The first major PlayStation announcements of the year aren’t any new games, but two movies based on Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2. 2024 was an awfully quiet year for Sony when it came to major new game releases and so far 2025 doesn’t look that much better, with Ghost Of Yōtei the only new first party PlayStation exclusive currently scheduled.
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Games such as Insomniac’s Wolverine and Naughty Dog’s Intergalatic: The Heretic Prophet have been announced, but there’s currently no clue as to when they’ll be out. In the meantime, Sony has decided to kick the year off with a bunch of movie and TV announcements instead, with no less than three projects confirmed during its press conference at CES 2025.
First is a film adaptation of Horizon Zero Dawn, which presumably sprung from the ashes of the cancelled TV show that was meant to air on Netflix. Frankly, a movie always seemed like the more sensible option, given the amount of CGI that would be needed.
PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash made no mention of the Netflix show while announcing the movie, only saying the film is in the early stages and, like the Uncharted and Gran Turismo film, will be a co-production with Columbia Pictures. Second is a Helldivers 2 movie (though it’ll probably just be titled Helldivers), which seems ironic because such a movie technically already exists. It’s called Starship Troopers and it released in 1997. If they don’t cast that film’s lead actor, who is a self-purported fan of the game, then what’s even the point?.
