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<p>The Callisto Protocol is without doubt one of the most anticipated horror video games in years and occurs to be our <a href="https://www.gameinformer.com/cover-reveal/2022/05/19/cover-reveal-the-callisto-protocol" goal="_blank">June cowl story</a>. One of many challenge’s extra intriguing elements was that it canonically befell in the identical universe as fashionable battle royale PUBG: Battlegrounds, albeit within the distant future and on one other planet. As of in the present day, that’s not the case.</p>
<p>Glen Schofield, The Callisto Protocol’s artistic director, took to Twitter to announce that the sport now unfolds inside its personal story and fiction and never PUBG’s. </p>
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<p dir=”ltr” lang=”en”>FYI <a href=”https://twitter.com/CallistoTheGame?ref_src=twsrcpercent5Etfw”>@CallistoTheGame</a> is its personal story and world. It not takes place within the PUBG Universe. It was initially a part of the PUBG timeline, however grew into its personal world. PUBG is superior, &we’ll nonetheless have little surprises for followers, however TCP is its personal world, story and universe.</p>
— Glen A. Schofield (@GlenSchofield) <a href=”https://twitter.com/GlenSchofield/standing/1529930056725712897?ref_src=twsrcpercent5Etfw”>Might 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
FYI @CallistoTheGame is its personal story and world. It not takes place within the PUBG Universe. It was initially a part of the PUBG timeline, however grew into its personal world. PUBG is superior, & we’ll nonetheless have little surprises for followers, however TCP is its personal world, story and universe.
<p>For these unaware, Krafton, the maker of PUBG, is publishing The Callisto Protocol, therefore the connection. The change seemingly received’t come as an enormous loss. Even when TCP was related to PUBG, Schofield at all times stated it was a distant relation and that any references to the battle royale could be gentle at greatest. He reiterated as a lot in our cowl story, stating: </p>
<p>“The concept of us being within the universe at first sound actually good, after which as you begin arising together with your story we realized, ‘Wow, this can be a little on the market.’ We in-built some touchpoints, and also you’ll discover them all through the sport like Easter eggs and issues like that.”</p>
<p>Schofield additionally talked to us about The Callisto Protocol’s now-former place within the broader PUBG timeline and the way it affected the sport’s fiction and vice-versa: </p>
<p>“Once we got here in, they’d a lore group they usually have been scripting this large story, like, ‘The place does PUBG begin? The place does it slot in?’ They write this large timeline and our writers are concerned in serving to. We sit on the timeline, however we sit fairly far on the market, and type of alone. So in the event that they ever make one other recreation, let’s say that’s after our timeline. I might think about our recreation will inform that greater than we’re being knowledgeable by their timeline.” </p>
<p>The Callisto Protocol launches later this yr. When you’re excited concerning the recreation, regulate <em>Recreation Informer </em>in June, when our unique on-line and video protection begins rolling out. Subscribers to the digital model of the journal can learn our cowl story <a href=”https://www.gameinformer.com/digital-issue/2022/05/24/the-callisto-protocol-digital-issue-is-now-live” goal=”_blank”>proper now</a>.</p>
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