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Mysterious ‘Project Mephisto’ Referenced in Gamescom 2018 Award Nominees List

Under the “Platform” category, for “Best Console Game – Sony PlayStation 4,” there are two familiar sights: “Marvel’s Spider-Man” and “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.” In addition, there’s a third game: “Project Mephisto,” which is denoted as a working title. It’s the only outlier on the list, as the rest of it is comprised of titles we’ve either seen in action or learned plenty about, but this is a curious addition that begs further investigation.

lazyboyblue2092d ago

Mephisto, amongst other things, is a big marvel villain. An early tease of Sony's next Marvel game. Probably wishful thinking.

mkis0072091d ago

If that happens Sony is set for life with guaranteed exclusives. Having multiple marvel properties would just be crazy.

Neonridr2091d ago

I don't know if Sony can do anything outside of the Spiderman Universe though.

playnice2091d ago

lol Spiderman DLC? Maybe that's a bit early lmao...

BlackTar1872091d ago

Sony can do whatever Disney/Marvel says they can do

mkis0072090d ago

If Marvel thinks they can get back the Spiderman movie rights by giving them some gaming rights, I think it is a win win for both of them. Marvel gets all the publicity and merchandising revenue anyway. And also the safety of knowing their property is in good gaming hands.

The Sony-Marvel deal for the mcu is 5 movies ( Homecoming 2 being the last one), and then they have to go back to the table to negotiate again. Sony might be willing to make a trade and I think Marvel would go for that. The license for a few heroes in exchange for relinquishing creative control over Spiderman.

Sony has the best bargaining chip. As well as being reliable .

THC CELL2090d ago

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TheKingKratos2091d ago

Yes please
Or blade...i would kill for a blade game

Profchaos2091d ago

He's also a doctor from south park so south park 3 confirmed haha

-Foxtrot2091d ago

I don't think Sony own Mephisto to be honest

thatguyhayat2091d ago

Maybe but its a high chance cause they usually put project* on working titles.

-Foxtrot2091d ago

Well as a working title...sure

As a game featuring Mephisto from the comics, I don't know, Sony wouldn't be allowed to use him unless they asked Marvel.

MrSugarholic2091d ago

Marvel let Sony have any of there properties to make a game. So who knows, it's possible. But I don't think that's what it is, it could easily even be a non-exclusive from third party as there's Assassin's Creed on the list as well.

-Foxtrot2091d ago (Edited 2091d ago )

Marvel didn't let them, Sony owns Spiderman along with like 900 Spiderman related characters, they made a Spiderman game now because the licence deal they had with Activision ran out.

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lazyboyblue2090d ago

@foxtrot Marvel did tell Insomniac they could pick whatever character they wanted. They just happened to choose Spider-man who, yes Sony owns. They have said this a few times in recent interviews.

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stuckNhere4Good2092d ago

l'm going to go out on a limb (because that's where the fruit is) and say that Project Mephisto are controllers for VR locomotion, because Mephisto is also the name of a shoe company founded by a German Frenchman (Martin Michaeli). The company's claim to fame is that its shoes "are distinguished by unparalleled walking comfort".

Walking being the operative word, something is afoot... What better place and time for SIE to reveal Project Mephisto than Gamescom (Germany), fresh off of its announced 3 million PSVRs sold.

ThatGuyDart2092d ago

Good guess and I am in the same boat. It's going to be something relate to PSVR.

doggo842092d ago

O, that's very disappointing then.

stuckNhere4Good2088d ago

Looks like it wasn't what we thought -- especially me. Turns out 'Project Mephisto' is 'Man of Medan'; a horror game that seems to borrow from the story of the S.S. Ourang Medan... Glad we weren't in that boat.

Maybe we'll get to play the guessing game again sometime before Paris Games Week.

firelogic2092d ago

Why would VR controllers be listed under "Best Console Game - PS4?"

stuckNhere4Good2088d ago (Edited 2088d ago )

I assume because the 2017 Gamescom awards considered the category of Best Hardware (Xbox One X http://news.gamescom.de/en/... ) to be one of "many different game genres:"... http://news.gamescom.de/en/... However, it appears I've exercised... flawed logic.

