Skydance New Media

Skydance New Media is a narrative game development studio established in 2019 by Amy Hennig and Julian Beak within Skydance Media. Its work brings cinematic storytelling together with AAA action-adventure game development, drawing on film, television and interactive entertainment.

The studio established its core development team in the San Francisco Bay Area, recruiting experienced developers for creative, narrative and engineering work. Its production approach combines story development, character and environment art, cinematic direction, motion capture and real-time graphics. Skydance’s wider production infrastructure provided technical and operational support.

Narrative action-adventure projects

The studio announced its collaboration with Marvel Games in October 2021. Revealed in March 2024 as Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, the project is a World War II action-adventure game featuring an ensemble that includes Steve Rogers as Captain America and Azzuri as the era’s Black Panther. The supplied research identifies 2027 as its release target.

In April 2022, Skydance New Media announced a separate collaboration with Lucasfilm Games on an original action-adventure game set in the Star Wars galaxy. Directed by Hennig, the project is described as a narrative-driven, single-player experience.

Integration into a wider games organization

Following Skydance Media’s merger with Paramount Global in August 2025, the group consolidated its interactive operations into Paramount Games Studio in June 2026. Skydance New Media’s projects continued within that combined organization. The research reports that the overarching games division subsequently adopted the Skydance Games banner in October 2026. Skydance New Media remains the distinct studio identity associated with its development history and projects.