Concrete Genie is coming for the PSVR in the fall of 2019.
Concrete Genie is coming for the PSVR in the fall of 2019.
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Concrete Genie hands-on — A beautiful game that brings out your inner artist

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 3 min

Concrete Genie is about a kid whose job is to take a magic paintbrush and bring back colors to an ugly city.

Its trailer shows what the PlayStation 4 game’s story is like. It shows a young artist named Ash who is bullied at school, and how that sets the boy’s imagination loose in painting a town called Denska back to life. The orchestral music matches the sense of visual wonder in the game.

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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.