Saber Interactive’s game has become so successful that Warhammer IP owners are “borrowing” the technology used in it!

Games Workshop and Saber Interactive have both hailed Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 as a huge success, with audiences embracing the old-school, linear, third-person combat. But we didn’t know what Saber might be working on after that, but Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks has given us a partial overview of what the studio is working on. It turns out that Hasbro is working with the Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 team on a new game based on one of Hasbro’s tentpole IPs.

A tentpole IP is one that can sustain a company’s financial results. So it could be something like a major brand. Cocks said Hasbro is working on several new digital collaborations, but is excited to announce a project with Saber Interactive. He provided a surprising amount of detail during Hasbro’s earnings call on Thursday: it will be a AAA game that combines high-octane single-player and excellent multiplayer elements with Saber Interactive’s swarm technology, and the Space Marine 2 team is working on the game.

We don’t know yet what license Saber will be working under. Hasbro is working on a number of projects. A new Dungeons & Dragons game is in the works at Invoke Games (creators of Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance), and a GI Joe game is in the works at Atomic Arcade. Archetype Studios is working on Exodus, a studio founded by James Ohlen (a BioWare veteran and lead designer on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic). Suspiciously absent from this list is Transformers, which hasn’t had a major game in years. Splash Damage’s most recent effort was Transformers: Reactivate, an online action game, but that too was cancelled.

If the Saber project is related to Transformers, the timing is interesting…

Source: PCGamer, Polygon