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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 nets Activision $23 million over the year

I can only think of one Activision game, the panto villain of Vita gaming, Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified. While it has been roundly lambasted, the game still appears to have made the company a truckload of money. Buried in Activision quarterly financial report is the line:

ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES FINANCIAL INFORMATION
For the Three Months Ended December 31, 2012 and 2011
(Amounts in millions)
Sony PS Vita 18 (this quarter)  3 (last year's quarter) 500 (%age increase)

Another line shows the company making $23 million out of the Vita overall in FY2012, that's not a bad return, despite the botched developer efforts against the background of an impossible deadline. Imagine if Activision had assigned a decent developer first time around?

That's the sort of money not to be sneezed at, and you can likely expect another release this year, with a new Call of Duty game confirmed for the big consoles. Which, with some decent resources for it might bring a decent game to go along with all the dollars. As a ballpark guess, those $18 million in sales equates to around 360,000 sales, which with AC3 Liberations 600,000 proves the Vita can sell a few games.

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