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PC Gamer
Rich Stanton

28 years later, hero modder gives Wipeout's godawful PC port the amazing shine-up it deserves

Wipeout car going down the track.

In recent years Sony has woken up to the fact that, surprise surprise, it can make a lot of money by releasing decent versions of its games on PC. The core of its business will always be the PlayStation platform, so we're just gonna have to deal with waiting a couple of years (or in Bloodborne's case, forever), but the mood music has changed completely and that's great, because PlayStation makes a lot of top-tier games.

Funnily enough, this is also something of a return to PlayStation's earliest days. Sony became incredibly protective of its exclusives after the original PlayStation, but greenlit many of that console's most emblematic exclusives to release a PC version. One of them was Wipeout from the late great Psygnosis, except… well, the PC version was a bit rubbish (here's some YouTube footage of it running via emulator).

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