PSN Outage Ruins Marvel Tokon Hype, While Ancient Greece and Bird Photography Fill the Void

Sometimes the universe has impeccable timing, and not in a good way. This week's gaming roundup from the Eurogamer team captures that feeling perfectly: a brief, tantalizing taste of a new fighting game, yanked away by a PlayStation Network outage that left at least one editor staring at a queue of unread books and reconsidering gym membership. It's a very 2026 kind of gaming tragedy, and plenty of players online shared the frustration as PSN went dark mid-session.

The outage hit particularly hard for Connor, who had carved out precious lunch-break time to boot up his PS5 and dive into Marvel Tokon. He'd already managed a solid 30 minutes in training mode earlier that morning, experimenting with several characters before settling on Magik — a fighter whose teleportation-based moveset and blend of ranged and close-quarters attacks had him genuinely excited to take matches online. When PSN dropped, that momentum evaporated completely. Whether the network was restored by end of day remained unclear at time of writing, leaving Connor weighing the grim alternatives of self-improvement and literary enrichment.

Elsewhere on the team, Bertie took a more nostalgic route after watching a film adaptation of The Odyssey over the weekend. Inspired by the ancient epic, he reinstalled Assassin's Creed Odyssey — Ubisoft's 2018 open-world RPG set in classical Greece — only to find it showing its age considerably. The character models lack the polish of modern titles, and the game's aggressive UI design, constantly pinging the player with waypoints and objectives, clashes with the immersive sandbox experience it tries to sell. Compared to The Witcher 3, released three years earlier and still holding up beautifully, the gap in long-term design quality is striking.

That said, Bertie found things to appreciate. The game's relentless forward momentum suits players who find overly hands-off open worlds exhausting, and protagonist Kassandra remains a standout — a physically credible, powerfully portrayed female soldier that still feels rare in the genre even years later. It's a complicated revisit: one part nostalgia, one part mild disappointment, one part genuine affection for what the game got right.

Kelsey had arguably the most wholesome week of the three, spending much of Saturday with Flock Around, a cooperative Steam title built entirely around bird-watching. Players explore charming biomes with cameras and binoculars, hunting down American bird species and chasing the dopamine hit of a perfect three-star photograph. Shiny bird variants add surprising excitement to what might sound like a gentle pastime. Kelsey also returned to Pokémon GO after a two-year break, pulled back in by the 2026 GO Fest event and a lucky shiny Kyogre catch — much to the quiet exasperation of friends forced to spectate impromptu pub Gym Battles.