A brand new Astro Bot sport for PlayStation 5 could possibly be introduced inside weeks, it’s claimed.
That’s in line with prolific sport leaker Billlbil-Kun, who writes on Deallabs that they’ve heard the title could possibly be referred to as merely, ‘Astro Bot’, and introduced throughout the subsequent 15 days.
“Amongst different data we’ve got obtained, evidently a part of the sport will likely be playable in an setting positioned within the coronary heart of a desert,” they mentioned.
“One of many new characters on this sport could be a fennec fox within the type of a robotic sharing some similarities with Astro.”
Based on Billbil-Kun, the sport will likely be launched for PlayStation 5, versus PlayStation VR just like the earlier full entry.
The final entry within the Astro collection was 2020’s Astro’s Playroom, a 3D platformer which comes pre-loaded on each PS5 console.
Whereas it’s a extremely regarded sport in its personal proper, the follow-up to 2018’s PlayStation VR sport Astro Bot: Rescue Mission additionally served as a free tech demo for PS5’s DualSense controller.
Astro developer Crew Asobi was spun off into its personal standalone studio in 2021, after mother or father firm Sony Interactive Leisure dissolved Japan Studio, the historic PlayStation group it was beforehand part of.
A job itemizing that very same yr instructed the Tokyo-based studio was engaged on a brand new 3D motion sport, and in 2022 the corporate mentioned its subsequent title could be its “greatest up to now”.
