Three months after the studio was shuttered by then-owner Microsoft, Hi-Fi Rush and The Evil Within developer Tango Gameworks has seemingly been revived thanks to an acquisition by Korea’s Krafton Inc, the publisher of games like PUBG: Battlegrounds and The Callisto Protocol.
In a press release, Krafton says it “intends to collaborate with Xbox and ZeniMax to ensure a smooth transition and maintain continuity at Tango Gameworks, allowing the talented team to continue developing the Hi-Fi RUSH IP and explore future projects” and that the studio’s existing catalogue, which includes Hi-Fi RUSH, The Evil Within 1 and 2 as well as Ghostwire: Tokyo, will remain unaffected and available everywhere that it is now.
The release specifically mentions Hi-Fi RUSH as the “original Hi-Fi RUSH” and nods to developing it as an IP, so it definitely seems as though the company is keen on expanding the 2023 rhythm-action banger with more games and probably more cross-media projects, while other IP like The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo seemingly remain with ZeniMax/Microsoft.
Hi-Fi RUSH most recently launched on PS5, and a physical edition is supposedly still on the way through Limited Run Games. A Switch port has been heavily rumoured, and evidence has been found via datamining and age ratings, but it’s yet to have materialised.
In a statement shared by Windows Central, a Microsoft spokesperson has said: “We’re working with Krafton to enable the team at Tango Gameworks to continue to build games together and we look forward to playing their next great game. There will be no impact to the existing catalog of Tango games.”
We’ll continue to update this story with more.
