PlayStation Boss Joked It Felt Like Marrying Off His Daughter Over Horizon MMO

NCSoft revealed Horizon Steel Frontiers late last year as an MMO spin-off that will have players grouping on PC and mobile to hunt the franchise’s prehistoric machines. In a recent interview, chief business officer Lee Seong-gu shared structural and timing details and relayed a remark from Hermen Hulst, former Guerrilla Games studio head and current CEO of the PlayStation studio business group.

Lee said Hulst joked, 'Please do not kill [a] Tallneck (a giraffe-shaped machine),' and added, 'Please take good care of Aloy. It feels like I am sending off my daughter at the aisle.' Aloy seemingly won’t be playable in the game but could still appear in cutscenes.

Lee said he made several trips to the studio’s Dutch officer to pitch Horizon Steel Frontiers and to prove he was a fan. He also said it was Sony’s idea to reveal the MMO at Gamescom 2025, but he convinced the company to let NCSoft show it to a Korean audience first at G-Star 2025.

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