High on Life PS5 and PS4 trophy lists

The High on Life trophy lists for the PS5 and PS4 versions are identical. In fact, according to the lists that have appeared on Exophase, the only difference between the new trophy lists and the Xbox achievement lists is the addition of a Platinum trophy.

The vast majority of the trophy list are story-related trophies for obtaining weapons and defeating specific enemies. There are also collectibles to find and some missable side quests and optional tasks. The full list of 33 PS5 and PS4 trophies is below for those who don’t care about spoilers:

High on Life Platinum Trophy

• Call Your Loved Ones – Hey, you got all the trophies. And that’s great. But people have been asking about you. Are you okay?

High on Life Gold Trophies

• Hardest Battle in the Game – Defeat Dr. Giblets.
• Self-Actualization – Defeat Nipulon.
• Legendary Bounty Hunter – Defeat Garmantuous and take down the G3 cartel.
• Luglox Genocide – Find and open every Luglox chest.
• Mods Please Ban – Unlock every post in the Bounty Hunter forums.
• Playing Card to Get – Collect every trading card in the game.

High on Life Silver Trophies

• Who’s The Boss? – Defeat the Skrendel Brothers.
• Playing Favorites – Sacrifice a Gatlian other than Kenny during the fight against Garmantuous.
• A Starfish is Born – Watch Globo’s rise to fame.
• We Paid for the Rights to Put a Whole Movie in Here – Discover the movie theater.
• Epic Legendary Prize – Sit through the entirety of the really annoying countdown show on TV.
• Sequel-Bait – Discover Dr. Gurgula’s hideout in the Human Haven.
• Seeing All The Sights – Unlock and explore every collectible warp base.
• Carried Stan’s Load to Completion – Complete the game with Stan’s product in your inventory.

High on Life Bronze Trophies

• Fallout Doesn’t Let You Do This – Kill Slumsley.
• Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight – Obtain Knifey.
• First Bounty Down – Defeat 9-Torg.
• Don’t Knife The Hand That Feeds – Take Knifey’s advice and stab Gene in the gut.
• G3 Graduation – Defeat Douglas.
• Sweezy Like Sunday Morning – Obtain Sweezy.
• Gunning for Your Job – Use Sweezy to boss around the Office Moplets.
• Cold-Blooded Driller – Defeat Krubis.
• Satisfied Gustomer – Obtain Gus.
• Are You Packin’? – Obtain the Jetpack.
• Creature Feature – Obtain Creature.
• RIP Davey Glutes – Obtain the Mag-Boots.
• Eatin’ Good in the Neighborhood – Pay your bill at Applebee’s.
• Spent 15 Hours at the Alien Strip Club – Spend 15 hours at the very real in-game alien strip club.
• Lezduit! – Obtain Lezduit.
• Series Wrap On Suit-O – Say goodbye to Suit-O.
• We’re All Very Impressed, Trust Me – Juggle an enemy in the air with at least 5 shots.
• Eye Scream, You Scream – Pop 20 Grunt eyeballs.

The appearance of the trophy lists confirms the rumor that started yesterday when a PS4 version of the game was discovered in a game update database. At the moment, High on Life is only available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. A horror-themed expansion for the game called High on Knife is also in the works.

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Oyoung is happy to see Mister Negative return

Taking to Twitter, Stephen Oyoung — who voiced and played Mister Negative in the original game — celebrated the news, sharing the moment his character appears in the trailer with a celebratory “he’s back!” message.

The new trailer, which arrived yesterday from San Diego Comic-Con 2023, had a brief moment where Miles Morales runs into Mister Negative (aka Martin Li), wearing what looks to be a prison jumpsuit and sporting longer hair. In the trailer, Miles is clearly angry with him, yelling that Li doesn’t know what he’s taken from Morales.

In the original game, Li is one of the early antagonists that Peter Parker faces off against, and plays a pivotal part in the story. Li is the employer of May Parker and helps run F.E.A.S.T., but secretly runs a criminal organization known as the Inner Demons. After defeating Li in the game, he disappears, but his arrest is confirmed later in the game.

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Can Xbox Game Studios acquire more developers?

The European Commission (EC), that approved Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, is one of the regulators who has decided to define game markets by genre. As explained by ResetEra user Idas (via Wccftech), in layman’s terms this means that should Microsoft attempt to acquire another shooter or RPG studio despite having acquired a number of them via ZeniMax and Activision Blizzard, it could face opposition from EC.

It’s worth noting that EC previously refused to define the video game market by genre when approving Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax Media. According to Idas, the Chilean regulator has also adopted similar market definitions.

“The Advisory Committee agrees with the conclusions reached by the Commission in the draft decision in relation to the definition of the relevant product markets for development and publishing of video games segmented by platform (PC, console, mobile), by types of video game (AAA games vs. non-AAA games) and by genre (action and adventure, shooter/battle royale, role-playing games, sports, racing, fighting, and strategy),” reads the document in question from EC dated May 2023.

This move may also have implications for Sony. However, PlayStation has not made an acquisition as big as ZeniMax or Activision Blizzard.

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Final Fantasy 16 sales should be seen relative to PS5 install base

In a statement to IGN, Square Enix said that FF16 has performed well considering the PS5’s install base — echoing what many have pointed out in response to sales comparisons with past titles.

“Taking into consideration the sales figures of the acclaimed Final Fantasy 7 Remake and the difference in size of the install base of the PlayStation 4 at the time of this title’s release, we can see that the attach rate of Final Fantasy 16 is considerably high, given the PS5 install base,” Square Enix said, adding that it considers FF16’s initial results to be “extremely strong.” The company also said that it will “continue to carry out a wide range of initiatives” to encourage more people to play the game.

