Today’s State of Play ran past the hour mark, and by the time it wrapped, a good chunk of the back half of 2026 had quietly filled itself in. It opened on a vicious new cut of Marvel’s Wolverine and closed by finally pulling the sheet off God of War Laufey, with a long parade of release dates in between, several of which now sit almost on top of each other this September. The full broadcast is below if you want to watch it yourself, but here’s everything Sony showed, trailer by trailer.
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve
Bandai Namco’s long-running dogfighter is back, with Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve taking off on PlayStation 5 on October 2. The pitch is a meaty campaign plus new tactical maneuvers for picking apart enemy aircraft and ground targets, alongside the series’ trademark oversized set pieces, here including continental transport aircraft and land-based warships. There are 30 planes to fly across a mix of real-world fighters and fictional designs.
Bancho The Chef
If you fell for Dave the Diver, Mintrocket’s next project shares plenty of its DNA. Bancho The Chef is a standalone prequel that trades the diving for a globe-trotting culinary RPG, where you cook dishes to customer satisfaction, build up restaurant reputations around the world, and pick up techniques from each region’s master along the way. True to its predecessor, it refuses to sit still in one genre, folding in fishing, cats, cooking requests, and more.
Control Resonant
Control Resonant, Remedy’s follow-up that first surfaced with a Manhattan setting, now has a global release date of September 24, and the studio marked it with a new story trailer. This is a version of Manhattan bent by paranatural forces, all impossible architecture and shifting reality, with Dylan pushing deeper into the city as he learns to master both his evolving abilities and a shapeshifting weapon called the Aberrant. Jesse Faden is back in the mix, too.
Dune: Awakening
Arrakis is finally making the jump to console, with Dune: Awakening, the open-world survival game we reviewed on PC, landing on PlayStation 5 on September 22 in what Funcom is calling its definitive version. That edition folds in a brand-new single-player mode, a fresh chapter of the cinematic storyline, and a long list of additions and improvements built up since the original launch.
Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered
Koei Tecmo is digging deep into the back catalog with Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered, a modern revival of both Dynasty Warriors 3 and its Xtreme Legends expansion. The whole package hacks its way onto PlayStation 5 on October 1.
God of War Laufey
The show’s closer was the big one: God of War Laufey, billed as the next mainline chapter from Santa Monica Studio and one that hands the lead to Faye, Kratos’s late wife. Death was supposed to be the end of her story, but Faye has to fight her way through the afterlife of the gods, a land thick with dangerous magic, to protect the ones she loves. The last God of War we got was the surprise Sons of Sparta, and now Faye gets a full chapter of her own on PlayStation 5.
Marathon
Bungie used its State of Play slot to try to pull more players into Marathon, where Season 2: NIGHTFALL is live as of today. To go with it, an Open Play Week runs from June 2 to June 9 with no PlayStation Plus membership required, opening up Tau Ceti IV so newcomers can finally try the extraction shooter’s tense PvP and PvE without committing.
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls
Arc System Works leaned all the way into villains for MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls, revealing the Knights of Doom. Doctor Doom leads a trio of newcomers in Magneto, Green Goblin, and Carnage, the roster’s first all-villain team, and they’ll shape events in the game’s Episode Mode.
Marvel’s Wolverine
Insomniac opened the show with a vicious new look at Marvel’s Wolverine, leaning into Logan’s brutal, up-close combat ahead of its September 15 launch. The studio also introduced some of the faces from mutant task force Team X, including a telekinetic Jean Grey who teams up with Logan for some nasty takedowns against the cybernetic, mutant-hunting Reavers.
ILL
For the horror crowd, ILL slipped in with a short but deeply unsettling taste of its first-person terror. The pitch leans on a grim story, unpredictable monsters, a queasy dismemberment system, and realistic physics, all working toward an atmosphere built to keep you on edge.
Kemuri
Ikumi Nakamura’s Tokyo studio Unseen pulled the wraps off its new project, Kemuri, a stylish supernatural adventure coming to PlayStation 5 in 2027. Set in Kemuri City, where life and death coexist, it has you scaling a sprawling vertical world of rooftops, alleys, and hidden ruins, alone or in online co-op with up to two others, while forming pacts with powerful yokai that unlock new abilities and outfits.
