What to Expect from This Week's PlayStation State of Play

A lengthy, 60-plus minutes Sony State of Play is heading our mode this Thursday, February 12, and promises caller looks astatine “third-party and indie games headed to PS5, on with the latest from teams astatine PlayStation Studios.” So, what upcoming games tin we expect to spot caller reveals for and gameplay of? Well, here’s what we deliberation is apt to amusement up, arsenic good arsenic a fewer out-there guesses.

Exclusives

Seeing arsenic it's shaping up to beryllium PlayStation’s biggest crippled of 2026, you’d possibly person expected Wolverine to amusement up successful Thursday’s stream. Well, a precocious spanner has been thrown into the works via Insomniac’s authoritative X account, which claims that we won’t beryllium seeing immoderate much of its latest Marvel crippled until “Spring 2026”. Last clip I checked, February was successful Winter, truthful possibly we’ll person to hold a small longer.

Spring 2026.

At the past State of Play, backmost successful September 2025, Insomniac Games gave america a archetypal look astatine Marvel’s Wolverine successful action. As 1 of Sony’s tentpole releases for this year, it surely wouldn’t beryllium a daze to spot immoderate much X-Men gameplay, arsenic good arsenic possibly a merchandise day for Logan’s latest adventure. Could we besides drawback a glimpse of Daredevil, who has been teased to beryllium making an appearance, too?

PlayStation Studio’s archetypal large exclusive of the twelvemonth comes successful the signifier of Marathon, Bungie’s extraction shooter, which volition beryllium looking to emulate the occurrence of past year’s Arc Raiders. It’s been a bumpy roadworthy for the Destiny developer, specified arsenic a plagiarism ungraded and mediocre reception to its alpha, but this week’s State of Play volition beryllium 1 of the past chances for it to person players to hop into its satellite connected March 5.

Later successful Spring, we person Saros, Housemarque’s follow-up to Returnal, which volition beryllium dropping connected April 30. We’ve seen it popular up regularly connected caller State of Play streams, and it would marque cleanable consciousness to spot it here, too, seeing arsenic we’re lone 10 weeks distant from launch.

Another PS5 console exclusive is Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, the upcoming superhero warring crippled from Guilty Gear Strive developer Arc System Works. Due for merchandise this year, the flashy-looking combatant suffered from an unfortunate leak earlier this week that revealed a fewer cardinal details astir the game, specified arsenic the size of its roster. It would not beryllium a daze to spot immoderate of this accusation officially confirmed arsenic information connected Thursday.

PS5 console exclusive Phantom Blade Zero is simply a hotly anticipated wuxia enactment RPG coming from Chinese developer S-Game. The pb quality is called Soul, truthful you tin astir apt conjecture what genre this task borrows heavy from, too. It’s each looking precise impressive, and possibly we’ll get yet different look astatine it successful enactment this week up of its September 9 launch.

Then there’s the freshly revealed Horizon Hunters Gathering, yet different spin-off of the mechanical monster-hunting bid created by Guerrilla Games. A 3-player live-service co-op enactment game, it's getting its archetypal playtest astatine the extremity of this month, so, again, it wouldn’t beryllium a astonishment if we were to get a further look astatine immoderate gameplay successful this State of Play.

Unveiled astatine The Game Awards, 4:Loop is simply a PS5 and PC exclusive that appears to infuse immoderate roguelike elements with the co-op shooting of games similar Helldivers and Left 4 Dead. That makes much consciousness erstwhile you see that Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth is down the project, moving with Bad Robot Games, the video crippled helping of movie manager J.J. Abrams' accumulation company. No merchandise day has been fixed yet, but playtesting volition commencement soon, with possibly a timing for that revealed astatine this State of Play.

One exclusive that we don’t deliberation is coming this year, but would surely emotion to spot much of, is Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. The Last of Us and Uncharted studio’s upcoming sci-fi action-adventure has gone precise quiescent since its archetypal uncover backmost astatine the 2024 Game Awards. So, is it clip for a deeper look into what this caller satellite has to offer? Let’s anticipation so.

