State of Play | February 12, 2026 thoughts?

[weirdfeline]

Get ready to watch over an hour of game news and updates from developers across the globe.

Tune in live this Thursday for 60+ minutes of news, gameplay updates, and announcements from game studios across the globe. February’s State of Play will spotlight eye-catching third-party and indie games headed to PS5, along with the latest from teams at PlayStation Studios.

State of Play broadcasts live February 12 at 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 11pm CEST | February 13 at 7am JST on YouTube and Twitch, and will be broadcast in English with Japanese subtitles also available. We’ll see you then!

Quite a long one! They also had a State of Play on this date last year which was 40 minutes. Here were our thoughts on that one for comparison: https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,12993.0.html

I kinda have high hopes for this with the extended runtime and being this far into the generation they probably have a lot to show.

I wonder if we'll finally see Fairgame$ show up again? In three months it will have been three years since they've revealed the game (and have said nothing about it since) which immediately looked like another game called Hyenas that SEGA cancelled right before release despite being fully developed because they rightfully assumed it would flop. Keep in mind, this is a first party game meaning Sony bought the studio making it because they are so confident in this product. In 2025 the studio founder, Jade Raymond, left the company as did the creative director of Fairgame$.

[bikingjahuty]

i genuinely hope these State of Plays/Nintendo Directs/XBOX Showcase presentations will be great, or even just alright, but 95% of the time they're a complete waste of my time. Part of this has to do with me feeling more and more disconnected from modern gaming, as if games really don't have people like me in mind anymore, but it's also a bit of modern games being very uninspired and bland for the most part. I always want to be proven wrong when these things come up, but I feel like i've been burned too many times and even my low expectations are somehow not even met. I'll probably catch the highlights afterwards. I don't really want to waste an hour or whatever being disappointed like I have during almost every other State of Play.

[kamikazekeeg]

A little more hopeful with this than the last Direct which had almost nothing for me, especially with hearing it's one of their longer ones.  I'm not super sure what I'd want to see, just more reasons to use my PS5 really, haven't done much with it since Death Stranding 2 was all the way back in June.  I'm expecting a Wolverine release date which will be nice, that's one of the very few games that's for the system that I know is coming that I'm anticipating, but that's mostly it.

My go to is always Bloodborne something whether it's a remaster, remake, or sequel, so I'll always ask for that lol

I guess if I had something I'd like to see otherwise, something with Twisted Metal would be cool.  Either a collection or perhaps a new game, hell, just give me a remake of Twisted Metal 2, I'd be all over that lol