"Taking several years with several thousand people… It's almost impossible" – PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi on the current state of gaming

Middlesbrough is probably the last place we expected to meet Ken Kutaragi, widely known as the father of the PlayStation. He admits he hadn't heard of the northern UK town before he was invited here to give a talk at the second Game Republic New Horizons event on October 15. But speaking to GamesIndustry.biz after his keynote, he says he's warmed to it. "I am very amazed. It's a very, very strange city," he says. He comments on the town's industrial past and its newly emerging tech sector, home to studios like Double Eleven, Dink, and Behaviour Interactive.