Split Fiction Devs Claim No Interference From EA As They Begin Work On Their Next Game

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Break up Fiction is a business and significant success with over 1 million copies offered in 48 hours.
Hazelight Studios is already engaged on their subsequent recreation regardless of Break up Fiction’s success.
EA respects Hazelight’s independence, permitting them to create with out interference.

Break up Fiction is a bona-fide business and significant hit for Hazelight Studios. It offered over a million copies in simply 48 hours and established a brand new concurrent report on Steam for an EA-published recreation.

Whereas some studios would possibly bask of their success earlier than shifting on, Hazelight’s improvement staff is already gearing up for its subsequent recreation.

Split Fiction Promo image with pictures from Zoe and Mio's side stories

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Hazelight Boss Jose Fares Confirms Studio Already Working On Subsequent Sport

Hazelight founder Jose Fares was a visitor on the Associates Per Second podcast (through Tradition Crave) the place he stated, “Break up Fiction is the best-received recreation we’ve finished, everyone is tremendous completely satisfied, however I am so absolutely centered and excited on the following factor.”

As one would possibly count on, Fares did not provide something particular concerning Hazelight’s subsequent mission. Whereas Break up Fiction is a large success, the studio is not feeling the stress for its subsequent recreation. Quite the opposite, it thinks it may possibly do even higher.

Fares shared, “It isn’t like we’re feeling now, ‘Oh, shit, how will we prime [Split Fiction] or do higher than this?’ We simply really feel like… simply wait till [you see] what we do subsequent. I do know it is cocky. However that is how assured we really feel in what we’re doing.”

In the identical chat, Fares revealed that Hazelight doesn’t pitch the studio’s recreation to writer Digital Arts (EA). In case you did not know, EA has been the writer of all of Hazelight’s video games. As an alternative, they inform EA what they’re doing. Fares explains, “That is it. They’ve zero to say about what we’re doing subsequent.”

Moreover, Fares acknowledges that EA may be “fu**ng up its partnerships with different corporations, however not Hazelight. “They respect us. They respect what we do. I’m very clear with them that they can’t intervene with what we do,” Fares famous.

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No matter Hazelight’s subsequent mission is, do not count on it out anytime quickly. The studio often takes 3-4 years to develop a recreation. A Means Out began improvement in 2014 and was launched in 2018. It Takes Two was launched in 2021, and Break up Fiction was launched this 12 months. By that estimate, do not count on Hazelight’s newest recreation to be obtainable no earlier than 2028 or 2029, which implies there is a very large risk that the studio’s subsequent recreation may be a title for the PS6 and the following Xbox console.

If you have not performed Break up Fiction, you would possibly wish to change that, as the sport actually is that good. Our overview even mentions how “Break up Fiction has confirmed that Hazelight is solely the most effective fashionable studio within the co-op enterprise.” Simply do not forget that Break up Fiction, very similar to Hazelight’s previous video games, is solely a co-op expertise, You can not play it solo or with a bot. If in case you have one other good friend who has a succesful PC or a PS5 or Xbox Collection X|S, you may share the sport through the “Good friend’s Cross” system.