God of War Developer Sony Santa Monica Reportedly Making Action-Focused Spinoff Focused on Faye

God of War developer Sony Santa Monica is reportedly moving connected a large spinoff focused connected Faye — Kratos' woman and the parent of Atreus.

Whispers of what precisely Sony Santa Monica was moving connected adjacent person been increasing implicit the past weeks, pursuing an earlier tease by Bloomberg newsman Jason Schreier that the studio's adjacent task was "not a caller IP but it mightiness consciousness similar one."

Over the weekend, the LinkedIn illustration of a writer who worked connected the task was wide shared online, describing it arsenic "a caller franchise wrong the God of War universe." Then, notorious leaker NateTheHate stated that the crippled would halfway connected the quality of Faye — thing IGN besides understands to beryllium accurate.

"Yes, the crippled is acceptable wrong the God of War beingness & the pb quality volition beryllium Fay," wrote NatetheHate, who has a decent way grounds with leaking video game-related task information. "Current plan: Reveal this year/release archetypal fractional 2027 — barring immoderate delay."

Faye, different known arsenic Laufey, is an important quality successful the communicative of Sony Santa Monica's Norse God of War titles, and peculiarly God of War Ragnarök, wherever she is portrayed by True Blood and Daredevil prima Deborah Ann Woll.

The 2018 God of War begins with Faye dead, and the full crippled is structured arsenic a travel to fulfil her past wish: that her ashes beryllium scattered from the Nine Realms' highest peak. That game's decision reveals that Faye had been a Jötunn, oregon Frost Giant. God of War Ragnarök past features Faye much extensively, with the quality appearing to Kratos successful flashback-like dreams.

Sony Santa Monica processing a crippled focused connected Faye would suggest its communicative volition beryllium a God of War (2018) prequel — apt with small quality from Kratos himself.

Last month, Sony dropped respective different God of War announcements during its large February State of Play broadcast — astir notably the confirmation of a God of War Trilogy Remake project, which is acceptable to relaunch Kratos' classical Greek adventures for a caller era. Development connected that is inactive successful its aboriginal stages, however. There was besides the astonishment shadiness driblet of a side-scrolling spinoff — God of War Sons of Sparta — that arrived to a mixed response.

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