Shu's personal history of PlayStation - and the rest of Saturday's EGX sessions

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Next week sees the 20th anniversary of PlayStation's launch in the UK, and to mark the occasion EGX 2015 in Birmingham's NEC received a very special visitor - Sony's Worldwide Studios boss, Shuhei Yoshida. Shu isn't just a Twitter celebrity and ranking Sony executive, he's been part of the PlayStation project since the very beginning: early 1993, to be precise, when Ken Kutaragi first started pitching a games console internally, and before there was even such a thing as Sony Computer Entertainment.
As such it was a real treat for me to sit with him on the developer sessions stage and discuss the remarkable two-decade journey Sony has taken in video games. You can watch the full thing below.
Next up on the stage, Chris Delay and Mark Morris from Introversion revealed that after a lengthy spell in early access, their hit management sim Prison Architect would reach the magical version 1.0 in a couple of weeks - with a few new features, including a story mode and an escape mode that flips the gameplay on its head.
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