Sony Santa Monica is reportedly engaged on its first new IP because the God of War sequence in 2005.
In accordance with an employee’s LinkedIn profile within the “about” part, they got here again to Sony Santa Monica as a personality supervisor, taking care of all the character-development pipeline on a brand new IP. Beforehand, they labored at each Naughty Canine and Sony Santa Monica earlier than going to Placing Distance Studios to work on The Callisto Protocol and Unknown Worlds for the following Subnautica recreation.
After the launch of God of War Ragnarok on PS4 and PS5 again in 2022, producer Cory Barlog mentioned that the studio was engaged on many various tasks. Nevertheless, he did not present specifics on any of them. Sony Santa Monica was additionally reportedly engaged on an open-world sci-fi game earlier than it was canceled.
It looks as if we might not see the brand new IP for some time, as Sony already mentioned that there would not be any new main franchise video games till April 2025 on the earliest.
Within the meantime, God of War Ragnarok is coming to PC on September 19. PS5 followers can nonetheless look ahead to video games like Astro Bot, Harmony, and Lego Horizon Adventures later this yr.