What You Might Have Missed From the PlayStation State of Play

Yesterday’s PlayStation State of Play showcase featured forty minutes of announcements, reveals, and more. Announcements included a release date for Borderlands 4, the next game in The Dark Picture Anthology series, a new trailer that shifted the tone of Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and the next title from the developers of Returnal. But there are also plenty of other exciting announcements you might have missed.

Highlights you might have missed from the PlayStation State of Play

Early on in the presentation, fans were treated to the announcement trailer for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds. This kart racer looks like it has all the favorite Sonic characters, and each race will take place across various worlds, using ring portals to travel between them. This is just an announcement, so there is no release date yet.

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Also from Sega is Shinobi: Art of Vengeance. This announcement trailer comes as part of Sega’s return to its classic games announced at the 2023 Game Awards. Whether you played the original or not, this 2D action platformer has a beautiful art style and looks to be an exciting revisit to the series, which hasn’t seen a new game since 2011.

For fans of 3D action games, Hell Is Us from developer Rogue Factor got a new trailer during the State of Play along with a release date of September 4th, 2025. This original action game features some strange sequences and characters, and overall, it’s hard to tell exactly what’s going on in this new trailer, but the action looks great. If you were a fan of 2023’s Pinocchio-inspired souls-like, Lies of P, you will be excited to learn that DLC is on the way. A new trailer revealed Lies of P: Overture will take players to new wintery locations and introduce more challenging boss battles and peculiar characters.

One of the most unexpected announcements came from Konami. The trailer for the studio’s upcoming game Darwin’s Paradox!, puts the player in the place of an octopus. The player must use stealth and camouflage to explore and survive the surface world in this action-adventure platformer. It sounds strange, but the gameplay looks good.

A few other smaller games also got some time in the spotlight. Blue Prince from develop Dogubomb is a mysterious puzzle adventure where the player constructs and explores a mansion, in that order. From developer Moon Hood, The Midnight Walk got a release date for May 8th, 2025. This dark Claymation-style adventure comes from the creators of Lost In Random and will be playable on PS VR2 as well as other platforms.

Finally, the trailer for Tides of Annihilation from Eclipse Glow Games turned some heads with its dark, apocalyptic, fantastic portrayal of London in this new action-adventure game. The announcement trailer shows the protagonist using spectral knights to fight enemies, as well as climbing upon enormous hulking creatures as they walk about the landscape. This is the first trailer we have seen of this game, but it could quickly become a game players look out for.

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