How HDR10+ GAMING Brings Automatic HDR to 1001 Threads of Mizan
A new Arabian fantasy epic revealed at Gamescom 2026 is shipping with a promise that’s become familiar across the HDR10+ GAMING library: players won’t have to touch a single HDR setting to see the game the way its developers intended. 1001 Threads of Mizan, the debut title from Saudi-backed MBC Game Studio, has confirmed it fully supports HDR10+ GAMING — automatic HDR optimization built in from the ground up rather than added after the fact.
A big-budget debut from a new AAA studio
1001 Threads of Mizan is a three-player co-op action adventure drawing on One Thousand and One Nights mythology — flying-carpet traversal, colossal boss battles, and a handcrafted Arabian fantasy world. It’s the first title from MBC Game Studio, a developer founded in 2023 and backed by Saudi Arabia’s MBC Group, with a team pulled from BioWare, Hi-Rez, Ubisoft Montréal, and Bungie across 18 countries. The game is built in Unreal Engine, with drop-in, drop-out online co-op for up to three players.
What “automatic HDR optimization” actually means
The claim behind HDR10+ GAMING is a specific one: instead of a game developer picking a single set of default HDR values and hoping they land reasonably well across every display, HDR10+ GAMING lets the game engine read the exact capabilities of the display it’s running on — peak brightness among them — and render the image for that screen specifically. That’s the difference between a game that looks right on one reference monitor and a game that looks right on whatever display is actually in front of the player, without them digging into picture settings to get there.
Confirmed in GamesBeat’s exclusive coverage
In his exclusive coverage of the game, GamesBeat’s Dean Takahashi highlighted: “The game fully supports HDR10+ Gaming, which handles HDR optimization automatically, so the game looks the way the developers intended without players having to tweak their settings.”
Variety covered the reveal too, confirming plainly: “The game is HDR10+ GAMING compatible.”
Read GamesBeat’s full coverage of the reveal for more on the game and studio.