It is Wednesday (as I write this), and PlayStation has a brand new studio it’d prefer to you to satisfy. Come on, do not be shy. They will not chunk. Solely execs do this. This group of devs that is simply been granted full PS studio standing goes by teamLFG, and it is engaged on a multiplayery sport that additionally claims to be impressed by “frog-type video games”.

All of those teases have been dished out by a PS Weblog submitwhich sees Sony Interactive Leisure studio enterprise group CEO Hermen Hulst introduce his latest baby like a proud dad. Properly, one which will effectively minimize you out of the household will if you happen to do not handle to maintain your head above water within the very deep and scary stay service seas.

The studio goes by the identify teamLFG, which stands for Group “Wanting For Group”, slightly than the cooler sweary different. It is based mostly in Bellvue, Washington, options a mixture of newbies and vets who’ve labored on the likes of Future, Haloand League of Legendsand is being spun out from Bungie.

“We’re keen about distinctive action-based gameplay, moment-to-moment sport really feel, and richly social digital worlds,” it wrote, including that its identify is all about being “pushed by a mission to create video games the place gamers can discover friendship, group, and belonging”.

Principally, according to PlayStation’s undoubtedly going 100% hunk-dory to date live-service pushit’s going to be engaged on live-servicey multiplayer video games underpinned by motion, with the primary one being an “incubation venture” that is beforehand been talked about in, effectively, bulletins about layoffs at Bungie.

“Our first sport is a team-based motion sport that attracts inspiration from combating video games, platformers, MOBAs, life sims, and frog-type video games,” teamLFG wrote of this upcoming title, “Gamers will inhabit a lighthearted, comedic world set in brand-new, mythic, science-fantasy universe. We will’t wait to disclose extra.”

Frog-type video games? Seemingly not straight-up frog video games such as you’d think about Frogger and Frog Detective, however Frog-type video games. We’ve got no frogging concept what which means, however think about us intrigued. Will we get a team-based hero shooter that is in some way a bit Tekken, a bit Mario, a bit Dota 2, a bit InZOI, and during which all characters are mid-2000s viral sensation the Loopy Frog – presumably the one creature on Earth that matches the ‘frog-type’ label in my ebook?

Most likely not, but it surely undoubtedly looks as if it’s going to be getting some early entry playtests, as teamLFG’s fairly clear concerning the inventory it locations in these and gathering participant suggestions right here.

Do you assume some sort of Loopy Frog Overwatch/Fortnite/insert different flavour of the half-decade here’s what PlayStation wants, and are you eager to see what teamLFG cooks up? Tell us under.