There’s so much about Ico that’s stuck with me since I first played the game in 2001 — its gorgeous aesthetic, subtle and silent storytelling, and its melancholy ending.

Ico weaves the tale of a young boy trying to escape his imprisonment in a large, vacant castle. Along the way, he discovers another captive--a beautiful princess named Yorda. Players control Ico ...

I like to think that 'Ico' means 'beautiful thing' in some exotic foreign language. Because it is truly a thing of beauty. I'm not just talking about the ...

I'd already been getting a bit of an Ico vibe from this new Xbox game I was playing, called Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, but the benches clinched it.These, I thought, had to be an homage to the ...

I n a ten-year-old interview with the Guardian, Elden Ring director and creator Hidetaka Miyazaki credited the early-2000s PlayStation 2 game Ico as having an incredible impact on his life ...

T he cruel truth about the video game industry is that there are simply too many releases trying to grab the audience's attention. With an ever-growing timeline of titles, spanning back further ...

Game: ICO Song: You Were There Composer: Michiru Oshima, Koicih Yamazaki, ... Ico, who had literally led Yorda around by the hand for most of the game, now lays battered and weakened.

Ultimately, Ico is somewhere between an adventure experience and a puzzle game. When it comes to solving conundrums in games there’s a thin line between design genius and hurling a controller.

Source: Sony-centric game site PlayStation LifeStyle.net. What we heard: As the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo approaches, the game-industry rumor mill is spinning up faster than the ...

The creators behind cult PS2 classic Ico have marked the game’s 20th anniversary with a look at its earliest iteration. The video’s description (translated) says the footage dates from 1998 ...