Sony kicked off the annual summer season recreation fest (forward of precise, Geoff Keighley-approved Summer time Recreation Fest) on Wednesday with a brand new State of Play showcase. The 50-minute presentation was stuffed with updates on PlayStation 5 video games like Pragmatic and Silent Hill fin addition to shock recreation bulletins, together with a brand new Marvel combating recreation from Responsible Gear developer Arc System Works, a brand new Lumines, and a brand new Nioh.
When you couldn’t watch June’s State of Play showcase dwell, right here’s a recap of all the sport bulletins, launch dates, trailers, and different highlights from Sony’s stream.
Marvel Tōkon: Preventing Souls
Arc System Works is making a Marvel combating recreation, that includes Captain America, Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, Iron Man, Physician Doom, and lots of extra of Earth’s mightiest heroes. And it seems to be sick. Marvel Tōkon: Preventing Souls is a 4v4 tag fighter coming to PlayStation 5 and PC in 2026.
Last Fantasy Ways returns
A brand new model of the technique role-playing recreation basic returns as Last Fantasy Ways: The Ivalice Chronicles. A brand new enhanced model provides “totally voiced dialogue, an optimized and up to date UI, graphical enhancements, and plenty of different high quality of life options,” whereas the basic model “unites the graphics and gameplay of the unique recreation with the famend Struggle of the Lions translation and consists of handy options reminiscent of auto save.”
Rez and Tetris Impact developer Improve Video games introduced a brand new entry within the Lumines puzzle recreation sequence known as Lumines Come up. Like Tetris Impactit seems to be like a music and emotion-infused tackle a basic puzzle recreation. Lumines Come up is coming to PS5 and PSVR 2 in fall 2025.
Capcom’s Pragmata (lastly) coming in 2026
First revealed in 2020 alongside the PlayStation 5Capcom’s long-delayed sci-fi motion recreation Pragmatic has come out of hiding… with a 2026 launch window.
Workforce Ninja’s motion sequence Nioh returns in early 2026 with NIOH 3. To ease the wait, a demo is out there now for PS5.
Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection
Digital Eclipse is tackling the Mortal Kombat franchise for its subsequent deep dive into gaming historical past. Anticipate an exhaustive assortment of arcade, console, and handheld variations of early Mortal Kombat video games, paired with behind-the-scenes and creator interviews. Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is out in 2025.
Konami and developer NeoBards gave PlayStation followers a terrifying new take a look at horror recreation Silent Hill fwhich is out surprisingly quickly — Sept. 25!
Steel Gear Stable Delta: Snake Eater
Konami supplied one other take a look at its Steel Gear Stable 3: Snake Eater remake, and teased a bit extra in regards to the additional content material it’s bringing to Delta — which is out in August on PlayStation 5 and different platforms. It’s the summer season of Konami!
Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement
The Castlevania-like franchise Bloodstained is getting an all-new entry, Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement. The brand new Bloodstained is a prequel to Ritual of the Night time and “follows Leo and the fearless Black Wolves as they put together to storm the cursed Ethereal Citadel and confront the rising darkness.” It’s out in 2026.
Romeo is a Lifeless Man introduced
Wacky, bloody, and action-packed, Romeo is a Lifeless Man has developer Grasshopper Manufacture written throughout it. It’s coming to PS5 in 2026.
Sea of Remnants is a trendy new pirate-themed “F2P voyage-themed RPG.” Gamers will recruit crew, discover new routes, battle enemies in turn-based fight, construct a singular island life, and carve the reminiscence into the infinite tides, in keeping with the developer.
Retaining issues moist, Tides of Tomorrow is a colourful multiplayer story recreation set on Elynd, an oceanic planet, “the place life is dealing with extinction from a pandemic however all of the gamers are the chosen ones to form its future.”
Digimon Story Time Stranger will get a launch date
The subsequent installment within the Digimon Story sequence is coming to PS5 on Oct. 3. As an agent of a secret group, journey by way of the human world and Digital World, gathering and elevating Digimon to struggle in turn-based battles.
Undertaking Defiant — it’s a struggle stick!
PlayStation’s making its personal struggle stick, promising “exact in-game response with ultra-low latency wi-fi and wired play choices, together with a sturdy, ergonomic design that’s constructed for battle.”
Hey! There’s a brand new Thief recreation! It’s known as Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow. Subsequently, it’s a VR recreation. So…
We obtained a launch date for trendy journey Sword of the Sea: It’s out Aug. 19.
In different launch date information, mountain-climbing journey Cairn arrives Nov. 5. A demo is out there now.
The 2D throwback based mostly on Ninja Gaiden is out July 31.
Paper-folding action-adventure recreation Hirogami is coming to PS5 on Sept. 3.
Virtually there… delightfully enjoyable strolling simulator (complimentary) Child Steps arrives Sept. 8.
