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Possible new PlayStation Portal model pays homage to the Vita's OLED

While much of the focus on PlayStation's next steps is the PS6 and PS6 Portable , the two-year old PlayStation Portal could be getting a revamp according to those pesky internet rumours.  Update : Hints at pricing are around £/$250-299 for the new model, but everything remains deeply in rumours territory. Presumably to hit the 10% (currently 7%-ish) adoption rate among PS5 owners that would make it a bone fide hit gadget.   As the improvement in connectivity and streaming tech, proven by many gamers enjoying their PS5 or PlayStation Plus streamed content from around the world, an updated Portal Pro could be on the cards.  Possibly featuring a 120Hz display and an OLED screen in honour of the mighty Vita, that'd be cool. Assuming the 120HZ streaming is solid, an OLED would be the more welcome addition, especially with the latest generation of technology offering QD-OLED (Quantum Dot-OLED), WOLED (White-OLED) and other buzzy titles for smarter display.  Whatever ...

The Impossible Game (PSN) Review

Now, this is gaming, just a boy and his cube against a spiky nasty world. No score, progress bar or frivolous rewards to accumulate, just the need to jump and keep jumping at precisely the right moment. When playing the game properly, all you do is jump, jump and jump some more.

In practice mode, you can drop flags as restart points to help you master the level, and can progress to later levels in this manner, but you know you won't have done it properly until you can do it without stabilisers. All the while fighting the sole statistic in the game, the number of attempts that your feeble reactions have taken so far.


Taking on and beating the Impossible Game is actually possible, there are videos of folk doing it on YouTube, and there are a few stamina-testing rewards to collect, but really this is all about removing all the fluff from a video game and giving the player a pure and simple objective.

Slick, neatly sound-tracked and great fun in short doses, prepare to have your reactions and short-term memory tested to the maximum.



Available on PSN for £1.74 [Grip Games]
7/10 Purist gaming that couldn't be any more so if it'd dripped through the Evian source. 

Currently playing on my Vita/PS3/PS4/PS5


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