Bandai Namco, the writer behind FromSoftware titles akin to Darkish Souls and Elden Ring, in addition to its personal RPG sequence akin to Tales, has confirmed plans to disclose a brand new role-playing recreation.
The announcement will premiere through YouTube later this week on Thursday, March 5 at 3pm Pacific / 6pm Japanese / 11pm UK. An outline for the yet-to-be revealed trailer merely states: “A serenity quickly to be disturbed.”
In fact, there’s already hypothesis over what this recreation is perhaps — and sure, Elden Ring 2 was one of many first options (to be honest, the announcement’s lettering seems considerably much like Elden Ring’s brand). However an announcement of that magnitude appears higher suited to a significant announcement showcase, relatively than simply showing on-line on a random Thursday.
So what else might or not it’s? There is a first rate chance that is the subsequent recreation in Bandai Namco’s venerable Tales sequence, following 2021’s standard Tales of Come up. 5 years on, it feels time for a glimpse at an all-new journey.
Different potentialities exist too, although, together with this being a brand new RPG for the Digimon franchise, which Bandai additionally owns the rights to. The corporate has additionally revealed FromSoftware’s Armored Core. Then there’s Bandai Namco’s Dragon Ball video games.
“With a superb story and forged and a reinvigorated fight system, Tales of Come up is the shot within the arm the long-running Tales RPG sequence wanted to recapture its greatest moments,” we wrote in IGN’s Tales of Come up evaluation, which returned a 9/10. Is it lastly time for one more chapter? Keep tuned for extra later this week.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s Information Editor. You possibly can attain Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or discover him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social