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.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Hype

[lazyboyblue]

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

[mkis007]

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

[Neonridr]

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

[playnice]

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

[BlackTar187]

Sony can do whatever Disney/Marvel says they can do

[mkis007]

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 CELL]

TheKingKratos
Make ya own blade game on dreams, see dreamon soul

[DarXyde]

Ghost Rider, maybe.

[TheKingKratos]

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

[Profchaos]

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

[-Foxtrot]

I don't think Sony own Mephisto to be honest

[thatguyhayat]

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

[-Foxtrot]

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.

[MrSugarholic]

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.

[-Foxtrot]

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.

[danny818]

its under platform tho

[lazyboyblue]

@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.

[stuckNhere4Good]

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.

[ThatGuyDart]

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

[doggo84]

O, that's very disappointing then.

[stuckNhere4Good]

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.

[firelogic]

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

[stuckNhere4Good]

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_Catbro]

But the nominations are for games...

[stuckNhere4Good]

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.

[doggo84]

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

[stuckNhere4Good]

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

[Spurg]

Mephisto from the Diablo series.

[CBaoth]

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

[Spurg]

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

[S2Killinit]

The name Mephisto is pretty enticing.

[bluefox755]

The boss of act 3 in Diablo 2?

[RememberThe357]

Act 3 was so dope. My favourite of the series.

[Felix_Argyle_Catbro]

Bloodborne and the Mephisto Empire? Like the digital comic!?

[doggo84]

No don't even joke now, could this be bloodborne 2?? :O

[PavelBHunter]

That would be shocker!

[sinspirit]

Mephistopheles is in Demons Souls, which has been rumored for quite a while to be remade by BluePoint

[Einhander1971]

More PSVR yes please:)

[MasterCornholio]

Hopefully it’s short for Mephistopheles.

“Although Mephistopheles appears to Faustus as a demon – a worker for Lucifer – critics claim that he does not search for men to corrupt, but comes to serve and ultimately collect the souls of those who are already damned. “

[goldwyncq]

Sounds like an apt metaphor for droves of Sony fanboys plaguing this site :p

[Foxhound922]

Or kind of like Xbox gamers that relish in the fact that they'd rather have less AAA games if it means they get to play old games from previous generations.

[MasterCornholio]

Well that’s a salty response.

[doggo84]

Xbox fanboys are irrelevant, continuously playing the victim ( guess given how horrendous this generation has been for you guys it's understandable) what's the point of your comment even? Did you have to come here on a PS4 article just to say that, lmao man you are salty AF at the prospect of the PS4 possibly getting another ps4 exclusive.

[ziggurcat]

Bloodborne was Project Beast, this could be another Bloodborne game or possibly a Demon's Souls sequel?

[Hedstrom]

It gives me Diablo vibes!

[notachance]

Diablo 4 maybe?
Mephisto, along with Diablo and Baal are the three Prime Evils in Diablo lore

[Aenea]

But it's a Sony title...

[The 10th Rider]

Is it? It looks to be an award for "Best console game for PS4", which doesn't mean it has to be a Sony published game. The article even mentions Diablo as a likely culprit.

[King Nezz]

Why does the unofficial title of the game remind me of the old PS One game Blasto? I'm calling it.

[MasterCornholio]

Up Uranus.

:p

[King Nezz]

Brilliant sequel. Blasto: Up Uranus. The setting takes place on a planet that is either made of a taco or the planet's inhabitants love tacos. You know, too much Mexican can lead to your ass blasting, or in this case, blasto!

[AK91]

Interesting

[MrVux000]

Could be one of those Diablo projects.

[Aenea]

Nah, it's listed as a Sony game...

[Aenea]

@Imgumby

I can't find actual evidence of it but many sites seem to report it as "Sony's Project Mephisto" suggesting that it's a Sony game and not a 3rd party.

[MasterCornholio]

@Im

Truth is there’s nothing official that proves that it’s exclusive nor that it’s a multiplatform. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was another exclusive title though since Sony has a pretty good output of exclusives.

[doggo84]

http://soulslore.wikidot.co...

Demon souls remaster/ demon souls 2 anyone????

[JonTheGod]

Games nominated for awards before they're even released/announced. 🤔

[Eonjay]

Game of show awards. Its reasonable to assume that someone has played it already.

[Stanjara]

Those games someone needed to play, and see to get nominated, and/or winning the award. I've red that a bunch of YouTubers have a say in this. How come no leeks for this game? What is it?!

[OB1Biker]

Could it possibly be Bruce Straley new game?

[Foxhound922]

Mephisto stems from an old German legend that involves a devil/spirit of some kind. I'm guessing this has something to do with Blizzards recent talk of a new Diablo game.

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[zivtheawesome]

seems that we have a lead now. Heroes of the storm twitter posted a tease image and the source code mentioned "tease for mephisto" so this could be a port of HotS to consoles, OR it could be that because mephisto is a boss from diablo, that blizzard are revealing diablo 4 at this gamescom (they have a big diablo panel) and the HotS update is to hype up the announcement. so worst case HotS port, and best case a new diablo.

[SarahRWaller]

ccvcx

[Smokehouse]

Mephisto tech is the name of the company in South Park that does genetic experiments like give monkeys 4 asses.

[Ausbo]

The other question is whether it’s an exclusive. Both platform lists have multiplats in this catergory

[sprinterboy]

The games from xdev England

[Richhard1]

Mephisto is a gentleman’s shoe shop in London, curiously just round the corner from Sony PlayStation Headquarters.