Yesterday, out of the blue, PlayStation announced that they would be having State of Play today focusing on games from some of its Japanese partners. This is leading up to Tokyo Game Show which returns in full force soon following the restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 10 games were shown, new reveals and updates for PS5, PS4, and PS VR2. Here is a breakdown of everything that was revealed during the State of Play.
During this year’s EVO, Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada announced that the next game in the series is in development. Not much was revealed during that time, just a very short look at character Jin . Today was the first official look at the Tekken 8. The trailer shown during the State of Play was taken directly from a certain part in Tekken 8’s story mode, played on PlayStation 5. The shown was real-time rendered footage, running at 60 frames per second.
Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge – Enhanced Edition is coming to PlayStation VR2 in 2023. The award-winning VR experience from Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB has been rebuilt to take advantage of the many enhancements that the new hardware offers.
Demeo is an award-winning tabletop dungeon crawler that has been released on PC and is available for VR. The game will be coming to PlayStation 5 and PS VR2 in 2023.
Like Dragon: Ishin! is coming to the states for the first time. Ishin! is an action-adventure historical thriller set uniquely in 1860s Kyo, a fictionalized version Kyoto. The story follows Sakamoto Ryoma, a true historical figure largely credited with overthrowing the shogunate and taking Japan into a radical reformation. Yakuza fans may recognize Ryoma as he is modeled after protagonist Kazuma Kiryu. Goro Majima and other Yakuza celebrities will be a part of the game as friends and foes.
Pacific Drive is a run-based fiirst-person driving survival game. As players explore the Zone, the car is your lifeline: scavenge resources to maintain and improve the car – as long as it keeps running, it will protect players from surrounding dangers.
The new trailer for Hogwarts Legacy highlights the PlayStation-exclusive quest, The Haunted Hogsmeade Shop. The quest is built into the core game and can be discovered by anyone playing on PlayStation. The synopsis for the quest reads: “Cassandra Mason has a shop to sell you in Hogsmeade, but all is not as it seems in this run-down establishment. What sinister secrets lie beneath Madam Mason’s shop and why was she so keen to sell it?”
Announced earlier this year, PlayStation Stars is new loyalty program that celebrates players for being part of the PlayStation community. Today, a new update on the program showcased the first look at the digital collectible rewards that players can earn through the program. Digital collectibles represent the things that PlayStation fans enjoy, including cherished devices that tap into Sony’s broader heritage in consumer electronics.
The first examples of digital collectibles include a scene with Punto the gondolier from Ape Escape 2, PlayStation 3, PocketStation, Toro and Kuro celebrating a birthday, Chord Machine, and Polygon Man.
Created just for PlayStation Stars, these digital collectibles can only be earned through the loyalty program. They range in rarity, just like the actual products on which they are based on or the effort required to earn them. Collectibles can be arranged in a virtual display within the PlayStation App and can be shown off within your PSN profile to friends.
There are many ways to earn collectibles but the primary way will be through Campaigns. Campaigns can range in what they require players to do. They may be a point-earning or collectible earning activity for example.
PlayStation Stars is set to launch in most markets later this month with Asia (including Japan), and the Americas and Europe to follow at a later date. It will first launch on the PlayStation app and expand to the console platform in the future.
A new story trailer was released for Stellar Blade, formerly known as Project Eve. The trailer reveals new characters and their roles in the story along with new gameplay footage. The story follows Eve and her comrades landing on the surface to reclaim the extinct Earth. Eve crosses path with a survivor named Adam as Eve finds the last surviving city, Xion. In order to serve her mission to save Earth, Eve develops close relationships with the key members of Xion and contributes to rebuilding the city.
Stellar Blade features action combat that’ll require deflecting and evading attacks at precise timing that also connects to combos and unique skills. Throughout the game, Eve will also arm herself with unique Beta Skills and intense Burst Skills.
Rise of the Ronin is a new action RPG game from Team Ninja that takes players on an epic and unfettered journey as a Ronin at the dawn of a new era in Japan. Rise of the Ronin is a combat focused open-world action RPG that takes place in Japan at a time of great change. It is the very end of a 300-year long Edo Period, commonly known as “Bakumatsu”. Set in the late 19th century, Japan is facing the darkest of times as it struggles with its oppressive rulers and deadly diseases while western influence permeates as civil war continues to rage between the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Anti-Shogunate factions.
Players embody a Ronin character, a warrior bound to no master and free to make choices of its own. The game features renowned combat action with Katanas and the likes, with new firearm weaponry that depicts the unique personality of the time period.
Synduality is a brand-new sci-fi third person shooter that is set in a dystopian future where poisonous rain and deformed creatures wreak havoc on the world. Players and the AI partner will have to find a way to work together and reclaim lost ground for humanity.
A new story trailer was released for God of War Ragnarök. A new synopsis reads: “As the All-Father moves his pieces to the board, Kratos and Atreus must decide if they will be bound by fate or look beyond what is written and make their own destinies.”
A new limited edition God of War Ragnarök DualSense Wireless Controller was also revealed. Its two-tone, cool blue on icy white design was inspired by the Norse world of Midgard, further embellished with bear and wolf insignia – representing Kratos and Atreus. The controller will be available when the game releases on November 9, 2022, for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.