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On to the rest of today's State of Play reveals.

A brief sizzle reel confirmed one of Capcom's worst-kept secrets: a Resident Evil 4 remake, simply titled Resident Evil 4, is launching on March 4, 2023. Its reveal appeared to consist entirely of in-game content. It included impressive ray-tracing effects like reflections and light bounces—thus making the most of its current-gen exclusivity on both PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, along with Windows PCs.

The trailer concluded with news that the game would also include "PlayStation VR2 content" instead of functioning entirely in VR. Capcom followed this up with information that Resident Evil Village will get a top-to-bottom PSVR port, and other publishers offered similar teases of PSVR2 ports of The Walking Dead Saints & Sinners 2 and No Man's Sky.

Sony then delivered a fuller "real gameplay" look at Horizon: Call of the Mountain VR, which has now been confirmed as a PSVR2 exclusive. This VR spinoff will put players in control of a Horizon character named Reyes, who is tasked with climbing the game's mountains while engaging in first-person bow-and-arrow combat against robo-dinosaurs. But so far, these ports don't have release dates. While the Walking Dead trailer ended with a mention of "2022," we're unsure whether that's an indication of a PSVR2 hardware launch window (which still doesn't have a date) or if that is merely the game's launch window on other existing VR platforms like SteamVR.

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Street Fighter 6 received its first official release window of "2023" on PS5 and PS4. The news came within a lengthy gameplay reveal that included classic characters Ryu and Chun-Li alongside new characters Luke and Jamie. The trailer leaned on dramatic camera angles for the sake of flashiness instead of breaking down the mechanical differences we should expect compared to Street Fighter V. However, the trailer includes both interesting aerial counterattacks and Street Fighter IV-style interrupts, each marked by spraypaint-like blasts of color.

In a press release, Capcom clarified that the game would include new elements like fully voiced narrators during fights and an optional "modern" control scheme that simplifies special commands' button requirements. SF6's "Drive System" will let players spend special meters on one of five perks: Drive Impact, Drive Parry, Overdrive Art, Drive Rush, and Drive Reversal. We imagine those are the names for the flashy moments shown in the trailer.

The trailer also teases a substantial "overworld" element for the game's single-player campaign, including RPG-like running around towns to talk to NPCs, perhaps to assuage longtime fans who frowned upon SF5's lack of a single-player campaign during its launch. A similar-looking hub will connect online players in matchmaking lobbies. We've yet to hear about cross-platform online play, but Capcom confirmed that SF6 would launch on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows PC. (Not Xbox One, though.)

PUBG Corporation's ambitious Dead Space-like horror game, The Callisto Protocol, now has a release date of December 2, 2022, on current- and past-gen consoles. It's unclear how its detailed, gore- and amputation-filled combat against monstrous foes will scale between old and new consoles. Still, if today's reveal consisted of current-gen console gameplay, we're stoked about how well it evokes the singular terror that made Dead Space a fan favorite.

The event concluded with a bombastic trailer for Final Fantasy XVI, which now has a launch window of "summer 2023," and the footage goes in a much different direction than we've previously seen. Square Enix previously showcased the game's cast of human characters in tightly zoomed, Game of Thrones-like conversations. But this week's reveal cranks up the adrenaline by showcasing a ton of massive "summon" creatures, apparently conjured and controlled by different heroes and antagonists in the game's story.

While some battles resemble the "action-RPG" stylings of Final Fantasy XV and Final Fantasy VII Remake, the massive showdowns between beasts land somewhere between Street Fighter and classic kaiju films. These battles position the camera in a "2.5-D" perspective, complete with "HP" bars and names at the top of the screen as if these were ripped from a competitive fighting game. The game currently appears to be a PlayStation 5 exclusive.

For more on other games shown off during the trailer, including the "stealth-kitty" adventure of Stray and the cel-shaded roller-derby combat of Rollerdrome, click below for the entire State of Play presentation.

This article has been updated to correct an error about Spider-man: Miles Morales' availability on PC.