With flavors of Sekiro, Souls and Sifu, Phantom Blade Zero is already one for the future.
pbzero_official: "We decided to make a game that everyone here could be deeply proud of."
The Outerhaven writes: Phantom Blade Zero showed up at CES 2026 with new playable build. Improved optimization, and combat that feels better than what I've played in prior versions.
"This build felt close to final for a couple of reasons. First, the optimization was excellent. The game was running at a smooth 60 frames per second, and it was doing it on a base PlayStation 5."
At first I though he had mistaken because of the first picture in the article showing a Pro... but if you scroll down you can see that they had a setup for both the base PS5 and a PRO. So, good news then. The game is running on UE5 so it should be a great test for PSSR2.
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"This build felt close to final for a couple of reasons. First, the optimization was excellent. The game was running at a smooth 60 frames per second, and it was doing it on a base PlayStation 5."
At first I though he had mistaken because of the first picture in the article showing a Pro... but if you scroll down you can see that they had a setup for both the base PS5 and a PRO. So, good news then. The game is running on UE5 so it should be a great test for PSSR2.
I'm very wary of this game.
The showing was amazing but apparently, development of this game only started in 2022 so I have no idea how in less than yr and half they managed to show the gameplay they did.
I hope I'm wrong but this will likely be vapour ware.
Seen a lot of these great looking Chinese games that just disappear, wukong is another one that looked amazing and has gone silent.
The game looks amazing. Could even be a GOTY contender.
Its all fake gameplay. We saw many such vaporvare titles from Korea or China.
It looks like a concept trailer. It will look and play NOTHING like what we witnessed. I’ve been wrong before, but games are not what they use to be. It’s money over art these days.
Maybe in 2027 we will get a gameplay trailer with a delay notice to 2028 fall.