Felix_Argyle_Catbro2092d ago

But the nominations are for games...

stuckNhere4Good2088d ago (Edited 2088d ago )

They're also for products... http://www.gamescom.global/... Anki Overdrive: Fast & Furious Edition and Xbox One X were nominated for Best Hardware in 2017... http://news.gamescom.de/en/... , but when I read Gamescom considered the category of Best Hardware (Xbox One X) to be one of "many different game genres:"... http://news.gamescom.de/en/... , I got the impression that games and products could be lumped into the same category. Toss in some wishful thinking, and here I am -- stuck out on the limb.

doggo842092d ago

Mephisto is software related... It's a game

stuckNhere4Good2088d ago

Doggone it!... You were right, and I was oh-so very wrong.

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Spurg2092d ago

Mephisto from the Diablo series.

CBaoth2091d ago

mephisto is a shortened form of mephistopheles. It most certainly is NOT from Diablo. It's from the 16th century. Faust wagers his soul to the demon Mephistopheles. It's no wonder Diablo incorporated the term into the series and easily could bethe working title for D4. However you can't credit a video game series for coining a word/concept that existed 300 years before Blizzard did

Spurg2091d ago

????
Yeah....I didn't ask for an explanation.

S2Killinit2092d ago

The name Mephisto is pretty enticing.

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Kaii1d 14h ago

Game pass hasn't even hit the enshittification stage.
Xbox has proven they have no direction, they aren't looking after the developers they've acquired.

Competition is good & very much needed but Xbox has been a joke since Don Mattrick left, the only thing I've heard from Xbox since 2014 is words, empty words.

DaleCooper6h ago

You hit the nail on the head when saying "no direction". It really does feel like this with Xbox lately.

purple1011d 11h ago (Edited 1d 11h ago )

I can tell you now, there will be A SEPARATE cod tier of gamepass

they will separate the two tiers, added onto of their existing 3 tiers, so now more tiers.... so Gamepass:ultamite:cod

EITHER THS:

or they keep same price, get everyone playing cod, then raise price 2-3 months after, sneaky little ****'s

Xeofate1d 6h ago

Stopped reading after this.
"Xbox says Game Pass is profitable and I’m sure it probably is."

Just pure delusion.

You live in an alternate fanboy reality if you think game pass is profitable while in reality Microsoft is firing people, closing down studios, raising prices and making their games third party.

Some people just want to be lied too I guess...

danno_omen1d 5h ago

They have investors and a board they are required to report to. They can lie about a lot of things and do, but profits ain’t one of them, especially in court lol

Xeofate1d 2h ago

You don't understand, when we see the investor reports on this site they are reporting revenue not profit.

Microsoft has lost multiple legal cases for misleading investors.

It's well know that they manipulate and hide costs and losses in other reports in order to be able to present positive reports to their investors and the public on products they are trying to drive..

Why do you think they are closing down studios making major cuts to staff increasing prices and lowers rewards? It might actually be worse if game pass was profitable and they were doing this.

MrDead11h ago

No Xbox needs to be sold to a company that wants to grow gaming instead of what we have, a company that wants to own gaming... and get you to rent games.

All these articles speculating and guessing when what you need to do is look at MS and how they conduct business, they buyup, take the IP's, tech, etc they want, consolidate then shut down.

Smaller studios are chaff to MS, they have control of some of gaming's biggest IP's to use as leverage and are moving on.

franwex4h ago

I think that may be a good solution. Simply spinning off Xbox into its own company as right now it’s simply “Microsoft Games.”

They obviously will still have a good relationship with Microsoft as they can provide the OS and network infrastructure for Xbox. But would manage their studios better.

Hofstaderman10h ago

How does a non-profitable, self-cannabilizing and non-growing sub service need a reset? It needs a bullet to the head.

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Jin_Sakai3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

“While we haven't even begun to tap into the full potential of the PS5“

We always here this statement yet we have plenty of games that struggle to run at solid frame rates or decent resolutions.

Skuletor1d 1h ago

The developers should know the limits of these consoles, especially this far into the gen. I'd blame them and possibly the publishers, pushing to make games as visually appealing as possible at the cost of resolution and frame rate, which is nothing new in the industry.

franwex3h ago

I may skip next gen altogether probably. We will see.