gaming space, and if recent leaks are to be believed, the next PlayStation-exclusive title the company intends to bring to PC is Horizon Forbidden West, with a Complete Edition allegedly being prepared for release on PS5 and PC, bunding both the game game and its expansion, Burning Shores, together. But exactly when will the open world action RPG make that jump?

Horizon Forbidden West's 'Complete Edition' has surfaced once again.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition has been listed for a release on PS5 next week by a Japanese retailer.

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almost feels like a love letter to classic 1990s arcade racing games, and if that's the premise, then it is excellently executed. It offers exactly what one would expect from an arcade racing game in today's world with smooth crossplay multiplayer options, a solo campaign mode, and the ability to collect fun cars and race on unique and beautiful tracks. The catchy synth music, brightly colored graphics, and easy-to-learn gameplay mechanics make it exactly what an arcade racing game should be.