Naughty Dog Absent from PlayStation State of Play, Fueling Concerns Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Is Still Far Off

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Sony's latest PlayStation State of Play broadcast has concluded without any update on Naughty Dog's Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, or news from several other first-party studios that haven't released a game in years.

Last night's showcase offered our best look yet at Marvel's Wolverine from Insomniac Games, along with a major reveal for God of War Laufey from Sony Santa Monica. We also saw the long-rumored Until Dawn 2 from UK studio Firesprite. However, other anticipated games failed to appear.

The most glaring omission was the lack of any update from Naughty Dog, the developer behind The Last of Us. Naughty Dog's last new game was The Last of Us Part 2, released in June 2020. Since then, the studio abandoned a Last of Us multiplayer spinoff and started work on its new sci-fi franchise Intergalactic, but there's still no word on its release date.

Intergalactic is a sci-fi action adventure featuring a bounty hunter with a cool plasma sword. It began early development in 2020 and was revealed at The Game Awards in 2024. Creative director Neil Druckmann has described it as the studio's most expansive and ambitious game, and likely its most expensive.

PlayStation fans also expected to see more of Fairgame$, the debut title from Montreal-based Haven Studios. Founded in 2021 and acquired by Sony in 2022, the studio has yet to ship a game.

Bend Studio's most recent project remains Days Gone, launched in 2019. Media Molecule's last project was Dreams, released in 2020. Polyphony shipped Gran Turismo 7 in 2022, with no word on a new project.

It was also surprising that State of Play did not feature Horizon Hunters Gathering, Guerrilla's new co-op action game spinoff set in the Horizon universe, which is currently in beta.

Earlier this week, newly analyzed sales data revealed that PlayStation's first-party game sales have been declining over the past five years, though last year's Ghost of Yotei helped Sony buck that trend. Reasons include the failure of various live-service games and the cancellation of other in-development projects. In general, Sony is simply releasing fewer games.

For more on what we did see, check out our interview with God of War Laufey's Ariel Lawrence and Cory Barlog, and our chat with Insomniac Games on making Marvel's Wolverine an "unapologetically violent" adventure. We also have details on whether Spider-Man will appear alongside Logan and an option to reduce the game's gore.

For all other announcements, see our roundup of everything from the June 2026 State of Play.

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