Pragmata, Capcom’s long-long-delayed sci-fi motion recreation, blew us away at this yr’s Summer season Sport Fest. A intelligent mixture of quick-turn puzzles and shooter motion, the PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X recreation is poised to be one of many massive releases of 2026 (if Capcom can truly get it wrap it up on time in spite of everything these years).
Sadly, throughout a Highlight showcase on Thursday, Capcom did little to substantiate or deny the theories. If Pragmata’s younger robo-protagonist Diana is secretly related to Dr. Gentle, Dr. Wily, and all of the nonsense first launched within the NES Mega Man from 1987, the studio is staying mum. However we did see loads of new footage that includes Diana utilizing her blue metallic puffy coat (that, in equity, seems so much like Mega Man’s arm!) to hack robots for her surrogate dad with a gun, the playable astronaut Hugh.
Theories that Pragmata was Capcom’s AAA try at a Mega Man revival took off in boards and conspiracy-tinged YouTube movies shortly after SGF. The proof on the time was… tenuous. Diana’s design was the large inform, in addition to the Mega Man connection to the moon and sentient robotic viruses. The early mission of Pragmata finds Diana and Hugh outrunning rogue bots in a lunar base — possibly a Sigma connection? Others marvel if Pragmata’s compulsory evil sci-fi conglomerate that ruined every part, the Delphi Company, was a tip off.
A lot of the “proof” for Pragmata as a secret Mega Man recreation has been met with eye rolls, however what, I perceive why followers of the side-scroller are holding out hope. Sine 2018, with the discharge of Mega Man 11, Capcom has supplied little readability on the way forward for the franchise. There have been cell video games and a fleeting animated flip in Amazon’s Secret Stage anthology sequence, however nothing in the best way of an honest-to-goodness new Mega Man recreation. The Twitch chat on Capcom’s Highlight stream echoed the will: Each different remark was “SHOW US MEGA MAN.”
Pragmata arrives in 2026. Is it a secret Mega Man recreation? Most likely not. However as of the Thursday stream, there’s additionally no new formally introduced Mega Man at the moment in improvement at Capcom. So don’t blame the dreamers.
