Bungie’s “fun” MOBA is codenamed Gummy Bears and features Smash Bros. mechanics to target younger players

Bungie’s brand new IP, codenamed Gummy Bears, is a team-based competitive MOBA that has now been handed over to a brand new PlayStation studio.

It is according to The Game Postwhich said around 40 Bungie developers are working with the new studio to expand the “vibrant and colourful” Super Smash Bros-esque game to “attract a younger audience” and diversify both its portfolio and audience. According to sources, it has been in development for around three years and is receiving “overwhelmingly positive feedback”.

There is also more. The report suggests that “multiple” anonymous sources claim that Gummy Bears’ players “don’t want traditional health bars” but instead use a “percentage-based damage system where characters are further knocked back based on how much damage” they take or deal .

We’re told it will be a “lo-fi and cozy” competitive PvP team-based game with the basics of a MOBA and splashes of Smash Bros.

There will be multiple modes and three class types, including Support, Attack and Defense. Interestingly, players will also be able to “hang out with friends between matches and express their identities in the game”.

We’ve reached out to PlayStation for comment on both the game itself and the mysterious new studio developing it – we’ll let you know if/when it gets back to us.

Presumably it won’t be adapted from the 80’s Disney cartoon of the same name pictured above… but we’ll see, I guess?!

As for Bungie itself? Almost exactly a year since it was reported that Bungie had delayed its sci-fi extraction shooter Marathon to 2025, the studio released a gameplay-free developer update that said the game is “on track,” though it’s “a little early to show ” – and that it will “reveal a lot more” later this year.

The update marked the first promotional push from Bungie after it laid off 220 employees — about 17 percent of its workforce — in July 2024.