The Biggest Gaming News For June 23, 2022
You've made it through another work week and I've got yet another news roundup for you to start the weekend off right. Our top story today involves A Plague Tale: Requiem, as publisher Focus Home Entertainment finally announced a release date during a special showcase event.
Other stories in today's roundup include Sony's announcement that it will eventually release NTSC versions of PS1 games for those stuck with the crummy PAL versions, and that PlayStation's news subscription service is fuelling rumors of a Red Dead Redemption remaster in the works. Read on for more details.
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It was announced quite a while ago that A Plague Tale: Requiem would launch at some point in 2022, and publisher Focus Home Entertainment really made us wait for a release date. In a special showcase that gave us an extended gameplay demonstration, it was finally announced that the game will launch on October 18 later this year for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X. I know what I'm playing this spooky season.
While Sony's rollout of the new PlayStation Plus subscription has been seen as generally positive, the company has been getting a lot of flack for seemingly forcing users outside of the US to deal with inferior 50hz PAL versions of certain PS1 games rather than the superior NTSC versions. However, Sony has now announced that NTSC options are in the works and will be rolled out worldwide eventually, although refrained from providing a date.
Continuing on the theme of PlayStation Plus, fans have been digging through the service's library of PS3 games and have noticed something particularly odd. All of the games included are there to stay apart from Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare,
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