State of Play kicked off with a trailer for Bandai Namco’s Tekken 8, shot on the PlayStation 5. Tekken veterans Jin Kazama and Kazuya Mishima threw bits of each other in the rain. Yes, it’s a new Tekken! Next, a game for PSVR2: Star Wars Tales from the enhanced version of Galaxy’s Edge. This will be released next year. And here’s another new PSVR2 game: the tabletop RPG-style dungeon crawler Demoe. Sega has unveiled a PS5 version of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s Yakuza spin-off Like a Dragon: Ishin, available outside of Japan for the first time in February 2023. Warner Bros has released a new trailer for the upcoming Harry Potter game, Hogwarts Legacy. There is a PlayStation exclusive Haunted Hogsmeade mission. Moving on! Here is Ironwood’s debut game Pacific Drive, which will be released in 2023 on PS5 and PC. It is a first-person driving survival game set in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Sony then discussed PlayStation Stars, its new rewards program. It includes “digital collectibles” of familiar PlayStation stuff, some of which you can see in the video. It launches later this month. Next, a new third-person sci-fi shooter called Synduality. It is from Bandai Namco and is expected to be released next year. Here’s a “PS5 exclusive,” as Sony put it (this suggests it’ll be coming to PC at some point): Stellar Blade is an action game that reminds me of Bayonetta. It was made by the Korean studio Shift Up and was codenamed Project Eve, if you remember that announcement from 2019. It will be released in 2023. Here’s another PS5 console exclusive: Rise of the Ronin is a scrolling action RPG from Team Ninja. It is expected to be released in 2024. State of Play concluded with the reveal of a God of War Ragnarok DualSense controller… … and a new trailer for the game itself. This is! Short and sweet, and focused on Japan, as Sony had said. What did you think of the state of the game? Does anything catch your eye?
