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Guerrilla Games explains the story behind the PlayStation 4’s Horizon: Zero Dawn

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Horizon: Zero Dawn is one of Sony’s biggest exclusives coming for the PlayStation 4 in 2017. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo  (E3), we received a briefing on the single-player story behind the title.

John Gonzalez, lead writer on the project at developer Guerrilla Games, said the open-world action role-playing game is set 1,000 years in the future, after a catastrophe has sent humankind back to the Stone Age. Humans are no longer the dominant species. Nature has reclaimed the Earth.

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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.