EA Announces The Next Mercenaries Game

EA confirmed the development of a new game in the Mercenaries series today. There's no detail in the announcement, just that a game with a working title of "Mercs Inc." is in development at EALA, the new home for the "core team" of Pandemic guys who weren't sent packing in last week's layoffs. Weirdly enough, the release is titled "Pandemic Studios Announces 'Mercs Inc'," even though that sounds like more of a team now, not a location. Either way, there's no confirmation in the release that anyone actually affiliated with the previous Mercs games is on this one. In fact, there's very little confirmation of anything other than "hey, this is a game." Even the title is still subject to change.

So why throw together an announcement like this with no real details? Well, it seems that footage of the game has leaked out of the closing Pandemic studio. The game--or at least, the footage--makes out like it's a multiplayer-focused take on Mercenaries, using what appears to be Mercenaries 2 technology. Of course, with no announced ship date, there's probably plenty of time for that engine to be fully enhanced and updated to look a little newer.

Check out the leaked trailer for yourself, though you should probably hurry. I suspect someone will pull it offline at some point today.