Sony State of Play Announcements, Valve Antitrust Lawsuit Update + more!

Duration: 07:12

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:10 Sony State of Play Announcements

1:21 Even More State of Play

2:42 Valve Antitrust Lawsuit Update

4:08 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:17 Factorio Concludes Development

4:46 Helldivers 2 Updates

5:20 RuneScape Spinoff is Heading to Consoles

5:54 Marathon Server Issues

6:30 John Blanche Passes Away

NEWS SOURCES:

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WOLVERINE’S FROM THE STATE OF PLAY

Sony State of Play

https://www.playstation.com/en-ca/state-of-play/

https://www.eurogamer.net/everything-announced-sonys-playstation-state-of-play-june-2026

God of War Laufey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLMX2w3cwuE&rco=1

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/06/02/first-look-at-god-of-war-laufey/

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/god-of-war/new-god-of-war-game-starring-kratos-wife-faye-announced-with-20-minutes-of-footage/

Fight through the afterlife of the gods quote

https://lmg.gg/JuVL2

How to pronounce Laufey

https://www.ign.com/videos/god-of-war-laufey-1-name-4-pronunciations

It’s Deborah Ann Woll from Disney’s Daredevil

https://collider.com/playstation-new-god-of-war-game-fae-spin-off-deborah-ann-woll/

Gelatinous cube!

https://kotaku.com/new-god-of-war-talking-cube-phranque-laufey-faye-2000701723

Cube is played by a beloved nepo baby:

https://lmg.gg/MouAr

Marvel’s Wolverine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiBo_NgYI5Q&rco=1

“Unapologetically violent”

https://www.ign.com/articles/marvels-wolverine-the-big-interview-with-insomniac-on-sonys-unapologetically-violent-ps5-exclusive

“Trailer Reveals Jean Grey Team-Up”

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/wolverine-gameplay-trailer-reveals-jean-grey-team-up-and-more-marvel-characters/

Apparently it’s got North Vancouver in it

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/wolverine-playstation-north-vancouver-sulphur-pile#google_vignette

MOST IMPORTANTLY, we get a hairy Wolverine

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/will-insomniac-s-hairy-wolverine-unseat-leon-kennedy-as-2026-s-biggest-gaming-hottie/ar-AA24MZ5e

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA24MpOc.img?w=768&h=416&m=6&x=434&y=6&s=248&d=248

The one above all

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/One_Above_All_(Multiverse)

I’VE GOT A LOT ON MY PLATE OF PLAY

Lists and lists of games!

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/06/02/state-of-play-june-2026-all-announcements-trailers/

https://www.eurogamer.net/everything-announced-sonys-playstation-state-of-play-june-2026

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/940913/playstation-state-of-play-june-2026-news-trailers

Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wEjbSYNUM8

It’s a remake:

https://gameinformer.com/the-game-awards-2025/2025/12/11/tomb-raider-legacy-of-atlantis-is-a-remake-of-the-first-game-in-the

apparently GenAI was used in development

https://kotaku.com/uh-oh-genai-was-used-in-the-development-of-the-beautiful-new-tomb-raider-remake-2000701988

Onimusha: Way of the Sword out September 25 on PS5, demo released June 2nd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNq35HHUtNc&rco=1

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/06/02/onimusha-way-of-the-sword-out-september-25-on-ps5-demo-out-today/

The ending was not that great.’ Ubisoft reveals why it's remaking Rayman's most recent game instead of an older one

https://www.polygon.com/rayman-legends-retold-interview/

New Stuntman Game Coming With Real Movies Including Fast And Furious And Back To The Future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7NZpeAmdxk

https://kotaku.com/new-stuntman-game-coming-with-real-movies-including-fast-and-furious-and-back-to-the-future-2000701686

For the Riley Murdocks of the world, we got a new trailer and release date for Control Resonant!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAzxTMaA6j4&rco=1

https://www.engadget.com/2186215/control-resonant-will-bend-your-reality-on-september-24-2026/

Control Resonant Early Access Is Exclusive To PS5

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/06/control-resonant-early-access-is-exclusive-to-ps5-but-at-least-we-get-play-anywhere-on-xbox

Big games cluster release dates in September to avoid clashing with GTA 6 release in November

