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Beyond
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For decades, PlayStation consoles have brought incredible games and unforgettable stories to millions of gamers— and Beyond has been there every step of the way. Join passionate PlayStation experts Max Scoville, Brian Altano, Jada Griffin, and Akeem Lawanson for witty, insightful analysis of the latest PlayStation news, must-play games, and everything coming to PlayStation 5. Whether you're a die-hard fan or new to the world of PlayStation, Beyond is your ultimate PlayStation podcast.
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Sony Doubles Down on No Discs, God of War Show Recast Rumors & August’s Weirdest Indies - Beyond 955
1w ago00:42:20Tap to summarizeLook, it’s a hectic time of year for us, and we’re a little scattered, so this week we’re taking the show on the road and off the beaten path in Big Walk, the new co-op indie puzzle game from House House, the studio behind Untitled Goose Game. It’s an obtuse, meditative social experience that feels somewhere between The Witness, Journey and those “friend slop” games, but a bit less chaotic. Anyway, this week we’re talking about some Sony news - namely, PlayStation finally weighing in on the backlash to the plans to discontinue publishing physical game discs. The God of War show is apparently considering recasting Ryan Hurst with Dave Bautista, who we love, but not as Kratos. Meanwhile, there are some other very cool weird little indie games coming out this month - and we also chat about some new music we’ve been listening to, including deep cut discoveries like Sex Mex, Il Est Vilaine, Bibiza and Avenged Sevenfold’s surprisingly cyberpunk new EP Statica. And, of course, the age old debate: should you buy a 12 foot tall Home Depot skeleton? And is August too soon to have to start thinking about this? Where do people even store those things in the off season? Beyond! Catch up on some of this month’s upcoming games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AZ98G1lkhc Or learn about some of the best, worst and weirdest Spider-Man games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL_qxK2NSA8&pp=ygUZaWduIHNwb2Rlci1tYW4gYmVzdCB3b3JzdA%3D%3DJoin the IGN Discord https://discord.gg/h2T45nkkm6 This weeks show was hosted by Max Scoville and Nick Maillet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Marvel’s Wolverine, God of War Laufey & The Resident Evil Movie Made Our Comic-Con - Beyond 954
2w ago01:14:41Tap to summarizeThat’s a wrap on San Diego Comic-Con for us! Joined by our old pal, ex-IGN and current comedian Mike Drucker, we break down our highlights (and uh, other moments) from the dozens of segments IGN produced, as well as some of the gaming-related news out of the show. Zack Cregger’s Resident Evil movie, Insomniac’s Wolverine and God of War Laufey, plus Jada’s time with Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls’ recent beta. We reminisce about some of the best and worst Marvel games from years past, including the Spider-Man and The X-Men in Arcade’s Revenge, as well as the time Spider-Man burned down Dr. Doom’s house. God of War Laufey gets a release date of February 16th of next year, and Sony Santa Monica casually confirmed that another Kratos game is in the works. Y’know, in case the God of War Greek Trilogy Remake wasn’t enough. If you’re in the UK and can make to the Edinburgh Fringe comedy festival, tickets to see Mike Drucker’s Sh*t Arcade live can be purchased here: https://tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:7115/And if you can’t, his awesome book Good Game, No Rematch is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or wherever else books are sold: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1335012699?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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What is PlayStation Actually Doing Right This Generation? - Beyond 953
4w ago01:17:06Tap to summarizeJoin the IGN Discord https://discord.gg/h2T45nkkm6 Is Sony losing its way? This week on Beyond, we try to look at the bright side of the current state of PlayStation, which isn’t exactly easy in light of past few years. From the recently announced plans to kill physical discs to the live-service initiative and the Bungie acquisition to the constantly rising price of hardware amidst a drought of first-party exclusives, there’s a lot to be negative about… but it’s not all bad. We discuss what’s working and what’s definitely not. Plus, we weigh in on Denshattack!, which is like Jet Grind meets Tony Hawk, but with Japanese trains. It’s the kind of weird stuff Sony used to bring us all the time, which is in short supply these days. Meanwhile, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is gorgeous and well made, but not everything we’d hoped for. Plus, we take a look ahead to the PlayStation 6 and reveal what YOU think is the biggest factor in buying a PS6 based on our recent poll results! Beyond! 00:00 - Intro 01:10 - Sony CEO Sells A Whole Lotta' Stock 04:16 - PlayStation is Going to SDCC 07:31 - Is PlayStation Doing Anything Right This Generation? 22:06 - Discord Comments 52:12 - Denshattack! Is RAD 57:33 - A Pirates Life For Some of Us 01:12:55 - Humble Choice This weeks show was hosted by Max Scoville, Brian Altano, Jada Griffin, and was produced by Nick Maillet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sony Killing Physical Games is Killing Our PS6 Hype - Beyond 952
