{"id":860340,"date":"2026-06-11T17:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/860340\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T17:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:39:15","slug":"the-first-ps5-game-delay-out-of-september-2026-has-been-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/860340\/","title":{"rendered":"The First PS5 Game Delay Out of September 2026 Has Been Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Valor Mortis PS5\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/8c16031880d18\/valor-mortis-ps5.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/valor-mortis-ps5.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Valor Mortis PS5\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It had to happen, and sure enough, it is: the first PS5 game delay out of September 2026 has been shared. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/valor_mortis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valor Mortis<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/ghostrunner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ghostrunner<\/a> developer One More Level, revealed less than a week ago it was releasing on 24th September 2026.<\/p>\n<p>That meant it would release on the same day as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/hot_wheels_infinite_rush\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Wheels: Infinite Rush<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/control_resonant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Control Resonant<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/silent_hill_townfall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Silent Hill: Townfall<\/a>, and only one day before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/onimusha_way_of_the_sword\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Onimusha: Way of the Sword<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team has recognised this wouldn&#8217;t be a good idea and has delayed the launch of Valor Mortis to 13th October 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Since the original release date was announced during the Xbox Games Showcase, it had to lock that date in &#8220;weeks in advance&#8221;, at which point it looked pretty clear. It appears many other publishers thought the same, as the day has become incredibly crowded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>We are moving our release date to October 13th <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LHHhg9BAiT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/LHHhg9BAiT<\/a>\u2014 Valor Mortis (@ValorMortis) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ValorMortis\/status\/2065087751092068529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefile.news\/p\/inside-valor-mortis-delay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game File<\/a>, publishing head Blake Rochkind said it was decided the release date would be changed as soon as Control Resonant announced it would be launching on the same day. At the time its initial release date was decided internally, &#8220;there were so many unknowns&#8221;, according to Rochkind. &#8220;This was before Sony State of Play, before Xbox Showcase, before Nintendo Direct, before Summer Games Fest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;ll be 13th October 2026 for Valor Mortis. That&#8217;s the same day as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/planet_zoo_2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Zoo 2<\/a>, and two days before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/castlevania_belmonts_curse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Castlevania: Belmont&#8217;s Curse<\/a>. With the promising Soulslike removed from September 2026 now delayed, here&#8217;s what the end of the month now looks like:<\/p>\n<p>Still pretty crowded, right? I expect there&#8217;ll still be more movement to come for these PS5 titles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It had to happen, and sure enough, it is: the first PS5 game delay out of September 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":860341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[26470,350887,15610,158,67,132,68,350888],"class_list":["post-860340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-delays","tag-lyrical-games","tag-ps5","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-valor-mortis"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116732702619850594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}