#424 | Think Someone's About To Be Carved

On PlayStation 5 in the near future, you're going to be hacking, slashing, stabbing, and serrating your enemies with reckless abandon. For starters, the dangerously-clawed Wolverine emerges in September, along with a newly-announced special edition PS5 console, a couple of DualSense controllers, and even some plates for your existing hardware. (Plus, the previews are quite positive!) September also provides us with horroresque Halloween: The Game from IllFonic, which interestingly enough won't be released in Australia and New Zealand for the stupidest reason. Come October, hack-and-slash RPG Phantom Blade 0 joins the fray -- a long-in-development Chinese game that's getting its own State of Play imminently -- not to mention Ghost of Yotei: Complete Edition, packing new single-player content galore alongside the return of the Katana-wielding Atsu. Other news this week includes a surprise PS3-era Lord of the Rings drop, insane data about Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders, and more. But we end, as we always do, with listener inquiries. Will Sony really eschew any sort of external disc drive for PlayStation 6, if only for backwards compatibility purposes? Why is visiting a new town in an RPG typically such an exciting experience? What would a "Digital Bill of Rights" look like? Is Dustin losing his Japanese language skills through atrophy?

Timestamps:

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0:00 - Intro
42:56 - Met-cha Chameleon
47:49 - Sacred American Gladiator
50:20 - 24 minutes
53:49 - Almonds vs data centers
1:07:26 - Phantom Blade Zero State of Play
1:15:00 - Halloween The Game refused classification in Australia and New Zealand
1:27:08 - Ghost of Yotei: Complete Edition
1:35:19 - Wolverine console plates and more
1:43:56 - Lord of the Rings: War in the North re-released
1:52:42 - New PS+ Game Catalog games
2:01:00 - GTAVI's $100 version is the top seller
2:14:29 - July's Top PSN Downloads
2:17:35 - Spider-Man sales increase thanks to the movie
2:20:20 - What We're Playing (Big Walk, Marvel Tokon, Gears of War E-Day, Spider-Man (2000), Beast of Reincarnation)
2:59:54- Digital Bill of Rights
3:10:07 - Playing PS5 discs on PS6
3:20:35 - Codes in boxes
3:24:14 - RPG towns
3:29:23 - Defending big companies
3:39:48 - Game discipline

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