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‘‘Song In The Smoke launched at a weird time,” Jake Kazdal, CEO and creative director of developer 17-Bit, reflects as we discuss the game’s original October 2021 launch. “Sony support was great [in terms of] getting the title going, and funding things, and supporting us developing the game, but PSVR1 was losing steam. Sony wasn’t really focused on it, and PSVR2 had just been announced, so all the excitement was going on that. It was kind of a really unfortunate launch window for us.”

Fortunately, the survival game won’t be lost to the mists. Song In The Smoke Rekindled is one of over 30 launch games coming to PSVR2 on 22 February. Thanks to the capabilities of the new hardware, Kazdal tells us, Rekindled is far more than a simple rerelease, with brand new assets, extra detail, and

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