It’s Morbin’ time: PlayStation fans flood Twitter with obviously fake State of Play leaks

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Fake State of Play leaks are spreading like wildfire online, and some are a lot more entertaining than the truth is likely to be.

With a new State of Play taking place this week, we’re in peak fake leaks territory. It’s the perfect time for no-names on Reddit to put together a perfectly reasonable sounding list of announcements, to trick people and drum up false expectations.

Two supposedly leaked document, that list all the announcements from the show have already appeared on Twitter. Aside from the lack of a reliable source, the fact that both leaks contradict each other proves neither can be trusted.

That hasn’t stopped some from treating one or the other as fact, but as if to counter them being spread as gospel, several fans have flooded Twitter with their own fake leaks.

Not only are the contents of the ‘leaks’ funny but so too are the deliberately try-hard comments about how real they are.

Some of them can almost pass themselves off as legitimate, such as one that lists several highly anticipated games like Street Fighter 6 and the rumoured Resident Evil 4 remake.

This comes courtesy of Twitter user Sisselcat and aside from sounding too good to be true, what gives it away is the inclusion of Final Fantasy: Tifa’s Italian Adventure, referencing the infamous incident in January when porn of the character in question was played during a Zoom meeting in the Italian senate.

Audrey, who regularly translates information pertaining to Square Enix games, posted a ‘99.99% trustworthy leak of the next PlayStation State of Play roster’ and even cited her source as ‘bro, trust me.’

Appropriately, half of her ‘leak’ consists of Square Enix games, like Kingdom Hearts 4 and Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 2. Unfortunately, it seems enough