#370 | Guerrilla Warfare

Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Games, Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 280 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this year, Chinese publisher Tencent revealed a new project so shameless that it belies belief. It's called Light of Motiram, and it's no exaggeration to say that it's a pound-for-pound carbon copy of PlayStation's vaunted Horizon franchise. It crossed the line to such an extent that Sony is suing Tencent over it, packing fascinating evidence that this title was likely intended to be Horizon all along. Is Tencent dead-to-rights? Other news this week includes likely massive overreaction to PlayStation's hiring of a cross-platform manager, updates on Amazon's God of War TV project, Xbox's dominance of PS5 sales chart with rumors of more to come, Warner Bros. dipping its toes back in the games-as-a-service space, fresh PS+ offerings, and more. To round things out, we then go to listener inquiries, as always. Is the original Metal Gear Solid overrated? What's happening with Insomniac's Wolverine project? Have payment processors gone too far in seemingly bullying the likes of Steam? Will Colin ever understand that Bob Dylan is still alive? Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:16:13 - Bob Dylan is not dead0:33:00 - 401k Sacred boys0:35:03 - RIP in Peace0:35:58 - Remembering Tomvy0:41:38 - Katy, let the PS5 breathe0:44:23 - Section 8 clarification0:48:39 - Twisted Metal release schedule1:03:52 - Sony sues Tencent over Horizon clone1:26:40 - Sony hiring a multiplatform manager1:57:25 - Ronald D. Moore talks God of War2:11:52 - New China Hero Project games2:17:06 - Xbox games dominated Q2 PS5 software sales2:34:45 - WB is hiring for a live service game2:49:16 - Lies of P coming to PS+2:53:54 - Sony's fightstick is called FlexStrike3:01:17 - Nintendo Direct stuff3:14:43 - What Are We Playing? (Death Stranding 2, Deus Ex, Silent Hill 3)3:38:32 - Steam's credit card drama3:59:19 - Does Metal Gear Solid hold up?4:05:13 - What's up with Wolverine?4:14:11 - Is anti-crunch making game development longer?4:18:24 - PlayStation sequels are selling less?4:25:13 - SkillUp's gaming website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Sacred Symbols of PlayStation podcast. This is episode number 370.
0:23.7	My name is Colin Moriarty.
0:25.1	I'm joined as always by my son, Chris Raygun.
0:26.5	Chris, we're working under the gun today.
0:30.2	Yeah.
0:30.4	Is they going to be fucking with the power in your apartment, perhaps?
0:33.5	Yes.
0:33.9	You may come and you may go.
0:35.7	Yeah.
0:36.5	We're playing it by ear. We might, the entire apartment complex might explode. We might set fire. I don't know. Who knows? But we should be good for the first at least two, two and a half hours. Yeah, very exciting. So we'll see, we'll see how it goes. We might even make it through the whole thing. Maybe they'll be completely late.
0:54.7	Yeah, that would be nice.
0:55.7	Well, maybe not nice depending on what they're trying to do for you, but, uh, I'm not that for the, for the sake of our show. Yeah. Well, good to see you today. Yeah, it's, it's a good day. I'm excited tonight because I'm going to go see the naked gun. I'm curious about it.
1:10.1	I've seen
1:11.1	unreasonably good reviews for it,
1:14.7	which is, the naked gun. I'm curious about it. I've seen
1:11.0	unreasonably good reviews for it,
1:14.7	which is shocking to me and exciting.
1:18.2	I saw someone say,
1:19.9	we probably said this maybe a week or two ago,
1:21.7	I think,
1:22.2	but I saw some review that was really compelling to me
1:24.5	where they were like,
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