After months of waiting and a week-long delay, Sony’s Future of Gaming" PlayStation 5 reveal event is finally taking place tomorrow, June 11th. The company has promised that the show will be backed with new game reveals and gameplay, running on the PlayStation 5 console. As is the trend with many video game events nowadays, it wouldn’t be a big event if it didn’t come with its fair share of teasers and leaks from folks within the gaming industry. One tease comes, maybe surprisingly, from a developer at the first-party PlayStation developer Santa Monica Studio, whose recent credentials include 2018’s God of War for PlayStation 4 and, with any luck, could be our first tease towards God of War 2 for PlayStation 5.
The upcoming event, which was originally scheduled to take place on June 4th, has been posed by Sony to be the first in “a series of PS5 updates”, and will be focused entirely on showcasing and demonstrating titles coming to the console after it launches in “Holiday 2020.” The event is also scheduled to run for over an hour and will feature games from different developers from around the world, some of which we can definitely expect to be from Sony’s first-party lineup of studios.
One developer that could possibly show up is Santa Monica Studio, which the God of War studio’s gameplay director Jeet Shroff may be hinting towards on Twitter. While many developers are expected to appear at the event, this is the first indication that Santa Monica Studio is among them.
The Sony Interactive Entertainment-owned studio has been silence since it launched the beloved PlayStation 4 exclusive in April of 2018, presumably hard at work on its next project, which is likely to be the next entry in the God of War franchise for PlayStation 5, tentatively titled God of War 2. Given the studio’s history, along with the unfortunate cancellation of a new IP in 2014, it is very likely the studio is working on a sequel to 2018’s soft reboot of the God of War franchise, especially due to its success, winning numerous game of the year awards even up against the likes of Red Dead Redemption 2 and Marvel’s Spider-Man.
It is possible that while God of War 2 may still be a few years out, with the game not likely seeing any sort of release until late 2021 at the earliest, given that many people would already assume that Santa Monica Studio has started production on the title, Sony could announce the game with some sort of teaser trailer at tomorrow’s presentation just to entice hardcore God of War fans into buying a PlayStation 5 down the line, knowing that the game is coming.
God of War is currently available, exclusively on PlayStation 4.
