Gran Turismo 7 is out now, and it’s simply brilliant. In my review, I say the racing sim is the best PS5 exclusive to date. It looks beautiful, the cars feel incredible to drive, and it’s brimming with content, including hundreds of cars and loads of tracks to race them on. But GT7’s ace in the hole, as it was with PS5 exclusives Returnal and Demon’s Souls, is the haptic feedback and adaptive trigger functionality offered by the DualSense Wireless Controller. GT7’s arguably the best use of the controller’s vibrations, too, with you able to feel every bump in the road, every gear change, even the sweeps of the windscreen wipers. But Gran Turismo 7 showcases the capabilities of the DualSense controller even further. Tucked away in the controller options menu is the choice to use motion controls in place of the analog stick, emulating the feeling of turning a steering wheel. It might sound like a gimmick, and I thought it would be, too, b...

  the video game  Under A Star Called Sun , players wake up alone on a spaceship. There are only a handful of things to do: make coffee, water the plants, gaze out upon the cosmos. Walking along the ship’s winding corridors, you come across a room with a machine that lets you re-create memories. Suddenly, you’re transported to a pixelated sidewalk, then to brunch, and next to a quiet park. It’s a snapshot of two friends hanging out together on an ordinary August day — a memory, but one that’s likely to fade, to corrupt, as the protagonist says, “like a JPEG saved over and over.” Under A Star Called Sun  was made by Cecile Richard, a Melbourne-based graphic designer and zine maker. Richard explains over Zoom that it’s a response to grief. A friend passed away in 2019; they loved sci-fi, so a year later Richard made a game set on a spaceship. She did so using a piece of free open-source software called Bitsy which, since its release five years ago, has become one ...

  What is it with the Horizon series and coming out right before genre-shaking barnstormers?  Horizon: Forbidden West  is excellent with a few trickly foibles, just as  Horizon: Zero Dawn  was. But now my life is all  Elden Ring  for the foreseeable future, and with some other pretty hot games on the medium-term horizon… I just can’t see myself finding any more time to play it. This all happened before, remember? Horizon: Zero Dawn released on February 28, 2017. It was a neat open-world game with beautiful graphics, a personable protagonist, and a really cool vibe, and sense of style. But then, four days later, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was released. The board was wiped clean by Nintendo’s foray into open world action-adventure design. What is it with the Horizon series and coming out right before genre-shaking barnstormers?  Horizon: Forbidden West  is excellent with a few trickly foibles, just as  Horizon: Zero Dawn ...

  As  Gran Turismo 7  starts to officially land on doormats and the digital version unlocks for players around the world, there’s a good chance that millions of you will be picking up the game. With a huge new game in front of players, with so many things to do, see, buy, and race, it’s pretty likely that there’ll be questions. Lots of questions. We’ve been keeping an eye on the GTPlanet forums and social media channels, as well as the wider internet, over the last few weeks to compile a list of the most-frequently asked questions out there, and their answers. As understanding of the title evolves over the coming days, we’ll be adding more questions and answers to help everyone get the most out of  Gran Turismo 7 . If you have questions you think could go into this FAQ, ask them in the comments thread. When does  Gran Turismo 7  come out? Gran Turismo 7  will launch at midnight in your local timezone on March 4, 2022 What devices can I use to play...

  Publisher Bethesda Softworks and developer Tango Gameworks have released the  Ghostwire: Tokyo – Prelude  visual novel for free for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 via PlayStation Store. PC users will be able to experience the  Prelude  for free via Steam and Epic Games Store starting March 8. Here is an overview of the visual novel, via Bethesda Softworks: Dive deeper into the world of  Ghostwire  with the  Ghostwire: Tokyo – Prelude . In this exciting visual novel adventure, players will join the mysterious KK and his team of supernatural detectives as they investigate an unusual disappearance. However, along their journey they’ll stumble upon something even more sinister. Players can choose different interactions with KK’s associates to piece together their stories in  Ghostwire ‘s unique prequel. Ghostwire: Tokyo  is an  action   adventure game ...

  Can you believe more than eight years have passed since the last full  Gran Turismo  game? Actually, who am I kidding—fans of the series have become accustomed to lengthy waits between installments. That wait is very nearly over, though, because on Thursday,  Gran Turismo 7  arrives for the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles. It has been a wait filled with some trepidation. Although  GT  titles were massively overrepresented in my very unscientific ranking of console racing games a while back, some installments of the franchise from Polyphony Digital have not been as good as others—looking at you,  GT5 . But that was then, and this is now, and there's an entirely new generation of hardware to show off the series' trademark dazzling realism. GT7  shows that Polyphony Digital has not lost its touch. There's room for improvement—history suggests that updates will happen over time—and there's no doubt that the game plays better ...