The Tomorrow Children is Being Relaunched By its Creators

Remember The Tomorrow Children? No? We don’t blame you, but this online adventure game is getting a second chance at life after Sony handed over the rights.

The Tomorrow Children, a strange, semi-dystopian MMO, was developed by Japan Studio and Q-Games and published by Sony, as a PlayStation exclusive title. It wasn’t all that received when it launched and, while it became free-to-play in 2016, it was shut down in 2017.

But, as reported by Eurogamer, Sony Entertainment have handed the rights back to Q-Games who plan on resurrecting the title. Q-Games boss Dylan Cuthbert is enthusiastic about his prospects of resurrecting The Tomorrow Children and that Q-Games “plan to make quite a few changes for the better.”

We wish them the best of luck, but that’s not what’s really caught our attention. What stands out is that Sony actually gave them the rights back. There was some negotiation, but still, Sony was willing to give the rights back. Why is this unusual? Because it’s often the case that companies sit on IPs (intellectual property), with no immediate intention of using them.

Take rather excellent robot game Metal Arms, for example. One of the creators of the game, Steve Ranck, attempted to get the rights back, to create a sequel. Activision (or Activison Blizzard as they are now) was, however, having none of it and is, to this day still holds the rights, having not touched them in years.

There’s no news as to when The Tomorrow Children will be re-released, or re-imagined, but could this be the dawning of a new era, of companies actually offering up dead and dormant IPs? Probably not, but it’s good to know that at least one developer will get a chance to breathe new life into their brainchild.