Cliffhanger Video games’ Black Panther, considered one of two Marvel video games in improvement below Digital Arts, has reportedly been cancelled, and the studio closed. Laura Miele, EA Leisure president, wrote an e mail to workers (obtained by IGN) saying this, together with different layoffs.
She additionally addressed that different venture cancellations and layoffs had been to “sharpen our focus and put our inventive power behind essentially the most important development alternatives.”
“These choices are onerous. They have an effect on individuals we’ve labored with, discovered from, and shared actual moments with. We’re doing every thing we will to assist them – together with discovering alternatives inside EA, the place we’ve had success serving to individuals land in new roles.”
The subsequent set of layoffs will impression each cellular and central improvement groups, although it’s unknown what number of had been affected. IGN discovered that the quantity is lower than the 300 latest layoffs from Respawn Leisure and different EA studios. Round this time, EA had additionally reportedly cancelled an unannounced Titanfall extraction shooter.
As for Black Panther, it was revealed by job listings to be an open-world title with a brand new system referred to as “Open Story,” which might incorporate dialogue and conversations into varied “interconnected techniques” for its narrative. There was no gameplay or announcement trailer launched.
Kevin Stephens, former studio head of Monolith Productions, led Cliffhanger Video games. The Center-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of Battle studio additionally shut down earlier this yr with its subsequent recreation, Marvel Lady, cancelled.
