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What's up? And welcome back to another Kind of Funny State of Play. Reaction this time. September 2025. Of course. I'm your host, Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by Blessing. Adio. Yeah, Junior. Good day, Tim. Snowbike Mike and Andy Cortez will be joining us after they finish their lunch, but joining us as well. I don't even know how you want me to intro you here. What. What is this? It's not shirtless Wolverine. No, it's shirts. Shirt too. Shirts too tight Wolverine shirts. That rolls right off the tongue. Okay. We're starting a new thing. Okay. Can you come now? You look good. I like these accessories. You have it. It's. It's cool how it like looks like it's coming out of your hand. Is there, Is it hurt coming out of the hand every time? Oh, no. Love the hair. Love everything about it. You know, my entire shout out to my stylist Andy Cortez, who shaved me in the bathroom and did my hair in the bathroom today. Very nice. Yeah. To do that as always. I don't think he did that as much when he worked at Best Buy, but I'm happy he does it here for who knows, you know what I mean? And yeah, I'm excited, of course, obviously, for the Soros gameplay. Yeah, exactly. Snow White Mike is now joining us as well. Hi, Tim. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm wonderful. I'm happy to be here. Thanks for gathering the crew for another awesome live reaction to a fun state of play today. I'm just excited for games, Tim. You know, I'm coming at this one looking for a really good final slot to fill with a good game for my fantasy critic. Other than that, that's nothing else. I mean, everything matters. I'm excited for games, but I'm looking for something to fill that slot. Yeah, yeah. Bless. What about you? Where are we? We're a couple minutes away from a 30 plus minute state of play. Yeah, I'm excited. Well, I have like medium expectations. Right. Like, I'm not overly like, oh, man, we're going to get the next, you know, greatest 10 PlayStation showcase games. Because this is a state of play, it's not a showcase. Right. So I think that helps kind of roll back expectations a little bit. But sorrows, gameplay, like Greg mentioned, I'm super excited for. Confirmed. Confirmed, yes. We know that we're going to get about five minutes of sorrows, which is really cool. I am like, there is the Wolverine in the air and I do Kind of expect it. I do kind of expect it. It's one of those this is all fun and game. Yeah. Obviously there was the rumors that Wolverine would be at this thing, you know, last week, that there was gonna be one and that they would be part of this. It seems like the right time to do something, to drop something, to remind everybody it exists. You know, I think again, we talked about this at nauseam yesterday, right? I think you do. You obviously do. The Soros thing. I would open with that. I think you hit a ghost in the middle to remind everybody that's out next week. And then I think you close on Wolverine as PlayStation. They've already said so much. You know, there's going to be these PlayStation Studios games, but there's also going to be third parties and indie updates as well. I think we're talking about the rest when we're talking about indie updates. You know, I look at my fans as a critic and I'm like, where is mixtape? Is that coming out this year? Yeah, it says 2025. Are we going to see that game? And then also where is Possessors? Where's Marvel Cosmic Invasion? Where's Marvel Cosmic Creation? That is a great question. Yeah. Mixtape I feel is going to be an Xbox reveal at some point, so I don't expect to see it here. I do think a potential thing that I timing might not work out, but Hades 2, we don't have any information on it coming to PlayStation yet, so that doesn't feel right to me. But who knows. Yeah, I'm at a good place with this one where it's like I. I feel like Soros alone is like cool. This is going to be worth watching, right? Oh yeah, sure. There is a, I think good chance that Wolverine's there. I don't think it's a guarantee. And as I was joking about earlier, like Final Fantasy 7 Part 3 has to be announced somewhere at some time. And I do think that I kind of feel like it's going to be announced in 2025. So we're running out of places for that and this could be it. I. I think the state of play versus showcase conversation that we've had so many times, I think specifically right now I almost put out the window where if this ends up just being hella bangers and like so many of the Year of Dreams type stuff happening, I wouldn't be surprised. But if this is just another state of play with a bunch of gotcha anime games, I also wouldn't be surprised. Yeah, yeah, 100. 