Despite recent news that Scorn was still intended to launch on Xbox this year, newly discovered information seems to suggest it may have been pushed back until sometime in 2022.
As spotted by True Achievements, a recent press release from Kepler Interactive, a newly founded "Super Developer" group, revealed it was compiling many studios and allowing their founders to become co-owners. Out of the mentioned developers, Ebb Software's name cropped up, the developer behind the upcoming Xbox Game Pass title Scorn.
According to the press release, 2022 will see many "hotly anticipated titles", including Scorn, suggesting the game will no longer be hitting its intended release window of Fall 2021.
It's not overly surprising, considering we've barely heard anything on the game's development all year. We were treated to some gameplay of the title in 2020 but it has since remained radio silent. If a delay is on the cards, we imagine we'll hear something official very soon.
Are you excited about Scorn? Let us know in the comments below.
[source trueachievements.com, via kepler-interactive.com]
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Good. It's annoying but if everything released prior to 2022 we may have large waiting gaps in 2022 for other games. This way ensures 2022 sees that monthly game take centre stage. Maybe crossfire in Jan, Scorn In Feb, something in March, Stalker in April, etc.
Still...would have been nice to see it this year
Not to fussed, plenty to play at the minute and new games coming soon I like.
Wasn’t at the top of my radar anyway.
Probably a good idea, if i was the developer i wouldn't want it to have to compete with Halo, Forza Horizon, and everything else coming out the rest of this year.
Wouldn't be that much of a surprise honestly, and if it releases early next year it would be a welcome game pass addition as we don't have that many then yet.
Year of delays. Take your time and make this game as uncomfortable as it can possibly be. I'll drop into it at some point but not sure it's going to be my jam.
I'm really looking forward to this game. If the delay is to add polish, then I'm all up for that. I'd rather a properly performing game over a rushed release that requires patching. This may be yet another sign of Developers learning from the Cyberpunk experience, whereby releasing an unfinished/sub-optimal game just to hit a release window has been shown to be far less preferable (in terms of sales and reputation (something Cyberpunk and its Developers, may never recover from) than actually putting out a quality game, even if it has to be released later than initially intended. Plus, it will avoid some quality games that, whilst not necessarily the same genre, will still complete for peoples time (games such as Halo and Forza).
On a personal note, I also have a huge backlog of games, so a delay is welcome in that respect as it is a game that I want to play day one.
I am so looking forward to this as a big fan the artwork of H.R. Giger. I am happy to wait until its 'ready' to release even if I am a little disappointed that wait will be a bit longer now...
Ah a shame this is. I'm not annoyed about the delay itself, rather how late they've delayed the delay announcement itself... Happy to play its when it's ready but would have preferred more open dev feedback on this.
That would at least partially explain why it almost seemed like Microsoft had forgotten about it since it hasn't been show in their showcases in a long while.
Take your time. I will be happily waiting for your arrival. Getting ready for the spooky season with the evil within, re hd, and let's see what else interest me.
That's a bummer. One of my most anticipated new games on Xbox that I was looking forward to.
Yeah probably a good idea to delay if they can't get it out by November...halo would have this overlooked, which is unfortunate as everything I've seen of it looks like it's shaping up to be a decent visually creative game
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