We’re about a month and a half away from the start of the “non-E3” time period, where we’ll get tons of announcements about new games in early June. This week, we got a teaser for one of those game reveals, and it’s from a recently announced game developer that has significant backing and a team of RTS veterans.

PC gamer This new developer is reported to be called Uncapped Games. It is based in Los Angeles and owned and funded by China-based Tencent. The team includes team members who have worked on RTS games at Blizzard, Relic and Blackbird Interactive. One of them is David Kim, who used to be the lead developer for Blizzard’s multiplayer StarCraft 2 And now he is the Senior Game Manager at Uncapped.

While Uncapped Games was officially revealed this week, the studio has been operating in stealth mode since 2021 on their first title. Indeed, the author of the PC Gamer article, along with other unnamed streamers and professional eSports players, were given the opportunity to play an unnamed RTS game for two days in March.

While specific details about the game have yet to be revealed, the article says that Uncapped Games is trying to make what it calls a major “paradigm shift” in the design and gameplay of RTS games.

The article says:

To that end, Uncapped puts an emphasis on the type of game design that lends itself to high APM execution and order memorization building, which can be off-putting to the general player. “We want to reduce or remove as much as possible of the tedious clicks required to even experience the game,” Kim said. Instead, the studio puts more emphasis on moment-to-moment strategic decisions—decisions like which units you want to deploy and when you want to expand—and less on arbitrary complexity in execution.

More information on Uncapped Games, including some glimpses of the game’s concept art and technology, can be seen here A short documentary in the studio on YouTube. The official unveiling of the game itself will take place on June 7 during the Summer Game Fest 2024 live stream.