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Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
PS5 Getting Another Xbox Shooter in 2025, Pro Support Included
PS5 players will be treated to yet another Xbox exclusive in 2025, with a highly-anticipated shooter joining the list. will shed its exclusivity to land on PS5 along with full DualSense controller support as well as PS5 Pro enhancements. The announcement trailer, which was exclusively shared with IGN first for some reason, can be seen below: According to the trailer's description, Stalker 2 will 'fully utilize DualSense controller features, including haptic feedback and adaptive triggers for deeper player immersion. Further technical enhancements for the PS5 Pro are also in development.' What these technical enhancements are will be revealed later at some point. A specific release date was not announced, but Stalker 2 will be out on PS5 in 'late 2025.' We're guessing it'll target the holiday season. A PS Store page has already gone live in some regions, with the ability to wishlist Stalker 2. 'Experience a one-of-a-kind blend of first-person shooter, immersive sim, and survival horror,' reads an official description. 'Scavenge for gear and resources, hunt for wonders, make hard decisions to survive and pave the path through the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone.' The post PS5 Getting Another Xbox Shooter in 2025, Pro Support Included appeared first on PlayStation LifeStyle.
Engadget
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Engadget
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is coming to PS5 later this year
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is coming to PS5. On Wednesday, developer GSC Game World said the shooter will launch on Sony's console later this year. To say Stalker 2 had a long development process would be an understatement. We're talking 14 years here. After navigating funding issues, the studio nearly being shut down and a transition to Unreal Engine 5, it was delayed again and again... and again. Then, right when things were looking up, along came Vladimir Putin. See, GSC Game World is a Ukrainian developer based in Kyiv. After Russia's 2022 invasion, GSC paused development and later relocated part of its team to Prague. Sadly, a designer on the team was killed in the war. Work resumed nonetheless. When the game finally arrived in November 2024, it was only available on PC and Xbox. That exclusivity window is now set to end, accompanied by the cheeky PS5 announcement trailer below. Stalker 2 sold a million copies in its first two days. However, it landed with bugs aplenty (an all-too-familiar story these days). GSC has been pushing updates to clean it up ever since. In other words, the wait for PS5 owners may end up being a good thing. You can wishlist the game now on the PlayStation Store. Although we know it's coming "late this year," we don't yet have a firm release date.
Tom's Guide
17-06-2025
- Tom's Guide
This ultra-wide Lenovo gaming monitor is ‘technically' the best display I've used — but there's no way I'd buy it
When I took the Lenovo Legion Pro 34WD-10 OLED gaming monitor to test, I was in dire straits. My trusty 27-inch QHD Dell monitor had given up the ghost a few months back, turning itself off at random intervals. At around the 35-month mark, although it was still within its 3-year warranty, Dell shipped me a new one, which was also damaged. So they shipped me another, a refurb… with more dead pixels than an e-waste bin. I desperately needed a new monitor for gaming and productivity. Enter the Lenovo Legion Pro 34WD-10, a 34-inch ultra-wide OLED gaming monitor, which landed (and at 19lbs, with quite the thud) on my testing desk. This is, without doubt, one of the best gaming monitors I have ever used in over 20 years of PC building and gaming. Unfortunately, there's one pretty glaring problem that'll stop me from ever buying it. And it's the age-old issue of price. Let's get this out of the way pronto. The Legion Pro 34WD-10 is an epic gaming monitor, and if you're willing to splash exorbitant levels of cash, you won't necessarily be disappointed. The Legion Pro 34WD-10 Gaming Monitor features a gorgeous 34-inch QHD OLED panel, curved for extra immersion and reduced eye strain. It's huge, heavy and pricey, but there's no doubting its gaming prowess. It's a QHD (1440p) resolution display, which is my go-to for gaming monitors. For me, QHD hits that sweet spot between image quality and performance. My rig is currently running an MSI Gaming Trio Radeon RX 6900XT — it's a fairly powerful card with 16GB video memory, but 4K is pretty demanding, and I prefer to sacrifice resolution for better performance in heavy games like Stalker 2. Besides, QHD still looks awesome. The 34WD-10 relays incredibly rich colors and uses an OLED panel for super-dark blacks. Every game I play on this thing just looks incredible, with bags of contrast. I'm a big grand strategy fan, and I've loved using the Lenovo for some nostalgic Total War: Rome II gameplay, where I'm currently undertaking a grand campaign play-through using the DEI overhaul mod. The warm, saturated colors of Rome II