{"id":2006449,"date":"2026-06-23T10:49:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2006449"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:49:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:49:54","slug":"god-of-war-laufey-is-not-a-new-idea-nor-is-the-talking-jelly-cube-cory-barlog-was-apparently-discussing-it-back-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2006449","title":{"rendered":"God of War Laufey is not a new idea, nor is the talking jelly cube &#8211; Cory Barlog was apparently discussing it back in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/god-of-war-laufey\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      God of War Laufey<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">God of War Laufey is not a new idea, nor is the talking jelly cube &#8211; Cory Barlog was apparently discussing it back in 2018<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">It&#8217;s Fayet.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/god-of-war-laufey-reveal-screen-3.jpeg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"god-of-war-laufey-reveal-screen-3.jpeg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Sony Santa Monica, PlayStation.<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sherif Saed avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/IMG_1950_Uy1XomJ.JPG?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1638\" height=\"1346\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Sherif Saed avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"IMG_1950_Uy1XomJ.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1638\" height=\"1346\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/sherif-saed\">Sherif Saed<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Contributor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-06-23T10:49:54+00:00\">June 23, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/god-of-war-laufey-pitched-in-2018?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          15 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"b36c55a8-5753-4700-a490-cbeab36ac7e6\" data-name=\"God of War Laufey\" data-follow-text=\"Follow God of War Laufey\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following God of War Laufey\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow God of War Laufey\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following God of War Laufey\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow God of War Laufey\" title=\"Follow God of War Laufey\"><br \/>\n  Follow God of War Laufey<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/god-of-war-new-series-entry-kratos-faye-playstation\">The God of War Laufey reveal<\/a> was one of the biggest in this year&#8217;s Summer Game Fest season &#8211; and part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/playstation-state-of-play-june-2026-most-watched\">record-breaking State of Play<\/a>. The surprise reveal generated plenty of discussion but most of the talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/god-of-war-laufey-more-kratos-games-coming\">centered on the game&#8217;s new protagonist, Faye<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You might think the decision to give Faye &#8211; who we were introduced to as  Kratos&#8217; wife in the 2018 God of War reboot &#8211; her own game was a relatively recent one. But according to Faye actress Deborah Ann Woll, the idea existed all the way back when the reboot was released &#8211; in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Woll, who also played Faye in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/god-of-war-ragnarok\">God of War Ragnarok<\/a>, and stars in Laufey  revealed on stage at Game Con Canada over the weekend that she&#8217;d known about this standalone game for nearly 10 years.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"God of War Laufey - Meet the Cast | PS5 Games\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uKMCqyeBWmU?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/uKMCqyeBWmU\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">God of War Laufey &#8211; Meet the Cast | PS5 Games<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uKMCqyeBWmU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;You know, again, I&#8217;ve known about this for nearly 10 years, and I haven&#8217;t been able to talk about it,&#8221; Woll told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgmagonline.com\/interviews\/deborah-ann-woll-god-of-war-laufey-marvel\/\">CGM<\/a>. &#8220;[Cory Barlog] pitched it to me in 2018, and they had known about it before then. It&#8217;s wild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Barlog, who returned to God of War series developer Sony Santa Monica a few years prior to 2018, to direct what would be the reboot, has since ascended to lead the studio&#8217;s entire creative output. And the idea for a Faye game was seemingly mature enough in his mind back then that he already had a poster for it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Cory [Barlog] brought me in to talk about doing Ragnarok and show me the 2018 game, he already had a poster for the Laufey game with me and a cube,&#8221; she added. &#8220;A cube that&#8217;s been there since the beginning. It&#8217;s deeply a part of the lore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cube Woll is referring to, of course, is Phranque, a quipping, gelatinous cube who made their debut in Laufey&#8217;s extended reveal trailer, and who has themselves been the topic of conversation around the game.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"artwork for god of war laufey\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/artwork-for-god-of-war-laufey.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7768456375838926\" width=\"1059\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"artwork for god of war laufey\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"artwork-for-god-of-war-laufey.jpg\" height=\"596\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7768456375838926\" width=\"1059\"><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Sony<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Woll also shared an anecdote about the motion capture technology Sony Santa Monica uses. The actress was sceptical it would be able to capture all of her facial expressions and translate them accurately into the game, having seen how Kratos was captured in the 2018 game and Ragnarok.