Howdy, folks! This week the crew sits down to talk about this week’s news. This week, Tim and Kristen discuss their playthroughs of Dynasty Warriors: Origins, Alien: Rogue Incursion, and Metaphor: ReFantazio.
Stuff We Talked About
Next week’s release highlights:
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II | PS5
Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator | PS5
MLB The Show 25 cover athlete reveal
Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered camera flythrough mode
Destiny 2 – Act 3 Heresy details
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PC features
PlayStation Plus February Monthly Games
Payday 3
High on Life
Pac-Man World Re-Pac
Dynasty Warriors: Origins
Alien: Rogue Incursion
Metaphor: ReFantazio
The Cast
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[Editor’s note: PSN game release dates are subject to change without notice. Game details are gathered from press releases from their individual publishers and/or ESRB rating descriptions.]
With the release of Sniper Elite: Resistance, IGN Store has launched a new Sniper Elite Collection featuring all kinds of custom apparel you won’t want to miss! This officially licensed collection is the best way to share your love of Sniper Elite with IGN Store-exclusive tee designs, jackets, beanies, and more based on the series. Check out this hot new collection below!
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This collection features eight different tees, each with a unique design that any Sniper Elite fan is sure to love. All tees in the IGN Store Sniper Elite Collection are officially licensed, perfect for your next mission. You can expect premium comfort with tees made from ultra-soft 100% ringspun cotton, and with the high thread count, you won’t have to worry about your new shirt shrinking from a wash or dry.
Additionally, this collection features a Sniper Elite branded European Style Rucksack, which you can use on your next expedition. There are also numerous hoodies, jackets, and even beanies to choose from so you can rep Sniper Elite regardless of the weather.
For this week only, you can save 15% off all items in the collection, so be sure to get your order in before this discount goes away. Check out a few of our favorite picks in the Sniper Elite Collection below:
Sniper Elite: Resistance moves the series to France in a new story that plays out side by side of Sniper Elite 5. As Special Operations Executive Agent Harry Hawker, it’s up to you to coordinate with the French Resistance and disrupt the Nazi’s plans.
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The first two Sims games are still exceedingly well-regarded these days, but sadly, actually gaining access to them in a legitimate way isn’t particularly easy. The first was a disc-only jobby, and the second has long-since been removed from digital platforms.
Thankfully, with a new report from Kotaku (thanks, Push Square) accompanying an intriguing tease from EA itself, it looks like The Sims and The Sims 2 will be re-released on PC very soon. The catch? Well, according to Kotaku’s sources, it seems as though a console release is still “unclear” at the time of writing.
As rumoured, The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 have returned to (official) PC stores. Kindly Uncle EA has taken a break from his busy layoff schedule to rustle up a pair of Legacy collections that include a bunch of DLC. It’s the very first time the original Sims has graced a digital retail platform, I believe – it was first released in 2000, back when people used to access the internet using smoke signals and semaphore. Anyway, here’s the reveal trailer.
Last week, we asked you go chasing in-game waterfalls and share your best moments using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:
mariprosilvashares a massive waterfall in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
M_Joe_Hortshares a waterfall with a moose standing before it in Red Dead Redemption 2.
xenobitzstrikes a pose in front of a waterfall in Infinity Nikki.
MrioMoreno5shares walking across a rope in front of waterfalls in Sea of Stars.
call_me_xaviishares Aloy taking a break in front of a rocky waterfall in Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered.
snejku23shares the light hitting a lost city a top a waterfall in Uncharted: Lost Legacy.
Search #PSshare #PSBlog on Twitter or Instagram to see more entries to this week’s theme. Want to be featured in the next Share of the Week?
THEME: Climb SUBMIT BY: 11:59 PM PT on February 5, 2025
Next week, we’re climbing up. Share characters climbing or ascending to great heights from the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog for a chance to be featured.
