It's been a while since we've heard anything about the MediEvil remaster, which was originally announced at PlayStation Experience 2017. The remaster (or remake) has plenty of fans salivating at the thought of bringing back another beloved PlayStation classic - I, for one, am jumping for joy. However, we're finally receiving an update on the game's progress in "the next week or two," according to Sony. PlayStation social media director Sid Shuman, in a recent PlayStation Blogcast, revealed that he had it on "excellent authority" that SIE Worldwide Studios head Shawn Layden would be providing an update on the game in an upcoming PlayStation Blogcast. “He’s very excited to give everybody a big update on Medievil,” said Shuman. “He’s going to be on the [PlayStation Blogcast] in the next week or so, and give us all an update on that.” This is interesting because it perfectly aligns with the end of October, which we all know is Halloween. Since MediEvil is the quintessential Halloween experience (I do say so myself), it would make sense to offer an update as to the status of the remaster - perhaps even a release date. However, very little is actually known about what the game is going to look like, so a trailer would certainly whet our appetites. MediEvil Remastered currently doesn't have a release date, but will be a PlayStation 4 exclusive. Watch the teaser trailer below:

Picture this: Carnate Island, Maryland USA, 2004. You are Torque - not the rotational force, but perhaps a revolution? You’ve been sent to death row for a crime you can’t remember committing (making me wonder if ADD isn’t the real killer here). Considering your man Torque never speaks nor shows any expression besides occasional boredom, it's lucky he never had a story to tell. A prison guard, one burrito shy of a stereotype, shoves you into your cell where your neighbours are a racist, a paedophile, a young twit and an older exposition device. You sit and kick off your shoes while the inmates discuss you're like that kid that needs therapy. Suddenly, the ground shakes, the lights go out and the other inmates are eviscerated by a steak-knife salesman. Lights up! It’s just you and the older exposition device now. Oh wait, my mistake. “Sh*t! (Trust me sir, I have) There’s something in here! It’s in here! Help me! No!” He wails amid the sounds of a butcher shop. You’re alone now... or at least you think you are. With a grunt, your cell door gets split in two by something that looks like the ghost of WWE past. You step out of your cell, meeting Officer Bossypants who tells you: “Inmate! Back in your cell! Everything is under control!” Wrong! The steak-knife salesman stabs him through the top of his head and carries him away, leaving his hat behind, because I’m guessing it was so last season. A nearby cell door collapses. What’s this prison made of? Mud, spit and duct tape? Entering that cell, you pull a shiv (handy, dandy stabby thing) from an inmate’s body. I guess steak-knife salesman broke a nail. Then the gate where Officer Bossypants bought it hurls itself into a nearby wall, because even the gates in this place have enough sense to end it all before that WWE beasty comes back. Upon entering a nearby office, a demonic, whispery voice says, “Been… waiting… for… you…” (Captain Asthma? Is that you?) If I was Torque, at this point I would’ve made like a cell door and thrown myself into a wall. Soiled underwear, skewered guards, filet du felons and no shoes to wear? And all this is the first five minutes of the game! I love The Suffering. It still has one of the richest backstories and monster menageries I’ve ever seen. There are archives and hallucinations to unlock and collect, telling you about the creatures, the island, your past and your dead family, who still seem awfully chatty despite being dead. The short version is that you had a family and a temper which would explain why your wife divorced you while you were in jail. Then you got released and somehow your family got wiped out. I know what it looks like, officer, and you’re right. I would’ve convicted him too. While traipsing around the island, your dead wife and kids will appear to monologue at you. Honestly, if they are this whiny dead, imagine what they were like alive? For some, prison is hell. For Torque, it was quiet time. Whenever your wife comes to dump on you, I can hear him thinking, “Jeez. Maybe I did kill you... or not.” I love The Suffering. It still has one of the richest backstories and monster menageries I’ve ever seen. Regarding your island vacation, Carnate Island’s history has so many rich flavours... of death! There’s the prison - full of showers that reek of unwanted bum-dancing conquests and syringe-throwing beasties that appear out of the puddles. Then there are the half-bodies that drop from bloodstains in the ceiling to strangle you while they swing from a noose. Seriously game devs, who hurt you? You’ll also meet former executioner Hermes Haight (I see what you did there), looking like the most vicious fart in creation, and constant death row roastee Horace P. Gauge - a man made of electric chair fuel and pork crackling. All this is topped off with phones that randomly give you messages that would make that girl from The Ring climb back in the well, and some deeply poetic graffiti with references to Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues, Iron Maiden’s Hallowed Be Thy Name and Tool’s Ticks and Leeches. All this is topped off with phones that randomly give you messages that would make that girl from The Ring climb back in the well... Naturally, there’s an old asylum, because while some places say recuperation, this one screams it. Inside the Carnate Institute for the Alienated (a polite word for crazy people), you’ll meet Doctor Killjoy (I’m guessing medical aid doesn’t cover him). He appears to you through old 35mm film projectors - proving that selfies can kill and make you last forever all at the same time. Then there’s the old military base where I’m sure the Drill Sergeant from Full Metal Jacket would be so frightened, he’d pee sitting down before shooting himself. That is, if the mobile firing squads didn’t get to him first. If you like some home-style charm, the remains of the Puritan witch burning stake will warm your soul, right before the burning little girls cook you. I’m not kidding. Barefoot tweenage puritan girls wander around, burst into flames and then give you a hug. If heights are your thing, there’s a quarry where inmates were buried alive... Prozac anyone? Torque does get an impressive arsenal, from dual wielding revolvers, shotguns and Tommyguns to a prison-made flamethrower; molotov cocktails and a Gonzo Gun - a chicken that fires 20 one-shot-kill eggs out of its butt (Feel free to take the red pill now). You can also flip out and transform into your rage beast of utter annihilation from time to time, just like me in traffic. Stopping Torque from escaping the island are the embodiments of every torture and execution Carnate ever soaked up blood over. There’s the Slayer aka steak-knife salesman, with blades for limbs; the Mainliner, made of syringes; the Marksman, made of guns; the Nooseman, made of a bungee jump gone horribly wrong; the Burrower, made of being buried alive except he swings hooks on chains instead of sand and stone because, why the hell not? But wait, there’s also the Fester - full of explosive rats, with an iron ball and chain to swing. You can also flip out and transform into your rage beast of utter annihilation from time to time, just like me in traffic. Governing all this is a morality system leading to three endings - Good, Neutral and Bad, and if you like a dead wife shouting at you every time you kill an innocent, may I recommend being very naughty. Other opponents you’ll face include game bugs, like sound that occasionally disappears; graphics glitches that Bethesda would be proud of and game crashes resembling the global economy. One final note: This game was once available for free to download, thanks to the United States Air Force. That’ll give you some idea of how they’re training troops for war. The Suffering is, simply put, awesome. If you want to play one of the great unsung horror heroes of the last fifteen years, head over to GOG and go save an inmate. Next week, I cover the sequel. Why the sequel? Because one good thing can always be ruined by another! *Review/NostalgiaView submitted by Vittorio Leonardi

