All the best bits from PlayStation’s February State of Play

What’s your favourite February tradition? For us, making asinine smalltalk about the days getting slightly longer and buying Valentines’ chocolates and then eating them all to ourselves have been shunted down to second and third place, because Sony’s State of Play conferences have become unmissable events.

This year we got release dates for Metal Gear Solid Delta, Borderlands 4 and more, along with some Lies of P DLC and a few new game reveals worth keeping an eye on.

As ever, we’ve rustled together all the good bits from the event so you can get caught up.

It’s out on 23 September 2025. Quite why it takes a minute-long rap-rock-laden trailer to impart that information is unclear, but it does also give us a taste of what’s to come: in the best possible way, more of the same.

There are a couple of new character abilities and of course plenty of new guns on show, but the formula appears to remain intact. Ordinarily that might seem like a negative, but Gearbox got it so staggeringly correct the first time with Borderlands’ 2009 debut that we’re not complaining about more generous servings of the same co-op carnage.

28 August. This being a Metal Gear Solid game, never one for brevity, naturally the trailer for this announcement is almost two minutes long. But what a two minutes, eh? It’s quite a thrill to see the 2004 classic recreated in its Unreal Engine 5 finery.

Konami’s done a sterling job of retaining a connection to the original’s art direction, particularly in the character assets, although seeing The End’s grotesquely bulging eyes in such detail takes a bit of acclimatising to.

Not to question the handling physics of Sonic Team’s upcoming racing game, but given that its reveal trailer shows multiple backflipping cars careening past enormous dinosaurs, we reckon it’s safe to say they’re not going for an authentic simulation vibe with this one.

Which is great news, actually. There aren’t enough kart racers around in the modern racing game landscape, so we’re rooting for this one. The hook here is that you drive through ‘travel rings’ which teleport you between worlds, so what might begin as a race through futuristic scenery might take you back to the land before time. Air and sea travel are also part of the mix, as is a visual presentation that’s so colourful we got a suntan just watching the trailer.

Supermassive Games is a bit of a specialist in bringing great performance capture and branching storylines to the interactive movie sub-genre. This new project about astronauts whose mission to save humanity is compromised by a shapeshifting alien presence is in capable hands, then.

Based on the atmosphere of paranoia and the body horror in this reveal trailer, we’d wager Supermassive have dug out their Blu-Rays of Alien and The Thing recently.

What an unusual and wonderful game Lies of P is. We’ll admit to having doubted the classic tale of Pinocchio as the basis for a Soulslike, but Neowiz really showed us up there. Anyway, bygones and all that – there’s a prequel on the way this summer in the form of a DLC release called Overture.

Here’s the trailer, and it's standard stuff really: abandoned fairgrounds, sword fights with wolves, the usual. It’s so full of character and atmosphere. Hopefully there’s a ‘really, really, very easy’ mode introduced in Overture, though.

Remember it? Last of Us with motorbikes, that one. Didn’t get an easy time with critics on release in 2019, but since then the community’s appreciation for it has grown and galvanised Bend Studio’s game as a cult classic. There’s been speculation about a sequel for years now.

This isn’t that. It’s a remaster. Heading to PS5 and PS5 Pro on 25 April 2025, it’s a chance to play through Deacon St John’s adventure in higher fidelity than ever, and reappraise an experience that probably suffered from releasing at a time when we were all a bit zombie game-d out.

Don’t be tricked by the imagery in this game, though: wearing your hat backwards in 2025 is only to be attempted by experts.