Saber Interactive delivered one in every of 2024’s greatest video games within the type of Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine 2, and we now know extra about what venture that recreation’s growth crew is shifting on to subsequent.
Reported by Polygon, Hasbro introduced throughout its current quarterly earnings name that it has partnered with Saber Interactive for a AAA venture primarily based on one in every of its IP, to be developed by the Area Marine 2 crew. Hasbro owns a number of main properties, together with Dungeons and Dragons, Transformers, Magic: The Gathering, G.I. Joe, and others.
In accordance with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks, the Saber title can be primarily based on one in every of Hasbro’s “tentpole IPs”, and can use the Swarm engine, which was utilized for Area Marine 2’s growth as nicely.
“We now have many new digital collaborations within the works, however I’m particularly excited to announce this one in the present day, being a private fan of lots of this crew’s video games,” he stated. “Hasbro and Saber Interactive can be collaborating on an all-new online game partnership developed by the crew behind 2024’s megahit, Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine 2. Combining high-octane single-player motion and superb multiplayer with Saber’s Swarm tech, this new AAA title, primarily based on one in every of our tentpole IPs, is bound to be successful.”
What we do not know but is which IP particularly Saber and Hasbro have chosen to work on collectively. Cocks did verify, nonetheless, that the sport can be co-published by the 2 firms.
Saber Interactive presently has a pair different AAA licensed titles in growth as nicely, together with Jurassic Park: Survival and Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic – Remake.