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The Cyberpunk 2077 console catastrophe has put fans of upcoming games on edge a little when they see titles shown off using PC footage instead of the system they'll actually be playing on. That's understandable, so in the case of Dying Light 2 at least, Techland has shared a brief glimpse at what the open world zombie game looks like running on a base PlayStation 4.

It's not an optimal set-up — the footage is presented in a bordered window smaller than the actual space of a YouTube video — but it still generally looks pretty good. The last gen version appears to retain the fast and fluid gameplay with great visuals at all times. The video then switches to Xbox One X footage, which PS4 Pro users can use as a basis for their own experience. Once again it's looking shiny and smooth. We then finally see Dying Light 2 running on a PS5 at the end of the demonstration.

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What are the best Xbox games you can get your hands on in 2022? With Microsoft continuing to push its multi-platform strategy, the company’s gaming ecosystem now includes the newly-released Xbox Series X|S as well as Xbox One and PC. We’ve seen plenty of crossover between the three platforms, so pinning down which games to talk about can be tricky, but we think we’ve done a pretty good job. In recent years, Microsoft has been busy snapping up some of the industry’s best talent by acquiring studios left, right, and centre. On top of that, the past several months have given us some of the best Xbox games in years with the return of major flagship franchises. For our picks of the best Xbox games to play, we’ve gone for a selection that includes brand new must-play exclusives that show off the console’s power, old Xbox faithfuls, and a handful of likely less well-known options. The Best Xbox Series X Games As ever we’ll be closely monitoring this list as new Xbox games arrive, adding those titles worthy enough to make the cut. As we push through 2022, we’ll hopefully see exclusive upcoming games like Hellblade II, Starfield, and Scorn step into the ring. For now, let’s took a look at best games Xbox players can dive straight into. Forza Horizon 5 Halo Infinite Ori and the Will of the Wisps & Ori and the Blind Forest Microsoft Flight Simulator Gears 5 Sea of Thieves Yakuza: Like a Dragon Halo: The Master Chief Collection Psychonauts 2 Scarlet Nexus Forza Horizon 5 Forza Horizon 5 is one of the best racing games in general, and it’s definitely at its best on the Xbox Series X. You’ve never played a better-looking racing game than this, and the way the recreation of Mexico weaves from one biome and one event to the next makes it stunning to play too. If you want to make your way around a huge world and just soak in the sheer beauty of it all, Forza Horizon 5 is one of the best Xbox games around for that. Oh, and Forza Horizon 4 looks pretty special with its Series X upgrade as well… Halo Infinite It might have been a year late, but Halo Infinite was worth the wait. 343 Industries have really nailed down the feel of Halo, while also taking the series in a new direction. The campaign and Master Chief’s battle against the Banished now has an open world structure, with the Zeta Halo providing a great playground that’s made all the better by having a new grappling hook. Then there’s the multiplayer action which is just a lot of fun, and fully free to play if you don’t fancy the campaign. There’s more to come for Halo Infinite, such as co-op campaign and changes to multiplayer progression, but it should be high on your “to play” list for Xbox and PC. Ori and the Will of the Wisps & Ori and the Blind Forest This is a bit of a cheat, because we’re actually going to go ahead and include both Ori and the Will of the Wisps along with Ori and the Blind Forest here, because they’re both excellent games. The Ori games are very challenging “Metroidvania” titles where you guide a little forest spirit through increasingly challenging situations. If you want something that feels a little retro but with loads of modern extras, then check this out. Microsoft Flight Simulator Microsoft Flight Simulator should be the dullest console offering of the new generation, but it’s not. Exclusively on PC and Xbox Series X|S, Flight Simulator lets you take out a growing hangar of different light aircraft as you explore and traverse planet Earth, and it’s a perfect example of zen gaming. Peaceful, tranquil, and yet utterly immersive, you can’t take your hands off the controls for fear that your aircraft will plummet into the ground. While the only real downside is that you’ll have to take off again, you’ll still lose precious moments you could have spent performing yet another fly-by of your house. Gears 5 Gears 5 might have released a year before the Xbox Series X came out, but it’s easily one of the best looking games on the new hardware thanks to a free game update that enhanced lighting and other effects. Not only that, but The Coalition released Gears 5: Hivebusters, a DLC campaign to play through solo or in three player co-op that takes the series to new and truly gorgeous locations. If you’ve completed Gears 5 in the past, then Hivebusters is well worth checking out (and bundled in with Game Pass Ultimate). Not a fan of the Gears series’ chunky cover shooter combat? How about a slick XCOM-like spin off in Gears Tactics? Sea of Thieves Nobody would have expected Sea of Thieves to grow into the fantastic game it is today when it launched, but here we are. Sea of Thieves is a multiplayer pirate game that basically lets you live out any and every dream of the high seas you’ve ever had. If you want to play it and make up a crew to sail around looking for booty, then you can, if you’d rather get into ship-based combat, then you can, and if you want something more relaxing, you can always just go fishing. There’s been years of updates that have improved and polished the game, not to mention a whole Pirates of the Caribbean tie-in story that you can play with your swarthiest chums. Yakuza: Like a Dragon It’s always cool to see a long-running game series mix things up a bit, and that’s exactly what Yakuza: Like a Dragon does. Rather than being an action game, Like a Dragon goes full RPG with turn-based battles, characters who serve different roles, and some of the strangest summons in gaming history. Basically, if you’re looking for a good time, get on this. Make sure you check out our Yakuza: Like a Dragon guide series to get the best head start and scoop some of those hard-to-find collectables. Halo: The Master Chief Collection Sure, Halo Infinite might be the shiny new thing, but it can’t hold a candle to the absolutely vast collection of Halo gaming that you get within Halo: The Master Chief Collection. You’ve got the entire Xbox and Xbox 360 saga with Master Chief at its centre as you start, continue and then finish the fight against the Covenant, but there’s also Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach and Halo 4 bundled in as well. The collection has been significantly updated (and its multiplayer fixed) since its 2014 Xbox One release, so if you’re playing on Series X you get the games in running 4K, dozens of hours of campaign to play through, and more multiplayer game types and modes than you can shake a sticky grenade at! Want to fully finish the Halo fight? Well, Halo 5: Guardians is also playable via backward compatibility, and there’s also the real time strategy spin-offs Halo Wars and Halo Wars 2. Halo Wars 2 is the first game to feature Halo Infinite’s Banished foes. Psychonauts 2 Psychonauts 2 is a worthy successor to Double Fine’s cult classic. The platforming and combat gameplay is tighter, the world design is as varied and inventive as ever, and while the story is full of twists, turns and comedic moment, there’s also a wonderful sense of empathy and tenderness throughout. The game has a bit of a leg up over the PlayStation 5 on Xbox Series X. Where the PS5 plays the game at 1440p thanks to running in backward compatibility, the Series X has a native version of the game that can target native 4K. The varied and inventive worlds that Double Fine has created shine through regardless of where you play it. Scarlet Nexus Scarlet Nexus manages to mix an intriguing story, a constant sense of intrigue, and a wonderful over-the-top battle system together into a game that’s a blast to play. On Xbox Series X it comes with a crisp and clean anime visual style that makes the truly wild enemy designs really stand out as you battle for the future of mankind. This is easily one of the best JRPGs to come out in the 2021, and that’s saying something!

