‘Horizon 3’ won’t be coming out any time soon

Fans face a hefty wait for a direct sequel to 2017’s Horizon Zero Dawn and 2022’s Horizon Forbidden West, according to a new report. READ MORE: ‘Horizon Forbidden West’ review: Aloy goes West Progress on the third game in the Horizon series, which is currently untitled, is said to be moving at a somewhat glacial pace because Guerrilla Games is reportedly focusing on rebooting Horizon Hunters Gathering, its upcoming spin-off title. Bloomberg reports that Horizon Hunters Gathering, which doesn’t have a release date yet, is undergoing a comprehensive “overhauling” process following negative testing. “Following poor feedback in private testing earlier this year,” Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier writes, “the plan now is to strip out the live-service component and turn it into more of a traditional cooperative multiplayer game with a story mode and a far smaller scope.” And because Guerrilla has poured the lion’s share of its resources into overhauling the spinoff, there is currently only a “tiny team” working on Horizon 3, which is said to be “years away from completion”. In the meantime, Sony’s live-action film adaptation of Horizon Zero Dawn has been pencilled in for a 2027 release. Back i...