Sony’s previous State of Play was in September 2023 but it lasted about 20 minutes. This week’s presentation from Sony was spread over 40 minutes. Here are the top moments.
Silent Hill
Konami offered details about its Silent Hill titles. Its newest Silent Hill game is a free-to-play title called The Short Message, which has launched on PlayStation 5. The company also revealed a new trailer for the Silent Hill 2 remake. “We wanted to make a new, modern Silent Hill. As part of that we explored how we could incorporate contemporary problems. We ended up looking at how modern youth communicate online and through phones, and the role that could play in a psychological horror story. For instance, a frightening thing about social media is how even insignificant individual comments can, en masse, build and build until they become this overwhelming wave of hate crashing down on you,” the team has said.
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Sony debuted a new trailer at the end of its first State of Play for 2024. The game is in development and not due out until 2025. Players will have plenty of environments to walk through and can look forward to Troy Baker reprising his role as Higgs. Before you watch the trailer, here’s a warning: It starts out with a disturbing bit of surgery.
Until Dawn
The psychological horror game Until Dawn is getting a remaster from Ballistic Moon for Sony on the PS5 and PC. It is coming in 2024. The game has the same characters but it’s difficult to say if the same voice actors will be part of the reprise.
Metro Awakening
Metro Awakening and its post-apocalyptic world is coming to PS VR2 in 2024. Inspired by the internationally best-selling novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light, and Metro Exodus delivered immersive first-person experiences at release. Metro Awakening is an all-new Metro game made exclusively for VR, and powered by the immersive features of PS VR2 and its Sense controllers.
Judas
Judas still doesn’t have a release date, and it’s coming to Xbox and PC as well as the PS5. According to Ghost Story: “The game takes place aboard the Mayflower, a spacefaring city whose citizens are trained to tear each other apart for even the most minor infractions, and where machines control every aspect of business, art, and government. You, as Judas, are the driver of every event in a mysterious story with a new cast of characters to get to know — and to change — in a world where every decision you make affects how the story unfolds.”
