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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...

Yars Rising mixes the first-gen classic with modern gaming

We've seen retro-modern games in many forms, from Space Invaders (Extreme), Arkanoid pumping up the Breakout vibe and Jeff Minter driving Tempest (TxK) into the trippy rave era. Yars Rising pulls the same trick with Atari Classic Yar's Revenge.

Developed by WayForward and published by Atari, it is a different vibe to the recent rush of reimagined Atari releases, taking the basic premise of the original and running (flying and jumping) with it in a whole new direction. 

Yars Rising

Yar's got a fresh lease of life through Evercade's varous Atari releases, and the Atari 50 collection. The big mystery is what happened to the apostrophe over the decades? Or maybe not. 

In Yars Rising, there's a Tron-style plot, loaded with Metroidvania action and a modern heroine on a mission to hack a dodgy tech corporation, QoTech. Across their HQ, she can explore and upgrade her skills to access new areas, and fight off the robots and alien creatures with increasingly powerful cannon, missiles and drones to help her out of tight spots. 


Yars Rising looks a lot of fun, with a bright cartoony style. Looking forward to trying it out and seeing it in action in the upcoming Indie Game digital showcase from IGN. 

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