Earlier this year, PUBG developer and publisher Krafton announced it was going to be expanding a Korean fantasy novel called The Bird That Drinks Tears into a “multimedia franchise”, bringing renowned Hollywood concept artist Iain McCaig on board to help bring it to life. Beyond this, nothing was known about what the studio was cooking up, but now it looks like Krafton’s got a fantasy game in the works that’s reportedly like a “Korean Witcher”.
PUBG dataminer PlayerIGN has been reporting on a Krafton
press conference held today – and in the South Korean language, it seems – on
Twitter, and one of the topics that seems to have been covered is this fantasy
novel-inspired IP. PlayerIGN reports that a game has been announced that’s
inspired by The Bird That Drinks Tears, and that – similarly to what CD Projekt
Red has achieved with Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher IP – Krafton is looking to expand this game into
other media – for example, film and comics, according to the tweet. According
to a follow-up tweet, this mystery game could be a single-player, dark fantasy
RPG, and in another PlayerIGN reports that Krafton has described this title as
“Korean Witcher”. It’s worth noting this is unconfirmed right now, but we’ve
reached out to Krafton for comment as well as more information on this game,
such as whether it’ll come to western markets. For now, though, the prospect of
another huge fantasy adventure inspired by a hugely popular novel (Krafton
previously said the book has sold “millions of copies”), is a pretty exciting
one.
Elsewhere at the press conference, it looks like Krafton revealed some more details about other goodies it’s got in the works, such as a new survival game called “PUBG Cowboy”, some kind of project codenamed Titan, and release windows for upcoming mobile game PUBG: New State and survival horror game The Callisto Protocol (October 2022 reportedly, though again this isn’t confirmed just yet).
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