AT WIT’S END

With development of its marquee puzzles finally at an end, the long-awaited follow-up to independent classic Braid is drawing closer. Matthew Pellett gets lost inside upcoming adventure The Witness, and discovers a PS4 legend in the making

When Sony unveiled PS4 for the very first time back in February 2013, it wanted to fully showcase its goals for global console domination. And the best way to do that involved a New York media conference starring a carefully selected group of developers and games; not there to simply promise greatness, but actually show it. Guerrilla Games and Killzone Shadow Fall provided the visual haymaker, bombarding console gamers with graphics like they’d never seen before. Evolution Studios and Driveclub demoed social connectivity features that simply didn’t exist in the PS3 years. And with Jonathan Blow and The Witness, Sony played one of its biggest trump cards of all: a new partnership strategy that would resonate with the rapidly-expanding independent development scene. Almost all of those reveal event games have long since…

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Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 1, 2015

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