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Possible new PlayStation Portal model pays homage to the Vita's OLED

While much of the focus on PlayStation's next steps is the PS6 and PS6 Portable , the two-year old PlayStation Portal could be getting a revamp according to those pesky internet rumours.  Update : Hints at pricing are around £/$250-299 for the new model, but everything remains deeply in rumours territory. Presumably the goal is to hit the 10% (currently 7%-ish) adoption rate among PS5 owners, something that would make it a bone fide hit gadget.   The recent February  PlayStation State of Play  saw no announcement. But, PlayStation needs to make Portal more a core member of the PS5 family, rather than the distant cousin that most of its appearances suggest.  As the improvement in connectivity and streaming tech, proven by many gamers enjoying their PS5 or PlayStation Plus streamed content from around the world, an updated Portal Pro could be on the cards.  Possibly featuring a 120Hz display and an OLED screen in honour of the mighty Vita, that'd be coo...

Canned Mega Drive shooter HardCore brings the noise to Vita

Two points here. There are many legendary cancelled games across developer history. Imagine's Bandersnatch, NovaLogic's Necrocide and many more fell by the way side for a host of reasons. Check out Unseen64 for a massive list across history's gaming formats.

Second, physical publishers focused on limited runs of indie titles can only farm the current and recent crop so far down the food chain before people stop buying, because they aren't good enough or are too niche. Therefore a logical archaeological exercise is to start digging up some of those abandoned games and bring them back to life, assuming the code, music and art assets still exists.

Step forward Strictly Limited who have dug into coding history and pulled a corker out of the bag. Hardcore looks fucking epic. To be crude, it's Bitmap Bros. meets Turrican, but so much more

One of the surely-would-have-been-a-hit efforts from legendary publisher Psygnosis and Swedish developed Digital Illusions (who first shot fame with the Pinball Illusions games, and are now EA-DICE). But the good news is the lost-to-history title, originally planned for the Mega Drive, is coming to PS4 and Vita next year.

The official site has more details and screens, and will be the place to sign up for the limited editions. Given that the new-but-old Mega Drive game Xeno Crisis is only coming to the Switch and PS4, this is great news. But I now start wondering, what gems will the publishers dig up next? From a massive seven years ago, here's a very early dream list of mine (of published games), will have to browse through the dumped project list to see what would be great.

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