{"id":30787,"date":"2026-02-23T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30787"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:53:35","slug":"saints-row-director-believes-the-franchise-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30787","title":{"rendered":"Saints Row Director Believes The Franchise Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1837\/18375603\/4655257-saintsrow.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Chris Stockman&#8211;the original design director for Saints Row&#8211;told fans that he was working on a pitch to return the franchise to its roots. Now, Stockman isn&#8217;t holding out much hope for a revival and believes the franchise is &#8220;dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stockman made his original remarks on Discord, which have since been posted on X (via Eurogamer). &#8220;I think the franchise is dead, unfortunately,&#8221; wrote Stockman. &#8220;I get the sense that Embracer has zero ability to do anything with it. I wish things were different. I tried my best to offer a path forward, but they&#8217;ve ghosted me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"tweet\" data-src=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/papaRPG\/status\/2024941290492694703?\" data-has-image=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-mce-disable-toolbar=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Remember when we got excited about the prospect of a Saints Row prequel? Well according to Saints Row 1 Design Director Chris Stockman, Embracer is completely ignoring the idea.<br \/>Saints Row is once again dead. https:\/\/t.co\/cpPVcRjxwD <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FWpjC6kmkT\">pic.twitter.com\/FWpjC6kmkT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  \u2014 rpg! (@papaRPG) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/papaRPG\/status\/2024941290492694703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>The most recent game in the series was the 2022 Saints Row reboot, which under-performed compared to its predecessors. In 2023, Saints Row developer Volition was shut down by Embracer, and there&#8217;s been no concrete news about the franchise since that time.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/saints-row-director-believes-the-franchise-is-dead\/1100-6538334\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Chris Stockman&#8211;the original design director for Saints Row&#8211;told fans that he was working on a pitch to return the franchise to its roots&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[14612,4625,2626,2800,5554,7773],"class_list":["post-30787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-believes","tag-dead","tag-director","tag-franchise","tag-row","tag-saints","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}