“I’m happy to confirm that we have started working on a brand new Mafia project! Although it will be a few more years and we cannot say more at this time, we are excited to continue working on this franchise that we love, and to offer our players brand new stories.“, confirms the general manager Roman Hladík in these lines.
Words that only confirm what the Kotaku site had already revealed last May. To bounce back after the cancellation of its new license, the Mafia 3 studio therefore opted for the most familiar solution and found its way back to a well-established license, after having already produced a nice remake of the first Mafia in 2020.
But the real successor to 2016’s Mafia 3 is obviously not for tomorrow, as Roman Hladík clearly confirmed. In recent years, Hangar 13 had devoted them to the development of a new license finally canceled in the fall of 2021. A failure which had caused the departure of the former general manager Haden Blackman as well as a wave of layoffs.
Regarding Mafia 4, Kotaku’s sources evoked a game set before the events of the trilogy, knowing that the first Mafia takes place in the 1930s. The code name for this project would be Nero and the studio is reportedly relying on Unreal Engine 5 technology instead of the in-house engine used for the recent remake. Still according to Kotaku, Hangar 13 would also have validated the production of a new Top Spin, code name Project Hammer.