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Jedi Fallen Order leads the January PS Plus games lineup

The PS Plus games lineup for January includes Star Wars, a popular indie game, and Fallout 76

A new month is coming up fast, and that means time for new PS Plus games. Sony announced January’s PS Plus games lineup in a new PlayStation Blog post, though only for the basic tier. The Extra- and Premium-tier offerings will be announced at a later date.

First up is Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, the first adventure of Cal Kestis, a fugitive Jedi-in-training who must learn the ropes and survive the Empire’s brutal persecution in the post-Revenge of the Sith era. The blend of Metroid-style exploration with combat inspired by Dark Souls was such a hit that EA and Respawn made a sequel – Star Wars Jedi Survivor – which launches March 17, 2023.

Next up is Fallout 76, Bethesda’s take on a live-service multiplayer game set in the Fallout world. While Fallout 76 was a bit of a wasteland itself when it first launched in 2018, several hefty updates have transformed the wilderness and added much more substance. Fallout 5 may be ages away, but 76 is as good a way as any to pass the time before Amazon’s Fallout TV show airs.

Finally is Axiom Verge 2, a bigger, bolder take on the original Axiom Verge that sets you loose in a sci-fi hellscape with a staggering range of abilities and an even more impressive array of secrets to uncover.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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The most hyped video games that were underwhelming

These didn’t turn out as good as we had been promised.

Honest trailers can be difficult to pull off. After all, developers want to retain an element of surprise when people actually get their hands on the game. Things often appear out of context and disjointed, and nobody really knows how a game feels until they get their thumbs on the sticks.

Still, it’s easy to be sucked in by the hype when you’re looking forward to a new game. Those flashy trailers do their job, sometimes too well, to the point where player expectation is, frankly, unrealistic. And that’s where this list comes into play – let’s hobble down memory lane and take a look back at the games that didn’t meet our high hopes, dashing our dreams like a skull-cracking on concrete.

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