All eyes are on the PlayStation Showcase, the event that Sony will celebrate tonight and in which future games for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation VR2 will be announced. This presentation will begin at 10:00 p.m. (peninsular time) and can be followed through the PlayStation YouTube and Twitch channels.
The Japanese multinational has detailed that the PlayStation Showcase “will last just over an hour” and will include “a large number of new games and new IP -intellectual properties- for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation VR2”. It has also announced that, in addition to titles developed by its own studios, there will also be “news from third parties and independent creators.”
In the absence of E3, the great Los Angeles video game fair that used to be held in June and which was canceled at the end of March, the PlayStation Showcase will symbolically serve to open the season of events and digital presentations. And it is that in the next ones other events will take place, such as those of Microsoft or Ubisoft, or the more general Summer Games Fest.
Of all the digital events held by Sony’s video game division, the PlayStation Showcase are the ones that tend to accumulate the largest number of big announcements. Without going any further, the PlayStation 5 itself and its most famous were presented in previous editions of it.
Although Sony hasn’t offered any details about the games that will be shown at the event, it’s more than sung that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will be one of the featured titles. The new wall-crawling adventure developed by Insomniac Games was announced at the PlayStation Showcase years ago and is expected to go on sale later this year.
Another title developed by the American Insomniac Games is Marvel’s Wolverine, based on the iconic X-Men superhero. Of this, only the teaser that was published two years ago has been seen, so it would not be unreasonable to see something else.
Another title that is in quite a few pools is Death Stranding 2, the sequel to the enigmatic science-fiction game by Japanese creative Hideo Kojima. The game was announced late last year, during The Game Awards 2022, and could be shown again at tonight’s event.
Related to Kojima is one of the big rumors of the event, the possible presentation of the long-awaited remake of Metal Gear Solid or, more specifically, its third installment. Its original creator stopped working at Konami a few years ago and it is unlikely that he has anything to do with this update, but if it is announced, it could be one of the big bombs of the event.