Ghost of Tsushima has beautiful environments.
Ghost of Tsushima has beautiful environments.
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Ghost of Tsushima — Sucker Punch takes a deep dive into cinematic gameplay

Ghost of Tsushima is one of Sony’s last big exclusive games on the PlayStation 4, and developer Sucker Punch showed off a bunch of the title’s gameplay today in a PlayStation State of Play online video. The game debuts as an exclusive on the PlayStation 4 on July 17. Ghost of Tsushima is a samurai action-adventure game coming from Seattle’s Sucker Punch Studios, the developer that made other PlayStation exclusives like the Sly Cooper and Infamous series.

The game is set in Japan in the 1270s, during the first Mongol invasion. You play as Jin Sakai, the Ghost. Sucker Punch previously made Infamous: Second Son, one of the earliest exclusives on the PS4 in 2014. And this game has some features that Sucker Punch fans will recognize.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.