Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet

1 week, 4 days - Cutting ties with Kojima and poor Wolverine reviews are just the latest issues in a difficult generation for PlayStation. The platform's creartive future has never looked bleaker. It’s impossible to know how PlayStation bosses felt after seeing many critics walk away from Insomniac’s Wolverine with an apathetic shrug. A sub-80 on Metacritic is infamously considered a disaster in the triple-A space, and so Sony certainly won’t be thrilled, but it would be easy for the company to brush this away as an uncharacteristic miss. However, that would require wilfully ignoring the sad reality that PlayStation Studios is currently far from fertile ground for single-player adventures. Never has it been clearer that PlayStation Studios needs to find the next evolutionary stage of the “traditional” video game. Never has it been clearer that it needs its next Metal Gear Solid, the revolutionary Hideo Kojima game that defined what we could expect from PlayStation back in 1998.Now would be a very good time, then, for Sony to cancel Hideo Kojima’s PlayStation-exclusive spiritual successor to Metal Gear Solid...

3 months, 2 weeks - For decades, Naughty Dog was the king of triple-A, pushing Playstation hardware to its absolute technical limits, from detailed environments and expressive characters on the PS1 with Crash Bandicoot, to cinematic masterpieces on PS3 and PS4 like Uncharted and The Last of Us. But at this year's summer showcases, Sony's most legendary first-party studio was completely missing in action – leaving fans wondering exactly how far away its next title, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, might be. So, in an era where the current-gen consoles have been spinning their wheels, why has Naughty Dog been benched?From Sony’s multi-billion-dollar obsession with chasing the live-service trend to a mass exodus of its top team, Naughty Dog has seemingly been caught in a perfect storm of publisher hubris and a big chunk of its talent simply leaving for pastures new. Can Naughty Dog recover from this, and are they set for a major return to form on PlayStation 6?Jim Trinca is a Video Producer at IGN, and when he isn't fawning over Assassin's Creed, he can be found watching Star Trek and eating stuff. Follow him on @jimtrinca.bsky.social, and check out The Trinca Perspective playlist over on IGN's YouTube channel!

4 months - Sony is back with another PlayStation State of Play on June 2, 2026 at 2pm PT/5pm ET/10pm BST, so get ready for a whole host of new PS5 game announcements, fresh looks at gameplay, and maybe even some other surprises. With only Marvel’s Wolverine currently listed as being part of the hour-plus long presentation set to share “updates, announcements, and gameplay reveals from top studios around the world”, there’s a lot to theorise about.For context, last year’s equivalent stream saw the reveals of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, Nioh 3, and Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, as well as fresh gameplay looks at 007 First Light, Silent Hill f, Ghost of Yotei, and Pragmata. But what can we expect to see this year? Well, let’s get stuck in and look at exactly that.