Some kind of game-shaped thing based on The Matrix is coming

The Matrix is getting very meta. The fourth film in the series, The Matrix Resurrections, is set to debut later this month, resurrecting (get it?) the stylish cyber-dystopian tale of false lives. And based on a leak that appeared today on Reddit, we’ll also at some point be getting “an Unreal Engine 5 experience” called The Matrix Awakens.

Is it a full-blown game? Very unlikely. The image, which looks a bit like a Matrix bomb exploding over a large city (or, less ominously perhaps, a Matrix sun climbing over the horizon, warming the good people of the city with its life-giving Matrix rays), was found on the PlayStation Network backend. There are no other details, “only that it exists for the PS5.”

The “experience” descriptor makes me think it might be something more akin to the recent Kid A Mnesia exhibition by Radiohead and Epic (you know, the company that makes the Unreal Engine). A deep dive into the nooks and crannies of the Matrix, perhaps, coupled with a walking tour of the real city of Zion and the machine world above as well.