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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...

Four years with the PSP PSN Store....

Since version 5.00 of the PSP firmware came out in 2008, the handheld has had a direct link to the PSN store, and according to my Download List, I've been downloading stuff since November 2007 (presumably via PC, when that function moved PSN away from being PS3-only).

The first game I ever downloaded was the WarHammer 40K Squad Command demo, followed by a bunch of the early PSOne games; Cool Boarders, Crash Team Racing, MediEvil and WipEout. Then came actual PSP games with Beats being the first of the original titles, then Flow and SuperStardust Portable.

After that there was a bit of a pause with the odd burst of Patapon, before things got really interesting with the release of Final Fantasy VII and Vagrant Story, Ridge Racer Type 4, but since then, most of my purchase history has been a bunch of great minis and the odd on-sale PSP title.

As the PSP element of the PSN winds down, helped only by the odd PSOne classic, the sterling efforts of Ghostlight and a few others, I hope Sony Europe (and probably Sony America) remembers to take stock of just how poor its efforts have been compared to Japan's and do a whole let better for the Vita's edition of the store.

What was your favourite PSN memory for PSP? I remember getting Manhunt for free due to a PSN screw-up and was probably most surprised by the simple pleasure of Half Minute Hero than any other downloaded title, something I'd never have picked up in the shops.

Currently playing on my Vita/PS3/PS4/PS5


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