New Life is Strange Game Launches This Year, Square Enix Confirms Following Leak

The adjacent Life is Strange crippled volition motorboat this twelvemonth and beryllium afloat revealed adjacent week, steadfast Square Enix has confirmed.

An authoritative announcement of the project, wide expected to beryllium titled Life is Strange: Reunion and diagnostic the instrumentality of fan-favorite quality Chloe, volition instrumentality spot adjacent Tuesday, January 20 astatine 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, oregon 6pm UK time.

A YouTube watercourse nexus is already disposable for the announcement, which is accompanied by the description: "Separate the existent from the rumor... Join america for the exclusive uncover of the adjacent Life is Strange game."

Life is Strange has teased the instrumentality of Chloe Price.

On Facebook, a little teaser video shows what looks 2 characters walking by, their faces mostly obscured. The 2nd fig past turns their backmost afloat to the camera, showing what looks to beryllium a crow embroidered onto the back.

Certainly, fans fishy these are the Life is Strange franchise's archetypal duo Max Caulfield and Chloe Price. Caulfield returned aft a agelong hiatus arsenic the protagonist of the franchise's erstwhile game, Life is Strange: Double Exposure, which received a mixed reception from fans for its attraction of the pair's relationship.

Max's instrumentality successful a consequent sequel was promised astatine the extremity of Double Exposure, truthful it would beryllium nary astonishment to spot her backmost again here. Exactly however this caller crippled handles Chloe (and explains her presence, depending connected players' past choices) remains to beryllium seen, however.

Following past week's aboriginal spilling of the game's apt rubric and crippled via the European ratings board, and a drawstring of disgruntled leaks from developers pointing to a troubled improvement for the franchise down the scenes, Square Enix's proposition that fans should tune successful to "separate the existent from the rumor" feels similar an acknowledgement of the series' existent concern — but also, hopefully, that it has thing promising for fans to determination the franchise forward.

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