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Saros delivers Returnal 2 in all but name

Housemarque's Returnal remains one of the best PS5 games. Built to kill, raised to die, and fine-tuned to annoy the shit out me while dragging me back in for yet another go at  2AM.  Not-a-sequel Saros ropes in my one of my favourite actors Rahul Kohli into the mix with proper shields, greater weapons freedom, Indian-styled visuals, and borrowing  Xenon 2: Megablast's palette and violence.  Saros is set on Carcosa, a shape-shifting, hostile alien planet. It changes on every death, where a total eclipse changes everything (very Pitch Black!). The video shows the first biome, hopefully the others shift up the palette more than Returnal did.  Along his journey he finds Nitya Chandran (Shunori Ramanthan), adding some depth to the Returnal-mayhem. The stunning environment Arjun explores is that of a lost ancient civilization fueled by the twisted enlightenment of the eclipse.  Saros lands in March 2026, check out the PlayStation blog post for more details on w...

Vita expectations just dived for E3?

Ouch, this will sting - quite a bit. Sony's big show at E3 will be a PS4 fest according to sources talking to Dualshockers. The complete lack of development news for Vita from Sony itself suggests it is dead as a western development machine, outside of the indie scene.

Even once reliable portable coders like Sony Bend, Media Molecule and Ready at Dawn are all focused on big-name PS4 projects, so unless there's a Vita spin-off in the works, put a fork in it for the kind of games the PSP used to support. No Gran Turismo, no Syphon Filter, no WipEout, no nuffink! There are lots of third parties due to present at Sony's event but none of them have shown much interest in the V recently.

There's a small chance that Sony might be holding things back for Gamescom (Uncharted) or Tokyo Game Show (Gran Turismo perhaps?), but -- if true -- this really sounds like a closing door on one chapter of the Vita's existence. Just as well those Japanese games and indies are flowing in. Enjoy Borderlands 2 while you can folks!

The only firm bit of Vita news (if you can believe a bunch of rumours) is a price drop, which hasn't helped noticeably before and probably won't help much this time. Cutting the price of memory cards (again) will only help existing users, in fact the only good thing to come out of this would be the Japanese colour schemes coming west.

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