Hazelight Studios has announced that its glorious co-operative journey recreation and IGN 2021 recreation of the yr nominee, It Takes Two, has bought over 20 million copies.
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#ItTakesTwo HAS SOLD OVER 20 MILLION!!!
You’re the perfect followers on this planet, how you have got embraced our recreation is blowing our minds! ❤️
We’re so grateful to each one of many thousands and thousands upon thousands and thousands who’ve loved their time with Cody and Might 😍 pic.twitter.com/wBI20lJBjq
— Hazelight Studios (@HazelightGames) October 16, 2024
This milestone comes three and a half years after the sofa co-op recreation’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 depend in March of this yr, it had reached 16 million models, a sworn statement to optimistic word-of-mouth and effusive important reward serving to the sport proceed to do effectively even years after launch. And it helps that the sport’s been on sale quite a few occasions 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 overview rating from us the place we known 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 recreation of hopscotch.” It’s since settled at an 88 metascore on Metacritic and an 8.9 person rating, and it received Sport of the Yr, Greatest Household Sport, and Greatest Multiplayer Sport at The Sport Awards 2021. It additionally took house a Golden Joystick for Greatest Multiplayer Sport, a GDC Award for Greatest Design, Sport of the Yr and Excellent Achievement in Sport Design on the DICE Awards, and a BAFTA for Multiplayer Sport and Unique Property. A movie adaptation is at present 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 recreation, A Method 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 recreation 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 recreation.
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Getting lots of questions in regards to the subsequent recreation. Here’s a tease. It is a BRAND NEW IP known as S*** ******N. Can’t wait to point out it quickly🔥
— Josef Fares (@josef_fares) October 17, 2024
“Getting lots of questions in regards to the subsequent recreation,” Fares wrote. “Here’s a tease. It is a BRAND NEW IP known 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 yr scribbled out. The paperwork specify that the sport, like A Method Out and It Takes Two, can be printed below EA’s EA Originals label. Appears 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 recreation 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.