Two years after announcing the end of updates for the "Halo with portals" shooter Splitgate, developer 1047 Games is teasing something new—and it looks a lot like Splitgate.
Splitgate is a free-to-play arena shooter in which, alongside the usual array of videogame firepower, every player in the game also has a portal gun that works just like the one in Portal. It launched to widespread acclaim in 2019, racking up more than 100,000 positive reviews on Steam, but in September 2022 developer 1047 Games announced it was time to move on to something new.
Over on the Splitgate website, meanwhile, is a countdown that’s set to hit zero at (if my math is correct) 9 am ET on July 18.
Speculation and Enthusiasm
It’s reasonable to assume that Splitgate 2—or perhaps a more cleverly-named sequel—is in the offing, but at this point 1047 hasn’t revealed (or even teased) anything further. Whatever it is, the reaction to the tease on Twitter and Reddit are enthusiastically positive, to put it gently: There’s clearly an appetite for more Splitgate. I’ve reached out to the studio to see if it has anything more to share, which is probably unlikely, but hey—three days isn’t too much of a wait, right?
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