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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...

Will Assassin's Creed Rising Phoenix rise again?

Funny one this, there's a screenshot from Assassin's Creed Rogue popped up on obscure Japanese and Brazilian blogs over the weekend, showing off a "Coming Soon" tab on a Rising Phoenix poster. That was supposed to be a Vita game, accidentally revealed some 18 months ago, then pretty much canned.

Note that both Liberation and Rogue came from Ubisoft Sofia, who were the most likely candidates to develop Rising Phoenix. So, are they blowing off the dust on the Vita version, or are they reusing those assets for another platform? I can't see a Vita game on the cards personally, but it'd be pretty cool to see, given that Liberation got a HD remake on PS3. If not the Vita what do you think its for?

Or, is the Sofia studio just reminding its masters that it has potential projects in the pipe to avoid being shut down like so many other developers? Or is it a "funny" joke from the coders who wasted who knows how much time on the project?

UPDATE: Apparently the original pics were hoaxes, so this could well be Ubisoft's little joke... just another kick to the fragile hearts of the few million remaining Vita owners. Guess I should remove it from the TBA release list. And probably stop doing this blog since there's clearly never any major releases, ever.


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