We’re excited to say that Alien: Rogue Incursion is ready for your PS VR2 – we’ve gone gold and are putting the finishing touches on the game, which is releasing on December 19. To celebrate, we have a brand-new trailer that delves deeper into Zula’s story on LV-354, also known as Purdan. 

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How did we go about making this trailer? Trailers are tricky things. You need to quickly break through the noise of everyday life, grab the audience’s attention, and get them excited to see more. It seems logical that you’d show the most fantastic, and exciting content. But that approach doesn’t entirely work – fans often complain that trailers give away too much detail about the film or game. 

Trailers need to curate the key components that fans expect, showcasing critical features in a compelling way and teasing elements that will blow players away, all while telling a self-contained story that begins and ends in roughly two minutes or less. VR games need to both establish the world that you’ll be immersed in and to communicate how you will operate in that environment. We have 2 minutes to make you feel that sense of presence and wonder. 

Trailers often focus on a particular theme or feature of the game that the team wants to showcase. So far, for Alien: Rogue Incursion, we’ve released trailers for our Hero Reveal, Enemies, Weapons & Gear, etc. Fans of the Alien franchise are also hugely invested in the story, so this trailer introduces the audience to the larger narrative, providing the set-up of why Zula Hendricks is on LV-354, Purdan. What happened to Zula’s friend and former squad mate there? What deadly experiments have the researchers at this facility been messing with? 

Here is a breakdown of how we approached this trailer and told the “story of the story.” 

One of our early creative decisions was that whatever happened on Purdan had already happened. Zula is stepping into the aftermath of some event that has left Castor’s Cradle – the research facility – infested with horrifying Xenomorphs. Picking up the story after the facility has been compromised allows us to jump right into the suspense and action. 

Hi everyone. Thank you so much for all of the brilliant reactions to LEGO Horizon Adventures’ launch this past week. We’ve been enjoying all of your comments and content, and on behalf of Guerrilla and Studio Gobo: we really appreciate you!

Of course, we’ve also seen the plethora of comments since the game’s announce back in June asking for a new LEGO set… and some of our eagle-eyed fans already spotted a tease in our recent Building Aloy’s World – Brick by Brick behind-the-scenes video. Surely we couldn’t create a LEGO game without also working together with our friends over at the LEGO Group on something extra special:

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We’re excited to announce the new LEGO Horizon Adventures Aloy & Varl vs. Shell-Walker & Sawtooth playset.

This 768-piece set allows LEGO fans to recreate the iconic adventures of Aloy and her loyal ally Varl. Armed with their trusty bow and spear capable of producing fire, shock or chill attacks, join the duo’s battle in jungle surroundings against two fully jointed machines, Shell-Walker and Sawtooth.

The Shell-Walker has posable legs and arms, opening claws and a detachable cargo pod and energy shield, while the fully articulated Sawtooth has opening jaws, a swivelling torso and a posable neck, head and legs.

The set will be available from March 1, 2025, but you can already pre-order from today via LEGO.com and selected retailers around the world. In the meantime, we hope you continue to enjoy LEGO Horizon Adventures — out now across PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch.

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Hey y’all, Episode 500 is finally here! Thank you to all the loyal listeners for making this momentous episode possible. Can you believe the show started back in 2011? Whether you’ve been with us for the entire run or are a new listener, we appreciate you.

This week, the crew hears from listeners and developers about some of their favorite PlayStation games and memories. The podcast crew also dives into their favorite games on the original PlayStation and PlayStation 2. But the celebration doesn’t end here! We’ll continue to feature listeners and developers leading up to PlayStation’s 30th anniversary on December 3.

Stuff We Talked About

• Next week’s release highlights:
  • Spirit Mancer | PS5
  • Towers of Aghasba (Early Access) | PS5
• Stellar Blade x Nier: Automata DLC and Photo Mode
• Players Choice Winner – Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero
• PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for November:
  • Grand Theft Auto V 
  • Dying Light 2: Stay Human
  • Like a Dragon: Ishin
  • MotoGP 24
  • The Sims 4: Island Living
  • And more…
• LEGO Horizon Adventures is out now
• Special listener/developer favorite PlayStation games segment
• The podcast crew highlights personal top games for the original PlayStation and PS2 (to be continued…)

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Lara Croft’s legendary adventures continue on February 14 with the release of Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered! As we patiently await her return, we’d love to take a moment to explore some enhanced features created specifically for this remaster. 

