This is a hectic week for game news — the hype over Switch 2, the release of Deltarune, and then Sony’s massive State of Play presentation, which was dropped yesterday.

One of the coolest things we learned is that Square Enix is resurrecting one of their greatest titles of the PS1 era, Final Fantasy Tactics, in the form of a highly polished new edition called Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. If you know nothing about it, put simply it’s one of the best games they ever released and one of the greatest strategy titles of all time.

You can play the shiny HD / 4K version with fully voiced dialogue, a revamped UI, graphical refinements and other modern features, or you can choose the classic version that’s just like the SD original only it uses the translation from the PSP version (if you don’t know, the PS1 translation was a mess). Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles will be out September 30 on PS5 (and hopefully other places).

Bloodstained is back! Konami will not make a proper new Castlevania, but who cares when the series creator, Iga, is still hard at work on a spiritual successor series? This upcoming prequel to Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night sees Black Wolf member Leonard Brandon teaming up with White Stag Knight Alexander Kyteler (two can play at once) teaming up to storm the castle of Demon Lord Elias. If you don’t know who they are, the important thing is that it’s promised to be the largest 2D game Iga has ever made, with day-night cycles that change the environment around you, crafting, cooking and customization. Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement will be released for Playstation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC in 2026.

Way back when Sony first revealed the PS5, they also promised a new AAA game from Capcom, something about an astronaut forming a fatherly bond with a robot girl. That was in 2020 and it’s taken until now to see more of Pragmata, yet its AI premise has weirdly become more timely than it was upon first reveal. The new trailer takes advantage of this, with the first thirty seconds deliberately staged to look more like an announcement from a tech startup looking for investors than a video game. Pragmata is now promised for 2026 on PS5.

Silent Hill is coming back, and it’s coming before the end of the year. Konami aims to make Silent Hill f, first announced in 2022, the most disturbing entry yet. It’ll be out on PS5, XBox and PC September 25. Don’t watch this one late at night.

Snake Eater is my favorite MGS, but I have no idea where Konami plans to go with the brand after this, seeing as they burned the bridge with its creator long ago. They own the rights to the games Kojima made for them, so…shiny reruns it is. They can’t do this indefinitely though. Sooner or later they’ll HAVE to make a new game and….well. Snake Eater Delta will be released in August on PS5, XBox and PC.

Finally, it’s time for something original…you like origami? Then here’s an origami game starring Hiro, Master Of Folding. It honestly looks pretty fun; we’re hoping for another Astro Bot (and who isn’t). Hirogami will be released on PS5 September 5.

That’s all just on Sony’s end. Soon Summer Game Fest will dump even more hype over our heads, we’ve got a noisy weekend ahead!

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