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We’ve gotten our first look at Grand Theft Auto 5 as a PS5 game.

Seen in action at today’s PlayStation Showcase event, the PS5 remaster of Grand Theft Auto 5 will see Michael, Franklin, and Trevor back on the streets of Los Santos, and looking better than ever. The new trailer also points to a March 2022 release date, a delay from the previously-announced November 11, 2021 date.

When it arrives with an upgrade for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, it will mark the third generation of consoles GTA 5 has been released on. The upgrade applies to both the single player game, and GTA Online. Before that, we’re also expecting to see surprises related to the 20th anniversary of GTA 3 on October 22.

Mysterious Square Enix and Luminous Productions action-RPG Forspoken has shown off a little more of its world and gameplay in a new trailer, and revealed that the game will release in Spring 2022.

Revealed at today’s PlayStation Showcase event, the new Forspoken trailer introduces us to lead character Frey as she enters the gorgeous (but dangerous) world of Athia.

According to a PlayStation blog post, “Frey is a directionless, gritty yet street smart young woman who has persevered despite her rough upbringing in New York City. And her life hasn’t really gotten any easier now that she’s about to turn 21. Things take a turn for the unexpected when she’s magically transported to Athia, a land where fantasies and nightmares are suddenly very real.”

As Frey, who’s voiced by Charlie’s Angels star Ella Balinska, players will harness magical abilities to defeat monsters across the land, in addition to contending with the Tantas, the “destructive and twisted all-powerful matriarchs who have dominion over Athia.”

In addition to Balinska, Forspoken will also feature the voices of Jonathan Cake as Frey’s companion Cuff, Janina Gavankar as Tanta Sila, Keala Settle as Johedy, and Monica Barbaro as Auden.

Forspoken was announced as Project Athia in 2020, and was subsequently given a formal title in March. It’s one Square Enix is hoping to make an impression with, its stated goal being to include the highest quality visuals in any open world game to date. Forspoken will also be a PS5 console exclusive for at least 2 years.

Borderlands spin-off Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is releasing on March 25, 2022.

Announced with a new trailer at today’s PlayStation Showcase event, the game will come to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, and PC early next year.

We also saw our first look at gameplay, giving us a taste of how the Borderlands spin-off will look in action. We saw lots of guns, new fantasy-based moves, unique enemies, and more.

Wonderlands brings a fantasy-flavored twist to a Borderlands approach. First announced at E3 2021, we’ve so far had a breakdown of its weapons, loot, and enemies, but this marks our first taste of how it all fits together in the game itself.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

After being announced earlier this week, Alan Wake Remastered was officially shown off in a trailer during today’s PlayStation Showcase, with a release date set for October 5, 2021. It will include both the base the game and its two story expansions, The Signal and The Writer.

While revealed during a PlayStation show, it was previously confirmed that Alan Wake Remastered would come to PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC through the Epic Games Store. In fact, the Epic Games Store is where rumors of a remaster were kicked off this June.

It was also confirmed today that the PS4 version will offer both a Performance and Quality mode, the latter of which runs at 60fps while the former runs at 4K and 40fps. Meanwhile, the PS5 version will run at 4K and 60fps.

This official date reveal comes days after leaked listings had already pointed toward an October 5 release, and a remaster is throwing more fuel on the speculative fire that Remedy is working on a full sequel.

During today’s PlayStation Showcase, you would have been forgiven for not recognizing the second game shown: Project Eve. It’s an upcoming hack-and-slash action title that’s largely flown under the radar up til now, but an extended trailer shown today gave a better look at its combat, story, and beautiful musical accompaniment.

Project Eve has been known about for a while now, having been announced way back in 2019 with a teaser from its developer, Korean studio Shift Up, which is founded by Blade & Soul character designer Kim Hyung Tae.

Its story follows a young woman existing in a post-apocalypse, at one point in the trailer learning about what a subway system used to be through a friendly voice in her ear. In a broken world that mankind has fled, Eve explores and fights off strange monsters called NA:tives who have invaded earth.

Via the PlayStation blog, we also learned that the PS5 version of this game will take advantage of haptic feedback for its combat combos, and intends to “take full advantage” of the PS5’s graphical power.

Though shown in the PlayStation Showcase, Project Eve was also originally announced for Xbox One and PC, so we’ll likely see it on those platforms eventually as well. Unfortunately, the trailer today did not give any new information about a release date or window, so we may have to wait a while before we learn more about what Project Eve is all about.

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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is being remade for modern consoles. It will be coming to PlayStation 5 as a console exclusive at launch alongside a PC release, with other consoles possibly to be revealed at a later date.

Aspyr will once again be handling development of the new remaster, rebuilding the game “from the ground up,” following on from their previous efforts with Republic Commando and Jedi Outcast. The trailer shown during today’s PlayStation Showcase showed Darth Revan igniting his lightsaber with an ominous voiceover.

Knights of the Old Republic is consistently ranked as one of the best RPGs ever made, and it sits atop our list of the ten best Star Wars games. Originally developed by BioWare, KOTOR helped inaugurate a new era of PC RPGs on console. Its announcement during Sony’s PlayStation Showcase is somewhat ironic given that it was a top Xbox exclusive back in the day.

Knights of the Old Republic was first reported to be in development back in April by multiple outlets. Its announcement comes as part of Sony’s PlayStation showcase, and is confirmed to be early in development, though an official blog post indicates also that work has been happening on the title “for a little while” in close collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. Orion Kellogg, executive producer at Lucasfilm Games, and Ryan Treadwell, lead producer at Aspyr, say that the team is taking its time to balance the weight of fan expectation, authenticity to the original, as well as any necessary changes or updates.

“This is something that is important and impactful,” said Treadwell. “Our big goals on this are to bring the story to a modern audience and have it be just as impactful today as it was for players when it originally launched.”

He added the project includes some powerhouses, such as Jennifer Hale returning to voice Bastila, and developers with experience on the remake of Demon’s Souls and Ghost of Tsushima, and lead gameplay designer Matt Berner, who worked on Dragon Age: Inquisition. And, of course, many developers from the original KOTOR team.

“We can say, ‘What were you trying to do and why did you do it this way? Let’s make sure that we have the same goals in mind as we re-approach it this time,’” said Kellogg. “We’re just going to be able to do more things with asset variety and fidelity and storytelling that just weren’t possible then, but are still going to meet the same goals.”

KOTOR does not yet have a release date.

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN