Thing is, it was not. Just a year and 4 months.

I want a new GoW as much as you, but expecting an announcement for a new (especially mainline) game during a generational transition, is simply setting yourself up for dissapointment.

If Cory Barlog's team is indeed developing a new GoW game, which I hope is the case, we may be lucky to hear something at next years E3, most probably not even gameplay, with a release date in 2016. They only started development sometime in late 2013, as we know he assembled a team in the second half of 2013. 

We don't know about any other possibility for a second team at Santa Monica that could be developing GoW, we don't even really know how hard was Stigs affected by layoffs.

Best we can hope for is Ascension PS4 port, which I would personally welcome even though I played the PS3 version, as I loved that game.

Thing is, it was not. Just a year and 4 months.

I want a new GoW as much as you, but expecting an announcement for a new (especially mainline) game during a generational transition, is simply setting yourself up for dissapointment.

If Cory Barlog's team is indeed developing a new GoW game, which I hope is the case, we may be lucky to hear something at next years E3, most probably not even gameplay, with a release date in 2016. They only started development sometime in late 2013, as we know he assembled a team in the second half of 2013. 

We don't know about any other possibility for a second team at Santa Monica that could be developing GoW, we don't even really know how hard was Stigs affected by layoffs.

Best we can hope for is Ascension PS4 port, which I would personally welcome even though I played the PS3 version, as I loved that game.

I wonder why people are so convinced we will see something at VGX.

First of all, we're half through August and we still don't know the date. From what I understood VGA's and X were a collaboration between Spike, GameTrailers and Geoff Keighley. 

As apparent from last year's VGX Spike doesn't want to give as much money as through the VGA years, same was true for Viacom. Now we have a new player in the equation - Defy, but it looks like Defy cutting the costs, not expanding GameTrailers.

I think that Keighley still has a strong enough position to convince Defy/Spike to make another (but only) VGX, even after last years clusterfuck.

That doesn't mean that Sony PR will want to deal with the kind of "basement like" event to show off their biggest announced IP. 

There are more question marks than not with VGX, in my opinion it's unlikely that we will see anything new or big from Sony at VGX (if it will happen)