The State of Every PlayStation Studio - Summer 2025 Update

We’re implicit halfway done 2025 already, which means it’s clip to cheque successful connected each of Sony’s PlayStation Studios to spot what they’re making and what games are coming to your PS5 successful the months and years to come. While the console has received immoderate large exclusives successful 2025, including the critically acclaimed Death Stranding 2, nary of Sony’s first-party studios person released a caller crippled this calendar twelvemonth speech from the yearly inevitability that is MLB The Show.

So, surely that means plentifulness of PlayStation’s studios person games coming retired soon, oregon astatine the precise slightest person secrets up their sleeves, right? Well, that’s precisely what we’re going to instrumentality a look astatine here. What are the developers down PlayStation’s highly-respected room up to now? And however agelong volition it beryllium earlier we get to some spot and play their projects? So let’s excavation into what each workplace is doing, and erstwhile we tin realistically expect to spot caller games from them.

Naughty Dog

Naughty Dog’s attraction is present firmly connected Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, a space-faring crippled with retro 80s vibes. After leaving the aboriginal of The Last of Us HBO amusement successful the hands of Craig Mazin, workplace caput and originative manager Neil Druckmann is present moving afloat steam up with his squad connected the Uncharted studio’s archetypal caller bid since 2013. But speech from a cinematic-heavy trailer astatine past year’s Game Awards, we’ve seen precise small of this sci-fi story.

What we bash cognize is that it stars Tati Gabrielle arsenic Jordan A. Mun, a bounty huntsman who gets stranded connected a satellite erstwhile connected the way of a transgression syndicate called the “Five Aces”. It’s besides rumoured to person a deeper combat strategy than immoderate erstwhile Naughty Dog game, with the uncover trailer giving america a tiny glimpse of its lightsaber-esque gameplay. Oh, and the euphony is being composed by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. That’s ne'er not a bully thing. Could this beryllium Sony’s large 2026 PS5 game? We tin surely hope, but we would emotion to spot immoderate gameplay earlier making specified assumptions.

It would look that this isn’t the lone robust Naughty Dog has successful the fire, though, with Druckmann teasing that the workplace has a second, unannounced crippled successful development. Could this beryllium The Last of Us Part 3? Uncharted 5? Something wholly different? Let america cognize what you deliberation successful the comments.

Santa Monica Studio

Santa Monica Studio released God of War Ragnarok to immense occurrence successful precocious 2022 and followed up with the amazingly lengthy escaped Valhalla DLC successful December 2023. What’s adjacent for the workplace remains a mystery, though we bash cognize Cory Barlog – who led improvement of 2018’s God of War – moved connected to helm a caller task successful 2021 aft leaving Eric Williams to capable Ragnarok’s manager seat. Little to thing is known astir that caller project, but fixed it has been successful improvement for a fig of years already, it wouldn’t beryllium beyond unreasonable to expect to spot it revealed this year.

As for a caller God of War game, well, we apt can’t expect that arsenic quickly. Despite the spread betwixt Ragnarok and its predecessor being lone 4 years, the extremity of Kratos’ Norse saga signals a caller absorption for the series, which, naturally, means it’ll necessitate a batch much enactment from the crushed up. We tin hope, of course, but don’t expect to spot everyone’s favourite aggravated dada immoderate clip soon. That said, we wouldn’t accidental nary to a remake of the archetypal trilogy…

Insomniac Games

Insomniac is arguably Sony’s astir prolific studio, having released either a Spider-Man oregon Ratchet and Clank crippled each mates of years for astir a decennary now. Its astir caller motorboat was successful 2023 with the hugely palmy Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and truthful – based connected signifier – you’d beryllium forgiven for expecting a caller Insomniac crippled successful 2025. But successful a worrying motion of the fragile authorities of the games industry, adjacent a crippled of Spider-Man 2’s magnitude couldn’t forestall layoffs from occurring past year. That capped disconnected what turned retired to beryllium a doubly damaging mates of months for the developer, pursuing a immense information breach and consequent theft.

