Rate the State of Play June 2025

How do you rate the State of play 06.04?

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    Votes: 133 17.6%
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    Votes: 228 30.2%
  • C

    Votes: 157 20.8%
  • D

    Votes: 116 15.4%
  • E

    Votes: 50 6.6%
  • F

    Votes: 71 9.4%

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007 First Light Reveals New, Young James Bond, With The Walking Dead's Lennie James Set to Co-Star

We have finally recieved our first look at 007 First Light, the upcoming James Bond game from Hitman studio IO Interactive, and it showcased a new James Bond at the beginning of his career as an agent. It was also revealed that The Walking Dead's Lennie James will be co-starring in this much-anticipated title that is set to be released in 2026.

Silent Hill f Reveals Its Release Date and More Terrifying Footage





The State of Play gave us a new look at Silent Hill f, the upcoming horror game set in 1960s Japan. It was a terrifying look that included a glimpse at some of the horrors fans can expect to face when it is released on September 25, 2025. It won't be much longer until we get to learn about Hinako Shimizu and her friends in an Ebisugaoka haunted by some mysterious fog and dangers never before seen.

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles Is Coming to PS5 With Classic and Enhanced Versions





Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalica Chronicles is bringing the classic game to PS5 with both classic and enhanced versions on September 30, 2025.

The Enhanced Version includes fully voiced dialogue, an optimized and updated UI, graphical improvements, and even some quality of life features like a "Squire" difficulty setting. The Classic Version will unite the "graphics and gameplay of the original 1997 version with the renowned War of the Lions translation." However, it will include some new features like auto save.

Nioh 3 Revealed at PlayStation's State of Play a Demo You Can Play Today





Nioh 3 is on its way to PlayStation 5 in early 2026 and, to help with the wait, Team Ninja announced that a demo is available to play right now.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater New State of Play Trailer Shows Off More Ape Escape





Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater recieved a new action-packed gameplay trailer that also featured a glimpse of the revamped Snake vs. Monkey mode featuring Ape Escape. The ending was also surprising because we saw a tease of something related to camoflage.

Lumines Arise Announced For PS5 and PS VR2, Will Be Released in Fall 2025





Lumines is getting a new entry - Lumines Arise - and it will be released for both PS5 and PS VR2 in Fall 2025. This new game is being developed by Tetris Effect developer Tesuya Mizuguchi and there will be a free single-player and multiplayer demo later this summer.

Pragmata Remerges With a Gameplay Trailer and a Release Window of 2026





After last hearing about it in 2023, Pragmata has made its grand return with a new gameplay trailer. In the footage, we see Hugh protecting a little girl named Diana and a ton of stylish action.

Pragmata takes place on a moon and tasks our characters with working together to defeat the lunar station AI and return to Earth. What makes Pragmata unique is that you will control both characters at the same time. Capcom will share more details on how that works in the future.

Thief Is Back... as a VR Game





A New Thief game is on the way in 2025, but it's only being released on PS VR2 and possibly other VR platforms. We saw a bit of gameplay that included exploring a city, sneaking around as a good thief does, finding treasure, avoiding guards, shooting arrows from the shadow, and much more.

Grasshopper Manufacture's Romeo Is a Dead Man is Bringing Wild Action to PS5 in 2026





Grasshopper Manufacture's Romeo Is a Dead Man is a new wild action game coming to PS5 in 2026 that features "super bloody action, crazy twists and turns to blow players' minds, and a whole mess of kinda-stereotypical gimmicks."

The game stars Romeo Stargazer and he is "stuck between life and death." He is working as an FBI Space-Time special agent 'Dead Man' and must hunt "space-time's most wanted fugitives through multiplve universes."
 
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Rating: A+

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Great 30th Anniversary show and good showcase of JP dev teams, with a few western surprises.
  • Lumines Arise
  • Romeo is a deadman
  • Silent Hill F gameplay and release date this year (Sept 25th, 2025)
  • Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement
  • Digimon Time Stranger gameplay, story, and release date this year (Oct 03rd, 2025)
  • Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles with enhanced graphics, fully voiced dialogue, and gameplay refinements (Sept 30th, 2025)
  • Hirogami (Sept 3rd, 2025)
  • Cairn gameplay showcase (Nov 5, 2025 with demo out today)
  • Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection with Rollback Netcode
  • Metal Gear Solid Delta release date (August 08th, 2025)
  • Nioh 3 (Demo shadowdrop)
  • Thief VR
  • More Astrobot content
  • Sword of the Sea (August 19th, 2025)
  • Ghost of Yotei deep dive announcement for July
  • Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls (Arc System Works 4v4 fighter)
  • 007 First Light Sneak Peek (Which actor is playing him?)
  • Sea Remnants (Open world RPG with Turn based combat and with ship combat?)
  • Tides of Tomorrow (Feb 24th, 2026) *This has potential to be huge(multi-tiered story where other players have an effect? and the game looks like kind of like a modern Brink)*
8 New game announcements, 6 new I.P., mostly gameplay shown and fun looking gameplay at that.

Classics Catalogue additions:
  • Myst and Riven
  • Deus Ex PS2 (June 17th, 2025)
  • Twisted Metal 3 and 4 (July 15th, 2025)
  • Resident Evil 2 and 3
 
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Brutal improvement over the last one. We're getting our first SIE fighting game in over 14 years since Bleach: Heat the Soul 7, I could not be any happier.
 
It has been a really good state of play, the marvel fighting game at the end was the cherry on top.

2026 is packed and more and more games will start to push the PS5 even more.

And it also seems that Sony will start to sell more Pro's this coming year.

B rating.
 
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B+. The only problem is that a lot of 2026 stuff and MGS3 Delta just looks bad. The Marvel fighter, Pragmata, Bloodstain 2, Silent Hill F, Nioh 3, FFT, Mortal Kombat Kollection, Lumines, there's lots to chew on here.

Also interesting what it DIDNT have. No Marathon. No Fairgame%. Marathon is totally cooked.
 
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I thought it was solid. I'm extremely pumped for the new Lumines. Silent Hill looked pretty good too. And I'll definitely give the new ArcSys Marvel game a try, they don't miss.
 
C.

FF tactics, pragmata, 007 looked decent enough. Nioh 3 was the only game that was a genuine surprise.
 
Really good.

Final fantasy tactics: Hell yes

New silent hill: Hell yes

Arc system works fighting game: Hell yes

Pragmata: Hell yes

Ghost of yotei: Hell yes

Nioh 3: Hell yes all day everyday.
 
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I voted B.

Nioh3, FFT Remaster, Digimon, Lumines, Bloodstained 2 are of interest to me.

I should drop it to a C because of Ghost of Yotei. I thought to myself: Finally they get it, and they will show gameplay. What a tease.
 
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B+ to A-

Going in with low expectations was the right move. A great State of Play but not a great E3 hypefest/showcase type of thing.
 
Western shit = bad

Non western shit = good

It's hilarious how clear this trend was.
Honestly if you judged all of the Japanese stuff equally, most of that crap looks identical. When they showed the intro to the Digimon game, that could have easily been half of the crap that comes out of Japan.
 
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