#405 | Waiting Like the Stalking Butler

Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Games, Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 228 minutes

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We're in the midst of a promising month of releases on PlayStation 5, and our patience is finally about to be rewarded. For starters, Housemarque's first party third-person shooter Saros has gone gold. So, too, has Capcom's beleaguered (yet incredibly promising) Pragmata, which was first revealed in 2020 for a 2022 release. Starfield's and Hades II's PS5 debuts, Mouse: PI For Hire's launch, the Konami-published Darwin's Paradox, the undoubtedly addictive Vampire Crawlers, and much more have us asking: When are we supposed to find the time to play all of this? It's a good problem to have! Plus: Sony purchases British machine learning firm Cinemersive Labs, Neil Druckmann teases the future of The Last of Us, Stellar Blade developer Shift Up buys Shinji Mikami's new studio outright, Disney executives are apparently interested in acquiring Epic, MindsEye's bizarre drama gets even weirder, and more. Then: Listener inquiries! What's the status of Fairgames? Are there any Life Is Strange fans in the LSM crew? Should gaming be more accessible to the poor? Is it possible that the Artemis II astronauts will listen to this episode of the show while en route to the moon? Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at https://www.shopify.com/sacred This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Get 10% off at https://www.betterhelp.com/symbols Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:31:27 - Never give up Krystal0:33:51 - Ernie Anastos RIP in Peace0:40:52 - First to platinum Saint Slayer0:46:23 - Artemis II0:56:09 - Nate's next career1:01:14 - Sony spins off TV business1:08:05 - Sony acquires cinemersive1:14:05 - Saros goes gold1:22:38 - Pragmata goes gold1:27:36 - The Last of Us 3 tease?1:38:35 - Shift Up purchases Shinji Mikami's studio1:48:31 - Disney rumored to buy Epic1:59:02 - MindsEye gets weirder2:09:43 - New PS Plus games for April2:14:02 - What We’re Playing (Returnal, Saint Slayer: Spear of Sacrilege, Marathon, Resident Evil Requiem, Crimson Desert, Marathon, Raccoin, Croc)2:45:49 - Is gaming really for the rich?2:59:10 - Is this crash worse than 1983?3:12:46 - Are we Life is Strange fans?3:19:32 - The state of Fairgames3:23:40 - PSSR update3:27:27 - PlayStation Direct preorders 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, a PlayStation podcast. This is episode number 405.
0:23.6	My name is Colin Moriarty.
0:24.6	I'm joined, as always, by my son, Chris Raygon.
0:25.9	Chris, it's good to see you today.
0:27.7	How are you?
0:28.9	I'm well, you know, it's another day in sunshine in California.
0:35.6	It's 60 degrees, which is nice.
0:38.3	You know, the heat's finally at a reasonable...
0:41.7	I mean, it's still a good time in the middle of the day.
0:43.2	But at least the mornings aren't hell like they were for that one week.
0:48.0	But feeling good.
0:50.0	Had some breakfast.
0:50.9	Eggs and bacon.
0:52.1	Nice traditional.
0:53.9	Like eggs and bacon and like on a plate? Yeah. Eggs and bacon, salt pepper. A little bit of ketchup. I don't normally do ketchup, but I was like, eh.
1:00.8	Petchups nice. I feel like a good, like a good mic. If I got some on those eggs.
1:05.8	A good, a me, you call me a Mick? Yeah. That's crazy. That's a wild first minute. It is. It is. My mom used always say that because my mom's Italian and my dad's Irish. So when I would, we would put ketchup on our stuff, whatever. It's a very, very Irish New York thing to do apparently. And so she's going, you guys are a bunch of mix.
1:28.0	Thanks, Mom. Michaelodeon over here.
1:29.4	Michelodeon.
1:30.3	It's good to see you, as always. Dustin Furman, executive producer, good to see you today. What is this? The persona. Oh, it's from the persona concert. It's the persona concert. It's a persona concert. It's a persona concert. It is. I like it. It's good. Yeah, no, it is good. I'm the, I'm the guy that likes the little quaint logo on the shirt.
1:46.2	You know,
1:46.3	I don't like any of the loudness,
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