It’s been an awkward month for PlayStation. While the company put out the delightful platformer Astro Bot that celebrates the brand’s past 30 years, it also shut down the hero shooter Concord and issued refunds in record time. There’s also been some weird optics around its recent announcement of the $US700 PlayStation 5 Pro without a huge graphical update to show for it.
But the show must go on, and so it does with today’s State of Play presentation. The 30-minute showcase put a spotlight on upcoming PlayStation 5 games. If you want to watch the full show, you can do that below.
If you just want to know the highlights, read on. Starting off the show is a brief trailer for Astro Bot, which is getting a free update with new speedrun levels and new character cameos from Helldivers and Stellar Blade. The update will launch this fall.
Next up is The Midnight Walk, a clay, stop-motion-styled horror game from Moon Hood Studios, the developers who made Lost in Random. The game will come to PlayStation 5 and PSVR2. Keeping the creepy vibes going but with a bit of a twist is Hell is Us.
The science fiction soulslike had a moody trailer with some frightening enemies that delve into body horror. I guess I missed that the new Metro game was on VR, but we got a new look at Metro Awakening ahead of its November 7 PSVR2 release date. Your mileage may vary on if that’s what you were looking for after the series has been gone for five years since 2019’s Metro Exodus.
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