{"rewrite":{"id":"r_54d3b69692e34a49249ecd55","clusterId":"c_52046fa52401d29ea0e8b756","slug":"mbc-game-studio-debuts-1001-threads-of-mizan-with-flying-carpets","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"MBC Game Studio Debuts 1001 Threads of Mizan With Flying Carpets","summary":"MBC Game Studio announced its debut title 1001 Threads of Mizan at Gamescom 2026's Opening Night Live. The co-op action-adventure supports up to three players and ships on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2. Creative Director Lars Bonde, who spent eight years at Ubisoft on Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs 2, told Automaton the game is set in the world of One Thousand and One Nights.","whyItMatters":"A first-time studio with a former Ubisoft creative director is building a co-op action title around a setting that Bonde says games have rarely taken up, and it is doing so with a remote team drawn partly from the region itself.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe demo showed players riding flying carpets and fighting enemies that range from ground-level foes to a giant jinn large enough to cover the sky. Bonde said the first thing he did on the project was search ArtStation for artists from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Syria, and that two Cairo-based concept artists have been involved since the early days.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe team is fully remote. Bonde described a writer based in Pakistan, a narrative lead who worked on Destiny, and an art director with a twenty-year BioWare career. The game will support Arabic and English with the same voice actors performing in both.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"MBC Game Studio's debut lands on Nintendo Switch 2 alongside PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, a simultaneous launch that asks a brand new studio to support four platforms at once.","twitterPost":"Lars Bonde's eight years on Watch Dogs now feed an One Thousand and One Nights co-op game, with MBC Game Studio launching on four platforms at once.","threadsPost":"1001 Threads of Mizan comes from MBC Game Studio, a brand new team, and launches simultaneously on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2. A debut studio shipping on four platforms at once is the harder logistics story behind the Gamescom reveal.","newsletterBlurb":"MBC Game Studio used Gamescom 2026's Opening Night Live to announce its debut title, 1001 Threads of Mizan, a three-player co-op action-adventure set in the world of One Thousand and One Nights. Creative Director Lars Bonde, who spent eight years at Ubisoft on Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs 2, told Automaton the team works fully remote and includes concept artists based in Cairo. The game is planned for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 with Arabic and English voice work.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Automaton\",\"url\":\"https://automaton-media.com/articles/interviewsjp/1001-20260930-470683/\",\"title\":\"Arabian AAA Game '1001 Threads of Mizan' Developer Interview: Three Players Take On a Giant Jinn That Covers the Sky Aboard a Flying Carpet - Inside the Co-op Action Game from a Former Ubisoft Developer\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4780,"outputTokens":692,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791166469,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T02:10:50.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-05T02:13:24.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T02:13:24.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_52046fa52401d29ea0e8b756","canonicalTitle":"アラビアンAAAゲーム『1001 Threads of Mizan』開発者インタビュー。空を覆う巨大ジンに、空飛ぶ絨毯で3人で挑む、元Ubisoft開発者が手掛ける協力プレイアクションの仕掛け","representativeArticleId":"a_92b3a98ef9359c6191791bce","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"1001 Threads of Mizan\"],\"studios\":[\"Ubisoft\"],\"people\":[\"Lars Bonde\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-30T08:53:56.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-30T08:53:56.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T02:13:21.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Automaton","url":"https://automaton-media.com/articles/interviewsjp/1001-20260930-470683/","title":"アラビアンAAAゲーム『1001 Threads of Mizan』開発者インタビュー。空を覆う巨大ジンに、空飛ぶ絨毯で3人で挑む、元Ubisoft開発者が手掛ける協力プレイアクションの仕掛け"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["1001 Threads of Mizan"],"studios":["Ubisoft"],"people":["Lars Bonde"],"type":"news","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}