

It presumably has until the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase next week to either pin down a release date or announce the delay.Ītomic Heart is currently in development for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. Even as Mundfish developers have refuted the claims, the game’s website does not have a set date on it either, and it can still be delayed later. They could affect everything from development to marketing depending on if the company had staff outside of Russia and the complications of paying them with the country frozen out of global commerce. It’s not a far reach to believe that the Russia-based Mundfish would have been affected by the sanctions. The Xbox Game Pass Poland article also states that after they got into some heavier questioning, the informant stopped replying. The WhatsApp screenshot that contains no identifying information serves to protect the source but also gives nothing that could verify that the source is who they say they are, their relation to Mundfish and Atomic Heart, or that the information given is accurate. The validity of the initial conversation is called into question because it is based on a screenshot of a WhatsApp conversation with a person claiming to be in the know at Mundfish. The Xbox Game Pass Poland site updated its article with Mundfish’s denial. Mundfish responded by saying that Atomic Heart was still on target for 2022 and it questioned the validity of the source, claiming they had no offices in Poland nor any ties to the country. RELATED: Xbox Game Pass Teaser ‘Surprises’ for June 2022Īs that story began to gain traction with video games insider Nibellion tweeting out this report late Wednesday morning, Mundfish refuted the claims. Russia-based Mundfish Studios are rumored to have had a pause in development at the outbreak of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the complications of global sanctions. The Polish site added a screenshot of a conversation with their source that claimed that a delay was imminent.

At Microsoft's Xbox and Bethesda Game Showcase, it was announced that the strange looking FPS from Mundfish will be. Because of a work stoppage at the studio, Atomic Heart could see its release moved from October-December 2022 and would instead release in January-March 2023. Atomic Heart has been revealed to be coming to Xbox Game Pass on launch. The source claims that someone within the developer told them that Mundfish was aiming for a 2022 release. There was an article on the Xbox Game Pass Poland site that claimed they had a source within Atomic Heart Developer Mundfish games.