Jul 801:16:34Tap to summarizeJoin the IGN Discord https://discord.gg/h2T45nkkm6 It’s been another rough week for the games industry. Most recently, Xbox’s ruthless “restructuring” has left thousands jobless, and shortly before that, Sony announced plans to discontinue the manufacturing of physical PlayStation games starting in 2028, which will likely eliminate more jobs in the long-term, and doesn’t exactly give us hope for what’s planned for PlayStation 6. This console generation kicked off in the middle of a pandemic and the countless issues that caused. Sony made a multi-billion dollar push into the live-service space, which has since backfired, meanwhile, chip shortages due to the AI boom have made gaming more expensive than ever. Now, on top of all that, Sony’s plans to go all-digital are making the walls of its walled garden even higher than ever. So, pardon us if it’s a little hard to get excited about next-gen. Beyond! This weeks show was hosted by Max Scoville, Brian Altano, Jada Griffin, and was produced by Nick Maillet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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GTA 6 Is Already Outselling Everything Else - Beyond 951
Jul 101:35:21Tap to summarizeJoin the IGN Discord https://discord.gg/h2T45nkkm6 This week on Beyond! Jada Griffin is hosting again and like GTA 6 she is getting away with whatever she wants! She’s joined by Brian Altano and Nick Maillet to discuss all the most recent GTA 6 news concerning whether Playstation is the best place to play it, the potential shortage of consoles ahead of GTA 6’s launch and how GTA 6 is outselling basically everything else already according to early reports on digital storefronts. We then talk about how the PS6 might go Beyond (heh) the living room and what we speculate a hybrid PlayStation might look like. Nick hosts an interview for the cool looking train racing tony hawk hybrid game Denshattack with its developers, before we sprinkle in a few details regarding updates for Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, and Street Fighter 6 from the most recent Capcom Spotlight. Finally we share what game’s we’ve all been playing recently like Mina the Hollower, Tetris Effect, and Abyssus. All this and more on this week's BEYOND! 00:00 - Intro 01:55 - GTA 6 Is Already Outselling Everything Else 10:07 - Console Shortage Warnings? Really? 27:32 - Bungie Layoffs 35:18 - Will the PS6 Go Beyond the Living Room? 44:47 - Denshattack! Developer Interview 01:08:09 - Humble Bundle (Join the IGN Discord for a massive discount) 01:09:09 - Everyhthing Coming from Capcom 01:17:36 - The Street Fighter Trailer Looks Rad 01:20:35 - Nick REALLY likes Mina the Hollower 01:23:44 - Brian Recommends Tetris Effect 01:26:10 - Jada's Been Playin' Abyssus 01:29:45 - Poll Results! This weeks show was hosted by Jada Griffin, Brian Altano, Nick Maillet, and was produced by Tayo Oyekan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Everyone’s Celebrating Big Anniversaries Except Sony, What Gives? - Beyond 950
Jun 2401:07:52Tap to summarizeIt feels like everyone’s celebrating milestone anniversaries… except Sony. The original PlayStation turned 30 two years ago, the PS2 hit 25, and the PS3 is now 20, and all of these brought with them some iconic game franchises. Aside from limited edition consoles and themes, Sony seems to be sitting on the sidelines. Meanwhile, the rest of the industry is going all-in: Resident Evil and Tomb Raider are celebrating 30 years with massive remakes, and Nintendo, Xbox, and SEGA are dusting off their biggest classics for modern audiences. In other news, we’re diving into the massive wave of recent game announcements that actually did get us excited. We’re talking Kingdom Hearts IV, GenATLAS, Mobile Suit Gundam: Rogue Orbit, Resident Evil Veronica, Rayman Legends Retold, and the two Star Wars titles we’ve been waiting years for: Zero Company and Galactic Racer. Beyond! 00:00 - Intro 00:48 - Everyone Gets a Milestone Except Sony 27:11 - Kingdom Hearts 4 Is Lookin' Real Good 30:29 - GenATLAS Looks Rad 33:57 - Mobile Suit Gundam: Rogue Orbit 36:57 - Persona 4 and 6 39:24 - Crossfire Is Doing Some Interesting Things With Cover Shooters 48:28 - We’re So Hyped for Star Wars: Galactic Racer & Zero Company 56:26 - Resident Evil Veronica 58:24 - TMNT: The Last Ronin 01:00:42 - Blood Dungeon This weeks show was hosted by Max Scoville, Brian Altano, Jada Griffin, and was produced by Nick Maillet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Who's The Best PlayStation Character (NOT Owned By Sony?) | IGN Live 2026 - Beyond 949
