Hazelight Studios, led by the colorful Josef Fares, might be revealing its latest game very soon. A new report suggests the upcoming project is called Split Fiction and will release sometime in March 2025.
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That’s according to Dealabs’ billbil-kun. The reliable leaker says the new game will be out March 6, 2025 on both PC and consoles, and claims an official announcement will come later this month. That puts the spotlight on next week’s Game Awards, an event at which Fares has routinely appeared in the past, both to plug new projects and to collect rewards for existing ones.
Fares and his teams are best known for a slew of puzzle adventures beginning with 2013’s Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, in which the player controls two characters with different joysticks, and 2018’s A Way Out, in which characters were controlled separately on different screens. It Takes Two melded the two approaches with a co-op adventure about divorce that ended up winning Game of the Year honors at The Game Awards 2021 and went on to sell over 20 million copies.
That hit was published by Electronic Arts’ “EA Originals” partnership and it’s possible the company is also lined up to publish the latest project, as EA teased an unannounced game from a partner coming in early 2025 during its last investor presentation. Based on the title, it also sounds like Split Fiction will continue Hazelight Studios’ focus on cooperative gameplay.
Outside of making games, Fares is best known to the broader public for saying “fuck the Oscars” at The Game Awards 2017. He elaborated in an interview a week later. “It’s not that I have anything against [the] Oscars,” he told Polygon. “But there’s a lot of talk about, like, you know, ‘This is like the Oscars.’ Like, the Oscars, the Game Awards, ‘we’re trying to be like the Oscars.’ I’m like, come on, man. I mean, it’s time for people to understand that games are, like, a serious art.”
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