Horizon News (Page 6)
Rumour Could Horizon: Zero Dawn Point Its Bow at PSVR?
Aloy's Crossbow Training
Wild rumour: London Studio is following up its success on PlayStation VR exclusive Blood & Truth with a virtual reality adaptation of Horizon: Zero Dawn. That’s according to Twitter pundit Callum Hurley, who’s worked in-and-around the VR scene for several years, having previously held roles at Oculus among others...
Feature How We Think Horizon: Zero Dawn 2 Will Champion PS5's Biggest New Features
Guerrilla's sequel primed to be the face of PS5
We're in an exciting time for PlayStation. While Sony itself is behaving rather reclusively about its next-gen machine, details about PS5 are starting to emerge. Wired recently revealed a few morsels of information, detailing some of the new bells and whistles that will take
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Developer Guerrilla Games Is in Sweden to Do Motion Capture Work
Horizon: Zero Dawn 2?
Guerrilla Games, the Dutch developer that brought us Horizon: Zero Dawn and the Killzone series, is hard at work behind the scenes and has been for a number of years. One of Sony's key first-party studios, Guerrilla is presumably prepping a sequel to the aforementioned open world adventure, and so news of the company's latest...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn's Aloy Is Returning to Monster Hunter World with Iceborne Crossover
She even gets a bowgun
There's already a PlayStation 4 exclusive Aloy skin in Monster Hunter World, but it looks like the fiery-haired warrior is returning for another round when Monster Hunter World: Iceborne hits in September. Capcom's announced that a second Aloy armour set and weapon will be up for grabs in the expansion, and it seems like a...
News Star Wars Actress: You're Gonna Die When You See Horizon: Zero Dawn's Sequel
"I know some secrets"
It looks like Guerrilla Games is working on a multiplayer title, but the colossal Dutch studio is big enough to support multiple projects now, and we suspect few of you will be surprised to learn that it’s beavering away on a follow-up to the wildly successful Horizon: Zero Dawn. Speaking at a Star Wars convention, actress...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Sells Over 10 Million Copies Worldwide in Two Years
A storm is coming
One day, someone will write a textbook about how to successfully launch a new intellectual property, and Horizon: Zero Dawn will be the primary case study. From the minute this game was announced and Aloy was introduced to the world, the enthusiasm was off-the-charts – and developer Guerrilla Games met the hype head-on,...
News PUBG Celebrates Horizon: Zero Dawn's Second Anniversary with Skins
Total Eclipse of the heart
Horizon: Zero Dawn is fast approaching its second anniversary, and to commemorate the occasion, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is adding a bunch of new content based on Guerrilla Games’ iconic open world game. Starting from 5th March through 5th April, you’ll be able to unlock the following content in Bluehole’s...
News AI Analysis of Horizon: Zero Dawn Finds Machines on Their Own Will Request to Join Herds
Strength in numbers
The artificial intelligence found in Horizon: Zero Dawn's robo-dinosaurs is undeniably great, but this little tidbit caught our attention. A new report on Gamasutra puts the spotlight on Guerrilla's AI tech, focusing on how the machines act alone or in a group, and it seems that lone robots will seek out herds and ask to join...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Board Game Is Looking Great as Kickstarter Draws to a Close
Three days to go
A little while ago we reported on the official board game version of Horizon: Zero Dawn, but details were thin on the ground. Jumping onto its Kickstarter page now reveals a whole host of information regarding the tabletop adaptation of Guerrilla's latest and greatest. It's also comfortably met its goal three times over, but if you...
News PlayStation Devs Offer Up Some Amazing Artwork to Celebrate Spider-Man PS4
Spidey and friends
Phwoar, right click save image! To celebrate the release of Marvel's Spider-Man, two of Sony's first party studios have crafted some brilliant artwork. The one above is from Horizon: Zero Dawn developer Guerrilla Games, and features Aloy alongside Kratos, Atreus, and Spidey himself. Super cool. God of War developer...
News Nintendo Switch Port Specialists Wish They Could Convert Horizon: Zero Dawn
Let 'em dream
Port house Panic Button is making a name for itself on the Nintendo Switch by converting “console” games like Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and Warframe to the handheld device. And in an interview with Comicbook.com, the studio admitted that there’s one particular title it’d love to have a crack at: Guerrilla Games’...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn to Conquer the Tabletop with Official Board Game
Roll the dice
Horizon: Zero Dawn received more merchandise than a top-flight football team prior to its release, so you can bet your bottom dollar that now it’s a bonafide megahit, Sony’s doubling down on all sorts of token tat. To be fair, this new board game from Steamforged Games – created in collaboration with Guerrilla Games –...
