While Splitgate: Arena Reloaded might be doing too well in terms of player counts, developer 1047 Games has decided to start work on a new game. Studio co-founder and CEO Ian Proulx confirmed that a new project was in development at the end of a recent video outlining an upcoming update for Splitgate: Arena Reloaded. He also noted that the studio will continue to focus on also supporting the competitive shooter.
In the video, Proulx said that “a small section of the team” has been split off to work on the new project, which has been described as a “movement shooter”. Among the list of inspirations behind this new titles are Titanfall and Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, which would indicate that 1047 Games’ next title will have quite a bit of emphasis on parkour-styled movement paired with fast-paced shooter action.
“Obviously, Splitgate is the focus, but there is one more thing I want to add,” Proulx explained. “This is actually unrelated to Splitgate, and more just 1047 news. We have always had the dream to be a multi-game studio. Obviously, I love Splitgate, it’s genuinely my favourite game of all time, and we’re not shy about where we took inspiration there, with Halo and Portal being two of my all-time favourites.”
“But there’s other games and other dream games that we love. So, I’m not here to talk too much about that today, but I just want to give the community a heads up. We’ve had a small section of the team start working on a new game in addition to Splitgate. I’m not here to share too much about that, but what I will say is that it is a movement shooter, and if you’re a fan of games like Titanfall, or [Call of Duty] Black Ops 3, we would love to hear from you. We’re going to take sign-ups below so that we can start playtesting soon.”
1047 Games has seen quite a bit of trouble since it released the original Splitgate back in 2019 as an Early Access title. The initial success at the time led the studio to eventually announce in 2021 that the title would remain in beta indefinitely, and work would then begin on a sequel. Splitgate 2 would come out in 2025, and saw a generally mixed reception.
This would eventually lead to Proulx announcing that the studio was taking Splitgate 2 “back to beta” and introducing major overhauls to the title. He admitted at the time that the shooter was “not a finished product yet”.
The title would return in the form of Splitgate: Arena Reloaded back in December, bringing with it a returning Classic Arena mode, along with new weapons and maps. However, the title never quite reached the same number of players that Splitgate 2 saw at its peak. The studio would offer a statement in response to this, noting that “Steam Charts don’t measure fun.”
Splitgate: Arena Reloaded is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.
