The Week in JVL: What Not to Miss (S12 / 2022)

Every Sunday, the editorial staff invites you to discover the key video game news of the week. Here is a summary of what you should not miss from 03/27 to 04/03.

Haven’t been able to catch up on this week’s video game news, but want to know what information you shouldn’t miss?

Stop moving, you’ve come to the right place! JVL invites you to discover the news that has achieved the most success in the world of your favorite consoles and games in recent days, here are the essentials for the week from 03/27 to 04/03:

• PlayStation Plus: The classics will be ‘cool’ according to Jim Ryan (Thursday 03/31)
  Jim Ryan, president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, praised during an interview the quality of titles that the new PS+ Plus service will offer.
• PlayStation Plus: Crazy New Subscription & Backward Compatibility (Tuesday 29/03)
  So the rumors were true, Project Spartacus has just been formalized and no, it’s not a Playstation Game Pass, but it’s not far off.
• PS Plus games confirmed April 2022 by Sony (Wed 30/03)
  Once again, the leaks are true because Sony has just confirmed the list of upcoming “free” games for April.
• The creator of Rivet (Ratchet & Clank) asks for recognition (Wed 30/03)
  Furious after being “forgotten” by the lead developer of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Sam Maggs gives his truth about the new character’s name, as well as his sexuality.
• Horizon Forbidden West: Patch 1.09 is live and covers everything (Wed 30/03)
  Horizon Forbidden West receives a new patch, 1.09, which aims to correct several remaining bugs and fix the program’s stability at the same time.
• The new PS Plus is ‘less attractive but more profitable’ than Game Pass (Thursday 03/31)
  According to experts interviewed by our colleagues from “Gamesindustry”, the new PS Plus revealed by PlayStation is less interesting than Xbox Game Pass for gamers, but more profitable for Sony.
• Starfield: Something unique, players will go crazy (Wed 30/03)
  Bethesda’s design director thinks Starfield will give gamers a big slap, like what it could feel like with the latest Spider-Man on PlayStation.
• One Piece Odyssey RPG of 2022 announced on PC and consoles (Monday 03/28)
  Bandai Namco has just formalized a new RPG release in the One Piece universe, developed by the studio responsible for Pokémon Sparkling Diamond and Sparkling Pearl.
• Indie game developers earn billions from Xbox (Sunday 27/03)
  Thanks to Xbox and the ID@Xbox initiative, independent developers are filling their pockets and billions of dollars have been donated to them
• Pokemon-like Coromon is pushed back to Switch (Tuesday 29/03)
  The Switch version of the Pokémon-like Coromon, which was scheduled to be released on March 31, has been delayed due to a specific malfunction.
• DualSense on PS5 Named ‘Best Console Ever’ (Monday 03/28)
  Parallel to the real BAFTA party, the Twitter account launched a contest to determine the best console among dozens of competitors.
• JVL chooses its best ever console (Fri 01/04)
  A few days after the BAFTA tournament declaring the DualSense PS5 the best controller ever, the editorial team decided to organize a poll of its own.
• Abandoned: Studio Apologizes, App And Game Demo ‘Not Ready’ (Fri 01/04)
  The game, which was due to be released in 2022, is increasingly being seen as a network “scam”. The first part of the PS5 program postponed for several months is no longer planned.
• PlayStation Plus: No Sony Day One games according to Jim Ryan…yet (Wed 30/03)
  PlayStation Plus is undergoing a revamp in June and will give access to a large catalog of games, but there are no Sony exclusives on day one at the moment.
• Elden Ring: Pictures of an animal discovered in the game files (Monday 03/28)
  After searching through the game files, a curious person discovered several pictures of what could be a common animal.

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