News Bloodborne and Horizon Sequels Touted for E3 2018, But Don't Get Your Hopes Up
Speculation seems far-fetched
It was inevitable, wasn’t it? Sony telegraphed exactly what fans can expect from its E3 2018 press conference this year, but here we are dismissing rumours regarding Bloodborne 2 and a Horizon: Zero Dawn sequel. You may have seen this headline doing the rounds overnight; it all seems to stem from a
News Horizon Dev Shares Some Cool God of War Crossover Art
Congratulates Sony Santa Monica
At this point we all know that Sony's first party studios have great relationships with one another, sharing tech and support whenever they can. In particular, Horizon: Zero Dawn and Killzone developer Guerrilla Games is always quick to react to a new game's launch, and the Dutch studio's done it again with the...
News Celebrate Horizon: Zero Dawn's Anniversary with Free Theme, Avatars
Ava look
Horizon: Zero Dawn is a year old, and in addition to some truly sublime sales figures, Guerrilla Games is celebrating with some free goodies for fans. Available tomorrow from the PlayStation Store, the Dutch developer has prepared a Dynamic Theme for the PlayStation 4, featuring some of the best Photo Mode snaps shared by the community...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Sells a Stunning 7.6 Million Units
Guerrilla Games' RPG blows up big time
Wow! We already knew Guerrilla Games’ sci-fi role-playing release Horizon: Zero Dawn was a big success, but not to this extent. Sony has announced on the title’s one year anniversary that it’s sold 7.6 million units since its launch in 2017, making it the most successful “new first-party franchise” on...
Game of the Year 2017 #3 - Horizon: Zero Dawn
Thunderjaw dropping
It still seems crazy to think that the studio responsible for the Killzone series, a PlayStation mainstay for well over a decade, would make such a creative leap. From a dingy first-person shooter series of fluctuating quality to a vast, vibrant open world RPG, rarely do we see studios of Guerrilla’s size and reputation stray...
News Hideo Kojima Cameos in Horizon: Zero Dawn's Complete Edition Trailer
That was unexpected
Here’s a trailer for Horizon: Zero Dawn’s Complete Edition, which is out this week and includes the recently released Frozen Wilds expansion pack. And oh look, here’s Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima telling us it’s “truly impressive” in Japanese. And here’s Siobhan Reddy from Media Molecule dropping swears that...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Leads the Way with Five Nominations at The Game Awards
Aloy time
The Game Awards has just announced its list of nominees for the upcoming show on 7th December, and Horizon: Zero Dawn has come out on top with five nominations. Aloy's adventure is nominated in the following categories: Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, and Best Action/Adventure Game. Elsewhere,...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Gets an All-New Action Figure
But it’s only available in the US and Canada
Are you an avid Horizon: Zero Dawn collector looking for more ways to fill-out your shelf space? If so, then you may be interested in a new figurine recently announced by PlayStation last night. The new figure features a stunning sculpture of none other than the heroine herself Aloy, and is...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn's The Frozen Wilds Adds 21 Trophies
Bling
Horizon: Zero Dawn’s first (and last?) expansion pack The Frozen Wilds launches next week, and Guerrilla Games has released the Trophy list ahead of the DLC’s arrival. There are actually a whopping 21 new trinkets to collect here, and they’re split into two sets: Quests and Feats. Essentially, your objective is to complete everything in...
News Horizon: The Frozen Wilds Improves Facial Animations in Conversation
Will take about 15 hours to beat
Horizon: Zero Dawn’s facial animations are lightyears ahead of what you tend to see in the role-playing genre’s best, but they were still the low-point in an otherwise immensely impressive experience. It’s exciting to learn, then, that expansion pack The Frozen Wilds will feature better mo-cap and more dynamic...
PGW 2017 Chill Out with a Minute of Horizon's Frozen Wilds DLC
Cool
Horizon: Zero Dawn’s anticipated expansion The Frozen Wilds releases in little over a week, and here’s another brief look at some gameplay footage from the add-on. In it we see protagonist Aloy in some wintery threads, lacing some modified monsters with all kinds of explosive arrows. It’s looking good, and about what you’d expect...
News Feast Your Eyes on the Frozen Wilds in Horizon: Zero Dawn's DLC
Wrap up warm
Brrrrr! We’d love to say it’s getting hot in here, but these new screenshots of Horizon: Zero Dawn’s fast-approaching expansion The Frozen Wilds are giving us chills. The cool-looking add-on will whisk fiery protagonist Aloy away to a brand new ice-capped landscape, where she’ll encounter new characters – and presumably new...
