#363 | Getting Bent

Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Games, Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 265 minutes

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With Bend Studio laying off 30% of its staff as it gears up to enter a lengthy pre-production stage, it's clear their next release (should it ever materialize) will be on PlayStation 6. This is just the most recent example in a lengthening string of Sony absolutely botching its first party initiative, deploying teams on projects that make no sense, purchasing studios that have never even released a game, and complicating a service game strategy that -- at least on paper -- made a lot of sense. Where does the buck stop, exactly? And how lucky is Sony and the PlayStation brand that they've been able to coast almost entirely on external content and commercial inertia all the while? Plus: MindsEye is a complete disaster, Stellar Blade becomes PlayStation Publishing's most-played single-player PC port, Capcom and Konami reveal Resident Evil Requiem and Silent Hill Remake respectively, the Outer Worlds 2's $80 price point infuriates some, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is somehow coming to PlayStation 4, and more. Then: Listener inquiries! When Colin talks about a hypothetical AAA Mega Man game, what exactly is he envisioning? Why did Microsoft include the PS5 logo so readily during its showcase? Will GameStop ever stop selling opened games as new? Will Dustin and Brad one day own Last Stand? 0:00:00 - Intro0:32:13 - Habroxia Special Edition0:46:31 - LSM at TooManyGames!0:51:17 - Sacred proposal0:54:05 - Bradstin1:05:28 - Mindseye refunds1:24:59 - Stellar Blade is PlayStation's biggest single-player game on Steam1:35:14 - Bend Studio layoffs2:01:18 - Tencent acquires 15% of Arrowhead2:05:17 - Resident Evil: Requiem announced2:15:18 - Silent Hill Remake announced2:22:30 - Persona 4 Revival2:28:38 - Black Ops 72:35:05 - Gears of War: Reloaded PS5 beta incoming2:41:41 - Halo coming to PS5 soon?2:51:16 - The Outer Worlds 2 is $803:00:32 - DualSense will connect to multiple devices3:04:05 - Mina the Hollower launches this Halloween3:04:55 - New PS+ game catalog entries3:12:11 - What We’ve Been Playing3:29:30 - What would a new Mega Man game look like?3:34:25 - Should we keep going to GameStop?3:38:06 - Is the future handhelds?3:52:28 - PS5 logos at Xbox's Showcase3:58:27 - Alex Hutchinson's Game Pass comments4:11:25 - Pandemic hiring sprees fallout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations.
0:18.6	Welcome back to Sacred Symbols a PlayStation podcast.
0:20.7	This is episode number 363.
0:24.1	My name is Colin Moriarty.
0:25.2	I'm joined, as always, by my son, Chris Reagan.
0:26.8	Chris, to what do I owe this great pleasure?
0:29.9	Dude, I love that.
0:31.5	I'm sorry to bring this up, but like you,
0:33.2	you twisting your camera looked so menacing from like the perspective.
0:37.1	Like it looked like you were from like the perspective like it looked
0:38.6	looking you were strangling the life out of someone but uh yeah man it's uh i don't know
0:45.4	it's it's another day i didn't eat this morning which is like probably not a smart
0:48.5	thing to do i was like i had those one of those days or one of those mornings where i'm just like
0:52.9	i'm kind of just in bed and I'm awake
0:55.0	early but like I kind of just have no energy to get up at all. I was just like kind of like
1:01.0	vegian out there reading through the document and then two minutes before Dustin set the email.
1:06.9	I was like, right, I guess I'll get out. It's time to go. Yeah, stand up.
1:11.5	Be ready.
1:12.5	I got up a little earlier today.
1:13.7	I got up probably an hour and a half ago, which is unusual for me.
1:18.4	It is so fucking hot out, though.
1:20.8	I brought out rush.
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