100. I would be surprised if it's like banger after banger. I. Yeah, I feel like they just don't do that anymore. Or at least like they don't. They only do it periodically. And when it is happening, they call it a PlayStation showcase. And even when they call it a PlayStation showcase, that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be bangers. Right. Because the last one we had was all their most bang things, but it was also them doing first party after first party. Right. So I think that's the big difference here and where we're at right now. Like, think about the rumors that have been circling. Like, obviously Wolverine is a confirmed game at this point. Like, we're waiting to hear more from it. But what about the God of War game? Yeah, God of Duty, God of War you brought up yesterday on the show. Right. What about this Horizon multiplayer game we heard about forever ago? Yeah, whatever is next from Sony Santa Monica. Like, otherwise, whether it's God of War or not, it's like, I don't think so. But, like, there are still a lot of question marks on the PlayStation Studio side that at some point we need to hear about what everyone's working on. And it could be today, it could be. We could start that next wave of PlayStation 5 games you're always talking about. It's also kind of aligned with the tgs, Right. So I do expect to see a focus on that type of game as well. I see people in the chat saying, Tides of Annihilation. I imagine we'll see that Phantom Blade zero. Like, there's going to be some cool stuff. Hello, Andy. Hey, Greg Sorrows, baby. Hell, yeah. Yeah. What are you excited for? What are you expecting? I mean, whatever this five minutes of gameplay is for Soros, like, that's known. That's confirmed. That's super exciting. Yeah. And outside of that, anything else is just a little treat because we were talking the other day, like, what. What do we think is going to be there? And Soros wasn't even on my mind really. But now it's like, oh, wow. I feel like we willed into existence. Yeah, yeah, I'll give you credit for that. Thank you. We have 45 seconds. Start off with Marvel Token Fighting Souls. Start off with Little Devil Inside. Give me a Sorrow. Give me. Yeah, sorry. Little devil's outside. Now we're gonna let him inside anymore. I want. I want a Marvel token. I want character reveals. That's what I want. Yeah. My chair's the new one of the new. I got a good one. We all have Good ones. We're winning. Thanks for breaking the chairs, Mike. Yeah, I have to take photos of the chairs now for Kevin. So every time I sit in the chair, I have to send it to him because this is the complaint that you were right. You were sitting in a wrong. That's the one sitting in the wrong. Sharing. Share with the class. What? What? How? What? He broke it on air. Sure. But there was something about pushing off of. Are you talking about the ring? There's a ring on the bottom. Yeah. And some people, we don't know who hops off when they jump up. Got it, got it. Okay, okay. No idea. Could be anyone. And we begin. Here we go. Not PS5 Pro. Wow. Discontinued that in PSR2. Oh, here. We called it Baby Boy Bruv. Unlike Warhammer, every time the sun dies, time stretches and tears. Shut your mouth, scan for the Atari signals. There he is. Approximating. Is that the thing from the ridge? Confirmed. You better stay out of my way. Hey, everyone. Good for you. How's it going? Awesome. I'm Gregory Louden, creative director at Housemark. Hi, Gregory. Today we are thrilled to show off this first look of gameplay coming to the Gregory. Running on PS5, Saros builds on Returnal's award winning action and tells the emotional and haunting story of Arjun Devraz's drive for answers on the shape shifting planet of Carcosa. Oh, they mentioned the Yellow King and all that, but it's actually one of our exciting combat features. You can defend yourself and observe all projectiles. I love. I mean, it's not the basis of it. Returnal was such a good game. It was, oh my God. Cool as hell. Sick. By absorbing projectiles, you can now hit back hard using your power weapon Vibranium. By holding the adaptive trigger on L2, you'll be able to destroy enemies using eclipse driven weaponry. God damn. Dude. This is one of the few shooters that I love on controller. Really? But I'm like totally fine playing on controller because it just. Something about it just felt awesome. Are you doing like the half press with the trigger thing to do your secondary fire? Maybe just like the active reload and all that. It just felt right. I don't know. Here is a Soltari hololog where you can learn more about Lost Carosa. I'll try to forget. Hold up for me. I will fight you, I promise. We're just. Video games are back, man. The little sound effect sounded just like Returnal as well. The kind of reload, I mean, this just looks like Returnal 2 to me. Yes, thank God. That's exactly what I want. When they said they weren't working on original, I was like, oh, I really like this hut too. Oh yeah. The little map on the bottom right. This is Second Chance where you can be revived on first death to get straight back into the action. Second Chance is part of our