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\u201cPrivate Division will publish a brand-new action-adventure IP from Game Freak, codenamed Project Bloom,\u201d the publisher wrote in a press release<\/span>. \u201cTo celebrate this announcement, Private Division and Game Freak have unveiled the first piece of concept art for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concept art, which you can see above, shows a lone warrior sporting a conical hat and a sword in an ancient forest that\u2019s filled with little fluorescent spores. It looks like what you might get if you mashed together Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Arceus<\/em> with Elden Ring<\/em>. Who knows if that\u2019s an indication of anything other than my own limited imagination, but fans already seem receptive to news.<\/p>\n

Read More:<\/strong> Game Freak Is More Than Just A Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> Developer<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to have the opportunity to create new IP that is bold and tonally different from our prior work,\u201d Kota Furushima, Director at Game Freak, said in today\u2019s announcement. The game won\u2019t be coming anytime soon, though. Private Division says it\u2019s aiming to launch the project sometime in Take-Two\u2019s 2026 fiscal year, so by early 2027 at the latest.<\/p>\n

GameFreak is no stranger to working on non-Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> games. Pocket Card Jockey<\/em> was a 2013 3DS game that people fell in love with<\/span> and was recently remastered on Apple Arcade, while 2019’s Little Town Hero<\/em> was a cute little RPG that no one really paid much attention to. Project Bloom, however, appears to be much more ambitious, and potentially darker than those side experiments.<\/p>\n

How does the Japanese studio find the time? It recently released three new Pok\u00e9mon games in the span of 12 months, culminating in Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet <\/em>and Violet<\/em> which was full of new ideas and also pretty busted at launch<\/span>. It left fans wondering what\u2019s holding the studio back from making more visually ambitious games<\/span>, and whether it should take more time in-between entries in the mega hit franchise.<\/p>\n

Will Project Bloom add even more strain to the roughly 200 person company, or will it end up being the spectacle fans wish the Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> games could be? We\u2019ll find out\u2026three years from now. <\/p>\n

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What in the world? Longtime Pok\u00e9mon maker GameFreak just announced something completely unrelated that will be published by Take-Two\u2019s Private Division label. Codenamed Project Bloom, it\u2019s in early development and billed as an action adventure game and\u2026that\u2019s basically all we know about it. The Top Ten Most Played Games On Steam Deck: April 2023 Edition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_675,pg_1,q_80,w_1200\/175e0630bbcca275a1d441eeb94776c3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc"],"yoast_head":"\n