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Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida told Clair Obscur devs to not call it a ‘turn-based RPG’ so people wouldn’t ‘overlook’ it

According to former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida, turn-based RPGs, particularly JRPGs, were so unpopular several years ago that he would tell indie developers to avoid using the term altogether in their marketing—even for a game like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Yoshida recalled giving the Clair Obscur developers this advice during a lecture at the Busan…

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PlayStation Blogcast 268: A Show of Hands

Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Google or RSS, or download here We’re finally back! On today’s show, Ryan and Justin return to the studio after a busy month leading into Paris Games Week. With the hustle and bustle behind them, Justin shares his final thoughts on the showcase, from the delightful surprise of Spelunky 2 to…

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As Wardogs blows past 200k Steam concurrents, its developers are prepared for the day ‘hype dies down’

The way our hobby talks about player counts is all sorts of messed up. Steam concurrents are a useful metric for gauging a game’s general popularity, but they paint an incomplete picture. They’re a single data point, yet have become the flimsy scaffolding on which the internet builds elaborate headcanon about a game’s quality, viability,…

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FromSoftware sleuth unearths earliest footage of Demon’s Souls to date: A prototype with a first person camera mode

Seasoned FromSoftware investigator Lance McDonald has shared a recently uncovered early internal showcase of Demon’s Souls, FromSoft’s crucial pivot point between King’s Field and Dark Souls, and the progenitor of its own subgenre. The demonstration consists of a PowerPoint presentation deck and early gameplay trailer. It was shown at “Gameshare 4,” an internal Sony event…

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