PlayStation Showcase 2023: all the news from Sony’s big gaming event – The Verge

All our burning Qs about PlayStation’s Project Q

2023-05-25T14:00:12-04:00

On Wednesday, Sony announced perhaps its weirdest gadget in a while: Project Q, a handheld device designed solely to play games streamed from your PS5. It's basically an 8-inch LCD screen with the two halves of a DualSense grafted to the sides, and it will be able to play games from your PS5 at up to 1080p and 60fps over Wi-Fi via Remote Play. It's supposed to launch later this year.

That's pretty much all Sony said about the device during its PlayStation Showcase. If you're anything like The Verge's newsroom, you might still have a lot of questions, so we wrote some out. (Some are less serious than others.) And let us know your questions i …

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How do you remake a game like Snake Eater without a director like Hideo Kojima?

2023-05-25T10:30:00-04:00

In many ways, remaking Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is an obvious choice. The game is a near-universally beloved PS2 classic, one of the best stealth action games of all time, and is filled with iconic moments and set pieces. And the remake - titled Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater - is being announced at a time when audiences and critics alike have ample appetite for revisiting gaming's past. Several of this year's biggest and most critically acclaimed releases have been remakes and remasters, including Resident Evil 4, Dead Space, Advance Wars, and Metroid Prime.

Remaking MGS3 feels uniquely challenging, however, because of how ins …

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Alan Wake 2 won’t be available on disc

2023-05-24T20:31:34-04:00

Alan Wake 2 just got an official release date - October 17th - but you won't be able to buy a physical copy of the game, developer Remedy Entertainment revealed in an FAQ on Wednesday. Remedy has three arguments as to why: it says that many players have shifted to only buying games digitally, not releasing the game on disc keeps the price down, and the studio didn't want to require a separate download even if it released a disc product.

Here's the company's full explanation, from the FAQ:

Why is Alan Wake 2 a digital-only release?

There are many reasons for this. For one, a large number of have shifted to digital only. You can buy a Sony …

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It’s Metal Gear Solid Delta, not Metal Gear Solid Triangle

2023-05-24T19:19:39-04:00

It’s confusing, so I had to ask. | Image: Konami

Sony and Konami just revealed a Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, but it has a curious logo that reads Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater. While preparing our article about the announcement, I assumed that triangle symbol translated to Metal Gear Solid Delta, but when I read Kotaku's very good piece about the news, my stomach dropped: Kotaku called the new game Metal Gear Solid Triangle: Snake Eater, and I wondered if we had made an error.

To clear this up this very important issue, I had to ask Konami's public relations team how we should pronounce the game's name. The answer? Delta.

"Delta ("Δ") was chosen because the meaning that the symbol has f …

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The 6 biggest announcements from Sony’s PlayStation Showcase 2023

2023-05-24T17:58:55-04:00

Sony kicked off a summer of gaming events with a bang. The company's PlayStation Showcase was more than an hour of rapid-fire announcements, surprises, and trailers - including a new piece of hardware. You can catch up on everything that happened right here in our storystream. But if you're just looking for the biggest news of the day, this is the place.

The rumored handheld is real

Sony is making a handheld again, with the 8-inch Project Q. It's designed for playing your PS5 games remotely and looks like a Nintendo Switch smashed with a DualSense controller. There was other hardware, too: wireless PlayStation earbuds are also in the works.

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Beat Saber will be available Wednesday for PlayStation VR2

2023-05-24T17:58:17-04:00

At its PlayStation Showcase event, Sony revealed that Beat Saber, the hit music VR game, would be launching on Wednesday for the PlayStation VR2. We already knew that Beat Saber was in the works for Sony's new VR headset, but the sudden launch is a surprise. If you already own Beat Saber for the original PSVR, you'll get a free upgrade to the PSVR 2 version, according to the description in Sony's YouTube trailer for the game. Alongside the release, Sony also revealed that you'll be able to buy a Queen-themed music pack for the game.

Beat Saber wasn't the only piece of VR news from the event. Sony showed off footage of the in-development VR …

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Revenant Hill is the latest game from Night in the Woods developer

2023-05-24T17:51:16-04:00

Revenant Hill is the latest game from the developers behind Night in the Woods. At first glance at the game's announcement trailer, you'd be forgiven for thinking Revenant Hill was the sequel to Night in the Woods. The cat featured bears a suspicious resemblance to one Mae Borowski, NITW's protagonist. But according to the PlayStation blog announcing the game, Revenant Hill takes plays in the early 1900s, long before Borowski and her band of friends arrived in Possum Springs.

In Revenant Hill, you play as Twigs, a cat that's fallen on hard times and forced to do odd jobs to pay the rent on the wet log he calls home.

"Grow crops to sell at …

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Sony’s first PlayStation earbuds promise lossless audio for PS5 and PC gaming

2023-05-24T17:42:16-04:00

PlayStation is launching its own pair of wireless earbuds. During the PlayStation Showcase on Wednesday, Sony showed off its first pair of Bluetooth-enabled buds that you can use with the PlayStation 5, PC, or with its new Project Q handheld device.

Sony says the earbuds will feature "new wireless technology developed by SIE" later this year to make them capable of delivering lossless audio with low latency. The company didn't reveal too much about the wireless buds but says that additional details will come "in the months ahead." While Sony already has a number of well-regarded wireless earbuds, like the Sony WF-1000XM4, Bluetooth support …

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Spider-Man 2’s new trailer shows off symbiote powers and Miles Morales

2023-05-24T17:16:33-04:00

Sony shared new details about Marvel's Spider-Man 2 at its PlayStation Showcase on Wednesday. The game's central villain will be Kraven the Hunter - this guy - and the lengthy new gameplay footage showed off Peter Parker utilizing new powers with a symbiote suit. Suffice to say, it seems much darker than the first game. We also got a look at Miles Morales, who will be playable in the new game. The sequel doesn't have a specific release date, but it's launching sometime this fall.

Here's a look at Kraven specifically:

Spider-Man 2 was first announced in September 2021, revealing that Peter Parker and Miles Morales would be back and that Ven …

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Sony’s new Q handheld is official: 8-inch screen, streams PS5 games

2023-05-24T17:05:55-04:00

Sony has officially confirmed it's working on a PlayStation handheld to make it easier to play your PS5 games. It was announced during Wednesday's PlayStation Showcase and is called Project Q.

"We will launch a dedicated device that enables you to stream any game from your PS5 console using Remote Play over Wi-Fi," PlayStation boss Jim Ryan said during the PlayStation Showcase. "Internally known as 'Project Q,' it has an 8-inch HD screen and all of the buttons and features of the DualSense wireless controller."

More specifically, it'll have an LCD screen running games at up to 1080p and 60fps over Wi-Fi, according to a Sony press release, …

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