Warner Bros’ licensed free-to-play fighting game MultiVersus – aka, the one where Velma Dinkley and Arya Stark can team up to kick Superman’s face in – will no longer be playable online as of 30th May. It’ll be pulled from Steam, the Epic Games Store and the PlayStation and Xbox stores at the end of its next season, though you’ll still be able to get your fill of Bugs Bunny bashing offline against either friends or bots.
EA and Maxis are celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Sims franchise with a truly excellent surprise. Today, both The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 are available on PC once again via two Legacy Collections and The Sims 25th Birthday Bundle.
EA has announced that it’s releasing The Sims: Legacy Collection and The Sims 2: Legacy Collection today on PC. The two are available separately as well as combined for $40 in The Sims 25th Birthday Bundle.
Both games include all expansions and almost all stuff packs, as it looks like The Sims 2: Legacy Collection is missing the IKEA Home Stuff pack from 2008. But otherwise, everything’s there. In fact, both collections include some bonus content, with The Sims 1 getting something called Throwback Fit Kit and The Sims 2 receiving a Grunge Revival Kit on top of all the other add-ons.
EA’s re-release of the two older The Sims games marks the first time in over a decade that both gave have been readily available to play. The Sims 1 was only ever released on disc, so for years now unless you were able to track down an old physical copy and somehow make it run on a modern Windows machine, there was just no way to get ahold of it (and that doesn’t even include the expansion packs!). The Sims 2 was available more recently in 2014 via an Ultimate Collection on EA’s Origin store, but the Ultimate Collection was taken down a while ago. So unless you took advantage of it at the time, The Sims 2 remained unavailable to you unless you could similarly find a physical disc. With these two new collections, all four The Sims games are now easily purchaseable and playable again through digital storefronts.
We gave The Sims 1 a 9.5/10 and The Sims 2 an 8.5/10 waaaaay back in the day when we first reviewed them both. While the series has added numerous new features and ironed out a lot of kinks since then, the originals are still worth checking out for their goofiness, relative simplicity, challenge, and legacy.
The Sims: Legacy Collection and The Sims 2: Legacy Collection are both available now on Steam, the Epic Games Store, and through the EA app.
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Player First Games has announced that MultiVersus Season 5 will be its last, bringing the Warner Bros. platform fighting game to a close May 30, 2025, at 9 a.m. PST.
The studio revealed plans to discontinue support for the crossover brawler with a blog post on its website. MultiVersus, which launched May 28 last year, will launch into Season 5 starting next week, February 4, and will continue through its May 2025 end date. It’s at this point that support for online play will come to an end, with Player First promising that players will still be able to access all earned and purchased content while offline via the local gameplay mode and training mode.
“Most importantly, we want to thank every player and person who has ever played or supported MultiVersus,” a message from the MultiVersus team says. “All of us on the Player First Games and Warner Bros. Games teams have poured our heart and soul into this game. We will be forever grateful for the incredible support of the MultiVersus community throughout this journey.”
Player First adds that real-money transactions for MultiVersus are no longer available as of today, though fans will still have the option to use Gleamium and character tokens to access in-game content until support ends come May 30. MultiVersus will also be delisted from the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, Steam, and Epic Games Store at this time.
“We took another $100 million plus impairment due to the underperforming releases, primarily MultiVersus this quarter, bringing total writedown year-to-date to over $300 million in our games business, a key factor in this year’s studio profit decline,” chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels said during the November call.
Although today’s news means the free-to-play Warner Bros. fighting game will shut down just days after celebrating its one-year launch anniversary, Season 5 will at least send it out with a bang. In addition to the usual new content seasonal updates bring, new characters Lola Bunny and Aquaman will also be joining the fight as playable characters. Both will be available starting next week, with the Looney Toons icon able to be unlocked as a daily calendar reward and the DC superhero available through the battle pass.
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The patch notes below include indicators showing which game each fix belongs to, with a couple of generic improvements included at the bottom. It looks like the first game has received the most love here, but your experience should be improved across both entries regardless.