No Rest for the Wicked
No Rest for the Wicked, the action-RPG from Ori studio Moon Studios, is finally making its way to PlayStation 5 this October. The console version lands well after its Early Access launch and brings a lot with it: more than 100 hours of content, new weapons, new bosses and enemies, fresh areas, and a completely reworked class system, all built for solo players and co-op squads with that hand-crafted, Souls-like edge.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Capcom dated Onimusha: Way of the Sword for September 25, and better yet, dropped a demo the same day as the show. That demo runs about 30 minutes of the early story and lets you get a feel for the supernatural swordplay, from parrying and deflecting to Issen counters, Oni Armament, and soul absorption. Preorders are live now.
Phantom Blade Zero
Phantom Blade Zero kept its State of Play appearance short, but it left a mark, with S-GAME confirming the action RPG will headline its own dedicated State of Play later this summer. That standalone show is set to be a full deep dive into the game’s features, mechanics, and story ahead of its PlayStation 5 launch later this year. It also lines up with the game’s new October 29 date and the preorders opening this summer, which we cover separately.
PlayStation Plus
On the subscription side, RuneScape: Dragonwilds is set to join PlayStation Plus as a day one Game Catalog title when it eventually reaches PlayStation 5, bringing its open-world survival sandbox along for the ride. Premium members also have a run of classics incoming, with the rhythm-action oddity Gitaroo Man arriving later this month, Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy in July, and Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams in August.
Rayman Legends Retold
Rayman fans got a curveball with Rayman Legends Retold, a 3D reimagining of the beloved platformer arriving on PlayStation 5 on October 1. Ubisoft is promising fully voiced characters, an expanded soundtrack, reworked gameplay, and a mix of returning levels alongside a mysterious new realm and four new musical stages, with up to four players in couch co-op. I got to go hands-on for a preview last week.
Silent Hill: Townfall
Silent Hill: Townfall now has a date of September 24, and the team used the slot to introduce a new character and some fresh gameplay. We meet Zoe, a resident of St. Amelia who Simon first connects with through his CRTV device, along with a terrifying new creature that stalks him through the dark of the Otherworld.
Stuntman: Hollywood
For something completely different, Stuntman: Hollywood casts you as a stunt performer recreating iconic moments pulled from movie and TV history. It’s structured like a film shoot, with each sequence split into episodes and every episode a self-contained level with its own vehicle and gameplay twists, so the environment, pace, and objectives keep shifting from one to the next. Precise, stylish driving and clean stunt work are what get rewarded.
The Lost Wild
The Lost Wild is a modern survival-horror take on the dinosaur island, coming to PlayStation 5 in 2027 from Great Ape Games. The twist is that flight beats fight here, since each dinosaur is built as an animal rather than a movie monster, with its own instincts and behaviors, dropping you into a food chain where you’re very much not at the top. Fittingly, some of the team worked on Alien: Isolation.
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, the new Lara Croft adventure that debuted at last year’s Game Awards, finally has a date: February 12, 2027 on PlayStation 5. Crystal Dynamics and co-developer Flying Wild Hog are leaning back toward Lara’s roots, and the new trailer ran through highlights including the iconic Peru Lost Valley and the return of a few familiar faces.
Until Dawn 2
Sony also surprised everyone with Until Dawn 2, a standalone PlayStation 5 sequel to the cult horror from Firesprite Games. This one swaps the snowy mountain for an abandoned tropical island, following a crew of ghost hunters shooting the debut episode of their TV-network-funded show, with a brand-new cast and the same kind of branching, gut-wrenching choices that defined the original. The enigmatic Dr. Hill returns as well, with Peter Stormare back in the role, when it launches next year.
Add it all up and the back half of 2026 looks brutal for both your backlog and your wallet, with September in particular turning into a traffic jam of Marvel’s Wolverine, Dune: Awakening, Control Resonant, Silent Hill: Townfall, and Onimusha all landing inside ten days.
