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GymratAmarillo on 14 July 2025
BraLoD said:

BTW, so Santa Monica got another studio IP to work on? Bluepoint was doing that for God of War, but I can't imagine which IP Santa Monica would work into... it's likely an action game, tho.

Reading posts and comments it looks like there was a rumor of a cancelled scifi game that happened at some point, personally I know nothing about that supposed cancelled game BUT this particular conversation that I made my post about it's from a thread in resetera (https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-studios-ot46-back-to-the-beach.1172010/page-406) where insiders are part of it and it's about Cory Barlog's new game that he has been working on since he finished his responsibilities with God of War R. 

So it's still two teams nothing has been canceled or just started but the conversation now it's about how a lot of people thought Barlog's new game would be scifi and it isn't, also about how it's an existing IP but reworked for it to feel new. 



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the-pi-guy on 14 July 2025
GymratAmarillo said:

Reading posts and comments it looks like there was a rumor of a cancelled scifi game that happened at some point, personally I know nothing about that supposed cancelled game  

Stig Asmussen was working on a sci-fi game after God of War 3, it got cancelled in 2014.  

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twintail on 15 July 2025
GymratAmarillo said:

Jason Schreier: “I'll put it this way: it's not a new IP but it might feel like one. Maybe that's why people are confused. Please don't ask me more questions about this - if I wind up reporting more information at any point in the future it'll be in an article, not on a forum. I can also confirm that Ashhong knows what they are talking about. And that the sci-fi stuff (that people have apparently believed for years now?) is nonsense.”

The last I knew about Ashhong was when they showed excitement about how people will react when the game is finally revealed.

Welp, I was part of the people who thought for years that Santa Monica next game was scifi, Barlog fooled me completely LOL but I'm happy it isn't because with Intergalactic, SAROS and Horizon we have enough scifi in the works.
Ok so Santa Monica and Barlog are re-imagining another Sony IP, that's way more interesting. Time for the speculations to begin but I have none lol, I'll have to wait.

I recall there being chatter when Intergalatic was announced that perhaps insiders had mixed up what Druckmann and Barlog were working on. 

I'm all for anything from Barlog at this point. Hope it's good.

BraLoD said:

The scifi project was after Ascension, wasn't it? It has been cancelled for a long, long time now. Were they supposedly trying it again after not even showing this one?

2 different projects. Barlog working on a scifi has been going around for some years now because of tweets etc that seemed to hint he was leaning into scifi. Not sure if there was anything else about it.

BraLoD said:

BTW, so Santa Monica got another studio IP to work on? Bluepoint was doing that for God of War, but I can't imagine which IP Santa Monica would work into... it's likely an action game, tho.

Could be any IP. New speculation (not rumour) is that he's doing the Atreus God of War game. But at this point, no idea what he's working except that isn't sci-fi and it's not a new IP.



GymratAmarillo on 15 July 2025
the-pi-guy said:
GymratAmarillo said:

Reading posts and comments it looks like there was a rumor of a cancelled scifi game that happened at some point, personally I know nothing about that supposed cancelled game  

Stig Asmussen was working on a sci-fi game after God of War 3, it got cancelled in 2014.  

ok it makes sense, at that time I wasn't playing anything lol. I was a broke student ready to start college, actually I got my PS4 at the end of 2025 just in time to play og Helldivers. 



GymratAmarillo on 15 July 2025
twintail said:
GymratAmarillo said:

Jason Schreier: “I'll put it this way: it's not a new IP but it might feel like one. Maybe that's why people are confused. Please don't ask me more questions about this - if I wind up reporting more information at any point in the future it'll be in an article, not on a forum. I can also confirm that Ashhong knows what they are talking about. And that the sci-fi stuff (that people have apparently believed for years now?) is nonsense.”

The last I knew about Ashhong was when they showed excitement about how people will react when the game is finally revealed.

Welp, I was part of the people who thought for years that Santa Monica next game was scifi, Barlog fooled me completely LOL but I'm happy it isn't because with Intergalactic, SAROS and Horizon we have enough scifi in the works.
Ok so Santa Monica and Barlog are re-imagining another Sony IP, that's way more interesting. Time for the speculations to begin but I have none lol, I'll have to wait.

I recall there being chatter when Intergalatic was announced that perhaps insiders had mixed up what Druckmann and Barlog were working on. 

I'm all for anything from Barlog at this point. Hope it's good.

I thought it was a space game because of Barlog's twitter account lol. In 2019 when the season 1 of Mandalorian was airing he started to tweet a lot about space and inspiration, changed his header to a picture of stars (it was about GOW before the change) and said that it would be cool to have a game about a space bounty hunter traveling through the galaxy, that's when a lot of people assumed it was a space game. Ironically at least the bounty hunter part is in the premise of Naughty Dog's Intergalactic. 