Jun 600:30:13Tap to summarizeIn a very special IGN Live edition of Beyond, we're deciding which video game character from a non-Sony franchise deserves to be made an honorary PlayStation mascot. Some of the most beloved game characters ever debuted (or found success) on Sony hardware, from Lara Croft and Cloud Stryfe to Leon S. Kennedy and Solid Snake to Pyramid Head and Rayman. And, decades later, many of their respective game franchises are more popular than ever thanks to new installments like Resident Evil Requiem, Tomb Raider: The Legacy of Atlantis, Silent Hill Townfall, Rayman Legends Retold, and the long awaited third part of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy. So, we're pulling names out of hat, assembling a bracket, and bickering like schoolchildren about who deserves to be an honorary PlayStation character, even if they're just as popular on PC, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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God of War Laufey, Marvel's Wolverine, Silent Hill Townfall & More! June State of Play - Beyond 948
Jun 300:45:08Tap to summarizeSony kicked off the summer of gaming with a pretty hefty State of Play. We got first looks at God of War Laufey, a very extended (and pretty violent) look at Marvel's Wolverine, and a ton of other upcoming titles such as Silent Hill Townfall, Phantom Blade Zero, Until Dawn 2, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and a whole lot more. It was a pretty packed show. Beyond! This weeks show is hosted by Max Scoville, Nick Limon, Jada Griffin, and is produced by Nick Maillet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →If GTA 6 is Delayed (Again) Here Are Some Backup Plans - Beyond 947
May 1601:04:36Tap to summarizeJoin the official IGN and Podcast Beyond discord! - https://discord.gg/mx62v5pgq GTA 6’s third trailer has not yet dropped as of this recording, which makes the wait until the game’s eventual release in November seem further away than ever. But what happens if it gets delayed, again? Well, luckily there are a ton of awesome new games coming out before then like Wolverine, Blood of Dawnwalker and Phantom Blade Zero later this fall, plus LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight very soon. We talk about some of these games, plus other activities you can do to cope on the off chance that Grand Theft Auto 6 doesn’t drop when we’re expecting it. In other news, we have some questions from our newly minted Discord, asking what we think about such relevant hot-button topics as Saros sales, and its likelihood of getting a PC release, 007 First Light, game studio closures that made us sad, Japan Studio franchises we’d like brought back, plus the video games that need to be reinvented with Muppets. Look, this episode we’re a little loopier than usual, please bear with us. And also: go join the discord so we can do more fun mailbag episodes like this. Beyond! 00:00 - Intro 02:09 - If GTA 6 is Delayed (Again) Here Are Some Backup Plans 26:57 - YOUR Discord Questions! This weeks show was hosted by Max Scoville, Brian Altano, and was produced by Nick Maillet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →PlayStation Loses Even More Money on Multiplayer - Beyond 946
May 1301:01:19Tap to summarizeThis week, we're talking about some extremely expensive big-ticket items in the world of game development. From Sony's recent financial earnings reporting a $765 million impairment loss (at least partially due to the underperformance of Destiny 2 and this year's Marathon launch) to SEGA's cancellation of its mysterious "Super Game" announced back in 2021, to reports of Grand Theft Auto 6's budget being over a billion dollars. Not all games can be GTA 6, though, and we're skeptical about Sony's continued pursuit of AAA live-service projects, rather than dusting off a few tried-and-true games from the vaults to earn a few bucks off our nostalgia. After all, there's a long list of PS3 games we'd be eager to revisit on PS5 while we're waiting for whatever the next big first-party projects are. Speaking of expensive things, we also unpack some other things that cost over a billion dollars, like the Burj Khalifa, Yankee Stadium, another Star Wars Trilogy, some Avatar movies, or an actual trip to space. 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Games are Expensive 05:02 - Sony's recent financial earnings reporting a $765 million impairment loss 24:04 - JOIN THE DISCORD! 24:42 - Games are Very Expensive 25:54 - SEGA's cancellation of its mysterious "Super Game" 35:27 - PlayStation should invest into reviving classic games 38:03 - GTA 6’s Development Reportedly Cost $1.5 Billion, Here’s What Else That Can Buy This weeks show is hosted by Max Scoville, Brian Altano, Jada Griffin, and is produced by Nick Maillet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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