Dontnod Entertainment (Life Is Strange, Remember Me) is working with Bandai Namco on a new IP

MichaelBP

Dontnod Entertainment has been working on a new narrative adventure IP in collaboration with Bandai Namco since 2016:
https://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/exclusive-bandai-namco-partners-with-dontnod-on-new-narrative-adventure-ip/0186186

The game will be set in a fictional town in the US and involve a "fair bit of investigation". The studio confirmed that it'll not interfere with the development of Life Is Strange 2.
Further details, including the platforms it'll be, will be revealed in 2018. For now, here's some concept art.

Mariana238

Can't wait, the concept art looks cool. I love these sort of games.

MarijaaNo7

Investigation?

I am in.

RavenSnowstorm

I WANT THIS

AronDracula

If I were you, my quote would have been:

I WANT IN!!!!!

dojo32161

Sounds like this could be interesting. Hope this one focuses on its mystery.

Miklaus

AgentZ46

Sounds pretty intriguing. Hopefully it's got some well written characters.

Creeper1846

Sounds interesting I’ll give it a shot.

MichaelBP

Don't know if this is a serious post or not.

MichaelBP

I guess we'll see. Vampyr's development should be wrapping up in about 2 months (unless it gets delayed) and LIS2's development began more than a year ago and it supposedly comes out in 2018 according to one of LIS1's writers.

Jaku2011

I still wanna see if Vampyr is shit or not before I see anything else!

freelancepolicefan11

Looks pretty interesting. Adventure games are pretty rad so I'm all in even if its not choice based and more in-line with the Sherlock games.

MichaelBP

I hope so. What was the last good/great vampire game? Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines?

MichaelBP

Yep, and I'm thinking this'll be released in the 2nd half of 2019 or 1st half of 2020 at the latest, since they didn't even want to reveal what platforms it'll be on. Then again, once Vampyr is finished, I imagine that team or a part of it will move onto this new game.

Edit: And as said in the article:

The story of the game is still being finalised, but its development won't affect work on Dontnod's other major title, Life is Strange 2, as this new title is being developed by a separate team of senior devs "from various horizons," we're told.

So they haven't yet finished writing the story even.

MichaelBP

Sounds like it might focus more on the adventure and investigation aspect, but there could be dialogue choices at least. Maybe, we'll have to wait until next year before they reveal more details. Bandai Namco's Hervé Hoerdt, VP of marketing, had this to say:

"Obviously, with a studio like Dontnod, you can expect triple-A quality; you can expect a very emotional experience, and this is what we were looking for, like with some kind of investigation and going deep into the psychology of the characters, and giving emotion to the player. This is what we're aiming for with this partnership."

ClemyClooAndBabyboo

hipster souls: scholar of the first hella.

ClemyClooAndBabyboo

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFT

MichaelBP

Leaked concept art & screenshot of the protagonist and deuteragonist.

ClemyClooAndBabyboo

hype shit

MichaelBP

Yep, and I haven't even told you that according to this totally legit leaker, the masked girl is in fact Kate from LiS. Or was, until SE said they couldn't mention LiS in another publisher's game, so they tweaked her design and made a few adjustments and name changes.

Jaku2011

Wow it really has been a long time