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Tales of Eternia Remastered Brings a PlayStation Classic Back on Every Modern Platform

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A PlayStation classic is back on everything. Tales of Eternia Remastered launched worldwide on October 16 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam. It is the first time the game has appeared on modern platforms.

First released in Japan in 2000 and in North America in 2001 as Tales of Destiny II, Eternia is one of the earliest entries in Bandai Namco’s long-running Tales series. The story follows Reid Hershel, Farah Oersted and Keele Zeibel, who meet Meredy, a girl from Celestia, the world that faces their own world of Inferia across the sky. Together they race to stop the Grand Fall, a catastrophic collision between the two worlds, by seeking the power of the Greater Craymels.

The remaster, developed by TOSE as part of the Tales Remastered Project, is more than an upscale. A new Graphics Mode and SFX Mode let players switch freely between remastered and original visuals and sound effects. Quality-of-life features include a Boost feature to adjust experience gained and encounter rates, toggleable destination icons, high-speed play in auto battle, Battle Retry and Quick Recovery. A new Extreme difficulty is available from the start, and an additional Unknown difficulty unlocks after finishing the game. Twenty-six years on, Eternia finally travels again.

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Planted! Launches on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, Bringing Horticultural Combat to Consoles

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Competitive gardening has officially gone extreme. Planted!, the chaotic 1-to-4 player party game from Welsh studio Cloth Cat Games and publisher Curveball Games, launches today on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, inviting players to sow, grow and throw their way to victory against their friends.

The setup is simple and gloriously silly: players race around an allotment growing fresh produce, then fling it at goals, and at each other, to rack up points and be crowned champion. There is an arsenal for the dirty work, too, including weed bombs, spud turrets and eerily green clones to help players edge out the competition.

The eight multiplayer arenas refuse to stay in the garden. Matches play out on windy mountainsides, in cavernous cave systems, on half-built skyscrapers and around active volcanoes, each location bringing its own twists and hazards. The arenas support both local play and online multiplayer with crossplay, and players can pick from a cast of unlikely characters, each with their own personality and style.

For solo players, Planted! also carries a full single-player story mode set in the cutthroat world of competitive gardening, with challenges and boss battles that teach the tactics which carry straight into multiplayer. “What started as a fun prototype for us to test out our weird and wacky ideas on has become a game the whole team has poured so much heart and soul into,” said Ben Cawthorne, Creative Producer at Cloth Cat Games.

Planted! is available digitally now on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. A digital PC release and a physical PlayStation 5 edition follow in time for Christmas, after a delay to the Steam version’s approval, and a Nintendo Switch version is planned for early 2027.

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