Destiny makers Bungie is reportedly making a team-based MOBA game that draws inspiration from Nintendo’s Smash Bros. series. Or rather, they were. The project, codenamed Gummy Bears, is currently in the hands of another, newly founded PlayStation studio, with 40 Bungie developers working on it.
According to Game postwho cite anonymous sources, the up-to-date Sony studio in question is the one that was founded last year when Bungie (owned by Sony) announced a major restructuring. At the time, it was said that the up-to-date 155-person studio was working on an untitled “action game set in a completely new science-fantasy universe.”
The Gummy Bear design is described as “lively”, “colorful”, “lo-fi” and “cozy”. Perhaps needless to say, it is aimed at a younger audience. Game Post’s sources say the game has been in development for three years and uses a percentage-based damage system in which blows knock characters further and further away, rather than conventional health bars. Which is very Smash Bros.
It is also said to have three class types – support, attack and defense – and several modes, with the ability to hang out with people between matches. Which I guess means there is some kind of concentration environment. Less excited about these things. I hate spending time. Leave me alone.
Bungie’s notable projects include the Destiny series and the reboot of Marathon, DOOM’s older cousin turned PvP extraction shooter. Sour elderly farts like me and Brenda are not fond of nu-Marathon, whose operation remains a mystery almost two years after its announcement. But galloping guides editor Ollie is rather bullish. In our roundup of the most anticipated games of 2025, he states that “I love extraction shooters, and despite the continued dominance of Tarkov and Hunt, Bungie has the potential to create a new leader in the genre.”
I prefer to play the Bungie Smash Bros. tribute. I mean, Bungie are the people who invented it Gravity Hammer.
