Fact Check: Is Activision Bringing Back Prototype 1 and 2 With Remasters?

Prototype has been on ice for ages, and now there are signs Activision might finally be cracking the vault. Out of nowhere, both games got chunky Steam updates, dataminers found some very interesting breadcrumbs, and the rumor mill is suddenly running hot. No, nothing is official yet. But if you were waiting for Alex Mercer to crash back into your life: this is the most action the series has seen in years.

So, what actually changed?

Both Prototype and its sequel quietly picked up roughly 600MB patches on Steam. No patch notes, no blog posts, nothing. Players noticed fast because some of the fan-made fixes people rely on to run the original smoothly on modern rigs broke overnight. That kind of surprise update, with breakage, usually means someone touched the guts. PC Gamer flagged it, and the community did the rest.

What the files are telling us

Dataminers dove in and surfaced a bunch of oddities that sure look like prep work for something bigger. The short version:

• New testing maps popped up, which screams internal development rather than a stray hotfix.
• The credits were revised to include Activision support studios Beenox and Demonware.
• Iron Galaxy Studios is now listed. They have a track record helping modernize older games (think Spyro Reignited Trilogy and the PC work on Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection).
• There are references to a 'Ubisoft Connect version' that, as of now, does not exist. For an Activision game. That’s... unexpected.
• Separate rumor posts tie this to parkour and other gameplay systems being tested, plus datamined content that points to more than a housekeeping patch.

The remaster vs. remake chatter

On September 30, 2025, a well-known leaker account amplified claims that a Prototype remaster or remake is in development, directly name-dropping Iron Galaxy and comparing the approach to how 'Oblivion' was recently modernized: not a from-scratch rebuild, but more than a basic port. That tracks with the credits changes and the kind of files people are finding.

Important context: Activision already re-released these once. The 2015 'Prototype: Biohazard Bundle' on PS4 and Xbox One was basically a straight port with minimal upgrades. A proper remaster now with sharper visuals, better controls, and full optimization for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S would actually move the needle. A full remake? That’s the dream scenario some fans are pushing for, but nothing in the wild confirms that leap yet.

The Prototype 3 smoke

This is where things get slightly messy but interesting. Earlier in 2024, both games were reclassified by the Australian Classification Board. Then in April 2025, a supposed playtester claimed a new Prototype project was in the works.

One Reddit user who said they sat in a focus test described a straight-up Prototype 3: Alex Mercer back in New York City, leaning hard into shapeshifting and infiltration. That same user later teased Call of Duty leaks — one post even riffed on Black Ops 7 speculation — and then dropped Black Ops 6 details that ended up being accurate. Does that validate the Prototype 3 story? Not fully, but it does nudge it out of pure wishful thinking.

Why this feels like more than just a patch

The combination of substantial updates, broken mods, modernized credits, internal test maps, and a reputable support studio suddenly appearing is exactly the pattern you see before a remaster reveal. The 'Ubisoft Connect' reference is the weirdest inside-baseball bit — it might be a leftover string, a tooling quirk, or something stranger — but the rest points one way: Activision is touching Prototype again.

Remember why this matters

Prototype (2009) came from Radical Entertainment and built a cult following off pure chaos: open-world carnage, disgusting-awesome shape-shifting, and the kind of power fantasy that still hits. If Activision is getting serious, this could be a reboot runway: remaster the originals, remind people why Alex Mercer rules, then roll into a new entry once the audience is warmed up.

'Please @Activision lets get more Prototype... we need different games from you thats not cod. Id buy a Prototype 3.'

Where things stand right now

As of October 1, 2025, Activision has not announced anything. But the tea leaves look more like a spilled kettle. If this turns into a remastered collection — and maybe even that rumored sequel — it would be the first real movement for the series in a decade.

Would you take a straight remaster with quality-of-life upgrades, or are you holding out for a full-on remake? And if Prototype 3 is real, do you want Alex Mercer back in black, or something bolder?