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Escape from Tarkov creator teases COR3 reveal on February 1 with cryptic FPS countdown

Published: 10:34, 20 January 2026

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Escape from Tarkov creator teases COR3 reveal on February 1 with cryptic FPS countdown

The project appears to be a first-person shooter set in a post-apocalyptic future featuring space travel, space pirates, and multiple planets

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Battlestate Games head Nikita Buyanov has been posting cryptic images leading to a hidden website for a secret project called COR3, with a reveal timer set for February 1
COR3 is trademarked to Buyanov personally rather than Battlestate Games, and all hints have come from his personal accounts with no official studio involvement
Early teasers show a cyberpunk bunker environment with lore and easter eggs, suggesting a unique sci-fi aesthetic that blends futuristic themes with conventional military equipment

The project appears to be a first-person shooter set in a post-apocalyptic future featuring space travel, space pirates, and multiple planets

Escape from Tarkov director Nikita Buyanov may reveal his new project COR3 on February 1, following cryptic teasers, mystery websites, and FPS footage hinting at a sci-fi setting.

Battlestate Games head Nikita Buyanov has recently been uploading strange images and puzzle pieces to social media channels which users quickly determined was a breadcrumb trail towards some sort of secret project.

Players soon unlocked a hidden website featuring a small playable experience with only one word attached to it: COR3. Shortly after that another site has surfaced featuring almost nothing besides a timer and obscured video.

Upon closer inspection, the video shows what appears to be a first-person shooter which zooms out to reveal an entire planet. The timer hits zero February 1, and users are sure this project will be announced then.

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What we know about COR3

Buyanov is perhaps best known as one of the masterminds behind Escape from Tarkov. He’s led the extraction shooter through development for over 10 years now. Due to his passion for the genre and well-known penchant for ruthless game design, fans have been paying close attention to any hints of his next move.

Users managed to solve the mystery images in time to catch the first site live. It dropped players into a post-apocalyptic bunker with a cyberpunk computer terminal full of lore, environmental storytelling, and easter eggs.

Right now, official details about COR3 are slim, but there are some intriguing tidbits to take note of:

COR3 is trademarked to Nikita Buyanov, rather than Battlestate Games
All hints have been dropped via Buyanov’s personal accounts
Battlestate Games has not officially stated they are working on COR3

COR3’s themes seem drastically different than Escape from Tarkov. Information scraped from the websites and gameplay inferred from the visuals tells us COR3 is set far in the future following some sort of disaster on Earth.

Users have mentioned these specific terms and themes when discussing the mysterious project:

Space travel
Space pirates
Different planets

While it’s easy to assume COR3 takes place far out in space, the playable teaser showed regular armours, computers, and bullets. This appears to create a sci-fi art style we haven’t really seen before.