In September last year it was reported that a new Twisted Metal reboot game was in the works and it would be a tie in with forthcoming TV show based on the game. At the time Lucid Games, the creators of PS5 exclusive Destruction All-Stars, were on developing duties. However, sources have now told VGC that the Twisted Metal reboot has been taken off Lucid and is now in the hands of a first party studio. It is suggested that the poor reception for Destruction All-Stars is a factor, but given that game died on it’s bum almost at launch it seems odd Sony have taken this long to make that decision. Which internal studio has the game has not been revealed but there are very few choices. Polphony, Guerrilla, Housemarque, Bend, Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Blue Point and Sucker Punch are all very busy with upcoming games. Team Asobi, Media Molecule, Nixxes, and Valkyerie really don’t seem a good fit, so outside of partnering with an external studio that only really leaves Santa Monica, who will be finishing God of War Ragnarok any day now. However, the game is reportedly set to be released alongside the TV show in 2023, so even if Santa Monica took over the title they would have very little time to finish it. Back in May 2019 Sony announced PlayStation Productions, a new arm of the company that would create television shows and films based on PlayStation IPs, and at the same time it was confirmed by Tony Vinciquerra from Sony Pictures that a television show based on the classic vehicle combat game Twisted Metal was in early production. The writers of Deadpool and Zombieland, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who will be creating a “new take” on the franchise.  The story will follow a loud mouthed protagonist who has a chance at a better life if he can traverse a wasteland and deliver a package, so Mad Max but with Tom Hardy talking rather than being sullen and mute. The currently unnamed protagonist will be joined by ” trigger-happy car thief” and they will meet a clown who drives an ice cream truck – I think you know who that is. Avengers star Anthony Mackie will be taking the lead role. Sone recently re-affirmed the show is in production during their CES 2022 presentation. Source: VGC

