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‘Minecraft Legends’ delivers blocky base-building action on April 18th
Minecraft Legends, the unique action-strategy spin on Microsoft’s block-building franchise, will hit the Xbox, PlayStation 5, Windows and Nintendo Switch on April 18th. Announced last June, the game resembles a modern spin on classic Warcraft strategy: Your goal is to protect your base and destroy your enemy’s. It’ll feature online campaign co-op and competitive multiplayer, as you’d expect. And judging from the most recent trailer, it looks compelling enough to tempt over gamers who could never figure out what to do in the original Minecraft.
‘Endless Dungeon’ will hit PC, Xbox and PlayStation on May 18th
Sega has at last revealed when folks will be able to snap up Endless Dungeon. The action-packed game is coming to Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on May 18th. A Nintendo Switch version will be available later.
Endless Dungeon, from developer Amplitude Studios, was previously slated for a 2022 debut. It’s a squad-based blend of a tower defense game and a twin-stick shooter. Players are tasked with both protecting a so-called crystal bot and progressing further into a dungeon.
You can team up with three friends or go it alone and control three characters by yourself (you’ll have direct control over one and bark orders at the other two). Endless Dungeon is a roguelite, so you’ll gradually unlock persistent upgrades, weapons and characters.
Alongside the release date announcement, Sega opened up pre-orders for most platforms. You’ll get early access two days before the official launch, as well as some extra goodies, by pre-ordering the “Last Wish” digital edition. A physical Day One edition with a card game and art book is available too. Sega also released a new trailer which shows some more chaotic gameplay:
The RPS Advent Calendar 2022, December 18th
On the eighteenth day of our Advent Calendar you find yourself curiously, suddenly alone. A fog rolled through town and suddenly everyone has disappeared. Oh, wait, that looks like a bunch of school kids over there, maybe they’ll hel- OH GOD OH NO.
Sony handhelds might be dead, but on its 18th birthday the promise of the PSP is as alive as ever
If you’re old enough to remember when Sony announced that it was getting into the handheld video game system thing, you’ll remember how exciting it was. At that time, in 2003, Sony was at the absolute height of its gaming powers, with the PS2 an absolutely undisputed dominator of the market. The idea that Sony would now encroach on the last corner of the market still held by Nintendo was thrilling.
It wasn’t just the capitalist nightmare of all-out corporate warfare for the pockets and backpacks of gamers that made the PSP special, though – it was that Sony was promising something different. There’d been other contenders in the gaming handheld market, from Sega to Nokia, but all had followed pretty much the same playbook as Nintendo, putting out either games built around handheld gimmicks or slimmed-down versions of known franchises running perhaps a generation or two behind what was hitting consoles at the time.
Sony, buoyed by its experience with the Walkman, wanted to create a device for adults – for that same audience it had successfully courted with the PS2. What you got was a surprisingly powerful console that quite often felt like a PS2, even though it wasn’t. It delivered numerous big-budget, broad-feeling experiences; the utter antithesis to what Nintendo was doing over on the Game Boy and DS.