Well, i guess target 13 year olds officially, but you'll find lots of younger kids will play it anyway (just as they do with supposedly 12+ Fortnite)
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Well, i guess target 13 year olds officially, but you'll find lots of younger kids will play it anyway (just as they do with supposedly 12+ Fortnite)
Can't see it selling enough to make it a huge issue, but yeah, combined with Steam Machine it's not ideal for Sony if people can buy a competitor's box to access all their games.
Make it goofy and fun, kids want to see their fav YouTubers OMGing at something silly, and then try it with their friends. Make it with a small team and sustainable with low initial numbers. Take the time and earn the right for large player counts. Build a deeper lore gradually.
If you want to make a successful new live service game, it HAS to be aimed primarily at the 9-16 age group and be F2P. Kids with endless time, who don't care about graphics and won't buy games, but can still make occasional in-game purchases. Low dev costs, start small, build up.
This makes sense in a world where the Steam Machine is coming for the living room gamer. Sony need to protect the PS6's market share, and exclusives are the best way to do that.
New pick up! Loved the trial on PS Plus, so I had to go ahead and buy Mafia: The Old Country.
Bih-vu-ack! 😂 good luck
Just finished the last cup on Mario Kart World (Rainbow Road!) The game is simply brilliant. The music is so magical, it looks wonderful and the racing is so well balanced and fun. Excited for a new 3D Mario that’s even close to being this polished.
Credits rolled on Silksong! I’d keep going, but my son is desperate to play it so it’s now on loan to his Switch 2.
Just caught up on the Xbox Developer Direct - thought all the games looked incredible. Will definitely play them all, so Gamepass will be justifying itself for another year!
I can't fathom how the rest of Congress can't devise a way to retire the mad bastard. He's lost the plot and the world is suffering as a result.
Completed Act 1 of Silksong and can safely conclude that this game is utterly brilliant.
Hmm I dunno - tried it but it seemed extremely boring and pointless. It’s no Forza horizon that’s for sure 😂
Mario Kart World is so damn good. Love the new power ups and characters, and some of the courses are classics. (Although maybe don’t mention the performance in four player split screen as that’s a shocker)
PS5 owners are in for a treat - don’t sleep on Avowed when it arrives in Feb, it’s brilliant! It’s like a huge open world fantasy game, but designed in a way so that it’s not at all overwhelming.
It’s not surprising that the Switch 2 had an underwhelming Christmas. It’s been selling like mad to hardcore gamers (i.e. you lot), but it’s too expensive for most parents to buy their kids, especially when PS5 was retailing for £290.
A red haired cockerpoo named Yoshi
This guy. He waits like this if he can’t follow me into a room.
Yep, was planning a big family trip to Orlando, but we will just do Disneyland Paris now instead, and maybe Universal in Japan. So sad to see as I love America and my past visits there.
One PS5 in each room, perfect
Wouldn’t suit my room, but I still love these super bold colours
@keefstuart.bsky.social - heads up, you need to remove Death Stranding 2 from this list! (may I humbly suggest swapping it for Avowed, Keeper, or South of Midnight instead?) www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
A 3d object/space though is usually made out of loads of polygons all stitched together (i.e. a simple room is made of six panels). In DKB you can just smash walls and they recreate themselves as needed on the fly.
I'm really enjoying DK Bananza. It's just so much fun to explore and destroy everything - from a game design perspective I can't imagine how hard it is to create a level that can be almost completely destroyed but still works.
Finished stranger things - a few plot holes but they did a great job of capping it all off in a satisfying way. If you look at the whole five seasons (and the play) as a complete story then it’s a pretty damn epic bit of storytelling.
Proper underrated gem
These were my top games of 2025. A stand out incredible year in my book, I’ll remember these games for a long time. Love how many of the below games are all new IP too. Hat tip to Gamepass too for keeping me so well entertained.
I've played little else since starting it. So much fun and completely batshit too, which is always good.
It's an easy win for Ghost Town for me, but Of Lies and Rain deserves a mention too. Hitman VR is remarkable, it's like 20+ games in one as each level is like it's own holodeck playground to get lost in - worth buying PSVR2 just for this one game IMO.
Being alive feels debatable today tbh...
Cheers Mark, HNY to you too!