Hazelight Studios has introduced that its wonderful co-operative journey sport and IGN 2021 sport of the 12 months nominee, It Takes Two, has offered over 20 million copies.
#ItTakesTwo HAS SOLD OVER 20 MILLION!!!
You’re the perfect followers on this planet, how you’ve gotten embraced our sport is blowing our minds! ❤️
We’re so grateful to each one of many tens of millions upon tens of millions who’ve loved their time with Cody and Could 😍 pic.twitter.com/wBI20lJBjq
— Hazelight Studios (@HazelightGames) October 16, 2024
This milestone comes three and a half years after the sofa co-op sport’s launch on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, with a Change launch following in November 2022. It Takes Two offered over a million models within the month following its launch, and its numbers have climbed steadily since. Eventually depend in March of this 12 months, it had reached 16 million models, a sworn statement to optimistic word-of-mouth and effusive crucial reward serving to the sport proceed to do nicely even years after launch. And it helps that the sport’s been on sale quite a few occasions since launch – it is simply $9.99 (down from $39.99) on the PlayStation Retailer on the time of publication.
It Takes Two was showered with accolades on launch, incomes a 9/10 overview rating from us the place we known as it “a spectacular co-op journey that lays down a path of nice gameplay concepts and makes use of it to play a giddy sport of hopscotch.” It is since settled at an 88 metascore on Metacritic and an 8.9 consumer rating, and it gained Recreation of the Yr, Greatest Household Recreation, and Greatest Multiplayer Recreation at The Recreation Awards 2021. It additionally took house a Golden Joystick for Greatest Multiplayer Recreation, a GDC Award for Greatest Design, Recreation of the Yr and Excellent Achievement in Recreation Design on the DICE Awards, and a BAFTA for Multiplayer Recreation and Unique Property. A movie adaptation is at the moment within the works at Amazon Studios, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson producing.
In the meantime, developer Hazelight Studios, headed up by Josef Fares, has been comparatively quiet since It Takes Two’s launch. The studio’s first sport, A Approach Out, got here out roughly three years earlier than It Takes Two, resulting in hopes that we could also be due for an additional announcement from the devoted cooperative sport studio any day now.
Replace 8:22am PT: Actually 20 minutes after I wrote the above paragraph, Fares took to Twitter to tease his subsequent sport.
Getting quite a lot of questions in regards to the subsequent sport. Here’s a tease. It’s a BRAND NEW IP known as S*** ******N. Can’t wait to point out it quickly🔥
— Josef Fares (@josef_fares) October 17, 2024
“Getting quite a lot of questions in regards to the subsequent sport,” Fares wrote. “Here’s a tease. It’s a BRAND NEW IP known as S*** ******N. Can’t wait to point out it quickly🔥”
The official Hazelight account then adopted this up with a picture of some paperwork labeled “NEW IP” with a launch 12 months scribbled out. The paperwork specify that the sport, like A Approach Out and It Takes Two, will likely be printed underneath EA’s EA Originals label. Feels like an announcement is, certainly, imminent.
Replace 8:29pm PT: Two minutes after I posted the above replace I checked my electronic mail and there was a observe from PR specifying that Fares’ subsequent sport is, extra particularly, “all-new co-op journey”. Perhaps if I publish this replace and examine my social feeds once more, they’re going to have simply revealed the entire thing.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Obtained a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.