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 V...
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 loca...
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 spoilerc...
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 KnockBa...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 Du...
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 ...
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...
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 lik...
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 wit...
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 le...
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....
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 hel...
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 inte...
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 ...
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, i...
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 l...
2020-11-30 17:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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, ...
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 g...
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 el...
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 reported...
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'...
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 salv...
2020-11-17 03:57:05 +0000 UTC View Post
