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Sunday20th Sep 2015
TGS 2015 PS4's Horizon: Zero Dawn Dazzles in Stage Demo
Ahoy Aloy
Horizon: Zero Dawn's one of those rare Western games that we reckon has a shot at doing extremely well in Japan, and Sony seems to have recognised that. The platform holder prepared a massive stage demo for the title at TGS 2015 this week, which consisted of a fresh playthrough of the E3 2015 sequence. If you thought that the five minute...
Monday14th Sep 2015
News Guerrilla Games Almost Made a Game Based on H.G. Wells' The Time Machine
Back to the future
Back when Horizon: Zero Dawn was first announced, this author suggested that protagonist Aloy's name may have been inspired by the Eloi in H.G. Wells' legendary novel, The Time Machine. Well, gleeful back slapping aside, it turns out that we were probably right, as Guerrilla Games has revealed that it pitched a project based on...
Tuesday25th Aug 2015
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Has the Best PS4 Clouds Since DriveClub
Silver lining
Forget about games like Crackdown 3 – this right here is the real power of the cloud. As part of a presentation at SIGGRAPH 2015, Dutch developer Guerrilla Games briefly touched upon the volumetric clouds that it'll be including in forthcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn. And while it all gets really technical and a...
Thursday6th Aug 2015
Gamescom 2015 Sony Had Long and Intensive Discussions Over Horizon: Zero Dawn
"Guerrilla Games has been very brave"
Horizon: Zero Dawn has paid off in every possible way for Sony. The game won multiple E3 2015 awards – including one from us – and has shot straight to the top of the pile of many peoples' most anticipated PlayStation 4 exclusives list. But it's been a long and arduous ride up until this point, with SCEE...
Gamescom 2015 PS4 Exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn Targeting 2016 Still
Delay rumours debunked
There were a spate of nasty rumours suggesting that promising PlayStation 4 exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn had been pushed into 2017 yesterday, but Guerrilla Games has debunked the reports, stressing that nothing has changed since E3 2015. "I just wanted to let you all know that we are targeting a 2016 release date," senior...
Wednesday5th Aug 2015
News Phwoar, This Horizon: Zero Dawn PS4 Theme Is a Beauty
Meching the difference
PlayStation Heroes is a monthly initiative that sees most of the proceeds made from the selling of exclusive PlayStation 4 themes donated to charity, and August's theme is a real beauty. Based on upcoming open world mech-'em-up Horizon: Zero Dawn, the skin presents a colourful and detailed backdrop for your new-gen system...
Wednesday29th Jul 2015
Weirdness People Are Already Covering Horizon: Zero Dawn's Soundtrack
We know we weren't the first ones here
Dutch musician Joris de Man may have been missing from Killzone: Shadow Fall, but he's proven that he's still the man by composing Horizon: Zero Dawn's soaring soundtrack. And so affecting has the E3 trailer's short audio snippet proven that people are already taking to YouTube with their own rendition of the...
Friday17th Jul 2015
News Guerrilla Games Thanks the Players for a Very Special E3
A new Horizon
Who won E3 2015? If you really think about it, you may say Guerrilla Games. This is a studio that's bordered on the precipice of something really special for a while, but it never could strike the finishing blow with the Killzone franchise. Seeing it announce two brand new properties in Los Angeles last month was incredibly exciting,...
Thursday9th Jul 2015
News Promising PS4 Exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn Will Pack Social Features
But it's predominantly a single player experience
Horizon: Zero Dawn really struck a chord with consumers and critics at E3 2015 last month, which must have really energised the team at Guerrilla Games. Of course, now that the PlayStation 4 exclusive has been revealed, there are many questions remaining reg
Thursday18th Jun 2015
E3 2015 Thank Heavens Sony Didn't Change Horizon's Protagonist
"Is it risky to do a female character?"
It's a sad reality that some gamers are close-minded – after all, we've all seen what's happened to our wonderful hobby over the past year. But while we're not here to preach to any one of you on this site, we will say that we're glad that Sony and Guerrilla Games stuck to its guns with Horizon: Zero Dawn's...
Wednesday17th Jun 2015
E3 2015 How Much of an RPG Is PS4's Horizon: Zero Dawn?
It's still not entirely clear
Horizon: Zero Dawn, the ambitious new property from Guerrilla Games, dazzled during Sony's big E3 2015 media briefing this week – but we don't actually know a lot about the game. We know that you'll play as Aloy, a young female protagonist from a tribe who's adept at hunting Machines – the robotic creatures who have...
Tuesday16th Jun 2015
E3 2015 Guerrilla Games' Gorgeous PS4 Exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn Is One to Watch
Dutch developer serves up fascinating new PlayStation franchise
If last night's E3 2015 press conference from Sony had been a normal one, we'd probably be all cooing over Horizon: Zero Dawn right now. Sadly for Guerrilla Games, its new intellectual property got overshadowed somewhat by bigger announcements – but take nothing away from the title,...
E3 2015 Horizon: Zero Dawn Is All About Killing Giant, Mechanical Dinosaurs
And it's a PS4 exclusive
We've known that Horizon was in production for about a year now, but actually seeing Guerilla Games' new IP in action has shown us that it very well may be a big hitter for the PlayStation 4. It's clear that Sony has faith in the project, too, as it was the second game to be shown off during its press conference. After...
Saturday13th Jun 2015
E3 2015 Guerrilla Games Registers Domains for PS4 Exclusive Horizon
Robot dinosaurs will seemingly be revealed soon
A new Horizon on the PlayStation 4 awaits, as evidence of the imminent announcement of Guerrilla Games' long-in-development open world role-playing release mounts. The title, which was teased via a series of leaked artwork earlier in the year, now has an official domain name – indi
