Whereas God of Warfare Ragnarök got here out in 2022, the sequence 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 web page concerning Sony Santa Monica Studio, followers consider a giant new God of Warfare sport 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 path for a brand new franchise throughout the God of Warfare 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 trade fortune-teller Jason Schreier chimed in, posting “I suppose now it’s turn into 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 Warfare. Throughout the newest State of Play, Sony unveiled a remake for the complete unique trilogy of video games, wherein Kratos cleaves the complete 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 lately noticed their live-service God of Warfare 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 deal with the previous and current for God of Warfare, however what does that depart for the longer term? Schreier’s latest put up a few new-but-not-new IP appears to refer to at least one made final July, wherein 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 sport would possibly see one other dramatic departure, not solely from the sequence’ principal protagonist however its style as effectively, just like when God of Warfare descended from a frenzied Satan Could Cry hack-em-up to an over the shoulder affair. It could actually 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.
