05-19-2019, 10:44 AM
Blood & Truth Dev Happy To Be Sony's Innovator, "Excited" By PS5
<p>London Studio is a perhaps overlooked, but definitely vital part of Sony's Worldwide Studios group. Over the years it's made games such as <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/the-getaway/">The Getaway</a>, the EyeToy series, the Singstar series, <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/wonderbook-book-of-spells/">Wonderbook</a>, and <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/playstation-vr-worlds/">PSVR Worlds</a>. The developer is about to release <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/blood-and-truth/">Blood & Truth</a>, the spiritual successor to PSVR Worlds' London Heist mini-game, and it says it's happy to be one of the studios at the forefront of Sony's development group.</p><p>"I think we've created a niche for ourselves in [that] we are innovators," the studio's senior principal designer, Simon Hermitage, told GameSpot. "We will take hardware and do the difficult legwork to prove that thing can work.</p><p>"That relationship goes both ways. When we get a new bit of hardware, we get to feed into its development. It's the reason why I work at London Studio, I love that side of things. It is a speciality of London Studio."</p><p>He adds: "As a first-party studio, our job is to grow that [PSVR] market. You can't look at the numbers and go, 'They're small because we just released this [for PSVR rather than for non-VR PS4 owners].' PSVR has grown consistently, and titles like Blood & Truth are so important to invest in and make so that people can see, 'Wow, <em>that's </em>what VR is.'"</p><p>On Blood & Truth, Hermitage claims it's the ideal next step for PSVR. "We've brought the triple-A game quality and polish--we knew that was what VR needed next: a full, feature-length, amazing blockbuster game. That's what Blood & Truth is."</p><p>Finally, when looking to the future, Hermitage is excited by the possibilities future technology will offer developers. "I was excited, as everyone was, to read [lead system architect] <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/first-playstation-5-details-revealed-ps5-specs-psv/1100-6466281/">Mark Cerny's article with Wired</a>, and the potential of that system means I'll be sticking around here to get my hands on that as soon as possible. We'll do what we always do: push that as hard as it can possibly go."</p><p>Sony has already confirmed that the <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps5-release-date-price-specs-and-more-of-what-we-k/1100-6466357/">PS5 will support PSVR</a>, but it refused to comment further on whether it's working on a successor to its existing virtual reality headset. For now, Blood & Truth launches for PSVR on PS4 on May 28.</p>
<p>London Studio is a perhaps overlooked, but definitely vital part of Sony's Worldwide Studios group. Over the years it's made games such as <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/the-getaway/">The Getaway</a>, the EyeToy series, the Singstar series, <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/wonderbook-book-of-spells/">Wonderbook</a>, and <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/playstation-vr-worlds/">PSVR Worlds</a>. The developer is about to release <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/blood-and-truth/">Blood & Truth</a>, the spiritual successor to PSVR Worlds' London Heist mini-game, and it says it's happy to be one of the studios at the forefront of Sony's development group.</p><p>"I think we've created a niche for ourselves in [that] we are innovators," the studio's senior principal designer, Simon Hermitage, told GameSpot. "We will take hardware and do the difficult legwork to prove that thing can work.</p><p>"That relationship goes both ways. When we get a new bit of hardware, we get to feed into its development. It's the reason why I work at London Studio, I love that side of things. It is a speciality of London Studio."</p><p>He adds: "As a first-party studio, our job is to grow that [PSVR] market. You can't look at the numbers and go, 'They're small because we just released this [for PSVR rather than for non-VR PS4 owners].' PSVR has grown consistently, and titles like Blood & Truth are so important to invest in and make so that people can see, 'Wow, <em>that's </em>what VR is.'"</p><p>On Blood & Truth, Hermitage claims it's the ideal next step for PSVR. "We've brought the triple-A game quality and polish--we knew that was what VR needed next: a full, feature-length, amazing blockbuster game. That's what Blood & Truth is."</p><p>Finally, when looking to the future, Hermitage is excited by the possibilities future technology will offer developers. "I was excited, as everyone was, to read [lead system architect] <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/first-playstation-5-details-revealed-ps5-specs-psv/1100-6466281/">Mark Cerny's article with Wired</a>, and the potential of that system means I'll be sticking around here to get my hands on that as soon as possible. We'll do what we always do: push that as hard as it can possibly go."</p><p>Sony has already confirmed that the <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps5-release-date-price-specs-and-more-of-what-we-k/1100-6466357/">PS5 will support PSVR</a>, but it refused to comment further on whether it's working on a successor to its existing virtual reality headset. For now, Blood & Truth launches for PSVR on PS4 on May 28.</p>