Topics of the week: Elden Ring, a PS3 emulator & Days Gone

This week we received all sorts of interesting reports and rumors. In our weekly review we have summarized the most important headlines of the week for you.

In principle, this week began the same way as last week ended. With various reports and discussions about the topic of “Elden Ring” and the expansion “Shadow of the Erdtree”.

Last weekend, it became apparent that the difficulty level of the add-on was frustrating part of the community. A review bombing on Steam was the result. A development that brought Johan Pilestedt, the creative director behind the successful co-op shooter “Helldivers 2” into the picture. You can find out what he said about the discussions about the difficulty level of “Elden Ring” hereA few days after the release of “Shadow of the Erdtree” we also received first impressive sales figures to the add-on.

These made it clear that FromSoftware continues to reach a broad target group with its philosophy. To coincide with the unveiling of the sales figures, the studio published the update 1.12.2which was dedicated to the balancing of the expansion, and revealed how upcoming titles from FromSoftware will build on the success of “Elden Ring” will build.

A possible “Elden Ring” film adaptation The studio also commented.

Palworld and a PS3 emulator for the PS5?

There was no shortage of rumors this week. At the beginning of the week, for example, insider Nick Baker spoke out, saying that native PS3 support for the PS5. Since Baker spoke of “selective support”, it is unclear whether Sony is planning a PS3 emulator or just bringing selected PS3 classics to the PS5 in a native form.

Giant Bombs Jeff Grubb also wanted PS3 support for the PS5 have experiencedSpeaking of emulators: As part of a performance check, our colleagues at Digital Foundry analyzed Sony's new PS2 emulator. Unfortunately, with a unpleasant result.

Another hotly debated rumor this week concerns the indie hit “Palworld”. Here, the responsible community manager indicated the upcoming announcement a PlayStation port.

A rejection, however, awaited all those who hoped that “Sunset Overdrive” would still find its way onto the PlayStation consoles. Here referred When asked, Insomniac Games cited ongoing work on “Marvel's Wolverine” and rejected a PS4/PS5 port of the open-world adventure.

There was also bad news about the multiplayer shooter “Boundary”. Here we should probably no longer expect the release of the console version. By stating that “Days Gone” was originally written with “full intention” was planned as a trilogyGame Director John Garvin sparked new speculation this week about the future of “Days Gone.”

Only a short time later, Sony Bend spoke up again and he apologized for the false hopes that may have been raised by previous statements.

Has the era of discs finally come to an end?

After the share of digitally sold games has steadily increased in recent years, this week we received The rumorthat Game, another major retailer, had decided not to sell games on discs in its stores. Even though Game immediately denied the reports, the rumors caught the attention of various analysts.

Among them was Mat Piscatella of Circana (formerly: NPD Group). Piscatella pointed out that gamers should get used to the fact that physical media will eventually disappear completely. “People should probably get used to it (not getting physical Xbox versions) sooner rather than later across the entire market,” says Piscatella.

The publisher Capcom used the current week to make several announcements. Firstly, the company announced a new showcase that will take place at the beginning of next week. We have the date and details of the games presented here In addition to the showcase, Capcom also announced “Dead Rising Deluxe”a remaster of the first offshoot of the zombie spectacle.

The “Dragon's Dogma 2” community, on the other hand, was able to an update which, among other things, brought with it support for 120Hz. In line with the update, Capcom reduced the price of the action role-playing game and made a free trial version The demo allows undecided players to play “Dragon's Dogma 2” over a period of two hours.

Here are some more reports that didn’t make it into our weekly review this week.