THQ Nordic has just announced that Volition is working on a brand new Saints Row game. Moreover, the publisher claimed that Dambuster Studios, one of its internal studios, is now working on Dead Island 2.
Regarding the new Saints Row game, THQ Nordic noted that it will be the “first full entry in this much loved series since Saints Row IV was released in 2013.”
As for Dead Island 2, the good news is that it’s in active development. Back in May 2019, THQ Nordic stated that the game was still under development. And today, we finally know the studio that has been assigned to it.
THQ Nordic has also stated that Fishlabs is working on a new IP, as well as a number of unannounced project. Furthermore, Steve Ellis has joined THQ Nordic. In case you weren’t aware of, Ellis was one of the one of the Timesplitters series’ creators. Ellis will help THQ Nordic to plot the future course for this franchise.
Here are all the future projects/games that THQ Nordic revealed during its first quarter 2019 report.
THQ Nordic Future Games
- Volition is deep in development of a brand-new Saints Row game, the first full entry in this much loved series since Saints Row IV was released in 2013.
- We have entrusted Dambuster Studios with the Dead Island franchise, bringing the development of this key franchise to one of our internal studios. They are now leading the development of Dead Island 2.
- Fishlabs is working on a new IP, as well as a number of unannounced projects. We’re excited to see Fishlabs grow as a major talent within our internal studio system.
- Last year Deep Silver acquired the much-loved TimeSplitters IP. We’re delighted to announce that one of the series’ creators, Steve Ellis, has joined us to help plot the future course for this franchise.
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They should reboot Saints Row, the series turned into crap once they added super powers.
My thoughts exactly. This franchise has turned into Crackdown.
The problem isnt they added super powers, the problem is they turned the map into a backdrom with 3 and the missions into scripted fanservice in 4 combine those 2 with super powers and there is no reason to use the cars or explore the map or go inside buildings or mess with the npcs or customize anything, you can just fly around fast.
That’s my big problem with the super powers in SR3 and IV, that thing broke the open world ecosystem. Once you have all these abilities there’s no reason to use the vehicles anymore, which is a shame because I loved the vehicles gameplay.
Dead island 2 has to be in development hell jesus… how long has this game been in development ? 7 years ? Anyway Dying Light was way but i mean way better in my pov. Aso DL2 is coming soon so meh for DI2.
Plus Dambusters is terrible, Homefront 2 was just awful.
Ok listen morons, play saints row 2…..now copy everything in it, the way the map is designed, aka not copy paste trash like saints row 3, the gangs and how you progress the story, the shops and how you buy weapons, clothing songs, add vehicle customization RACES AD RACES ACTUAL RACES THAT YOU RACE AGAINST THE AI…add tons of open world stuff to do, losts of places you can enter eg in saints row 2 you can go to the prison island you escaped and do sidemission there.
NO 200 ITEM DLCS TO PURCHAUSE MICROTRANSACTION STUFF.
There you go.
HOLY CRAP. THE HYPE IS REAL! I really hope they continue the original story. I also hope that the ending restore the earth from Gat Out Of Hell was canon.
proof?
God i hope not.
Finally my god, I thought we never get another saints row game