It Takes Two and Split Fiction director Josef Fares has posted the primary picture from the set of developer Hazelight Studios’ subsequent mission.
The picture exhibits Fares, wearing a cosy-looking sweater, in entrance of three actors in efficiency seize fits. Clearly, work has now begun on Fares’ subsequent recreation — and intriguingly, he appears to be doing his finest to disguise who the actors are.
Along with his arm outstretched and thumb raised, Fares is efficiently blocking most of all three actors’ faces — and this seems to be by design. “Subsequent recreation within the making,” Fares captioned the put up, with a thumbs up emoji. “We’re again within the kitchen, cookin’ up one thing actually scrumptious,” the official Hazelight Studios social media account responded, including: “Now with Strategic Arm Placement tech.”
✌️We’re again within the kitchen, cookin’ up one thing actually scrumptious! 🥘
Now with Strategic Arm Placement tech®️
— Hazelight Studios (@HazelightGames) February 10, 2026
Followers of Fares’ video games have commented on the put up to say they’re suitably unsure who the actors concerned is perhaps — although many extra have famous the truth that Fares is utilizing this primary sneak peek to showcase three actors being seen. Might this signify a three-player recreation, after the studio’s latest concentrate on titles that includes a pair of outstanding characters?
“Three-player Hazelight Recreation?” questioned one fan, Spenny99. “It Takes Three?????” questioned Jcbartlett25. “It Takes Three lookin nice Mr. Fares,” added hotpicklepizza.
Co-op journey Cut up Fiction launched final yr to rave evaluations, and went on to promote greater than 4 million copies. Its story focuses on a pair of writers, Zoe and Mio, who turn out to be trapped of their interweaving sci-fi and fantasy narratives.
“An expertly crafted co-op journey that pinballs from one style excessive to a different, Cut up Fiction is a rollercoaster of continually refreshed gameplay concepts and types – and one which’s very arduous to stroll away from,” IGN wrote in our Split Fiction review, awarding the sport 9/10.
Fares’ earlier recreation It Takes Two additionally proved common, with its story targeted on a husband and spouse who plan to break up. We known as it “an exquisite, breakneck-paced, co-op journey that’s effervescent over with creativity,” in IGN’s It Takes Two review, which additionally returned a 9/10.
Earlier than that, Fares beforehand launched jail escape journey A Manner Out, starring two convicts, and Brothers: A Story of Two Sons, starring… two sons. Ought to Fares really be making a three-player recreation, it might certainly be a break from the norm.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s Information Editor. You may attain Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or discover him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