And yes it could be GOW, after all GOW fits the description of existing IP lol. The only reason I don't go directly to think about GOW is that when he presented Eric Williams as the director of GOWR it felt like one of those passing the torch moments. It would be weird to do that and then immediately make a new GOW where he is the director again lol. 



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BraLoD on 15 July 2025
twintail said:
GymratAmarillo said:

Jason Schreier: “I'll put it this way: it's not a new IP but it might feel like one. Maybe that's why people are confused. Please don't ask me more questions about this - if I wind up reporting more information at any point in the future it'll be in an article, not on a forum. I can also confirm that Ashhong knows what they are talking about. And that the sci-fi stuff (that people have apparently believed for years now?) is nonsense.”

The last I knew about Ashhong was when they showed excitement about how people will react when the game is finally revealed.

Welp, I was part of the people who thought for years that Santa Monica next game was scifi, Barlog fooled me completely LOL but I'm happy it isn't because with Intergalactic, SAROS and Horizon we have enough scifi in the works.
Ok so Santa Monica and Barlog are re-imagining another Sony IP, that's way more interesting. Time for the speculations to begin but I have none lol, I'll have to wait.

I recall there being chatter when Intergalatic was announced that perhaps insiders had mixed up what Druckmann and Barlog were working on. 

I'm all for anything from Barlog at this point. Hope it's good.

BraLoD said:

The scifi project was after Ascension, wasn't it? It has been cancelled for a long, long time now. Were they supposedly trying it again after not even showing this one?

2 different projects. Barlog working on a scifi has been going around for some years now because of tweets etc that seemed to hint he was leaning into scifi. Not sure if there was anything else about it.

BraLoD said:

BTW, so Santa Monica got another studio IP to work on? Bluepoint was doing that for God of War, but I can't imagine which IP Santa Monica would work into... it's likely an action game, tho.

Could be any IP. New speculation (not rumour) is that he's doing the Atreus God of War game. But at this point, no idea what he's working except that isn't sci-fi and it's not a new IP.

So he may have left the GoW team to go and make... more GoW? lol

It's definitely more believable than Santa Monica working on someone's else IP but kinda boring as well, why make 2 GoW teams and not something else...

Santa Monica was deeply involved with The Order, right? But I remember there being talk about nothing about that IP being worked atm some time ago. It would be wild if they were the ones to bring Jak back too, since Naughty Dog is clearly never touching it anymore.



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Leynos on 15 July 2025

Went overkill buying PS2 games this month lol. All CiB. Memory card is a Freemcboot card for soft modding.



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twintail on 15 July 2025
GymratAmarillo said:

I thought it was a space game because of Barlog's twitter account lol. In 2019 when the season 1 of Mandalorian was airing he started to tweet a lot about space and inspiration, changed his header to a picture of stars (it was about GOW before the change) and said that it would be cool to have a game about a space bounty hunter traveling through the galaxy, that's when a lot of people assumed it was a space game. Ironically at least the bounty hunter part is in the premise of Naughty Dog's Intergalactic. 

And yes it could be GOW, after all GOW fits the description of existing IP lol. The only reason I don't go directly to think about GOW is that when he presented Eric Williams as the director of GOWR it felt like one of those passing the torch moments. It would be weird to do that and then immediately make a new GOW where he is the director again lol. 

haha for sure. Who knows, might be a different branch of GoW with a different type of gameplay focus. He surprised us with GoW2018, so I'm sure if it is GoW he'll be able to do it again.

BraLoD said:

So he may have left the GoW team to go and make... more GoW? lol

It's definitely more believable than Santa Monica working on someone's else IP but kinda boring as well, why make 2 GoW teams and not something else...

Santa Monica was deeply involved with The Order, right? But I remember there being talk about nothing about that IP being worked atm some time ago. It would be wild if they were the ones to bring Jak back too, since Naughty Dog is clearly never touching it anymore.

There's def a lot of IP that SMS have been attached to, but outside of Kinetica, GoW is the only IP the studio has ever made games on.

But I'd be open to him exploring other Sony IP if that's what he wants. 

Leynos said:

Went overkill buying PS2 games this month lol. All CiB. Memory card is a Freemcboot card for soft modding.

Not gonna comment on the quality of the titles haha, but some of these take me back. Nice collection you picked up!

I'm curious about ChainDrive since it's a Sony IP if I am not mistaken. 



GymratAmarillo on 16 July 2025

My pitch for Cory lol. 

The PlayStation forgotten hack and slash (yes they do own the ip) If Santa Monica was able to save GOW after Ascension they can with this one. I know the game will be either GOW or something crazy like a racing game or something lol but now that hack and slashes are returning thanks to chinese devs Heavenly Sword deserves a second chance. 



PotentHerbs on 16 July 2025

What if SMS next project is a reimagining of Twisted Metal? Or they go deeper into the vault with something like Everquest lol?

Ashlong has said before that he was "unsure" of how people would react to Santa Monica's next game. Jason Schreier has said that while its not an original IP, it will feel like one, and I can't imagine an Atreus spinoff doing that.