Sony has been on a path of transition for years.Behind closed doors, a large part of the authorities that lead the PlayStation brand and the strategy of its products have changed, while on the consumer side, there have been several setbacks in terms of experiences that have not worked in recent years.
Therefore, this 2026, which has many titles and experiences related to PlayStation Studios, is a good test of whether these issues are in the past or this year will be one more.These are some video games to keep in mind that will arrive on PlayStation 5 in 2026.
PlayStation’s highlight for 2026 is the new video game from Insomniac Games that had already been presented more than five years ago.It was a long wait to be able to experience what Marvel’s Wolverine has to offer, and it already has a confirmed release date for spring Latin America, so we expect it around September or October.
This video game will feature high levels of violence, consistent with its protagonist, and is not only in the same universe as Marvel’s Spiderman but is also expected to open the way for future X-Men video game productions.
A video game that comes with a great resume.It will be the first experience developed by Housemarque as one of the PlayStation studios, after its acquisition in 2021. That same year the studio had released the acclaimed Returnal, one of the best video games that the PlayStation 5 has given us.
It will once again be a third-person roguelike with a high narrative component and, although it looks very similar to Returnal, the universe is different and it would seem that it would not have any narrative connection with the studio’s previous video game.It will be one of the first we will try this year, since it will be released on April 30.
One of the main points by which PlayStation navigates this wave of uncertainty is its arrival in the world of games as a service.In the pandemic they made a huge investment, saying they would release at least 10 games as a service in the next 5 years, of which 5 were canceled shortly after.Of those that came out, Helldivers 2 represented a total success but Concord was an unprecedented failure.
However, the intention is to stay on this course and have a presence.That’s why PlayStation bought Bungie, the creators of Destiny.This is the result. Marathon is a new multiplayer experience from the studio that created Halo and seems to bring behind it a revolution in the use of physics and how ambitious a multiplayer shooter can be.We can try it in March of this year.
This is not a PlayStation Studios video game, but for the moment, it will come exclusively to PlayStation 5 on consoles.This new Marvel fighting video game is developed by Arc System Works, a company that has made a big splash in the last decade in terms of fighting games with Dragon Ball FighterZ (2018) or Guilty Gear Strive (2021).
On the side of this new experience, it promises to be the revolution of superheroes in fighting games, offering an eye-catching game that Marvel could not achieve years ago.It will have an anime aesthetic, a very varied cast of characters and a story mode that will have its own essence, without being guided by anything specific from what we already know about the Marvel world.It will be released on August 6.
Horizon is one of PlayStation’s flagship franchises.Although it is not among its classics, the franchise’s sales numbers speak of a massiveness related to it and that is why it has been one of Sony’s biggest openings in recent years: it has had collaboration with LEGO, it has had games on other platforms, several sequels and, now, multiplayer games as well.
Horizon Hunters Gathering will be an experience for PlayStation 5 and PC that will bring together three players cooperatively to face the classic enemy machines of the Horizon franchise.Its cartoonish style is striking, extremely far from what the franchise has accustomed us to, but it will undoubtedly be a bet that will have to be tried.The online test will be during February of this year, so we estimate that the game will be released within a few months.
One of the big surprises of the last State of Play had to do with the renewal that God of War will have in the coming years.Beyond the liveaction series that Amazon Prime is preparing and a new main video game that is long overdue, we now know that God of War will have a remake of its original trilogy in the coming years.
In turn, this announcement served to give rise to the big surprise of the event: a surprise launch of God of War: Sons of Sparta, a 2D metroidvania with pixel art aesthetics that tells the story of a Kratos who still lives in Sparta with his brother Deimos, long before the events of all the other video games that we know.A surprise from PlayStation that must be given a chance at the beginning of the year.
