Sony has wasted no time in announcing a bunch of Playstation VR games at Paris Games Week 2017.

In addition to the big announcements that you can read about in our roundup, there’s a range of unique titles coming to the PSVR platform. During the conference, Sony’s head of marketing Jim Ryan confirmed a longstanding commitment to supporting PSVR. In an interview with the Telegraph, he described how Sony see a good future for virtual reality.

“I think we definitely see VR as having the potential to be a very significant part of the future of interactive entertainment. Now quite what the horizon is and quite what the rate of pace of adoption is, that’s still a little unclear. But Sony is committed to this and we’re in it for the long haul.”

With over 100 games compatible with PSVR, Ryan also mentioned how SIE was always looking to improve the hardware.

“Sure – Sony’s a hardware company. We’re always looking at iteration – we’ve got nothing to announce right now – but the history of our involvement in gaming has involved iteration and improvement.

We’re looking at the whole thing constantly. Looking at how people use it, the things that they enjoy about it, the things they’d like to see improved and our engineers are constantly innovating and looking at new stuff.”

It’s good to see SIE looking to improve on Playstation VR, particularly if it wants to start competing with more advanced hardware like the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. Tracking technology within the headset is one specific drawback that we assume will be at the top of the to-do list.

This positivity was backed up by a slew of new game announcements for the platform. New titles included Apex Construct, Sprint Vector, Blood & Truth and Megalith, while Dead Hungry, League of War: VR Arena, Ultrawings and the Resident Evil VII DLC, ‘Not a Hero’ also popped up.

Here’s some of the highlights of Playstation VR titles announced

While Ultrawings has been on the other VR platforms for a while, it’s good to see Ultrawings making the jump to PSVR. The open-world flying simulator includes a range of aircraft to pilot as you test your flying skills. Ultrawings has drawn considerable comparisons to Pilotwings and offers a great selection of flying challenges ready to undertake. No specific release date has been given yet.

Fast Travel Games’ first title is Apex Construct. Set in a futuristic sci-fi world, you’re the last human alive. Using nothing but a bow and your wits, you take on the robot inhabitants of the world. Fast Travel Games added: “Between frantic moments of action that pit you against perilous robots, players will have the opportunity to explore the environment and engage in their surroundings, solving puzzles that help to further their understanding of this fractured future world and its history.”

Sprint Vector from Survios is a frantic foot-racer filled with neon lights and unique backdrops. Pitting you against other players in a fast-paced obstacle course, you need to be first to reach the finish line. Players control their speed by swinging their arms back and forth, with better timing equalling increased speed. It’s one of the more unique titles on show and looks like it could be a lot of fun.

League of War: VR Arena is for all you armchair commanders out there. Turn your living room into a battlefield and take on other players in a throwback to classic strategy games. Using infantry, tanks, artillery and aircraft, your mission is to destroy the opposing army’s towers and ultimately, base. It looks great, reminiscent of a boardgame with as you stand at the virtual tabletop and plan your attack.

Another Playstation VR exclusive, Blood & Truth puts you in the shoes of a cockney John Wick and demands you ask questions later. As an expanded version of The Heist, an early selection of PSVR action sequences, Blood & Truth offers a larger experience and proper narrative. There’s no current release date but you can check the announcement trailer above.

Megalith is described as an ‘action-packed hero shooter’ all played out in virtual reality. You take control of a ‘titan’, a huge creature that has immense size and firepower. With customisable abilities, destructible environments and free locomotion, you must team up to fight for supremacy over the enemy team.

While the only gameplay footage is a monster looking at his own hands in confusion, the concept does seem good. The hero shooter market however is saturated so hopefully virtual reality will help it stand out from the crowd.

Probably the most tongue-in-cheek game at the event was Dead Hungry. Less about destroying the dead and more about feeding them, Dead Hungry sticks you in a burger fan and puts you to work.

There’s been a mixed reception towards the latest The Last of Us Part 2 trailer to say the least. While controversy has simmered around the tone of the trailer, let’s take a look at what plot details we can glean amongst the brutality.

Is that Ellie’s mom?

