{"id":866157,"date":"2026-08-24T01:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/866157\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T01:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:54:10","slug":"oris-original-creator-has-seemingly-shut-down-rumours-of-a-third-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/866157\/","title":{"rendered":"Ori&#8217;s Original Creator Has Seemingly Shut Down Rumours Of A Third Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After prolific rumour-artist NateTheHate revealed this week that he\u2019d heard about a new Ori game in development at Saber Interactive, the series\u2019 original creator, Thomas Mahler of Moon Studios, has taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thomasmahler\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a> to debunk the claims.<\/p>\n<p>With Mahler\u2019s strained relationship with Xbox, about which the creator has been outspoken, it\u2019s uncertain where his intel is coming from, but he declared the rumours \u201cnonsense\u201d in a post this morning.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I can confirm that the Ori 3 rumors are nonsense ?<\/p>\n<p>That said, I had Gareth over for dinner a while ago since he was recording the No Rest for the Wicked Soundtrack in Vienna (you folks will LOVE it!) and even he asked me if we&#8217;d be ready to do another one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time&#8221;, he\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 thomasmahler (@thomasmahler) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thomasmahler\/status\/2091588849088815270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He expressed in a prior tweet, however, that he\u2019d be interested in purchasing the IP back from Xbox and that Gareth Coker, the series\u2019 composer, is interested in creating a third game.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I can confirm that the Ori 3 rumors are nonsense ?<\/p>\n<p>That said, I had Gareth over for dinner a while ago since he was recording the No Rest for the Wicked Soundtrack in Vienna (you folks will LOVE it!) and even he asked me if we&#8217;d be ready to do another one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time&#8221;, he\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 thomasmahler (@thomasmahler) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thomasmahler\/status\/2091588849088815270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After finishing <a href=\"https:\/\/press-start.com.au\/reviews\/xbox-one\/2020\/03\/10\/ori-and-the-will-of-the-wisps-review-the-spirit-is-willing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ori and the Will of the Wisps<\/a>, Moon Studios went on to develop <a href=\"https:\/\/press-start.com.au\/previews\/2024\/04\/27\/no-rest-for-the-wicked-might-be-the-very-first-diablosouls-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No Rest for the Wicked<\/a>, a punishing action RPG expected to launch in October on PC and PlayStation. Interestingly, Mahler has stated the title will skip Xbox for launch due to \u201cmarket conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether the reports are right and a third Ori game is indeed in development, it\u2019s presumed we\u2019ll hear about it at either Gamescom this week or at a potential second Developer_Direct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After prolific rumour-artist NateTheHate revealed this week that he\u2019d heard about a new Ori game in development at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,435130,435131,435132,435133,81330,435134,105,435135,7476],"class_list":["post-866157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-moon-studios","tag-natethehate","tag-ori","tag-ori-3","tag-rumours","tag-saber","tag-technology","tag-thomas-mahler","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}