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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 firmware update 3.36 out in the wild

Woke up to a nice download of a new firmware update for the Vita, taking it to 3.36. No notes, beyond "improving system stability" as to what it does. But, the tweeters and forum posters who've already got it running suggest it may improve the speed of the interface and (possibly) download speed.


You'd have thought that Sony would have mentioned any of these improvements, but hey ho! On with the show. Now wishing I was anal enough to record all my download times so I could run some comparisons and see if this a real or perceived improvement. If anyone has any real world tests, let us know, or if you notice anything else lurking in the Settings or other menus.

UPDATE: A bit unscientific, but a 1.6GB file I downloaded yesterday took around an hour. Today, it is looking like 30 minutes and the download speed is ticking by at 1-1.5MBytes a second, far higher than usual. So, perhaps Sony has managed to optimise its Wi-Fi code or download stack? Or my Wi-Fi and broadband are happier in the morning.

FURTHER UPDATE: Yep, even downloading games during the busy period of a PSN store update seems to go a lot faster. I like this little update a lot!

EVEN FURTHER UPDATE: Others note the same thing, and even weeks later downloads are happening a lot quicker!

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