Okami 2 Studio Won’t Limit Itself To Sequels And Existing IP

The next project could be “entirely new”. The new Clovers Studio, led by video game industry legend Hideki Kamiya, won’t be limited to “existing IP”. Speaking to Japanese publication GameSpark, Kamiya and his former PlatinumGames colleague Kento Koyama mentioned how just because Clovers was starting with a sequel to Okami, didn’t mean it would necessarily…

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‘Creepy,’ ‘ghastly,’ ‘rancid’: Viewers react to leaked video of Sony’s AI-powered Aloy

The Verge has shared a leaked Sony PlayStation video demonstrating an AI-powered version of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West taking part in a conversation with Sharwin Raghoebardajal, a director of software engineering at SIE. The video, which has since been taken down under a copyright claim, featured Aloy responding to questions from Raghoebardajal and showing…

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I’m not sure what’s weirder: that someone made a sequel to a completely forgettable 37-year-old game I played as a kid, or that it was actually worth the wait

I do love it when a retro game makes an unexpected comeback, and games don’t get much more retro than Beyond the Ice Palace. It’s been decades since the game—so old one version of it was sold on tape—made its debut, and now a sequel’s appeared, boldly calling itself Beyond the Ice Palace 2 as…

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