PlayStation State of Play: 3 Potential Artbooks?
February 12th 2025
The State of Play from PlayStation for February 2025 presented a lot of games as expected. With video game artbooks being as popular as ever, I've highlighted a few of the games that I feel are most likely to have one!
Monster Hunter Wilds
The State of Play opened with Capcom's popular franchise, Monster Hunter. This series is no stranger to artbooks, one being Monster Hunter: World - Official Complete Works for their highest selling game, Monster Hunter: World. They have also had other releases, including illustration books too, making one for this game very likely.
Borderlands 4
There have already been 2 artbooks for Borderlands. The first, The Art of Borderlands 2, is a now hard to come by paperback from BradyGames, who later joined with Prima Games. The last book release was The Art of Borderlands 3 from Titan Books. With the last 2 games getting an artbook, I think this one has a strong chance of coming to fruition. If made, it would likely arrive in 2026 at the earliest, as the game is listed for September 23rd 2025.
Saros
This is the second AAA release from Housemarque and not due until next year, so I wouldn't expect an artbook for a long time. There was one published by Dark Horse in 2024 for their previous game, Returnal. Though it did take more than 3 years after the game release to arrive, The Art of Returnal is great look at the roguelike that is heavy on environment art.
This does create the potential for another artbook, but hopefully it doesn't take 3 years, as that would be 2029!
Possible artbooks?
There is a chance for a couple of others from the State of Play worth mentioning, though not safe bets.
First is Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater, which is coming in August. This is a remake, which decreases the chance of an artbook, but certainly doesn't rule it out. The Metal Gear Solid HD Collection had an untitled artbook (but has been referred to as Metal Gear Solid: Art of the HD Collection) that was included in the special edition.
Konami are also no strangers to reprinting art in more than one book, so they could do it again. Some art for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater was included in the HD Collection book and was then reprinted in The Art of Metal Gear Solid I-IV. There is also an artbook for the last game too, The Art of Metal Gear Solid V.
Stellar Blade also made an appearance with some upcoming content. No artbook has been announced, but I wouldn't be hugely surprised if one was made in the future as the game is very popular.
Any artbooks that are announced will be added here, so you can keep track and add more to your collection! Keep and eye on the News section for that and see confirmed future releases on the Upcoming page.
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