PlayStation is working on a new video game with Until Dawn veterans, according to a leak

The development responds to Project Bates and is responsible for British indie studio Ballistic Moon.

Beyond its ever-better internal development teams, PlayStation continues to seek external collaborations to expand its video game catalog in a clear period of expansion for the industry’s main companies. We can frame a development in this idea Ballistic MoonFounded in 2019 by various industry veterans, Farnborough is an indie studio based in England.

The British team claims to be working with a great company through their LinkedIn profile. Publisher The industry without company name has however always allowed careful ResetEra users to connect the dots and find out how this development actually responds to the codename. Bates Project with Sony Interactive Entertainment among promotional companies and Joshua Archer as director on the motion capture effort.

Joshua Archer has worked on several video games and starred in Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerilla Games) and Before Dawn (Supermassive Entertainment). Neil McEwan (EA Syndicate) as creative director and Duncan Kershaw (SEGA, THQ, EA, Square Enix, and Virtuos) as production and operating director completed the directors roster for an independent studio with 35 to 40 employees.

There isn’t much to say about Project Bates. Production is at a very early stage for us to make an announcement in the short term, but following news of the work, we can expect a commitment and heartbreaking moments to Unreal Engine 5 as a graphics engine.

In 2021, PlayStation claimed to have 25 video games in development for the PS5, half of which cited the new IP. Will Project Bates be one of them?