The Final of Us season 2 arrives in April, and a Horizon Zero Daybreak movie is within the works

Sony’s CES 2025 press convention was enormous on the leisure entrance in case you’re a PlayStation fan. In a collection of rapid-fire bulletins, the corporate introduced it was making an anime based mostly on Ghost of Tsushima Legends, the cooperative multiplayer mode from the acclaimed recreation. It then adopted that up with information that Columbia Footage was within the early levels of growing a film based mostly on the post-apocalyptic PlayStation recreation Horizon Zero Daybreak. Lastly, Neil Druckmann from Naughty Canine popped out to announce that season two of The Final of Us would hit HBO in April.

We already know a good bit about The Final of Us season two — its based mostly on 2020’s The Final of Us Half 2, nevertheless it will not take us by the entire occasions of the second recreation. It will take at the very least two seasons to retell the story of that terrific but complex misery simulator. This season, Kaitlyn Dever, Isabela Merced, Catherine O’Hara and Jeffery Wright be part of season one veterans Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey.

The opposite initiatives stay a thriller for now. A bit over two years in the past, we heard that Horizon Zero Daybreak was being adapted as a series for Netflix, however the mission ultimately fell aside. I am undoubtedly curious to see how they’re going to streamline the sport’s sprawling storyline into a decent narrative for a two-hour film (or perhaps a three-hour one), however hopefully a robust artistic workforce is behind this one.

As for Ghost of Tsushima, it is one other of essentially the most well-regarded and standard PlayStation Studios titles, with a sequel on the way in which, so that is simply one other instance of Sony utilizing a few of its greatest gaming titles to develop into the broader leisure house — making these tales extra accessible to people who find themselves much less prone to play a 20-to-40-hour recreation.

On a private word, The Final of Us and Horizon Zero Daybreak are two of my favourite video games of all time, so this 10-minute blast of fine information was most welcome in the course of a really lengthy day at CES!