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Update: Game Director Jeff Ross has explained on a live stream that his figures are not from Sony’s official internal tracking, instead figuring out numbers from internal trophy telemetry that aligned with the 5 million sales announcement in 2020 and allowed him to extrapolate from trophy data available on external sites. In a stream Ross said (transcribed by PushSquare): “Where I got my data from, I had access to a lot of telemetry, and I could see stuff and when we were at 5 million copies – when we were announced at 5 million copies – the telemetry data was at 5.8 [million]. There are basically resells or shared discs. I was actually using an external website – I think they’re offline now – but they were using trophy data and it lined up with our internal telemetry data so for me, it’s like, ‘good enough.'” While this does cast doubt over Ross’ original statement, one of the key takeaways is that there is a link between sales and trophy data that means you can get a rough extrapolation one way or another. When the game’s industry is often quite coy about sales figures (unless it’s a major milestone), it’s good to know that even developers are happy to perform similar napkin maths to figure things out. Ross says that he stands by his numbers. The original story follows. Days Gone managed to sell over 8 million copies within its first year and a half on sale, according to the game director Jeff Ross, but despite this matching Ghost of Tsushima’s new milestone, Sony’s “local studio management always made us feel like it was a big disappointment.” Ross was tweeting in reaction to the new that Ghost of Tsushima had sold over 8 million copies, and is widely seen as a success story thanks to continued interest in the game, the PS5 upgrade and Iki Island expansion, and positive critical reaction. However, Days Gone while sold a similar figure in its first 19 months, the general response to the open world zombie game was more muted – we scored it 6/10. Sony Bend pitched a sequel in 2019, but this was shot down by Sony and eventually led to a bit of fallout as he and fellow game director John Garvin departed at the end of 2020. It seems there’s still some bitterness about this as Ross took to Twitter. “At the time I left Sony,” he tweeted, “Days Gone had been out for a year and a half (and a month), and sold over 8 million copies. It’s since gone on to sell more, and then a million+ on Steam. Local studio management always made us feel like it was a big disappointment.” He added that it “Definitely didn’t generate God of War numbers, but neither did Ghost… or Death Stranding,” While the decision making at Sony not to greenlight a sequel has never really been clarified from their side of things – except that Bend is now working on a new IP – it certainly feels that Days Gone’s critical reception factored in. In follow up tweets to commenters, Ross drew upon other games from Sony’s library in response to other tweets, mentioning that not every Sony franchise started with universal acclaim, when compared to Days Gone’s 71 Metacritic score. “I was planning on building on top of the original for a kick-ass sequel. Even the first Killzone got a 70 on metacritic, but the sequel roared back with a 91. You gotta crawl before you can walk, and walk before you can run.” Further reading: Does Days Gone deserve a sequel after all? The other suspicion is that Days Gone suffered from a protracted development cycle and a few public delays, all of which will have expanded the game’s budget – Ross previously admitted that the budget ballooned. In the here and now, Ross noted that they actually had a comparable development period to Ghost of Tsushima. “[Sucker Punch] worked on [Ghost of Tsushima] for 6-7 years, and had an open world engine, and a team who understood open world. We had to do all that from scratch, and we made the game in 6-7 years, depending on how you measure.” While it might seem like and apples to apples comparison, there’s a lot more that Sony is able to consider. For example, not every one of those 8 million sales is going to be equal once factoring discounts. Ghost of Tsushima has held a premium price for longer, especially when accounting for the enhanced PS5 release that helped fill some gaps in the 2021 lineup after upcoming games were delayed. Priorities can also have changed in the games Sony execs want to produce, and while Days Gone was developed under Jack Tretton and Shawn Layden’s leadership, incoming boss Hermen Hulst could have wanted to push for more standout and unique feeling games. The good news, as was revealed last year, is that Sony Bend is able to continue on. No they aren’t working on Days Gone 2, but they are pushing ahead with a new IP that can hopefully meet both sales figures and garner more critical acclaim. Source: Twitter

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