The Monday letters page is frustrated at Rocksteady’s wasted decade after Batman: Arkham Knight, as one reader is confused by Xbox’s next gen plans. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk. It happened again. So PSN was down for most people over the weekend and… what a disaster that was. Not only did multiplayer not work – which I’m sure most people can live without for a while – but lots of single-player games didn’t work and I hear even disc drives didn’t work, because for some reason they have to check online too. And you wonder why people say that an all-digital future is bad?.
Just imagine if there was only streaming and this happened, 100% of every game would instantly stop working. I know why companies want it like this, because it gives them control but this goes way beyond trying to stop piracy. They don’t want you to use the game you’ve paid for in any way but the way they want, and they’ll stop you from playing it for any reason they make up. This isn’t the first time PSN has gone down and it surely won’t be the last. Maybe it needs to go down when GTA 6 comes out, which seems like a possibility considering how many people will be using it at once then, but even if it did I doubt the outrage will force Sony to reconsider.
Skeeve. Wasted time. So with the news that Rocksteady is going back to work on a single-player Batman game we find that basically they’ve wasted a whole decade, since Arkham Knight, on absolutely nothing. It’s great to hear they’re coming back to the series but I’m sure half the people that used to work at the company have left by now, I seem to remember the founders went years ago. If they’re starting now what is the new Batman game going to be on? It’ll be lucky to make the PlayStation 6 at this rate, same for the Wonder Woman game. A lot of execs in the games industry don’t seem to be worth their pay check but whoever’s in charge of Warner Bros. games must be the absolute worst. Constant stories about cancelled games and almost nothing released despite having some really talented studios.
It’s been eight years since Middle-Earth: Shadow Of War too, and they’re not going to have anything out for at least five years either. Crazy. Danson. Logical conflict. Funny to see the sales of Xbox Series X/S finally revealed, thanks to Take-Two. Maybe Microsoft will be so angry with them they’ll buy them too? Selling less than half the PlayStation 5 really does show you why Xbox has had to go multiformat, but I’m still confused about why they have a next gen machine coming out.
Surely only an even smaller number people of people are going to buy that, unless it does something really amazing. They’ve said it will be the biggest leap ever but if it is, and it’s something the PlayStation 6 can’t match, does that mean they’ll go back to having exclusives?. But if they’re staying multiformat how are they going to be releasing the same games on both consoles if the Xbox next gen machine is so much better? Nothing they say ever makes sense.
Email your comments to: gamecentral@metro.co.uk. Physical excitement. I see Legacy Of Kain Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered standard edition isn’t exclusive to Limited Run Games and you can pre-order it for £29.99 from Amazon UK, delivered for June 13th 2025. It’s available to pre-order on PlayStation 5 and Switch physically, currently. So just ordered a copy, which works out a lot cheaper than getting it from Limited Run Games in the USA, with taxes and postage. Pleased about getting it, as I thought I had missed the boat!.
I’ve never played it before and I am a fan of Amy Hennig, who was involved in making it and also making Uncharted 1 to 3, which I am a fan of. Shout out to YouTuber Physical Paradise for making me aware of the release of the game. Andrew J. Wild Heroes. I enjoyed Steel Assault and Retroware are following that up with Neon Inferno, which looks a little like Gunstar Heroes with a splash of Wild Guns. A demo should be available now on Steam, I don’t have a PC so can someone play it and let me know how excited I should be please?.
The publisher is looking at doing a physical release, Limited Run did a physical edition of Steel Assault for Switch, so fingers crossed Neon Inferno lives up to this trailer. Then I and the Andrew Js of this world might have another retro banger to clog up our shelves. Beastiebat (PSN ID). Currently playing Doom Eternal and thoroughly enjoying it. GC: We don’t know how it plays, but it looks gorgeous.
No alternative. RE: Jeffos comments. As you say, ‘Back in the day you had to wait years between the games’. That was true. For large scale games like these you have to wait even longer between games now. It has only gotten longer, not shorter. It’s only when the developers have been actually rushed to finish developing it early, Like Mass Effect 3, which wasn’t as good as it could have been. Most fans acknowledge they’re not perfect. I think the reason they are so beloved, despite their faults, is because there aren’t many other games made like them, so for those that love them they keep going back for a dose of sci-fi epic storylines.
