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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...

Vita hardware slide continues in Japan, but games sticking in the chart

Having apologized for short stock in Japan, it looks like the Vita is on the slide again with just over 14,000 sold this week according to the new Media Create hardware sales. On the plus side, it is still No.2 on the hardware chart, and all hardware saw big falls. The Vita has also crossed 1.5 million sales in Japan, which might bring a little cheer to Sony.

Also, recent releases Muramasa, Soul Sacrifice (160,000 sold) and Pirate Warriors 2 are sticking around in the games chart, suggesting that quality Vita releases are getting a longer tail, rather than the early trend of good sales in week one, gone in week two.

Generally, it has been a quiet couple of weeks in Japan, as the country prepares for the bedlam of Golden Week toward the end of the month, so this isn't grim news (yet). Hopefully Sony's stocks will be back up to full strength for then and with the Best budget range plus new releases like Photokana Kiss on the way.

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