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/ZUjrREOIt6

https://www.polygon.com/september-2026-new-video-games/

PARITY POOPER

Valve is spending its fifth year in court fighting US and UK antitrust suits over accusations that it uses Steam's massive monopoly to bully the PC gaming market and protect its 30% platform cut.

https://www.techspot.com/news/112616-gabe-newell-steam-doesnt-pressure-developers-pricing-emails.html

The suits focus on Valve's "Platform Most Favored Nation" clause, which stops devs and publishers from selling their games cheaper or offering better features on competing stores.

https://lmg.gg/UX5wq

Uncovered emails show Valve employees threatening to pull Rainbow Six Siege after Ubisoft launched a cheaper Uplay starter pack, plus one employee's email to Warner Bros over Shadow of War pre-order discounts.

https://lmg.gg/HsQTn

Valve and Newell deny the rule exists, despite another email where one employee jokes about getting the policy tattooed on his back “like it’s the Declaration of Independence."

https://lmg.gg/BRgbr

Gabe Newell told lawyers customers have “enormous choice” between Steam, Epic, Xbox, and buying direct.

https://lmg.gg/x54CW

A take Timothy Sweeney of course saw as a perfect opportunity to dunk on Gabe, because what else is new, get a room you two.

https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/2061828182945259566

QUICK BITS

BITTERSWEET SPAGHETTI

Factorio, the chemically addictive factory sim, is getting its last major gameplay update after a decade. https://www.gamesradar.com/games/simulation/10-years-after-launch-steam-icon-factorio-gets-its-last-major-update-as-devs-reveal-plan-to-conclude-the-active-gameplay-development/

Wube Software says patch 2.1 brings some quality-of-life tweaks but the team is planning to "conclude active gameplay development," shifting to long-term support and a few unnamed new projects.

https://lmg.gg/6Cn1e

The factory will, at last, stop growing, your ruined sleep schedule may take a bit longer to recover.

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1tr14zd/friday_facts_440_21_plan/

GALACTIC WAR GETS REAL

Arrowhead is overhauling Helldivers 2's progression, and the game director's pitch is refreshingly honest,

https://www.ign.com/articles/helldivers-2-dev-confirms-roguelite-systems-called-planet-warfronts-as-part-of-big-changes-coming-to-the-game

admitting that for players it’s never really been clear whether the community's actions changed the Galactic War or whether it was "all just smoke and mirrors."

https://lmg.gg/prtGC

In the steam blog director Mikael Eriksson outlined this month’s addition of the Galactic War Campaigns, the "next evolution" of Major Orders that run one to three weeks and will guarantee at least one reward.

https://lmg.gg/nG2d4

Plus an anticipated roguelite mode called Planet Warfronts to come shortly after.

https://lmg.gg/ct1tl

CONSOLES REALLY RUNED A GOOD THING

RuneScape: Dragonwilds Launches on Consoles Later in 2026 – the first time the RuneScape IP has made the jump from PC to consoles in its 25-year history

https://www.polygon.com/runescape-dragonwilds-console-game-ps5/

https://www.ign.com/articles/runescape-dragonwilds-launches-on-consoles-later-in-2026-sony-picks-up-spinoff-for-ps-plus

https://gameinformer.com/state-of-play/2026/06/02/runescape-dragonwilds-the-open-world-survival-game-will-launch-on-ps5-as-a

Falador Massacre

https://runescape.fandom.com/wiki/Falador_Massacre

RUNNING ON EMPTY

Marathon's big comeback hit a familiar Bungie speed bump as server issues kneecapped the extraction shooter's second-season launch and free play week.

https://kotaku.com/server-issues-plague-marathons-big-comeback-moment-2000701778

Probably the worst timing as players just came off of seeing the marathon ad in Sony’s state of play, and turned what was meant to be a strong first impression for newcomers into error screens.

https://x.com/MarathonDevTeam/status/2061974808976609524

Bungie has since apologized and started handing out free loot to make amends.

https://x.com/MarathonDevTeam/status/2061913169375920220

ONLY IN DEATH DOES DUTY END

John Blanche, the Legendary Illustrator Who Defined the Look of Warhammer 40,000, Has Died