Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is back from the dead, and the most important thing about its new teaser isn’t on screen. It’s the two new names in the corner.
The newly formed Paramount Games Studio has released the teaser for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin (watch below), the AAA action-adventure game based on the acclaimed graphic novel series, now with PlatinumGames, the studio behind Bayonetta, NieR: Automata, and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, attached as developer.
That’s a near-total reboot of a project that first surfaced in 2023 under THQ Nordic and Black Forest Games, neither of whom is involved anymore.
The Last Ronin is functioning as the opening shot in Paramount’s push to become a serious player in video games at the exact moment the company is trying to absorb the biggest games publisher in Hollywood (more on that below).
The hook for the game itself is simple and dark: in a future, battle-ravaged New York City, one surviving Turtle goes on a seemingly hopeless mission to get justice for the family he lost.
Paramount describes the game as follows:
Based on the legendary graphic novel series, Paramount Games Studio and iconic action game developer PlatinumGames present Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin.
In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission seeking justice for the family he lost.
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PlatinumGames Takes Over
The Last Ronin was previously announced as a darker, more mature TMNT game with Black Forest Games developing under THQ Nordic, but the project went quiet amid corporate changes.
Now it’s been handed to PlatinumGames, who made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan back in 2016.
The game adapts the acclaimed The Last Ronin storyline from Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz, set in a grim future where only one of the four Turtles remains. The marketing pointedly never says which one, but comic readers already know it’s Michelangelo, the carefree brother turned lone survivor, carrying the weapons and memories of his fallen family into one last fight against the bloodline of Shredder.
Paramount Gets Serious About Video Games
The teaser dropped alongside the launch of Paramount Games Studio itself, a new division that folds together Skydance Interactive and Skydance New Media and is built to draw heavily on Paramount’s IP library. Up to now, Paramount mostly just licensed its properties out to third parties. That era is over.
Per THR, the studio is led by Tony Driscoll, a veteran of Epic Games, Warner Bros., AT&T, and Disney. Driscoll isn’t only running the new games studio; he’s also Paramount Skydance’s head of Corporate Strategy and Development, and in that role he’s leading integration planning for the Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition.
WB Games is the home of Batman Arkham, Mortal Kombat, the studio that shipped Hogwarts Legacy in 2023, and the studio that recently released a new LEGO Batman game. If the WBD acquisition clears regulators, Paramount won’t just be launching a games division. It’ll own one of the most valuable games publishers in the business outright.
The Last Ronin Gives TMNT Fans the Dark Version They Wanted
The Last Ronin is the version of TMNT many older fans have been asking Paramount to embrace. The comics gave the franchise its Logan-style turn: older, bloodier, sadder, and built around loss instead of pizza jokes.
Paramount has had a separate The Last Ronin movie in development, but the live-action side has been uncertain as the studio looks to rebuild the Ninja Turtles brand for a wider audience.
The game now gives Paramount a way to push the darker material without betting the entire movie franchise on an R-rated reboot.
To keep the momentum going on the comic side, Eastman and Waltz are releasing a 10-page preview of a new book, The Last Ronin: Training Day, on July 9, and Paramount is rolling out a limited-edition BossLogic merch collection tied to the reveal.
No release date has been announced, and the game is confirmed for console and PC.
Watch the trailer:
(note: featured art is from the comics)
