Tag Archives: ico

Ico, the influential PS2 classic from the same team as Shadow of the Colossus, has been spotted running on a Vita.

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Kenji Kaido, who had produced the critically acclaimed PlayStation 2 games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, has left Sony.

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If last week’s quote from the head of PlayStation software development, Scott Rhode, wasn’t enough to put your mind at ease with regard to highly anticipated and in-no-way-canned Sony title, The Last Guardian, here’s another. This time it’s from the beautiful mind that brought us Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and is helping to (eventually) bring us The Last Guardian, the man himself, Fumito Ueda, who told Kotaku that work is indeed coming along on the title, “It’s been business as usual,” he said. “The only things that’ve really changed are the terms of my contract.”

So, there you have it. What more could you possibly want? Oh, you want the actual game? Oh. Right.

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Sony’s announced Ico and Shadow of the Colossus will be made available next week on January 17 through PSN, and will run you $20 each. Crysis 2 will also be released through the service for $40, along with Rainbow Six Vegas and Splinter Cell: Double Agent, which will run you $20 each. The releases were announced via this week’s PlayStation Blogcast. Thanks, Joystiq.

Hooray. It’s Saturday. Time to kiss and make up with the previous days of the week and go on about your business.

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It’s time for more little bits of news in one spot so you don’t have to read as much. Save your lovely brains for zombies instead. They need to eat too, ya know.

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I couldn’t think of anything witty to say on this shorts post, and because of this, there isn’t an esoteric shot to go along with it. That’s okay, my gorgeous dog will suffice.

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We missed these in the avalanche of Tokyo Game Show videos that came our way yesterday. Sony released two brand new trailers of the ICO and Shadow of the Colossus Collection, each highlighting both games. In all honesty, is there anyone who isn’t interested in this pack? It should be mandatory you all get it. Get the videos below the break.

The Team ICO-made collection releases on September 27 in the US and September 28 in the UK.

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Time for another round of shorts. Don’t worry, this is a quickie.

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It’s time for your last batch of shorts for the weekend, which we are officially dubbing the malaise edition. Read onward.

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Loads of people are getting excited for the impending HD remasters of Shadow of the Colossus and Ico slated to release late next month, and these bonus features aren’t going to do much to kill the fervor.
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IGN’s gone up with at least more than 15 minutes worth of footage from the ICO and Shadow of the Colossus Collection. There’s the first five minutes of ICO, more than ten minutes worth from the opening of Colossus and more. They look utterly stunning, so go watch them after the break. The pack’s out at the end of September for PS3.

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Viz Media has said it’s to publish a novel based on ICO from author Miyuki Miyabe. Subtitled Castle in the Mist, the book will be published in the US on August 16 for $14.99. Pre-orders are been taken right now from Viz’s website. The novel’s launch comes before the HD re-release of the game itself in September for PS3.

Thanks, D’Toid.

Brian Dunn, Sony’s associate product marketing manager, has said on the PS Blog that the ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection for PS3 will come with a voucher for two XMB Dynamic Themes, one for ICO and one for Shadow of the Colossus. The disc will also include video content from ICO, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian. More information on the collection is promised soon. The collection, which includes full 1080p HD and stereoscopic 3D support, 7.1 surround sound, and full PSN Trophy support for $39.99 hits stores on September 27.

Yeah. This is a lot more than just “good.”

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Question: How do Ico and Shadow of the Colossus look after their HD brush up? Answer: Pretty damn slick. Get all misty-eyed over frame rate improvements through the cut.

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Sony has put a Japanese date and price on the much anticipated HD remakes of PS2 classics ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, as well as releasing a new trailer detailing the releases.

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The Information Commissioner’s Office is set to talk to Sony after it was announced by the company last night that personal data was taken from millions of PSN users following an “external intrusion” into the network by hackers.

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Sadly, the news can’t all be about Portal 2 releasing early and Bethesda’s Skyrim. No, some days the news is bad.

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Sound-bites, snippets, bullshit. Read these quickly. As opposed to slowly.

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