Non-public Division has introduced a brand new publishing partnership with Pokémon developer Recreation Freak. It’ll publish a brand new action-adventure recreation from Recreation Freak meant to be a brand new IP for the developer.
Codenamed “Challenge Bloom,” Recreation Freak and Non-public Division state in a press launch the brand new IP is anticipated to launch throughout Non-public Division guardian firm Take-Two’s Fiscal Yr 2026. Alongside this information, Recreation Freak has launched the primary piece of idea artwork for Challenge Bloom. You’ll be able to test it out beneath:
“We’re thrilled to have the chance to create new IP that’s daring and tonally completely different from our prior work,” Recreation Freak director Kota Furushima writes within the launch. “From the start, Non-public Division was the writer we needed to work with on our new recreation. Their observe document and international experience provides us all the arrogance to create a sweeping new action-adventure recreation that we will not wait to share extra about sooner or later.”
Take-Two Interactive chief technique officer and Non-public Division head Micahel Worosz says you would be hard-pressed to discover a studio with extra iconic hits over the previous 30 years than Recreation Freak, addding, “We’re prepared to assist Recreation Freak unleash their potential and we’re honored to be the primary Western writer to work alongside this exceptionally gifted and confirmed group to carry a daring new IP to market.”
Recreation Freak was based in 1989 and is greatest identified for growing the vast majority 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: Journey On! on iOS and macOS units.
Non-public Division was based in 2017 as a 3rd publishing label inside Take-Two Interactive. Notable titles revealed by Non-public Division embody Hades, The Outer Worlds, Kerbal House Program 2, Rollerdrome, OlliOlli World, and extra.
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