New ‘God of War’ Release Officially Hit With Major Delay

Right now is an exciting time to be a God of War fan with the many projects the franchise has in the works. Prime Video is hard at work on a new God of War TV series, but there’s still no word yet on when it will be released. Ryan Hurst was originally tapped to play Kratos in the show, but after he suffered an injury that would have forced production to pause for months, he was recast with Dave Bautista, who is already almost ready to slot back in as cameras are preparing to roll once again. God of War mastermind Cory Barlog has also confirmed that Santa Monica is working on a new God of War game that will be centered around Kratos, but the franchise has another story to tell before it returns to its original protagonist.

We’re talking, of course, about Laufey, wife of Kratos who was first introduced into the franchise in God of War in 2016. The entire journey of the first God of War reboot game centers on Kratos and Atreus taking Faye’s ashes to the highest peak in all the realms, which they first think is in Midgard before later discovering she was talking about Jotunheim. Earlier this year at one of PlayStation’s State of Play events, Santa Monica took the stage to debut over 20 minutes of uninterrupted gameplay footage from God of War Laufey, and the studio later confirmed that the game would be released in February 2027. However, the official Santa Monica X account confirmed yesterday that the game has since been delayed to May 20, 2027, to give the team time to give it its finishing polishes.

Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life
looks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in
return.

You belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and
somebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right
thing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime.

• This is the only world on the list where doing good is understood as a very long defeat,
  fought anyway, by people who will never see how it ends.
• You are drawn to grandeur, to white cities and deep forges and the sense that almost
  everything you touch is older than your entire family line.
• The Rings of Power is set in the last good age before it all goes wrong, which gives
  every quiet scene in it a slightly unbearable weight.
• You would take the hard road, and you would take it on foot.

You want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where
you are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is
finding out what is over there.

• One Piece has run for decades on one very simple engine, which is a group of people who
  each want something impossible and have decided to go and get it together.
• You collect people. Your ideal crew is a set of misfits who were each written off
  somewhere else before you turned up and offered them a better idea.
• The world is enormous and deliberately ridiculous, and the emotional gut punches land
  harder because of that rather than in spite of it.
• You would set sail knowing the map runs out, which is more or less the entire point of
  it.

You would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The
Continent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the
people are where it all gets complicated.

• Witchers get paid to do what nobody else will and resented for existing at all, which is
  a trade most people would refuse and you would probably accept.
• You have no real illusions about which side is the good one, largely because on the
  Continent that question tends to have a disappointing answer.
• The best of these stories are not about the fighting. They are about somebody with a
  rigid code being repeatedly cornered into caring about people.
• You would take the coin, finish the job properly, and be out of town before the story
  got told wrong.

You want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and
you want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as
everybody kept telling you.

• Percy Jackson takes the oldest stories we have and drops them into car parks and diners,
  which makes the gods considerably funnier and a great deal worse.
• You would be the kid every school gave up on, who turns out to have been built for
  something nobody thought to test for.
• The series is genuinely about friendship rather than destiny, and it says so out loud
  every time a prophecy tries to get in the way.
• Camp Half-Blood is the real fantasy here: a place where the thing that made you
  difficult everywhere else is the thing that makes you belong.

There’s an Added Bonus to ‘God of War Laufey’s Delay

There is a silver lining to God of War Laufey‘s new delay, which is that it gives fans extra time to finish Grand Theft Auto 6 before it releases. It may seem silly for players to need entire months to finish a game, but just the main story of GTA 6 is confirmed to be around 80 hours, and that isn’t even counting the mountain of side content that Rockstar has planned. People with less time to play video games will now have even more time to finish GTA 6 before the release of God of War Laufey.

Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of God of War Laufey, which is now going to be released on May 20, 2027.

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