As we get closer to the release of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, it’s become more and more difficult to purchase the original Complete Edition of the game. This week, it’s starting to be delisted from digital PC storefronts.
It was first removed from the Epic Games Store, as some ResetEra users reported earlier this week. While the store page is still live, the buy button has been grayed out and just reads “unavailable.” There also isn’t a link to purchase the remaster from this page, although you can find it through search and preorder it ahead of its October 31 release date.
When I first saw the ResetEra thread, I went to check Steam and GOG, and found the Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition was still available to purchase. However, on Thursday, it appears that it’s impossible to buy the Complete Edition on its own on Steam. If you head to the Valve storefront, you can only prepurchase the Remastered bundle, which comes with a copy of the Complete Edition along with the Remastered upgrade, for $50. You can still buy Remastered solo, but buying the bundle with the $10 add-on is the only way to get the Complete Edition on the platform.
At the time of this writing, the game is still up on GOG for $50. As with other games on the store, it’s digital rights managment (DRM) free. You can also find codes for it on third-party sites like CDKeys.
All of this seems to be a part of PlayStation’s plan to ensure you absolutely get the Remastered edition if you want to play Horizon Zero Dawn, whether you want it or not. This even extends to console players, who began noticing that the cost of the original game on the PlayStation Store had doubled from $20 to $40. The company didn’t announce the price increase and hasn’t publicly made a comment about it, but it’s likely a strategy to dissuade players from getting the older version and steer them toward getting the new one.
The remaster mostly just offers visual and performance upgrades, along with updates specifically for the PlayStation 5, but Guerilla Games and support studio Nixes also added around 10 hours of conversation and new mocap.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
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Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
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