Ghost of Tsushima
2020 video game
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| April 23 2025 | Announcement of the game's release date for PlayStation 5, scheduled for October 2, 2025. |
| 2025 | Ghost of Yōtei is scheduled for release on PlayStation 5, continuing the story from the previous game |
| January 2025 | Sony announced an anime adaptation titled Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, to be produced by Kamikaze Douga in partnership with Aniplex and Sony Music, directed by Takanobu Mizuno and with series composition by Gen Urobuchi. |
| 2024 | Ghost of Tsushima was nominated for Best Game You Suck At Award and Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award at the 2024 Steam Awards. |
| November 2024 | The game was nominated for Most Anticipated Game at the Game Awards, highlighting industry anticipation for the title. |
| September 2024 | Sucker Punch announced the game had sold over 13 million units. |
| September 24 2024 | Ghost of Yōtei was officially revealed during PlayStation's State of Play presentation, introducing the game to the public. |
| May 2024 | With the release of the PC version, the game topped the U.S. software sales chart. |
| May 16 2024 | PC version of Ghost of Tsushima was released by Nixxes Software. |
| May 2023 | Sony confirmed the game had sold over 1 million units in Japan. |
| July 2022 | The game had sold 9.73 million units by July 2022. |
| July 10 2022 | A four-track remix EP titled 'Sound of the Storm – Ghost of Tsushima Soundtrack: Reimagined' was released via Milan Records, featuring remixes by TOKiMONSTA, Tycho, The Glitch Mob, and Alessandro Cortini. |
| April 2022 | Sucker Punch announced they would stop working on further patches and updates for the game and Legends. |
| April 12 2022 | Takashi Doscher was brought on to write the screenplay for the Ghost of Tsushima film adaptation. |
| February 2022 | An armor set inspired by Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West was added to the Director's Cut. |
| 2021 | At the 17th British Academy Games Awards, Ghost of Tsushima won the Audio Achievement award. |
| 2021 | Ghost of Tsushima won multiple awards at the Japan Game Awards 2021, including the Award for Excellence and Grand Prize, and was a runner-up for the Game Designers Award. |
| 2021 | The game won Best Game Expansion (Iki Island) at the Golden Joystick Awards 2021. |
| 2021 | At the 21st Game Developers Choice Awards, the game won Best Visual Art. |
| 2021 | The game won Outstanding Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project at the Visual Effects Society Awards. |
| 2021 | At the 24th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, Ghost of Tsushima won Adventure Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design, and Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition. |
| September 2021 | Ghost of Tsushima: Legends multiplayer mode was made available separately from the main game. |
| August 2021 | The Director's Cut version was the second-best-selling game in the United States in August 2021, behind Madden NFL 22. |
| August 20 2021 | Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut was released for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, including the Iki Island expansion and exclusive PS5 features. |
| March 2021 | Jin Sakai's portrayal in Ghost of Tsushima led to the game's creators, Daisuke Tsuji and Patrick Gallagher (Fox and Connell), being named tourism ambassadors to Tsushima Island for spreading the name and history of Tsushima through their work. |
| March 25 2021 | Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions announced the development of a film adaptation of Ghost of Tsushima, to be directed by Chad Stahelski. |
| 2020 | At The Game Awards 2020, the game won Best Art Direction and Player's Voice awards. It was also nominated for Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Performance (Tsuji as Jin Sakai), Best Audio Design, and Best Action/Adventure Game. |
| 2020 | Ghost of Tsushima received multiple nominations at the Golden Joystick Awards, including PlayStation Game of the Year, Best Audio, Best Storytelling, Best Visual Design, and Studio of the Year. |
| 2020 | Ghost of Tsushima sold over 2.4 million units in its first 3 days of sales, becoming the PlayStation 4's fastest-selling first-party original IP debut. |
| 2020 | The game became the seventh-best-selling game of 2020 in the United States. |
| 2020 | Original Ghost of Tsushima game released by Sucker Punch Productions |
| December 2020 | Legends introduced four character outfits based on PlayStation franchises: Bloodborne, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Shadow of the Colossus. |
| November 2020 | The game was reported to have sold over 5 million units. |
| November 2020 | Art prints by Cook & Becker were released for the game. |
| October 2020 | Sucker Punch Productions introduced 'The Tale of Iyo', a three-chapter raid mode for Ghost of Tsushima: Legends multiplayer, designed as the culmination of the game's story mode and requiring a four-player squad with cooperative gameplay and puzzle-solving. |
| October 16 2020 | Multiplayer expansion Ghost of Tsushima: Legends was released, introducing cooperative gameplay with supernatural elements from Japanese mythology. |
| July 17 2020 | Ghost of Tsushima was released for PlayStation 4, delayed from its original June 26 release date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| July 17 2020 | The full soundtrack of Ghost of Tsushima was officially released. |
| June 22 2020 | Ghost of Tsushima's development was completed, with Sucker Punch confirming the game had been 'declared gold', indicating it was being prepared for release. |
| 2018 | A gameplay demo was presented at E3, accompanied by a live shakuhachi performance by Cornelius Boots. |
| 2018 | Brad Meyer recorded the sound of a black-naped oriole during a vacation in Sri Lanka, which would later be used as the game's guide bird sound. |
| October 2017 | Ghost of Tsushima's marketing campaign began with a trailer shown at Sony Interactive Entertainment's Paris Games Week press conference. |
| 2014 | Sucker Punch Productions began development of Ghost of Tsushima after completing Infamous Second Son and its expansion, First Light, marking the start of a new project after nine years of working on the Infamous series. |
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