Personal Division has introduced a brand new publishing partnership with Pokémon developer Sport Freak. It’ll publish a brand new action-adventure recreation from Sport Freak meant to be a brand new IP for the developer.
Codenamed “Undertaking Bloom,” Sport Freak and Personal Division state in a press launch the brand new IP is anticipated to launch throughout Personal Division dad or mum firm Take-Two’s Fiscal Yr 2026. Alongside this information, Sport Freak has launched the primary piece of idea artwork for Undertaking Bloom. You may test it out under:
“We’re thrilled to have the chance to create new IP that’s daring and tonally totally different from our prior work,” Sport Freak director Kota Furushima writes within the launch. “From the start, Personal Division was the writer we needed to work with on our new recreation. Their monitor report and world experience provides us all the boldness to create a sweeping new action-adventure recreation that we won’t wait to share extra about sooner or later.”
Take-Two Interactive chief technique officer and Personal Division head Micahel Worosz says you would be hard-pressed to discover a studio with extra iconic hits over the previous 30 years than Sport Freak, addding, “We’re prepared to assist Sport Freak unleash their potential and we’re honored to be the primary Western writer to work alongside this exceptionally gifted and confirmed group to deliver a daring new IP to market.”
Sport Freak was based in 1989 and is finest identified for growing nearly all of mainline Pokémon entries throughout numerous Nintendo consoles. Its most up-to-date Pokémon launch was final yr’s Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. It has, nevertheless, launched non-Pokémon video games all through its historical past, together with this yr’s Pocket Card Jockey: Experience On! on iOS and macOS gadgets.
Personal Division was based in 2017 as a 3rd publishing label inside Take-Two Interactive. Notable titles printed by Personal Division embrace Hades, The Outer Worlds, Kerbal Area Program 2, Rollerdrome, OlliOlli World, and extra.
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