Magical art in Concrete Genie.
Magical art in Concrete Genie.
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Concrete Genie hands-on video — escaping bullies and restoring a town with art

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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It’s hard to screw up the art that you splash on the walls of a town in Concrete Genie. You use the motion controller for the PlayStation 4 to “paint” art templates onto the town in hopes of bringing the abandoned fishing village of Denska back to life.

The game from Sony’s small Pixelopus studio in San Mateo, California, releases for $30 on October 8, exclusively for the PlayStation 4. I’ve finished the game and will post a full review later. But for now, I’ll show you my opening gameplay video and the beginning of 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.