{"id":712747,"date":"2026-07-27T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712747\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:10:10","slug":"the-next-kratos-god-of-war-game-will-follow-and-connect-to-laufey-says-cory-barlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712747\/","title":{"rendered":"The next Kratos God of War game will follow and connect to Laufey, says Cory Barlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Monica Studio head of creative, Cory Barlog, has confirmed that the next mainline, Kratos-starring God of War will pick up after the events of God of War Laufey.<\/p>\n<p>Talking at a panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Barlog revealed that &#8220;everything&#8221; the team at Santa Monica was doing in the Faye game will &#8220;set up and expand what comes next&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>God of War Laufey &#8211; Meet the Cast.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6x_2WIBdcEs\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything we are doing in the Faye game is a continuation of what came before and to set up and expand what comes next,&#8221; he explained (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/next-kratos-led-god-of-war-game-is-coming-after-laufey-and-connects-directly-to-her-story-comic-con-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Phranque has been around since the beginning. It&#8217;s interesting to see how to build this world out. Everything in the game is setting up for something so amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Faye is, while it&#8217;s a different thing, it&#8217;s still part of the larger tapestry of what we truly really want to explore, all of these different characters in there. But there&#8217;s always going to be Kratos games, like, throughout the whole history. We&#8217;re super excited about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/god-of-war-laufey-release-date-confirmed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">God of War Laufey will release on 16th February 2027<\/a>. Confirmation came yesterday via an announcement at San Diego Comic-Con. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/god-of-war-new-series-entry-kratos-faye-playstation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> as one of the biggest in this year&#8217;s Summer Game Fest season, and part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/playstation-state-of-play-june-2026-most-watched\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">record-breaking State of Play<\/a>. The surprise reveal generated plenty of discussion, but most of the talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/god-of-war-laufey-more-kratos-games-coming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">centred on the game&#8217;s new protagonist, Faye<\/a>. And according to Faye actress Deborah Ann Woll, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/god-of-war-laufey-pitched-in-2018\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the idea existed all the way back when the reboot was released<\/a> in 2018, nearly 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But the star remains gloriously unbothered by the negative criticism the game reveal has triggered. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/god-of-war-laufey-deborah-ann-woll-unbothered\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woll recently said she&#8217;s &#8220;totally unbothered&#8221; by the backlash surrounding the upcoming game<\/a> because she knows &#8220;it&#8217;s great&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/playstation-ps5-pc-single-player-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s definitely not happening with Laufey, however, is a PC port<\/a>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/sony-playstation-pc-ai-annual-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony no longer intends to release its non-live-service games on PC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa Monica Studio head of creative, Cory Barlog, has confirmed that the next mainline, Kratos-starring God of War&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-712747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}