It increasingly looks like many of the IPs once owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment’s now-defunct Japan Studio are steadily ending up in outside hands. Now, a fresh rumor suggests Bandai Namco may be preparing to bring back yet another PlayStation-era classic. An Arabic-language post claims that PlayStation’s official Japanese account published a job listing, and the details appear to point to Bandai Namco subsidiary Gyaar Studio as the developer. Predictably, speculation has already started, with everything from Tokyo Jungle to Gravity Rush being floated as possible candidates.
On Twitter, an Arabic-language tweet from @AsobiAr reported that another Japan Studio IP could be set for a return after the official Japanese PlayStation account posted a job listing. The exact position itself doesn’t matter much – what does is the developer seemingly tied to it. The clues point toward Gyaar Studio, a subsidiary under Bandai Namco. That conclusion comes from a specific detail in the listing: the workplace was described as being a seven-minute commute from Monzen-nakacho subway station, which reportedly matches the same seven-minute distance between Gyaar and that station.
It’s worth looking at what Bandai Namco has already managed to “bring back” in recent years. There’s Everybody’s Golf Hot Shots, which launched on September 4 for PlayStation 5, PC, and Nintendo Switch (developed by Hyde). Then came Patapon 1+2 Replay, put together by sAs (the team behind Theatrhythm) and released on July 12 for PlayStation 5, PC, and Nintendo Switch. And finally, Freedom Wars Remastered arrived on January 10 of last year for PlayStation 5, PC, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch (developed by Dimps). That’s already three IPs that effectively migrated from Sony’s ecosystem to Bandai Namco’s orbit.
يبدو اننا سنحصل على اعادة أحياء للعبة اخرى لجابان ستديو حيث قامت سوني باعلان وظيفي لمساعد مدير اصدار
و يبدو انه سيكون من تطوير GYAAR Studio’s التابع لBandai Namco
تبين ذلك في الوصف الوظيفي حيث تم ذكر ان مكان العمل يبعد 7 دقائق عن محطة مونزين و هي نفس المدة بين المطور و المحطة pic.twitter.com/qVi1f3RbJQ
— اسوبي بالعربي (@AsobiAr) January 17, 2026
So what could Gyaar be working on? No one really knows – but there’s no shortage of educated guesses. Tokyo Jungle would be an abstract but genuinely surprising pick: first released on PlayStation 3 and later on PlayStation Vita, the game depicted a futuristic Tokyo overtaken by wildlife rather than humanity, resulting in a particularly oddball, provocative post-apocalyptic experience. PaRappa the Rapper would also make sense, as it would allow the iconic rhythm game to jump from the PS1/PS2 era to a modern audience. And Gravity Rush – whether as a new package of the first two entries or something more ambitious – could once again reach new players after its PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4 history. Other names being thrown around include Puppeteer and LocoRoco.
For now, all we can really do is wait and see what this turns out to be.
Source: Reddit
