{"id":4763,"date":"2026-02-16T12:23:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/state-of-sparta-playstation-blog\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:23:52","slug":"state-of-sparta-playstation-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/state-of-sparta-playstation-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Sparta \u2013 PlayStation.Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com!<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hey, everybody! Brett, Kristen, and I are back this week to talk about this week\u2019s State of Play, along with all the exciting announcements that came with it. To celebrate the surprise launch of God of War Sons of Sparta, we have a special interview with developer Mega Cat Studios: Game Director Zack Manko and Founder\/CEO James Deighan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Stuff We Talked About<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Next week\u2019s release highlights:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>God of War Sons of Sparta (out now!) | PS5<\/li>\n<li>Avowed | PS5<\/li>\n<li>Death Howl | PS5<\/li>\n<li>Styx: Blades of Greed | PS5<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek: Voyager \u2013 Across the Unknown | PS5<\/li>\n<li>Ys X: Proud Nordics | PS5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Romeo is a Dead Man Suda 51 Interview\u00a0 \u2014 Suda 51 dives into his artistic approach to hyper-violence and sci-fi in his games, while also breaking down the inspirations behind the character Romeo and the story.<\/li>\n<li>Monster Hunter Wilds update \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 The update adds the Arch-tempered Arkveld, the return of the Festival of Accord, winners of the Original Weapon and Pendant Design contest, and more goodies on February 18.<\/li>\n<li>Helldivers 2 new story arc \u2014 The Cyborgs are back, and this time the fight is in the heart of their homeworld, Cyberstan. Prepare with the War Horses Armor Set and new missions and objectives.<\/li>\n<li>Battlefield 6 season 2 update \u2014 Battlefield 6 and Redsec Season 2 drops February 17 and brings with it a new conflict with Pax Armata in the mountainsides, a new map Contaminated, three new weapons, two new gadgets, and the return of the legendary AH-6 Little Bird.<\/li>\n<li>State of Play recap\u00a0 \u2014 If you missed the show, don\u2019t worry. We have all the information and highlights in one place. Your new favorite game may be waiting.<\/li>\n<li>God of War Sons of Sparta \u2014 The new God of War title was dropped this week, and you can learn everything you need to get started. Live the story of Kratos before he became the God of War.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-default-font\">The Cast<\/h3>\n<p class=\"has-default-font\">Thanks to Dormil\u00f3n for our rad theme song and show music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font\"><em>[Editor\u2019s note: PSN game release dates are subject to change without notice. Game details are gathered from press releases from their individual publishers and\/or ESRB rating descriptions.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here Hey, everybody! Brett, Kristen, and I are back this week to talk about this week\u2019s State of Play, along with all the exciting announcements that came with it. To celebrate the surprise launch of God of War Sons of Sparta, we have a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[433,4509,4139],"class_list":{"0":"post-4763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-console-gaming","8":"tag-playstation-blog","9":"tag-sparta","10":"tag-state"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}