permanent progression systems. Which means you will always come back stronger. That's not boss Fight. It's a lot. Whoa. That's cool. We got Mick Gordon on the soundtrack. We hope you love that first look at gameplay. I loved it. Great. We're looking forward to the power of the Eclipse and moving ensemble cast of NPCs in the coming months. Next to play SOS on PS5 and enhance for PS5 Pro. Thanks for watching. We can't wait to share more from all of the team working on Saros. Oh man. Oh my God. All right. Great. Direct. I don't going to see anything else. That was great. Whoa. Ah. Give me souls. Those kind of bossing. Yeah. Come back stronger. Wow. You had me going. Come on. Wow. Come on. Oh, that is hot. Well done. That box art looks good. And see that thumbnail on your dashboard? Yeah. You actually want to deploy her. Cascade is one of our most highly trained operants. She's been shelved for five years. The parties marked her as a failure. She won't have to do it alone. Her old squad is still out there. I thought they'd all been ripped to shreds. Probably. But she can scrape what's left of them back together. Lead them to their deaths all over again. And what if she butchers it like last time? We'll do what we always. Throw more assets at the little sleeper. Let that citizen sleeper spur land. I guess. She's a pathetic fragile embarrassment. So unhinged. Get out of there. But they get results. No. Long range missiles get results. Show a little faith. We're at the end of history. Everything that could go wrong already has. Damn sick ass name. Dude. That's a great one. Dude. The art. Everything was just like good right there. Oh. Flight sim. Interesting. If you listen, you can hear Paris crying into his pillow. I think Mike would be good at flying a real Red Bull plane. I can do it. Andy. I love this game. And I'm so happ. It's coming out the PlayStation people can enjoy it. Give it a try. That's what I encourage you to do. How much you think you played them like 26 hours with the flight stick. Way more. It feels like way more. Yeah. They're adding a Jurassic park area. To it. So I'll add some more. Got my ppl though. Yeah. A bbl. A ppl. Oh, yeah. Personal pilot's license. Thank you, Tim. Wow. Had to earn that. Just like Nathan Fielder. Oh, is that gonna get mentioned? Hostiles inbound. 100 meters in closing. Hostiles inbound. I got two. East side. Oh, my God, it's so combat. I got three. West side frame shoot on the T of Execute. Three, two. But like, for real. No way. Because it's not Call of Duty. Execute. Oh. Battlefield campaign. The campaign has crumbled. Alliances that held since the end of World War II gone dagger. This is Pax's ballsiest play yet. If they succeed, they will have secured the most strategic rock in the history of warfare. Want to help our friends take back this rock? This is gonna be awesome. Dangerous game. This is a co op game through call Tempin. I don't know if. I don't. I don't know if this is called. They haven't said anything like that. The whole world's gonna look different now. Just takes a little shake of perspective. Gotta love a challenge. Halo jump. Standby for re attack call. Light them up. We gotta move. Hold on. Be really scary to be in war. That is not the question. This is it. Yeah. Hey, everyone. I'm Sean Benson. I'm Sid Schumann. Sean and I are back to share news and release dates for games coming to PS5. But first, thanks to EA and Battlefield Studios for that new look at the single player campaign for Battlefield 6. It launches October 10th on PS5. Now let's celebrate one of my favorite games of all time, which is marking its 25th anniversary this year. How tall is this human? Oh, he's tall. Wow. Sean's also small, so it's like one of those double juxtaposition returns. What? This PS5 remaster is a collaboration between Eidos Montreal and Aspire behind remastered classics like Tomb Raider and Soul on its way back to the people and you can't do a damn thing about it. I feel like Aspires remastering stuff like on their last break. Yeah, Just because they want to. It's like side projects cover the truth. I've always wanted to go back and play the original DSX. Adds enhanced visuals, overhauled controls and support for key PS5 features like haptic Feedback. I thought that shot they just a little while ago was the before on choice and consequence, no two playthroughs unfold. The same DX Remastered arrives on PS5 early next year. I remember trying to like DX it's almost Halloween. It was the box art that just didn't do title to one good scare. I like the box art. I can. I just can. Yeah. Oh. Death comes to Haddonfield in Halloween. The game a tribute to the John Carpenter classic. The team at Ilphonic invites players to an asymmetrical horror sale. You want to talk about a game that's going to take over my life? Remember how deep I was on Friday 13th? In each game. It's up to you as survivors to save these hapless town folks at least. Okay. He