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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...

PS Vita and PS3 Cross Buy will be a global trend

Wow, there's a lot of whiny bastards on Twitter, farting on that Cross Buy was announced in Europe first. Sony's Shuhei Yoshida has already said:
PS Vita-PS3 Cross Buy price promo is coming to both Europe and North America. My quote by Famitsu was meant as "not decided for Japan yet".
So, chill out, of course this will be a global feature of the PS3 and Vita, led by PS All Stars Battle Royale with Ratchet & Clank QForce and Sly Cooper to follow. Why would Sony do something fairly daring, but logical given the convergence of devices and not spread that love (and the marketing boost it brings) around the world?

Negotiations for third-party games (Need for Speed seems to be the first one up for discussion, but I think that is a way too high-profile title) will take some time, this might be more of an indie deal to get it off the ground before bigger names sign up.

Just remember, this won't be for every title that's got a dual release, I expect just a trickle of big titles, and a gentle stream of PSN titles to use Cross Buy.

UPDATE: Retro City Rampage has just confirmed it will be available as a Cross Buy title, with Cross Save, so you can pick up the same game on either device.

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