Massive congrats to the staff at Asobo!

There are many massive milestones in recreation improvement: asserting a brand new recreation, getting within the first playable construct, and naturally, the discharge. However one of the vital thrilling components of that course of is when a recreation goes gold, that means the ultimate playable model goes off to distributors and producers. It’s a end result of years of labor from generally lots of, if not hundreds of individuals, and it’s extra thrilling than it in all probability sounds.

Properly, we bought some excellent news from Asobo Studio this morning, as a result of it simply introduced on Twitter that its highly-anticipated sequel A Plague Story: Requiem has gone gold.

The sport has been in improvement at Asobo for 3 years, but it surely wasn’t introduced till June of final yr throughout E3 2021. That’s a fairly fast turnaround after A Plague Story: Innocence, so it’s actually spectacular that the sport went gold so quickly with none hitches. We don’t have any information of a 3rd recreation within the collection but, however I wouldn’t be shocked if Asobo needed to make it a trilogy.

True. We’re delighted to announce that #APlagueTaleRequiem has gone GOLD ????✨

We will not wait so that you can see what adventures await Amicia and Hugo! Pre-order right here: https://t.co/aVKXEjUus0 https://t.co/6bfCHifnhM pic.twitter.com/SxZRTTVocf

— A Plague Story (@APlagueTale) August 19, 2022

What does this imply for us gamers? Properly, it signifies that we’re one step nearer to that October 18 launch date for PS5, PC, Nintendo Swap, and Xbox Sequence X/S, and that the ever-present risk of a delay has been mitigated. Aside from that, it’s only a good factor to have fun with builders! They possible pulled loopy hours to get the sport all able to go, so it’s an achievement value asserting for certain.

We bought a primary take a look at the gameplay for A Plague Story: Requiem in the course of the Sport Awards in 2021, the place Amicia and Hugo proceed their journey south utilizing stealth and the surroundings to their benefit to evade those that would possibly need to hurt them, together with big plenty of squeaking rats.