The spiritual successor to Dead Space The Callisto Protocol is no longer a PUBG game

creators of dead space owns New sci-fi horror game come late this year, Callisto ProtocolWhich was once associated with PUBG Stories (née PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds). That’s no longer the case, says Glenn Schofield, founder and CEO of Striking Distance Studios. According to a tweet from Schofield, his studio game now has “its own story and its own world”.

“It was originally part of the PUBG timeline, but it grew up in its own world,” Schofield said on Twitter Thursday. “PUBG is great, [and] We’ll still have a few surprises for the fans, but [The Callisto Protocol] It is its own world, its history and its universe.

If you’ve been wondering how the modern PUBG battle royale mayhem relates to a sci-fi horror game set in a lunar prison three centuries from now, you’re not alone. But since Striking Distance is owned by Krafton, the parent company of PUBG: Battlegrounds Developer PUBG Studios, it can be seen how a big company might be interested in creating a kind of ‘universe’ to lure fans from one project to the next. It was a strange idea at first and weird going back.

Schofield Will be Tell game detective This eye-catching distance “built into certain focal points, and throughout the game you’ll find them like Easter eggs and things like that” seems to be connected Callisto Protocol to PUBG, but it looks like the connective tissues won’t be official anymore.

Callisto Protocol It is slated to release on consoles and PC later this year. Schofield’s former colleagues at Electronic Arts will release an official Dead Space, a remake of the original game, In January 2023.