Personal Division has introduced a brand new publishing partnership with Pokémon developer Recreation Freak. It’ll publish a brand new action-adventure sport from Recreation Freak meant to be a brand new IP for the developer.
Codenamed “Venture Bloom,” Recreation Freak and Personal Division state in a press launch the brand new IP is predicted to launch throughout Personal Division mum or dad firm Take-Two’s Fiscal Yr 2026. Alongside this information, Recreation Freak has launched the primary piece of idea artwork for Venture Bloom. You’ll be able to test it out under:
“We’re thrilled to have the chance to create new IP that’s daring and tonally totally different from our prior work,” Recreation Freak director Kota Furushima writes within the launch. “From the start, Personal Division was the writer we wished to work with on our new sport. Their monitor document and world experience offers us all the boldness to create a sweeping new action-adventure sport that we won’t wait to share extra about sooner or later.”
Take-Two Interactive chief technique officer and Personal Division head Micahel Worosz says you would be hard-pressed to discover a studio with extra iconic hits over the previous 30 years than Recreation Freak, addding, “We’re prepared to assist Recreation Freak unleash their potential and we’re honored to be the primary Western writer to work alongside this exceptionally gifted and confirmed workforce to deliver a daring new IP to market.”
Recreation Freak was based in 1989 and is greatest identified for creating the vast majority of mainline Pokémon entries throughout varied Nintendo consoles. Its most up-to-date Pokémon launch was final 12 months’s Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. It has, nonetheless, launched non-Pokémon video games all through its historical past, together with this 12 months’s Pocket Card Jockey: Experience On! on iOS and macOS units.
Personal Division was based in 2017 as a 3rd publishing label inside Take-Two Interactive. Notable titles revealed by Personal Division embody Hades, The Outer Worlds, Kerbal House Program 2, Rollerdrome, OlliOlli World, and extra.
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