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Engadget
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Engadget
Directive 8020's rewind feature makes play-your-own-survival-horror easier for completionists
Supermassive's well-regarded interactive survival horror series, the Dark Pictures Anthology, is ready for its second season. Directive 8020 will be its first entry and was available to play in demo form at SGF 2025, even if it was heavily weighted with cutscenes and context-setting preamble. The demo kicked off with a meeting between Young and Stafford, marking the anniversary of Young's father's death, who was also a long-time friend of Stafford's – the commander of the space mission that Young is also bound for. The plot then leaps four years forward, placing us aboard the spaceship Cassiopeia. Oh and it's somehow overrun by some fungal, sentient alien goop. Worse still, but also a horror staple, the goop is coalescing into almost-perfect copies of the human crew. Trust no-one! To view this content, you'll need to update your privacy settings. Please click here and view the "Content and social-media partners" setting to do so. When the hydroponics bay is overrun by an alien substance, two crewmates Cernan and Stafford, have to fight their ET doppelgangers. Finally, I got to play (but only for a few minutes), moving stealthily around the lower deck of the hydroponics bay while my alien copy (now fungal and angry) tried to hunt me down. Fortunately, you're equipped with a scanner to mark where the aliens were last seen, and after triggering a nearby hydroponic pod to distract, I made my way up the ladder. This was one of three ways to play this section, handily introducing a new mechanic for The Dark Pictures' second run: Turning Points. Using this feature, you can rewind to these decision trees, allowing you to replay sections and explore different options or alter the outcome. This is an interesting change for the series. In previous games, while you could rewind to replay entire sections in macro, there was no way to change a single micro decision. I discussed this with my colleague Jessica Conditt, and we're both the kind of players to continue with our terrible decisions in games like Directive 8020 , the Dark Pictures Anthology, Until Dawn and the rest. Fortunately, then, Directive 8020 will include a hard-boiled Survivor Mode – with no rewinds. The demo shifted back to a more narrative focus and cutscenes, briefly interrupted by the possibility that one crew member (specifically, the CEO funding the whole operation) might be an alien. Did I pull the trigger? Nope. I'll have to wait til the October launch to know if that was the right decision to make. Directive 8020 launches on 2nd October, 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam.
Metro
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
PS6 and next gen Xbox reportedly out by 2027 according to a cancelled game
A cancelled Blade Runner game was apparently going to launch in two years time and would've been available for current and next gen consoles. Even though some will feel like the current generation of consoles still hasn't hit its peak, new PlayStation and Xbox consoles are much closer than you may realise. Microsoft has admitted it's working on new Xbox hardware, with its next console promising the 'largest technical leap' yet. Sony hasn't been as forthcoming about the PlayStation 6, but it has made it clear it remains committed to the console market. The running theory is that we could see new consoles arrive within the next two years, which has found new support in a recent report about a cancelled Blade Runner game. For context, Insider Gaming alleges that Supermassive Games, the studio behind Until Dawn and the upcoming Directive 8020, was working on a 'cinematic action adventure' game set in the Blade Runner universe. The goal was to have it out in September 2027, not just for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC, but also 'Gen 10' systems, referring to Sony and Microsoft's next consoles. The report doesn't mention if this means Supermassive already has access to dev kits for the new consoles but, at the very least, it shows the studio knows, or is at least confident, that the hardware will be available in two years. It's entirely possible Sony informed Supermassive of this, since the two companies have a close working relationship. Although Supermassive was never a Sony subsidiary, its first decade was spent developing PlayStation exclusives – what is commonly referred to as a second party relationship. While Supermassive's games tend to be multiplatform nowadays, it still made 2023's The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR one of the first exclusives for the PlayStation VR2. A 2027 launch has always been a safe assumption, with other insiders claiming that both the PlayStation 6 and the next Xbox console are on track for that year. Whatever the case, they'll certainly arrive within close proximity of each other, since neither Sony nor Microsoft will want the other to launch new hardware unopposed. Curiously, it's sounding as if Sony and Microsoft will be embracing handheld devices for the next generation, no doubt influenced by the success of the Nintendo Switch and handheld PCs like the Steam Deck. More Trending Microsoft has already said it's planning an Xbox handheld this year, but it sounds as if it's one of two devices the company is working on. The second being a traditional nextgen console. Rumours point to a similar approach for Sony, with recent claims that the PlayStation 6 will come in two different models: a regular home version and a handheld device. This could be Sony and Microsoft's answer to the biggest issue facing new gaming hardware, which is that consoles can't get any more powerful without the improvements being so nebulous that no one will notice. The appeal of better graphics has become increasingly niche and if Sony and Microsoft want to keep turning a profit on hardware, dedicated handhelds could be what they need to attract new audiences. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: PS6 handheld may need patches to run PS5 games properly claims insider MORE: Rocksteady's new Batman game is coming to PS6 and next gen Xbox MORE: Xbox handheld out this year and will go up against Nintendo Switch 2 says source