Square Enix has earned a reputation for openly expressing its disappointment with game sales. The company said as much with reference to the popular Tomb Raider (2013) reboot among numerous other titles. Earlier this year, Square Enix admitted that Forspoken has flopped. In light of this, we’ll take the official word on FF16 sales over a random Twitter profile’s.

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PS5 Slim might end up having “just slightly different dimensions”

Henderson claims to have seen prototypes of the revised PS5, and based on what he’s seen, he thinks the new hardware will only feature “slightly different dimensions” at best. Dev kits of the new PS5 model reportedly made their way to game developers earlier this year.

As far as a release date is concerned, Henderson stands by his report that the revised PS5 will be out in September, so a reveal is expected soon. “I’m inclined to believe it will just be called a PS5 and branded as an improved model,” Henderson wrote, doubling down on his claim that the new PS5 will completely replace the launch model.

Earlier this month, PS5 consoles were discounted across Europe and a number of countries in other regions, leading to speculations that Sony was making room for the revised model.

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What is Antstream and its expected PS5 release date?

Antstream is a streaming service that currently boasts over 1400 officially licensed retro titles from the PlayStation, SNES, Sega, Atari, and Arcade, among other classic platforms. The service adds titles on an ongoing basis, supports cloud saves, records high scores online, and comes with a ‘resume play’ feature. Players can also enter tournaments and challenge each others’ high scores.

As for when Antstream might launch on PS5, Rouse told Xbox Expansion Pass that Antstream is timed exclusive to Xbox for up to eight months. When asked if PlayStation and Nintendo players can expect Antstream on their platforms, Rouse said, “I think so… probably not for another 6-8 months.”

“We want it [Antstream] everywhere,” he added. “We don’t know where you’re going to be in five years, so if we have have it on the device that you’re playing on in five years’ time, that’s brilliant.” Rouse added that all of players’ data should carry over to whatever platform they choose to play on in the future.

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Gundam Evolution will shut down in November 2023

Gundam Evolution’s servers will go dark on November 29, 2023. Prior to this, Bandai Namco will pull sales of EVO Coins and EC Pod Limited, and end updates to EC Pods, CAP Pods, and Ticket Pods. The sales and updates will cease next week on July 26. Those who have already purchased EVO Coins will still be able to use them after this date. There will be no refunds.

Gundam Evolution will still receive Season 6 and 7 updates in August and October, respectively. The updates will add new units and maps.

As for why Gundam Evolution is shutting down, Bandai Namco says that it can no longer provide a satisfactory experience. “We wanted to create a title that brought FPS fans and Gundam fans together,” the company said. “We challenged ourselves to create an authentic Gundam FPS game that could be played globally. Unfortunately, we have determined that it is no longer possible for us to provide a service that satisfies our players.”

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Leaving the Switch and Xbox behind

The figure comes from the latest data from GSD, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz, which shows that 15.5 million games were sold in Europe for the month of June, a 20% increase when compared to last year’s numbers.

Perhaps the most interesting statistic is that sales of the PS5 were up the aforementioned 116%, while the Xbox Series X|S is “basically flat,” with sales down 0.8%.

On top of that, the Nintendo Switch saw a decrease in sales across Europe, with the numbers down -2.3%, which is perhaps surprising given the enormous success of Legends of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which was released in May.

The games themselves also did pretty well in June, especially on the PlayStation 5, with the console accounting for 21% for sales of Diablo 4 (while just under 9% for Xbox) and 65% for F1 23 (22.5% on Xbox, 0.3% on PC). Meanwhile, half the sales for Street Fighter 6 went to Sony’s machine.

As of now, the PS5 appears to be the head honcho in the European console market. While just over 500,000 systems were sold in June, Xbox’s biggest rival looks like it’s doing pretty well at the minute, especially given that huge spike in sales.

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New King Kong game is a third-person action adventure

According to a translation of the Amazon pages found by Gematsu, which are still up at the time of this writing, Skull Island: Rise of Kong is a third-person action-adventure title that will task players with avenging the death of their parents at the hands of the “ultimate alpha predator: Gaw.” Gaw is the title for the leader of the Deathrunners, officially described as “a fictional species of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs native to Skull Island.”

Players will have to defeat “waves of primal beasts” and other enemies to become the king of Skull Island. The island itself comes with plenty of history, secrets, and various environments and landscapes to enjoy. Expect swamps, waterfalls, jungle, and even caves.

Amazon lists Skull Island: Rise of Kong’s release date as December 31, 2024, which is probably a placeholder. The game is also headed to Xbox One and Series X|S, and the Nintendo Switch. Its developer has not been revealed.

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Sony adds more blessed stability to PS5 and PS4 via system update

The minor updates come with the good ol’ trademark patch note:

• This system software update improves system performance

As usual, there’s a chance players will notice a change (or two) in due course, so we’ll keep our readers posted.

PS4 version 10.70 comes over four months after a major update. Version 10.50 was released in early March, allowing players to access authorized third-party apps and services via Settings. March’s update also improved the last-gen console’s compatibility with the PS App.

The PS5 hasn’t had a major update since March either, but did receive minor stability and improvement patches over the months. Sony’s VP of Product Management Hiromi Wakai said back in March that her team will continue to work on new features. “We are always thinking about the features that our fans might want to see and ways to make their gaming experiences on PS5 more fun, social, and connected,” she said.

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