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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...

The Evercade Hardware Explored

The Evercade isn't just some cut-and-shut Chinese production of random hardware built to a tiny budget. When originally Kickstarted back in 2016, the campaign was to build something of quality and value for gamers, and it has taken plenty of research and development to deliver.

Up front it offers a crisp 4.3-inch 480x272 pixel screen that can play games in 4:3 or 16:9 ratio, the same resolution as Sony's PlayStation Portable, which is itself a great piece of hardware and retro machine. My only question is will it look good in the daylight, which my Vita is terrible at.

Inside is a quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex A7 SoC, which is plenty powerful for retro-gaming and there have been very positive reviews of the emulation quality and performance. All run through a good-looking D-pad, four action buttons and two triggers.

In terms of on-the-go gaming, the 2,000-MAH battery should provide around four hours of play, but you can plug in a USB cable when at home or near a charging port. There's also a headphone port to keep things quiet, and the HD-out connector so you can play on a larger screen in 720p.

Note, in response to early reviews, Blaze says the button configuration will be changeable via a launch day firmware update.

I'll have more to say when I get my hands on one in a few weeks, hopefully.



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