Sony State of Play 2026

There were a few things that caught my eye at the recent Sony State of Play, so I thought I’d write a quick post covering them. Once again, it’s pretty irritating how Sony chooses not to list all of the platforms these games are coming to. In the case of stuff like Marathon it really makes no sense to me! Given how many live service games flop hard at release these days, and given Marathon’s own troubled development, you’d think they’d want everyone to know exactly when and WHERE they can play it! But no! As for Marathon itself – it looks fine, but not really my thing. I might give it a try if there’s an open beta though.

Kena: Scars of Kosmora! I enjoyed Kena: Bridge of Spirits quite a bit when I reviewed it back in 2023 and I said in that review: ‘I’d actually be interested in a more expanded sequel. I feel like there’s a much bigger and more complex game to be built upon here especially if it leans harder on the Pikmin angle.’ Well, it does look like we’re getting a bigger and more complex game, but I was disappointed by the lack of ‘rot’ companions which were such a fun aspect of the original and one of the key ways I wanted to see a potential sequel expand and improve.

Because the rot were a little Pikmin-like and we don’t have enough games leaning into that angle. Instead, it looks like you get a new (singular) creature companion. It also looks like there’s more NPC stuff where, once again, I kind of liked the original for the ‘everyone is already dead’ vibe. So I’m certainly interested in this sequel, but I’m also hoping that the game doesn’t lose the unique charm, atmosphere, mechanics or tight focus of the original. Because bigger is not always better!

Ghost of Yotei is getting a new Legends multiplayer mode, although no word yet on a PC release, but given how disappointed I was by Ghost of Tsushima, I can’t say what I’ve seen of Yotei makes me very interested in picking it up when it does. It reminds me too much of the other big Sony sequels I’ve not played yet – Ragnarok & Spider-Man 2 – where it just looks like more of the same without really addressing my issues with the original.

Speaking of sequels not really addressing my issues with the original we have Death Stranding 2! I liked the original enough when I reviewed it in 2021, even though I kind of wanted to punch it as it slowly descended into self-indulgent nonsense towards the very end. Now the sequel is coming to PC and . . . I’m just not sure I have the patience for it!

There was another trailer for Pragmata which I played a demo of recently on Steam. It was okay, I guess, but even during the demo I found the hacking mini-game you need to do for *every* enemy a little grating. Also from Capcom, another trailer for Resident Evil: Requiem which I’m hoping will be better than Village which I was pretty disappointed by when I reviewed it back in 2022!

A new Dead or Alive game was announced. I don’t think I’ve played one since the Dreamcast days and to be honest, I think I mostly played it for the jiggle! We also got a new look at Control: Resonant – another sequel! I reviewed the original in 2021 and enjoyed it a fair bit but Resonant looks like quite a change in direction. I’m not totally sold on it yet, mostly because it stars Dylan who I described in my review of Control as a ‘an irritating, unlikeable weirdo’, but I am intrigued. One to keep an eye on!

And finally we had another look at Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls which is still looking great, but I’m curious to see how extensive the single player content is because that’s all I’m really interested in.