Conversations with Creators: Santa Monica Studios

The fourth and final episode of Conversations with Creators, hosted by Wil Wheaton, is now out and in the wild on PlayStation Store and on YouTube.

For some strange reason they asked us to be on it. This action-packed, verbal free-for-all includes long time Santa Monica Studio greats; Creative Director Nate Gary, Lead Combat Designer Jason MacDonald, and Studio Head Shannon Studstill… along with the guy who gets them coffee and asks if he can buy a plane — me.

As you all have seen from the previous conversations, we sit in a circular blue room and talk video games for a little more than thirty minutes… which is actually nice (taking time out of the insanity of development to reflect a bit on the past, present and future of what we do). I personally loved hearing the inside story from the devs at Naughty Dog, so hopefully ours is as illuminating.

We are discounting many of the top Santa Monica Studio games on PlayStation Store beginning Tuesday afternoon so there has never been a better time to play, including Escape Plan, The Unfinished Swan, Flower, and much more. Also, if you haven’t yet, grab yourself a copy of God of War III Remastered and feast your eyes on the epic finale.

Thank you to every single player of Santa Monica Studio games as well as all players of games across the world who are helping to make this incredible art form better and better each day!

[US PlayStation Blog]

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Victor Dima is a Blind Gaming Journalist and Accessibility Ambassador, Living in Oslo with his wife Alina. Victor was the first journalist in Romania to receive the PS5 & the PS VR2 from PlayStation. He is also working closely with Xbox Nordic and other game publishers such as Ubisoft, Ea, Bungie, Activision, blizzard, square Enix, Capcom, Rockstar Games, Sega, PlayStation studios, WB Games, Bethesda and many others. With over 12 years of experience covering the Gaming Industry, he started victordima.net in 2013 and since February 2022 all his articles are posted in English in order to reach a more global audience. He is the owner and founder of the highly successful PlayStation Fans Romania Facebook Community, the largest independent source for PlayStation News in Romania, on social media with almost 35.000 followers. Victor is also running theAudiobookBlog.com. You can reach Victor at contact@victordima.net

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