Rumors are flying that Evening Star, the developer behind Sonic Mania, is working on a new Ape Escape game, the first in over 15 years since 2011’s PlayStation Move Ape Escape created for the PS3 wand peripheral. Word has come from both Jeff Gerstmann and VGC that the classic series is due to be brought back, with Sony also investigating other licenses it owns that could be due a revival.

Ape Escape first appeared in 1999 for the original PlayStation, a third-person 3D platform game in which you, a human boy called Spike, are tasked with recapturing…well, some apes that escaped, using a range of gadgetry and vehicles in your pursuit. Hugely loved at the time, and fondly remembered ever since, the game went on to spawn 14 spin-offs and sequels, including mini-game collections, a version for the PS2’s EyeToy, and even an RPG. The assumption is, should the series return, it would be in the form of the core series which last appeared with 2005’s Ape Escape 3.

Gerstmann’s latest episode of The Jeff Gerstmann Show mentions that he’s now heard others talking about an Ape Escape resurrection, while reflecting on word he’d heard about eight months back that Evening Star could be working on the project. His relatively non-committal comments suggest he believes it may still be in development, but this has since been further backed up by VGC which says it’s heard the same from its own sources.

VGC says Sony is looking to follow up last year’s revival of Everybody’s Golf by bringing back the Killzone series from the dead 13 years after Killzone Shadow Fall .

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