Huzzah for rhyming headlines! Yesterday, we reported on a series of increasingly overt teasers coming from Arkane Studios, not-so-subtly hinting that they’re not fairly carried out with System Shock-ish immersive sim Prey.
Today, they dropped virtually all pretense. It’s March 15th, the day that Prey’s story begins on (a minimum of in response to the robo-voiced alarm clock that awakens protagonist Morgan Yu from relaxation). Celebrating the pseudo-anniversary, the studio bought collectively to tweet out a mysteriously redacted staff photograph, solely to launch the uncut and possibly release-date-containing one later within the day.
The uncut tweet is stuffed with juicy particulars, in addition to some foolish issues that have been simply redacted for laughs. To prevent some squinting, right here’s the complete decision model of the picture, simply click on to embiggen and feast your eyes on the fruits of their slightly-too-grainy digicam.
The whiteboard is de facto what offers all of it away. Among the extra notable scribblings are the sub-genre’s ever-present 0451 passcode (though this one is crossed out), a number of references to the moon (the almost certainly location of any upcoming Prey enlargement), in addition to references to Kosma Corp, a rival operation to Prey’s onmipresent and morally bankrupt TranStar. To reference the wonderful Alien: Isolation, they’re Seegson to your Weyland-Yutani.
Most importantly is the date, although. Assuming American date format, we’re trying ahead to one thing both being absolutely unveiled or (extra probably) launched on June sixth this yr. It seems like an inexpensive sufficient launch date, and Arkane have established a stable observe file releasing expansions that enhance on already nice video games. Fingers crossed, eh?
Most questionable of all of the doodles on the whiteboard is ‘Moonshark!!?’. A codename, or some type of bizarre new enemy to cope with, we don’t know, however assuming that it’s some form of dwelling creature, moonsharks are at all times cool and we hope that we are able to high-five or journey any such spaceborne fish relatively than cope with it in conventional online game vogue.
Lastly, I’m simply going to imagine/hope that the pink eyes are all photoshopped in, as a result of in any other case you can have a member of Arkane’s employees behind you and never even comprehend it. Did you overlook to take that espresso mug out to scrub earlier, or do you actually have two in your desk?
