Developer Bioware is best known for its prolific work on industry bar raising RPGs like Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect and most recently Dragon Age: Origins.

However, the developer also did the iconic MDK 2; a third person action game as well as an action heavy mech game in 1996 called Shattered Steel.
It should therefore not come as too much surprise for gamers to learn that the developer is working on an unannounced action game. Cinema Blend stumbled upon this information via Bioware lead designer Rob Bartel’s linkedIn profile.

Along with various Bioware games such as Baldur’s Gate, Baldur’s Gate 2, MDK2, Neverwinter Nights and its various expansions, Bartel lists “Unannounced multiplatform title”. Even more interesting is that Bartel is credited as the game’s multiplayer designer.

The listing reportedly read “unannounced multiplatform action title” according to Cinema Blend but has since been amended to exclude the word “action” from its description. This either means that Bartel mislabelled the game in the first place, or more likely, that Bioware is trying to keep the details of the game under wraps for now.

Interplay owns the rights to MDK 3 so it is unlikely that this is the new game. It is also unlikely that Bioware will be doing a follow up to shattered Steel as the original game went largely unnoticed. The most likely case then is that the developer is at work on a brand new IP that will feature.