Commander Fury

Name: PlayStation - Layers of Fear - Official Launch Trailer | PS5 Games Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/16/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Layers of Fear - Official Launch Trailer | PS5 Games PlayStation - Layers of Fear - Official Launch Trailer | PS5 Games

Name: PlayStation - EA Sports PGA Tour - U.S. Open at LACC Trailer | PS5 Games Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/16/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury EA Sports PGA Tour - U.S. Open at LACC Trailer | PS5 Games PlayStation - EA Sports PGA Tour - U.S. Open at LACC Trailer | PS5 Games

Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or RSS, or download here This week the team talks Summer Game Fest 2023 and discusses their hands-on time with the upcoming Mortal Kombat 1. Plus the team gets into Diablo IV and the sinister legacy of the classic franchise. Stuff We Talked About Final Fantasy XVI Crash Team Rumble (w/ Wumpa deep-dive) PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for June + PS5 Game Streaming news update for Premium members Summer Game Fest 2023 Mortal Kombat 1 hands-on report (starts at 6:35) Diablo IV The Cast View and download image Download the image close Close Download this image Sid Shuman – Senior Director of Content Communications, SIE View and download image Download the image close Close Download this image Tim Turi – Manager, Content Communications, SIE Thanks to Cory Schmitz for our beautiful logo and Dormilón for our rad theme song and show music. [Editor’s note: PSN game release dates are subject to change without notice. Game details are gathered from press releases from their individual publishers and/or ESRB rating descriptions.] View the full article

Name: XBox - Xbox Games Showcase & Starfield Direct Highlights + MORE! | This Week on Xbox Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/16/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Xbox Games Showcase & Starfield Direct Highlights + MORE! | This Week on Xbox XBox - Xbox Games Showcase & Starfield Direct Highlights + MORE! | This Week on Xbox

Name: PlayStation - Park Beyond - Gameplay Launch Trailer | PS5 Games Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/16/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Park Beyond - Gameplay Launch Trailer | PS5 Games PlayStation - Park Beyond - Gameplay Launch Trailer | PS5 Games

Name: PlayStation - SURV1V3 - Launch Trailer | PS VR2 Games Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/16/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury SURV1V3 - Launch Trailer | PS VR2 Games PlayStation - SURV1V3 - Launch Trailer | PS VR2 Games

Last week, we asked you to find shiny things in the game of your choice, sharing using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: ps5_raz shares a shiny golden helmet in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey secondcapture shares Rivet with a shiny glowing gadget in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart danliest shares Aloy swimming amongst shiny glowing bioluminescent plants in Horizon Forbidden West TheFourthFocus shares the shiny fender of a silver car in GT7 Mur4dQ shares the shiny dog and weapons of the humans in Humanity imroyank shares a shiny butterfly in Fortnite. Search #PSshare #PSBlog on Twitter or Instagram to see more entries to this week’s theme. Want to be featured in the next Share of the Week? THEME: The Last of Us SUBMIT BY: 11:59 PM PT on June 21, 2023 Next week, we’re celebrating ten years of The Last of Us. Share your favorite moment from the series using #PSshare #PSBlog for a chance to be featured. View the full article

Before Escape Academy, Coin Crew Games produced location-based entertainment (LBE) experiences such as escape rooms and arcade cabinets. Producing an escape room called Space Squad in Space is how Wyatt Bushnell and Mike Salyh met, placing them on the path to founding Coin Crew Games. The original goal for the studio was to design casual arcade experiences for large groups of friends to have some friendly competition. These first arcade cabinets took the shape of the licensed racing machine Hot Wheels: King of the Road and Coin Crew Game’s first original title, Battle Bowling. Battle Bowling pits up to four people against each other who must frantically spin a large orb to navigate a hazardous track and knock over the most pins. It will bowl your mind. During the development of our third cabinet, the pandemic struck, forcing the closure of physical entertainment spaces. We figured out how to translate our talent and experience into a digital title. This exploration brought us to the idea of bringing the escape room experience to the digital space. And thus, Escape Academy was born! The difference in physical versus digital and making the transition Unlike most digital titles, physical experiences range from three to sixty minutes, so a key component is ensuring the game is immediately understandable with zero tutorialization. Players need to understand the objective simply by looking at the cabinet. Becoming practiced at simplicity was a key component in making Escape Academy accessible. In the case of Hot Wheels: King of the Road, the goal is simple. Outdrive your friends and be the first to the finish line. Regarding puzzle design, an essential component is building clues and ways for players to deduce the solution. In real-life escape rooms, everything is a potential clue at first glance, so players spend much of the experience inspecting objects to determine their relevance to the puzzles. To recreate this digitally, every object in the environment must be programmed as an interactable, which posed a challenge scope-wise. This engineering limitation made us decide to be very selective about what pieces of the environment became interactable, which afforded us much control over guiding the player’s path through the room. This was a critical way that balanced our rooms and ensured that all the puzzles remained accessible instead of overwhelming. Naturally, this “balancing” process takes some trial and error. However, Coin Crew Games had already established a rigorous playtesting regiment for their physical experiences which was another essential part of the process needing a digital translation. In the past, we would observe people playing and note how they moved through the space, their body posture, and how many quarters they put into the machine. The shift to digital evolved into running 2-6 playtests a week while the players’ screen shared their game view and team members observed the play patterns. We encouraged our playtesters to discuss their thought processes while solving puzzles to hone in on misleading clues. Art and environment Operating in the digital space allows for immense latitude in environment design because the laws of physics, space constraints, or pesky safety waivers no longer restrain us. However, we had to establish certain pillars around our environment design to service the gameplay and keep things focused. The most important principle we established was to have the setting of each room allow for varied but thematically consistent puzzles. Placing a computer-based, binary cipher in the cafeteria wouldn’t feel right thematically, and placing an entire escape room level inside the janitor’s closet wouldn’t allow for a deep pool of diverse puzzles. Pictured above is the level “Escape Artist,” which was themed around art class, unlocking the ability to lean into spatial reasoning and other visually driven puzzles. Another piece of escape room design that digital environments allowed for flexibility in was the rooms’ “ticking clocks,” aka the in-universe reason for there to be a time limit. Things such as the flooding tower or the burning library are ticking clocks that are only possible in the video game medium. After confirming that a room’s theming could adequately supply the puzzle design space, narrative and puzzle teams worked together to establish exciting stakes that could be represented in level through art, sound, and the story. Iteration and expansion The ability to update, iterate, and respond to feedback within the product itself is yet another vast boon that digital titles offer, and it’s one we’ve done our best to take advantage of in a myriad of different ways. In the case of our upcoming DLC, Escape from the Past, we’re telling a prequel story centered around a whodunnit at the Academy that gives the player agency over the mystery itself. Without giving players a chance to solve the case in level, we feared the “whodunnit” would feel unsatisfying. This challenge forced us to push our escape room mechanics to their limits. We explored ways to give our players agency in the mystery and enmesh the narrative more tightly with the puzzles to lean into the premise. This resulted in hiding related clues throughout all levels, allowing players to identify the culprit. We also developed a new mechanic that features a branching sequence in the final level that takes players on a different puzzle path depending on which faculty member they accuse of being the culprit. We’re not going anywhere After releasing our first digital title, the Coin Crew Games team was delighted to be met with such a warm welcome to the indie development scene. The interactions with players, developers, and the PlayStation Indies team have been stellar, and we can’t wait to keep working with everyone to build exciting digital experiences that leverage our physical background. Don’t forget to keep your eyes peeled for Escape Academy: Escape from the Past, releasing June 19, and future Escape Academy updates. View the full article

Name: PlayStation - Moving Out 2 - Release Date Announcement Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/16/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Moving Out 2 - Release Date Announcement Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games PlayStation - Moving Out 2 - Release Date Announcement Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games

SEGA is pleased to announce that Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is slated for release on Nov. 9, 2023 Pre-orders are now available and the first official trailer for the game has been released. Pre-order for the PlayStation® Store will start at a later date. A brand-new title that depicts Kazuma Kiryu’s story after the events of Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. Featuring improved combat, new stages, and characters, an abundance of entertaining minigames, and a star-studded cast! Story An Untold Story from Kazuma Kiryu’s Point of View – What must you sacrifice to protect the ones you love? Having faked his own death to protect his loved ones, Kazuma Kiryu, the once-renowned yakuza, now lives in obscurity. He occasionally receives missions as a secret agent for the Daidoji Faction, a shadowy organization that once operated as a fixer for the government. Kiryu’s very existence is kept a closely guarded secret within Daidoji. There he languishes away each day in his self-imposed solitude. Until one day, somebody arrives to drag Kiryu back into the fold. ULTIMATE COMBAT WITH TWO HIGH-IMPACT FIGHTING STYLES Dynamically switch between the Yakuza and Agent fighting styles in visceral melee combat. With the Yakuza Style, strike fear into enemies by unleashing wildly aggressive moves powered by Kiryu’s unparalleled strength and flair. Alternatively, up the ante with the Agent Style by delivering blows with absolute speed and precision, while using an array of high-tech gadgets like electrified bind wires to stun enemies and then send them flying. Strategically adapt to the situation and leverage both styles to dominate and destroy hordes of enemies. *Images may vary from the final product. Cast Kazuma Kiryu（Takaya Kuroda） Kosei Shishido（Yasukaze Motomiya） Yuki Tsuruno（Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi） Akame（First Summer Uika） Homare Nishitani III（Kim Jaeuck） Kihei Hanawa（Hiroki Tochi）　 　　 Location Sotenbori, Osaka Sotenbori, Osaka serves as the main setting of the game. Isezaki Ijincho, Yokohama Product Information: TitleLike a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His NameRelease Date11/9/2023 (Thu)PlatformPlayStation®5 / PlayStation®4 .LanguageSubtitle: English / Voice: JapaneseWebsitehttps://ryu-ga-gotoku.com/gaiden/asia_en/CopyrightⒸSEGA View the full article

Name: XBox - Halo Infinite | Season 4 Launch Trailer Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Halo Infinite | Season 4 Launch Trailer XBox - Halo Infinite | Season 4 Launch Trailer

Name: PlayStation - Secret Neighbor - Summer Camp Trailer | PS4 Games Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Secret Neighbor - Summer Camp Trailer | PS4 Games PlayStation - Secret Neighbor - Summer Camp Trailer | PS4 Games

Name: PlayStation - Minecraft - The Incredibles Launch Trailer | PS4 Games Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Minecraft - The Incredibles Launch Trailer | PS4 Games PlayStation - Minecraft - The Incredibles Launch Trailer | PS4 Games

Name: PlayStation - Tekken 7 | Road to Evo Top 8 NA | PlayStation Esports Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Tekken 7 | Road to Evo Top 8 NA | PlayStation Esports PlayStation - Tekken 7 | Road to Evo Top 8 NA | PlayStation Esports

Name: PlayStation - Tekken 7 | Road to Evo Top 8 EU | PlayStation Esports Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Tekken 7 | Road to Evo Top 8 EU | PlayStation Esports PlayStation - Tekken 7 | Road to Evo Top 8 EU | PlayStation Esports

Name: XBox - Atlas Fallen - Gameplay Overview Trailer Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Atlas Fallen - Gameplay Overview Trailer XBox - Atlas Fallen - Gameplay Overview Trailer

Name: PlayStation - Guilty Gear -Strive- | Road to Evo Top 8 EU | PlayStation Esports Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Guilty Gear -Strive- | Road to Evo Top 8 EU | PlayStation Esports PlayStation - Guilty Gear -Strive- | Road to Evo Top 8 EU | PlayStation Esports

Name: PlayStation - Crossfire Sierra Squad - Summer Game Fest Trailer | PS VR2 Games Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Crossfire Sierra Squad - Summer Game Fest Trailer | PS VR2 Games PlayStation - Crossfire Sierra Squad - Summer Game Fest Trailer | PS VR2 Games

Name: PlayStation - Guilty Gear -Strive- | Road to Evo Top 8 NA | PlayStation Esports Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Guilty Gear -Strive- | Road to Evo Top 8 NA | PlayStation Esports PlayStation - Guilty Gear -Strive- | Road to Evo Top 8 NA | PlayStation Esports

Name: PlayStation - Final Fantasy XVI - Next Gen Immersion Trailer | PS5 Games Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Final Fantasy XVI - Next Gen Immersion Trailer | PS5 Games PlayStation - Final Fantasy XVI - Next Gen Immersion Trailer | PS5 Games

Name: XBox - Crime Boss: Rockay City Launch Trailer Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Crime Boss: Rockay City Launch Trailer XBox - Crime Boss: Rockay City Launch Trailer

Name: PlayStation - F1 23 - Launch Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury F1 23 - Launch Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games PlayStation - F1 23 - Launch Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games

Name: PlayStation - 4 new games coming to PS VR2 in the near future ⏱️ 🕹️ 😱 🐯 Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury 4 new games coming to PS VR2 in the near future ⏱️ 🕹️ 😱 🐯 PlayStation - 4 new games coming to PS VR2 in the near future ⏱️ 🕹️ 😱 🐯

Name: PlayStation - MLB The Show 23 - June Live Content Report | PS5 & PS4 Games Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury MLB The Show 23 - June Live Content Report | PS5 & PS4 Games PlayStation - MLB The Show 23 - June Live Content Report | PS5 & PS4 Games

Name: PlayStation - Aliens: Dark Descent - Story Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games Category: Gaming Industry Videos Date Added: 06/15/2023 Submitter: Commander Fury Aliens: Dark Descent - Story Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games PlayStation - Aliens: Dark Descent - Story Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games