{"id":632008,"date":"2026-06-10T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632008\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:56:08","slug":"frontier-quietly-announces-a-brand-new-planet-game-and-everyones-trying-to-guess-what-it-might-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632008\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontier quietly announces a “brand-new” Planet game and everyone’s trying to guess what it might be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frontier Developments has just announced Planet Zoo 2<\/a> and the first Jurassic World Evolution 3<\/a> expansion, but the developer is already hard at work on its next “construction and management simulation” game. And it isn’t a sequel.<\/p>\n

In news that was first revealed by head of player engagement Richard Stephenson on Discord <\/a> and then later announced by the company in a financial earnings report, Frontier said: “We’ve started work on a brand-new Planet Game franchise, which has all the familiarity you love about the Planet series, but a completely new setting for us than Planet Coaster<\/a> or Planet Zoo<\/a>, one which still combines our love for creativity, management, and meaningful simulation.”<\/p>\n

Jurassic World Evolution 3: Rebirth Expansion – Official Announce TrailerWatch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

The original Discord message lacked any word on a release date, but the financial earnings report offers a bit more detail (hat tip to GameWatcher<\/a>). It specifies that “a new own-IP CMS [construction and management simulation] game is confirmed for FY28”, which means it’s scheduled to arrive between May 2027 and May 2028, based on the company’s financial calendar.<\/p>\n

This quiet announcement has excited Frontier fans and caused all sorts of theories about what’s coming next to bubble up, from safe guesses like Planet Resort<\/a> or Planet Museum<\/a> (similar to the Two Point series) to more novel possibilities such as Planet Studio<\/a>. We particularly like the later suggestion because no one has attempted to repeat what The Movies<\/a> did back in 2005.<\/p>\n

For now, Frontier – both developer and publisher – is preparing for a busy back of 2026, with Planet Zoo 2 heading for a 13th October launch, and Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Deathwatch<\/a>, which is listed as just “coming soon”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frontier Developments has just announced Planet Zoo 2 and the first Jurassic World Evolution 3 expansion, but the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}