Returnal developer Housemarque has taken home the Breakthrough Award at this year’s Golden Joystick Awards. The trophy, which was decided by critics from GamesRadar+, PC Gamer, Edge, Play Magazine, and Retro Gamer, has gone to the now PlayStation-owned studio, who delivered the PS5 exclusive title Returnal in March this year. Housemarque …
Read More »Returnal studio turned down “big players” before being acquired by Sony
Returnal developer Housemarque turned down acquisitions from “big players” prior to being acquired by Sony. Speaking to Finnish publication Yle (opens in new tab) in a new interview (and translated by VGC (opens in new tab)), Housemarque CEO Ilari Kuittinen revealed the developer also received buyout offers from other companies …
Read More »From Deathloop to Returnal, how 2021 became the year of the video game time loop
Video games are nothing if not disciples to the zeitgeist. Those who were keeping up with the industry almost a decade ago will remember that 2013 was declared the Year of the Bow, after dozens of protagonists suddenly appeared to have graduated from archery school with the highest possible distinction. …
Read More »Returnal patch notes – update 1.3.4 explained
The latest Returnal patch notes are here to fix the issues caused by… the previous patch. Update 1.3.4 fixes the save corruption issues that patch 1.3.3 was plagued with, while retaining some of the fixes introduced by patch 1.3.1 which didn’t have any official patch notes, just general game performance …
Read More »Returnal patch fixes corrupted save issue, but not for everyone
Returnal patch 1.3.4 is now live and it fixes most of the save corruption issues that players experienced as the result of a previous patch, although a few unlucky users might have lost their data permanently. As noted in the Returnal patch notes posted on HouseMarque’s website (opens in new …
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