Sacred Symbols, Episode 236 | Science Is The Captain (Patreon)

It's easy enough to forget (especially these days) that Sony is, first and foremost, an electronics company. So perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that the company showed up to CES not only to show off its upcoming PlayStation VR2, but also something brand new: A fresh controller codenamed Project Leonardo, one designed with maximum accessibility in mind. By leveraging the power of tech, video games can reach even more people if they simply cater to them, and when it comes to the disabled, Microsoft proved nearly five years ago that their so-called adaptive controller represented something real. It's finally time for Sony to follow suit. Plus: PlayStation 5 surpasses 30 million units sold, The Last of Us: Factions gets teased yet again, Hitman turns into the World of Assassination, and more. Then: Listener inquiries! Is gaming culture broken? How important was Shuhei Yoshida to PlayStation's first party output? When can we expect to (at last!) play Six Days in Fallujah? Is hand sanitizer essential, or a prophet of dryness?

Timestamps:

0:00:00 - Intro

0:12:36 - How do we prepare for spoilercasts?

0:16:38 - HOEG!

0:19:25 - Our new show, Constellation

0:28:21 - Last Stand Live

0:31:03 - A brief Sacred Symbols history

0:33:37 - Wutch?

0:39:03 - What are our thoughts on hand sanitizer?

0:48:28 - Luigi Board

0:55:28 - What do we think about Starfield?

1:14:18 - Microsoft and the FTC have not had any substantive settlement discussions

1:16:00 - GT7 is coming to PSVR2 and the Gran Turismo movie gets its first look

1:19:52 - Atlus discusses the future

1:24:32 - Yoshinori Kitase teases a big announcement

1:30:47 - EA lost a bunch of Madden franchise data

1:35:47 - Bungie is working on multiple games with Sony

1:40:52 - What have we been playing?

2:21:07 - Sony announced a new accessibility focused controller, Project Leonardo

2:31:38 - PS5 has surpassed 30 million units sold

2:37:24 - Five Silent Hill games are potentially in development

2:44:01 - Neil Druckmann spills some info on The Last of Us franchise

2:50:47 - IO Interactive is combining the Hitman games into The World of Assassination

3:01:38 - Wizards of the Coast has canceled some of their upcoming games

3:12:10 - January’s PS+ games have been revealed

3:14:39 - How do we feel about gamer culture?

3:31:39 - Where is 6 Days in Fallujah?

3:32:36 - How do we feel about the Dead Space and Resident Evil 4 remakes?

3:38:55 - What grade do we give Shu?

3:50:05 - Does DualSense have premature notification issues?

3:56:55 - Have we discovered anything new in the last year?