Arise: A Simple Story comes from Piccolo Studio in Barcelona.
Arise: A Simple Story comes from Piccolo Studio in Barcelona.
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Techland’s Arise: A Simple Story lets players look back on and relive someone’s life

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Arise: A Simple Story is a very different kind of video game. And if you think about its genesis and where it came from, it becomes a bit easier to understand how it came to be.

Polish game publisher Techland (maker of Dying Light) is publishing the game on December 3 for $20 on the PlaySation 4, Xbox One, and the PC via the Epic Games Store. It is the first title from Piccolo Studio in Barcelona, and game director Alexis Corominas walked me through a demo yesterday. It’s about an old man who dies, and then awakens in limbo. He gains the ability to look back on his life and relive it.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.