Fumito Ueda is Rethinking The Companion Relationship That Defined His Career

Confira os detalhes que estao repercutindo. First revealed a year and a half ago at 2024's The Game Awards as Project Robot , Fumito Ueda’s new game broke cover at Summer Game Fest earlier this month with new details (it has guns?), a new name (Gen Atlas), and some face time with its renowned creator.

De acordo com informacoes, Ueda is one of gaming’s true auteurs, having directed three of the medium’s most beloved, singular games: Ico (2001), Shadow of the Colossus (2005), and The Last Guardian (2016), each produced for PlayStation consoles. The first two were developed under Ueda’s Team Ico banner inside Sony while The Last Guardian took a more complicated route to release, with Ueda directing inside Sony, then as a contractor, and then as the lead of his own independent studio, GenDesign. Now, a decade after the release of his last game, Ueda and GenDesign are back with a new publisher, a new game, and maybe a new outlook on game development.

GameSpot spoke with him inside Epic Games’ booth at Summer Game Fest earlier this month. We started, where else, by asking Ueda about the scene that literally elicited gasps from the crowd when it was revealed in the trailer: The protagonist uses guns. Perhaps unsurprisingly for a game codenamed Project Robot, the project “started with giant robots at its core, and then slowly but surely, we started world building,” Ueda tells GameSpot. “Once we got into this phase of, okay, this is going to be a sci-fi universe, I think it's not unnatural to have guns, other weapons and to have shooting in action. Fique de olho nas proximas publicacoes.