Prototype Remaster May Be on the Way After New Credits Were Quietly Added to the Steam Version

Fans deliberation they've uncovered impervious that 2009 enactment crippled Prototype could beryllium getting a caller lease of life.

While the crippled has mostly remained dormant connected Steam since its merchandise 16 years ago, eagle-eyed fans spotted a flurry of updates down the scenes via SteamDB, arsenic good arsenic a revealing datamine effort that has discovered a mysterious alteration to the game's credits that adds successful remaster studio, Iron Galaxy, and a funny notation to Ubisoft Connect.

That's not all, though. "So 1 of the OG modders for the crippled information mined the caller update and has recovered a batch of absorbing things," StanleyMitchel explained connected the game's subreddit. "For Prototype 1, they person added immoderate trial maps and rather a fewer caller names successful the credits. There mightiness beryllium immoderate anticipation for a remaster aft all."

They past linked to 2 substance versions of the game's recognition roll, which highlights the changes. These see a caller "downloadable content" team, different squad for "Ubisoft Connect Version," "Activision Localization," "Demonware," and finally, "Iron Galaxy Studios." In all, 753 changes were made to the archetypal credits list.

"One of the caller studios successful the credits worked successful [sic] the Spyro remasters," Nixson wrote connected Discord. "This is 100% confirmed. They're remastering the games. Likely utilizing the aforesaid engine/code oregon immoderate hybrid similar Oblivion. There's a batch of caller names successful the credits, chiefly different Activision studios," they added. "I'm starting to deliberation the caller Prototype crippled in-the-works happening whitethorn beryllium true."

As for the unusual Ubisoft Connect reference? Don't hide that erstwhile Microsoft acquired Activision arsenic portion of its historical $68.7 cardinal woody successful 2023, Microsoft agreed to merchantability Activision's unreality gaming rights to Ubisoft. So portion nary of this is confirmed, it's imaginable Prototype is 1 of the games Ubisoft volition beryllium adding to its subscription service. Watch this space.

Prototype sees you instrumentality power of Alex Mercer, a dark, genetically mutated shape-shifter with nary representation of his past, hell-bent connected solving the enigma of his beingness arsenic helium tears done New York City. We had a bully clip with it erstwhile it released mode backmost successful 2009, calling Prototype a "game with galore chill features [but] lack[ing] galore of the finishing touches that marque for a large and memorable game."

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