After a tease from industry insider, Shinobi602 , concept images from a Sony Santa Monica artist's website suggest that the next title in the God of War series will abandon ancient Greek myth for a Norse setting - but may still feature a version of Kratos as the protagonist.



Across the rainbow bridge... — shinobi602 (@shinobi602) April 4, 2016



...to the halls of Valhalla. My boy.#GodofWar4



— shinobi602 (@shinobi602) April 4, 2016

After Shinobi's message (he was last seen predicting a far future Call of Duty , by the way), NerdLeaks gained access to a wealth of images - now viewable in full on NeoGAF - that detail Norse-like settings, game features, and even show a bearded, trouser-wearing, axe-wielding take on Kratos.Within that same NeoGAF thread, Shinobi has expressed regret for the tease, after it seems NerdLeaks bypassed a password-protected section of the artist's website to download the images.At time of writing, NerdLeaks, the artist's website and an Imgur album used to repost the images have been taken down.Sony has yet to announce a new God of War, but it has been in development since 2014 - when it was rumoured to be a series reboot.

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