Resistance 3 fights to save Oklahoma in this new trailer

By Ryan Fleming February 2, 2011

Things are not going well for the human resistance. America has fallen, and the Chimera are moving in to wipe out a human refugee camp in Haven, Oklahoma. Things look bleak, and the end seems to be just a matter of time. That cheerful thought is among the first that will go through your head when you fire up Resistance 3, and begin the fight for survival of the human race.

Resistance 3 takes place four years after the events of Resistance 2, and you take control of Joseph Capelli (the how and why of the new character are major spoilers, so if you plan to play Resistance 2, do so before reading too much about the plot of its sequel). Capelli has left the fight against the Chimera and is in hiding with his wife and child when the war finds him. An opportunity then appears that could seriously damage the Chimera, and so Capelli travels towards New York, fighting wave after wave of enemy along the way.

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Besides the continuing storyline, Resistance 3 will feature co-op and multiplayer, both online and splitscreen. As with the previous titles, it remains a PlayStation 3 exclsuive when it hits stores on September 6.

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Why playing PS3 games on a PS5 is way harder than it sounds

A stack of PS3 games.

PlayStation Plus Premium will give players access to a library of classic PlayStation, PS2, and PS3 titles starting this June, which is exciting as the PS5 only is backward compatible with the PS4 currently. Unfortunately, it comes with a caveat: All PS3 games must be streamed from the cloud and can't be played natively on the console.
We're over 15 years removed from the PS3's launch, and there's still no good way to play many classic PS3 titles like Infamous or Metal Gear Solid 4 on modern platforms. Sony is content to continue PlayStation Now's approach to PS3 gaming with PlayStation Plus Premium. This stands out when Xbox and Nintendo are doing a relatively good job at natively emulating or remastering games from older systems for modern platforms.
To learn why PS3 games are so hard to bring to modern consoles, I spoke to Whatcookie, a contributor for the popular PS3 emulator RPCS3. Whatcookie, who chose not to share his name, is also known for creating a 60 frames per second patch for the PS3 version of Demon's Souls. He broke down what makes PS3 emulation particularly frustrating and sheds some light on why Sony is content with streaming PS3 games from the cloud instead.
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The system architectures of the PS4 and PS5 are so similar that isn't much of a problem to run PS4 titles on Sony's latest system, with a couple of exceptions. Compared to that, the PS3 has a different CPU that has more in common with the PS2 than Sony's modern systems.
In short, PS3's CELL microprocessor had some very unique capabilities, which meant that developers over-relied on the CPU at the time. This approach ultimately makes PS3 games harder to emulate. Whatcookie broke this all down for Digital Trends in greater detail.

"The Emotion Engine from the PS2 as well as the CELL in the PS3 are both built to do floating point math as fast as possible, to the detriment of other aspects of performance," Whatcookie explains. "The CELL even surpasses the PS4's CPU in terms of floating-point performance but loses out on every other measurable aspect of performance."
The uniquely powerful CPU of the PS3 already makes it an odd system, but the PS3 could also move 128 bytes atomically and had a weaker GPU than the Xbox 360. This combination led to a weird post-processing workaround for developers that Whatcookie called "unfriendly to emulation," where developers would offload post-processing to the CPU.
"This means moving a rendered image from the GPU over to main memory, emulating the post-processing code, and finally moving the image back to the GPU's memory from main memory, where the GPU will draw the UI over the processed image and finally present that image to the screen," Whatcookie says. "This type of round trip is very unfriendly to modern GPUs, where post-processing a 720p image would likely be faster than moving the image to main memory, never mind all the other steps."
These extra steps on a function that developers would usually contain to the GPU make emulation difficult. Still, a large dedicated team at RPCS3 has put in a lot of work to create a functional emulator for modern PCs. According to Whatcookie, it's totally possible to get PS3 emulation working on a PS5.
"The PS5's CPU is a decent deal faster, and combined with the kind of shortcuts that developers of commercial emulators make -- the official PS2 emulator on PS4 has many game-specific patches and hacks -- it should be possible to achieve full speed on whatever games they choose to release."
So why doesn't Sony put in the effort to address these issues and get proper PS3 emulation up and running on PS5?
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Deathloop ending explained: Should you break the loop?

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Deathloop exists in a category of its own when it comes to genre, gameplay, and story. It's a detective/time loop game built on what feels like the foundation laid out by Dishonored. But Deathloop's charm comes from its wide cast of characters and their relationships, particularly Colt and Julianna's. At the game's conclusion, players face a complicated set of decisions, with each choice meaning something different for the end of the game. What do Deathloop's endings mean, and how does each decision affect the overall story? Warning: Massive spoilers ahead!

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The best weapons in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

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A wide selection of guns is expected in any shooter, third- or first-person, but Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart stands apart from most traditional shooters for a few reasons. The first is that no two guns in a Ratchet game are the same. You'll never come across "just another" pistol, SMG, or shotgun in this game. Instead, every gun has a distinct personality, style, use, and function in combat. Second, and this is the most important, is that you always have access to every gun you acquire. While that is extremely refreshing after coming from so many games where you can only hold two guns, it can also overwhelm you with choices.

Once you have them all, you'll be swapping between 20 options of guns in any combat encounter. With each being so distinct, it may be hard to figure out which ones are the best. There are no losers in this arsenal, but some are going to be much better for most situations you find yourself in. Since you'll need to spend your hard-earned bolts to purchase most of these, here are the best weapons in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart you should be saving up for.