If Remakes Are The Safest Bet, Why Close The Studio That Does Great Remakes? - Beyond 935

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🗓️ 21 February 2026

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Well, this sucks: Sony has closed Bluepoint, the semi-recently acquired studio behind some of the best remakes of PlayStation games to date, like Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, plus a slew of remasters and ports like the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, as well as bringing Gravity Rush from Vita to PS4. The last project we heard the studio was working on was a God of War live-service project, which seemed like the wrong fit, and even more so after the announcement that a remake of God of War’s original Greek trilogy is, in fact, in development. That remake is still a mystery, aside from a logo reveal and some tidbits of information from Kratos’ voice actor Christopher Judge (who is not in the remake.) Despite a complete lack of information, plenty of debate has sprung up around whether or not this eventual God of War Remake should include the sex minigames. A straight remake would be remiss to not include them, and a reboot would be likely need to retool them a bit. We’ll have to wait and see. Anyway, we also talk about Alfred Chicken, because it’s Friday and we’re a little loopy. Beyond! 00:00 - Intro 00:25 - If Remakes Are The Safest Bet, Why Close The Studio That Does Great Remakes? 31:14 - God of War 50:22 - Poll Results 52:22 - They Should Make an Alfred Chicken Reboot 52:53 - The Alfred Chicken Hotline 54:25 - More Poll Results 55:55 - Bubsy 3D This weeks show was hosted by Max Scoville and Brian Altano. It was Produced by Nick Maillet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Beyond and hello and welcome once again to IGN's weekly PlayStation show.
0:03.3	I'm your host Max Scoville and coming up, Sony has shuttered BluPoint, the studio behind some of its best remakes.
0:09.0	Meanwhile, no one knows what that God of War remake is yet, but we're already arguing about it. Let's get into it. I am joined once again by my good pal Brian Altano.
0:28.0	What's up, Brian Beyond?
0:29.4	Beyond, you know, I've been doing this a long time, and this always sucks, and it just feels like it's more common than ever now.
0:42.3	Like I know things were not easy during the PS3 generation, right?
0:48.3	Like there was, we effectively saw the collapse of the middle, the middle tier, the double A games, right?
0:54.5	Like we watched, we watched like publishers like midway and acclaim and all these other guys
0:58.6	that were like, you know, not honor students, but like regularly in the, you know,
1:02.9	C plus, B minus B plus territory, which we need those things.
1:06.5	And we saw things pivot towards AAA gaming, which Sony was specifically poised to be fantastic at, right?
1:15.2	I think inarguably, they have created some of the best first-party single-player AAA games of all time.
1:23.0	And at some point in the last 10 years between Jim Ryan and Herman Holst, and this is not just
1:29.9	exclusive, the PlayStation, we've seen this happen on Xbox as well, right?
1:32.7	Phil Spencer and all those guys over there, there's been this push to make everything a games
1:38.5	as a service game, a live service game.
1:41.4	And in doing that, we have lost incalcable amounts of talent and promise and potential.
1:49.9	Now, hold on. Let's back this up and just add some context here. So in case you missed it,
1:54.6	Sony has shuttered Blue Point Games. Blue Point Games is the studio behind Demon Souls remake for
2:00.5	PS5, Shadow the Colossus for PS4.
2:02.6	The, the, uh, Shadow the Colossus remake, yeah.
2:04.6	The remake, but also the Eco and Shadow and Colossus collection that was released way back on PS3.
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