look absolutely stunning on this display. I'll get into the scientific side of color a little later on, though. As an ultra-wide and curved monitor, the 34WD-10 provides a super immersive experience. Whether it's viewing the grand strategy map on Rome II, surveying the sweeping vista of medieval Europe in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, or navigating a dank underground passage in Stalker 2, I've felt immersion in a way that you just don't feel with a flat panel. Of course, having a SteelSeries Arena 9 full surround speaker system helps here, too. The 34WD-10 is no slouch, either. Using its DisplayPort 2.1 connection, it maxes out at a 240Hz refresh rate, which is more than fast enough for 99% of gamers. At the full 240Hz, everything is just buttery smooth, an absolute necessity in fast-paced shooters like Counter Strike 2 or Valorant. The 34WD-10 has a 0.03ms GTG time. GTG means 'gray to gray', and is a measurement of how quickly a monitor's pixels can respond to and relay changing colors. 0.03ms is very fast, resulting in no unpleasant ghosting or unwanted motion blur. Indeed, I haven't noticed either during my gameplay. If you're a competitive player, primarily in fast-paced shooter titles, a high-speed monitor like the 34WD-10 is a no-brainer. The 34WD-10 is accurate. Oh boy, is it accurate. In our lab testing, the 34WD-10 managed a 0.08 Delta-E score, which shows very low variance in color, meaning high color accuracy. Lab test Result Delta-E 0.08 sRGB Gamma volume 156.40% DCI-P3 volume 110.80% HDR brightness (entire screen) 294 Nits SDR brightness 265.8 Nits It also demonstrated 156.40% sRGB coverage and 110.80% DCI P3 volume, which means this monitor has the entire sRGB and DCI P3 color spaces covered, and then some. sRGB is the primary color space used online, in media and games, so the 34WD-10's performance in sRGB makes this a great gaming and general-purpose monitor. The DCI-P3 color space is often used for film production, so it's a fine choice for any video editor grading YouTube content, too. If you're a photographer, note that the Legion 34WD-10 lacks an Adobe RGB mode, which is significantly wider than sRGB and encompasses colors used by CMYK printers. This makes the monitor ill-suited to those who need highly accurate color rendition for photography and photo editing. It's especially problematic for those working with high-bit-depth RAW files (like the 16-bit files I was shooting when testing the Fujifilm GFX100 II), and double-especially for anyone wanting to print their images. It's important to remember, though, that this is a gaming monitor, not a professional imaging display. Simply put, it's the price. The 34WD-10 costs a huge $1,164 at Amazon, and that's down from Lenovo's list price of $1,199! Now, I know, I know: high-end monitors are always gonna cost ya'. But I'm really not sure the Lenovo justifies twelve hundred dollars. That's objectively a huge amount to spend on a gaming monitor. And although we've seen other monitors at such premium price points, the 34WD-10 is up against some seriously threatening competition here — competition that I'm not sure can be bested. The MSI MPG 272URX QD-OLED, for example, costs less at $1,099. It has a smaller 27-inch display, sure, but 4K resolution, enhanced QD-OLED (quantum dot OLED), and equally strong refresh rates and response times. Last year, I tested the Sony Inzone M10S, which I tested at Gamescom last year, with its 460Hz refresh rate. The M10S is an elite esports gaming monitor, and at $1,099, it still costs less than the 34WD-10. "Those monitors are flat panel", I hear you cry. Well, allow me to raise you the Alienware 34 AW3425DW — our favorite curved monitor — which packs 1440p, 240Hz refresh rate, 0.03ms GTG, similar coverage of sRGB and DCI-P3 and a QD-OLED panel... for $799. Its Delta E is a little higher than the 34WD-10's, but is that worth a $500 gulf? I don't think so. Meanwhile, the QHD Samsung Odyssey OLED G9, whose MSRP is $1,599, can be found on sale for $1,199 and offers QD-OLED and a wider 32:9 aspect ratio. Go figure. Now, none of what I just said is a criticism of the actual monitor. The Legion Pro 34WD-10 is an excellent performer. The exquisite QHD OLED panel has enhanced every aspect of my gameplay, from immersion to performance. And having the space of the ultra-wide aspect ratio has been incredibly useful for operating multiple windows when working. The Legion Pro 34WD-10 Gaming Monitor features a gorgeous 34-inch QHD OLED panel, curved for extra immersion and reduced eye strain. It's huge, heavy and pricey, but there's no doubting its gaming prowess. The 34WD-10 also put in a stellar performance in our lab testing, with highly accurate color rendition and strong coverage of sRGB and DCI-P3 gamuts. I'm just not convinced the price is warranted. I'm going to have to. I'll have a full review of the Legion Pro 34WD-10 out soon, and after that, I'll have to give it back. That's going to be a painful moment for me, and when it happens, I'll need a new monitor. The question I'll be asking myself at that point is whether I'm prepared to spend $1,199 to get this monitor back, and I'm afraid the answer is no.