She certainly bears a passing resemblance to Ellie. The mystery woman (voiced by Laura Bailey) has been the focus of the recent marketing, although Naughty Dog have elected to keep her identity a mystery. They did release a short quote to go with the trailer that adds to the puzzle.

“At its core, The Last of Us Part II is still very much about Ellie and Joel, but for this reveal, we wanted to showcase several new characters that are integral to their next journey… For now we’re keeping mum, but we’re excited to see what y’all make of this piece of the puzzle.”

We’re sure that ‘keeping mum’ is just a turn of phrase but it’s a cheeky nod if the woman shown above is indeed Anna, Ellie’s mother. Anna was absent from the original game, believed to have died shortly after giving birth to Ellie. The only part of her that remains is a letter and a switchblade, both of which Ellie keep close as a memento. It’s clear she’s a big part of Ellie’s story and with the new game focusing more on her as a character, it’s reasonable that we’ll explore their relationship.

One other clue is also present in a recent tweet by Naughty Dog.

And finally, Laura Bailey is ████. #TheLastofUsPartII pic.twitter.com/9ATCz6RELk

— Naughty Dog (@Naughty_Dog) October 30, 2017

Four black squares. Anna?

Who is everyone else?

As the trailer progresses, several other key players emerge. Naughty Dog has all but confirmed they’re main characters after they revealed the voice acting talent. Emily, voiced by Emily Swallow, is the leader of the kidnappers and apparently punishing those ‘nested in sin’. Yara (voiced by Victoria Grace) is the woman who suffers from the brutal hammer attack and Lev is the male with the shaved head, voiced by Ian Alexander.

What’s interesting is within the dialogue and how these characters react to each other.

Emily’s motivations

A good place to start is Emily. Let’s go back to that ‘nested in sin’ line. It has all sorts of religious connotations and is delivered as she holds a knife to the woman’s stomach. One theory is that this scene is a punishment for Anna falling pregnant with Ellie. If Anna had sex with someone outside of their particular tribe (or cult, which would be backed up by the use of ‘apostate’ later on), it’d make sense to use the ‘nested with sin’ line.

Another interesting take from Reddit is that Anna has had sex with a recently infected human, which could result in Ellie’s immunity to the virus. This would also fit with the ‘nested in sin’ line, with Emily viewing Anna as carrying ‘sin’ that causes people to become these monsters.

This could all be overthinking, as early on in the trailer we see other corpses similarly hung and disembowled. This could just be an elaborate show of force to people who are thinking about leaving ‘the group’.

Are we seeing an early form of the Fireflies?

Talking of ‘the group’, are we seeing a form of the Fireflies? In The Last of Us, the Fireflies are a revolutionary group fighting against military oppression. During the trailer, when we’re introduced to Yara, Emily tells her fellow captors to ‘clip her wings’, which could fit in with the Firefly motif. Perhaps Emily is part of a cult at odds with the Fireflies.

This theory is backed up by Lev asking if Yara really wants to cut the woman down as she’s ‘one of them’. Could it be we’re seeing the Fireflies (Lev and Yara) at war with Emily’s group? Is Emily a former Firefly, hence why she seems to instantly recognise Yara?

It could be that everyone has connections with the Fireflies and this is just a civil war of sorts. When Emily greets Yara, she asks her about the ‘other apostates’. An apostate is someone that denounces a belief or principle so maybe Yara and Lev have splintered. Without context it’s obviously all theoretical but it does seem as though Emily is a leader and is hunting down those that have left her charge. Her dialogue also seems to have particularly religiously zealous overtones, a trait which doesn’t fit with the overall impression of the Fireflies we have so far.

When does this trailer take place?

Now obviously, all of these theories so far are accounting for this being a flashback. Neil Druckmann, creative director for Naughty Dog, emphasised in an interview that we don’t know when this scene takes place. It could be that following the events of The Last of Us, the Fireflies have collapsed into several smaller groups and the mystery woman is just a ripped woman that’s handy with a hammer. This would obviously go against any theories regarding Ellie’s parentage but at this stage, anything could be correct.

Have you had a chance to watch The Last Of Us Part 2 trailer yet? If so, what are your thoughts on what’s going on?