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It’s Official, PS2 Emulation is Coming to PS4
Many classic PlayStation titles have already made it to the PS4 through remasters, PlayStation NOW, and even a few bundles, such as the Star Wars Battlefront bundle that comes with a handful of older Star Wars games. What’s interesting about the Star Wars bundle is that a handful of them aren’t just ports of old code, as Digital Foundry reported in their hands-on preview.
This suggests they’re running on emulation software, and that means Sony’s finally following through on their promise to bring PS1 and PS2 era games to the PS4. So are they? Yup.
“We are working on utilizing PS2 emulation technology to bring PS2 games forward to the current generation,” a Sony representative confirmed in an email to Wired.
Earlier this month, Microsoft brought 104 games from the Xbox 360 to the Xbox One, with another batch of backwards compatible games coming next month. It’s unlikely to make much of a difference for the Xbox One, which is still trailing the PS4 by a considerable margin, but that doesn’t mean Sony can’t match them with something like this.
In addition to being the most successful gaming console, the PS2 has a library of games that’s second to none. It hosted some of the greatest entries in series like Resident Evil, Fatal Frame and Silent Hill, and they could use some love.
Which PS2 horror game would you most like to see get emulation support on the PS4?
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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