The information theft revealed that the studio’s highly anticipated Wolverine crippled is not expected until 2026 astatine the earliest, but besides that a Venom crippled whitethorn get earlier it. Either way, it’s highly improbable Insomniac volition beryllium springing immoderate astonishment games this year, and aft each the workplace has gone done recently, I deliberation it's just to let it arsenic overmuch of a interruption arsenic anyone.

Sucker Punch Productions

Sucker Punch is pursuing up 2020’s Ghost of Tsushima with Ghost of Yotei, scheduled for an October 2, 2025 release. As showcased successful a caller State of Play stream, the standalone sequel takes america to Hokkaido connected a revenge quest to woody with the “Yotei Six” — the murderers of protagonist Atsu’s family. With a non-linear quest operation and much varied arsenal, it's looking acceptable to beryllium a existent improvement of Tsushima’s open-world foundations.

Guerrilla Games

Guerrilla followed up 2022’s Horizon: Forbidden West with the Burning Shores DLC 1 twelvemonth aboriginal arsenic it continued to physique retired Aloy’s story. With the West Coast-set sequel ending connected a cliffhanger, it’s not a agelong to expect the Amsterdam-based workplace to beryllium moving connected the 3rd portion of the trilogy next. We wouldn’t expect immoderate quality connected that 1 soon, nevertheless – the improvement clip betwixt Zero Dawn and Forbidden West was 5 years, truthful we’re apt a small portion distant from seeing Aloy and her metallic dinosaur friends again.

What we’re reportedly much apt to spot archetypal is simply a unrecorded work Horizon crippled that is presently successful the works, starring “a caller formed of characters and a unsocial stylized look”. Perhaps this is thing we tin anticipation to spot much of sooner alternatively than later, though this twelvemonth whitethorn beryllium a stretch, with Sony possibly reassessing their unrecorded work aboriginal pursuing the nonaccomplishment of Concord and the troubles facing Marathon.

Housemarque

Finnish developer Housemarque is pursuing up 2021’s Returnal with Saros, different sci-fi enactment game. Starring Rahul Kohli arsenic Arjun Devraj, players volition beryllium taken to a mislaid off-world colony connected the satellite Carcosa successful bid to analyse its mysteries. An improvement of Returnal’s roguelike rhythm, it's acceptable to present Housemarque’s trademark challenging shooter combat erstwhile it arrives connected PS5 sometime successful 2026.

Haven Studios

Originally owed for merchandise this year, Haven Studios’ multiplayer shooter Fairgames is present expected successful the Spring of 2026. It’s not been creaseless sailing for different of Sony’s planned unrecorded work offerings, with Jade Raymond — who lone founded the workplace successful 2021 — leaving the task earlier this year. Work is inactive ongoing connected the online heist game, though, but with small to thing seen of it since the 2023 cinematic trailer reveal, we’re near waiting to spot what its gameplay really looks like.

Bend Studio

Bend has been beauteous quiescent since the merchandise of Days Gone mode backmost successful 2019, speech from giving america a remaster a mates of months back. But successful 2022, a fewer slithers of item were revealed astir what the Oregon workplace is presently moving on. It shared that its caller crippled volition “build upon the open-world systems of Days Gone” but won’t beryllium announced until “the clip is right”. Apart from knowing it won’t beryllium a continuation of Deacon St. John’s story, we truly cognize nothing.

It’s been a rocky twelvemonth for the developer truthful far, with reports that a live-service crippled it had been moving connected had been scrapped by Sony, arsenic good arsenic layoffs impacting 30% of the squad arsenic it transitions to its adjacent project. Whether this caller crippled the reduced headcount is moving connected has thing to bash with those details revealed 3 years ago, oregon if the workplace is starting again from scratch, is unknown. Either way, we wouldn’t expect to perceive thing soon.

Media Molecule

Media Molecule spent astir of the past decennary moving connected Dreams, the crippled instauration and curation task that was released successful 2020. But arsenic a effect of important layoffs astatine the workplace successful 2024, unrecorded enactment for the crippled has present ended, with MM’s existent purpose being to guarantee “Dreams transitions into a self-sustaining platform”. There has since been nary quality connected what the developer’s adjacent task volition be.

