British PlayStation studio Media Molecule is reportedly engaged on a brand new open-world IP.
The report comes courtesy of MP1st and an internet portfolio from a senior setting designer who has been with the studio since April 2025.
The portfolio specifies that the designer is working with Media Molecule on an “unannounced undertaking, New IP.” Their duties contain “degree blocking out principal POIs, moment-to-moment gameplay, forage design, and scripting numerous gameplay components.”
Elsewhere within the portfolio, “open-world content material” is talked about. Paired with “forage design,” it definitely may trace at survival or crafting mechanics which have change into widespread in different open-world experiences, and the aforementioned “principal POIs” are a longtime function of most open-world titles.
In Might 2024, Media Molecule co-founder Mark Healey shared some info on what he knew of the undertaking, saying, “I don’t know precisely what state their undertaking is in now, I don’t assume it’s secret information that they’re engaged on a brand new IP, for instance. I might dare to go so far as saying it’s extra of a sport than a artistic software, from what I perceive about it.”
Healey left the studio in 2023, and John Beech stepped up as the brand new artistic director for the studio.
In April 2023, Media Molecule introduced that it was ending help for Goals. In October 2023, Media Molecule laid off 15-20% of its workers.
A PlayStation State of Play showcase is deliberate for June 2, 2026, however there’s no motive to consider that we’ll see Media Molecule’s subsequent sport on the occasion.
