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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...

Tokyo Xanadu tops the charts in Japan

The Vita has a rocking week in Japan with Falcom's original title, Tokyo Xanadu, beating the combined sales of the latest Winning 11 to grab the No. 1 spot on the Media Create chart. Selling almost 90,000 copies (the Dengeki chart has it at over 100K) - certainly more than that when digital is taken into account, that's impressive given today's Vita climate.



Despite that and several more new entries, the bad news is Vita sales fall almost 4,000 to 15K, suggesting that new games aren't getting potential Vita owners excited anymore. Perhaps if word of mouth does well, sales could get a small boost next week.



Better news for Sony sees PlayStation 4 crush everything with 45,000 sales as the price cut kicks in. What chance a cheeky reciprocal Vita price cut later in the year to help drive sales into the holidays?

01./00. [PSV] Tokyo Xanadu # (Nihon Falcom)  - 88.879 / NEW 
02./00. [PS3] Winning Eleven 2016 (Konami)  - 48.473 / NEW
03./00. [PS4] Winning Eleven 2016 (Konami)  - 39.017 / NEW
04./00. [PS4] Yoru no Nai Kuni # (Koei Tecmo)  - 35.907 / NEW
05./00. [PSV] Yoru no Nai Kuni # (Koei Tecmo)  - 32.904 / NEW
...
13./10. [PS4] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain # (Konami)  - 13.938 / 386.171 (-8%)
14./00. [PS3] Yoru no Nai Kuni # (Koei Tecmo)  - 10.416 / NEW
15./00. [PSV] Tokyo Ghoul: Jail (Bandai Namco Games)  - 10.390 / NEW
16./00. [PS3] Arslan: The Warriors of Legend # (Koei Tecmo)  - 10.337 / NEW
17./00. [PS4] Arslan: The Warriors of Legend # (Koei Tecmo) - 10.034 / NEW
19./13. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (Sony)  - 8.164 / 351.598 (-24%)


 Elsewhere in the chart, the flurry of new entries almost knocks Minecraft out, while Tokyo Ghoul perhaps should have picked a different name or week to come out on. 

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