Yeah, I've been hello and welcome to IGN's number one PlayStation show. It's the only PlayStation show we make here, but damn, we're good at it. I'm your host Max Gowall, and I'm joined today by Josh do. Hello. And Matt Kim.

Howdy, howdy, howdy, welcome gentlemen. Thanks for thanks for coming and hanging out. We are approaching the time of year when all sorts of things start happening and everybody has to scramble and go do those things.

IGN summer of gaming is around the corner, which is sort of the catch all event season adventure time for what was formerly known as E3 and you know it's a.

The kingdom of video games has exploded into a million little sky islands and we've got to like piggyback between those or paraglider whatever.

What are you referencing? What are you referencing? I know this might be a little bit of a shock for some of our PlayStation loving listeners, but freaking everybody's playing Zelda right now.

I think that's sort of the elephant shaped mythical beast in the room or whatever like it is. It is a huge huge like you know watershed game and it obviously is an Nintendo game.

It's not in PlayStation, but this is the kind of game that is going to have like a lasting effect on all other games for you know the immediate future or like maybe three years from now, but the immediate future after that.

So we will be talking about that a little bit, but hopefully from a sort of PlayStation adjacent angle. We also have some cool fun community stuff that we didn't get to last week.

Huge thank you everybody who had very nice to say about our 800th episode. We had a real good time doing that.

And we didn't even have a chance to read any of your kind messages that said a very cool game came out, which is humanity.

This is this is I I was totally expecting this to be a PSVR to exclusive. I think I just back out lost in the shuffle somewhere. It's the it's the Tetris effect devs.

Yeah, and it's which was also you know PSVR to but then also regular TV.

I played a bit this morning that even spending a bunch of time with humanity. What are your thoughts on humanity?

I love it. I've been playing it for like about a week. I'm not I didn't review it so I didn't have to finish anything like that, but I would spend some time like doing a couple levels here and there.

It's just this really cool, viby puzzle game, you know, which which I want to like describe as like snake meets the leftovers, you know, where you basically play as a Shiba Inu made of pure light.

And your goal is to guide people to like the end zone like the end goal. And you know, along the way, solve various like physics based puzzles.

You know, you get your your people to jump and and you know climb up walls in order to get to the destination. And it's super cool. And actually so I read an interview.

I think an edge magazine about like how this project got started and the really cool thing is that the physics behind the game, the all these people jumping and moving in the crowdsup was not originally developed as a video game.

I guess the I guess the creator of the program is actually like a like a urban engineer or something like that. And this this program was actually meant to like simulate just like like crowd control, like how people can like navigate our wearer and

the elements. And they were doing a presentation and the and the CEO and developer of Tetris effect and then it has like saw this and was just like, how do we turn that into a video game? Like that looks cool. That's like a physics model project modeling project that I really like the look of and I guess they just started talking about how to like turn this into like a full like full on game.

That is so cool. I love that's like my favorite kind of tidbit, but I also love tech demos. Yeah. Like do you ever mess with those like those browser based ones where it'll be like, here's how like here's how the water physics react to this sphere or whatever. And it's just you know you've got a couple sliders and it just like.

It's not a game. It's just like a weird widget kind of and it's hearing that somebody turned that into a game is is extremely cool. Yeah, it's apparently it was just like people just like just like this. Like people were just like on the screen.

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