And includes multiplayer.

Sony’s Bend Studio, the developer perhaps best known for 2019’s post-apocalyptic bikes-and-zombies adventureDays Gone, has revealed a little more on its next project, a new IP that’ll include multiplayer and build on the open-world systems of Days Gone.

The Oregon-based studio - which worked on the likes ofSyphon Filter, Resistance: Retribution, andUncharted: Golden Abyss, and was acquired by Sony in 2000 - shared word on its latest venture in aPlayStation Blog postunveiling its new logo.

A screenshot of Days Gone protagonist Deacon St. John pointing a gun at something offscreen as a forest of pines looms behind him.

Bend’s new logo, designed to represent an “abstract and modern interpretation of the studio’s history, location, and lifestyle”, is accompanied by a closer look at the developer’s output over the last 29 years, culminating with a tease of its future.

“Today, we are excited to share just a snippet of news on our current project,” Bend community manager Kevin McAllister wrote.

“We are currently working on a new IP that includes multiplayer and builds upon the open-world systems of Days Gone, but brings you a whole new world that we are extremely excited to craft for you.”

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Bend says it will reveal more on the project, which wasconfirmed to be in developmentlast June, “when the time is right”.

Prior to its current project, Bend hadreportedly pitched a Days Gone sequelto Sony in 2019 - but the PlayStation owner is said to have ultimately rejected the proposal due to the original game’s lengthy development and mixed critical reception.