News Soak Up the Snowy Scenery in Horizon: Zero Dawn's Frozen Wilds
Winter wonder
Brrrr, it’s getting chilly in here. PlayStation Japan has prematurely released a new trailer for Horizon: Zero Dawn’s first major add-on pack, The Frozen Wilds. The clip doesn’t show any real action, instead focusing on the icy locales that Aloy’s post-release adventure will focus on. With the DLC due out in less than a month,...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Complete Edition Confirmed, Comes to PS4 in December
Plus lovely box art
Following on from yesterday's leak, PlayStation has confirmed that Horizon: Zero Dawn will be getting a Complete Edition before the year is out. It'll include the base game along with upcoming expansion, The Frozen Wilds. The company also revealed the package's cool looking box art, which we've embedded below. Horizon:...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Seems to Be Getting a Game of the Year Edition
Robots re-issued
Horizon: Zero Dawn hasn’t really been out long enough to win any awards yet, but it looks like that won’t stop Sony from shipping a Game of the Year edition of the popular role-playing release prior to the holidays. The expected news comes courtesy of an errant Play-Asia listing, which has since been promptly pulled. Probably...
Soapbox Why PS4's Big 2017 Titles Handle Female Leads the Right Way
Sammy's gabbing on about girl power
I don’t care whether your game stars a lady or a Lombax: I just love good characters. It just so happens that two of my favourite characters in 2017 have been females – and they’ve both been at the beating heart of two of the PlayStation 4’s biggest exclusives. I’m, of course, referring to Aloy from...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Update Lowers the Difficulty for Casual Fans
All the fun, less frustration
Horizon: Zero Dawn has been a hit with hardcore gamers – but it’s also resonated with more casual players, too. Aloy is an outstanding character who’s pulled all kinds of players in, but not everyone’s able to beat Bloodborne with their elbows while wearing a blindfold. As such, Guerrilla Games is prepping the...
News Funko Announces Horizon: Zero Dawn Pop! Figurines
Vinyl fantasy
Any franchise with a modicum of mainstream success is guaranteed its own line of bulbous Funko figurines, and Horizon: Zero Dawn is the latest property to get the Pop! vinyl treatment. Naturally, red-headed protagonist Aloy is one of the characters you’ll be able to buy, but she’s joined by that most memorable of companions, Erend...
News Travel to Horizon: Zero Dawn's Frozen Wilds on 7th November
Guerrilla Games dates DLC
Mark your calendar: anticipated Horizon: Zero Dawn expansion The Frozen Wilds will chill out from 7th November in both Europe and North America. The new DLC – which will add an entire new area and storyline, as well as alter the existing open world
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Patch 1.30 Adds New Game Plus, Bonus Trophies
Incorporates face paint options and Focus customisation
Guerrilla Games’ post-release Horizon: Zero Dawn support has been nothing short of sensational, and despite first expansion Frozen Wilds being the focus of the Dutch developer’s attention right now, the studio’s still found time to patch some oft-requested features into the main game. If...
E3 2017 Horizon's Frozen Wilds Will Alter the Existing Open World
There'll also be new machines and weapons
Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has hinted that we can expect Horizon: Zero Dawn’s first expansion – named The Frozen Wilds – to alter the state of the existing open world: “I understand there are some things happening in the original world as well,” he said. “[There's] a new area...
E3 2017 Horizon: Zero Dawn's Frozen Wilds Will Add a New Area and Story
Oy, Aloy
The first expansion for Horizon: Zero Dawn – which is named Frozen Wilds – will add a “brand new area with its own compelling story”. That’s according to Guerrilla Games bigwig Hermen Hulst on the PlayStation Blog, who added that fans can anticipate new adventures and side-activities to boot. The add-on is available to pre-order...
Gallery Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds PS4 Screenshots Are Well Chill
Stay frosty
Horizon: Zero Dawn is getting its first proper expansion pack, The Frozen Wilds – and Sony’s released the first batch of screenshots for the forthcoming wintery affair. Feast your eyes on these: <screenshots game="games/ps4/horizon_zero_dawn_the_frozen_wilds" today="true" limit="0"> Will you be wrapping up warm with this...
