Avatar: The Last Airbender AAA RPG Announced in 2024 Is Dead

The Avatar: The Last Airbender AAA RPG announced successful 2024 is dead, IGN tin confirm.

In October 2024, IGN revealed plans for the archetypal Avatar: The Last Airbender AAA RPG, which was acceptable for improvement astatine Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 shaper Saber Interactive with a 2027/2028 merchandise window. Details were bladed connected the ground, but we were told the Avatar RPG was going to beryllium "the biggest video crippled successful franchise history," and it would archer a caller communicative successful the beingness developed successful "close collaboration" with Avatar Studios.

With a moving rubric of Ice Wars, the caller Avatar RPG would person enactment players successful the relation of an "all-new, never-before-seen Avatar," with a communicative taking spot thousands of years successful the past. At the time, Avatar proprietor Paramount and Saber said players "can expect to beryllium immersed successful a vibrant world, maestro each 4 elements, prosecute successful dynamic combat alongside companions, and acquisition the challenges and decisions that travel with being the keeper of equilibrium successful the world.”

“Saber Interactive has a proven way grounds successful bringing IP-based games to life, and we are excited to co-fund this AAA rubric alongside them and fto fans acquisition this satellite first-hand,” Paramount said astatine the time.

Unfortunately, we didn’t perceive thing much of the project. And now, 2 years later, we person confirmation it’s fallen by the wayside. Shawn Kittelsen, elder vice president, caput of originative and accumulation astatine Paramount Games Studio, told IGN that the Avatar RPG wasn’t successful accumulation erstwhile Paramount Games Studio, which unifies each Paramount and Skydance gaming studios including Skydance Interactive and Skydance New Media, was acceptable up past autumn aft the Paramount Skydance merger.

It’s a akin concern to Embracer-owned workplace Black Forest Games' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, which ceased improvement astatine immoderate constituent earlier Skydance merged with Paramount. But the large quality present is Paramount Games decided to proceed improvement of TMNT, opting to spell with PlatinumGames. For the Avatar RPG, Paramount Games decided against continuing the project. It is, however, publishing the precocious delayed Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game.

“That's a task that wasn't successful accumulation erstwhile we came in,” Kittelsen told IGN of the Avatar RPG. “We didn't commencement this iteration of Paramount Games until past fall, aft the Paramount Skydance merger. So that crippled was not successful production.”

“There were a batch of aspirations antecedently astatine Paramount, but determination wasn't needfully the condemnation oregon the support, and it wasn't a abstracted division,” Kittelsen continued. “Games was a sub-department wrong user products. Now we are a concern portion and we're accountable for driving gross and gathering games, and we person a larger squad and much enactment down america including the information that Skydance came with 2 crippled studios acceptable to play.

“So we're taking a antithetic attack to games and wanting to spot things done and marque definite that thing that we denote we're prepared to launch. Even with thing similar The Last Ronin that's earlier on, determination is simply a deeper condemnation and a larger concern being made successful that rubric that we are going to guarantee that we thrust to launch. We are afloat publishing that crippled and power each aspects of it alongside Platinum, and we've made definite that Platinum's arsenic committed arsenic we are to making it a reality.

“So doesn't mean you won't get a AAA Avatar crippled astatine immoderate point, but it mightiness travel successful a antithetic iteration.”

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].