Released almost a year ago (already, damn it…), Returnal is the work of the Housemarque studio which has forged a solid reputation, to the point that Sony Interactive Entertainment has decided to buy the company so that it can part of his PlayStation Family. During an interview with VentureBeat, Ilari Kuittinen, general manager of the Finnish studio, indulged in a few confidences, in particular revealing that they are working on a new game, a new license. The announcement is not surprising in itself, but it does let us know that Housemarque is not working on a sequel to Returnal, something that could have been the case given the game’s commercial success. embark on a new challenge and therefore offer a whole new franchise, with a certain uncertainty in the words of Ilari Kuittinen, who specifies that they will see what it will give.
It is true that in the interview given, the general manager of Housemarque recalls that they are among the last dinosaurs to still develop arcade games, at a time when the game-service has become an important demand on the part of large publishers and manufacturers. Only here, trying a multiplayer game was not a good experience for the Finnish studio which canceled a battle royale in production, a certain Stormdivers …
