The PS4 has a ton of great third-party options when it comes to controllers, especially for fighting games. And some of them even get some pretty discounts. Amazon currently has a deal on the Hori Fighting Commander for PS4, PC, and PS3, and if you’re looking for an extremely affordable and solid option for fighting games, then this is a discount you absolutely need to take a look at.
The Hori Fighting Commander for PS4 is currently $25 (down from $40) and comes with free Prime shipping for members. Unfortunately, we don’t know how long this deal will last, so if you’re interested, you should pick it up as soon as you can. The Fighting Commander is a cheaper fight pad, but it’s still adored by many. It has a 4.5/5 star rating on Amazon with over 520 reviews.
Hori Fighting Commander for PS4, PC, and PS3
$25 ($40)
In addition to being an excellent pad for games like Dragon Ball FighterZ, Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, and even Mortal Kombat 11, it’s also got some key features that make using the Hori Fighting Commander a delight. The big one for me is the D-Pad/analog stick toggle, which lets you take control of the right stick, despite this pad not featuring one. This means you don’t need to pick up a separate controller for things like character customization or camera control in the few fighting games that offer it.
Of course, the Hori Fighting Commander can also work quite well with any game that primarily uses the D-pad for movement. This means games like Hollow Knight, Castle Crashers Remastered, and Castlevania Requiem are perfect for the stick-less pad.
If you’re looking for the best fight pad–or another great PS4 controller entirely–then check out our guide to the best PS4 controllers of 2020. We’ve tested a wide variety of PS4 controllers and selected the very best for you to choose from.
I Am Not Okay With This, the new Netflix series from End of the F***ing World director Jonathan Entwistle and the producers of Stranger Things, opens with a promise. Sydney Novak (played by It Chapter 1 and 2’s Sophia Lillis) is running down an empty street, drenched in blood, the wail of police sirens in the distance. There’s no record scratch, “you’re probably wondering how I got here” moment, but by the end of the first episode, it’s clear that this season will end with some bloodletting. “Dear diary,” the opening narration begins, “go f*** yourself.”
This flash-forward adds a necessary tension to the season’s seven 20-minute episodes, most of which are free of such violence. I Am Not Okay With This is a sweet-natured show with a dark side; one moment it’s all charming conversations between likable characters, and then the next something heavy and distressing will happen. The show walks the line between these tones well, and by the end of the short first season I was invested in the characters, what they were going through, and the hints of lore peppered throughout.
Across the season, we watch Sydney live her awkward teenage life. She’s burdened by the loss of her father, a best friend who has recently hooked up with an awful jock, a love-sick weirdo pal who she can’t bring herself to romantically reject, and, perhaps most pressing of all, a budding psychic power that manifests in horrible ways when she’s angry. The series makes the smart move of focusing on Sydney’s relationships with the rest of the cast, especially the ebb and flow of her feelings towards her best friends Dina (Sofia Bryant) and Stanley (Wyatt Oleff, who starred alongside Lillis in the recent It adaptation).
These characters, for all their flaws, are likable and compelling, and the awkward realness of their teenage personalities is what makes the series work. The show has the good sense to realize that most viewers will be charmed by Stanley’s weirdo ways, and Sydney feels fully formed. Her ability to float things with her mind, and the fact that things sometimes break or go flying when she’s angry, feels like a manifestation of the other issues in her life rather than the thing that defines her. She’s a lot like Stranger Things’ Eleven, but a bit older, a little less in control, and beset by fewer monsters (if you don’t count mean teens as monsters).
The comparisons don’t end there, as I Am Not Okay With This is just as besotted with the ’80s as Stranger Things is despite being set in the present. In the first episode, Sydney’s school therapist gives her a diary to write in, encouraging her to use it instead of writing notes in her phone. Sydney clearly takes this to heart, as her phone doesn’t get pulled out throughout the series.
The show is a time warp. Stanley doesn’t just listen to vinyl, he favors cassette tapes and VHS, too. He drives his father’s beat-up old car and works in a bowling alley that definitely has not been renovated in some time. The teens go wild for songs like Jessie’s Girl, and the show is rife with visual references to films like The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and Stand By Me. If characters want to have a conversation, they go and find each other. The show is nostalgic at its very core–Lillis even looks like Molly Ringwald.
It’s also a tad staid at times, despite the wild psychic hook. There are scenes and plot points you will have seen done before elsewhere, and the dichotomy between the jocks and the nerds is explored with far less nuance than in, for instance, Freaks and Geeks (another clear influence on the show) or even the more recent Sex Education (also on Netflix). Plot twists tend to be predictable, and while there are some fun subversions here and there and plenty of lighter moments, the series isn’t necessarily offering anything truly new.
