Sony to launch free demo of The Last Guardian VR on December 12

Sony said it will launch a free demo of The Last Guardian for the PlayStation VR on December 12.

Shawn Layden, head of Sony’s game business, made the announcement tonight at the beginning of its PlayStation Experience event in Anaheim, California. Layden said he spent much of his career in games overseeing The Last Guardian and was delighted when it shipped on the PlayStation 4 last year. Now he’s happy to give players a taste of it on PSVR.

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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.