It Takes Two Dev’s Next Game, Split Fiction, Leaks Online, With The Game Awards 2024 Announcement Expected

The next game from It Takes Two developer Hazelight Studios has leaked online ahead of an announcement expected at The Game Awards next week.

Reliable dealabs leaker billbil-kun reported that Hazelight Studios’ next game is called Split Fiction and is due out on March 6, 2025, on PC and consoles (we don’t know which exactly). A reveal trailer is reportedly due out this month.

Hazelight is headed up by Josef Fares, the charismatic designer of the Brothers, A Way Out, and the 20 million-selling It Takes Two. The studio’s games are published by EA under its EA Originals banner (IGN has asked EA for comments). Fares is an eye-catching regular at The Game Awards, with this year’s event set for December 12.

Josef Fares accepts the award for Game of the Year during The Game Awards 2021. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images.

Split Fiction is another co-op adventure from Hazelight, which makes sense given the breakout success of It Takes Two. IGN’s It Takes Two review returned a 9/10. We called it "a spectacular co-op adventure that lays down a path of great gameplay ideas and uses it to play a giddy game of hopscotch."

It won Game of the Year, Best Family Game, and Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards 2021, and a film adaptation is currently in the works at Amazon Studios, with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson producing.

Fares himself has teased Split Fiction as the title of the game in a tweet, with Hazelight also getting in on the act. "Getting a lot of questions about the next game," Fares wrote. "Here is a tease. It is a BRAND NEW IP called S*** ******N. Can’t wait to show it soon🔥"

Now that you mention it, think you dropped this in the office @josef_fares? https://t.co/uh6AZAlrHL pic.twitter.com/oWv3Eew4M9

The Game Awards is expected to be a big one this year, with a number of significant announcements. Stay tuned for more.

Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images.

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