Alongside working on The Duskbloods and Elden Ring Nightreign’s post-launch bits, FromSoftware are reportedly deep in development on an unannounced game that could release next year.
That’s according to MP1st (via VGC), which claims said game is codenamed FMC, multiplatform and – based on “the nature of the source these details come from” – at an advanced stage of development.
The site alleges that unless this game is delayed, it could be in line for a 2026 release. That’s the extent of the report’s concrete info, with it then dissecting the various codenames given to other FromSoft game while they were in the works.
Since a number of Dark Souls projects and Armored Core 6 all had codenames beginning with F, as this mystery game reportedly does, MP1st speculate that FMC could be related to one of those series. Bloodborne, meanwhile, had the snappy moniker SPRJ, so it’d appear you may well be barking up the wrong gothic tree if a PC port of that was your go-to guess.
FMC. Hmmmmmm. Elden Ring’s codename was GR, short for Great Rune. Maybe this is Fuck, Malenia’s Cool? Four Massive Cats? Frustratingly Melancholy Chambers? Fear Magical Chairs? Failure, My Chums? Fight Man Crush, with all six thousand things that could mean?
Full Macarena Confidence? Alright, stop there. I’m going with that one. FromSoft collabing with the lyrical talents of Los del Río, who really are the music industry’s George R.R Martin, to give you the ego boost you need to accomplish cosa buena.
What do you mean Miyazaki and co would never do that? Whatever, I can’t hear you over the sound of vaguely Spanish dancing. As VGC point out, the director made clear earlier this year that Nightreign and The Duskbloods don’t signal the studio moving away from the sorts of single player games they made their name with.