possesses you. We'll make sure Andy doesn't miss it like Texas Chainsaw. Thank you. Because he knows he would have loved that one. He just missed out on it, that's all. Yeah. So we won't let him miss out on this one. I miss it on the 102 times you played it. Lead towns folk to safety, find a phone and call the police for help. Harry says this is just Friday 13th. Thank God. Survive when they inevitably cross paths with the unstoppable Michael Myers. Become the boogeyman. Or protect his victims when Halloween. The game launches on September 8, 2026. Jesus. What? That is so far from that. Gotta be a tight film. Last Evil. I don't even thought about September 8, 2026. It's weird to call your shop that far. Celebrated Dungeon Crawler is known for its extensive skill customization. Is that the furthest date we have? Literally over a year away. That's crazy. A little less than a year. Yeah. Taking down gods. Oh, sorry. What was it? September 8th. September. Tim. It's close enough. I was gonna let you. Yeah, don't worry about it. I mean the fact that everything's had a date so far. It feels like they want everything to have a date. Nice. Greg. Did you ever get into Last Epoch? I played it at Xanth. Of course. Our Diablo. Kind of funny. Experts request I enjoyed it. I'd be interested to see how it runs over. I hear a lot of good things. Yeah, it's great. First major expansion will arrive at the same time as the upcoming PS5 release. I mean, you guys got a date. No, we don't. Just give us anything. Yeah. A year from now. All right. All right. We want to be a Halloween game for this year. No, no, no, no. We can delay it later. No one will remember. Single player campaign and multiplayer areas where cooperation and exploration go hand in hand. That looks weird. Follow in the footsteps of Tristan, the Prince of Britannia and play an original story you can experience only in the game. Capture creatures, go fishing, Cook your own meal. You said a new Power World Power mic. No, I haven't seen that one. How is it? I mean, from Pocket Pair. Just a little farming game. I mean, it's just screenshots so far, but it's like, you know, it's our version. People are afraid to say it, but Pal World was great. Wow. People are afraid right there. Pal World is great. We all know it. Venture out alone or with friends when the Seven Deadly Sins Origin arrives on January 28th. And Sonic Racing Cross Worlds launching on PS5 tomorrow. Very good game. Oh, I'm in. Roger. You know I like. He's on a rush. Hey, but they're not alone. Proto Man. Oh. Speeds into the pack. Also included as a stunning reimagining of Dr. Cool Castle from the Mega man series. Familiar sights and sounds will take players back to some of Mega Man's most memorable adventures. A lot of these places. Yeah, dude. P.S. grew up on part of the season pass and Digital Deluxe Edition. That's just like wy's Castle. The early unlock period is already underway. So Digital Deluxe Edition owners can get worlds right now, not just video game music. Hard stop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Up next, you put like hey Jude up there from the beat. Yep. Dr. Wy stage two. It is I who will be. Oh, yeah. You'll never understand what it means. Which one's this? Neo 3. Andy. I mean, you're gonna get into this three zero. This is gonna be another. Yeah, well, it's like it's at that time of the year. Like I guess we're playing this. I got nothing else to play. Yeah, well, you don't think Neil's got the sauce? Does not have the sauce. I'm just basing this on a lot of recent Team Ninja stuff. Okay. That feels very samey and it's still good and high quality, but everything else surrounding it is always kind of like interesting. Yeah. Sad boy. Sean loves one and two and I thought the audience really loves Neo, so. Oh yeah, the audience loves Neo for sure. You wish to become soaking that bad thing now. One thing though. It's Koei Tecmo Team Ninja. If it has a character creator, it's going to be amazing. Character creator. You're going to have so much gear drop. Oh my God. No, but they got the. Where you like, you can add on hair pieces and then make the hair longer. Like it has a hair length thing. Like their character creators are always insane. Dude. They're popping off with the dates. I really respect that. I'm gonna make the screen slightly shorter. We're just lingering for a while. Some Dynasty warriors right here. Jim. This is a remake that we already knew about. Or is this could be Dynasty Warriors DLC for the latest game or yeah, maybe a remaster. Oh yeah, look at the remaster. Remake. Draft it. I remember going to my friend Jonah's house and seeing him play this and being like, man, this game looks so cool. Never played it. Bull three. They called it Remaster, not remake. What was that? Who was that? Tim? Was that a Gen 4 Pokemon? What are we doing? Is that a Gen 5 Pokemon? Oh, this is the Souls. Our true objective. You all know what it is. Scarlet