Remember South Park: The Fractured But Whole, the upcoming sequel to the exceptional South Park: The Stick of Truth? Me neither—how could we? We haven’t heard a pippy pippy peep about it since the game was announced at E3 2015. What’s the deal? When’s it coming out (2016)? How similar to The Stick of Truth is it going to be? These and other mysteries are our subject tonight on iDigitalTimes Theater, on the eve of South Park’s return.

South Park: The Fractured But Whole Release Date: 2016

South Park: The Stick of Truth was always going to be a unique, cool game. After all, it had all the South Park voice talent, all the art talent, and the incredible developers from Obsidian Entertainment. It was lightning in a bottle that could never happen again. Well, it’s happening again: I hardly believe it, but the sequel is coming. Another South Park game!

Sure, it’s from a different development team, Ubisoft San Francisco, which doesn’t have a ton of AAA-games under the hood… but the engine and gameplay is there already, and the script and vocal talent will come from the South Park team. They just have to do the same thing again, and poof—more magic. And sure, I personally don’t like the Coon episodes that much. But lots of people do—and I didn’t like the pre-Stick of Truth episodes much either, and that game turned out incredibly.

It’s all very promising stuff. Sadly, we have heard nothing about the game in the two months since E3. No news at PAX Prime, no anything! Don’t get me wrong; I don’t think it’s a warning sign or anything like that. Games go radio silent all the time, especially after they’re first announced. But with the next season of South Park barely a week away, the game is back in the forefront of our minds. Here’s hoping it really can make the magic happen twice… and that it will really come out in 2016, as it’s expected to. It’s hard to complain about more South Park, whatever form it takes. The Fractured But Whole has a lot to live up to, but with the South Park team behind it… I have faith.