Thank the maker: 2020 is behind us! Now, 2021 sprawls before us with 12 promising months of gaming goodness on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, and even Vita! (Okay, probably not the Vita.) To celebrate the exciting and unknown, we thought we'd do a special show dedicated entirely to...
2021-01-01 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Every one of us have had a "we're not even supposed to be here today" moment, whether at work, school, or just about anywhere else. For Dante Hicks, though -- a young, 20-something worker at a local convenience store -- being where he wasn't supposed to be ends up netting him one of the most memo...
2020-12-31 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You've been so patient! But now it's time. As you may recall, Final Fantasy VII Remake came to PlayStation 4 this past April, and we never got around to doing what is no doubt an essential spoilercast and review discussion, since life intervenes, as it sometimes does. Yet, we promised we'd get yo...
2020-12-29 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey All!
It's that time once again. Between now and December 31st at 11:59p ET, you'll be able to vote on a topic Dagan and I will add to the list while we recording a future wave of KnockBack.
The five choices below are the five highest-voted suggestions from the Topic Primary Elec...
For every last one of us, 2020 was an absolutely insane year. And, yes: We're all very, very worn down by it all and happy to wave it goodbye. But this unusual 365 day period also gave us a lot to be pleased with, particularly when it comes to the PlayStation brand we all know and love, a brand t...
2020-12-25 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Our retro and nostalgia podcast KnockBack is a bit of an enigma. On one hand, it's a relatively straight-forward, passion-driven project -- heavily directed by our wonderful audience -- but there's a catch: The nature of our show means it's hard to go back and talk about already-trodden topics ag...
2020-12-24 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey.
I wanted to take a moment to drop a quick line, not only to wish you and yours a solid holiday season, but to thank you for making 2020 Colin’s Last Stand’s most successful year, by a mile. It’s truly humbling to have so much support from so many different types of people from a...
One of the most enjoyable aspects of Sacred Symbols+ is how we get to experiment with some different permutations when it comes to host combinations. Usually it's Colin and Chris. Sometimes it's Dustin and Colin or Colin, Chris, and Dustin. Hell, it's even Matty and Dustin! But this week, we (wel...
2020-12-22 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Cyberpunk 2077 isn't what it was promised to be. At least, that's the experience of countless gamers the world-over, as they grasp with playing CD Projekt's long-awaited RPG on, say, a PlayStation 4. The resulting fallout has engulfed our industry, and rightfully so, because what happened here wa...
2020-12-18 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
When you really sit and think about it, it's kind of interesting that a ghoulish holiday like Halloween and a celebratory and feel-good holiday like Christmas kinda butt-up against each other, with nary a couple of months separating them. It's here that Tim Burton's and Disney's 1993 stop-motion ...
2020-12-17 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Due to its inherent interactivity, gaming has a leg-up on virtually any other form of entertainment. So why is our industry so obsessed with replicating other mediums when it comes to something like award shows? Geoff Keighley does an admirable job with The Game Awards each year -- not to mention...
2020-12-15 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Geoff Keighley's Game Awards went off without a hitch, and -- as usual -- the show came along with a boatload of announcements, release date reveals, and other such newsworthy items. But buried within the event is an interesting truth: Sony only showed up with one game, from the second party, whi...
2020-12-11 17:05:06 +0000 UTC View Post
It's easy to make fun of child actors and children's performances in film and TV -- we do it all the time on this show -- but what makes 1990's classic film Home Alone so interesting is that its lead is a compelling kid protagonist. We all know who Macaulay Culkin is because of this movie, and ri...
2020-12-10 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
When Demon's Souls silently snuck onto PlayStation 3 in 2009, it garnered critical acclaim both within and outside of Japan, but when it comes to the wider gaming consciousness, it was a slow burn. In fact, Sony thought so relatively little of Demon's Souls that it opted to pass on publishing it ...
2020-12-08 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We were about to wrap-up recording this week's show when some unexpected news broke: Long-time BioWare creative leads Casey Hudson and Mark Darrah have both left the EA-owned dev, and one can't help but wonder if they were pushed out the door. After all, modern BioWare is a far cry from the glory...
2020-12-04 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
There are really only a small handful of titles that are regularly bandied about as potential Best Game of All-Time, and 2005's Shadow of the Colossus is one of them. Created by Team ICO -- an internal group working out of Sony-owned Japan Studio -- Shadow of the Colossus is a truly breathtaking,...
2020-12-03 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!
I hope you're all well.
Just a quick note, in case you missed the announcement of my/our new game Habroxia 2 the other day. Like with Twin Breaker, we're doing a physical release on PS4...
With the PlayStation 5 launch game Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Sony and Insomniac have stumbled upon a good sort of problem. That is to say, they now have two protagonists -- a pair of Spider-Men, if you will -- that fans love. You've got Peter Parker from 2018's smash-hit PS4 Spider-Man (the cons...
2020-12-01 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Sabrina is a talented starpilot trained by her system-famous dad. But when her father is sent out on an important expedition and doesn't return home, Sabrina scurries to her ship and endeavors to look for him herself.
Habroxia 2 is a twin-stick arcade shooter with non-linear stages and pro...
There are a lot of understandably frustrated PlayStation fans out there right now. After all, PS5s are truly and persistently hard to come by, a situation unassisted by COVID, component shortages, a wobbly economy, and other macroeconomic factors. But -- much like the market for virtually any des...
2020-11-27 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Did you know KnockBack is a podcast about all things retro and nostalgia? It's true! Nearly 150 weeks into the project, we assume that's fairly well-established. But since this particular episode goes live on American Thanksgiving (for our Patrons, that is), we figured we'd do something just a li...
2020-11-26 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Sacred Symbols is a PlayStation podcast, so naturally we focus first and foremost on that brand and that ecosystem. But many of you out there know that we like to use + to sometimes explore what else is going on out there in the gaming world, particularly when it's germane to we Sony fans. And......
2020-11-24 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
You tell us.
2020-11-21 16:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Capcom has been the victim of a massive external hack, and the group responsible is apparently holding the company for digital ransom. Yet, the beloved Japanese publisher and developer has reportedly refused to yield, and as such, a treasure trove of ill-begotten information has been dumped on th...
2020-11-20 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We happen to love Studio Ghibli here on KnockBack, and we know that many of you do, too. However, Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 animated picture Princess Mononoke may be the most beloved movie in his team's extensive, decades-long filmography. The setup is simple: Ancient and solidified nature is in exis...
2020-11-19 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! This went up last week, but I forgot to share it here. =\
2020-11-17 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It goes without saying that PS5 is all the rage right now in the PlayStation ecosystem, and with good reason: Its physical aesthetic is controversial, but its powerful capabilities and opening salvo of games certainly isn't. Now that more and more of you -- our lovely audience -- have access to t...
2020-11-17 03:57:05 +0000 UTC View Post
