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Source: https://gameinformer.com/2025/08/18...-is-working-on-a-new-technically-ambitious-ip

"I'd like to share a little bit about our new project," Barlog wrote on Facebook. "I'm incredibly proud of what the team at Santa Monica Studio has been accomplishing. It's a technically ambitious project, something that's not easy to achieve. This is a new IP we've been working on for years, and if all goes well, we're planning to show it to you later this year. I couldn't be more excited." Barlog ended the post with two heart emojis.


Edit: apparently could be a fake as the fbook post no longer works.

 

[analog_future]

Very exciting!

Sounds like a reveal at The Game Awards to me.


Interesting that Barlog is pretty much straight up saying Jason Schreier was wrong in saying it was not a new IP.

 

[Saber]

Ambitious like women shaving her head or real ambitious?
And just to be clear, I'm all for new IPs. Its just Sony is pretty blergh nowadays with some questionable choices.

 

[Fake]

IDK... everything so far was so fucking boring. Is hard to get excited with everything Sony did this generation.

Even asking for a GoW remaster without censor is impossible at this rate.

 

[Pedro Motta]

Can't wait, Cory is one of the good ones.

 

[Punished Miku]

It's a technically ambitious project, something that's not easy to achieve.

God of War Atreus. This time he can throw the axe into other dimensions and leave it there or recall it.

P.S. I'm excited to see what they've been doing

 

[ecosse_011172]

 

[The Cockatrice]

Eh, probably a 2028 release or sumshit.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Very exciting!

Sounds like a reveal at The Game Awards to me.


Interesting that Barlog is pretty much straight up saying Jason Schreier was wrong in saying it was not a new IP.

I get the impression that Barlog dislikes Schreier quite a lot. He's dissed him on Twitter openly several times, regarding some of Schreiers hit pieces.

 

[ElFenomeno]

Announcing this via a Facebook post?!

 

[SlimySnake]

Sony's track record this gen has been exceptionally safe and risk averse. Ragnorak, Ratchet, HFW, GT7, Spiderman 2, DS2 and now Ghosts 2. All safe sequels. Wolverine leaks paint is as a generic superhero game. Intergallactic we havent seen much but its ND so at least the combat will be fun. I am just fed up with Sony's lack of ambition this gen. At this point, i have zero expectations from any of their studios.

 

[viveks86]

Finally, actual confirmation that it's a new IP. Excited!

Edit: apparently could be a fake as the fbook post no longer works.

fml

 

[Punished Miku]

Announcing this via a Facebook post?!

PS marketing is on fire.

 

[Draugoth]

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Cory Barlog (pictured above being asked rapid-fire questions about God of War), director of God of War II and 2018's God of War, shared some vague details about what the team at Sony Santa Monica is currently working on. Sony Santa Monica is the developer, most recently, behind God of War Ragnarök.

"I'd like to share a little bit about our new project," Barlog wrote on Facebook. "I'm incredibly proud of what the team at Santa Monica Studio has been accomplishing. It's a technically ambitious project, something that's not easy to achieve. This is a new IP we've been working on for years, and if all goes well, we're planning to show it to you later this year. I couldn't be more excited." Barlog ended the post with two heart emojis.

Barlog's post doesn't specify that this is Sony Santa Monica next project or that it is its only project. Since the release of Ragnarök's free rogue-lite mode DLC, it has been quiet about what's next.

In terms of God of War, developer Bluepoint Games (primarily known for its remakes of Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls) was working on a live-service game connected to the God of War franchise. That game was publicly cancelled earlier this year according to a statement Sony shared with Bloomberg.

Whatever this new project may be, we will apparently learn more about it later this year.

 

[adamsapple]

Great, it's about time.

 

[Metnut]

An announcement about an announcement.

 

[VulcanRaven]

Spoiler

Actually I'm very excited. Glad to get a new IP.

 

[Memati187]

If this shit also has an activist attached to it like GoY, then my playstation is officially a third party machine, since there is no worthy first party game to be purchased.

 

[ecosse_011172]

If this shit also has an activist attached to it like GoY, then my playstation is officially a third party machine, since there is no worthy first party game to be purchased.

 

[Nankatsu]

Please don't be GaaS.

 

[Topher]

Really hope this wasn't fake. Would love to see Barlog's game be revealed this year.

 

[Xtib81]

I've seen on reddit that this was fake.

 

[Insanemaelstrom]

Whatever the game be, I am there day 1. God of war 2018, and God of war Ragnarok ( to a lesser extent) are some of my all time favourite games.

 

[Represent.]

Fake.

They'd never just blurt it out like that. Sony is way too secretive for that this gen. This guys done nothing since 2018, and hes going to randomly announce his NEW IP on Facebook? Expect nothing for years more.

Also, Cory, a technically ambitious? This is the same guy who decided to make GOW 2 on PS2 instead of PS3, and pushed Eric Williams to do a PS4 version of Ragnarok.




Mod edit: there is mounting evidence from reports that this outlet has been misled by some bluesky accounts. Locking until further credibility established