Splitgate developer 1047 Games has announced Empluse, a “Titanfall-inspired movement shooter” expected to release into early access later this year.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Polygon, 1047 boss Ian Proulx said that while the team will continue to support Splitgate \u2014 the second game, Splitgate: Arena Reloaded released just a few months ago in December 2025 \u2014 Empluse is the “main priority” going forward. <\/p>\n
\u201cI still do believe in [Splitgate: Arena Reloaded,” Proulx said. “I really do. I think it’s a great game. I think it needs sort of a\u2026 I mean, I don’t know what it needs, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe looked very closely at some of our favorite and the best movement shooters out there, like Titanfall 2, Black Ops 3, some of the movement CODs. But we also looked at non-shooting games,\u201d Proulx said of Empulse. \u201cDo you remember SSX Tricky? One of the things we took inspiration from there was that feeling of, like, you’re in that flow state. You’re wall running, you’re grappling, you’re sliding, and then you’re bouncing off these jumps. We had this vision of, what if instead of it just being your typical jump pad or man cannon, it was actually more like a snowboard jump?\u201d<\/p>\n
That doesn’t mean the studio has entirely abandoned its Portal-y roots, though, as Empluse reportedly “riffs on Portal 2\u2019s paint mechanic.” Players will have P.A.I.N.T. Bombs (Plasma Activated Infusion of NanoTech) that, like Portal’s pro- and repulsion gels, provide extra speed or jump boosts. These can be chained to create a highly mobile shooter where players are never standing still, creating a “really freaking fun” experience. <\/p>\n
“We have a lot of Titanfall fans in the company. We’ve seen it even in our community,” Proulx said. “A lot of people have asked for wall-running over the years, actually. And so that was one of the things we actually prototyped in early 2025, and we ended up not putting it into the game because we’re like, \u2018This just doesn’t really work and none of the maps were built for this. This is about portals.'”<\/p>\n
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