They haven’t said anything yet. This rumor is exclusively from Jeff Grubb saying they have another smaller project before they release gears 6.
I knew TEW2 director had to be working on something
But is it EW3 or a new IP
Im fine with either but an EW3 with a big budget and then when Ghostwire is wrapped up let Mikami direct that dream game he always wanted to
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So… Fallout 5 needs a studio huh?
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So does Indy
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So it’s set to release before Gears 6 then. I imagine that it will be a while before we see the next one most likely. Still hope they double down on what they did with Hivebusters. Excellent campaign. That last boss is still one of the most graphically impressive things I’ve seen running on consoles.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Phil has visited Mikami in Japan recently. That they discussed what is next and that Mikami brought up his dream game.
If this is the case it’s going to be a new IP. I guess we can assume from this that he isn’t behind Ghostwire Tokyo?
You’re incorrect… various job listings and position changes on LinkedIn has directly said they’re working on a new IP.
That’s not to mention press releases from the Coalition, which mentioned “multiple new projects”.
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Please be The Evil Within 3!!! And have it be more TEW 1 than TEW 2. Let’s go!!!
They literally made a blog post too.
I was going to say that I am sure they have said it themselves lol.
Really? News to me. Thanks for enlightening me.
Wrong quote. So weird. Thanks for notifying me.
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Yeah I’d chalk that one up to whatever is going on with the forum/servers. Now if only those fools would get on fixing that…. What’s that? It’s us… oh yeah, my bad….
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I’d like Tango to cap off the Evil Within trilogy with a EW3 built on UE5 that rivals and supported by Coalition/Xbox. The aim should be to “level up” the IP to be a real first party competitor to Resident Evil (if they intend on more EW down the line, they could do/outsource remasters or UE5 remakes of 1+2).
After that, I would like to see Initiative assemble a team to collaborate with Tango on fulfilling Mikami’s ambitions of Noah.
From Polygon, Feb 2014 - SHINJI MIKAMI AND THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
For the company’s first six months, Mikami says, a small team experimented with a joke game […]. The team’s bigger idea was a game called Noah , a sci-fi open world “survival adventure” inspired by the movie Dune. As the story went, it had become a challenge to live on Earth, so people started moving to different planets. And a group of people living in a colony lost contact, so a research group went to find them.
Noah never got far into development, and soon after starting on it Tango ran into financial trouble. Mikami holds his tongue on the specifics, just saying “something happened.” He laughs about the situation in retrospect. “We were in trouble financially until Bethesda came along,” he says.
This what Mikami had to speaking to Variety as recently as December 2020.
“The Evil Within” started as a project called “Noah,” although the game that resulted evolved into something completely different. But if Mikami had the chance to make the original concept of “Noah,” he says, maybe he would.
"My thinking is that if I had a chance to make a game from the beginning to end that’s completely my vision, then definitely, that would be my big last project as a director,” he says. “It would probably be more fitting as that ‘last game I direct’ kind of thing.”
The man wants to make a AAA sci-fi “surival adventure” on a desolate colony cut off from Earth.
Given Phil’s reverence for Mikami, I consider this as good as guaranteed in the pipeline. I’m not expecting it after Ghostwire, and perhaps not even after the game follow that - but I do expect to see it some day.
And I hope a team at Initiative will co-develop.
Put Mikami in charge of shaping his vision and give him a team of some of the industry’s best and brightest work with.
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Oh shit, good read! I was wondering what was known about his dream game. I’m surprised its not even a horror game, haha. Very surprised.
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Ya’ll suck! Work faster, for free!
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“Trouble at XGS? Xbox not doing enough to speed up time for its developers”
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I sense a Hindle post incoming…
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Need AI to start making our games