5.42pm EDT17:42
Keith Stuart
Well, thats it for the PlayStation 5 event this evening. Clearly, the focus was on games rather than hardware at least until the end and fans got what they wanted, beginning with an enhanced GTA V and moving on through new Spider-Man, Horizon Zero Dawn, Hitman and Ratchet & Clank titles. The finale was the reveal of the PlayStation 5 console itself, a radical re-think of the machines lineage, abandoning the all black colouring weve seen in the last three machines in favour of a futuristic white and black monolith.
Compared to the recent Xbox Series X games stream, which focused on original indie titles, this was something of a fan-pleasing big brand onslaught from Sony. But were yet to discover how many of these titles are exclusives, or even timed exclusives, beyond the first party games.
And we still dont know when this thing is coming out and what price itll be.
Updatedat 5.50pm EDT
5.22pm EDT17:22
Keith Stuart
They saved it right til the end, but Sony has finally revealed the form factor of the PlayStation 5, an ultra futuristic robot white machine, with gliding lines and a black central stratum. This is a really radical look, like something out of an Alex Garland script. The console will come in two versions: a standard model and a digital machine. Itll be accompanied by a 3D camera.
Updatedat 5.26pm EDT
5.10pm EDT17:10
Horizon: Zero Dawn gets a sequel - more organic creatures join the robo-dinos from the original as Aloy tries to battle a sickness destroying the world. Incredible underwater scenes and jaw-dropping desert vistas. This one will be good. Its called Horizon: Forbidden West.
Updatedat 5.45pm EDT
5.07pm EDT17:07
Keith Stuart
Pragmata looks to be a futuristic Earth escape adventure with an astronaut, a girl android and a robotic cat. Cats are very much the pets of the night.
Updatedat 5.55pm EDT
5.04pm EDT17:04
Intense Japanese horror here from Capcom: Resident Evil 8. First-person, like Resi 7. Victorian vibes a la Bloodborne. Looks frankly terrifying. Not quite sure if its called Village: Resident Evil or Resident Evil 8.
Updatedat 5.43pm EDT
5.03pm EDT17:03
Oh wow, so Death Loop is a first-person assassinate-em-up seemingly set in some sort of futuristic game where rival killers are stuck in a time loop fighting continually until they work out how to escape. The grindcore styling is very Tarantino/Rodriguez and the stealth/shoot gameplay is very much the mainstay of developer Arcane Lyon, previously responsible for Dishonored. This looks fun.
Updatedat 5.44pm EDT
4.57pm EDT16:57
ITS HAPPENING! ITS HAPPENING! Im sorry. Okay - its Demons Souls, looking like it probably did in the heads of everyone I raved at about it in 2009. This is the predecessor to Dark Souls, the founder of the Soulslike genre, the game that put FromSoftware and director Hidetaka Miyazaki on the path to global fame. Im very very happy.
Updatedat 5.35pm EDT
4.54pm EDT16:54
Keza MacDonald
Some Australian beaver things are marvelling at an anthropomorphic strawberry. Whats going on? Of course this is from the creators of Octodad. Looks like a kind of gardening/survival game hybrid (?) with weird cute little creatures that can morph into... foods. Its called BUGSNAX. End of this year for that one.
Updatedat 5.46pm EDT
4.52pm EDT16:52
Little Devil Inside looks like an extremely quirky and interesting fantasy RPG adventure with a very Gallic sense of humour.
Updatedat 5.47pm EDT
4.52pm EDT16:52
NBA 2K21 now - I cant pretend I have anything useful to say about basketball but... it looks very... realistic? Such... visible sweat? Thatll be a launch title this autumn.
Updatedat 5.51pm EDT
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PlayStation 5: Sony reveals PS5 console and games as it happened - The Guardian