E3 2017 Horizon Zero Dawn Gets Its First Expansion Later This Year
Entitled The Frozen Wilds
Hungry for more Horizon: Zero Dawn? Well, you're in luck: Sony announced a new downloadable expansion named The Frozen Wilds, and it's out this year. The trailer doesn't exactly reveal much about the content, but it looks like it could feature new mysteries and unveil new answers. That mountain looks particularly ominous...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Has Been a Colossal Hit for Sony
The robo-dinos deliver
Launching brand new franchises is always a risky business, but Horizon: Zero Dawn has been an enormous success for Sony. After selling over 2.6 million units within its first two weeks on store shelves, the Guerrilla Games developed action role-playing release has now hit 3.4 million units as of 30th April. This statistic is...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Developer Recruiting Quest Designers
Ahoy, Aloy
Horizon: Zero Dawn may be one of the best games of the year, but the work never ends at Dutch developer Guerrilla Games. While many studios experience a cooling off period in the aftermath of a big product launch, instead the first-party is currently recruiting quest designers to work on its future projects. We know that production is
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Snaps Up New Photo Mode Features
Map filter also being incorporated
Horizon: Zero Dawn is easily one of the most beautiful games on the PlayStation 4, and capturing that beauty with the title's Photo Mode is a big part of the fun. Guerrilla Games has recognised that, and with the open world role-playing release's next patch, it'll be adding in a ton of new features to help improve...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Patch 1.13 Cleans Up Remaining Complaints
Background music support incorporated
One thing that's perhaps gone unmentioned with regards to Horizon: Zero Dawn is just how polished the experience was at launch. We reviewed the game using unpatched pre-release code – a rarity these days – and we didn't encounter any bugs, glitches, or meaningful gripes. When you consider that the open world...
News Hour-Long Dutch Documentary Explores the Making of Horizon: Zero Dawn
Watch it now
Horizon: Zero Dawn has obviously been a big deal for PlayStation, but it's perhaps easy to overlook just how important the release is for Holland as well. Guerrilla Games is far and away the largest studio in the Netherlands, and not only does the PlayStation 4 exclusive's critical and commercial success reflect well on the company, but...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn 2 Will Likely Have Way, Way More Machines
And will enhance your bond with Aloy
Guerrilla Games seems pretty open that more Horizon: Zero Dawn is on the way, and while it sounds like an expansion pack is in the works, it's also been chatting with Game Informer about a full-blown sequel. Firstly, narrative director John Gonzalez hinted that we can expect the bond between players and...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn's Aloy Looks Incredible in Hama Beads
Beaded brilliance
Remember that gorgeous side-scrolling Horizon: Zero Dawn demake that we posted about a few days ago? Well, now hama bead extraordinaire Dan Silver has transformed it into a glorious work of pixel art hobbycraft. Incredible, right? This isn't the first piece of pixel art that Dan's brought to life using beads, and you can check out...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Still Looks Amazing in Pixel Art
Focus on this
Horizon: Zero Dawn is hands-down one of the best looking video games ever released, but what if it opted for an almost Game Boy Advance-esque aesthetic? That's what this mock-up by Japanese artist Toyaken21 aims to illustrate – and it's got us drooling over some kind of side-scroller starring Aloy as a result. What do you reckon?...
News Guerrilla Already Hard at Work on Expansion to Horizon's Story
No rest for the wicked
Horizon: Zero Dawn has sold incredibly well, becoming Sony's biggest new IP launch of the PlayStation 4 generation and Guerrilla Games' largest ever debut. But buried inside the celebratory press release is this little tidbit from managing director Hermen Hulst: "We're thrilled that Horizon: Zero Dawn has been embraced by...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Has Been a Huge Commercial Hit for Sony
Guerrilla's biggest ever debut sells 2.6 million copies in two weeks
You're looking at the birth of a massive new PlayStation franchise here: Horizon: Zero Dawn has sold 2.6 million units in the two weeks since its release. Those numbers represent copies of the game in consumers' hands, rather than shipped to stores. It makes the game Sony's...
Push Share Photographing the Post-Apocalypse in Horizon: Zero Dawn
Say cheese
Push Share's been on hiatus for well over a year, but we simply had to bring it back for Horizon: Zero Dawn. We've been so hooked on photographing Guerrilla Games' gorgeous open world adventure that we've pulled together some of our best pictures for your viewing pleasure. Sammy Barker, Editor: Graham Banas, Reviewer: John...
News Horizon: Zero Dawn Accused of Cultural Appropriation
Guerrilla's latest criticised
Horizon: Zero Dawn is one of the most progressive games that we've played in some time. We're not going to fawn over it for that reason alone – it also happens to be a brilliant adventure built around some incredibly compelling fiction – but its representation of genders, sexuality, and race is second to none as far...
News The Love Between The Witcher 3 and Horizon: Zero Dawn Continues
Guerrilla Games releases its own artwork
Awww, isn't this just lovely? As reported yesterday, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt developer CD Projekt Red congratulated Guerrilla Games over Twitter, following the successful launch of Horizon: Zero Dawn. The Polish studio posted a rather nice drawing of Geralt and Aloy high-fiving each other, and now, the Dutch...
Soapbox Why We Need Horizon: Zero Dawn DLC
Sammy reckons Guerrilla's RPG is ripe for expansion
Well, this is awkward, isn't it? As gaming enthusiasts we collectively rail on companies for Season Passes and day one downloadable content – and rightly so. But if you'll indulge me for just a few minutes, I'm going to be a complete and utter hypocrite, because I kinda want Horizon: Zero Dawn...