But, of course, not every show needs to break new ground. I Am Not Okay With This is, to my mind, a far more effective dark teenage tale than Entwistle’s other Netflix adaptation of a Charles Forsman comic, End of the F***ing World. This is a show full of charming performances, fun ’80s nostalgia, and a plot that leaves enough dangling to get us excited for more episodes.
I Am Not Okay With This Season 1 is streaming on Netflix now.
The Epic Games Store hasn’t slowed down in its offering of one or two free games each week, a practice that began in late 2018 and has continued into 2020. This year, Epic has upped that number on select weeks, giving away three free games for its users, and next week is bringing another trio of freebies. Plus, this week’s free games, Offworld Trading Company and Gonner, are available now. To claim Epic’s weekly free games, you just need a free Epic account, and they’ll be yours to keep afterward.
Starting next Thursday, March 12, Epic users can claim Anodyne 2: Return to Dust, A Short Hike, and Mutazione. Anodyne 2 is a puzzle-exploration game set in a 3D dream-like world. You’ll also encounter surreal 2D dungeons that you enter by shrinking inside characters’ bodies, with the aim of saving the world from a dangerous Nano Dust.
A Short Hike is a short, wholesome game about climbing up a mountain while meeting other hikers, discovering hidden treasure, and enjoying the nature around you along the way. It’s a calming game with a lovely soundtrack, and at its core is the central theme that kindness is rewarded. We wrote about both Anodyne 2 and A Short Hike as two of 2019’s best indie games–check out our impressions for more details.
Don’t skimp out on Mutazione either, however. The supernatural adventure game is described as a mutant soap opera where juicy drama is as important to the story as the high-stakes mission at its core: saving the town of Mutazione from a strange darkness. Released in September 2019, Mutazione is another chill indie game you shouldn’t miss, one critic David Wildgoose described as, “Stardew Valley ponders the nature of existence.”
On March 12, you’ll be able to claim all three games at no cost from Epic. In the meantime, be sure to claim Offworld Trading Company and Gonner while they’re free for the next week.
This June, Sony Pictures is taking us back to World War II for the upcoming movie Greyhound. However, the latest flick about one of the largest wars in the planet’s history will follow the naval forces of the allies.
Directed by Aaron Schneider and written by Hanks–based on a novel by C.S. Forester–the first trailer for the new film has arrived. You can check it out below, and it does feature quite a few scenes with Hanks character, Commander Ernest Krause, talking on the phone.
Inspired by actual events, Greyhound follows Krause, a captain of a naval skipper, as he joins forces with other allied boats in order to take on German U-boats during the height of the second world war. This is Hanks third feature-length film he’s written. In 2011, he penned Larry Crowne, and in 1996, he directed, wrote, and starred in That Thing You Do.
Greyhound also stars Elisabeth Shue (Adventures in Babysitting), Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire), Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (6 Underground), and Karl Glusman (Devs).
A new camera hack for 2018’s God of War has revealed that the game’s main villain, Baldur, gives you the middle finger when you can’t see him.
Well-known game hacker Lance McDonald – who’s previously revealed secrets in P.T., Bloodborne, and Dark Souls 3 – has now turned his sights on God of War. He’s already revealed one amusing easter egg inside the game that hasn’t been seen before.
It appears just after the opening fight between Kratos and Baldur. There’s a moment when Baldur seems to be defeated, lying limp on top of Kratos, just after the pair have wrestled in the snow. Kratos then pushes Baldur off of him and sends him plunging off a cliffside. It’s when Baldur is falling from that great height that McDonald spotted the easter egg.
Using a camera hack, McDonald reveals that Baldur raises both his middle fingers towards Kratos, flipping him off as he plummets. Very fitting for his character.
Absolutely laughing at this, can’t wait to see what else is hidden in the game off-camera pic.twitter.com/V3r8dV4gMw
McDonald spent all of yesterday finishing off the work on his God of War camera hack that he started last year. Now that it’s complete, he’s able to move the game’s camera around freely, passing through walls, stopping time, and even exploring cutscenes. He says it works by “entering special button presses on the map screen.”
With this first discovery, McDonald says he “can’t wait to see what else is hidden in the game off-camera” – so watch this space.
Platinum Games–the developer behind action titles such as Bayonetta, Vanquish, and NieR: Automata—launched a Kickstarter campaign in early February for The Wonderful 101 Remastered. Crowdfunding quickly pushed past the $500,000 milestone, meaning the former Wii U-exclusive is coming to the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC on May 19. With the campaign wrapping up imminently on March 6, however, another stretch goal has now been reached as the Kickstarter exceeds the $2 million mark.