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve been able to experience my work as a viewer without judgment, without self-consciousness, because I knew how much work went into it after me, and that I can just appreciate that, the technology, but also the animators; they caught every little muscle movement that my face can make,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I didn&#8217;t know Kratos is so stoic. I was like, maybe the technology can&#8217;t capture little movement, you know, because he doesn&#8217;t make a lot of facial movement,&#8221; she went on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s also just because that&#8217;s the character. So it wasn&#8217;t sort of utilising that. So when I watched this one back, I was like, &#8216;Oh my God, every single little muscle movement, my eyes, little tiny things that they captured and put in that make a fuller, richer person,&#8217; and really I was blown away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>God of War Laufey is in development exclusively for PS5, and though it does not have a release date, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/jasonschreier.bsky.social\/post\/3mndnuhxnbk23\">it&#8217;s been suggested<\/a> that it may be targeting a 2027 release. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/playstation-ps5-pc-single-player-games\">What&#8217;s definitely not happening, however, is a PC port<\/a>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/sony-playstation-pc-ai-annual-report\">Sony no longer intends to release its non-live-service games on PC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/god-of-war-new-series-entry-kratos-faye-playstation\">The God of War Laufey reveal<\/a> was one of the biggest in this year&#8217;s Summer Game Fest season &#8211; and part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/playstation-state-of-play-june-2026-most-watched\">record-breaking State of Play<\/a>. The surprise reveal generated plenty of discussion but most of the talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/god-of-war-laufey-more-kratos-games-coming\">centered on the game&#8217;s new protagonist, Faye<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You might think the decision to give Faye &#8211; who we were introduced to as  Kratos&#8217; wife in the 2018 God of War reboot &#8211; her own game was a relatively recent one. But according to Faye actress Deborah Ann Woll, the idea existed all the way back when the reboot was released &#8211; in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Woll, who also played Faye in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/god-of-war-ragnarok\">God of War Ragnarok<\/a>, and stars in Laufey  revealed on stage at Game Con Canada over the weekend that she&#8217;d known about this standalone game for nearly 10 years.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"God of War Laufey - Meet the Cast | PS5 Games\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uKMCqyeBWmU?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/uKMCqyeBWmU\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">God of War Laufey &#8211; Meet the Cast | PS5 Games<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uKMCqyeBWmU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;You know, again, I&#8217;ve known about this for nearly 10 years, and I haven&#8217;t been able to talk about it,&#8221; Woll told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgmagonline.com\/interviews\/deborah-ann-woll-god-of-war-laufey-marvel\/\">CGM<\/a>. &#8220;[Cory Barlog] pitched it to me in 2018, and they had known about it before then. It&#8217;s wild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Barlog, who returned to God of War series developer Sony Santa Monica a few years prior to 2018, to direct what would be the reboot, has since ascended to lead the studio&#8217;s entire creative output. And the idea for a Faye game was seemingly mature enough in his mind back then that he already had a poster for it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Cory [Barlog] brought me in to talk about doing Ragnarok and show me the 2018 game, he already had a poster for the Laufey game with me and a cube,&#8221; she added. &#8220;A cube that&#8217;s been there since the beginning. It&#8217;s deeply a part of the lore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cube Woll is referring to, of course, is Phranque, a quipping, gelatinous cube who made their debut in Laufey&#8217;s extended reveal trailer, and who has themselves been the topic of conversation around the game.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"artwork for god of war laufey\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/artwork-for-god-of-war-laufey.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7768456375838926\" width=\"1059\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"artwork for god of war laufey\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"artwork-for-god-of-war-laufey.jpg\" height=\"596\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7768456375838926\" width=\"1059\"><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Sony<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Woll also shared an anecdote about the motion capture technology Sony Santa Monica uses. The actress was sceptical it would be able to capture all of her facial expressions and translate them accurately into the game, having seen how Kratos was captured in the 2018 game and Ragnarok.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve been able to experience my work as a viewer without judgment, without self-consciousness, because I knew how much work went into it after me, and that I can just appreciate that, the technology, but also the animators; they caught every little muscle movement that my face can make,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I didn&#8217;t know Kratos is so stoic. I was like, maybe the technology can&#8217;t capture little movement, you know, because he doesn&#8217;t make a lot of facial movement,&#8221; she went on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s also just because that&#8217;s the character. So it wasn&#8217;t sort of utilising that. So when I watched this one back, I was like, &#8216;Oh my God, every single little muscle movement, my eyes, little tiny things that they captured and put in that make a fuller, richer person,&#8217; and really I was blown away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>God of War Laufey is in development exclusively for PS5, and though it does not have a release date, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/jasonschreier.bsky.social\/post\/3mndnuhxnbk23\">it&#8217;s been suggested<\/a> that it may be targeting a 2027 release. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/playstation-ps5-pc-single-player-games\">What&#8217;s definitely not happening, however, is a PC port<\/a>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/sony-playstation-pc-ai-annual-report\">Sony no longer intends to release its non-live-service games on PC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News God of War Laufey God of War Laufey is not a new idea, nor is the talking jelly cube &#8211; Cory Barlog was apparently discussing it back in 2018 It&#8217;s Fayet. 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