The Last Guardian is finally real — and it’s coming 2016

LOS ANGELES — Team Ico has taken around a decade to deliver the followup to its last major release, but it’s finally, really happening.

Sony announced tonight that The Last Guardian lives as part of its Electronic Entertainment Expo media presentation. Now a PlayStation 4 game, Sony resurrected the title after lengthy absences from the show over the last few years — it is coming in 2016. The last time the company had anything from the monster-wrangling to show off in public, Obama was still in his first term. And it’s a key release for Sony in the $55 billion annual console market — one that could let it make up tens of millions spent over nearly a decade of development and give gamers a reason to pick a PS4 over an Xbox One.