Knack 3 – not PlayStation Game Pass – could end up as biggest Sony reveal this week

metro.co.uk:

This week could be a big one for PlayStation according to the latest rumours, with Sony maybe even bringing back Knack.

At the end of last week, reports began to emerge up that Sony is finally preparing to announce its alternative to Xbox Game Pass, codenamed Project Spartacus, as early as this week. Now, it’s suspected that that might not be the only thing Sony has up its sleeve.

Kinda Funny co-founder Greg Miller recently tweeted that he is delaying a recording of this week’s PS I Love You XOXO, Kinda Funny’s PlayStation podcast, because of multiple rumours that he clearly believes are real.

‘Man, looking like it might be a VERY interesting week for PlayStation if even one of the three rumours I’ve heard is true,’ he wrote.

One of them is no doubt the aforementioned Project Spartacus. Word of it broke back in December and there has been mounting evidence to suggest that a PlayStation Game Pass is happening.

Miller doesn’t specify what any of the rumours actually are, but it’s possible that Sony has another State of Play on the cards. There was talk of a big presentation happening this month, but apparently some developers asked Sony to delay it due to the Ukraine-Russia war.

Sony never officially commented on this but, so far, we’ve seen two much shorter State of Plays: one for Japanese published games and one focused entirely on Hogwarts Legacy.

This could imply that Sony decided to split its March presentation across multiple events, so it wouldn’t be too surprising if there was at least one more, perhaps centred around its first party games.

Speaking of, it’s recently been discovered that Sony filed a new trademark in Japan for one of its seemingly abandoned franchises, starring a platformer mascot that many (well, some –