This latest collection not only revitalizes Lara’s adventures but also brings back a fan-favorite feature Photo Mode to capture all the thrilling moments you encounter.

Explore and capture iconic moments

As you swan-dive back into Lara Croft’s darkest adventures, you’ll have the ability to capture and share in the beauty and excitement of your adventures with your friends. 

Whether you’re scaling the Great Pyramid of Giza in The Last Revelation, sneaking through a high-security complex in Chronicles, or uncovering dark secrets in the shadowy streets of Paris in The Angel of Darkness, Photo Mode lets you freeze, frame, and capture your most memorable moments.

Photo Mode features

New Poses and Outfits: In addition to including all of the poses and outfits from Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, this new collection will include even more as an added bonus. Tailor each shot to reflect her adventurous spirit and style.

Customizable Shots: Set up your scenes with ease using adjustable camera angles, depth of field, and zoom effects. Create the perfect composition to showcase the remastered environments.

Dynamic Expressions: Choose from a range of expressions to bring Lara’s character to life in your photos. Highlight her bravery, determination, or curiosity with ease.

Seamless Integration: Use Photo Mode anytime during gameplay to capture those spontaneous, unforgettable moments. Whether it’s a breathtaking view or a dramatic encounter, your perfect shot is always just a menu away.

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Activate Photo Mode: Photo Mode activates by holding down both of your sticks on the DualSense controller.
2. Frame Your Shot: Adjust the camera angle, zoom, and depth of field, using the on-screen controls and find your desired composition.
3. Hit the Dressing Room: Pick from various outfits from across the Tomb Raider I-VI Remastered collection. Equip her with different weapons for an added touch of sass.
4. Express Yourself: Select Lara’s expression to convey the right mood for your shot. What are we feeling today: a victorious and joyful smile, or a bombastic side-eye?
5. Strike a Pose: Pick your favorite

Last week, to head to Thedas and protect the Veil before it falls in Dragon Age: The Veilguard using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:

jdbolzan shares a mage Rook avoiding a dragon’s attack.

khwarezm89 shares Rook facing towards a blighted village.

pirate_atomsk shares Rook standing beneath the Lighthouse’s astrolabe.

call_me_xavii shares a green glowing tortured spirit from a quest in Nevarra.

lunar9p shares a rogue Rook fighting with dual blades.

fsantos1697 shares the haunting and hulking skeleton statues of the Necropolis.

Search #PSshare #PSBlog on Twitter or Instagram to see more entries to this week’s theme. Want to be featured in the next Share of the Week?

THEME: Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Companions
SUBMIT BY: 11:59 PM PT on November 20, 2024 

Next week, we’re taking a closer look at the companions behind Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Share moments with the titular heroes using #PSshare #PSBlog for a chance to be featured.

Hello PS VR2 friends, since the release of our roguelike VR shooter, The Light Brigade, on PS VR2 in February 2023, we’ve been overwhelmed by the support and passion of our community. Your enthusiasm has fueled our team to continually improve and expand the game through a series of major content updates, and today we unveil the Phantom of Time.

This Phantom of Time update is available now as a major content release at no additional cost for The Light Brigade on PS VR2, and it’s packed with new gameplay, a haunting new procedural world, and even a new playable class. Let’s dig in.

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New Playable Class – The Saboteur

New playable revolver-wielding class with special timepiece – The Saboteur

Stealth, strategy, and clever escapes await you with our newest unlockable class: the Saboteur. This revolver-wielding gunslinger comes equipped with a Timepiece, a powerful tool for those who like to lurk in the shadows. Cloak yourself from enemies, deploy a deadringer decoy to outsmart your foes, and easily reposition on the battlefield. The Saboteur brings a brand-new tactical layer to The Light Brigade, making each encounter more unpredictable and thrilling.

