'Next Game in the Making': Split Fiction Director Josef Fares Posts Set Photo Which Fans Think is a 3-Player Hint

It Takes Two and Split Fiction manager Josef Fares has posted the archetypal photograph from the acceptable of developer Hazelight Studios' adjacent project.

The representation shows Fares, dressed successful a cosy-looking sweater, successful beforehand of 3 actors successful show seizure suits. Clearly, enactment has present begun connected Fares' adjacent crippled — and intriguingly, helium seems to beryllium doing his champion to disguise who the actors are.

With his limb outstretched and thumb raised, Fares is successfully blocking astir of each 3 actors' faces — and this appears to beryllium by design. "Next crippled successful the making," Fares captioned the post, with a thumbs up emoji. "We're backmost successful the kitchen, cookin' up thing truly delicious," the authoritative Hazelight Studios societal media relationship responded, adding: "Now with Strategic Arm Placement Tech."

Fans of Fares' games person commented connected the station to accidental they are suitably uncertain who the actors progressive mightiness beryllium — though galore much person noted the information that Fares is utilizing this archetypal sneak peek to showcase three actors being visible. Could this signify a three-player game, aft the studio's caller absorption connected titles featuring a brace of salient characters?

"Three-player Hazelight Game?" wondered 1 fan, Spenny99. "It Takes Three?????" questioned Jcbartlett25. "It Takes Three lookin large Mr. Fares," added hotpicklepizza.

Co-op escapade Split Fiction launched past twelvemonth to rave reviews, and went connected to merchantability much than 4 cardinal copies. Its communicative focuses connected a brace of writers, Zoe and Mio, who go trapped successful their interweaving sci-fi and phantasy narratives.

"An expertly crafted co-op escapade that pinballs from 1 genre utmost to another, Split Fiction is simply a rollercoaster of perpetually refreshed gameplay ideas and styles – and 1 that’s precise hard to locomotion distant from," IGN wrote successful our Split Fiction review, awarding the crippled 9/10.

Fares' erstwhile crippled It Takes Two besides proved popular, with its communicative focused connected a hubby and woman who program to get a divorce. We called it "a beautiful, breakneck-paced, co-op escapade that’s bubbling implicit with creativity," successful IGN's It Takes Two review, which besides returned a 9/10.

Before that, Fares antecedently released situation flight escapade A Way Out, starring 2 convicts, and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, starring... 2 sons. Should Fares really beryllium making a three-player game, it would so beryllium a interruption from the norm.

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