IO Interactive is developing a new fantasy game

IO Interactive adds, "For many, this journey is also a deeply personal one that began long before we started making games for a living – and it started with the fantasy genre. From the "Fighting Fantasy" books compelling you to choose your path, alone, against wizards, lizards, and thief kings. To the togetherness, camaraderie, agony, and delight found around the tabletop. For some it meant taking the role of a game master: Part storyteller, part AI opponent, part guide, part villain. For everyone around that table it meant creativity, imagination, building a world together, and a shared goal in creating a great game experience."

IO Interactive said that its studios based in Copenhagen and Malmo will be working on the upcoming fantasy project.

"This idea – that a diverse group of individuals with different skills and strengths can work together and become more than the sum of their parts – is what inspires us. It inspires the fantasy world we are building – and it inspires how we build it," the developer said.

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previously reported on the project back in 2021 codenamed "Dragon". The upcoming title will be a live-service multiplayer game with a connected-world RPG similar to Destiny 2 and World of Warcraft. The report suggests that the project will be co-developed by Microsoft, and may be an Xbox-exclusive title.