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Astro’s Playroom

One of the best PlayStation VR titles to date is getting a follow-up, named “Astro’s Playroom.” The iconic robot is back for his next adventure, and we saw him performing some new tricks, using a hang-glider for traversal in one level. It’ll be interesting to see how Japanese developer Team Asobi iterates on the previous, excellent title.

Hitman III

A CG trailer for "Hitman III’ debuted, with the tagline “Death Awaits.” IOI Interactive said this is the end of the current trilogy of games, where its first game was released in episodes. A gameplay reel for “Hitman III” showed Agent 47 climbing a skyscraper, so it seems his killing fields have not only expanded but risen.

“Solar Ash,” the second game from the developer of “Hyper Light Drifter,” features some of the general aesthetic qualities of the latter title, down to the music.

Jett: The Far Shore

“Jett: The Far Shore” appears to be a narrative-driven game about space exploration. Not much was shown besides sweeping, gray vistas of unexplored planets, but it’s made by Superbrothers, the heralded developers of “Sword and Sworcery,” a mobile game that debuted on iPhone and sold over 1.5 million copies.

Ghostwire: Tokyo

We got a better look at “Ghostwire: Tokyo,” a game that was first revealed with a short teaser last year. This comes after Ikumi Nakamura left the developer, Tango Gameworks, rather unceremoniously without much word (from the studio, or herself) as to what caused the departure.

“Ghostwire: Tokyo,” however, lives on. The peek we saw during today’s live event was brief, but it showed a horrifying view of Tokyo, where creepy beings (some without heads, or disrupted with a strange cyber interference) roam the world.

Oddworld Soulstorm

Longtime strategy game series “Oddworld” makes a much anticipated return, retaining its celebrated and dark art style, and looks to be the busiest, most action packed in the series yet.

“Oddworld Soulstorm” features the same gameplay of past games, with Abe leading an army against nightmarish captains of industry and capital to save the ecosystem.

Goodbye Volcano High

Sony showcased a story trailer for “Goodbye Volcano High,” a game about anthropomorphic teenage-looking animals. No release information was shared.

Kena: Bridge of Spirits

Created by two brothers, Josh Grier and Mike Grier of Ember Lab studio, “Kena: Bridge of Spirits” looks to be a mix between an action game and a platformer. It’s a story “filled with adventure and charm,” with themes of “personal growth and redemption.”

A young girl (presumably named Kena) wields a glowing-blue bow and arrow along with a magical staff. She seems in tune with the spirits of a strange land, where black, fuzzy beings run rampant (and sit on her shoulder) as well as beasts that roam who want to do harm.

No release date was given.

Destruction Allstars

“Destruction Allstars,” another first-party game, looks like it’ll mix up demolition derby style car combat with third-person platforming action. It appears as if players can exit their cars to perform more maneuvers and tricks. Cars also seem to have certain abilities, like a fender shield.

Sackboy: A Big Adventure

“LittleBigPlanet” mascot Sackboy gets his own game with “Sackboy: A Big Adventure” by Sumo Digital.

The series was among the first games to encourage a bustling creative online community, where players made their own physics-based levels. The trailer showed much of the platforming, but it’s not yet certain whether level editors will be available.

“Returnal” is a PlayStation exclusive and the open-world game looks to have an intriguing premise: A woman is stuck in a time-loop where she experiences traumatic events on repeat. The planet that her spacecraft crashes on is ever-changing with alien horrors. It’s also becoming “a part” of her, and affecting her sanity.

“Stray,” from indie publisher Annapurna Interactive, appears to be about a cat navigating a cyberpunk future inhabited not by cyberpunks, but actual cyborgs, who appear to have early Macintosh computers as heads. Little information was given, but the art design and atmosphere were very intriguing, including an “RIP Humans” graffiti and various computer people living out various social activities like cooking, delivering food and feeding cats.

