Platinum Games, the game development studio that evidently are to edged weapon action games what Marks & Spencer are to inoffensive socks, are making a TMNT game. It’s called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, it’s being published by Paramount Games Studio, and it’s just been announced as part of Summer Game Fest 2026.
Keener fans of pizza-gnawing reptiles will remember that there was already a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin game in development at Destroy All Humans! remake studio Black Forest Games, to be published by THQ Nordic. Unfortunately, it seems that mass layoffs at the former have taken their toll, and Paramount – TMNT’s rights holders – have asked Platinum to have a go instead. Here’s the teaser trailer for the new version, which doesn’t show much, except that it’s likely a close adaptation of the (unusually grim) Turtles comic of the same name.
The graphic novel is set well in the future, where only one, understandably grumpy turt’ remains standing, in defiance of a fashy regime run by the also-dead Shredder’s grandkid. The trailer invites you the “Join the resistance”, which presumably means slicing up henchman, and I like to think, posting political dunk-reposts on Bluesky.
It also sounds like exactly the kind of game Platinum are good at, though I do feel for Black Forest Games, whose take on The Last Ronin was never publicly cancelled.
Also, on the subject of behind-the-scenes business shuffling, this is one of the first projects under the new Paramount Games Studio banner. This a “unified” outfit that Paramount have just formed by consolidating Skydance New Media, the Amy Hennig-helmed studio current making Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, with VR developers Skydance Interactive.
Effects on staffing are unknown at this point, though it’s worth noting – probably with a grimace – that umbrella conglomerate Paramount Skydance have laid off thousands of workers this past year, following the completion of 2025’s Paramount Global/Skydance Media merger, while thousands more are expected as part of the megacorp’s planned deal to acquire Warner Bros Discover. Hundreds of Paramount Skydance employees also quit in response to a braindead return-to-office policy. Whoops, tautology.
