Bohemia Interactive selected an uncommon venue to announce its subsequent massive sport: a live performance.
To rejoice its twenty fifth anniversary, Czech studio Bohemia Interactive put collectively a concert of video game music carried out by the Czech Nationwide Symphony Orchestra. The live performance included songs from its Arma sequence, in addition to DayZ, Ylands, and Vigor.
However the massive shock of the night time was a blink and also you’ll miss it announcement that Arma 4 is due out in 2027. On the finish of the ultimate piece of the night time, the sport’s brand and launch window flashed on the large display screen that was propped up behind the orchestra for little greater than a second, nevertheless it was lengthy sufficient to be a magnet for the reside viewers in addition to the livestream chat.
Arma is Bohemia’s massively profitable PC army shooter that first launched again in 2006. Arma 3 launched in 2013, with the newest launch, the standalone Arma Reforger, launching in 2022 in early entry kind earlier than a 1.0 launch final yr.
Reforger was designed as a “bridge” to Arma 4, which is meant for PC and consoles. Reforger was the primary sport in the Arma sequence to launch on console (Xbox Collection X and S), and has helped Bohemia find out how greatest to take the PC-focused sequence multiplatform in a massive manner with Arma 4.
2027 is in fact three years away, and it’s truthful to say Arma followers had hoped to see Arma 4 come out earlier than then. Already the memes about GTA 6 popping out earlier than Arma 4 are flooding in, and we haven’t even prompt Arma 4 could be delayed. The query is, which consoles will Arma 4 launch on when it comes out in 2027?
On the time of this text’s publication, Bohemia had but to make an official announcement about Arma 4 coming in 2027, launch any notes to press or screenshots or trailers. Utilizing a reside live performance for such a important announcement is actually novel, however hopefully the developer will observe it up with one thing extra tangible sooner quite than later.
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