Project Athia

“In a world not her own, where resolve will be tested truths will be questioned, and devotions will be tested — she will rise.”

These words appeared during a cinematic trailer for a new game published by Square Enix and developed by Luminous Productions.

Designed “exclusively for PS5,” Project Athia will feature a young woman. The teaser showed her on a journey through ruins filled with peril, beasts and dragons. It’s difficult to say what what genre it is, but it looks like it could be an RPG or action adventure game.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Insomniac Games made a second big announcement, as its original mascot stars “Ratchet & Clank” return. The series was a huge hit on the PlayStation 2 and 3, spawning several sequels that mixed platforming action with wildly inventive guns, including one that made the entire screen dance.

The sequel looks to be a much more cinematic affair, mirroring the “Uncharted” series from Naughty Dog, while still retaining the colorful, high-tech action.

“Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart” also introduced a new female character.

In the middle of the presentation, Insomniac Games’s Marcus Smith also boasted ray tracing lighting on Clank’s skin, and that the game will feature the characters exploring alternate dimensions, rather than the different planets of the past game.

Sony produced a Hollywood animated film for the two, but it ended as a critical and commercial failure, grossing $14 million in the box office, despite a $20 million budget. The tie-in game fared better, but critics said it lost much of the edgier charm that the past games had.

Sony staple Gran Turismo 7 starts its next-gen engine

The critically-acclaimed Gran Turismo series is coming to PS5. “Gran Turismo 7” comes after “Gran Turismo Sport,” the 2017 title that released on PS4. A short cinematic trailer was followed by gameplay, showing a first-person view of a racer driving on a track.

Spider-man returns

Insomniac Games revealed the sequel to the critically acclaimed “Spider-Man” from 2018. It will start Miles Morales, the “Ultimate Spider-Man” and the star of the hit Oscar-winning animated film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”

The first game starred Peter Parker, but also featured prominent scenes with Morales. The game ended with Parker and Morales in a Spider-mentorship that appears to continue with “Spider-Man: Miles Morales.”

It begins with ... confusion

After a tranquil introduction and a look back at some of Sony’s most celebrated titles from the PS4 era, the show began with a teaser for Grand Theft Auto V, a game that came out in 2013.

The trailer confirmed that the hugely popular action adventure game is coming to PS5, in an “expanded and enhanced” form, in 2021. Additionally, GTA Online will be free for PS5 players. Sony also offered $1 million per month in GTA online cash to all PS4 players until the PS5 releases.

The story so far ...

On Thursday, Sony Interactive Entertainment is promising to show players “the Future of Gaming.” The pretaped broadcast, which will stream on Twitch and YouTube at 1 p.m. Pacific time / 4 p.m. Eastern time, will show off the games coming to the PlayStation 5. Thus far, Sony has shown off the console’s new controller, as well as numerous technical specifications; the console itself has not yet been revealed.

The PlayStation 5 is scheduled to release around the holiday season, though some reports have raised questions around covid-19′s impact on the console supply chain and the number of units that will be available at launch.

“We’ve shared technical specifications and shown you the new DualSense wireless controller. But what is a launch without games?” wrote Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, in a blog post announcing the event. “The games coming to PS5 represent the best in the industry from innovative studios that span the globe. Studios, both larger and smaller, those newer and those more established, all have been hard at work developing games that will showcase the potential of the hardware.”

Sony’s official announcement, published via the PlayStation blog, recommends watching the stream with headphones on, citing “cool audio work in the show.” In a March 18 tech presentation, Mark Cerny, the lead system architect of the PlayStation 4, announced a series of innovations to the audio tech packaged in the PlayStation 5.

The event was previously scheduled for June 4, but was pushed back one week on account of the widespread protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis.

“While we understand gamers worldwide are excited to see PS5 games, we do not feel that right now is a time for celebration and for now, we want to stand back and allow more important voices to be heard,” explained a Sony spokesperson at the time.

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