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Mark Cerny’s Knack 2 has big gameplay improvements

When I stepped into a room at Sony’s U.S. game headquarters in San Mateo, California, Mark Cerny put a game controller in my hands to show me Knack 2. He wanted the game to speak for itself in the first real preview session for the PlayStation 4 game, which will debut in the second half of the year.

Cerny’s original Knack debuted as a launch title on the PS4. Critics panned it, but it sold well enough to justify a sequel. And Sony is eager to show that this game is a lot different from the original, with more fun moment-to-moment gameplay, better graphics, a larger variety of actions and landscapes, and more platform puzzle solving.

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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.