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Memorial Grounds, the newly playable procedural battlegrounds

With the Phantom of Time update, we’re also introducing a brand-new procedurally generated world: the Memorial Grounds. Once a sacred crypt, this war-torn graveyard was a final resting place for honored soldiers—but now, the relentless tides of battle have defiled it. The Memorial Grounds are riddled with secrets and danger, offering a haunting backdrop to explore. Will you uncover the stories buried within, or fall to the chaos that has consumed this sacred ground?

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A studio only gets to launch its very first game once! Everyone here at Dreamlit Games is incredibly excited to debut our upcoming open-world fantasy builder, Towers of Aghasba, which launches into Early Access on November 19. We can’t wait for you to experience this fantastical world as you design your island with bustling settlements and nurture thriving ecosystems while fighting off the withered invasion.

Why early access? 

This project is an ambitious open-world sandbox developed by a small team, with core mechanics intended to let players shape their island however they like. It’s also one of the first in-development early access titles coming to PS5. By launching into early access, we can involve our community in the development process, allowing us to better balance, polish, and iterate on these core components. This allows us to introduce new content and features based directly on your feedback.

You can still count on a fun, fantastical experience, with lots of content to explore right from the start of our Early Acess journey— but we’ll be adding additional polish and updates in the weeks ahead. Here’s a roadmap of what to expect from Towers of Aghasba at launch— and throughout early access: 

Launch content

The initial launch of Towers of Aghasba is already brimming with content, deep gameplay systems, a compelling narrative, and a vast world to explore. We release with:

• Six regions to explore
  • Exploration across vast open-world lands—climbing, gliding, and riding mounts
  • Ruins and relics to discover, unlocking ancient knowledge
  • Leisure activities (eg. fishing!)
• Three types of settlements to build, design, and decorate
• Three types of ecosystems to grow
• 50+ unique creatures
• 150+ decorations to craft
• Single-player and co-op gameplay
• Invite up to three friends to your island to build up your settlements, tend to your ecosystems, take on challenging withered foes, and discover secrets across the world

Post-launch roadmap

As with any early access title, the launch is just the beginning. We have plenty in store for the weeks and months following the release, from introducing new systems while expanding existing ones, new quests and narratives, new regions to explore, and more.

Q4 2024

• Post-launch support
• Quality of life updates
• Polish and fixes

Q1 2025

• New regions to unlock and explore
• New quest lines
• A fresh cast of characters
• Time of day-related gameplay
• Offline play mode
• Expanded glider traversal mechanics
• Photo Mode
• Player Emotes

Q2 2025

• New mounts and mount management system
• Expanding multiplayer activities and experiences
• Crossplay
• Player character customization
• Improved Townfolk AI
• Improved Shimudex functionality

Q3 2025

• New regions unlocked
• New withered quest lines and characters

Infinity Nikki is a beautiful open-world adventure that takes a distinctly different approach to theme and gameplay, focusing less on combat and more on exploration, questing, discovery, and design, all with a smart and stylish female character in the lead role.

Nikki, a young girl with a love of fashion, finds a mysterious dress in the attic. When she puts it on, she and her chubby, chatty cat Momo are whisked away to a strange new world. She meets a being named Ena the Creator, who gives her the Heart of Infinity and entrusts her with finding the Miracle Outfits.

 I recently had an opportunity to go hands-on with the game on PS5, so let’s dive in.

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It’s all about the style

The world of Infinity Nikki is fueled by the power of Whim, the sparks of joy and creativity that exist within us all. The way people here tend to harness their Whim energy is through fashion. Clothing is powerful self-expression, and a stylish outfit even has the power to grant its wearer new abilities. With that kind of energy woven into fabric, it’s no wonder that Stylists–talented clothing makers–are highly respected. And after Nikki gets here, she’s quickly judged to be prime Stylist material and brought into the Stylists Guild of the hamlet of Florawish. 

But things aren’t perfectly peaceful: there’s a strange condition going around that’s making citizens go comatose, alongside a suspicious gang of stylists up to no good. During our time in the beta, we got a chance to meet several characters, good and bad, and play through several events: joining the Stylists Guild, helping out several folks in town, investigating a case of the mysterious illness, fighting against other stylists to make the coolest outfit,  and exploring a frog-filled well to stop a rampaging fish that cut off Florawish’s electric power. 

