Sony spent more than 60 minutes on its June 2 State of Play, opened with a release date for Marvel’s Wolverine, and closed with a 20-minute reveal of God of War Laufey, a prequel that hands the franchise to Faye. After two years in which Sony’s first-party showcases mostly traded in vibes and vague windows, this was an unusually concrete hour.

Insomniac’s Wolverine launches September 15. The new gameplay trailer, according to GameSpot, walks through how the studio has reworked the combo- and counter-focused combat of its Marvel’s Spider-Man games into something faster and less “punchy,” with Logan teaming up alongside a telekinetic Jean Grey against Team X and the cybernetic Reavers. It’s the first time the project has felt like a product with a calendar rather than a rumor.

The Santa Monica reveal is the structurally interesting one. God of War Laufey moves the camera off Kratos entirely and onto his wife, also called Laufey, in what Kotaku’s Kenneth Shepard and Carolyn Petit describe as sword-wielding exploration through atmospheric, lushly rendered ruins. The PlayStation Store frames the setting as “the Everywhen – where ruthless gods from across mythology vie” for power, which reads less like a tagline than a license to abandon the Norse-only constraint the last two games operated under.

The middle of the show did the unglamorous work of pinning dates to things that had drifted. Rayman Legends Retold arrives October 1. Control Resonant, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and Silent Hill: Downfall all locked into later 2026 windows. Engadget’s Andrew Webster counted Until Dawn 2 and over 20 other announcements across the broadcast.

A few outliers earned their slot. Ikumi Nakamura returned with Kemuri, a three-player co-op demon-hunter targeting 2027. Bancho the Chef was revealed as a direct prequel to Dave the Diver. ILL showed up as first-person action horror.

Sony also screened the broadcast at select Alamo Drafthouse theaters, a first for the format and a small tell about how the company now thinks of these showcases: less corporate update, more theatrical drop. The dates have replaced the mood boards. For a publisher that has spent recent cycles managing expectation downward, that’s the news.

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