In keeping with extra inner Microsoft paperwork which surfaced as a part of the nonetheless ongoing Microsoft and Federal Commerce Fee Activision Blizzard court docket case, IO Interactive’s beforehand introduced on-line fantasy RPG could be an Xbox console unique. Whereas not confirmed, the paperwork reportedly tags the IO Interactive as a possible acquisition goal and that the studio is engaged on a “Challenge Dragon” RPG shooter revealed by Xbox Sport Studios for PC and Xbox Collection X|S. Earlier in February, IO Interactive introduced it was creating a fantasy RPG, which will likely be “a world and a recreation constructed from the core to entertain gamers and increase for a few years to come back.”
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It has now been a decade since we first imagined creating a brand new “World of Assassination” for our HITMAN video games. Seven years in the past, we launched that world in its infancy and nurtured it to develop to comprise three full video games, thrilling new recreation modes, many extra places, and additional targets. And extra importantly, it has allowed us to construct a bond with our neighborhood that has supported us ever since. We have now gone from a powerful imaginative and prescient, by way of plenty of unexpected occasions, to the ever-expanding world with freedom of method in its core that we’ve got as we speak.
Now we’re sharing with all of you, that we’re embarking on a brand new journey! One which expands our creativity, our capabilities, and in some sense our id. We’re constructing a brand new world, a brand new mental property—a web based fantasy RPG. A world and a recreation constructed from the core to entertain gamers and increase for a few years to come back. It feels acquainted, but on the identical time IO Interactive is happening a journey not like any we’ve got been on earlier than.
For a lot of, this journey can also be a deeply private one which started lengthy earlier than we began making video games for a dwelling—and it began with the fantasy style. From the Preventing Fantasy books compelling you to decide on your path, alone, in opposition to wizards, lizards, and thief kings. To the togetherness, camaraderie, agony, and delight discovered across the tabletop. For some it meant taking the function of a recreation grasp: Half storyteller, half AI opponent, half information, half villain. For everybody round that desk it meant creativity, creativeness, constructing a world collectively, and a shared objective in creating an important recreation expertise.
This concept—{that a} various group of people with totally different expertise and strengths can work collectively and turn out to be greater than the sum of their components—is what conjures up us. It conjures up the fantasy world we’re constructing—and it conjures up how we construct it. IO Interactive now spans a number of distinct studios, from Copenhagen and Malmo within the north to heat Barcelona within the south. All studios participate in making all our video games, together with this new endeavor. Individuals from everywhere in the world with various personalities and skillsets are coming collectively to forge a brand new starting.
That is simply the beginning of our journey into this new world we’re making. We hope you sense the heat, the hazard, the togetherness, and the center we put into it… And when you do, we’d be honored when you be part of us.
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