State of Play Didn't Reveal a New God of War Game, but Sony Did Announce a Kratos PS5 Controller for the 20th Anniversary

The 20th day of God of War is here, and Sony made definite to observe the milestone astatine its September 2025 State of Play by revealing thing peculiar for longtime fans: a caller controller.

The PlayStation-maker revealed its Kratos-themed PS5 DualSense controller toward the extremity of its presumption today, showing disconnected its ash-white colour and blood-red mark. It’s not rather the caller God of War crippled announcement galore whitethorn person been hoping to see, but it does travel with confirmation that it volition motorboat successful October for $84.99, with pre-orders opening October 3 astatine 10am section time.

The archetypal God of War launched for the PlayStation 2 successful 2005 and rapidly catapulted Kratos into becoming a PlayStation icon. The 2018 brushed reboot helped the god-killer reclaim his fame portion introducing fans to a caller Norse setting, with its sequel, God of War Ragnarok, past arriving successful 2022.

The second has received caller contented successful the years since, with its Valhalla roguelike mode arriving arsenic a escaped communicative update successful precocious 2023. Outside of this, though, fans person been near waiting for immoderate quality from developer Santa Monica Studio, arsenic the adjacent section of Kratos’ travel remains a mystery.

"When we were deciding however champion to embody the series, we instantly thought the signifier of the controller lent itself perfectly to Kratos’ omega tattoo," Santa Monica Studio subordinate creation manager Dela Longfish explained successful a PlayStation.Blog post. "No substance which God of War crippled you’re playing, the shape of his reddish ink against the grey of his ash-covered skin is 1 of the astir iconic elements of Kratos’ look crossed some Greek and Norse sagas. Our squad made definite to correspond some of these cardinal tones successful the colour enactment for the controller to marque each facet an authentic homage to the plan that has defined Kratos for implicit 2 decades."

The God of War 20th day Kratos controller is acold from the archetypal limited-edition accessory Sony has created. Past PS5 DualSense highlights see the PlayStation 30th day controller, a The Last of Us controller, and a Death Stranding 2: On the Beach controller. Sony adjacent loves Astro Bot truthful overmuch that the mascot got not 1 but 2 constricted variation controllers for collectors.

For more, you tin cheque retired everything announced astatine the September 2025 State of Play oregon dive into our usher to each DualSense colour Sony has released truthful far.

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