{"id":90745,"date":"2026-10-07T06:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90745"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:42:37","slug":"new-ape-escape-reportedly-in-development-at-sonic-mania-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90745","title":{"rendered":"New Ape Escape Reportedly in Development at Sonic Mania Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>A new Ape Escape video game is reportedly in the works, helmed by the team that successfully rebooted a certain blue hedgehog with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/sonic-mania\">Sonic Mania<\/a>. Developer Evening Star also made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/pennys-big-breakaway\">Penny\u2019s Big Breakaway<\/a>, which launched to mixed reviews compared to Sonic Mania\u2019s near unanimous praise. <\/p>\n<p>The report comes from journalist Jeff Gerstmann, corroborated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/sources-ape-escape-revival-in-the-works-from-sonic-mania-team\/\">VGC<\/a> sources. \u201cSo yeah, some other folks have said that they also heard that Ape Escape is being made,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TmIh030Ybrw&amp;pp=ygUJZ2Vyc3RtYW5u\">Gerstmann said on his podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think this game is close to being out or anything like that, but I guess it\u2019s been almost a year since we started talking about Ape Escape. \u201cWho is making it? That\u2019s a good question.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"the-100-best-playstation-games-of-all-time\" data-value=\"the-100-best-playstation-games-of-all-time\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>\u201cMy understanding is that it\u2019s an external studio. People were immediately like, \u2018Oh, Team Asobi (Astro Bot) is making it.\u2019 My understanding is that an external team has been working on that. What do they make\u2026 Penny\u2019s Big Breakaway. Evening Star. I heard that they were working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Sony is looking at using third-party studios to revive dormant series across its entire portfolio. Last month, rumors were circulating that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/playstation-reportedly-plotting-new-killzone-but-is-it-a-remake-or-a-remaster\">PlayStation is looking to bring back Killzone<\/a>, though<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Ape Escape video game is reportedly in the works, helmed by the team that successfully rebooted a certain blue hedgehog with Sonic Mania. Developer Evening Star also made Penny\u2019s Big Breakaway, which launched to mixed reviews compared to Sonic Mania\u2019s near unanimous praise. The report comes from journalist Jeff Gerstmann, corroborated by VGC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":90747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90749,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90745\/revisions\/90749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}