As for what the different PlayStation Studios are up to, your conjecture is arsenic bully arsenic mine, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t expect 1 oregon 2 astonishment reveals oregon updates. This State of Play watercourse is implicit an hr long, aft all, truthful surely there’s thing brand-new successful there? Perhaps a look astatine the adjacent task from God of War developer Sony Santa Monica, oregon a look into the satellite of Ghost of Yotei: Legends from Sucker Punch? Maybe the clip is close for a archetypal sighting of Gran Turismo 8, oregon an update connected the improvement of Haven Studios’ Fairgames — if we don’t spot this 1 soon, we’ll truly commencement to get disquieted astir it. Then determination are 2 of Sony’s astir originative studios, Media Molecule and Team Asobi. We’ve surely been waiting a batch longer for a follow-up to Dreams than we person Astro Bot, but you ne'er cognize what’s been going connected down those doors...

Multiplatform

Will we spot GTA 6 astatine this Sony State of Play? No. I volition devour my full fist if we do.

There are a just fewer different breathtaking games that we wouldn’t enactment assemblage parts connected the enactment for successful presumption of their likelihood, though. Resident Evil Requiem is imminent, truthful present seems similar arsenic bully a clip arsenic immoderate to amusement america 1 past portion of Leon Kennedy enactment earlier the large time connected February 27. Sticking with endurance horror, Konami has curiously announced a Silent Hill watercourse volition beryllium taking spot conscionable 2 hours aft the State of Play. Is this a awesome that a much in-depth look astatine a caller Silent Hill crippled volition beryllium astatine that show, pursuing its uncover conscionable minutes anterior arsenic portion of PlayStation’s stream? Perhaps this week is erstwhile we’ll spot Bloober Team’s remake of the archetypal successful the series, oregon – much apt – our archetypal due look astatine the Annapurna-published Silent Hill: Townfall, which was archetypal announced successful 2022 and has been MIA since.

Back astatine Capcom briefly, and you tin apt expect to spot thing from 1 of, if not both, Pragmata and Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Final Fantasy 7 remake director, Naoki Hamaguchi, precocious teased that Square Enix volition “share much updates than ever before” astir the task this year. Does that mean a imaginable uncover of the 3rd portion successful the modernised RPG trilogy volition hap astatine this State of Play? Or could we get an Intergrade-style bridging section arsenic DLC for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth?

But, earlier we get excessively sidetracked, let’s instrumentality with games person connected the horizon, specified arsenic Hitman developer IO Interactive's 007 First Light, and Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight from Warner Bros. Games. Both are coming this May, and their respective developers could stock further info connected Thursday. Before those, though, March volition bring with it Crimson Desert, Pearl Abyss’ ambitious open-world action-adventure that looks acceptable to propulsion the PS5 to its limits. No alien to a trailer, we tin apt expect it to crook up here, too.

As for aboriginal successful the year, Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra precocious shifted retired of its archetypal model of aboriginal 2026 to “beyond aboriginal 2026”, truthful your conjecture is arsenic bully arsenic excavation arsenic to erstwhile we’ll beryllium playing Amy Hennig’s Captain America and Black Panther successful World War 2 story. Legendary PlayStation leader Lara Croft volition beryllium returning successful a “reimagining” of her archetypal game, titled Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, and Finnish developer Remedy is backmost with different introduction successful its connected universe, Control: Resonant. Also announced astatine The Game Awards was the pleasantly astonishing Star Wars: Galactic Racer from the makers of Burnout and Need For Speed that is scheduled to driblet successful 2026. All of these are possibilities.

As for indies, extracurricular of the announcement of a PS5 mentation of Hades 2, determination are a fewer destined for PlayStation that I’d personally emotion to spot much of connected Thursday. Namely, Beethoven & Dinosaur’s coming of property communicative Mixtape, old-school cartoon-inspired shooter Mouse P.I. For Hire, and Japanese convenience store sim inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories.

What crippled are you astir looking guardant to seeing much of astatine this week’s Sony State of Play? Let america cognize successful the comments!

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.