PlayStation State of Play announced for Thursday

Sony has announced a PlayStation State of Play event for this coming Thursday, May 30.

The live stream will show off 14 titles and begins at 3pm PT / 6pm ET | May 31 12am CEST / 7am JST on YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok.

It will last more than 30 minutes, according to Sony. The show will include updates on PS5 and PS VR2 titles, plus a look at PlayStation Studios games arriving later this year.

The last State of Play presentation from January showed off Death Stranding 2, Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade and the announcement of a new action-espionage game called Physint from Hideo Kojima.

While PlayStation has been confirmed as a partner for Geoff Keighley‘s Summer Game Fest, it’s currently unknown in what capacity the publisher will attend the show.

Earlier this month, Sony Interactive Entertainment named Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino as the new joint CEOs of the PlayStation business, succeeding Jim Ryan from June 1, 2024.

In a webcall following the company’s latest results, interim CEO Hiroki Totoki reiterated plans to ‘aggressively’ improve profit margins, partly with an enhanced focus on bringing its games to PC.

Earlier this year, the gaming division made what it called the “extremely hard decision” to reduce its overall headcount by “about 8% or about 900 people”, which included the closure of its long-running London studio.

PlayStation Studios boss Hulst said at the time that the platform holder was “reevaluating how we operate”, and that the layoffs had resulted in the cancellation of unnamed game projects.