... And so it begins. We already expected the bulk of this week to be riddled with teaser trailers and subtle hints, but we didn't anticipate that we'd be stumped as soon as Monday evening. Scratching our collective heads we are, though, as the Spanish PlayStation Blog has uploaded a video for “PlayStation's best hidden secret". The clip, titled EMAGON, shows a forest, followed by a desert with a single sapling growing out of the sand.
Interestingly, this hasn't appeared in the UK or North America just yet, leading us to think that it's a regional announcement – but it does point towards some kind of 5th December reveal, which just so happens to be the same date as The Game Awards. We suspect that the title is pronounced 'imagine', but other theories suggest that it's an anagram for 'Game On' or, er, 'No Game'. As you can see, we're just as baffled as you are.
The post on the Spanish PlayStation Blog seems to indicate that this has something to do with the PSone's birthday, but we're struggling to connect the dots. Do you have any theories on what this could possibly be about? Put us out of our misery in the comments section below.
[source blog.es.playstation.com]
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Wow that first visual in the forest was everything! The Lighting was amazing!
Gonna start researching that game now anyone wanna give me a head start?
Yeah I don't care what that game is, with a forest that realistic it's an instant buy.
Are we sure the forest isn't, like, filmed footage? It looked like video rather than PS4 visuals to me...
I'm intrigued....hoping for something emotive and elegant....probably end up being an always online multiplayer shooting game with the twist that, in the full trailer, some sweaty Steampunky super soldier stands on the shoot just after it sprouts, as smoke billowing warmachines fly over head and it incorporates everything I hate in one game
I don't think the footage is filmed/real, but I don't think it's game level CGI either...it seems higher quality.
I'll be interested to hear more.
@get2sammyb ya, i agree. I also think this is probably a puzzle game, like the witness.
I am trying not to get hyped(it's better that way) but the next 2 weeks(starting this week) we have 'PS Birthday' then 'PS Experience' then 'PS China conference/info'...EXCITING TIMES!!! + This is 'Flower 2'
Interestingly Emagon spelled backwards is "nogame".
Yeah, wow, no clue, but I guess we don't have long until we find out. As someone else pointed out, I don't think that forest is live footage but it looks too good to be straight up game footage, so either cutscene or running on a super pumped up computer. Typical teaser trailer BS.
@Ginkgo Emagon that
I sometimes get the feeling we as gamers are more occupied with reading up, hyping events and speculating than actual gaming these days. It seems we have a big hole in our gaming souls which can't be filled anymore; after waiting months and months for decent games to arrive, we're already focussing on the next events with trailers and announcements.
I've been really enjoying some games this year, but mostly on the Wii U, but when it comes to PS4 and One I too have this itch that just can't be scratched anymore it seems and it's somehow making me enjoy the games I have way less than I used to.
Maybe this is what Geoff Keilghly was talking about : “I reviewed something today which is kind of an out of left field announcement, which I wasn't sure of how big it was going to be, but I saw the assets and I’m like, 'Wow, people are going to go crazy for this.'" Given his comment on the assets, maybe that forest is actual game footage after all?
@Boerewors I get the same feeling...
@Boerewors yeah I agree too!
@Ginkgo @get2sammyb I translated this by ear: "20 years is a lot of time. Look around you and see everything you've obtained and done. You've ruled countless places. You've conquered and liberated. You've constructed and destroyed. You've been the light in the darkness. However, this time is different; this time, it's for real. For the first time your actions have real consequences. They need your help, and I know that you can hear them. The power to change everything is in your hands."
It seems to be talking about the birth of playstation by the "20 years" part, followed by the next few lines that talk about obvious video game objectives. "No Game" is probably right, most likely something else.
@Cloud7794 thanks for the translation.
"For the first time your actions have real consequences. They need your help"
For every tree you plant in the game, they will plant a real trees in the desert.
I'm guessing this has something to do with the Morpheus. Just read an article in the Financial Times on Sunday http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e60b8d4a-773d-11e4-a082-00144feabdc0.html about how Sony is turning their focus onto VR and Morpheus is going to be their next emerging technology. Layton goes on to say that they are talking with everyone who might be able to bring VR content not just games.
With this vid being first person, and having what seems like a mix of video footage and CGI as well as that duplicitous slogan looks like it is meant to say "imagine" as well as " no game" it has to be something about VR.
@Cloud7794 Thanks for the translation! It does sound like project Morpheus to me. "actions have real consequences". I guess we will know soon enough.
I just realized that its NOGAME spelled backwards. Intresting.....
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