Whereas God of Conflict Ragnarök got here out in 2022, the collection as an entire has hardly been in Odinsleep. From remasters to new video games and cancelled ones, a lot has stirred in Kratos’ mythological realm. After recognizing a now-deleted LinkedIn page concerning Sony Santa Monica Studio, followers imagine a giant new God of Conflict recreation is within the works, albeit one with out its titular vengeance-seeker.
The web page from a Senior Author at Sony Interactive Leisure says they “Helped form narrative imaginative and prescient and inventive route for a brand new franchise inside the God of Conflict universe” and ended their time on the studio final September. Whereas speculative threads on ResetEra don’t maintain a lot water on their very own, reporter and business fortune-teller Jason Schreier chimed in, posting “I suppose now it’s grow to be apparent what I meant by ‘not a brand new IP but it surely would possibly really feel like one.’”
It’s been a busy month for the ol’ God of Conflict. Throughout the newest State of Play, Sony unveiled a remake for all the authentic trilogy of video games, by which Kratos cleaves all the Greek pantheon from Hades to Olympus. It was paired with a shock 2D prequel, Sons of Sparta, which dropped that very same day. On the opposite finish, Sony shuttered Bluepoint Video games, who just lately noticed their live-service God of Conflict spin-off cancelled following the dramatic fall of Harmony. Someplace within the center, the primary glimpse at Amazon’s live-action adaptation dropped on-line, leaving followers to take care of one thing that resembles a Tremendous Bowl business.
Prequels and diversifications tackle the previous and current for God of Conflict, however what does that go away for the long run? Schreier’s current submit a few new-but-not-new IP appears to refer to 1 made last July, by which he scratched out a rumor that Cory Barlog was growing a brand new sci-fi journey. Put collectively, these two posts recommend that new IP and this spin-off are one in the identical. This new recreation would possibly see one other dramatic departure, not solely from the collection’ fundamental protagonist however its style as nicely, much like when God of Conflict descended from a frenzied Satan Could Cry hack-em-up to an over the shoulder affair. It could definitely be extra constant for Sony, who appear extra wanting to tease out their present characters with spin-offs, cross-media diversifications, live-service video games and self-congratulatory cameos than develop one thing new.