Team Asobi

Team Asobi gave america 1 of 2024’s biggest games with the charmingly originative platformer Astro Bot. An ode to PlayStation history, it won galore awards and cemented itself arsenic 1 of the PS5’s precise champion offerings. Since then, the Japanese workplace has continued to enactment it with regular updates and levels arsenic precocious arsenic this summer. But what next? Well, we wouldn’t beryllium amazed to spot different Astro crippled connected the way, fixed the captious and commercialized occurrence of past year’s hit. There’s surely nary shortage of obscure PlayStation characters near to sprinkle done much of those colourful levels.

Bluepoint Games

Following the occurrence of some the Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls remakes, Sony acquired Bluepoint Games arsenic a first-party workplace successful 2021. We don’t cognize what its archetypal task since joining the PlayStation Studios household is, though, but we bash cognize that the developer has expressed its tendency to make an archetypal game, alternatively than reimagining different classic. Perhaps we could spot a uncover soon, but seeing arsenic Sony confirmed that a unrecorded work game, which was reportedly acceptable successful the God of War universe, was cancelled astatine the workplace earlier this year, it seems unlikely.

Polyphony Digital

Polyphony has been making Gran Turismo for 25 years now, truthful it would surely beryllium a daze to spot it veer from that way successful the adjacent future. GT7 came retired astir 3 and fractional years agone now, meaning possibly the clip is approaching for the uncover of the studio’s adjacent racing sim.

San Diego Studio

Similarly, San Diego is good established arsenic the MLB The Show studio. This year’s introduction lone dropped successful March, truthful we tin expect to spot different adjacent Spring if past is thing to spell by.

Firesprite

Firesprite astir precocious developed Horizon: Call of the Mountain for PSVR 2, pursuing the studio’s new-found absorption connected VR games. What’s adjacent is anyone’s guess, however. A caller VR crippled would beryllium the educated guess, but fixed Sony’s deficiency of committedness to creating games for its second-generation headset, it wouldn’t beryllium a astonishment to spot the UK workplace pivot to thing much traditional.

Recent reports discussing layoffs and unrest astatine the developer suggested that Firesprite was moving connected a live-service Twisted Metal game, which has since been canceled. It’s presently believed that the workplace is present moving connected a caller crippled called Project Heartbreak. Details are bladed connected what this is, though, and truthful we person nary thought of erstwhile we tin expect to spot it.

teamLFG

Formed earlier this twelvemonth arsenic portion of PlayStation Studios, teamLFG was spun retired of Bungie to make a caller team-based enactment crippled that draws inspiration from warring games, platformers, MOBAs, beingness sims, and "frog-type games”. As to what a frog-type crippled is, your conjecture is arsenic bully arsenic ours, but the task has been described arsenic letting players “inhabit a lighthearted, comedic satellite acceptable successful a brand-new, mythic, science-fantasy universe”. This 1 doesn’t look excessively acold on the accumulation pipeline, though, truthful we aren’t expecting to perceive much anytime soon.

Dark Outlaw Games

Another caller PlayStation workplace for 2025, Dark Outlaw Games is led by Call of Duty seasoned Jason Blundell. Very small other is known astir this squad oregon what they’re moving on, though.

That’s everything we cognize astir upcoming first-party PlayStation games, and the information is that precise fewer merchandise dates look to beryllium coming up quickly. Of course, this tin and apt volition alteration soon, and with GTA 6 looming connected the skyline successful 2026, it does marque consciousness that galore publishers are waiting for Rockstar to unleash their powerhouse earlier they marque their ain moves. That said, that doesn’t forestall 2025 from inactive looking comparatively bare erstwhile it comes to PS5 exclusives. Let’s anticipation that the outlook volition look a batch brighter soon, not lone for players waiting for caller games to play, but for the developers who enactment truthful hard to present them to us.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.