Game Scoop Episode 632

Game Scoop!

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Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.7 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Welcome back to IGN Game Scoop!, the ONLY video game podcast! This week your Omega Cops are helmed by guest host Tina Amini, who is joined by Kat Bailey, Samuel Claiborn, and Justin Davis to discuss Sony's purchase of Returnal developer Housemarue, Remedy's announcement of a Control multiplayer spinoff, what Bloober and Konami's partnership announced this week means for a potential for a Silent Hills return, and more... And as always, we play a rollicking round of Video Game 20 Questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? Welcome to IGN Game Scoop. I'm not Damon Hatfield. I'm Tina Meaney sitting
0:10.7	in for Damon Hatfield and joining me this week are Samuel Claiborne. Hey everybody.
0:16.2	Justin Davis. Scoop. And special first time appearance are senior news editor Kat Bailey. Welcome Kat.
0:23.0	Hello everybody. Excited to be invading another podcast here over at IGN.
0:27.6	We're slowly getting to all of them for you. It's going to be real Kat Scoop this week, a genuine
0:33.6	Kat Scoop. We've got a great show for you this week if I may say so myself. A lot of movement
0:39.2	happening in the video game industry, lots of new or perhaps just formalized collaborations,
0:44.4	potentially bringing in lots of new possibilities down the road. First up earlier this week, Sony
0:49.6	announced their acquisition of Housemark, the developer behind most recently known for
0:54.6	Returnal of course, which was released just a few months ago now exclusively to the PS5,
0:59.6	bit of a trend there, too much critical as well as Damie Praise. They were pretty light on
1:06.1	the details of exactly what that new structure would tangibly mean for Housemark, but both the
1:11.9	co-founder and managing director of Housemark, Alari Kweetenen and the head of PlayStation Studios
1:17.3	Herman Holst spoke to collaboration several times in an interview with British GQ and they also
1:22.7	spoke to the technology behind Housemark games. They both mentioned it as a pillar of the studio
1:28.7	essentially and I wanted to spend time talking about what we make of that, but then just this morning,
1:34.8	they also announced a new acquisition with Nexus software. So real quick from our news report
1:41.2	from Joe Screvels, Nexus has worked extensively with Crystal Dynamics, Edos Montréal and IO
1:46.8	Interactive since forming in 1999, porting the recent Tomb Raider trilogy and the two most
1:52.8	recent Deus Ex games to PC. While no specifics have been given about Nexus's work for PlayStation,
1:58.1	it feels likely that the studio will support Sony's increased focus on porting its console,
2:02.3	exclusives, games to PC. So there's a bit of a trend here aside from just the acquisitions,
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