If you’re a fan of everyone’s favourite kaiju, then it may please you to know that NASA has announced they are giving Godzilla a place among the stars as a gamma-ray constellation. According to NASA, the reason they gave this type of constellation the name Godzilla is because the stars therein often let off gamma-ray bursts, which are similar to the kaiju’s atomic breath. A statement by the organisation read: "Godzilla ranks as one of cinema's most famous monsters and is among the most recognisable symbols of Japanese popular culture. In the original 1954 movie, nuclear weapons tests disturb the creature's deep ocean habitat, and it emerges from the sea to wreak havoc in Japan, Godzilla's trademark weapon is its 'heat ray', a fiery jet. This bears at least a passing resemblance to gamma-ray jets associated with black holes and neutron stars." They went on to give further reasoning as to why they gave Godzilla that particular constellation, but why over-complicate with all the science when they could have just said: “Hey guys, we’re bored and Godzilla is dope so we’re giving him a constellation”. Japan’s most famous export now shares the stars with other pop-culture icons such as the TARDIS, the Starship Enterprise, Shrödinger’s Cat, and The Hulk.

Insomniac's amazing Marvel's Spider-Man game has just received a patch which adds a "New Game Plus" mode, along with a new difficulty setting, "Ultimate". Two new trophies have been added to support these two modes as well. Along with the usual raft of improvements - including the addition of a maximum health cap of 250 - new visual filters and stickers have been added to photo mode. Photo mode now has a handy shortcut via the left directional button on the controller, and the ability to rotate stickers. The best update of the lot is for all those thirsty players (yes, pun intended) who spent so much time before the games launch complaining about puddle reduction in the world. Now you can, via photo mode, go about fixing this issue in your stills by placing all the cartoon puddles you want! New York shall never crave water again! That's not all though as the first bit of story-based DLC for Spider-Man will be launching this week. The City That Never Sleeps DLC begins with "The Heist", the first in a 3 part storyline that begins on October 23rd, 2018. The Heist adds a new set of trophies and, more importantly, three new suites for Spidey to swing around town in. Two of the suites will be comic-based, while one will be a new creation from Marvel artist Gabriele Dell’Otto. You can check out the brief teaser trailer below: