With the announcement and reveal of God of War: Ascension, Sony Santa Monica opened its doors, allowing a handful of journalists access to a legacy that’s been cemented since the studio’s inception in 1999. We spoke to Sony Santa Monica founder Shannon Studstill about that history — the past, present and future of Sony’s flagship video game studio.
The official God of War: Ascension listing has the upcoming action-adventure game slated for a (northern) spring 2013 release. One player only! [Sony via @JimReilly]
Whoops-a-daisie! It looks as though Amazon has gone and leaked the existence of a brand new God of War game for the PlayStation 3, titled God of War: Ascension.
At least that’s what some people seem to think when looking at this teaser for a teaser. Kratos did want vengeance and was in need of redemption, after all. We’ll all know if Kratos is coming back for more blood and fornication next week.
It took more than five years, but Bit of War, which is God of War reduced to an 8-bit style platformer, is finally out, and it’s available for the low, low price of zilch.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that David Jaffe, the mind behind God of War and Twisted Metal, is leaving Eat Sleep Play, the company he helped create. [Salt Lake Tribune]
An article in the January 2012 issue of UK magazine PSM3 suggests a fourth major instalment in the successful PlayStation-exclusive God Of War series is incoming later this year and will feature online co-op.
Artist J Salvador has a series of pictures where he takes famous pop culture icons and makes them sad little children. It’s touching stuff, especially when Nathan Drake and his soaked feline are concerned.
Darwin Yamamoto’s not that different than other gamers. He spends a lot of time looking at the faces — or, more accurately, the backs — of the medium’s heroes and heroines as they open up new worlds on his TV screen. But Yamamoto’s also an artist and user experience designer who’s done work on the look of Valve’s Steam platform and for various Microsoft products like Bing.
