Yesterday, Joe “Joe Mad” Madureira said that Nordic Games was hard at work on bringing the dormant Darksiders franchise back to life. And now, in a statement to Rock Paper Shotgun, the publisher has confirmed that pre-production work on Darksiders III has begun and that they’re actively searching for a development partner:
“With regards to Darksiders 3: of course we’ve always been busy in the background, talking to a lot of former team members about a continuation of the series, but we are not ready to announce anything officially. Joe Madureira is spot on in saying that DS is not dead and we are committed, though.”
“Before we can say something about the ‘how’ and ‘when’ of publishing/financing the sequel is concerned, we are still busy in properly figuring out the ‘who’ part of this large-scale project. All I can say is that we can and will not settle for second-best solutions in the case of Darksiders.”
The developer behind Darksiders and Darksiders II, Vigil Games was shuttered in the wake of THQ’s bankruptcy. However, most of Vigil’s employees later joined Crytek USA, a new team that has yet to announce their first project.
Hopefully someone can get those two crazy kids together to sit down for a nice chat.
