As explained in our Horizon: Zero Dawn review , the PS4's latest exclusive is a spectacular achievement for Guerrilla Games. For a studio that has focussed for over a decade on making largely linear shooters, the shift to a wide open action role-playing game with an emphasis on patiently hunting and trapping crazy robot dinosaurs is deeply impressive. We've had to put together multiple Horizon: Zero Dawn guides and walkthroughs to explain some of its more complex quests. The question is: how are those quests made? Horizon: Zero Dawn lead quest designer David Ford joined us to talk about making missions from a story point of you, how being a Marine informs his work as a game designer, and how to go from Star Wars Galaxies character support to making one of the most technologically advanced PS4 games.
Horizon Zero Dawn star Ashly Burch responds to Sony's controversial AI Aloy by pushing for actor protections: "You have to compensate us fairly, and you have to tell us how you're using this AI"
Horizon Zero Dawn's Aloy is the star of Sony's leaked AI-powered character prototype, which allows users to ask questions to an unsettling, emotionless version of the protagonist
