The id of the mysterious statue that was created for The Sport Awards might have been revealed.
Final week The Sport Awards organiser Geoff Keighley posted a picture of the statue and monitoring data which pinpointed its location to a roadside within the Mojave Desert in California.
Gamers have been visiting the situation to take pictures and movies of the statue, whereas the gaming neighborhood on-line has been guessing what recreation it might symbolize.
Due to the darkish nature of the statue – which seems to have numerous folks, demons, dragons and such rising out of it – ideas have tended to give attention to fantasy or mature-themed video games, with guesses together with God of Conflict, Diablo, Fallout New Vegas, Doom, Baldur’s Gate and related titles.
Sony Santa Monica Studio director Cory Barlog has already denied that it’s a God of Conflict recreation, and journalist Jason Schreier – who says he is aware of what it’s however isn’t saying – shot down a declare that it referred to a Diablo 4 enlargement.
Now, nonetheless, it might seem that MP1st might have cracked the case, after discovering three new logos registered in the present day in Europe, associated to the Divinity collection of video games by Larian Studios.
The brand new logos embrace the Divinity brand (with a special font from earlier video games), an icon that appears just like a spider internet, and one other icon which reveals a circle with lengthy spikes popping out of it.
MP1st has identified that the second brand seems to be near-identical just like a design on the Sport Awards statue, making it appear extraordinarily doubtless that the statue pertains to both a remake or remaster of a earlier Divinity recreation, or a completely new entry within the collection.
Larian has launched 5 predominant Divinity video games since 2002 – Divine Divinity, Past Divinity, Divinity 2, Divinity: Authentic Sin and Divinity: Authentic Sin 2. The final recreation was launched again in 2017.
After that, Larian switched its focus to Baldur’s Gate 3, which was launched in 2023 to nice important acclaim and gained six awards at The Sport Awards 2023, together with Sport of the Yr.
Final 12 months Larian boss Swen Vinke mentioned the studio was transferring on from the Dungeons & Dragons universe to attempt its hand at one thing else. The studio subsequently introduced that it deliberate to “seize this chance to develop our personal IPs”, and that it was now engaged on two new initiatives.
