Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford has confirmed that his company’s classic franchise, Brothers in Arms, is still due to get a real sequel on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One- so far, the only impediment to progress is that the development of what Pitchford terms an ‘authentic’ sequel takes time.

“I think the next Brothers in Arms game has to be authentic and we have been working on that,” he said at Develop. “I feel we have unfinished business there with both the fiction and the history and I’d like to get into that.

“Sadly it takes a lot of resources, energy and money to do what must be done, so it’s not something I feel I could completely do alone. I need good partners for it, so we’ve been talking to great folks but it’s really putting all that together that’s the limiting factor.”

He did confirm that he would be talking about the game soon- potentially once the development partners had been decided.

“I feel like I’m on the brink of it, but we’re not quite there yet,” he added. “But we’re in the incubation phase with the next one there, for sure.”

Are you excited for a new Brothers in Arms game for the PS4 and Xbox One? What would you like to see in such a game? Let us know in the comments.

Gearbox Software isn’t done with the Duke Nukem franchise just yet. Boss Randy Pitchford recently spoke at the Develop 2015 conference (as reported by Eurogamer) and revealed that it would like to work with another developer to bring a new Duke Nukem game to life..

“I did not acquire the franchise merely so people could experience Duke Nukem Forever. That was, sort of, the toll to pay to give Duke Nukem a chance at a future.

“So yes. In fact, we’ve done some concept development. The challenge is that Gearbox is very busy. A faster way would be if the correct developer would become interested and we’d work with them.”

“I think that’s it’s a challenging problem, but there’s no doubt that, when it does happen, the entire industry will turn its head. Getting attention in this industry is one of the hardest things to do.”

Will it end up being better than Duke Nukem Forever, which was in development at 3D Realms for 10 years before being acquired by Gearbox and pretty much released as is to middling acclaim? One can only hope.