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God of War on PC delivers nearly everything we’d hoped for

Enlarge / “Boy. ” “Yes? ” “You are ready… for the PC port. ” (This image was directly captured by Ars from the game’s PC build—as were most of the other images in this article, unless otherwise clarified. ) (credit: Sony Santa Monica) While headlines have suggested that Sony’s PlayStation division is more invested in […]

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Final Fantasy VII Remake on PC: A gorgeous start, but where are the toggles?

Enlarge / Cloud Strife is finally on PC again, and this image is taken directly from real-time rendering in the new PC port. (credit: Square Enix) Final Fantasy VII Remake‘s exclusivity on consoles ends today. Nineteen months after its launch on PS4 and seven months after its PS5 update, Square Enix’s ambitious return to Midgar breaks […]

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Ex-Sony exec opens up about efforts to bring PlayStation hits to PC

Enlarge (credit: Collage by Aurich Lawson) Sony has a long history of keeping its first-party games behind the walled garden of console exclusivity. So the company’s choice to bring its PS4 hit Horizon Zero Dawn to PC in August 2020 felt like a precedent-changing move away from that barrier to entry. It represented a seismic […]