Nexus. No Digimon Time. Story Code Vein two. Thank you, Chat. Thank you. Funk time. Hell yeah. That's cool. Andy, if this is Neo 3, just show up at your door. Which one he chooses. Let's go. I'm based on the first shot of this trailer. Like I want to feel something. I might go this. Cuz I feel like if I go Neo3, then everybody will yell at me and go, well, you have to play one and two. I'm like, that's a lot. That's a lot of video games. Yeah, coding. Remember first Berserker Kazan came out this year. Last Berserk. Invoke that name. Back in June, we debuted Final Fantasy Tactics, the Ivelisse Chronicles right here on State of Play. Today we're joined by the game's director, followed by news from other special guests who are joining us just as Tokyo Game show kicks off in Japan. Do not feign concern for me. I see your words for what they are. I mean, if you're starting with sorrows here, like what are you ending with? I told you. I mean, I already said sorrows. To start, we put some ghosts in the middle and before. Gotta remind him about ghost. We gotta remind him about ghost. Don't let him forget. Everybody get your pre orders in. You're running out of time to get the cool. Whatever the hell you get for food. Oh, the student 51. Yeah, it had a real funky name, right? Yeah, that's Uncle Death right there, man. I'm like, I Uncle Death. I mean, I think PlayStation money to buy a better mask. You know what I mean? We can upgrade that. Did they already announce this? I think so. The Let It Die sequel. They did the Let It Die multiplayer spin off thing that came out a few years ago that very much came and went. But I didn't like this. Looks like it's just more of that. Oh, which really upsets Me, because I like the original. Let it die. Player versus player. We used to have so much fun on that show. Start of a whole new world. Oh, that's coming out this year. You all about it now. Your game, Venom. This is gonna be good. Vanilla's tail. This looks awesome. This is gonna be a good. It's gonna stream very badly because of how much bit rate of movement there is. Yeah, it's gonna be cool. Oh, I was gonna say it's taken with the plucky squire dude. For you. Oh, that's so cool. Holy. So nice. What do we think it's called Ink Bound. It's close. Almost nailed it. I was gonna say page against machine. That's good. The endless end. My secret delight of the show. Tip of the hat. The endless egg. I like the little guy. Yeah. You know. Way cooler than Adventures of Elliot today. Oh. Chapter in this land's history shall be written. Got to play this now. If they put a date on this. Beasts who think themselves men that is what it means to be a queen. Comes and dawn the time has come. Who you think we got to play? I thought it was amazing, Cliff. How much you get to play? A decent amount. Okay. I was there for about 40 minutes to an hour or something. Okay. Was it pack? Let your heart speak without fear. In the end all will come together as one we fight for the future of all sound the horde of our final battle Fight. Fight for Piwell. I had the same sort of feedback and thoughts that you had. Or like, it's a lot of. A lot going on. There's a lot going on. There's a lot that you can do, you know. Yeah. I'm hopeful of getting on sticks, you know, at your house. Right. This is the fight I did with I. I really, really loved. Yeah. Sgf. Remember who you are and let it gauge your path throughout the end of you will find the answers you see. Wow. Yeah. Holy. Nice. Everyone's just pulling the release valve. Get them out. Get him out. Here comes GTA hardware. Speaker. It's a water filter. Picture Pulse. Elevate. Elevate. I was gonna say they love this Pulse branding, but it's cool, you know? Cool name. Tim. What are you thinking? How you feeling? I mean, I think it's cool. I like that they're really committing to all this stuff. Like I. I don't need it, but I'm lucky. I feel like it's probably gonna be a worthy entry point for people that want to step their game up a bit because the pricing of these things have Been pretty good. Mike, did you know anybody who had a one of those gaming chairs that had the speakers and the subwoofer? No, I've never seen those. I remember the recliner one though. The one on the ground that used to. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Sure. Yeah, yeah, I bought that. There was one just like that that had kind of like subs in them. Now you gotta get it. Cool. Hi everyone, I'm Brett Elston. And I'm Kristen. That's just gonna be 299. First look at the Pulse. Elevate wireless speakers which bring the PlayStation audio and chat experience to your desktop with planar magnetic drivers and PlayStation link wireless technology. Visit PlayStation Blog for even more details. Now let's check in on what's next for PlayStation Plus. Up first is the October monthly games lineup. The creepy and Captivating Alan Wake 2 arrives just in time for spooky season with Goat Simulator 3 and Cocoon rounding out the list. Oh, Cocoon's a good ass game. A little lineup right there. That's a nice lineup. Damn, Cocoon's good. You remember me again Will make you feel smart as nice. Last of Us Part 2 Remastered. Again. As part of Naughty Dog and PlayStation's annual celebration of this beloved series, we are thrilled to confirm the addition of the Last of Us, Part 2 to the PlayStation plus game catalog. We don't let anybody stop us. Come out and fight. For PS5 members, this includes The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, the Definitive way to experience Ellie and Abby's story alongside additions like the ROG. Like survival mode. No return. Our update to the PlayStation Plus Classics catalog is extra exciting for games. And the number three, I think of Donkey Kong's Roguelite mode. Was that not already on there? Two are coming. Soul Calibur three earlier this year. Also arriving this year, another all timer Tomb Raider anniversary. I was always blown away when there was dinosaurs in the game. I was like, well, I didn't know we were doing this. One of PlayStation's most iconic franchises. Okay, good. We go talk to Milo again. What was that kid's. What was that guy's name? That's not the coffee shop. Yeah, yeah, yeah, love that. And yeah, I think the name of the song is Midnight. It's pretty badass. I'm gonna name my kid that Moon over the Castle. This game looks so good and when I see graphs like that, I'm like, oh, I'm out. God, y' all are crazy. Remember the movie? No. Gran Turismo. No big deal. Got Was. Was Aaron Paul in Need for Speed? Yeah. Nice. Oh, we're birthing a new controller. Hell, yeah. Volcano Red Got. Okay, you gotta change the light. You can have the light be blue. Here you go. Here we go. Let's get the volume out a little louder out here. Longer than I can remember. Yeah. Holy. Holy Jesus. Can we get more volume? Dude, they dated. They got it. They've been dating everything. Violent, man. Oh, very violent, yes. Japan. Oh, my God. Magic or saber tooth or. No, wait. Omega Red. Yeah. Holy. Death's always waiting. Just not for me. Oh, my God. Yes. I ain't no hero. I'm Wolverine. God damn. Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. Hey, that looks great. Hey, man, great job. Holy. Nipples are hard, man. Full mask. Yeah, different one. The question that comes up a lot to us at Insomniac Games, Marcus, are you going to make a wolf Wolverine game that is as violent, as visceral as the character in the comics? Answer is no. We've scaled. It's impossible. We couldn't do it. Wolverine is interesting because part of the root to who he is is that he's an unreliable narrator. He has gaps in his memory. So Wolverine doesn't really remember a lot of his life, and that's got to be an extremely frustrating aspect. He's this ball of rage and fury. But then he could turn on a dime, and he could be very, very kind and tender in the next moment. When we're casting for someone like Logan, what we're looking for in character traits are someone who can convey a lot with very little being spoken. When you have that first moment that we show in gameplay, there's so much emotion that you can feel behind his eyes. He looks relentless, he looks gritty, he looks angry, but also he looks maybe a little sad. That level of acting and being able to just deliver that performance with believability across both spectrums was something insomniac. Ourselves, we all agreed he's the one. We don't need to see anybody else. Hey, I'm Liam McIntyre and I play James Logan Howlett in Marvel's Wolverine. That's not bad. That one sort of works. Fans out there know what Wolverine is, who he is. My job is to try and find the essence of who Wolverine is, especially as he applies to our story. People hurt him, People take from him, betray him. He still fights for people who can't fight for themselves. It's one of the greatest honors of my life, one of the biggest responsibilities I've ever had, and one of the coolest things I've ever got to do in that mocap. He's got like John Cena mount. The entire game is built around staying true and note the Wolverine experience. And then how do we want to put our insomniac stamp on that? How do we want to put our own spin and creativity? You look at him nose down on new and fresh. He was the weather wizard in the Flash. It's the full package. It is a level of detail that we've never been able to do before. You can see it in the trailer. You can see pores. You can see blood in between the little lines of his teeth. I love the attention to detail. It's exciting that we're going to be able to bring that kind of fidelity to players. Wolverine is a character who goes to many places through the comics. I know this is stupid. I'm happy he's in the outfit. There's a shot there was a chance walking down that rooftop and you can see the breadth of Madripoor and Lowtown. It's always nice teasing the depth and the amount of characters that we'll be