The Last Guardian: hotly anticipated PlayStation 4 title delayed again

Sony's (very) long awaited adventure title will now arrive in December, not October - seven years after its original announcement

The much-anticipated PlayStation 4 title, The Last Guardian, has been delayed again. In a statement on the console's official blog site, the president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, gave the new date of 6 December. The date had previously been given as 25 October.

The five-week postponement is the latest in a troubled development cycle that began almost a decade ago. Originally announced in 2009, The Last Guardian was to be a PlayStation 3 follow-up to the designer Fumito Ueda's critically acclaimed PS2 titles Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. A winter 2011 release was first announced, then cancelled owing to "technical difficulties". In 2013 Ueda left Sony and development seemed to go into limbo until Sony announced the PS4 version at the E3 2015 event - to a rapturous reception. Ueda would now be developing the game with his new studio in conjunction with Sony Japan.