Jesus, There’s Still Meant to Be an Avatar Game This Year, Too?

The 13-yr drought is de facto over in 2022, Avatar followers. Not solely this week did we get our reminder that Avatar 2—now subtitled The Way of Water—actually is definitely taking place this yr, now there’s much more Pandora to return: Ubisoft’s, uh, long-awaited (?) online game Frontiers of Pandora.

In a mode really befitting any Avatar adjoining venture, Frontiers of Pandora—being revealed by Assassins Creed icon Ubisoft, and developed by Massive, the studio behind the post-apocalyptic shooter franchise The Division—Frontiers of Pandora, was introduced in 2017. It then promptly vanished into the ether, leaving individuals with the query “do people really still care about Avatar in this, the current year? And is that sequel still meant to be coming out!?”

Oh, individuals of 5 years in the past, how little do you know. Frontiers of Pandora re-debuted at E3 2021 final yr, wanting like an precise online game that may come out, however Ubisoft remained silent on the venture since then. That is, till as we speak, Polygon reports, when it reminded traders on a shareholders name that Frontiers of Pandora continues to be set to hit PCs, Xbox Series consoles, and the PlayStation 5 this yr, even when we’ve barely seen something of it.

Which actually, is fairly Avatar 2, too, contemplating we’ve solely simply gotten a glimpse of James Cameron’s sequel, and that’s due out in December. It wouldn’t too shocking if we study extra about Frontiers of Pandora this summer at occasions like Summer Games Fest and get a late-year launch date to tie in with The Way of Water’s launch. But there’s something fairly humorous about two separate, long-in-the-making Avatar tasks being introduced, disappearing off the face of the earth, after which all of a sudden exhibiting again up collectively, proper?

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