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Massive' Stalker 2 patch adds A-life updates and 1,700 other fixes to GSC's survival shooter, so many you'll need to go a little quest to read them all
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Staggering onto Steam, veins bulging, sweat dripping from its elbows, GSC Game World has dropped a vast, humongous, really quite substantial update for Stalker 2. Delivering a whopping 1,700 fixes to its open world survival shooter, patch 1.2 is so gargantuan that the Steam update doesn't actually list the entire changelog. Described simply as "a massive one" by GSC Game World, the patch touches "all aspects of the game", addressing balance issues, adjusting locations, tweaking quests, fixing crashes, refining the series' distinctive A-life systems. It's hard to know where to start, but perhaps the biggest individual changes are to the A-life and NPC AI. GSC has fixed several issues here that have game-wide ramifications. NPCs can now properly loot corpses, picking up the best weapons and armour from them, including from defeated Stalkers allied with other factions. NPC shooting has also been reconfigured, and while it's not entirely clear what these changes do, they seem geared toward making NPCs less robotically lethal, adding "randomisation of accurate shots" in bullet sprays, and reducing wall penetration from certain ammo types. Finally for this particular aspect of the game, stealth has been adjusted to make NPCs slightly less eagle-eyed, while the mutants have received various behavioural tweaks, such as ensuring mutants that can jump will actually use that ability. Outside of these systemic changes, the main beneficiary of the patch is the central storyline. I'm not going to list these here, partly because they're littered with spoilers, but mainly because there are 300 changes on top of the ones actually listed. The upshot is GSC has addressed loads of issues that could cause quests to fail or not work properly, or for NPCs to react in weird ways during primary missions. Elsewhere, Stalker 2 has received several technical tweaks, such as the player's flashlight now properly casting shadows, more consistent NPC relationship shifts, and "improved transitions from cutscenes to gameplay." You'll also see a better parkour animation from a crouch state, and properly choreographed deaths for NPCs when they get caught by anomalies. Despite the Zone's penchant for weirdness, the list of bug fixes is surprisingly sensible. There are a few entertaining ones, though. "Fixed grenade disappearing when throwing it at one's feet" has me wondering whether Stalker 2's playerbase is doing ok, while "Fixed an issue where shooting at mutant limbs could stretch them," sounds like it should be a feature. I also like "Fixed a problem that made it difficult for rats to move in narrow places", if only because there are few concepts as pitiful as a claustrophobic rat. This is normally where I write something like "You can read the full changelog here." But in a shock twist, you can't. The Steam update only provides the highlights of this voluminous update. If you want to get a cramp in your index finger by scrolling through the full list, you'll need to pop over to the Stalker 2 website. We were already fond of Stalker 2, with Joshua Wolens giving it a respectable score of 83% in our review. As was the case with the original games, the sequel's biggest flaw was its instability. Hopefully, this megapatch will smooth out most of those rougher edges, giving you a cleaner, more reliably inhospitable Zone. 2025 games: This year's upcoming releasesBest PC games: Our all-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest RPGs: Grand adventuresBest co-op games: Better together