seeing in the game. Omega Red makes an appearance. Mystique is there. And there are some hints to other characters that fans of Wolverine will recognize for sure. Another visual element of Marvel's Wolverine is the blood. The blood tech that was put into this game is pretty phenomenal. There's a part in the trailer where Logan jumps down and then he does the claws up through the face. That one I thought maybe was going to be taking it too far, but I am so glad that we have it. It looks fantastic. Wolverine's combat, making that special, making that feel like him. Making it feel different to anything else you've played. That's a tough job. What's so cool for me is there was this one section of the game I got to try. It was just visceral and immediate and so incredibly satisfying. And I was like, this is gonna be amazing. We're pretty excited about the artwork that we're using on the COVID It's dynamic, it's rough edged. You notice it doesn't look like our past games. It has a sense of urgency and forward movement and rage and fury. And that's Wolverine. One of the cool things about Insomniac is they are probably the most collaborative group of people. I got the crazy response. We've been in a creative collaboration with Insomniac games and PlayStation for over a decade now. We've made some of the greatest superhero games of all time. And that was always the goal. Making games standing there. I think fans are going to be excited, but I'm also really excited about it because I'm really proud of what we made. We are focused on making the best Wolverine game ever. On behalf of everyone at Insomniac Games and the Wolverine team especially, we want to thank you for taking time to watch our trailer. We can't wait to show you more in spring of 2026. Damn. Awesome. Hell yeah. I can't take another one. I can't take another. Don't throw PlayStation logo now. Boycott activated. Says what's special about the game though? Shut the up your Wolverine stabbing people tonight. That's what's special about the game. What does it do different? I play too many games where I stab people and ride a motorcycle. My fight will continue. Biggest news is Mega Man. Yeah, of course. Dr. Wy getting his own stage there. It's huge. Bing ding, ding. You're welcome. Don't steal our logo. That's getting too close to our logo. Be careful. Andy will get you. Be careful. We don't sue. We stab. That's what. You look so good today, Greg. There we go. We paid off. I was very much ready to see you like an idiot dressed like Wolverine. Another state of play in the books. We're about to break down everything we just saw in an episode of the Kind of Funny Games Cast. But first, here's a word from our sponsor.
Date: September 24, 2025
Host(s): Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Andy Cortez, Snowbike Mike
The crew at Kinda Funny delivers a live, unscripted reaction to the September 2025 PlayStation State of Play presentation. With playful banter and sharp industry insight, the hosts break down every announcement, trailer, and surprise—focusing especially on anticipated titles like Saros, Marvel’s Wolverine, and a string of both first-party and third-party reveals. This summary captures the community feeling, honest expectations, and signature humor of the panel as they ride through one of PlayStation’s biggest news drops of the year.
(00:01 – 06:00)
“I'm excited. Well, I have like medium expectations. Right?...this is a state of play, it's not a showcase. Right. So I think that helps kind of roll back expectations a little bit.” (04:20, Blessing)
(07:45 – 13:20)
“Returnal was such a good game. It was, oh my God. Cool as hell. Sick. By absorbing projectiles, you can now hit back hard using your power weapon Vibranium...” (09:30, Greg)
“This is one of the few shooters that I love on controller…Something about it just felt awesome.” (10:10, Tim)
(15:40 – 17:00)
“If you listen, you can hear Paris crying into his pillow…I love this game, and I'm so happy it's coming to PlayStation.” (Flight sim segment, 14:10, Mike)
(17:05 – 18:40)
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“Jesus. What? That is so far from now…It's weird to call your shot that far.” (19:10, Andy)
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(22:05 – 23:10)
“If it has a character creator, it's going to be amazing…they're popping off with the dates.” (22:40)
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(29:10 – 35:00)
“Holy. Holy Jesus. They dated. They've been dating everything. Violent, man. Oh, very violent, yes.” (29:15, Tim and Andy)
Insomniac’s Marcus Smith and actor Liam McIntyre break down their vision:
Tim summarizes: “I can't take another one. I can't take another. Don't throw PlayStation logo now…”
Spring 2026 release window confirmed.
If you missed the show, this recap covers all major announcements, panel insights, and the infectious community hype—saving all the industry banter and none of the sponsorship reads.