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Sony purchases Returnal developer Housemarque after successful PS5 debut

Returnaling, over and over, to remember the things we shot. [credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment / Housemarque ] Sony has announced that it has acquired Finnish indie developer Housemarque just two months after the launch of Housemarque’s Returnal as one of the highest-profile exclusives on the young PlayStation 5 console. Housemarque has a long history with Sony […]

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Plug in a PS5 keyboard to access Returnal’s hidden “debug mode” codes

Returnaling, over and over, to remember the things we shot. [credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment / Housemarque ] It’s not too surprising that a game like Returnal would have some hidden cheat codes allowing players to lighten the game’s punishing difficulty. But the method—which requires players to plug a USB keyboard into their PS5—for entering those […]

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Returnal review: Roguelite arcade combat has never felt this epic—or hard

Returnaling, over and over, to remember the things we shot. [credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment / Housemarque ] Returnal is a sci-fi video game about a person constantly reliving the past in order to find a new future. In some ways, it feels like a pointed metaphor for the game’s creators. PlayStation fans are likely familiar […]

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Today, watch us play the opening of Sony’s promising PS5 exclusive Returnal

All of those cracked helmets behind our hero look identical. There’s a reason. Returnal sees its players die and retry as an explorer of a strange alien planet. [credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment / Housemarque ] Ahead of next week’s launch of the PlayStation 5 exclusive Returnal, Sony has given me an opportunity to show exactly […]