--- description: West said that the idea behind the game, titled "Only One," is his mom's journey through the gates of heaven. title: Here's the Preview for Kanye West's Angelic New Video Game image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's the Preview for Kanye West's Deeply Spiritual Video Game, 'Only One'  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 14, 2016 4:10 PM CUT  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 14, 2016 4:10 PM CUT Kanye West — artist and [boundary breaker](http://time.com/3822841/kanye-west-2015-time-100/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined") — has been teasing his new video game for a while now, but yesterday we got the first proper look at “Only One” at the [Electronic Entertainment Expo](http://www.e3expo.com/takeover "undefined") in Los Angeles. In the just-released preview, a choir sings a version of his song “Only One” while characters clad in white ascend through cotton-candy clouds to the heavens. The clip focuses on a woman who rides a pegasus and then receives her own wings: most likely a reference to his mother, Donda West, who passed away in 2007. West first announced the project at his Life of Pablo show in New York in February, [when he said](http://pitchfork.com/news/63485-kanye-west-announces-only-one-video-game/ "undefined") “the idea of the game is my mom traveling through the gates of heaven.” No release date has been announced, and the preview footage is more of a teaser than an introduction to the game — but the divine imagery and religious subject matter certainly make for a distinctive first foray into the gaming space from West. And his “nerd” phase seems set to last: he [tentatively titled](https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/703446573552967680 "undefined") his next album “Turbo Grafx 16” in reference to a video game console from the 1990s. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4368274/kanye-west-video-game-only-one/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4368274/kanye-west-video-game-only-one/"},"headline":"Here's the Preview for Kanye West's Deeply Spiritual Video Game, 'Only One'","datePublished":"2016-06-14T16:10:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:20.646Z","description":"\"You keep on rising till the sky knows your name.\"","url":"https://time.com/4368274/kanye-west-video-game-only-one/","keywords":["celebrities","Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4368274/kanye-west-video-game-only-one/","name":"Here's the Preview for Kanye West's Deeply Spiritual Video Game, 'Only One'"}}]}] ```