Hazelight Studios has announced that its glorious co-operative journey sport and IGN 2021 sport of the 12 months nominee, It Takes Two, has bought over 20 million copies.
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#ItTakesTwo HAS SOLD OVER 20 MILLION!!!
You’re the very best followers on the earth, how you will have embraced our sport is blowing our minds! ❤️
We’re so grateful to each one of many tens of millions upon tens of millions who’ve loved their time with Cody and Could 😍 pic.twitter.com/wBI20lJBjq
— Hazelight Studios (@HazelightGames) October 16, 2024
This milestone comes three and a half years after the sofa co-op sport’s launch on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, with a Swap launch following in November 2022. It Takes Two bought over a million models within the month following its launch, and its numbers have climbed steadily since. Ultimately rely in March of this 12 months, it had reached 16 million models, a sworn statement to optimistic word-of-mouth and effusive essential reward serving to the sport proceed to do nicely even years after launch. And it helps that the sport’s been on sale quite a few instances since launch – it is simply $9.99 (down from $39.99) on the PlayStation Retailer on the time of publication.
It Takes Two was showered with accolades on launch, incomes a 9/10 evaluation rating from us the place we referred to as it “a spectacular co-op journey that lays down a path of nice gameplay concepts and makes use of it to play a giddy sport of hopscotch.” It’s since settled at an 88 metascore on Metacritic and an 8.9 consumer rating, and it received Sport of the 12 months, Finest Household Sport, and Finest Multiplayer Sport at The Sport Awards 2021. It additionally took dwelling a Golden Joystick for Finest Multiplayer Sport, a GDC Award for Finest Design, Sport of the 12 months and Excellent Achievement in Sport Design on the DICE Awards, and a BAFTA for Multiplayer Sport and Unique Property. A movie adaptation is at the moment within the works at Amazon Studios, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson producing.
In the meantime, developer Hazelight Studios, headed up by Josef Fares, has been comparatively quiet since It Takes Two’s launch. The studio’s first sport, A Means Out, got here out roughly three years earlier than It Takes Two, resulting in hopes that we could also be due for one more announcement from the devoted cooperative sport studio any day now.
Replace 8:22am PT: Actually 20 minutes after I wrote the above paragraph, Fares took to Twitter to tease his subsequent sport.
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Getting loads of questions concerning the subsequent sport. Here’s a tease. It is a BRAND NEW IP referred to as S*** ******N. Can’t wait to point out it quickly🔥
— Josef Fares (@josef_fares) October 17, 2024
“Getting loads of questions concerning the subsequent sport,” Fares wrote. “Here’s a tease. It is a BRAND NEW IP referred to as S*** ******N. Can’t wait to point out it quickly🔥”
The official Hazelight account then adopted this up with an image of some paperwork labeled “NEW IP” with a launch 12 months scribbled out. The paperwork specify that the sport, like A Means Out and It Takes Two, will probably be revealed below EA’s EA Originals label. Feels like an announcement is, certainly, imminent.
Replace 8:29pm PT: Two minutes after I posted the above replace I checked my electronic mail and there was a be aware from PR specifying that Fares’ subsequent sport is, extra particularly, “all-new co-op journey”. Perhaps if I publish this replace and verify my social feeds once more, they’re going to have simply revealed the entire thing.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Received a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.