A second mission will be added to The Wonderful 101 Remastered as a result of the crowdfunding campaign hitting the latest stretch goal. Titled Luka’s Second Mission, it will see our hero “back and ready for more adventure.” Luka’s First Mission–a 2D side-scrolling adventure–was added after the Kickstarter hit $1.5 million.
At the time of writing, and with 27 hours of the crowdfunding stage left, 30,511 people have pledged $2,017,736 to the game. The remaster was already a done deal before a single cent was earned via crowdfunding, but Platinum says the campaign is about uniting a community of players and gauging interest. The money earned through Kickstarter will go towards rewards and stretch goals, such as the aforementioned extra missions.
GameSpot had a chance to chat with game director Hideki Kamiya and producer Atsushi Inaba about The Wonderful 101’s Kickstarter campaign, although Platinum also has a few more projects up its sleeve. The Wonderful 101 is just the first of what the studio is calling the Platinum 4. The second was recently announced and is currently titled Project G.G., a hero-based action game heavily inspired by Ultraman. The other two projects are yet to be announced.
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Announced on the PlayStation Blog, Sucker Punch’s new game also got a new story trailer, and details of the special, collector’s and digital deluxe versions of the game.
The story trailer shows off the game’s hero, Jin Sakai, as well as his uncle Shimura – who is the lord of Tsushima – and Khotun Khan, the leader of the invading Mongol army.
As for those various editions of the game, you can get a good look at each one, and their contents, in the gallery below:
Both the special and digital deluxe versions of the game come in at $69.99, and collector’s edition at $169.99 (UK and AU prices not available at time of writing).
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Ghost of Tsushima, the latest PS4 exclusive developed by Infamous developer Sucker Punch, will launch on PS4 on June 26. The release date announcement was made alongside the launch of a new story trailer for the game, which you can watch below.
Ghost of Tsushima follows the story of Jin Sakai, known as The Ghost to the invading Mongol armies led by the ruthless Khotun Khan. Trained by his uncle Shimura, the jito (lord) of Tsushima, Jin is an incredibly skilled samurai who adopts more cunning death-dealing techniques, to the concern of his mentor.
In addition to the new trailer, Sony and Sucker Punch have also revealed three new versions of Ghost of Tsushima that are available for pre-order. The first is the Digital Deluxe Edition, which includes the Hero of Tsushima skin set (packed with an in-game horse, saddle, mask, sword, and armor set for Jin) along with two in-game items–the Charm of Hachiman’s Favor and one technique point–and a Samurai PS4 dynamic theme. This edition will cost $70.
The $70 physical Special Edition includes a SteelBook case, as well as additional digital extras such as a mini artbook by Dark Horse, developer commentary, the same in-game items as the Digital Deluxe Edition, and both the sword and mask from the Hero of Tsushima set.
Ghost of Tsushima Collector’s Edition
The $170 Collector’s Edition is a treasure trove of collectibles. It includes a polyresin replica of the mask Jin wears in the game, with an individually numbered stand (Sucker Punch notes that it’s not suitable for wearing). It comes packaged with a 4.5 foot-long sashimono (war banner), a traditional-style furoshiki (wrapping cloth), and an artistic rendition of the world map printed on cloth. You’ll also get a 48-page physical art book from Dark Horse, SteelBook case, and all the digital content from the Deluxe Edition above.
With a release date announced, Sony has now set dates for all of its big outstanding exclusives for the PlayStation 4. It has yet to announce a reveal date for the PlayStation 5, which is expected to launch later this year.
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Even if you’ve played every Pokemon game, there’s a good chance you’ve never played it competitively. That’s because competitive Pokemon has a high barrier to entry, and there’s a lot you need to know just to start battling. That said, competitive battling is exciting and incredibly rewarding, making it a worthwhile pursuit, and Sword and Shield are a great place to get started.
For the final episode of our guide to Competitive Pokemon, Kallie dives into Pokemon breeding and EV training. This video will teach you how to efficiently breed the perfect Pokemon, teach it the right moves, and EV train it.
In GameSpot’s Pokemon Sword and Shield review, Kallie Plagge wrote, “In collecting, battling, and exploring, Sword and Shield cut out the bloat and focus on what makes these pillars of the Pokemon games so captivating in the first place. You’re not held back by overly complicated back-end systems or hoops to jump through; from the outset, you can start wandering the Galar region, seeing its new Pokemon, and trying out its new battle strategies with very little in your way. This leaves you free to enjoy what Pokemon is all about, and that makes for an incredibly strong showing for the series’ proper debut on Switch.”