As a Stylist, Nikki can make clothes that grant her abilities. Early on, she’ll have two outfits–one that lets her float after jumping and another that lets her shoot purifying energy–that she can access by simply pressing a button. However, to get more fabulous powers, she’ll need to acquire sketches: blueprints for new clothing parts. There are many ways to get sketches–you can find them in chests, earn them from quests, and so on–but many of the most important outfit sketche

The wait is over – it’s finally time to join Aloy and her friends in LEGO Horizon Adventures! 

We’re excited to celebrate the launch of LEGO Horizon Adventures, co-developed by the incredible teams here at Guerrilla, Studio Gobo and the LEGO Group. Check out our new launch trailer – a sneak peek into this lighthearted, fun-filled adventure where everything in the world of Horizon is made of LEGO bricks, from the towering Tallneck to the smallest details in Mother’s Heart.

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Whether you’re a long-time Horizon fan or new to the world, LEGO Horizon Adventures has something special for everyone. You don’t need to be familiar with the Horizon universe to jump in, but longtime fans will spot a few Easter eggs and references along the way.

You can play alone or grab a friend or family member and join Aloy’s journey together. We wanted this to be a truly collaborative experience, giving players of all ages and skill levels the chance to enjoy the adventure, build connections, and share a love for LEGO bricks and Horizon. The world is packed with machines, with each battle offering its own fun twist on Horizon’s combat. The difficulty is scalable, so whether you’re in Story Mode for a relaxing experience or looking for a challenge on Very Hard mode, there’s something for everyone. And there’s so much more to explore. Build, customize, and upgrade your character – or head to Mother’s Heart, where you can modify the village to reflect your own unique style.

On behalf of the teams at Guerrilla, Studio Gobo and The LEGO Group, we want to say a huge thank you to our amazing community. Your enthusiasm and passion for Horizon have inspired every moment of LEGO Horizon Adventures, and we’re thrilled to bring you this playful new take on Aloy’s world. We can’t wait to hear what you think. 

To learn even more about the game, please visit www.legohorizonadventures.com and make sure to follow Guerrilla on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube for all the latest news and updates about Horizon. 

Dive into the gritty underworld of Los Santos, strive to stay human while you uncover the dark secrets of a post-apocalyptic world, fight for justice to change the future of Japan, and more with November’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup*! Grand Theft Auto V, Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Like a Dragon: Ishin!, and more games are available to play from November 19. On the same day, five new titles join PlayStation Plus Premium in the form of the kinetic first person shooter PS VR2 game Synapse and four Classics; Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Blood Omen 2, Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2. 

PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium | Game Catalog

Grand Theft Auto V* | PS4, PS5

When a young street hustler, a retired bank robber and a terrifying psychopath find themselves entangled with some of the most frightening and deranged elements of the criminal underworld, the U.S. government and the entertainment industry, they must pull off a series of dangerous heists to survive in a ruthless city in which they can trust nobody, least of all each other. Experience the interwoven stories of Franklin, Michael and Trevor in the sprawling open world of Los Santos and Blaine County.

*PlayStation Plus re-release.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human | PS4, PS5

In Dying Light 2, survival meets action adventure as you attempt to endure a hostile, post-apocalyptic world. Rival factions across The City aren’t the only enemy – a virus has turned a vast majority of the human population into monsters. Take on the role of Aiden Caldwell, a wanderer with the power to change the fate of The City, but your exceptional abilities come at a price. Haunted by memories you cannot decipher, you set out to learn the truth – and find yourself in a combat zone. Hone your skills to defeat your enemies and make allies. Unravel the dark secrets behind those that wield power, choose sides and decide your destiny. But wherever your actions take you, there’s one thing you must do – stay human.

Like a Dragon: Ishin | PS4, PS5

1860’s Kyo is plagued by widespread inequality, and one samurai will change the course of history in his search for justice. Take up the sword as Sakamoto Ryoma and venture to Kyoto to find your father’s killer, clear yourself of a framed murder, and restore your honor. In doing so, you will bring an end to the samurai era and forever change the future of Japan. Draw your blade, load your revolver, and join the revolution in this heated historical adventure that only the creators of Yakuza: Like a Dragon could produce.

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