Josef Fares, game director of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and prison-break adventure A Way Out, has confirmed that he will once again partner with Electronic Arts for the development of his next game. Fares, who made headlines earlier this year for his expletive-filled speech at The Game Awards, says Hazelight Studios has been working on the new title for a few weeks.

A Way Out was published as part of EA Originals, the company’s indie program. It’s not entirely clear whether or not the new title will be published under that label, or the partnership has changed in the wake of Hazelight’s success with A Way Out.
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In an interview with , Fares stated that “yeah, we’re with EA. It’s no problem. It’s super-good support. I don’t care what publisher I work with, it’s going to be the same. This is how I work: I respect the economical aspect but nobody fucks with the vision - it’s very, very important. And they know it at EA now, and they’re super supportive.” Fares spoke recently about just , which likely helped this new partnership develop.
Fares announced that he was working on a new game on back in April. Understandably, that means that Hazelight are “just in the early pre-production stuff,” but should “go full production” later this summer. Don’t expect to see the new game anytime soon though, as Fares says “maybe in two or three years we [sic] show something.”