My god, the idea of recording video game feats to VHS tape transports me to my childhood instantly. Amazing.

Yeah, I bought Demon’s Souls mostly because I wanted just one honest to god PS5 game at launch and I gotta agree with you: it owns. I’ve played other FromSoft games (I know this is technically Bluepoint, but...) and I don’t remember anything looking even close to this good or running this perfectly smoothly. It’s…

Even as someone who bought a PS5 at launch, I agree: you don’t need to get one now. I’m liking it so far, but as the article points out, there are a few things in the OS that feel half-baked (one particularly annoying example is that I’ve had to manually close one game or app before I can open another; it should…

OT: My PS5 actually arrived yesterday, which I was definitely not expecting. First impressions:

It’s early enough that there’s nobody else in the office, so I can actually listen to music, and hey! Cool cover of one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs! Probably fairly common, but I was a HUGE fan as a teenager and my love of the band has never really faded...

OT: I’m just sitting here refreshing the tracking page for my PS5 delivery today and hoping (a) that Canada Post actually tries to deliver it (sometimes they just put a “we tried to deliver it, but now you’re going to have to come pick it up tomorrow” note in the mailbox because the mail area of our building has a…

God, I haven’t heard that John Denver song in a million years. Great stuff...

This will be a nice convenience if it is widely supported.

One of my bikes weighs 15 lbs. It’s very light for a bike, notsomuch for a console.

I hear you. I’m currently playing Horizon Zero Dawn and every time I open the map and see all those icons, part of me wants to just quit the game and never come back.

I totally agree. It’s rare that a location (other than the main cities/villages) is marked on your map before you’ve actually visited it and they only become visible on your compass when you’re in relatively close proximity. It lends itself to a more natural, relaxed way of exploring the world. The UbiSoft-style open…

Definitely Skyrim. It was the first game I played as an adult that really transported me and made me feel like I was in a different world. Now that world and all the systems of the game are so familiar that they’re second nature to me, so it’s easy to just tune our everything else and get lost wandering/exploring or…

Same. If I remember correctly though, didn’t they launch the PS4 with a few weird things like this? I feel like the BluRay player wouldn’t play BluRay movies or something like that? Anyway, thank god for software updates, because I’ve got a PS5 coming next week...

Oh, that’s weird. I could’ve sworn I read that you’d be able to, but that was long before anyone had a console, so maybe plans changed. Seems like something they could easily add with an update though...

In the “Power” section it says:

You can store PS5 games on an external HDD, you just have to move them to the internal SSD in order to play them. You can play PS4 games directly from an external drive. At least, that’s my understanding from reading the marketing.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. Even being just across your northern border it’s a lot right now. I think the best decision I made all week was saying no when my GF asked if we could watch election coverage while we ate dinner on Tuesday. I knew how it would look on election day before the mail-in ballots were…

I was hoping the same thing, but Scuf holds the patent on back buttons, so everyone else that makes controllers with them does so under license from Scuf. Not sure if the attachment gets around that somehow, but I doubt it. So while there’s hope that Sony will put out a controller with back buttons at some point, I…

I’m curious whether Scuf or some of the other custom controller manufacturers are going to be able to put out their own version of this thing anytime soon. It looks pretty complicated. I’ve become pretty accustomed to having those buttons on the back. I’d take an update of the DS4 back button attachment thing if they…

You had to know something like this was gonna happen when you have a bunch of procgen characters, right?