The PS5 provides a more immersive gaming experience than players can find on PC. At least, that's according to Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodhunt developer Sharkmob.

Speaking to VG247 , Vampire Bloodhunt’s technical director Anders Holmquist was quizzed on why the studio opted to choose the PS5 as its lead platform and shared some interesting opinions on Sony’s current system.

When asked why Sharkmob chose PS5 over PC as the lead development platform, Holmquist praised the PS5’s technology and how it handles open-world games in particular.

“I think the PS5 is, right now, the market leader and Sony has some really, really nice technology – especially for an open-world game like Bloodhunt, where you can't keep the entire map loaded at the same time, and you need to stream part of the city in and out,” Holmquist said. “And I think, for example, the [UI] improvements that are done on PS5 – you can do some really clever stuff with that just to get the streaming to be fast enough.”

Holmquist was then asked what impact the PS5’s hardware, like the DualSense controller’s haptic feedback and adaptive triggers , has on the player.

“I think there's a lot of in-your-face functionality with the lights on the controller, and the adaptive triggers make it a lot more immersive,” Holquist said. “You feel that you're in the game, I think a lot more than when you're playing with the mouse and keyboard (which is a bit static in comparison).

“So I think that makes quite a lot of difference, and then just in general the performance on the PS5 is quite impressive, to be honest.”

Is the PS5 really more immersive than PC gaming?

There’s no denying that the PS5 DualSense controller adds an extra layer of immersion to games. We’ve seen the controller used to great effect in games like Gran Turismo 7 and Astro’s Playroom , so it’s probably fair to say that playing on a mouse and keyboard doesn’t offer the same type of experience.

However, while I’m personally a huge fan of sitting on the couch and playing games on a large 4K TV while wearing a set of headphones, PC gaming obviously has a few benefits of its own. Ultra-wide monitors can really heighten your immersion, while more powerful gaming rigs can provide higher frame rates and graphical fidelity.

While not every game supports the controller's haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, you can always use a PS5 DualSense controller on a PC . Sony recently released a firmware updater tool , so you don’t need to even own the console to get the latest improvements for PS5’s pad.

Google Workspace update will stop you hogging all the cloud storage capacity

If you're an admin at a large organization, then you know the pain of managing cloud storage : someone has uploaded an entire TV show, someone never deletes anything, and so on.

Thankfully, Google is trying to make the task a bit less of a headache for Google Workspace customers.

In a blog post , Google has laid out a set of pretty sweeping changes to how much control admins can enjoy over cloud storage .

In the Admin Console, admins can view a usage summary for the entire organization; product-specific usage, such as for Docs or Gmail; the top users of storage in the organization; and storage taken up by shared files.

On top of this, admins can now manage and delete shared drives based on storage usage (with some pretty granular controls), apply limits for specific users, and access detailed reports on storage usage.

Basically, it's music to the ears of anyone that manages a big network of employees.

Admins will also be getting more control over who can access different types of storage and why, something currently only super admins can do.

The changes add some much-needed features for organizations using Google Workspace, especially as Google plans on competing with Microsoft and other enterprise software makers.

More storage for you

Storage is one of the silent annoyances for anyone running an enterprise tech stack: you only get so much, and employees loving using it.

Google's Workspace plans offer up to 5TB of storage for £13.80 per user per month, which is a pretty generous limit, but over the years these things can get filled up, especially when working on huge files.

Google has been working hard to make Workspace and Google Cloud the go-to destination for large enterprise, with some success.

By introducing improved admin tools, Google is making Workspace more attractive to exactly the right group of employees.

Disney may have just ruined one of its biggest franchises

Disney Plus has been nothing short of a blessing for several Disney-owned franchises, but the streaming service may have just condemned a once-beloved movie series to the grave.

While the likes of Marvel and Star Wars have profited hugely from various Disney Plus spin-offs in recent years, the latest Ice Age instalment has left both fans and critics seriously cold.

Released on January 28 as a straight-to-streaming original movie, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild has been described as a “sad turning point” for a franchise that has generated in excess of $6 billion in revenue (for now-Disney subsidiary 20th Century Studios) over the past two decades.

Just look at the replies to this tweet, shared by the Disney Plus official Twitter account, promoting the new film:

“An excellent franchise completely destroyed in just over an hour. Congratulations.” one user wrote, while another described The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild as the “worst movie of the year.” Ouch.

“[I] didn’t even get through to the 30-minute stage, just awful,” and “wrong voices, wrong animation, boring story,” were among the other scathing criticisms.

The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild hasn’t fared any better with critics, either. According to Rotten Tomatoes , the movie has just a 17% critics rating, with many commentators taking aim at its lackluster storytelling, poor voice work and cheap-looking animation.

“While I know I'm not the target audience, I still shouldn't have loathed every second I spent watching The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild,” MovieFreak’s Sara Michelle Fetters wrote.

Similarly unimpressed, the Associated Press ’ Mark Kennedy said of the movie: “Visually and storytelling-wise it's not a cut above much of what kids can watch on TV these days. This is a franchise that looks like it's slowly going the way of the dinos.”

The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild is the sixth feature-length Ice Age film after Ice Age (2002), Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016).

Granted, none of the franchise’s recent entries have been particularly well-received, but they did all at least feature the same consistently brilliant voice cast that made the original Ice Age movie so popular.

So, despite the re-appearance of beloved characters Manny, Sid and Diego, there’s no sign of voice actors John Leguizamo, Ray Romano or Dennis Leary in The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild – Simon Pegg is the only returnee, as the titular weasel.

Tellingly, the new movie is also the first in the Ice Age franchise to have been made without the involvement of Blue Sky Studios, hence its unfamiliar (and evidently unpopular) animation style.

A history of franchise-killing

Of course, it’s unlikely that one bad movie would sound the death knell for a two-decades-spanning franchise – especially one as lucrative as Ice Age – but Disney has a history of producing poorly-received sequels to animated classics.

Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, for instance, sapped audience interest in any future instalments featuring the once-beloved cast of characters from the 1992 original movie. Despite the return of voice actors Scott Weinger and Linda Larkin, this 1994 made-for-video sequel (the first of its kind) was panned by critics for its inferior production values and forgettable songs.

Genie voice actor Robin Williams was summoned back for a third Aladdin movie, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, in 1996, but the magic of the franchise had long since disappeared – and audiences wouldn’t see another Disney-produced Aladdin feature until 2019’s live-action remake.

It remains to be seen whether the scathing response to The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild condemns the Ice Age franchise to the grave, but the movie’s executive producer, Lori Forte, has nonetheless expressed an interest in future instalments.

She told ScreenRant , "We hope that people will respond to this [movie], and that [this] will promote us to be able to do another movie. If the audiences want it, we've got plenty of ideas. There's no end to ideas and adventures and characters, so we're ready if they're ready."

By the looks of things, though, audiences have had quite enough of Buck Wild – and potentially Ice Age as a whole.