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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...

Sony's PlayStation Sites to Get Hacked This Weekend

Welcome to Infowar, folks! According to CNET, the hackers responsible for the first two attacks on Sony's PSN network will this weekend strike (digitally bugger them to shreds, might be a more appropriate line) at Sony's websites to protest at how Sony has got the feds and security services involved.

Don't ask me about the logic of that, or which crew is responsible. But, if you can't access a Sony site this weekend, be it the PSN blogs or playstation.com, don't be too surprised. What I would expect is some arrests fairly soon because no matter how smart the hackers are, the FBI will have a drop on at least one of them and will want to make a big show of nailing the bad guy(s). Even if that is, ultimately, rather ineffective.

The incoming attack could stop Sony communicating about when the PSN will come back up, but the good news of free games, should keep users checking the service's status. If I was Sony, at this point, I'd be decentralising my servers at high speed, and praying that any of the information stolen in the past attacks isn't going to be unleashed on the public.

Just to think, most hackers do the hack and then blackmail the company nice and quietly for their data back, Sony must be wishing that's what had happened this time.

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